25 YEARS AGO fromn the pages @f

Bob Alcorn, host {br the 338th Terrible Twenty tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Los Angeles, Ca., was the winner with a net 64.

Bob Wright is chairman of the seventh annual Valley Frolic of the San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club 31.

John Lipani, snark of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2, says that reservations are coming in fast for the first meeting of the season.

Los Angeles Black Cats who plan to attend the 63rd annual Hoo-Hoo convention in Houston, Tx., include George Clough, Don Bufkin, Jerry Essley, Roy Stanton Sr., Dee C. Essley, Bob Osgood and John Lipani. Representing Northern California are Al Bell. Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco; Dave Davis, Simpson Logging Co., San Franciscol Duane Bennett, Mead Clark Lumber & Millwork, Santa Rosa; Harry Merlo, Rockport Redwood Co., San Franciscol Bob Middleton, Middleton & Beirne Lumber Co., Redding, and Jim Duart, Tarter. Webster & Johnson, Inc., Fresno.

Forrest Denney is mgr. of the new O'Malley Lumber Co. retail yard and store. Scottsdale. Az.

Dave Graber, sales rep for Koppers Co., announces moving the San Francisco ofl]ce to 55 New Montgomery St.

Jerry Essley, exec of D. C. Essley & Sons, Los Angeles, Ca., and hiswife, are on an extended business and pleasure trip. After picking up a new car in Detroit they will be joined by his father, Dee Essley, and wife, Ada, in New York and head for the Hoo-Hoo convention in Houston, Tx.

Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co. moved into an outlying location with new offices at 1485 Bayshore Blvd., San Francisco, Ca.

Don lilhite, White Brothers, San Francisco, Ca., and his family returned from a vacation in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Larry Hansen, mgr., Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., eastern div., Columbus, Oh., is visiting in San Francisco, Ca., and will spend a few days at the Willits Redwood Products Co. mill accompanied bv Al Bell.

Valley Lumber and Supply Co., Indio, Ca., has expanded its line yard at Palm Desert.

The Lu-Re-Co homes for 1955 have been selected with plans to be ready for distribution during the first quarter.

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser will dedicate Kaiser Gypsum Co.'s new multi-million dollar gypsum plaster mill and wall board plant in Seattle.

F. F. Momyer is succeeding Jack C. Rassenfoss who has retired as president of Pickering Lumber Corp., Standard, Ca.

J. William Back, pres of Back PIYwood & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., recently returned from the Orient where he arranged for Japanese plywood and lumber for So. Ca., distribution.

Stanley Brown, pres., Chandler Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Ca., announced the third annual high school plan drawing contest sponsored by the yard with Valley contractors and architects groups.