Record Crowd Seen as Good Sign

N{AYBE IT was the reawakening oI the rvr San Francisco Bav Area lumber market, or maybe the mood was just right, but the fact is that the reoent Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club dinner dance broke a five-year attendance record and then some.

More than 50 couples turned out for the February 2I afiair which was again held at Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton. Vith lagging attendance plaguing practically all Western Hoo-Hoo clubs, we would like to agree with Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club prexy Jack Koep{ that their big turnout might be a harb. inger of better things to come for the venerable East Bay club. ance figure was seen as proof that business is better.

The Oakland club, incidentally, is still the California champ as far as attendance at a single meeting goes, The record was set eight years ago at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley with better than 700 lumbermen attendine the annual Reveille.

MaoBEATH'S Joe Cortese (1) and his pretty missus. (2) Club Prexy Jack Koepf. (3) Ben Ward, Clovis French, Gladys Ward and Bill MacBeath. (4) Ray Morrison, Jackie and Verlon McKinney, Edna and Lloyd Barbour and Mr. and Mrs. El Werthman at this happy table.