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In a combination of concating and honoring past presidents, Hoo-Hoo Club S2 of Los Angeles held their November meeting.

Don Stobaugh, Sun Lumber Co., San Pedro, and president of Club S2 conducted the ceremonies concating: Al Rankin, Rankin Overhead Doors, Tom Butlero Clearwater Lumber, Frank Rhodes, Rosberg Lumber, Jack Beratich, AFPC, Tarter, Webster & Johnson div., Frank Bader, Ed Fountain Lumber and Ted Tis* The Merchant Magazine.

Frank Quattrocchi, TT/J div., presented a past president's gavel to Jim Barnes, Cal-Forest Products.

Other past presidents introduced were John Lipani, Weyerhaeuser, Frank Quattrocchi. A special uibute was paid to Harvey Cole, past president and former Snark of the Universe.

NFFA's Fqll Meeting

Forest products industry national programs in the areas of government afiairs, timber resource management, housing, build' ing codes and standards were spotlighted at the NFPA fall meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., Nov. 9-I1. A new shortened meeting format, which placed major emphasis on the important work of NFPA standing and special committees, characterized the two-day event attended by U.S. and Canadian forest products leaders.

Cabinet official Robert P. Mayo, director of the Bureau of the Budget, addressed tl-re meeting and covered topics of timber, housing needs, and Administration fiscal policies. Mayo's remarks were reported widely in leading daily newspapers.

Reports of the long- and short-range objectives of the association, its accomplishments and problem areas were presented by NFPA president L. L. Stevrart and exec. vp. James R. Turnbull. Stewart emphasized that "NFPA will tackle the jobs that involve national issues and get them done as economically and expeditious' ly as possible."

Turnbull stressed: "Associations exist to serve. They are made up of their members, and the stafi is a group of professionals employed to perform certain functions for the association. However, in the final analysis, no association stafi can accomplish major goals unless the supporting industry is equally and fully involved in the effort."

$2.5 Million lumber Sqle

Hubbard & Johnson, Redwood City, Calif., has recently completed a transaction involving the sale of $2.5 million to Kaufman& Broad, Inc. and its subsidiary, Kay Homes. It is one of the largest single lumber sales to a builder at a fixed price wer reil, corded on the West Coast.

H&J president Wesley "Bud" Hubbard comments: "This is a'\, unique situation on the West Coast as we know it and the largest deal of its kind that I have ever heard of."

The transaction calls for delivery of 20 million bf. of framing lumber for some 2000 homes to be built by Kay Homes during 1970. The buy is intended to stabilize the cost of lumber at a contract rate arranged in cooperation with tlVeyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma.