Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 Has Big Christmas Party

The December meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, on Thursday evening, December 18, was their annual Christmas party. There was an attendance ol 225, and many of the old timers said it was the best Christmas party the Club has had in its long career.

President Everett Lewis presided. Hs welcomed the large gathering of lumbermen and their friends, and turned the meeting over to Vice President Tom Jacobsen, program chairman, who had arranged for a somewhat different line of entertainment, which included audience participation in the form of community singing, led by that expert director with the good voice, Mel Matheny.

The Marimba Trio delighted the audience with their music, and generously responded to many encores.

The Yuletide Carolers, a group of boys and girls of high school age, sang Christmas Carols and other numbers, each of which received a big hand.

Leo Hulett took the part of Santa Claus. He elected to upset tradition to the extent of handing out advice to a

Scientist Tells of Huge Potential \Tealth From California Wood Pulp

A state-wide conference of drug crop growers was held at the State Building in Los Angeles on December 2nd and 3rd, under the auspices of the California Department of Education and Polytechnic College of San Luis Obispo. One of the principal speakers was Monroe C. Kidder, of Polytechnic, who told the meeting that the State of California has a potential one hundred million dollar tannin and wood pulp industry in the cultivation of the acacia wattle.

He said that Caltech has made tests which shorv that pulp from the small acacia tree imported from Australia makes excellent newsprint and would solve the shortage of this material if its cultivation was taken up in quantity. The acacia wattle also is a source of tannin, used in tanning leather, and now imported into this country from Russia and India. Kidder estimated that the plantings and number of prominent members of the organization, and he charged them for it. Ed La Franchi, pinch-hitting as Sergeant-At-Arms, collected the fines.

Parker Allen of California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, won the $20.@ cash door prize,'and gave $10.00 of it to the Good Fellowship Fund. Jerry Mashek of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, cultivation of 370,000 acres rvould be required to supply all the wood pulp and tannin needed in the West, which acreage rvould yield 200 tons of lvood pulp a day. It would take ten years to bring in the first crop, he said.

He also said that plantings of California tanbark oak could be made to yield as much as 200 tons of rn'ood pulp daily, if the possibilities along this line rvere carried through.

Georgre Ream Gives Awcy A Pile-O'-Gold

For Christmas George Ream, of Los Angeles, mailed to his many friends a desk thing that is highly attractive. It is a paper weight made of a score or more of goldlooking coins stuck together and flattened out that demands attention. Faces on many of the coins are those of very famous Americans, so the gift has historical as well as practical value.

Philippine Mahogany

After mony yeqrs we qre now in o posilion lo offer, for prompt shipment from our long Beoch Yord, lhese two selected ond trode-mqrked hqrdwoods.

Until present exporl reslrictions in the Philippines ore chonged we cqn supply only lumber resqwn here, from 8" ond up by 8" ond up by 8' ond up, Conls ond Veneer Flitches.

BUI Whot Lumber!

8" ond wider, from 8' lo 24' long, ond procticolly lO0% Ribbon Groin, Dork Red ond Light Red Philippine Mohogony. Truly o remqrkqble specificotion, ond worthy of our frode-morks.