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by the board of directors. Thomas J. McHugh, president of the Atlantic Lumber Co., Boston, Mass., was elected chairman of the Public Relations committee to succeed Lawrence D. Kellogg. S. M. Nickey, Jr., vice-presideni and general manager of Nickey Bros., Inc., Memphis, Tenn., was elected chairman of the Foreign Trade committee, succeeding Hillman Lueddemann, vice-president and general manager of Pope & Talbot, Inc., Portland, Ore.

Officers and members of the six standing committees of the NLMA for the coming year include: Building Codes and Trade Promotion: L. J. Carr, Sacramento, Calif ., chairman; Public Relations: L. J. Carr, Sacramento, Calif.; Jack Fairhurst, Eureka, Calif. ; Forest Management: N. B. Giustina, Eugene, Ore.; A. T. Hildman, Camino, Calif.; Lumber

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Standards: S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Portland, Ore., vice-chairman; H. B. Jamison, Fresno, Calif.; Foreign Trade: Corydon Wagner, Tacoma, Wash., vice-chairman; Hillman Lueddemann, Portland, Ore.; E. C. Olson, Spokane, Wash.; Products and Research: George Flanagan, Medford, Ore.; chairman; William Swindells, Portland, Ore. ; Owen C. Sawyer, Peshastin, Wash.

Olson Joins Western Pine Srqff

Portland-Harold Olson, veteran Pacific Northwest newspaperman and forest industry writer, has been appointed to the promotion staff of the Western Pine Association. He was a district manager for American Forest Products Industries, fnc., for the past 10 years.

Coqsf lumber Fills Need in Florido

Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. has filed application with the ICC to extend its Pacific and Atlantic coast service to include Port Everglacles in Florida, rvhich Pacific Coast lumber is helping build up. Citing the "phenomenal growth" in the greater Miami area, the Weyerhaeuser petition said it expects to deliver 6 million feet of lumber to the port in 1956, with sales in the next few years reaching 15,000,000 bf annually.

Heavy lumber shipments have been waterborne the past year, with British Columbia ports moving 334 million bf. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reported 1,657,595,0O0 feet moved in domestic channe1s,208,361,000 feet shipped in export trade, and 307 .225.000 f eet moved into Southern California by water.

Wodhy Gift by Redwood Hoo-Hoo

A king-size Christmas project was started this season by the Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo club. It collected 40,000 board feet of redwood lumber from Northern California mills :rnd presented it as a gift December 16 to the Salvation Army's Lytton FIome at Healdsburg, Calif.

Redlonds Building Record Seen

The outlook ofa $10 million building year in Redlands will be a new record doubling the 1954 volume. The total through October was $,762,292. October permits included 66 new houses.

Pertonnh

After recuperating at home for a month following an illness, Samuel W. Tolle, president of West Coast Lumber Co.. San Francisco. has returned to the retail business he established in 1928. Now in his 61st year r'vith the lumber industry, Mr. Tolle considers himself past the "apprentice" stage. Before he started his own retail business, he spent several years with Christenson Lumber Co. and the old Pacific Pine Co., both of San Francisco. lle operates West Coast Lumber Co. with his son, Wallace Tolle, t'ho is general manager.

Brady Montgomery, California and Oregon lumberman, has been appointed buyer, with headquarters at Eureka, Calif., for The Martin Bros. Box Co., lumber division. He will keep the southern California plant full of northern California and Pacific Northwest products, according to Orval Paul, Los Angeles manager of the lumber division.

Del Travis, president of Travco, Inc., San Jose, and his right-hand man, Neil Jones, spent a week in early December calling on suppliers in the Dallas and Eugene, Ore., areas.

Carl W. Watts, who operates a wholesale lumber business in Piedmont, Calif., visited his mill connections in Eureka and other northern California parts last month.

Harvey Koll, promir-rent Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo official, and Mrs. Koll have left for New Orleans and the deep south, from which they rvill take a cruise of several u'eeks to Cuba and South America before retnrning early this spring. They will visit friends in the east and midu,est enroute home.

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Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Heor Lourdes Ghoir

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1 enjoyed a lovely Christmas program at their annual party December 12 at Rodger Young auditorium. The members heard 16th Century polyphonic music by a choir from Our Lady of Lourdes church led by Charles Harlan Clarke and composed of children 9 to 13 years of age.

Alma Christenson and her committee are to be congratulated on a very successful party. The pine boughs used for decorations were contributed by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. and given later as prizes. "Mrs. Santa" (Eullale Matich) and her helpers, Evelyn Fryrear and Roberta Kinkade, did a fine job.

Door prizes rvere donated by E. J. Stanton & Son, Nelson Lumber Co., Regal Door Company and Allied Veneer & Lumber Co. In addition, each guest and member received a gift of Avon handcream and Winston cigarettes.

At the November meeting, in addition to the interesting talk by Mrs. Maude Bond, the club extended birthday greetings to Ann Bellino, Gardena Lumber Co.; Margaret Gladish, Tarter, Webster & Johnson; Barbara von Rovigno, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., and Avis Whiteside, Hammond Lumber Co. Door prizes at the meeting were awarded to Miss Gladish and to Orinda Hazen,Tarzana Lumber Co.

In recognition of her service as president in the last term, the club presented a lovely rhinestone necklace to Alvina Boyle, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.

The next meeting of the SoCal Hoo-Hoo-Ettes will be January 9.