35O Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo, Wives ond Guests See Spectoculor Entertoinment of Ghristmos Porty for the Boys' Home Kids

More than 350 lumber "Jacks and Jills" turned out on the evening of December 11 for the annual Christmas Jubilee sponsored by Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 members, HooHoo-Ettesi and Southland wholesalers and retailers to helo entertain the young men of LeRoy Boys' Home and introduce them to Santa Claus and the soirit of Yuletide.

When Chairman Tom Burden said the festivities would start at 6:29 p.m., he really meant it, and dinner was served promptly at 7 :29 to clear the way for the truly spectacular program which took until l1:00 p.m. to complete.

Each table was honored by the presence of two or three boys who were the "special guests" of the evening and who were treated to a Biltmore dinner, presented with various Christmas gifts, and entertained by a complete vaudeville show, which included Dorothy Murray, accordionist; Art

LaRue, Santa Claus; Dell O'Dell, popular television magician; Charles Carrier with his novelty European juggling act; Russ Clark and his outstanding puppets ; Jaqualine Hurley, acrobatic dancer; Wally Blair the clown, Dusty Dryer and Gil Baumgart and their orchestra.

There was a genuine atmosphere of "Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men" on this auspicious occasion, when the 7l underprivileged boys were presented their gifts by Santa Claus, Snark Harold Cole, Chairman Tom Burden and Chuck Lember. Each youth was the recipient of a big box, gift wrapped by the Hoo-Hoo-E,ttes, which contained an assortment of several sport shirts, socks, slacks and other personal items. They also received various games so they could have fun wl-ren they returned to the home.

X{uch credit is due Margaret Glaclisl-r, presiclent of HooHoo-E,tte Club No. 1, and Vice-President Violet Neal, who was chairman of the committee that personally selected and gift-wrapped all of the packages foi the boys. Without the support of these fine ladies of Hoo-Ifoo, it is tl.re concensus of opinion that these parties for the boys lvould be very drab indeed.

The two number-one "Gals" were ably assisted by Nlarv Sheldon, co-chairman, Vi Richards, Peggy Mottola, Marie Jolly, Doris Hurja, Anne Murray, IVIildred Abbott, Vera Prince and Jeanne Serviss.

It requires the cooperation of all concerned to make these annual Christmas events successful. Harold Cole, Snark of Los Angeles Club 2, thanked them-as he said, "from the bottom of my heart."

Sonto found o willing (ond very copoble) helper in L.A. Deoler lorry Weilond congratulated because, without money-where are you? Mr. & Mrs. G. Walter Gow, pioneer lumber folks, were special guests of Chairman E,ssley.

Vice-President Chuck Lember selected about 20 door prizes for the lucky ladies. All were practical and useful gifts. The number-one was a luxury electric can opener, but there were many others of equal value.

When the clock struck eleven it was time for Cinderella (in the person of Mrs. Norton from the home) to load up her big chariot and head for Glendora with her sleepy charges.

Prexy Harold Cole thanked everybody for their attendance, for their financial support and, above all, for making the 1959 annual Christmas Jubilee such an outstanding success. He paid tribute to his committee that helped make this one of the leading events in all Hoo-Hoo.

He personally thanked his close assistants John Osgood, Bill Smith, Chuck Lember, Tom Burden, Freeman Campbell, Rex Wells and past Snark Don Braley for their untiring work "far beyond the call of duty." He paid special tribute to LeRoy Haynes, master of the Boys' Home, and thanked him for bringing the youngsters to the Biltmore.

"I want you to know that our big family at LeRoy Boys' Home extends our sincere thanks and appreciation for these frne and useful gifts, and for the spirit of your wonderful {riendship and support-not only this year-but for tl.re many years we have worked closely together. Hoo-Hoo Club 2 members have been kind to us, for which we are eternally grateful," said Mr. Haynes, chief executive of t1-re lIome.

A party of this magnitude requires cor.rsiderable moola in order to get it oft- the ground. More tl-ran 75 lumber firms and individual donors contributed almost three-thousand dollars to this worthy enterprise.

However, the committee which worked on finances included Dee Essley, chairman; Bob Osgood, Ed Bauer, George Clough and Don Braley. These geirtlemen are to be

Special attention was called to the next big Hoo-Hoo party. It will again be Ladies' Nite at Candle.ivood Country Club on the evening of January 15. A11 lumbermen, their lvives, families and frier-rds are urged to attend this annual dinner-dance. Bring a friend arrd iome on orlt for the fun. The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ettes l-rave been selected to co-

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Rolf (Olympic-site cabin for rent) Stolesen, Kay and the family spent the holidays in Squaw Valley polishing up their cabin in preparation for the Big Events next month.

Dick Lloyd'of the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, attended the recent State Division of Architecture meetings as a representative for the Standards and Building Codes committees of the American Institute of Timber Construction, helping promote building codes that will recognize the full values of wood.

Double-barreled congratulations to Georgia- Pacific's Keith Harry and his wife Georgianne, who presented him with twin sons, double end-trimmed, waxed and stamped and "Kevin" at Marin General Hospital, Dec. 2. Keith's tally card now reads three boys, two girls.

Paul E. Kent, Hollywood wholesaler, and

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his wife spent the holidays in Hawaii on their first vacation in four years. They decided on the Islands because of the balmy breezes and are enjoying it to the fullest.

Al Van Dusen, associated many years with Monarch Lumber in Oakland, and more recently with Carter Lumber Co., has joined the Reg Smith Lumber Co. in Oakland.

Dale Burns, who heads the Redding office of the Ed Fountain Lumber Co.. recentlv spent a week in the Los Angeles headquarters.

Ed LaFranchi has resigned from Clay Brown & Company, where he handled the Oakland office, to enter his own wholesale business. He was succeeded Dec. 14 by Harry McCall in Oakland. tugcr Pine Selecis. Redwood.

Roy Stanton, Jr., executive administrative officer of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, spent the holidays in snow country around Chicago and the eastern seaboard.

Union Lumber Company's ambassador-atlarge, Jim Ramsey, now working out of the Park Ridge, Ill., office, and his bride Fran were recent holiday visitors back home to San Francisco.

Jim Linderman, Long Beach lumber wholesaler, and his family are on their annual holiday visit with relatives and friends in Dallas. Texas.

George Monnier of Reinhart Lumber & Planing is justly bustin' with pride over his daughter Michelle, who recently copped the Senior Ladies Central-Pacific Ice-Skating championship at Sutro's in San Francisco and is now going for the Pacific Coast championship at Squaw Valley, which is being run off Dec. 3l-Jan. 2.

Chris Miller, veteran southern California lumber salesman, is now making the calls for Oregon Lumber Sales in Los Angeles.

Raymond Nelsen is now actively managing the Hayward (Calif.) Mill & Lumber Co. following the untimely death of Nels E. Nelsen, Oct. 16. Mrs. Harriet Nelsen also remains active in the management of the long-established business.

Ralph Singer, general manager of Diamond W Supply Co., Los Angeles, made a pre-Christmas business safari to San Francisco and the Bay area.

Oakland Wholesaler Don Coveney is filling customers of California Lumber Sales with tales of his recent adventures abroad which included high spots in Ireland (Hic), France ("Monsieur, you wish to buy peectures?"), Italy (lots of Lollobrigidas there yet), etc. He planed Portland-way Dec. 7 for a 10-day mill trip through western and southern Oregon.

Bill Buettner, partner in Geo. J. Silbernagel Co., spent a recent week in the Portland-Eugene area calling on mill connections.

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Jonuory Schedule of IMA "Know Your Producfs" Sqles Courses

The tl-rird in the series of "Know Your Products" sales courses sponsored by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, to better acquaint yard personnel with the end-use applications and technical characteristics of the products he sells, will be launched in January.

Iixar-ninations will be an important part of each program and the results, if desired, will be made available to sponsoring ettrployers. Tl.re nominal cost of the program is $1.50 per e,m_p-loyee anci non-Association firms may also participate at $3.50 per en.rployee, the difference in cost to be applied toward Association membership.

The meetings will begin in the following cities, on the dates ir.rdicated, at 7 :00 p.m. and end at 9:30 p.m.:

San Jose, Jan. l2-Ltncoln High School, Salinas, Jan. l3-Hartnell Junior College, San Luis Obispo, Jan. 14-San Luis Obispo High School,

Bakersfield, Jar-r. 1S-Bakersfield College, Fresno, Jan. 19-Fresno llacienda, Moclesto, Jan. 19-Modesto Irrigation District l{eaclrlttarters, Stockton, Jar.r. 21-San Joaquin Industrial Assn. Headqtlarters, Sacranrerrto, Jan. 26-Sacramento Howe Ave. School, Cl.rico, Jan. 27-Oaks Hotel, and Santa Ilosa, Jan. 28-Santa Rosa Junior College.

NHIA Trqinees Exceed Limir

The 24th term of the National Hardwoocl Lumber Inspection Training School in Memphis, Tenuessee, opened in September with a full complement of 50 students. It was necessary to turn down 20 applications for the class but many of these will attend the session starting irr February. Members are urged to contact NHLA without delay if they rvish to sponsor students for the next class.

(Tell thern Aou sau it in The Californi.a Lumber Merchant)

"Remembering you at Christmas," Thus read your Christmas card. Remembering you was easy, Forgetting you came hard.

It seems so very long ago, The day you locked your heart; The universe has wheeled for me Since we have been apart.

Remembering me at Christmas? Of course I thank you, dear; But oh, my love!Remember? I remember all the year.

-E. L. Spaulding.

In 1798, Napoleon-seeking new worlds to conquer, sailed for Egypt and took with him many of the foremost engineers and scientists of that time. One night on ship deck these men got to discussing religion. Most of them were atheistic in their beliefs, and told why. They argued scientifically against the truths of God and the Bible. Napoleon only listened. Finally he rose to go to bed and, as he did so, pointed with his hand toward the canopy of the heavens, were billions of stars were shining, and remarked to his learned audience: "Very ingenious, Messieurs, but who made all that?"

The Marine danced with the good-looker at the USO. She remarked: "My husband is in the Navy in the western pacific." Said the Marine: "Ah ! Then your anchor's aweigh."

Famous sayings: Mark Twain was the author of the remark that "Difference of opinion is what makes horse races." Bob Fitzsimmons, weight 165, about to fight Ed Donkhurst, weight 300, for the heavyweight title, handed down the immortal remark that: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall." Napoleon said that "God seems to favor the army with the biggest cannon." Frank Leahy, when Notre Dame football coach, was reported as saying that ,,prayers work better when the players are big." Cromwell gave posterity something to remember when he told his army to ,,put your trust in God but keep your powder dry.', And W. C. Fields, comedian, left behind two pieces of advice that have been much quoted: "Never give a sucker an even break," and "Never smarten up a chump."

It has been well said that it is to those who will not be held down and cannot be restrained that the world owes all its forward forgings. Moses was of that type; so was Jesus, and Buddha, and Confucius, and Socrates, and Galileo, and Cromwell, and Roger Bacon, and Isaac Newton, and Voltaire, and George Washington, and Abe Lincoln, and Columbus-and a world of others.

BY JACK DIONNE

During slavery days the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont refused to surrender a fugitive slave "unless the master show a bill of sale from the Almighty." But long before that, when a lawyer declared that "slavery is a matter of contract," the great Frenchman, Voltaire, replied: "Show me the contract with the signature of the slave and I'll believe you." a{<*

During the closing days of the First World War, when the shades were slowly settling down over Germany, Von Hindenburg was pacing the floor, his face the picture of anxiety, when one of his aides said to him: "Don't worry so, General; is not God on our side?" And the big man answered: "But the Americans are on the British side.,'

Shakespeare had it "u Jvur ltn"l -rit"r, like a circus tent over a sardine can, but when it came to prohecy he was not so hot. Witness the fact that in "Antony and Cleopatra" he wrote: "The time of universal peace is near.', perhaps it depends on what he meant by "near."

John Ruskin, a great airr,olr, tilorougrrty diagnosed men of the Lincoln type when he said: "The first test of a truly great man is his humility. Really great men have a feeling that greatness is not in them, but through them.,' ***

Through the centuries there has come down to us a definition of the word "justice" that will always endure: ,,Justice is the perpetual purpose or will to render to every one that which is his." You can add a million well-chosen words to those and it is doubtful if you have thrown a bit more light on the subject. *

Thinking humans waste a fine weapon rrirhen they write poor letters. Heloise wrote to Abelard: ',What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak.', The letters that Paul wrote were the strongest pillars upon which the citadel of Christianity was builded. The letters that Luke wrote gave us the most beautiful pieces of literature ever printed, including the story of Christmas. Take pains with your letters; even the ordinary business letters.

Thinking men in *"""*n"r,f, "gl""a that since the beginning of religious thought in this world, men have always created their own particular gods in their own likenesses. The philosopher Spinoza, commenting on that fact, said that if a triangle were to describe God, it would describe Him as triangular, and that if a circle tried it, He would be described as circular. x. * *

And then there was the sign in the delicatessen store that read: "If you can't smell it, we haven't got it." ***

And the top sergeant said to the new rookie: ..Wipe that opinion off your face."

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