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Some forty years ago when Miss Annie Oakley was the world's most famous rifle shot, her name well known to everyone from coast to coast, she was touring tlre country giving exhibitions of marksmanship.

One afternoon when she was showing in New Orleans, the property man found before the show started that one of their stage helpers was missing, so he went out on the street looking for a substitute. Right back of the theatre he saw a tall, lazy-looking colored brother leaning against a railing and sunning himself. He said to the man:

Logging Officers for Next Year

At the annual convention of the Pacific Logging Congress held in San Francisco in November, the following officers v,'ere elected for the ensuing year, and to preside at the 1953 meeting to be held in Seattle: President, Clyde Corman, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co , Longview, Wash.; vice-presicient, Roy A. Gould, Diamond Lumber Co., Portland, Ore. ;treasurer, Robert F. Dwyer, Dwyer Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.; secretary, Carwin A. Woolley, Portland,Ore.

Closing the meeting Col. W. B. Greeley told-the loggers that while great strides forward have been made, "Western loggers arrd Western forestry are still handicapped by many practices and conceptions that became fixed during the days when forcst products were excessively cheap and competitive." l{e predicted that the value of wood and the diversity of its uses will soon put forest inventories and measurements into cubic feet or r,cales based on cubic contents of rarv materials. He predicted increased ingenuity for devising equipment and methods for moving out of the woods low value materials at a profit.

"Boy, how would you like to male two dollars in just about five minutes time?"

"Yassuh, yassuh," replied the dusky one. 'I sho do wants to. Whuts f'm goin't'do to make dis two bucks so quick?"

Said the property Ean: "Miss Annie Oatley is going to shoot an apple ofr your head with a rif,c during the afternoon pctformance."

Instinctively tte otter began cdging backrar4 his eyes fixed on the face of tle prop nu'l. He said:

"Miss Annie who . . is goin' t'sboot what . . . offa WHOSE haid . . . ?" and hc vanished around the corncr.

Holdr Annual Mccting at Mcnphir

Thomas C. Matthews, sales manager of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, was elected president of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association at its annual meeting in December in Memphis, Tenn. For the past three years he has served as vice president and a director in the administration of the retiring president, Milton Craft, president of Chapman and Dewey Lumber Co., Memphis. ' th e nri I lio n-a nd-a-half dollar plant of the Electric Planing Mill at Stockton, Calif for Quality Ponderosa Pine Finish, Sash, Knock-Down Frames, and Kiln Dried \il7hite Fir

Sam Nickey, Jr., Nickey Brothers, Inc-, Memphis, was elected vice president, and Henry I{. Willins, Memphis, was re-elected to the secretary-treasurer post which he has held for ten years.

"The 1953 outlook points to auother year of high volume oak flooring sales," according to Mr. Willins. A special feature of the meeting was the presentation of a full-color motion picture showing the effects of oak wilt and the methods developed by plant pathologists to combat it. The film was narrated by Dr. A. J. Riker of the University of Wisconsin, chairman of the advisory committee of the National Oak Wilt Research Committee.