Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club Christmas Party

Boys' Chrb \\'ere guests of the Club, each of the youngsters being spcnsored by a Club member. Joe Pepetone acted as Santa Claus and presented eacl-. of the children rvith an appropriate gift.

A closn. trainecl monkeys and sleight of hand performei contributed much to the enjovment of the children.

For the "gros'n ups" there $'as a turkey shoot rvith a fat turkey gc.ing to the best marksman of the evening.

Bob Hogan s'as chairrnan of the evening. and rvas ablv assisted by llill llcCubhin and Joe Pepetone. Club president Al Kellel' presided.

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The Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 annual Christmas Party rva-s held in the Leantington Bou-I, I-eamington Hotel. Oakland, cn Wednesday evenirrg, Decenrber 17, and rtas a very successful affair. 25 needy children from the Oakland

Year-End Review of Construction Industry

New York, Dec. 3l-The construction industry established a ne\v peak of over $42 billion in volume during 1952, and may well exceed this figure b1'gl billion in 1953, according to Harold R. Berlin, vice president oi Johns-Ilanville Corporation.

Mr. Berlin, u'ho is general manager of the CompanT's Building Products Division, pointed out that construction is nor''i' in second position, behind defense, as the nation's leading industry.

"A sigr.rificant development in the home builcling industrr. is its dependence on 'iniernal rnigration' and mobilitv of people to a greater degree than on famill' formation for its most dyriamic impulses trfr. Berlin cautioned tirat "if the Korean \\'ar or the Cold \\-ar in general is stepped-up the optimistic estimate of a $l billion increase for the industry in 1953 rvould have to be revised considerablv."

"The nrass exodus frorn cities to sulturbs is indicated bv the census figures from 1940 to 1950 u'hich indicate that while 80,000 more persc'ns moved out of Neu' York Citv than moved in, an estinrated 5C0.000 more persons mor-ed into the suburbs than mcved out. During that decade, the 168 standard metropolitan areas of the U. S. increascd bv 15,200,00C persons but c,nly 6,000,000 of the increase nas in the cities proper. The remaining 9,200,000 increase t'as in the suburban areas.

"Side by side rvith this tremendous suburban rnigration we continue to have a vast regicnal migration. Of the 19.000,000 population increase during the census vears, 5.700,000 occured in the west and 5,500,000 in the south.

"The gor-ernment decision ro 'stretch out' defense expenditures and reduce them from the original estimate oi $72 to $7,1 billion for 1952 to $60 billion took a lot of pressure oft the ccnstruction industrv and enabled it to reach its huge 1952 r'olume.

"Had defense decided to follos' the original plan of speeding defense expenditures to the $72 to $74 billion level by the end of 1952, entire classes o! the construction industry u'ould have found it exceedingly difficult to operate because of lack of critical materials. intense labor shortage, and tighter governmental controls."

Mcncrges Plyrrood Division

E. \\'. Ha-r-es. rvho has been l'ith the ilI. & NI. \\'ood \\'orking Companv for manl' \'ears. has been nrade nranager of the Eureka Plv*'ood Companv, at Eureka, s'hich is a Division of tI. & I\f.

Logrgring Consultant

Hubert I. B<-rn'er. for many I'ears rvith the Pacific Companv at Scotia as logging engineer. has gone business of consultant on logging and forestry He makes his home at Rio Dell, Calif.

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