T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant February 1,1931

J. A. Brush of the W. Leo E,. Hubbard of the Company, Los Angeles, Lumbermen's American secretary-manager has resigned that

E. Cooper Lumber Company, and Hayward Lumber & Investment are a committee organizing. the Legion Post in Los Angeles.

C. D. Terrvilliger, general manager of the Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalton, California, has been elected president of the California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association, at a meeting held in the Palace hotel, San Francisco, January 9.

R. F'. Hammatt, for the past ten years of the California Redwood Association, position effective Jan. 31.

Eugene T..Perry of San Francisco died in that city January 15, age 58. He was an officer of the John A. Hooper Lumber Company, the Valley Lumber Company, and the Stockton Lumber Company.

The Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club held its annual meeting at Salinas, elected, with George

January 19. A11 the officers were reLey of Santa Cruz, president.

Edric E. Brown, who for The Pacific Lumber the San Francisco office has been Nerv York sales manager Compar-ry, has been transferred to effective at once.

Jack Thomas, who has represented the Coos Bay Lumber Company in the Los Angeles district for years, has been transferred to San Francisco, and his friends in Los Angeles gave him a big lunch party at the Jonathan Club.

Mrs. W. G. Kerckhoff of Los Angeles has presented Kerckhoff Hall to UCLA in Los Angeles as a memorial to her husband, the late W. G. Kerckhoff of the KerckhoffCuzner Mill & Lumber Companv.

W. B. Dean of Chico, California, who has been general manager of the Diamond Match Company lumber department for years, has been elevated to the offrce of vice-president of the comoanv.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Dinner Donce

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GOOD-HOO-HOO Alt-(qbove) Worren Peterson; Dorothy Gcyeske, Wesleln Lumber Co.; Bill Seeley; Rose Mory Burnelt; Perry Srnith, qnd Aletq Cormer, Poini Lomo LUmber Co. Cenler scene shows the now-fcmous Son Diego HooHoo Quodet in vocol oction; left to righr, John Nikkel. Perry Smirh. Bill Seeley qnd Worren Pelerson. Exomining his "grond door prize" ot tha right i: Perry S'mifh; combinqtion door wqs donoted by Dovidson Plywood Co.

Son Diego Hoo-Hoo Gluqrtet Hqs to 'Beg Off' ot Hoo-Hoo-Ettes' PortY

Members of San Diego Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 4 and their guests met for the annual Christmas party at 6:30 p.m. in .Park Manor hotel this season.

After dinner the Hoo-Hoo Quartet entertained rvith a variety of songs and were not permitted to rest till they insisted they "knew no more." Members of the quartet are John Nikkel of Empire Lumber Sales, Perry Smith of Solana Cedar & Milling Co., and Warren Peterson and Bill Seeley of Dixie Lumber Co.

Lucky names drawn for door prizes included Jack Roberts of American Products, Irving Weiss of American Mill & Mfg. Co., Rosemary Burnett of American Products, Doris Weiss of Lumber & Builders Supply Co., Warren Peterson of Dixie Lumber Co., John Nikkel, Bill Seeley, Chuck Pease of the U. S. Navy, and guests McKenney and Gayeske' Perry Smith 'ivon the "grand door prize," a combination door donated by Davidson Plyvvood Co.

After singing Christmas carols, the group adjourned till its first 1956 meeting.

| 955 Construction Hits New R.ecord

Washington, D.C.-The Department of Cor.nmerce said January B that spending for nerv construction in 1955 hit a nerv high of $42,250,000,000, the ninth consecutive recordmaking year, rvith a l2/o higher total dollar value than 1954.

A sharp rise in home-building lvas the biggest single factor in setting the 1955 record, said the joint Commerce and Labor Departments statement. Increased residential building accounted for tr,vo-thirds of the total dollar gain of some $4,750,000,000 over 1954. Private residentiai building accounted for a new record of $16,6O0,000,000 in 1955' nearly 25/o above 1954.

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