HOLLOW TREE REDWOOD COMPANY

llem6er Colifomiq Redwood Associqtion

Mill & Scrles-P.O. Box 178

Ukich, Cqlifornio

S. F. Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Do Their Ghristmcrs Porty Up Righr Wirh All Trimmings

S. F. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 said goodbye to 1956 with a festive Christmas party on December 11 at the Bellevue hotel in San Francisco. An outstanding attendance of Hoo-Hoo-Ette merrymakers and their guests enjoyed a lively evening of fun, music and a gourmet's dinner.

The tables, decorated by Nes Young of the California Redwood Association, were spectacular in color and arrangement and brought many compliments. One of the highlights of the decorations was redwood boughs furnished by Ethel Yizzard of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co.

Musical entertainment was supplied by Dolores San Miguel of the San Francisco Opera Co., who sang musical comedy

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TWX: Ukioh 9l favorites and Christmas songs. She was accompanied on the piano by Gordon Wilson. Christmas stockings for the Recreation Center for the,Ilandicapped had been made and filled with candy, nuts and fruit by members of the club and were "previewed" at the meeting. I-ater in the evening, "Santa" made his annual visit and everyone received a Christmas surprise. -Ianet Iohnston.

Ernie Nelson Joins Indusfriql

Ernie Nelson, well-known Southern California salesman, has joined the stafi of Industrial Lumber Co., Glendale, reports I. S. Brown, president of the wholesale concern. Nelson has been in wholesale lumber sales for many years, formerly associated with Simpson I-ogging Co. and also Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, Calif.

An Old-Fqshioned

Tom Dreier quotes a friend of his named Harry Botsford, who in this manner paid his compliments (?) to that cocktail called an "Old-Fashioned":

"An old-fashioned is a sissy drink, a veritable fruit salad lashed with a little whiskey, whereas a martini is on the intoxicating side, designed not for dueling purposes but for the express purpose of stimulating the appetite and uplifting the soul of the weary, and chasing away the fatigue caused by honest labor. The old-fashioned was and is a tipple dreamed up by some female who liked fruit better than she did liquor. Who in hell else could conceive the idea of dunking gobs of pineapple, sections of orange, and a lone and cheerless cherry in honest liquor. It's a meal, and not a drink !"

How Sod

There rvas a young lady named Florence, For kissing professed great abhorrence, But once she'd been kissed, And found what she'd missed, She cried till the tears came in torrents.

5. P. Godmqn Sqid:

All religion, all art, all finance, all business, every ship at sea, every bridge that spans the gulf, and every discovery in the great world of science owes its origin, its inception, its first impulse to the exercise of that strange gift-imagilstien-a power to make images.

A Fqir Woger

A prosperous colored man who was figuring on buying a car and paylng for it on the company part-payment plan took an educated friend along with him when it came to signing up the sales contract and mortgage, to advise him in the matter. The friend read over the purchase contract with much care. The purchaser asked him: "Well, tell me, Mose, what do h'it say?"

The friend said: "Well, dey's a whole lotta words in dis contrack. A heap o' words. But furn what I kin figger out fum de whole business, Gen'ral Motahs is jes' bettin' you ain't nevah gwine finish payin' fo' dishere cah."

Yourhful Prodigies

That great scholar-soldier, Marquis de Montcalm, had a. brother Jean, who was equipped to be a competitor of young John Stuart Mill. At the age of three, Mill was a Greek student and at eight had read many Greek authors. Jean Montcalm could read both Latin and Greek at three and, as Prof. George M. Wrong tells us, astounded grownups at the age of five by making translations from both Greek and Hebrew, studied art, and held his own conversationally with learned men. Unfortunately (or fortunately) he died at seven.

Her Pockerbook

Comfortably seated in the train, With air absorbed, and very vain, She opened wide her pocketbook And on her lap she slowly shook A comb, some gum, a bit of rouge, A clipping from the Daily News, Some hairpins stuck into a net, A bright green manicuring set, A fountain pen, a safe'ty pin, Some soda mints, and aspirin, A handkerchief, some perfume, too, A pair of gloves, some stockings new, Some lipstick and a mirror fine, Some black, to help the eyebrow line, She looked them over, one by one, Touched up her lips. When this was done She looked again, and Oh! Despair! Her railroad ticket wasn't there !

Porsley on Plotes

The American Association for the Prevention of Putting Parsley on Plates isn't making the progress that it should. There are still too many restaurant and hotel people who persist in putting parsley on plates. When members of the Association have thrown said parsley on the foor, the attendants have simply picked it up and put it on other plates. It is now recommended that members throw the whole plate and its contents on the foor, and walk out without paying.-Thomas Dreier

Even the thorks

Visitor: "Look at that man swimming out there. Isn't he afraid of sharks?"

Native: "Naw. He's got 'Texas is the best state' tattooed on his chest, and even the sharks won't swallow that."

Origin of "Ycrnkee"

"Pathfinder" says that the term "Yankee" is thought to be derived through the word Yengee, an American Indian corruption of English. In J. Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," the Indians always refer to the Americans as "Yengees." Or it may be made over from the French "Anglais," which they used in our early days.

Indignont

"I hear," said the college boy to the new girl, "that you have a propensity for petting."

"It's a lie," she said indignantly, "All f have is an oldfash'ioned davenport."

Few Groduotes of Troining School Closs Avoiloble for Employmenf

Only 2O graduates of the McClure Inspection Training School will be available for employment upon their graduation, February 12, in Memphis, Tenn. Although there are 52 men in the 18th Class, most will go to work for their sponsors or to a location previously arranged. As in the past, members are given initial notification of the availability of these graduates. All of these men are of good character and their desire to make the hardwood industry their life work should be a strong factor in securing their services. IVlembers are urged to take prompt action in contacting any student desired as there is a substantial list of firms on file who are looking for such men.

Act promptly by contacting Chas. E. Sell at the school, 2673 Hanover Ave., Memphis 12, Tenn. (Telephone 48-4004).

Graduation exercises and luncheon will be held in the Hotel Peabody with NHLA President H. A. Ilanlon and other officials present. The new term, that of the 19th Class, will begin its course of study February 15. Members planning to have men in this class should act promptly in sending in applications. There are not too many places left.

M. B. Pendleton, NHLA of6ce, Chicago, paid the School a recent visit. In his comments to the class he made note of the importance of the school in the hardwood industry. As the demand for lumber increases, the demand will also become more selective and the knowledge of grading will make each man graduating more valuable, he said.