Redwood And Custom Milling

Moore Oregon lumber Compony Opens Beverly Hills Offices

Dick Schiller, prominent Southern California lumberman, has opened sales offices in Beverly Hills representing the Moore Oregon Lumber Company of Coos Bay, Oregon.

Schiller has been identified in lumber procurement and sales in Los Angeles for over 36 years. Prior to opening the Moore Oregon offices he was associated with the Hammond Lumber Company in the southland in various capacities. He joined ,Hammond early in the 1920's when fresh out of school and started his lumber career in the yard. His progress was steady and, in a short time, he was transferred from production to administration, and in 1930 was placed in complete charge of the Southern California purchasing. He held this position uniil the end of 1956, when he left Hammond, to head up the sales staff for Moore Oregon in the Southland.

Associated with Dick Schiller in his new connection is Mrs. A. G. Schober, another Hammond veteran. Mrs. Schober spent over 30 years with Hammond and during the past 20 years was an active "Girl Friday" and assistant in the procurement department. She has been appointed office manager of the Beverly Hills branch.

Boylhart, Lovett & Dean, fnc., Los Angeles, was the only advertising agency in the 11 western states to receive an award in the ABP's 14th national competition. A Division One award of merit was received for the agency's campaign for Ador Sales, Inc., Fullerton, Calif.

Hoo-Hoo Glub 3l Lodies Night Huge Success

A record crorvd of more thar-r 150 turned out for Hoo-Hoo Club 3l's Ninth Annual Dinner Dance held at the beautiful Sunnyside Country Club in Fresno. The cats and their ladies danced to the music of Frank Bailey and were served a delicious prime rib dinner.

Members were entertained by Bob Reid, one of : the prominent HooHoo members, who sang several ballads for them. Laura Muy Sheelour played the organ. One of the highlights of the entertainment was a Dixieland Jazz Band under the direction of Bob Knott, the son of Hamilton Knott. The members thoroughly enjoyed these boys, who are only in high school but have really mastered Dixieland Jazz.

Another highlight of the evening was the drawing for the door prize, which was a portable TV set and won by Mrs. Jack Berry, wife of the State Deputy Snark of Sacramento.

It was announced that the proceeds from this door prize were to be used to start a Jack Bailey Fund. Jean Hartsock of K-Y Lumber Company was general chairman of the event, and Bob Reid of Reid and Wright Company lvas in charge of entertainment.

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Hoo-Hoo Club 3l to Sponsor "Jcrck Boiley Night" Morch I

Joe Aimar, manager of Diamond Match Company, Hanford, and president of Hoo-Hoo Club 31, announces that the club will sponsor JACK BAILEY NIGHT, Friday, March 1, at the American Legion Post 509 Clubhouse, 3509 N. First Street, Fresno.

Joe Aimar reports, "Jack Railey was stricken with polio last October and has been confined in an iron lung in the Fresno County Hospital ever since. Jack is very well known in the lumber industry in Northern California. He was employed for many years as sales representative for Gordon-MacBeath, which he left for a short period of time and entered the insurance business. lfowevcr, lumber seemed to be his first love atrd he

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Coll Olympic 3-7711 returned to the lurnber industry as San Joaquin sales representative for E. L. Bruce Company, which position he held for the last two years. Jack is rnarried and has two children, residing in Fresno.

"Hoo-Hoo Club 31's board of directors and members have decided they would like to do something for Jack and his family. Everyone knows what a terriffic guy Jack is and what a tremendous fight he is putting up against this dread disease, poliomyelitis.

"The evening will provide a delicious buffet clinner, many games of skill, an auction, and lots of prizes and fun for all attending, knowing they are helping to raise a fund for the family of one of the most courageous fellows they have ever known," he pointed out.

Aimar has appointed Jini Duart general chairman of the event. The committees are as follows:

Arrangements, Earl Ruth; Publicity, Don Walker; Prizes, John Holt, Ted Felles; Dinner, Bob Schlotthauer; Refreshments, Elmer Rau; Finances, Bernie Barber, Jt., "C^p" Nichols, Duke Nelson, Ray Noble; Auction, Bob Reid; Cashier, C. E. Macdonald; Reception, Kerman Crow, J. C. "Doc" Snead, Ed Schlotthauer, Larry Cannon; Ticket Sales, Sid Hamilton, Wally Kennedy, Louis Franie, Craig Gafiney, Art Wall, Herb Thompson, Ollie I-ee, Alex Gordon, Harold Fuerst, Bob Raymer, Bob Bolton, Bill Walker.

Tickets may be obtained from any of the ticket salesmen listed above, or by contacting Bernie Barber, Jr., P.O. Box 627. Fresno. All those who for one reason or another cannot attend JACK BAILEY NIGHT are invited to send in a contribution to this worthy cause.

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Robert E. BOYD

Private funeral services were conducted January 16 in Alhambra for Robert E. Boyd, 63, an owner of the Boyd Lumber Co., Alhambra. He had been in the lumber business 'since his youth in South Bend, Ind., and went to Southern California in 1922. Mr. Boyd and the co-owners had just moved the retail yard to Upland, Calif., (CLM' I/15/57) after many years at the old Alhambra location, and opened it earlier last month, with a grand opening planned for later. Mr. Boyd leaves his wife, Edna, of the home at 784 Plymouth Road, San Marino; a daughter, Anne Boyd Jenkins, whose husband, Charles F., is manager and purchasing agent of the yard; and two sisters. Entombment was in Mountain View mausoleum, Pasadena.

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Friends of Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon Smith, who were killed in a highway accident near Orange Coast college late in December when their car was struck while enroute to their Newport Heights home, have established a memorial fund for the young couple at Hoag hospital, Newport Beach, where Mrs. Smith did volunteer work. Mr. Smith, 35, was for several years superintendent of the Hammond Lumber Company's plant at Terminal Island. Mrs. Smith, 36, was the former Mary Lucille Last. They leave two small daughters, 9 and 6. Funeral services were conducted December 24 in Orange, with interment at Forest Lawn . Mrs. Alice E. Mundorf Johns, 58, wife of the retired lumberman, Milton V. Johns, of Berkeley, Calif., died November 1 at the home there, lllT The Alameda, according to a clipping just received. She had been ill only a short time. In addition to her husband, she also leaves a son' Dr. Milton V. Johns, Jr., and her mother and a brother, both of Sonora . Samuel Pollack, 72, died January 10. A resident of Santa Monica and 34 years in the Southland, he built the Strand, Stuyvesant and Westwood Ambassador hotels and was an early developer in the North Hollywood district Mrs. Catherine Mcleod, mother of Fluma McLeod of Martin Plywood Company, Los Angeles, died fanuary 22 after a long illness.

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The highly successful Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39 Birthday Party, a dinner-dance affair, will be held this year at the Claremont hotel in Berkeley, Thursday evening, February 2I, according to Jerry Mashek, general chairman of the annual event. The starting time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.-come early or late if you wish. Dinner will be served at approximately B:30 p.m., advises Club President Herb Farrell. The party will again be held in the Claremont's L'Horizon room, scene of last year's dance which drew oyer 160 Bay area lumbermen and their wives.

Chairman Mashek also points out that the next day is a holiday, "so let your conscience be your guide."