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Cosst Gounfies Hoo-Hoo Hold Successful flleeting-Februory 23

The first meeting of Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo Club 114 with new prexy Mel Conger at the helm of the club was held at Garbini's on F'ebruary 23. The well-attended meeting began at 6:29 p.m. with libations, good fellowship and market scuttlebutt. Dinner and an after dinner progratn wound up the successful first meeting of what promises to be an outstanding Club 114 year.

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Redwood Reseorch to be Gonducted Af U. C. Foresl Products Loborotory

A Hungarian refugee scientist has been named to conduct research on redwood at the University of California's Foregt Products Laboratory in Riehmond.

The new appointee is Dr. Bela Balough, organic chemist who escaped from lludapest to Vienna, Austria, during the Hungarian revolution in 1956.

FPL Director F red E. Dickinson said that Balough's postdoctoral appointment for one year was made possible by a grantin-aid from the California Redwood Association. Balough will study the chemistry of natural organic compounds occurring in redwood. The compounds are believed to be partially responsible for chemical seasoning' stains in the decorative and durable foregt product.

Balough has overcome many obstacles to gain a scientific education and live as a free man. Born in Budapest of working class parents in 1933, he was orphaned at the age of 12. He nevertheless managed to earn his diploma at the Chemical Trade School in Budapest in 1951. In the same year, he undertook studies in organic chemistry at the Technical University of Budapest. Because of his outstanding ability, Balough was employed while attending the University as a demonstrator in its Institute of Organic Chemistry.

He received his diploma in chemistry from the University in 1956 and subsequently worked as an assistant at the Institute for Synthetic Materials in Budapest until the start of the uprising. After fleeing from Hungary, Balough was employed as an unskilled worker in the laboratory of a rubber factory in Vienna for a year. In 1957, he was awarded a scholarship by the Rockefeller Foundation and began studying for his doctorate at the Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Technical University in Vienna.

Balough received his degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in 1959 and then served as head researcher of a laboratory for the improvement of wool in a felt cloth factory in Vienna.

He now is a citizen of Austria and plans to return to his adopted land after completing the studies at" the F'orest Products Laboratory.

Diqmond Notionol Revirolizing Atwoter Yqrd

Construction was begun last month on a new 8,000 square foot showroom and warehouse for Diamond National Corporation at Atwater, California. The new building, which will house the yard's store display area, offices and building materials and dry lumber inventory, is located at the corner of Broadway and Shafier Road. Contractor for the job is Floyd Miller, and construction is expected to be completed by the end of March. Included in the expansion, according to Diamond National officials, will be enlarged store inventories, including several new hardware and home appliance lines previously not ofrered.