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UMBOLD Hoo.Hoo club 63 held its third Annual Hoo-Hoo Celebrity l{ight and Concat in Eureka, January 28, with more than 160 'oWho's W'ho" in attendance.

CAI.IFORNIA IU}TBER I,IERCHANT

The glittering cast included Snark of the Universe John Hickey of Toronto, Rameses 32 Art Hood of Los Altos, Rameses 48 Dave Davis of Eureka, Rameses 55 Ed Wade of Eugene, Supreme Senior Hoo-Hoo Jack Mitchell of Medford, Supreme Scrivenoter John Enright of Santa Clara. There were also presidents of various Oregon and northern California clubs and enoush of their "warriors'' to fill a qood sizeJ battlefield.

"STARS" COME 0UT for Humboldt Hoo-Hoo's Celebrity Niqht: (Ton left, L-R)

Rameses 32 Art Hood, Snark of the Universe John Hickey of Toronto, Rameses 48 Dave Davis and Ranreses 55 Ed Wade. (Top center, L-R)-Harry Merl6 of Rockport Redwood._.Georgia_Pacific's Bill Nicholas, Sig Lindroth and Eric Engstroni of Lindroth Timber. (Top right, L-R) Part of the San Francisco Bav Area iontinsent were Bill Johnson, Knute Weidman and Iarry Owen. (Second row, left) Hoo-Hoo Degree .Team. include_d (L-R, seated) Art Hood, Dave Davis, Snark john Hickey, Al Bell, Ed.Wldg a_n{.Bud Peterson; (standing, L-R) John Enright, Bill Carter,'bud Allen and 8ob Reid. (Second row, center)-hog Schuyler fl;ft)'and Jack Crane. (Second row, right, L-R) Elmore Prather, Tony Olividrra of Georgia-pacific and Lyle Brewster. (Center photo) Humboldt's 14 n6w kittens, Chris Nicolas. Redwood Construction; Jim Franke, Twin Parks Lumber; Dennv Hess and Del'Lewallvn. Simonson Lurnber; Henry Sofinski, R. H. Emnrersoni Ernest park, Brightwoori

Lunrb.er; Roger Oiler, Arcata Plywood; Ken Jensen, Van De Nor Lumber; Herb Rochlitz, H. _4. & E. J. Rochlitz; Paul Tebb, Simpson Timber; Jim Boykian, Merle Annis, Jim McArthur and Bill Nicholas, all of Georgia-Pacific. (0tir apologies to the big fella'for chopping off the top of his hCad-our camera itippiOtt (Third row, right) Clear Fir Lumber's Del Davenport (left) chats with Gav Bradt. (Third row, left, L-R) Gerald Kirkpatrick of 0. M. Hill Lumber; Hugh Pessner and lee _Deering-of lexbelg Lumber, Redding. (Fourth row, center) Sam Wingate, Bill fiogers, Phil Dubaldi and Stan Eisner. (Fourth row, right) Veteran lumbermari Art Penberthy (right) arguing a fine point with Simonson's Denny Hess. (Bottom row, left, L-R) Bob Fleming of Tacoma Lumber Sales and Frank Billings. (Bottom center, L-R) Fran Holmes, Dick Conklin and Carl Force. (Bottom right, L-R) Pacific Fir's Jack lvey, Ed Hampton of Redwood Valley and Don Bouey. This third annual Celebrity Night-Concat again drew a good crowd.

Humlroldt has demonstrated in the past that it is one o{ the few West Coast clubs capable of drawing Hoo-Hoo brethren from all parts oI the country, and this vear rvas no exception. The names and familiar faces \\'ere too numerous to mention here, but thet' hailed from the Snark's home town of Toronto. Canada, to southern California. and north to Portland.

Considerable credit shoultl so to Davt: Davis. himselI a past Snark. for thc fin,' organizational job in bringing the big "Y-ho's Who" lumber gathering together in the producing r:enter of California.

The big event liegan rvith a cc,t:ktail hour, the star studded Degree Team u,hipping 14 new Kittens through their paces after a decent interval to allow them a little liquid courage.

Followine the ercellent Concat. Humboldt Hoo-i{oo trt ated it-s suests. kittens and mcml,,.rs to a big ieed on lamous Humboldt crar:ked crab and spaghetti.

Thc i'trd Annual Celebrity Nite rvas the first meeting of the new year under president Bud Allen. Other Humboldt officials deserving of r:redit include vice-president Bud Peterson and secretary-treasurer Ed Tomich. Current directors of the club are: Jack Allenbr'. Fran Holmes, Wayne Spurling. Don \{etcalf. Dave I)avis, John lla-

Hank Dreckmann. Wes Crow, Jirn X{aclnnes, I.ving Mills and Charlie Shamis.

Retailer Elected President

Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo Club 65 kicked off its new year with an election meeting at the Tomahawk Lodge in Novato on January 17, with popular Corte Madera retailer, Bert Le Beck, emerging from the election fracas to head the club for the coming year.

A partner in Indian Valley Lumber, Bert will work with vice-president Guido Lorenzini and secretary-treasurer Duane Bennett. both of Mead Clark Lumber Co.

Holdover directors include Bill Chenoweth, C h e n o w e t h Lumber; Fred Deghi, California Redwood Sales; and Paul Traba, Adams-Traba Lumber.

New directors are: Jim Henningso,rn, Sturgeon's Mill & Lumber; Jim Jones, Foster Lumber Yard; George Karlson, G&D Plywood; Bob Kilgore, Kilgore Lumber, and Fred Roemer, Tamalpais Lumber Co.

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