Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Dinner Donce

Over 200 lumbermen, their rvives and friends attended the sixth annual Hoo-Hoo dinner dance held on the evening of February 19, sponsored by the Los Angeles HooI'Ioo Club, in the beautiful Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

During the cocktail hour, which started at 7:@ p.m. the group was entertained by the sweet music of the Glee Gzrtes Trio and dancing to the society music of Hal Sandak and his band continued from 9:00 p.m. until the vl'ee small hours of the morning. The complete entertainment program was furnished through the Walter Trask Theatrical Agency o{ Los Angeles.

John Lipani, president of the Los Angeles Club and Jim

Forgie, secretary-treasurer, handled the arrangements for the annual affair which attracted Black Cats from all of Southern California. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gavotto and Mr. and N[rs. Clif Roberts from San Diego represented the border city organization and Mrs. Gavotto rvas presented u'ith one of the door prizes for the ladies. Other rvinners included Phyllis Dodds, Marcella Stanton, Gloria Foreman and Mildled Campbell.

Nfany members of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ettes attended this gala affair including Bessie Stewart, president, Pluma Mcleod, Lynn l{artin, Ann Murray ar,d ltollerta Kinkade. They represeltt a cross section of the milling, lumber and plywood business in the Los Angeles area'

Forest Pest R.eseqrch Drive Stqrted

A mighty effort to get the upper hand over destructive timber insects and diseases is shaping up in \\rashington and Oregon, where the Northr,l.est Forest Pest Action Committee has started organizing the most intensive pest research program ever undertaken in the West. Public and private groups, industries, colleges and individuals are being enlisted.

"Pests are costing the people of \\rashington and Oregon two billion feet of timber a year, or enough to build 200,000 new two-bedroom houses," said E. L. Kolbe, Portland, chairman of the committee and chief forester of the \\restern Pine Association. "We must make an all-out try at haulting this unbearable loss.

"We are behind in pest research. \\,'e'r'e been battling one emergency after another. In the past several years, for instance, we've spent $3,50O,0O0 on control of just one insect, the spruce budworm. \Are're also at grips with a vast horde of Douglas fir bark beetles. There are many others. It amounts to a situation where the pests are telling the forest managers and orn'ners 'rvhat to do. \\re must get at the roots of this problem."

The committee, first of its kind in Aurerica and representing 2l public and private organizations and agencies identified with forests and forest industries. has had a sub-committee at work for a year making a careful study of pest research needs. Headed by C. \Ar. Richen. Portland, chief forester of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation, this group recently brought in a report calling for major cooperative research campaign to get answers to many pressing forest pest problems.

The report pin-points research needs, names targets for immediate action and calls on industries, colleges, research foundations, chemical firms, spraying and dusting concerns and others to undertake study projects. It urges that organizations already engaged in forest insect research be strengthened.

To get such investigations into gear. 'committee members are making personal approaches to top-level executives of industries and organizations they hope will take a hand in the job. Already keen interest has been shown. Committee members point to Centralia, Wash., u'here the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. is readying a full-fledged forest research center staffed with specialists. including tu'o entomologists. They likewise point to ne\\' state of Oregon research work, and operational tests lreing rlone by lumber and pulp companies in their rvoods.

World Flight Visiring Foreign Missions

Miss Sada E. Hamilton, retired auditor-office manager, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles, left NIarch 2 on a world flight with 22 Presbyterians to visit the Church's Missions. The party u'ill be gone two months on this tour of inspection to see ho',r' contributions are being spent and will make ports of call in every foreign country where a Presbyterian Missic;n is maintained. Miss Hamilton spent over a half century with the Los Angeles hardwood concern prior to her retirement in 1944. She lives in South Laguna Beach, California.