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A highly successful Birthday Party dinr-rer dance was sponsored by Oakland Hoo-lIoo Club 39 and cl.rairmanned by Gamerston & Green's Sky Lewis, February 20, at the Claremont hotel in Berkeley. By actual count. 74 couples attended the party, which ii produced each year to honor the club's past presidents.

Highlight of the evening was the traditional cake-cutting ceremony, with past-president Lew Godard wielding the knife, and seven past presidents looking on. Ed LaFranchi, himself a past prexy of the club, narrated this part of the show.

Tlre party officially began at 7:39 p.m. with cocktails in

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the Claremont's new Empire Room. Following dinner, Chairrnan Lewis and Club 39 President Jerry Mashek thanked those present for their excellent support of the event. Lewis then introduced Bandleader John Antrocoli and his five-piece orchestra, and it was foot-stompin', chacha-cha or what-have-you from there on in until the boys finally gave out at 2 a.m.

Working along with Chairman Lewis on the successful party were Bill Johnson (publicity), Bruce Jacobsen (ticket chairrnan), Bill MacBeath (reception), and John Pearson (door prizes).

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Recent installations of the Bennett 2-Wav Panel Saw by Wayne C. Ervine, Dealer-Service, Atascahero, Calif., iriclude the Christian Lumber Co., Redding, Calif., and the Eichrome Building Materials Co., Redwood City, Calif.

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Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 initiated fourteen brand "spanking" new Kittens at a Concat on February 18, staged at El 'n Lou's Roost in Ukiah. The dinner meeting was attended by more than 60 Mendocino-Sonoma county lumbermen and the Degree Team was sparked by Hoo-Hoo Notables Dave Davis (Rameses 48), who served as Visiting Officer; Hugh Pessner (Deputy Snark-Northern California), who was Snark, and Club 181 President Gil Sissons, wl.ro served as Senior Hoo-Hoo.

The evening got underway at 6:59 p.m. with a sponsored "h"ppy hour" followed by an excellent steak dinner which should insure many future repeat meetings at the "Roost." The Concat and usual long-form high-jinks followed dinner and was one of the best programs to be presented by the Black Bart club in recent years.

Solcrno Beqch's Herschell lorrick Decides to Toke Things Eqsier

H. G. Larrick, Sr. of the Lumber & Builders Supply Co., Solana Beach, Calif., tells The California Lumber Merchant, his devoted friend of many years' standing, that he is semiretiring. In a letter dated February 20, Dealer Larrick says the firm has made him chairman of the board and treasurer. This will enable him, the respected retail lumberman says, "to keep a finger in the pie but to turn over to the younger men all the work and responsibility."

Herschell G. Larrick, Jr. was elected president and general manager and will be in full charge of the yard. A. L. Childs is t.tow vice-president and secretary. and Donald -\rmstrong has been appointed sales manager.

"This makes a good team !" declares the senior Larrick. All the boys are World War II officer veterans and have worked with the company since it started, with 91 years of collective lumber experience to draw on.

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The Lumber Merchants Association \,vas pleased to welcome into membership during February the following firms:

EICHROME BUILDING MATERIALS, Inc. of San Mateo and Redwood City-Ed Eiger, vice-president and manager; IRA BOUNDS LUMBER COMPANY. Salinas-Ira Bounds, owner, and LEMOORE LUMBER COMPANY, LemooreBen Thatcher, managing partner..

The Lumber Merchants Association is also pleased to rvelcome into Associate membership the following firms : Rounds Lumber Company, San Francisco; Cal-Pacific Redwood Sales, Arcata; Hyster Company, San Francisco branch, and Talbot Lumber Company, San Rafael.

The Fecleral Housing ldri"trlrrtion will shortly introduce jts. -widely tested Certified Agency Program tirrough- out California, and the Lumber Merchants Association,-in conjunction lvith FHA, has arranged a series of interesting meetings to acquair.rt members of the industry with thG oynamlc program.

* Mr. Daniel Minto, director of the San Frar.rcisco Insuring Program, outlined the program as follows:

"FHA's Certified Agency Program (popularly referred to as the 'CAP Program') is a dynamic new approach to the problern of horne linancing in small towns ahd rural areas.

"Uncler this program, processing functions preparatory to