1UMBER COTPANY

"SERV|CE is our poro,mounl stock-in-lrade"

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club #2-May 10. To be held in conjunction with innual convention of Lumber Association of Southern California. Luncheon at 12:00 noon in Cavalier Room. Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach. Hoo-Hoo-Ettes are co-sponsoring.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club lO9-May ll. Tenth Annual Golf Tournament at Haggin Oaks Golf Course, dinner and entertainment at Country Club Lanes, 2600 Watt Avenue, Sacramento.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 and Peninsula Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club-May 11. Joint Concat, Torino's Restaurant, San Francisco.

Hoo-Hoo-Ette No. 2 Co,ncat-May 14. To be held at the Cockatoo Inn,4334 West Imperial Blvd.

\lllomen in Construction (Los Angeles Chapter)-May l{. Gala Bosses Night, Chalon Room, Furniture Mart at 1919 S. Broadway. Cocktails, 6-7 p.m., dinner, 7 p.m. Tickets $4.00. For reservations: Edith Parker, DUnkirk 3-1281.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181-May 16. Place to be anuounced.

D,ubs, Ltd.-May 18 l{onthly Tournament to be played in conjunction with Reveille Tournament, Castlewood Country Club, Pleasanton.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3-May 18. Open meeting at the Bahia's Bay Room on Mission Bay, San Diego. Featured speaker will be William "Bi11" Bradley of U.S. Plywood Corp., San Diego.

Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39-May 18. Annual Reveille and golf tournament, Castlewood Country Club, Pleasanton, tsill Johnson chairman.

Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club-May 19' Annual golf tournament and "Ladies Night" dinner-dance. Desi Arnaz' Indian Wells Hotel' Numerous door prizes for the ladies.

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Spring ls Time To lmprove Home Exteriors

$"ng improvement projects, like installing new roofing and siding, building a garage, carport or porch, and laying out a patio, are ideally done in the spring, according to thi National Retail l,umber Dealers Association

As the weather warms up, jobs of this nature can be done faster with a few or no interruptions, Thomas T. Sneddon, executive vice president of NRLDA, explains

"There is an increasing interest on the part of home owners to up-grade their homes," Sneddon said. "The home is now the number-one status symbol-when people have extra income to spend, most want to spend it on the home first.

"Actually," Sneddon continued, "a lot.of extra cash is not needed for even the more extensive home improve- ments. An increasing number of commercial banks, sivines and loan institutions, insurance companies and consumir finance organizations are anxious to make home improvement loans, especially since FHA liberalized its loan insurance practices last year.

"The majority of our association members," Sneddon added, "are taking the responsibility for a complete one-stop remodeling service. People interested in improving their homes no longer need to check with separate contractors, decorators, material dealers, banks, and so on. A single call to their local number and building materials dealer will answer most questions on practical design, cost, time and material."

NRLDA, working with dealers, material manufacturers and leading consumer magazines, has worked out an industry-wide Home And Property Improvement (HAPI) program to help home owners get remodeling jobs done with a minimum of "shopping around." Sneddon said this is the way people want to buy today and the building materials dealer is responding to consumer demand.

GIO-TONE

Seq Dreqms

Why must I always dream of ships at sea?

For years I have not felt beneath my feet

A tilting deck, nor seen the long waves beat, In far, eternal pulse, unceasingly.

Wl-ry must this dream forever press on me?

Not o,nly in my dream, but in the street

Like an old friend it hurts the heart to meet?

Why must I always dream of ships at sea?

Am I not settled? Am I not secure?

In all the ordered ways that ought to be?

Through which the smaller certainties endure?

Why can I not put by what I have known?

Why will the waves not let my heart alone?

- Harry Kemp.

The Mogic Number Nine

Write down these numbers : l-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9. Pick out any one of the above digits and multiply it by 9. Take 6 for example. 9 times 6 is 54. Now multiply 54 by 123456789. Result 66666(16606. Try it rvith another number and you get the same result. Surely 9 is a magic number.

Whqt Wqr Money Would Buy

Charles Sumner wro,te : "Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will clothe every man, womau, and child in attire of which kings and queens would be proud.