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Wild West io Theme Hoo-Hoo's Annuql Convention in Phoenix

Famous Mountain Shadows resort near Phoenix, Arizona will be the center for western-style fun at the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo's 74th annual convention, September 19-22.

Salt River Valley Hoo-Hoo CJl$ ft72 of Phoenix, the host organization, plans to revive the Wild West for this occasion. Informality will be the keynote. For example, there will be no luncheons-only "Chow Time." And the important annual banquet on Wednesday, September 22, will be an "All-Hands Stampede."

Featured banquet speaker will be Arizona's own outdoorsman, Barry Goldwater, speaking on o'Indian Lore." The St. John's Indian Dancers, youngsters from a nearby Indian mission school who have made several international tourq will perform authentic tribal dances.

Other convention speakers will include Arizona Governor Samuel P. Goddard; Edward P. Cliff, chief of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and Lester Oliver, chairrnan of the White River Apache Indian Reservation. Oliver is heir to the mantle of such Apache chieftains as Cochise, Geronimo and Mangus Colorado.

A diving exhibition and aquacade at the Mountain Shadows pool has been set for opening day, featuring Arizona athletes Patsy Willard and Bernie Wrightson, who were award winners in the 1964 Olympics in Japan.

Convention business will include preparations for 1965 Forest Products Week, reports from chapter delegates, and the election of o'wranglers" (Supreme Nine) and "Top Boss" (Snark of the Universe).

Entertainment plans include an outdoor chuck wagon dinner, western hoe-down, golf, swimming, bronc-riding, even a dove hunt. Famed Greyhound Park will stage a Hoo-Hoo purse for a feature race on one evening.

1965 convention chairman is Jay O'Malley of the O'Malley Lumber Company in Phoenix; with Gus Michaelq Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders Supply Association, as convention coordinator.

For further details on the 1965 Hoo-Hoo convention. members of the lumber fraternity should contact their local clubs, or write the Salt River Valley Hoo-Hoo CIub No. 72, 4740 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85012.

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