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getting a membership card in the Society from Mr. Dulaney whenever they attained international prominence.

Further word is being awaited on the return of Mr. Dulanev's bodv to the United States for burial, which is expected to take place in La Jolla, Calif.

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was far removed from the pioneer Dulaney's number of 9967.

George Dulaney also won a measure of international fame as the founder of the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters George." He was, in fact, known throughout the world for this flight of fancy which he started nearly 45 years ago. The Society counted kings of England and Greece among its world membership of 13,000. Mr. Dulaney started the organization after being frequently irritated when train passengers kept calling "George," and Mr, Dulaney looked around to see who was hailing him. International publicity given the Society resulted in the posting of signs in Pullman cars listing the porters' names. Anyone named "George" was assured of

Reedsport, Ore.Divers searched the turbulent Umpqua River near here May 11 for more victims of a plane Crash believed to have taken the lives of six persons, five from Fort Bragg, Calif. Three bodies recovered May 10 included Mrs. Olof Bong, wife of the Fort Bragg lumber executive; William B. Rogers, brother of James Rogers, president of the Aborigine Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, and Mrs. Sally Nimo, sister of Mrs. Bong. Also aboard the plane rvere Olof Bong, 44, superintendent of the Aborigine Lumber Company's Mendo-Coast mill; Mrs. Geraldine Olsen, wife of a lumber company employee, and her five-months old son. James Buckner, an official of the firm, said the six were returning May 9 from Longview, Wash., where they had attended a funeral, and were to refuel at Reedsport. The company plane, flying through an overcast, struck a high-tension power line and crashed in the river between 4:00 and 5 :00 p.m. in rugged country about 13 miles east of here.

Weyerhoeuser, USP Win Honors

New York, N. Y.The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and the United States Plywood Corp. were two industry firms certified "Excellently Managed" in the year 1958 in the annual awards iust announced by the American Institute of Management. The two lumber industry firms achieved more than the minimum 7,500 points for excellence out of a possible 10,000. The latest list of "excellently managed" companies contained 502 leaders in 99 industries.

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Thirty-five couples attended the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club's annual "Spring Fling" at The Village, corner Columbus & Lombard, in San Francisco on Friday evening, April 24. Starting time was sounded at 7:30 p.m. with the usual relaxing period, compliments of Cal-Pacific Redwood Co.,

Zing in Hoo-Hoo Club 9's Spring Fling

J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., and Marin County Wholesaleman Bob Kilgore. The "happy hour" (and then some) was followed by dinner and an evening of dancing to the music of Dick Reinhart and his orchestra.

THE NATIONS MOST CO'IIPIETE LINE OF WOOD PRESERVATIVES FOR EVERY PURPOSE

OOPPERNATE "25d I(ENITE"9' KENTTE'f01" LIQUID REDWOOD LUMBER SEAIS "G"g"K" KEN ITE"7"

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