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CLUB #142

(Continued lrom Page 12) ident of Wholesale Division of Lewers & Cooke, Ltd., and vioegerent Snark for Hawaii. Dynamic and very amusing President Clarke Mizumoto, American Factors lum'ber expert, handled the introductions flawlessly. Among the many who spoke of the past, present and future of Club No. 142 were Clint Halstead, head of Honolulu Wood Treating Co., who was instrumental in revitalizing Hoo-Hoo in Hawaii six years ago; Glen Burke, currently head of AmFac Fabricators, Inc., and well known to his many companions on the coast; Al Hastings, that remarkable veteran and friend of all, who is president of Hastings,

Hawaii; not to mention Walley Lai, gifted head of Mid-Pacific Lumber Co.

Althoueh Honolulu ranks 43rd in size among U.S. cities, it ranks 8th in building activity. To take advantage of this phenomenon the lumber suppliers have set up the W'ood Products Association of Hawaii, under Executive Director Putnam S. Robbins, former CRA stafier, who has done an outstanding job in the promotion of wood products to architects, engineers, builders. industrials. etc.

Put is also Hoo-Hoo secretary, and we like to think that the good fellowship generated at club gatherings may have been resnonsiible for the formation of this most successful promotion program. We thought its activities were so interesting that we have asked Put Robbins to contribute regularly to CLM. We f'cel his column will benefit us all. The fir-.t appears on page 12 in this issue.

Club $I42 was formed 12 years ago by CZ,&1 publisher Al Bell and LeRoy Stanton of E. J. Stanton in Los Angeles.

M&M Building Supply Joins LMA

M&M Building Supply, 2456 Del Monte Avenue in Monterey, has become a full member of the Lumber Merchants Association, according to LMA prexy Charlie Dart. Don McCann is owner of the seven day a week operation.

Big Decisions At Nfpa Meeting

(Continued lrcm Pagc 8) ager of the Willits Redwood Products Co., Willits, Calif., and George Stapleton. vice president of King Lumlier IndLrstries. Inc., Baton Rouge, La.

These officers wcre re-elected: Thomas J. McHugh, treasurer; X,Iortimer B. Doylc. executite vice president; Henry Ilahr. vice president and general manager; Ralph H. Gloss, vice president and secretary.

The thre,e-day mceting [r-atured an allstar cast oI speakers and participants, in- cluding Commerce Secretary Connor; Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirkscn (R-lll.); Senate Majority Whip Russell B. Long (D-La.); Sens. Varren G. X{agnuson (D-Wash..y and Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.); Reps. Harold T. ,P.izz) Johnson (D-Calif.) and Waync N. Aspinall (D-Colo.) ; Interior tjndersecrctary John A. Carvcr. Jr.: and ecrlromisI L)r. Ct.,,rge Cline Smith.

Nlore than 500 persons attended thc May 1.. lunchr.on at which S,'ns. lJirksen und Long were the main speakers, and a similar number was on hand for a banquet and dance that night.

Doncing Girls ond logs

A comely dancing girl with bare midrifi. men wrapped in the robes of Oriental potentates and a giant log all .were part of a strange natir.e ritual taking place recently at one end of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco.

The natir-e ritual? Very simple, its called a publicity stunt and this one was staged hy Del Norte businessmen to publicize the reopening of the roads to the "Redwood Empire." The giant log, which had drifted ashore at Crescent Cit-v after the Christmas Iloods, was also driven through downtown San Francisco as part of the hoorah.

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