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ENGELMANN SPRUCE

IALENI]AR t]F II]MING EVENTS

AUGUST

COAST COUNTIES HOO-HOO Club 114 Barbecue and Golf Tournament, Salinas Country Clu'b, 485 San Juan Road, Aug' 21'

DUB,S, LTD. Tournament, Ernie Bacon, host; Meadow Clu'b, Aug' 22'

L. A. HOO-HOO-ETTE Club No. I Garden Partv, 909 Andersotr Way, San Ga,briel, 2:OA P'm', Aug. 23.

SAN FRANCISCO HOO-HOO Club 9 Election Night, Leopard Cafe, August 26.

SEPTEMBER,

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA DRY KILN CLUB, joint meeting with Southern Oregon-California Dry Kiln Club, McCloud Lum,ber Co., McCloud, Calif., SePt. 5.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LUMBERMEN'S CLUB 3rd annual Golf Tournament, Sierra View Country Club, Roseville; George R. Duff, Aurburn, chairman, Sept.5.

NATIONAL BUILDiNG MATERIAL DISTRIBUTORS ASSN. Regional Meeting, Los Angeles, Sept. 9.

NATIONAL BUILDING MATERIAL DISTRIBUTORS ASSN. Regional Meeting, San Francisco, Sept. 11.

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY HOO-HOO CLUB 31 ann'ual Vallev Frolic, Hacienda I{otel, Fresno, Sept. 13.

INTERNATIONAL CONCATE,NATED ORDER OF HOO. HOO 67th Annual Convention, Sahara h'otel, Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 14-17; Host Club: Las Vegas Hoo-Hoo Club 106. (Official Convention hotels: Sahara, Thunderbird, Riviera, El Rancho Ve gas.)

OAKLAND HOO-HOO CLUB Election Nite, Andv's Fishermen's Pier, Sept.22.

LOS ANGELES HOO-HOO CLUB 2 golf tournament and dinner meeting (installation of 1958-59 officers), Lakewood Country Club, Sept. 25.

SAN FRANCIS'CO HOO-HOO CLUB 9 annual Round-up, The Village, gl5 Columbus, San Francisco; Jack Dollar, chairman, Sept. 26.

In This Issue

Vogobond Editoriols 2

My Fovorite Story ... ..20

Fun-Focts-Filosophy .. .36 Obituories .56

Personqls ......60.70

Philippine Mohogony Assn. Meets in Victoriq .. .. .12

Northwest Hardwood Assn. Holds First Grodinq Course..14 "Then Business Is Sofe"-An Editoriol ......24

Retcdl Yqrds Promote Home for Choritv

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In this issue, we welcome these new advertisers into the family of California Lumber "Merchant-isers" : t:F*

But the glory of trees is more than their gifts, 'Tis a beautiful wonder of life that lifts From a wrinkled seed in an earthbound clod A column, an arch in the temple of God, A pillar of power, a dome of delight, A shrine of song and a joy of sight.

-Henry Van Dyke.

Here is a quiet place where one may dream The hours away and be content. It shines With many a shadow spot, and golden gleam, Under the murmur of those priestly pines. _ _ l"nibald Lampman.

General Hap Arnold used to say that "A second-best air force is like a second-best poker hand." What he meant was, in the words of the hillbilly, "They air no second money in poker."

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Anyone who has the top Kremlin man for a friend doesn't need an enemy. ***

"An advertisement," said a bored gentleman, "is generally a picture of a pretty girl, often in scanty attire, who is eating, drinking, driving, wearing or holding something that someone wants to sell." ***

And then there wag the joker who was invited to a big party and who wired the host: "Sorry I can't be with you in spirit, so I'll come in person."

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The price of bread inspired the baker to change the name of "Pumpernickel" to "Pumperdime."

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A sign appeared in the doorway of a big city food market that read: "Don't diet too much. Narrow cofEns cost as much as wide ones." * * *

A man sat down to a small table with a deck of cards in one hand and a pistol in the other. When asked what the pistol was for, he said: "When I play solitaire, nobedy cheats.tt

BY JACK DIONNE

And there was the butcher shop man who said to the lady customer: "Lady, there ain't no such thing as a dime's worth of ham."

one guy says: "Jone" ir"" ln" luu"", habit. He's all the time eating grapes." His friend says: "'What's odd about eating grapes?" And the first said: "Off the wallpaper?" ***

One colored gent confided to his friend that he was going to divorce his wife because she had quit speaking to him. The other said, "Go slow, boy, before you make that mistake; them kind o' women is hard to find."

They were discussing space travel and Smith remarked that he was sure there are no people living on the planet Mars. If there are, he protested, why haven't they asked the United States for a loan?

A practical philosopher, discussing the difrerence between this country and Russia, said that one of the very important differences is that in this country, in the homes of the poor, when they turn on the hot-water faucet, hot water comes out'

Someone has waggishly remarked that in ancient Rome they had to discontinue the Roman holidays on account of the overhead: the lions ate up the prophets.

The old saw says: "Man wants but little here below." Evidently thinking of the fellow who thanked the Lord for the itch so he could enjoy the ecstasy of scratching.

General Hugh Johnson, of early New Deal fame, was a doughty fellow in many ways but not much of a prophet. He said in 1940 that "We will never again be fools enough to send a single American mother's son to double-crossing Europe." ***

Erasmus said that "\ll/ar is the malady of princes." Not any more. Today he would say it is the malady of dictators.

And Josh Billings said long ago that "The trouble with most men is they know so many things that aren't so."