George J.

L.A. Hoo-Hoo-Ettes to Gother

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1 will gather August 23 at the home of Jeanne Serviss, 909 Anderson Mray, San Gabriel, for their annual garden party this year. The street number appears to be a natural for a Hoo-Hoo gathering and the hours will be 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The party is for members and prospective members only and the committee includbs Ida Cunner, Bobbe Specht, P.ggy Mottola, Kay Poe, Sallye Bissell and Anne Murray.'

An unusual note will be lent to the outdoor event this year rvhen ten members of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 fly down especially for the party.

Building Acfiviry Topping '57 ln Mony Areos, Suppliers Repor.f

Prospects for the rest of 1958 in the home building, remodeling and repair fields are rated "good" or "excellent" by a majority of leading building materials wholesalers, dealers and contractors in 44 cities east of the Rockies, a spot check by field representatives of Allied Chemical's Barrett Division reveals.

Most of the suppliers contacted said they expected repair and remodeling business during June and July of this year would exceed totals for the same period in 1957. The spot check also revealed that do-it-yourself projects are expecied to_acco-unt for approximately Il/o ot all building materials sales. New developments or improvenients in gypium board, insulating tiles, roof shingles, siding, insulation ind translucent plastic panels were expected by many to bring about arr increase in the sales of these products.

Ten percent of the dealers, wholesalers and contractors queried saw 1958 prospects as excellent ;547a said they were good and 360/o thought as "poor." they were fair. None listed prospects

lllinois Offers Foreslry Course

The University of Illinois recently authorized two fouryear professional curricula in forestry leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry. The new curricula are designed to prepare students for professional service in two areas: Forest Production and Wood Technology and Utilization. Among the existing facilities immediately available for professional instruction are a staff of 16 professionally trained foresters. The first work offered in the new curricula will be the eight-weeks' summer forestry camp beginning July 14. Junior courses in the professional curricula will be offered next fall, and senior courses in 1959-60. The first degrees will be awarded in June 1960.

Boy Areq Building Booms

San Francisco.-A sharp upturn in builcling construction here was reported in July. The homebuilding spurt pusl-red the total volume of new construction authorized in the Bay area in June to $70 million, almost $12 million above the May figure and $23 million higher than June, 1957.

The June starts brought the 1958 figure to date to $354,226,000, about $42 milliorr higher than the same span last year and $13 million above the comparable 1956 period. The Department of Labor's BLS Western Regional Director Max D. Kossoris said the number of new dwellings started in the Bay area in June was the largest in two and one-half years and the fourth successive monthly increase this year.

Permits to date in 1958 have been issued for more than 18.000 new dwelling units, compared with 15,200 in the 1957 first-half.

Kossoris said statistics show that the revival in single-family home building is continuing, with multiple-unit housing- in June accounting for only one-third of the residential total, compared to 45/o in April.

Hqrdwood School Fclll Term fo Srcrt September 8

Commencement exercises for the 2lst Class of the National Hardwood Lumber Association's fnspection Training School in Memphis, Tenn., were held July 12 by Director Chas. E. Sell, who presented certificates to 45 graduates. Industry firms wishing to employ one of the young inspectors may contact the school. The Fall tirm of the'school will start September 8 and applications by young men wishing to enter should be forwarded promptly.

Gordon Rose R.etires

Vista, Calif.-Gordon Rose is retiring for his health after four years as manag& of the Pine Tree Lumber Co. on West Vista Way here. Rose is succeeded by Charles Sutliff as the new manager. Sutfifi, a San Diego State graduate, has been with pine Tree for seven years at the Escondido yard. Dealer Rose went to Vista from Arcadia in 1941 ?nd previously lived in Los Angeles and Phoenix.

Merchondising Kif For H.l.C.

Nearly 3,000 local-level members of the Home Improvement Council have been supplied with free merchandising materials to help them tie in with HIC's year-long "Better Your Home" contest, which started July 1. The kit, fourth in a series of packages designed to help local members increase their home improvement-modernization business. features an assortment of colorful pennants, circles, banners and streamers identifying members' places of business as contest headquarters.

Fifty-one prizes worth a total of $50,100 will be awarded at the contest's conclusion to homeowners who actually complete a home improvement project in the period from January 1, 1958 through June 30, 1959. All of HIC's local member promotional packages are included in the $25 or $50 membership fee. Further information can be obtained from HIC, 2 East 54th Street, New York 22, N. Y.

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Dove Dqvis Given Full Podnership in Tolbor Lumber Co.

Fred Talbot and Joe Shipman have admitted E. G. "Dave" Davis to a full partnership in Talbot Lumber Complny, San Rafael, effeCtive August 15. Until very recently, Mr. Davis was sales manag'er of Simpson Redwood Company in San Francisco until that office was moved to the millsite. In addition to getting a recent Snark of the lJniverse (now Rameses 48), Lumbermen Talbot and Shipman have acquired in new Partner Davis a man with a wealth of experrence.

This August 4, Dave Davis celebrated his 35th anniversary in lumber; one of the best-known and most-respectecl figures on the national lumber scene, with experience covering all species of domestic lumber in sales, managerial ancl executive positions.

Davis was born in Salida, Colorado, and started as all office boy in the old Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. offrces in San Francisco, August 4, 1923. After 11 years with the firm as stenographer in San Francisco, in the mill at St. Helens, Ore., in the distribution yard at San Diego, and as salesman in both Northern and Southern California, Davis went with Coos Bay Lumber Co. two years as a Los Angeles salesman. In 1937, he joined Union Lumber ,Company as a Los Angeles salesman, was transferred to Fort Bragg, and later San Francisco, durir.rg \VWII to handle its government contracts. He took a position as sales manager in San Francisco with Rockport Redwood Co., Nov. l, 1949, but resigned to start his own wholesale business, Dave Davis Lumber Co., in San Rafael, Jan. l, 1952. He sold his interest in this business exactlv one vear later when he was appointed sales manage. oi Simpson Redwood Co.

Besides his business activity, Dave Davis has devoted considerable time and energy to lumber fraternal organizations. He helped reorganize San Francisco lloo-Hoo Club 9 during 1945 and served as its first president, he was vicegerent snark for 1945-46, state deputy snark for Northern California in 1947-48, elected Jabberwock on the Supreme 9 In 7949 and Custocatian the next year. He reached the top of the International Concatenated Order as Snark of the IJniverse in 1955-56, serving in the highest office at tl.re annual Interr.rational Convention in San Francisco. Dave also organized and served h 1946 as first president of Dubs, Ltd., the Bay area lumbermen's golf orglnization.

Dave's hobbies are people, selling redwood and, of course, g_olf. He is norv president of the Meadow Golf and Country Club, and is a member of the Commercial Club and Transportation Club in San Francisco.

K&M Lumber Co. Joins SCRIA

A new active member of the Southern Califorr-ria Retail Lumber Assn. is the K & M Lumber Company, Pomona. Owners of the retail yard at 1316 E. 5th Ave. there are Jacob Kornwasser and Samuel Magier.

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