AT HOO - HOO'S BIG CHICAGO CONVENTION

business man, church and civic leader, farmer, stockman and author.

'fhe Tuesday morning session will be a symposium on Wood Promotion that will include leading authorities of NLMA and other industry associations. For the ladies a special program has been arranged.

For Tuesday afternoon and evening the convention will have an unusual feature. Afternoon and evening activities will be optional. To help the conventioneers and their ladies enjoy what they most would like to do and see in the Windy City a bevy of special committees have been set up to help out for tickets to baseball g'ames, theatrical performances, the race track and even to getting entree into the night clubs on Rush Street. If all you want is just a quie't place to dine out, just ask the committee, they can point you in the right direction.

Tuesday evening will be for the committee sessions: Resolutions. Administration, Legislation, The Good of the Order, and Nominations. The clubs of each jurisdiction must caucus to get united action on nominees for the Suoreme Nine.

Wednesday morning will go for discussion and thought on the special committee report on the status of HooHoo in the National and International Wood Promotion program. Also reporting at this time will be the Committees on Legislation and Good of the Order. Time is being allowed for discussion from the floor.

The Honorable Edward J. Derwinski will speak at Wednesday noon's Stag Luncheon, on present policies affecting the business economy. Congressman Derrvinski represents the Illinois district in Washington and is a member of the llouse Small Business Committee.

Election of a new Snark and Supreme Nine will be held Wednesday afternoon and will be followed by the impressive ceremony, Embalming of the Snark. It is the one business event to which the ladies are invited. Close on the heels of this event will be the Snark's Reception and Closing Banquet.

And to wrap up the convention will be a grand finale ball that will be "Grand" in the best sense of the word. No ordinary convention dinner this. Called the "Wood Choppers Ball" the dinner will have surprises galore, both in format and entertainment. Color, fun and frolic will be the rule. This grand and glorious finale is the don'tmiss-it event of the year.

Yqle Industriql Foreslry Seminqr

The School of Forestry of the University of Minnesota will cooperate with the Yale lJniversity School of Forestry in presenting the Nineteenth Yale Industrial Forestry Seminar at St. Paul, Minnesota during the week October 8-12,1962.

The seminar will be on the topic "Financial Management of Large Forest Ownerships" and the five days will be devoted to study and discussion of forest evaluation, accounting and taxation under outstanding leaders in these fields.

Enrollment in each Seminar is limited to twenty men whose training and experience will qualify them for participation.

For additional information write to: Professor Z. W. White. Yale School of Forestry, 205 Prospect Street, New lfaven 11, Connecticut or Professor Frank D. Irving, School of Forestry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 1, Minnesota.

A. B. Hood, Leoding Lumber Figure, Dies in Son Froncisco

Arthur Bristow Hood,68, Chairman of the Board of the National Lumber tr{anufacturers Association and an active member of the lumber industry for 50 years, died July 20 in San Franiisco, California, following a cancer operatlon.

Mr. Hood, a leading figure in the lumber industry for rnany yea.rs, had retired last fall as Resident Manager, Ralph I-. Smith Lumber Company, Division of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Anderson, California. Since his retirement, he had been serving as a consultant to the firm.

As the first Chairman of the National Lumber Manufactrrrers Association. \{r. Hood was largely responsible for organizing the diverse elements of his industry into a single, cohesive force capable of combating the market inroads of such competitive materials as steel, brick, aluminum and plastics.

Mr. Hood's caree,r in the lumber industry began as a car loader for the Warren-Lamb Lumber Company, Rapid City, S.D. He subsequentiy worked his rvay up through yard foreman, mill superintendent, logging superintendent, and sales manag-i, to the post of general manag.er.

In 1943 the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company selected him to head its western operations. With the evolu- tion of the Smith Company's Anderson operation, IlIr. Hood was commissioned to head it and remained as Resident Manager after its acquisition by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin. lfe was a member of the Society of American Foresters; Forest Products Research Society; U. S. Forest Service Region Five Advisory Council; International Order of Hoo-Hoo, and Region 12 Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America.

Mr. Hood was a leader in the Western Pine Association since the early thirties and was a Director for more than a dozen years. In 1953 he was elected Vice-President and in 1957, President of that association.

In 1959, Mr. Hood was unanimously elected Chairman of the newly-formed National Wood Promotion Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, a post he held for tu'o consecutive years.

In 1960 he was elected President of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and the following year, Chairman of the Board. His other associations with NL\{A have been as a Director. Policy Committee member and a member of the Economic Council of the Lumber Industry.

Mr. Hood also held membership in the Redding, California, Chambe-r of Commerce and was a f)irector of the Natural Resources Committee, Sacramento Council, California State Chamber of Commerce. His other directorships included the Shasta C_ountY Economic Commission, the Shasta County Fair Board, and the Keep California Green Association.

Mr. Hood is survived by his wife, the former Vera l\larie lJtter, a daughter and a son. Funeral services wer€ held Tuesday, July 24 in Redding.

Dovid Robbins, President

Richord S. Robbins, Sec.-Treos.

Chuck McKeon, V.-P. & Genl. Mgr.

SALES: Glen, lrv, Al, Brod