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Concat and Election Held Bv San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club

A successful concat was held by San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club at the Belmont Inn, Fresno, August 4. About 40 lumbermen attended. Led by Bob Reid and using the long form, the Nine did a good job.

The annual election of officers resulted as follows:

Robert Raymer, Yosemite Builders Supply Company, Merced, was electdd president. J. C. (Doc) Snead, C. S. Pierce Lumber Company, Fresno, was elected Northern vice president, and Art Post, Delano Building Materials, Delano, Calif., Southern vice president.

Bernard B. Barber, Jr., Bernie Barber & Associates,

Celotex Acquires New Plcnt -

Chicago-The Celotex Corporation acquired the properties of the Wasem Plaster Company of Fort Dodge, Iowa, O. S. Mansell, president, announced today.

The properties were acquired from the Wasem family and consist of a plaster plant and extensive gypsum deposits in that city. Wasem Plaster Company, organized by Adam Wasem, a pioneer in the gypsum industry, began business in 1909.

"The plant will enable the company to sell economically gypsum products in another important area," Mr. Mansell stated, "which is another step toward more con'rplete service to Celot_ex customers.

"We plan to rehabilitate the plant and further expand its production facilities in the near future."

Forty Yeors As Ycrrd Foremcrn

Forty years ago Ira H. Williams went to rvork for the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Lumber Company as yard manager, in their retail lumber yard at Park and Commercial Streets in Los Angeles. Today, aged 74, I\{r. Williams still holds that sarire position in that same yard, now owned by the Hammond Lumber Company. Something of a record for loyalty and coritinuous service. He is hale and hearty and in splendid health.

Fresno, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.-

The new directors are: Dick Kennedy, George Kennedy & Sons ; Louis Frame, The Diamond Match Company; Jim Duart, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc.; Larry Cannon, Hollenbeck-Bush Planing Mill; Willard LaFranchi, Pacific Forest Products, Inc.

The nerv offrcers will be installed at the Third Annual Valley Frolic, which will be held on Saturday, September 9, at the Californian Hotel, Fresno.

Gene Rowe, lr,'ho was formerly with Rowe Lumber Company, Rosemead, Calif., is a new salesman with Tarter, \\rebster & Johnson, working out of the Los Angeles office. He is specializing in sash, doors, and mouldings. l