Hoo-Hoo Makes New Home ln San Fernando Valley

Black deeds were done at the Ram's Horn, in Encino, on August 22, when the San Fernando Valley Hoo-Hoo Club Number 209 held its primary concatenation. President Bill Bright presided over the meeting, attended bY approximately sixty persons.

After a round or two of friendly imbibing the old cats and new kittens sat down at the banquet table. When it was announced that all present could have their choice of steak or chicken, a loud roar of enthusiasm filled the room. All but one of the carnivorous cats and kittens chose steak, and he "chickened 'out."

Elmer Osterman Speaks

After dinner, Bill Bright introduced Elmer Osterman, Supervisor of Conservation E,ducation for the California State Department of Forestry, as the main speaker of the evening. Mr. Osterman present.ed a stimulating speech entitled, "National Forest Products Week." f)ick Fenton later spoke 'on the value of National Forest Products Week to the lumber and building materials industry.

When the speeches had been concluded Bill Bright announced that "the dark hour" had come for the new kittens to be initiated by a well-qualified degree team from Los Angeles Club Number 2. Sixteen nervous kittens were concatenated into Club Number 209 and two frenzied kittens were concatenated into Club Number 2. The newly initiated kittens were : Ben Boydston. Chatsworth Lumber Co., Dave Bourdon, David Bourdon Lumber Co., Bob Cameron, Tarter, Webster, & Johnson, Inc., Jack Chambers, Precision Milling Co. & Coast Hardwood Co., Bill Conroy, Tarter, Webster, & Johnson, Inc., Dave Glesby, Glesby Building Materials Co., Bob Merritt, Merritt Lumber Co., Bob Orr, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., Tecl Peterson, Peterson Lumber Co., Bob Rickter, Independent Building Materials Co., Verl Rhine, Peoples Lumber Co., Duke Speer, Speer & Speer Lumber Merchants, John Spillane, Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Bob Starkey, Georgia Pacific Corp., John Vertin, Sierra Lumber & Plyrvood, Inc., Julio Wahl, A-Wahl's Building Materials, Don Dick and Less Foor, both of The

California I-umber Merchant. There were also three reinstatements. They were: Lyle Brewster, Lyle M. Brewster Wholesale, Millard F. Pedigo, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., and fOP ROW: Lefi: Enioying one of lhe lighter moments of lhe evening ore: Horvey Koll, Bill Brighr ond Don Bufkin. Center; Reloxing before Dinner ore: Hcrry Whitfemoro, Arlo Squires snd Horcce Wolfe. Righr: Dick Fenton ond Elmer Ostermqn listen to Bill Brighr coll the meeting lo order. CENIER ROW: tefi: A roqst to the Evening's Concot is presenfed by Jim Russell, John Osgood, Jim Forgie ond Ted Roy. Center: Discussing ilems on the evening's Agendc ore: John Honson, Joe Petto3h ond Bill Brighr. Righrs Old friends Georgc Pike ond Chcrlie Peirce hove o good lough. BOTTOM: The frightened kifenr prepore for their initiotion. Sorry, but lhe occosion wo: so scrd thqt tears dripped from our photogropher's eyes, blurring the comera lens. Thus, o couple of the pictures ore rqlher blurry. fhe kittens osemblod horc crer Ben Boydston, Dave Bourdon, Bob Cqmeron, Jock Chombers, Bill Conroy, Dove Gleeby, Bob Merriil, Bob Orr, Ed Peterson, Bob Rickrer, Verl Rhine, Duke Speer. John Spillcne. Bob Storkey, John Vertin, ond Julio Wahl, Also initiqted were Don Dick, Ediror of The Coliforniq Lumber lterchont, ond Lecs Foor, Assistont Ediror of the some publicction. (For the soke of our circulolion we will not point oul oul lwo stqff members on the piclure.)

George Pike, George Pike Lumber Co.

Both cats and kittens thoroughly enjoyed the evening's fun and frolic, even though some of the kittens went home wearing the wrong shoes.

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The week of September 10-16 was proclaimed by Los Angeles' Mayor Yorty to be "Women in Construction Week," lauding the part women play in advancing the interests of the construction industry which accounts for over lA/o of the national gross product.

Founded in Fort Worth in 1953, the National Association of Women in Construction now has 55 chapters in 15 states.

At the July 18 meeting of the Los Angeles chapter, the founding officers were re-elected for another term: president, Edith Swinton, secretary-treasurer of Daniel C. Hay, Inc., contract builders' hardware, Beverly Hills; vice president, Dorothy O'Connor, editor of the Engineering News Dept. of the Southwest Builder and Contractor's D'aily Construction Reports; treasurer, Marjorie Dermedy, secretary to Ernst Maag, principal structural engineer of the Division of Architecture, School Section; recording secretary and public relations chairman, Florence Barbour, office manager of Wiltse & Company, advertising and public relations counselors for building material companies and the Structural Engineers Assn. of Southern California; corresponding secretary, Margaret Anderson, executive secretary, Hay Agency (Stanley automatic doors), Beverly Hills.

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"Wqr Tolk" Hos Minor Effect on Home Buying

"War talk" has had relatively little influence on home buying in California, according to a survey of some 423 recent home buyers and serious shoppers conducted by L. C. Major & Associates, nation's largest community co-ordinators and housing designers.

Of some 217 persons who have bought homes in the past two months, the decision of 44 per cent was "not affected at all" by war talk and another 44 per cent "took just a little longer," Sanford R. Goodkin, market research consultant of the firm, reported today.

"Only 12 per ceni said they 'almost changed plans," Goodkin noted.

Among the shoppers who are seriously looking for a new home, 76 per cent still plan to buy immediately, 11 per cent intend to wait until the crisis is resolved and 13 per cent admitted they were totally undecided because of international tensions, the Major & Associates survey revealed.

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"Why should war talk affect my plans ? If a nuclear war cornes, chances are neither buyer or seller is going to have to worry about payments."

Herb Swenson Trophy to be Awqrded At Volley Frolic Tournoment

The Herb Swenson Memorial Trophy will be at stake at the San .|oaquin Hoo-Hoo Valley Frolic tournament, S"ptember 29, when Jerry Fernandez and Ollie Lee vie for the trophy after deadlocking at the Annual Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo Club 114 Bar-B-Q tournament on August 24.The Herb Swenson Memorial Trophv was donated bv the membership of Club l14 in honor of in" popular H &'H Lumber Co. executive and will be awarded to the low net winner of the Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo Club's Annual Bar-B-O Tournament.

August 196l Conslruction Expendiiures Amount To $5.4 Billion

The value of total new construction put in place in August 1961 amounted to $5.4 billion, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Cornmerce. This was an increase of about I percent, approximately the normal seasonal change, between July and August. Spending for total new construction in August 1961 was 4 percent above the August 1960 level.

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Total new private construction expenditures in August 1961 amounted to $3.7 billion, rnatching the July 1961 level. On a seasonally adjusted basis, expenditures in July and August were also unchanged, both amounting to an annual rate of $41.3 billion. The;\ugust 1961 level was 5 percent greater than in August 1960.

Spending for construction of private nonfarm residential buildings in August 1961 amounted to $2.1 billion, about I percent less than in July 1961. Thir was about the normal seasonal change between July and August. Expenditures in August 1961 were 4 percent greater than in August 1960.

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Total new public construction expenditures in August 196l amounted to $1.7 billion, 4 percent greater than in July 1961, which is about the normal seasonal change between July and August. Spending for public construction in August 1961 u'as 3 percent above the level of expenditures in August 1960.