T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant Octob er 1 , 1 930

The retail lumber clealers of Los Angeles have just completed a ne\v organization called the Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Southern California, with office on Avalon Boulevard. Kennetl.r Smith has been appointed secretarv and manager. More than one hunclred yards have alreir<lv joinecl the organization. It rvill be closely allied rvith all the regional groups in the Southern California area.

Shipments of l'hilippine the second qtlarter of the lumber intci the United States year 1930 totaled 7,500.000 feet. l{ay Cox has been electecl president of the East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club at Oakland. Larue \Vooclson is vice-presi<lent ancl Carl N{oore, secretary.

The Retailers-Manuiacturers Relationship Committee. representing the organized lumber <lealers and the organized Redn'ood manufacturers of California, held an outdoor session at Del Monte, September 13.

Effective September nranuf acturers mergecl Portland, Orcgon. The

18, four large Douglas Fir plyrvood their interests at a r.neeting held at firms are I'ortlanrl Manufacturing

Conrpany, Tacoma \-eneer Companr', Elliclt Bay N'[i11 Company, and \\'alton Veneer Conrparry. Headquarters of the ne\\r concern are Portland, and the name is the Oregon\\rashington Pl1'u'ood Company. Harry 'f. Nicolai is presicler.rt, rvith lr-red l{ienzle as sales manzrger.

The San Diego Hoo-I{oci Club at a tlinner nleetinll recently elected G. Iirank Nolan, \'icegerer.rt Snark, and Ilolr Iteid. President.

At the annual Hoo-Hoo conl'ention helcl Sept. l5 at Toronto, Canada, F. A. Hofheins, of North Ton:rrv;rnda, New York, rvas elected Snark of the Universe and I{. S. Morton. Oakland, California, u'as elected labberu'ock on the Suorenre Nine.

Harry A. (iraham, I-ong Beach, rvon the loiv gross prize, and l.eo Rosenberg, Los Angeles. won the lorv uet prize, at a Southern Caiifornia lunrbermen's goif tottrnament held September 2(r at the Fox Hills L--ountry Club.

\\'alter Spicer :rn<l lruver ior thc h:rs resigned lris iiositirin oI secretary I',:rrr Lunrlrer Comlrany, Santa Arra.

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Scrn Froncisco Hoo-Hoo Elect Al Bell 1955-55 Presidenf

The S:rn Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 "railroacl" again u'ent into action out at Rickey's Stonestorvn, September 20. u.hich marked a successfrrl close of another No. 9 Club year, and the beginning of an all-irnportant year for the San Francisco club.

A good portion of the No. 9 Club membership turned out for the event to give Bovard Sltibley a "rvell done" for 1.ris goocl 'ilork :rs president of the club duriug the 1954-55 year. Succeeding Shibley to the presidency of the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo is Al Bell, of Hobbs Wall Lumber Con-rpany, "XIr. lloo-Hoo Himself." Besides directing the regular operation of the club, Bell and Herb Schaur, Jr., 'rvill have the important job of coordinating the coming 1956 San Francisco Hoo-Hoo national conventiou. Schaur is general chairman of the coming National n hich n'ill be helcl next September at the Fairmont hotel on Nob Hill.

Working along u'ith Irresident Bell rvill be the follon'ing officers: Hirgh f'essner, lst vice-president; Ed Dreessen. 2nd lice-president; I-elioy McCorn-rick, secretarr'treasurer, :rnd Nlike Coonan and Bill NlcCubbin, both sergeants-at-arms. Directors of the club for tl-re coming year r,r'ill be Fred Bucklel', Jack Kaefer, Jirn Hall, Jr., Harry Nterlo, Jack Dr-rllar, N{ax Cook, }{ac Collins, Don \\rilson ancl Bill Bonnell.

Follorving the usual electior-r nonsense, Herb Schaur. Jr., gave the attendalrce a complete run-dot\rn on the previous rveek's l)etroit Hoo-Hoo National at rvhich l)ave f)avis rvas elected Snark of the Universe. and pointed out the big job that San Francisco and other Northern Caliiornia clubs rvill have to do to "beat Detroit."

In addition to Bell and Scl.raur, Cl.ret King, Lel' Godard, Dave Davis and Leroy McCormick all took in the Detroit National, not only to represent the San Francisco club, but to gather ideas and information to incorporate into the big year ahead for the San Francisco lloo-Hoo.

Just around the corner now is the big, "better than ever" Iloundup, this year to be held in the well-appointed and spacious Surf Ciub, Friday evening, October 7. alter a golf tournament at the Peninsula Golf & Country Club. Fred Ziese is tournament chairman and lvill award the golf prizes and perpetual trophy follou,ing dinner and prior to tl.re big Roundup shorv. f-ast year's Iloundup at the Sir Francis l)rake drew more than 200 Northern California lumbermen and, in anticipation of an even larger crorvd, the San Francisco club leased the roomier Surf Club for the occasion this year.

SCRLA Enrolls More Members

The Southern California Retail Lumber Associatiorr has u'elcomed back into active membership the Johnson I-umber Co., Redlands, Calif., orvned b-r' Carroll M. Crane. Hal A. l3rou'n, chairman of the Nlembership comrnittee, has re-er.rrolied E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, as an associate member of the SCRI-A.