OFRED C. HOTMES TUMBER COMPANYO

Speciolizing in Mixed Shipments of Dovglos Fir & Redwood

Ooklond Hoo-Hoo Plon SpeciolBus for Ukioh MillTour

Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39 will celebrate National Forest Products Week (October 2l-27) by chartering a special bus for a mill tour of F. M. Crawford Lumber Co. and Masonite Corporation in Ukiah. The Greyhound bus will leave Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley at 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, and, will return before midnight.

Vic Roth, owner of Triangle Lumber Company and chairman of the tour, notes that both Crawford Lumber and Masonite will be running their night shift in full swing. After the tour, Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 18I will join the Oakland contingent for a steak dinner in Ukiah. Bus fare will be $4.50 and the steak dinner $4.50. Retailers are urged to send their countermen and/or yardmen on this educational and interesting trip. IMPORTANT: Club 39 will pay the bus fare for any retail lumberman who is not a member of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39!

Hudson Lumber Co. o C"osuolry in Huge Son leondro Bloze

The Hudson Lumber Company plant in San Leandro suffered damage in a huge factory blast which leveled the nearby InterCoastal Paint Corp. at 24ll Washington Ave. in San Leandro, Wednesday evening, September 12. In addition, a half dozen homes on Hudson Lane were crumpled and hundreds of windows in homeso nearby factories and business establishments as far away as a half mile were shattered. Described as the worst fire in the southern Alameda County area since 1948, the $600,000 blast and fire took two lives and injured 13 persons, among them four Hudson Lumber Co. employees. The four casualties were: Mrs. Emma Gibbons of San Leandro, Mrs. Irene Botelho of Hayward, Mrs. Ann Bailey of San Leandro and Mrs. Elmira Periera of San Leandro.