"Old Timers" Celebration at Fort Bragg ,il

Astonished and, amazed was Paul Bunyan, mythical lumberjack, when his recent visit to the land of Noyo, Chief of the Redwoods, was made the occasion for a three days' "Old Timers" celebration at Fort Bragg, California, home of the Union Lumber Company mills.

Though his own legendary feats have intrigued the lumber industry for over a century, Paul was taken aback at the ease and skill with which modern methods and machinery reshaped the giant redwoods into uniformly milled lumber.

Greeted on arrival by Chief Noyo, guardian spirit of Noyo quality and service and by three generations of the

Johnson family, which founded and has operated the Union Lumber Company for 60 years, Paul Bunyan quickly made himself at home by participating in all the ancient and honorable feuds of the traditional lumber camp.

Contests of skill and prowess included a chopping contest and hewing, tie-splitting, wire-splicing and tree-felling demonstrations. An ax-throwing contest was staged in which regulation double-bit woodsman's axes were used, and a greased pole walking exhibition took place in Pudding Creek. Paul Bunyan himself successfully defended the crown in the log bucking contest.

A rodeo, baseball, tug-of-war and water fight were other

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features of the three-day entertainment. Of special interest to visitors was a parade of logging equipment demonstrating powerful caterpillar tractors and huge logging trucks which the Union Lumber Company uses to handle the immense redwood logs.

During the celebration the men wore logging outfits and displayed beards which they had grown for the occasion and the women at Fort Bragg wore clothes of the early frontier days. A novel event which attracted wide interest was the fashion show at which all types of apparel, some as much as 100 years old, were modeled. Inhabitants failing to conform with the ordinance to appear in costume were sentenced by a kangaroo court to a ducking in the horsepond. Over five thousand people attended the celebration.

Ea* Bay Club Meats October 23

William Curts, student at the University of California, who spent a year in Germany at the University of Munich, will be the speaker at the next meeting of East Bay HooHoo Club to be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, October 23, at 6:39 p.m. Mr. Curts, who will speak cin "Conditions in German Homes, Schools and Prisons," will be introduced by Bostor Robinson, prominent Oakland attorney.

President Jas. B. Overcast, of Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, will preside.

Wins City Softball Champion3hip

The Arizona Sash, Door & Glass Co. team won the major division championship of the Phoenix, Ariz., City Softball League, Friday evening, October 6, defeating the First National Bank team by a score of. 12 to 7. This is the second straight year it has won the title.

The City Softball League included teams representing the following firms: O'Malley Lumber Company, Safeway Stores, First National Bank, Westward Ho Hotel, Republic-Gazette Newspapers, and Arizona Sash, Door & Glass Co.

Appointed District Highway Manager

The Portland Cement Association has announced the appointment of W. H. Hitzelberger as district highway manager for Texas, effective October 1. For the present, he will continue to maintain an office in the Republic Bank Bldg., Dallas.

Mr. Hitzelberger has a wide acquaintanceship with engineers, architects and contractors throughout the state. From 1929 to 1938, he was vice-president and sales manager of the Reliance Clay Products Co. of Dallas, and more recently operated his own company in the sale of highway materials and equipment.

E. N. Gustafson, formerly assistant district engineer, has been made district highway engineer. C. A. Clark, the Association's district engineer in Texas, will continue in charge of activities other than in the highway field.