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on the l2-inch top of a tree trunk more than 80 feet above the ground.

The final event was the crowning of the "Queen of the Forest," vivacious Carol Blom of State Box Company, West Sacramento. Queen Carol II was selected from a field of l0 lumbergals -all winners in any book-and she received her crown from Shari Britt. last year's Queen of the Forest.

The successful program over for another vear. members of the Forest Produits Industry and their guests gathered at the Governor's Hall on the

State Fair Grounds for a welcome libation and a little relaxation after a "job well done."

There were over 150 persons at the cocktail party and dinner honoring "Queen Carol" and concluding the observance of the d.y. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club #5 sponsored the Queen Contest, aided by the Hoo-Hoo-Ette groups in Redding, Eureka, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Contest judges were LeRoy H. Stanton, Los Angeles; F.F. I\{omyer of Standard. Calif.: and Bernie Barber of Fresno. Bernie Barber also acted as master of ceremonies at the evening banquet.

F'orest Products Day is a non-profit organization which each year brings the Lumber Message to millions of Californians. A large number of manufacturers. wholesalers and retailers support the project (and their own weliare) by contributions of from $10 to $50 each year.

Offrcers of the non-profit organization are: A. B. Hood, general manager of Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, president; LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stauton & Sons, vice-president; C. D. I-eMaster, former owner of Western Building Review, secretary-treasurer. Other o-fficers include C. Russell Johnson, president Union Lumber Company; and Bob Nikkel, head of R. F. Nit ket Lumber Company.

Deoth of Members Sqddens Convenlion

The delegates and members assembled in Miami for the 70th Annual Convention of International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo were shocked and grieved to learn of the tragic death of two beloved brothers and their wives, as the result of the crash of the commercial airliner, enroute to the convention, Sunday morning, September 17.

"Whqt The Lumber Industry Meons To Me"

By Queen Cqrol

A.

Blom

Aside lrom being the inllustry that afiords me a liveti,hood, the lumber industry is a lascinating wirtd,; frow tie tim.bei, through the sazu mi'lls_, r_emanwfacturing planis and, sites operations; and finatly, tie aarious finished prod,wcts that deaelop.

Thi lumber industry lcas a rich otrt history in this country. It is-amazing, th.at being as old as it is, tice lumber inclustry hai grown and prospered throu-gh rain, sleei and, snow as zuell as fires, and yet we ire us iml,ortant today as the space prograrn to our nolion's f'utur'e. Griat strides haae been ,rLad'e throuqh-oyt, the, yeais, anrl our future dinotes even greater progress, with broader fields of pr oduction and' utilication.

' Our 'ind'ustrt is one to be proud of It i.s like one..big happy farnily' Whethe.r t)ou be a timbbr cruiscr, Iuncber grader, a "peddler" or ju'st one of the gi'rls in the office.

Lukbering is a large d,iversified, industry, bwt is con+posed,. pri,rnarily of small operations rihotu hisi,ories go'back for ginerations. Our's is an industry with, j'ortt;ght, and, people with "ptenty oi adUltion. Due to.the irre.gular.pattern of 'sales,"anil with'the'adz,ent oi nezu'and bette, proclucts _being-deaeloped frorn zaood, our work is diztersifiert and' continually i,nteresting' ! qm happy to be a rnember of an indwstry u,ith a futu,re as great ot on, Ui!6rrnYti7b r, August, 796t

All Hoo-Hoo mourn the loss of Harold R. Wenninger, 64672, Associate Editor of the Log & Tally and assitant to the Secretary, and A. J. Mitchell, Jr., 5X)87, Tacoma, Washington, President of the Tacoma-Olympia Hoo-Hoo Club #89.

wHo's wHo In The lndustry

No 3tronger to fie lunber indutlry, Allon E. 8ool, vice president ond gencrol monoger of thc Dovid:on-Wcstcrn Plywood Compony, lor Angeler, hos becn cssociqlcd with th6 building mdt.liolt businca3 for more thcn 2O yeors.

Entering thc lumber frodc in 1945 wirh hir own busines:, hc dis:olved his compony in 1948 ro bccome dircctly sssociotcd wirh plywood ond lumber cs o solcs t.prcrontotivc wirh Plywood Inc., Lot Angcler. Hc lefi rhor cornpony in 1955 in ordcr lo opon the Lo: Angcler brqnch of Dcl Volle, Kohmon, plywood ond lumber importing ftrm.

Lcoving DC Volle, Kohmon in 1960, Bool becomc ossociqtcd with Dovidron-We3forn 03 vice president ond ssles nondgar, He wor nomed lo his prercnt porition in Jcnuory of thir ycor.

One of the bcsl recomnrendotions for ony perron con be derivcd from lhe opinions of his employecr. Mr. Bool's socretory, ltrs. Kifi Drexel, spoke of him os o stricl dirciplincricn with on exlroordinory wit. "Hc ir c perfcctionist in his work ond con cosily be cqlled q 'busy execulive.' His considcrolion of his employees is wondcrful lo see ond hc clwoys has time lo exploin ony problem thcl orises."

Upon groduction from the Univerdty of Colifornio, los Angeles, with his degrea in busincsr odministrotion, he cntered the Novy ond scrvcd in World Wor ll for throe yeors. In l95O he relurncd lo cclive duiy in the Koreon Conf,ict.

A notive of Southern Colifornio, he is now o resident of La Conado, Active in civic cnd :ociol cffoirs, he is o nember of Al llqloikoh Tcmplc ond vice president of the [a Ccnodo Novy leoguc. He is married cnd hcs lwo sonr.