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Kittens of November lleeting

More than 100 "Black" Cats attended the initiation dinner at Inglewood-Country Club, November 7, when Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 held a Concatenation for 13 Kittens who were inducted into the fraternal order of lumbermen. Sixty played golf, including Carl Gavotto, Snark John Collins anh Clif Roberts, who were visitors.from the San Diego Club for the tournament and banquet.

U. S. Plywood's Don Broley (left) seems to become o better Snork with every meeiing, while populor Chuck lember (righr) did his usuol swell lob selling tickets ond dispensing the prizes (-Photos by Worren HOYTConsuliont, Worren Southwesl. Inc., Wood Prererving Division.)

The 13 Kittens initiated were Don R. Bailey, Philip R. Chantland, Kurt Gelbard, Dan C. Hilton, Waltei P. "Mac" McWhorter, Louis J. Markworth, Ralph M. ' Norum, William C. Orchard, John A. Pinnell, Irvin L. Roodman, Richard V. "Dick" Voelzke, George K. Wallace and Alvin Weitz.

Snark Don Braley extended the hand new members and declared, "We hope an active part in the activities of your certain you will benefit only by your efiort of attendance, and work you participate in, including committee and social activitv."

Past Supreme Nine Member Don Bufkin gave a complete resume of Hoo-Hoo and its place in the lumber industry. Rex Oxford, Chuck Lember and the Initiation committee arranged the details for the fun part of the Concatenation.

While lirtle Ruthie sees whot ihe boys in the front row will hove, thol threesome ol her reot seems lo include Rex Oxford, Son Diego's Clif Roberts ond Joe Pelrosh

_ Tickets may be obtained for this gala afiair by contacting 1'reeman Campbell, ANgelus 2-4148-Station 9. The fun rvill start promptly at 629 p.m.-so make your plans now to attend.

Sixty-five Black Cats and their guests participated in the golf tournament, which Vice-President Harvey Koll. started promptly at 10:09 a.m. The low-gross prize was split by Don Vogt and Ken Kenoffel, who both shot an 80. In the lst flite, Spud Jordan placed first with an 83. Ken KenofielZnd with his 80. Wes Kutz was lst low net in the 2nd flite. and Brace Gurnee placed 2nd. Joe Petrash, as usual, won the 3rd flight low net with a 61. Guest prize was awarded to Aram Mardian of Phoenix who shot a 78.

The retailer's prize was held by Ernie Thomas for presentation at the next tournament. Bill Hanen of Long Beach and John Collins of San Diego split the Blind Bogey, and "Mac" McGoldrick received the guest prize. John Osgood is still saving his special balls and the hole-in-one "pot" is 'round the $100 mark.

THE DEGREE TEAM (seoted, left to righf): Snork Don Broley, Sferling Wolfe, Horold Cole, George Clough ond Horl Crocketl. (Sronding, l. to r.): Don Bufkin, Arom Mordion, president of the Phoenix, .A,rizono, Club 72 os visiting ofBcer; John Fifzpotrick, Jim Forgie, populor posl Snork, ond Don Philips, Jr.

Party Party sponsored by the the underorivileged vor

All lumbermen were urged to get behind the Christmas Lrty bv the Southern California industrv for of welcome to these all of you will take club as we all feel n industry r-ar Ly Dy tne )outnern ualllornla lndustfy tor youngsters of LeRoy Boys' Home, which will be held Thursdav evening. December ll at the held Thursday 11, at the Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles.

This annual affair will top everything that has been done the past. and an outstandins Drogram has been arranged in past, outstanding program by the committee to assure an evening of fun. not onlv for of fun, not only the boys, but for the adults as well.

Chuck Lember and Freeman Campbell did their usual good job in selling tickets. The door-prizes were well received and the steak dinner was perfect-so they all say. Rex Oxford and his committee handled the Concat like veterans and everybody enjoyed the evening of fun and entertainment.

2-Woy Pqnel Sows Insrolled

Recent purchasers of the Bennett 2-Way Panel Saw, reported by Dealer-Service Wayne C. Ervine, Atascadero, Calif., include the Berkeley Plywood Co., Los Angeles; Frank B. Ruzner Lumber Co.. Arroyo Grande. Calif.. and the'Pioneer Plastics Corp., Pico Rivera, Calif.

Dorothy

Holmer Johnson

SAI-T RIVER VALTEY HOO-HOO DIRECTORS (1. to r., fronl row): Roy Horper, Roy lumber Co.; Arom Mordion, Glen Mqr Door Co.; Jim Killen, Foxworlh Supply Co.; Bob Silvey, Silvey Products Co., ond Rolph Heisser, Mqllco. BACK ROW (1. ro r.): Howord Beols, Volley Lumber Co., recenlly elected 1958-59 president of the Arizono Retqil Lumber ond Builders Supply Assn.; Lorry Griffith, Griffith Lumber Co.; George Ross, Arizono Lumber Co.; Pele Von Voorhis, Timber Producls Co., ond Jock Dodson, The Celotex Corp.

THE KITTENS obcul lo be Concotenoled (Arizono style)-Fronl row (1. to r.): George McNoull, Boker Thomos Co.; Jqmes Tqlbot, Bqker Thomqs Co.; Chorles Smith, Boker Thomos Co. (musi be q tomcqf in thot worehouse); Jomes W. Clork, U. S. Plywood Corp., ond Fritz Oligschloeger, Holsteod [umber Co. BACK ROW (1. lo r.): Jock Rombough, Boker Thomos Co.; Allon Grqbe, Grqbe Lumber Co., Globe, Ariz.; Chorles [oller, Arizono Lumber Co.; Doyle Sewell, FoxworthGolbroith Lumber Co., Meso, Ariz., ond Roy Crutchfield, Foxgol, Inc.

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Millwork; Jess Coppinger, Arizono Millwork Co.; Bob Borker, Souihwest Gloss, Door & Millwork Co., ond Jock Dodson. (-Photos

(Arizono style), lhe Kiftens gother behind rhe toble while Entertqiner Jock Rombough tells o story (he's o professionol, hoving oppeored on rodio, TV ond clubs in Phoenix). The Kittens con be identified by neckties. Seoted ql the Heod Toble ore Roy Horper, Mqrtin Wist, Jock Berry (porrly hidden), Arom Mqrdion ond George Ross. In foct, everybody wqs lhere but ARL&BSA Secretory' Monoger Gus Michoels Himself, who wos probobly enroute to Chicogo for the NRLDA Exoosition Nov. 22.

IN A FEW DAYS the world pauses to commemorate the birthday of the kindliest, most compassionate Man that ever lived. People of all races and creeds, in all parts of the world, join in that celebration. ***

His name was Jesus, and He lived for a few brief years long ago. But His works and words changed the whole course of,human historl. * * +

I{e was the most colorful Man in all history. Not only the most colorful, but the most vigorous, the most vital, the most irrepressible person that history has any knowledge of. The meek, sad and sorrowful pictures that have been made of Him are pure libel. *:N<t

For, on the contrary, He was the most radiant, live, abundant personality that ever walked the earth. Take away any claim of Godhood from Him, and you still have history's most impressive Person. For lfe was power, virility, strength, courage, determination, joy, enthusiasm, and Life personified.

FIe was the great exemplar of the blessedness of WORK. Only once in His recorded words He is quoted as saying, "f will give you an example," and that was when He was performing the duties of a servant. He worked hard in His youth at the carpenter trade. He preached the blessedness and necessity of labor, and of man living by the sweat of hisbrow.

HE PREACHED THE BLESSEDNESS of friendship among humans. According to the Book of John, Chapter 13, He uttered these matchless and deathless words: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

Many men blessed with the gift of words have turned their pens to the depicting of the sacrament of Friendship, but all other words fall into colorless background when compared with the inspired words of the Carpenter. And it is only John who gives to the world this priceless thing about friendship. i. *

THIS MAN OF GALILEE was always found where

BRINGING IN THE CHRISTT}TAS TREE AITAV|IIE, 1858

The Altoville Grcmmor School is one of the oldest in Colifornio. lt wos builr in 1858 wirh funds roirad by o donce in c billicrd soloon. The rchool wo: in use until I950, when rhe Mork Twoin Elementory School opened its doors.

men, and women, and children gathered together. He loved life and living things. He walked with Publicans and sinners. Don't you suppose He might have been laughing up His sleeve when He quoted His critics as saying of Him: "Behold a man gluttonous and a wine bibbler?"

A reading of two great books about Him, in addition to the Bible, may give you a mental picture.of Him you never hid before. Those books are Bruce Barton's "The Man Nobody Knows" and Kahlil Gibran's "Jesusthe Son of Man." Both are wonderful and easily read books about Jesus. These are books not easily set down, once started.

And so we will observe soon the birthday of a simple country Carpenter who walked and worked, preached and

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-R. A. Johnson Oakdale. California prayed, lived and loved long ago on the green hills of Galilee, and rebuilt a world in so doing. ***

HIS WORDS WERE LIGHTED by a fire eternal, and His works matched His words: He was one person who practiced all He preached.

Instead of a "man of sorrows," wouldn't it be fine if all of us could think, as Bruce Barton wrote, of this Man whose name gives us Christmas as the happiest, laughingest, most aStounding, most attractive personality that ever walked the earth?

IALENIIAR I1F I[]MING EVENTS

DECETYIBER,

Dubs, Ltd., Directors Tournament, Contra Costd Country Club, Dec. 5.

Coaet Counties HoeHoo Club 114 Christmas party and Dinnerdance, Mark Thomas Inn, Monterey, Dec. 6.

Redwood Ernpire Hoo-Hoo Club 65 Dinner-dance, Rickey's Ranch<r Rafael. San Rafael, Dec. 6.

Wholesale Lrirnber Assn. of Southern California, Hody's Lakewood; Dec. 9.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 Christmas party, 5:30 p.m., California hotel, S. F., Dec. 9.

Southern California Lumber Industry Christmas Party, Biltmore hotel, 6:29 rp.m., Dec. 11, Benefit of LeRoy Boys' Home; sponsored by L. A. Hoo-Hoo Club 2, L. A. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club I, SCRLA, WLASC, etc.

Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39 Children's C.hristmas party, 6:39 p.m., Claremont hotel, Berkeley, Dec. 15.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 Christmas party for Children, 11:39 a.m., Elks Club, Dec. 17.

January

Building Contractors Assn. of California, Inc., 35th Anniversary Congress, Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles, Jan. 7-9, 1959.

Riverside County Hoo-Hoo Club 117 meeting and Concatenation, Elks Club, Hemet, Calif., Jan. 9.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 semi-formal Dinner-dance, 9:00 to Casper's Ranch, El Cajon, Calif ., Jan. 24.

Healdsburg Dealer Russ Stevens of the A. F'. Stevens Lumber Co. and his Cleone have returned from a 6-week trip through the Far East, flying the entire distance to allow more stdpover time in Hawaii, Indo-China, the Philippines and Japan. No layover at Quemoy, Russ?

Ada and Dee Esslcy spent part of November at Monterey, where the head of D. C. Essley & Son put in five days at golf, following through to Garberville, where they met Jerry Essley and Ray Stiger of the Vancouver Plywood Corp., for a weekend of business and pleasure. There they were joined by the Hank Mansfields of Los Angeles.

Marge and Ward Higgins, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., returned to San Francisco from a month's vacation in Las Vegas and nearby parts.

Charlie Schmitt, Atkins, Kroll & Co. Lumber division manager, spent a recent week in Texas calling on accounts with the southwest representative, F. W. Stanley.

Arcata Redwood Company's Lloycl Hecathorn, of the San Francisco office, called on Portland, Seattle and Spokane customers for ten late November days.

Ex-N-AWLA President Martin Weigand and his wife, with the Channing Walkers of Washington, D. C., were entertained at the Meadow club in Fairfax, Nov. 16, by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Talbot and the Dave Davises.

Adolfo Camarillo, 94, grand old man of Ventura county and former president of the People's Lumber Co., was seriously ill in Saint John's hospital, Oxnard, last month with pneumonia, only his third trip to the hospital in his active life-the first in 1886, the second in 1952.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. McKee were pictured in the society pages of The Los Angeles Times, with the Charles Hobbses ol San Francisco, on the occasion of the annual Assembly ball at the Biltmore. Bert is head of the Forest Lumber Co. of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. I{omer Burnaby of the Sun .Lumber Co. entertained guests in their home prior to thd ball.

Robert Evju of San Francisco's Evju Products spent an early November week on eastern business.

Lafayette Dealer Tom Jacobsen, Sr., of the Sun Valley Lumber Co. is back at the yard after undergoing surgery last month.

The Robert Dollar Company Vice-President Jack Dollar and his wife vacationed at Palm Springs during Thanksgiving week.

Dale Watson of the Watson Sales Co., Los Angeles, is pictured here with the first fish he ever caught in his entire life, reports his secretary, Margaret Gunn, treasurer oI Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 1. The 90tl-1b., 7-foot marlin was taken off Bal'boa, Oct. 9. In the party are (left to right) Walt Jennison, Franklin Bailey of the Bailey-Riggert Plywood Corp., Mr. Watson, Norman Davidson of Pacific Wood Products Co., and his skipper, Capt. Hawthorn, of the Davidson yacht "Julia D."

Roberta Heberle (above), lSrl-year-old daughter of R. J. Heberle, southern Califorlria manager of the Georgia-Pacific Corp', Lum,ber division, has been named "Seventeen" representative for southern California after being selected last June to appear in a fashion show for Stern's in New Jersey. She is to be honored again in January by opening a show for Stern's in New York City, and her photo will appear in the first 1959 issue of "Seventeen" Magazine. The budding beauty is on the magazine's national fashion council, and also on one for Hinshaw's Greater Department Stores. Articles about her have appeared in the NYC papers as well as her hometown Whittier papers.

Jim Tattersall, general manager of Security Paint Mfg. Co., Los Angeles, and his wife completed a l0-week motor trip through Canada, New England, New York, the eastern states and the south, combining businesspleasure 10,000 miles.

Fred Windeler, president of George Windeler, Co., Ltd., San Francisco, and his wife attended the Wood Tank Manufacturers Assn. convention in ,Boston during October and toured New England states on the way home.

Dealer George Pike of Van Nuys, Norm Winsor and Walt Hamilton of Great Western Lum,ber Co., Glendale, and Ed Dursteler, head of Sierra Lumber & Plywood, Van Nuys, each bagged a beautiful buck while hunting in Utah last month on a 2-week safari vii pickup truck into the wilderness, u'here they had no trouble at all making their kill, as indicated by the photo of Dursteler above. Upon their return to southern California, these sportsmen took off for Marysville with their wives and daughters for a weekend of duck hunting on the Sacramento Valley delta lands. Walt Hamilton tiad to stay home and mind the store but Wally Lingo took his place on the latter expedition.

Twin-City Lumber's "Monty" Montgomery of San Rafael called on Seattle and B. C. :Lrea mills for two October weeks.

Kay Poe, private secretary to Wayne F. Mullin at the Mullin Lumber Co., has notified the ex-president of the SCRLA that she will be married early in December to one of his managers, Lowell Kolb, of the Mullin yards. Miss Poe was honored recently at a bridal shower given by Mabel Staser. Guests included Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club I's 1955-56 board of directors, on which Miss Staser u'as president and Kay was publicity chairman. The bride-elect received many lovely gifts. The dealer and his 'bride will make their new home in San Marino.

Vic Roth, head of Oakland's Triangle Lumber Co., spent a mid-November week with mill accounts.

Paul Cherniss, salesmanager for Atlas I;urnber Co., and his wife Maxine are spending December visiting friends and relatives in San Antonio and Houston, and expect to welcome a new grandchild before they return the first of January via the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas.

Sterling Wolfe and "Mac" McWhorter of the Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Hollyrvood, cruised the Redwood highway the end of Novernber booking inventory for early 1959 delivery to Southland dealers.

Bilt Smith, headman at Smith-Robbins, Los Angeles, returned from a trip to Medford, Ore., and way points to secure stock for the winter wholesale inventory, trav€ling by plane and rented car.

Dave Jopes, recently associated with Strable Lumber Co.. started off his new job with a 3-week vacation trip to Mexico City with his wife and another couple. You say YOU've been looking for a job like this? Send your resume (ours is already in) to Jim Overcast at the Oakland address.

Hank Mansfield, Jerry Essley and Wayne Wilson (left to right, at right) captured this bear in the "wilds" of northern California just ofi the coast near Thorn. It was a tough struggle but the hardy lumbermen brought the bruin back alive, reporting they were timber cruising when they came {ace to jowl with the beast and didn't scare him a bit.

Tom Smith, manager of Minton's in Mountain View. is on the mend after a bout with pneumonia at the Palo Alto hospital.

Bill Dahlem, executive of the Secdrity Paint Co., Los Angeles, attended the paint and wallpaper men's convention in Cleveland last month, then spent three weeks calling on the trade in the east and midwest before his return.

Bill Buettner, partner in George J. Silbernagel, Inc., San Francisco, spent three recent weeks in the El Paso vicinity on moulding mill connections.

Earl Bleile of the Parr-Thomas Lumber' Co., Sacramento, called on customers in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee for two November weeks. Bleile reports optimistic lumbermen in all these .cities, wit,h great expectations that there will be an early pickup in business.

Among those attending the Chicago convention of the National Building Material Distributors Assn., Nov. 9-12, from northern California were Duncan Pell, manager of Davis Hardwood Co., San Francisco, and Don White, president and general manager of White Brothers, Oakland.

Del Pugh, well-known Sacramento lumberman, has been named the new salesmanager of Sierra Mountain Mills, North San Juan.

Don Adolfo Camarillo, former president of the Peoples Lumber Co., Ventuta, was serenaded on his 94th birthday, Ocl 29, by 300 students of Camarillo High Sch-ool who marched a-mile for the honor. It was one event of the annual birthday celebration in which the community salutes the family name of the senior citizen of Ventura-county.^A special edition of The Camarillo News was also issued. On hls birth date, the former lumberman made his usual tour of Rancho Calleguas to oversee the activities and inspect his herd of 40 white Camarillo horses, and that night more than 50 of his direct descendants assembled in the 3-story family home to share a birthday dinner.