JAMES REDWOOD

Club Honors Ervin Bqrtel

Nearly 100 members of Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club No. I33 traveled to Burney, California recently to honor Ervin F. Bartel. Erv was one of the organizers of the Redding Club and was its first president 15 years ago. The lumbermen came from all over northern California to surprise Bartel and present him .with a plaque.

'fhey reviewed the story of his li{e-from school days up to the present time. Bartel, who came to Burney in 1949, has been in the lumber industry 44 years. Organizations that he belongs to and participates in are numerous. He is a past president of the Lumberrnen's Association of New York; past president of the Lumber and Allied Materials Salesmen of New Jersey; vice president of the New York Hoo-Hoo Club ll9; Deputy State Snark of New Jersey and was active in the old W'estern Pine Association. He is past vice president of the Mt. Lassen Council of Boy Scouts of Americao having received their highest award, "The Silver lleaver" in 1953; is current treasurer and a director of Shasta County Bank of Burney, a member of the Intermountain Shrine Club and the Northern California Shrine Club; and active for many years in Mt. Burney Parent-Teachers Association.

Bartel norv is sales manager of Scott Lumber Company in Burney. The Bartels have eight sons-.Ervin Jr., twins Donald and Edward, Richard, Carl, John, Paul and Brian. Six of their sons are Eagle Scouts.

The Hoo-Hoo Club had a final surprise for Bartel. They presented him with a baby daughter (a doll).

Carl Allison, club president, presided at the meeting and with the help of Joe Derrah of Redding, chairman and Irv Toler of Burney as co-chairman. Toler, Bob Middleton and Raymond Berry reviewed the story of Bartel's life.

Lumber Shipped by Air

Recently there was a mix-up in an important order of birch dimension for a Bauman Brothers of California shipment by the E. J. Stanton & Son procurement department.

To avoid a department shutdown at the furniture manufacturing plant, the distributing firm located the stock in Chicago and specified the several tons of material must be shipped uin air lreight.

The lumber left Chicago that same evening, arrived in Los Angeles via jet early the following morning und *u" delivered to Bauman Brothers before nine o'clock. This is the first time a major shipment of lumber has been completed in less than 24 hours to the West Coast from a shipping point of more than 2000 miles distant.

ooThis is just another first in our 70 years of service to dealers and industrials," said Roy Stanton, Sr., president of the wholesale concern.

Nqtionol Home Week Winner

The National Home Week promotion by Weyerhaeuser Company has earned the firm a special judges award in the annual ideas for home builders contest sponsored by National Association of Home Builders and Producers' Council. Firms were presented awards for outstanding product literature and services directed to the home building industry.

The Weyerhaeuser promotion included a full color, full page advertisement featuring an original painting of the House of Good Taste exhibit at the World's Fair which ran in Look and Time magazines. The ads urged farnilies to look for a new home during National Home Week. Also, the company produced a 60-second television news feature film which highlighted the increased payrolls and local sales volume from home building. The film urged TV viewers to visit model homes during National Home Veek. An estimated 1.5 million viewers watch;d the feature on 50 TV stations.