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When the sun rises each day the first point of the to.feel its rays is Mt. Katahdin, Maine.

There are 227,679 miles of railroad track in the U. S.

James K. Polk was the l"i ,o"uuer of the House of Representatives to be elected later to the presidency. **

A "Gut-Hammer" is the gong used to call loggers to meals'

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,k* the Latin word Papyrus. timber is used each year

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Theodore Roosevelt at 42 was thb youngest man to be inaugurated as President of the U. S.

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The name "Old Glory" was given to the American flag by Captain William Driver, Salem. Mass.

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Larry Owen, manager of the pine department, AtkinsonStutz Co., San Francisco, returned Novembet Z2 ftom a business trip to the southwest, south, and middle west, made entirely by air. He visited Dallas, Nerv Orleans, Birmingham, Jackson, Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Kansas City.

Fritz Roberts, manager of linan Mackin Lumber Co., office in San Francisco in He made the. round triP by the Los Angeles office of Halvisited the company's home the last week of November. air. office staff of T. I\I. Cobb Comthe Thanksgiving holiday with

Hugh Satterlee, of the pany, Los Angeles, spent relatives at Bakersfield.

Louis nois, is Pera, a recent graduate of the a new salesman with PlYrvood

University of llliLos Angeles, Inc.

Jack Brush and Mrs. Brush of the Brush Industrial Lumber Company, Los Angeles, sailed from Nerv Orleans November 2l on the steamer Del Norte of the Delta Line, Inc. on a leisurely tour of South America. The tour will take about four and a half months, and rvill include a side trip up the Amazon.

W. H. (Bill) Fahs, secretary-treasurer and manager of California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, made a business trip to Memphis, Tenn., last month.

Frank J. ConnollY, President of Lumber CompanY, Los Angeles, left to visit Nerv Orleans and MemPhis, portant lumber meeting in St. Louis' ber 10.

Western Hardwood November 3O by air and to attend an imHe returned Decem-

Jas. E. (Jimmy) Atkinson, of Atkinson-Stutz Co', San Francisco, visited the company's Los Angeles office the week of November 13 to confer u'ith Charlie Schumacher, Southern California representative' He was accompanied by Mrs. Atkinson, and the trip rvas made by automobile.

Howard M. Gunton, vice president, I\facDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco, returned December 6 from a l0-day trip to Chicago, rvhere he visited his brother' His wife actompanied him. They made the trip both *'ays bv air.

Don Coveney, of California Lumber Sales, Oakland, and Mrs. Coveney spent the last u'eek in November in Los Angeles on business and Pleasure.

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Footbcll Night Wcs Success At Club No. 39 Meeting

Frank Brunk gave the commentary on the 1949 official movie film of the California-Stanford big game at the dinner meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Claremont llotel, Berke ley, November 20. More than 9O members and guests were present, and enjoyed Chairman' Bob Hogan's annual football night.

Clem Fraser won the $20.00 cash door prize, and Bill Chatham and Bill Davis won the.two pairs of tickets for the pm football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers President Lee LeBreton Presided.

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