T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant December 1 5, 1 930

In the advertisement of the Red River Lumber Company, Paul Bunyan says: "Christmas was always a great day when I was a kid. We had pie for dinner. Mother made the pie by putting two pancakes together and sewing them around the edges with red yarn."

Announcement is made that a merger is being perfected in the Northwest sawmill area between three large manufacturing corporations, the Raymond Lumber Company, of Raymond, Wash.; Lewis Mills & Timber Company of South Bend, Wash, and the Willapa Lumber Company, of Raymond, Washington, a ten million dollar deal.

The United States Treasury Department, under pressure from the organized lumber industry of the United States, has finally acted to bar the importation of Russian lumber into the United States. Nothing is said about Russia or any other country in the new regulations, but lumber made by convict labor is forbidden entry. Since convict labor is known to be generally used in the Russian lumber industrv it gets the job done without expressly mentioning

Los Angeles lfoo-Hoo Club No. 2 will play host to the tubercular children of Olive Vier,r' Sanitarium, San Fernando, California, on Decemb er 22. R. .S. Osgood, president, will head the delegation giving the party. A year ago this same group of children was similarly entertained, and presented with books, magazines, Chrisimas tree decorations, Christmas gifts, swings, and cash. The same plan will be followed this year.

Announcement is made that what is probably the most beautiful installation of Philippine Mahogany trim ever made has been installed by Jesse H. Jones in the new Ifouston Club he recently built in lfouston, Texas. Dark, highly polished walls from floor to ceiling make the ner,r' club the wonder of visitors.

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club of Oakland, California, will entertain 40 underprivileged children at a Christmas party in the Athens Athletic Club, December 20. President Rav B. Cox will be in charge.

On December 23 the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club will entertain about 200 children at a Christmas party. Al Nolan will be Santa Claus.

Snclrk Dovis Storts Ncrtionql Hoo-Hoo Tour Wirh L. A. Visir

E. G. "Dave" Davis, popular Snark of The Universe of Hoo-Hoo International, made Los Angeles his first port of call last month rvhen he started a swing around the United States that will take him to Memphis, Atlanta and the deep south; St. Louis, Boston, New York and Chicago,

To honor his visit in the southland, a group of promi- sAl{ nent Southern California Hoo-Hoo held a luncheon meeting at the University Club in Los Angeles to confer on ways and means of stimulating interest in club activities under the guidance af Acting President Jim Forgie. Those attending the November 25 meeting included Bert Holdren and Stark Sowers of the Riverside county club; Roy Stan-

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. REDWOOD

. WESTERN RED CEDAR

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. FIR-TEX ACOUSTICAT TIIE

. FIR.TEX HARDBOARD

. FIR.TEX ROOFDEK

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