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additional steps to identify and protect all Brooks-Scanlon lumber that comes to you through rigid, quality controls. For unfaltering service, straight and mixed cars-Ponderosa Pine, Douglas Fir, White Firthe narne is BnooKs.ScANLoN

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Top row, left: lulled into q sense of security by on obundonce of good fellowship, the Kittens oppeor reody for fhe

Test: Joe Bowmon, Kinton Lumber, Clovcrdje; Gene lteodows. Hollow Tree Redwood, Ukioh; ond Woyne Humphrey, lindroth Timber Products, Cloverdole. Middler heod roble included louie loosley; Crawford lumber's Bill Crqwford; Morion Word; Hugh Pessner; Art Bond; ond Ed Homson, E. W. Hqmson lumbar Co., Redwood Volley. Righr: l/lerriil Field cnd Floyd loier, l,lolollo Forest Products; Perry Adcox, B&M lumber Co., Ukioh.

It/liddle row, left: Ed Blunf, Cloy Brown & Co.; Kensington wholesqler Vic Rofh; Fred Gummerson, G&R lumber Co.; John Crofool, Crofool fumber; ond Bill Openshow, Blemco lumber, Ukiqh. illiddle: everyone wos glod to see Gil Sissons bock on the mend, including Jim Buckner ond Woyne Hurnphrey here. Gil, o former president of club l8l, now operote! Jockpot Lumber Compony qt the Sonlq Roso Airport. Righr: the seol belween Bob Heup (lefO, fW&J, and Bob Jensen, Jcnien's Truck Stop, proved unlucky for Shirley Brown of Hollow free. Shirley ond/or Bob seen lo be donoting o little green ot this point to Golen Smith. Bolom row, tefr: Bill Doyle, Fluor Products, ond Bill Scott, Mosonite, 3eem to hove something in the plonning slqge here (Mqple Cqfe, qnyone?). llliddle: Fon Brogg's ftnest Freddy Holmes; Joe Bowmcn, Corl Force; ond Russ Kinsey of Kinton. (The finger? Belong: to Jim Buckner, who else?) Right:'course being president doe: hove certoin {ringe baneftts," Prexy Word seems to be geiling q lifile extro speciol qttention qs for os his "culinory" desires go; visiting oficer Pessncrwould oppeor to hove q few ideos on thc "subiect" himself!

Block Bort Hoo-Hoo Holds Forth

A remanufacturing man, a plywood manufacturer, alld a redwood man joined the ranks of Hoo-Hoo International on November 15, at Gregg's Hofbrau in Ukiah, California. During the evening's festivities of its Annual Concat, Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 welcomed into its ranks three new members: Joe Bowman, Kipton Lumber Co., Cloverdale; Waynb E. Humphrey, Lindroth Timber Products, Cloverdale; and Gene Meadows, Hollow Tree Redwood Co., Ukiah.

Any meeting of Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club l8l is a real pleasure to attend. Marion Ward, Fred C. Holmes Lumber Co., and newly electecl prexy of club 181, is certainly continuing the tradition. More than 50 members ar-rcl guests attended the evenirtg Concat at Gregg's where they enjoyed a f ew hooks with the fellows. dinner. and the first Concat we've seen in many moons lvhere the bar was deserted and everyorle was watching the ritual.

Visiting Offrcer for the occasion was San Francisco wholesaler Hugh Pessner. Hugh, along with prexy Ward and club 181's workhorse Ild Gillespie, put on a ceremony tl.rat lrould pass with flying colors at any annual meet- Special events include the club's Aning of the International Order. nual Christmas Party and Dinner Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 holds Dance (December 16, Ukiah State Fair its regular evening meetings on the Grounds, Home E,conomics Hall), and third Wednesday of each month; every- a big Family Outing at Forest Lake orle connectecl with the building mate- Resort (Lake County), held during rials industry is more than welcome. -fune of each year.

Chorlie Schmir Joins Silmorco

Well-known import-export executive, Charlie Schmitt, joined Silmarco, Inc., of San Francisco, as an active partner on October 31. The announcement was made by Gunter Silmar rvho has been heading the firm since it succeeded Scarburgh California Company last June 1.

Long active in the field of imported lumber and plywood, Charlie is a past president of the Imported Hardr,voocl Plvwood Association and the Satr Franciico Lumbermens Club.

Schmitt has spent most of his working career in plywood, the last 8 years of which he has been active in the importation of plywood and hardwood lumber. Originally with U.S. Plywood Corpor-ation for many years, Charlie entered the imported plywood lumber field with The Beton Company in San Francisco during 1953. More recently, he had been directing the imPorted lumber and plywood division of Atkins, Kroll & Company in San Francisco. Representing Silmarco in southern California, Arizona and New Mexico is an associate office, Jack Baser & Co., 411 North La Brea, Los Angeles. Other representatives include F. W. Stanley (Texas), Fort Worth; Harold Kettrick

(Midwest), Kansas City; and E. B. Read Wood Products Co. (East Coast), Jamestown, N.Y.

In addition to a complete line of imported lumber products, Silmarco also represents LaFarge Superwhite Cement, teak from Sino-British (Siam) I-imited, Bangkok; Evershield Liquid Tile from Evershield Products, Inc., Joppa, Maryland; Swedish hardboard, and hardwoods from Guthrie & Company, Singapore.

New Folder Describes

Fire-Protected lreoted Wood

Architects, engineers, building code and safety officials interested in learning more about fire-protected wood studding will find helpful information in a new four-page folder from the Wood Preserving Division of Koppers Company, Inc.

Titled "Fire-Safe Construction Ideas In Action," the illustrated folder tells how The Kroger Company saved valuable time and cut costs by using NON-COM fire-protected u'ood as studding for the walls of a new store.

Write the Wood Preserving Division, Koppers Company, Inc.,752 Koppers Building, Pittsburgh 19, Pa. and ask for Bulletin w-394.

KNOTTY, BUT NICB

"Hrnph! And you lumbcrmen think you ogcd o lol in l95ll"

HARRY H. WHITE