,STORIES ,,

Bv Jack Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed--Some I have told

fot 2O years---Some less

He Over Jumped

The Baron Munchausen pf the colored quarter (the same one who told the story about the time the bear and the wild cat fought in the top of the tree and never came down again, but the fur fell for three days) was telling an interested audience in the grbcery store about another exploit of his in the deep woods.

He was corning through the woods one day, so he said, when a tremendous pack of wolves suddenly bqtst from cover and'bore down upon him. He happened to be in the middle of a clearing about a quarter of a mile across, and when he started to run he saw there was just one tree in this clearing, a very tall pine, that had only one lirnb any-

East Bay Hoo Hoo Club

F. V. Custer, instiu,ctor in social studies at Castlemont High School, Oakland, was the speaker of the evening at the regular dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club held at The Caliente, Oakland, Monday evening, December 9.

Mr. Custer spoke on "America at the Crossroads." Ifaving lived mu,ch in foreign lands, being born in the U. S. Consular s€rvice, he is able to take a more detached view of present day conditions in the country than those who have lived here continuously, and his talk was perhaps more interesting,on this account.

More.than 60. members and guests sat down to dinner. President .Gordon Pier,ce presided. Singing and dancing entertainment was provided by the management of The Caliente.

Esker Fitzwater, field man of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, ,exhibited the Bureau's talking film "The Ilome of the Wooden Soldiers," the first industrial picture to be made with a Hollywood cast, which inclucled Charlie Murray arrd Lila Lee.

The door prize was won by John L. Todd, but the winner being absent the prize was not awarded.

Professor Fritz was scheduled to talk on "Dry Kilns," but being out of the city his talk was postponecl until the January meeting.

Redwood Talkie Prints Being Made

Release of the new California Redrvood Association talking picture may be expected any day, Prints are now in process of belng made.

where near the ground, and this a big limb about twenty feet up the trunk. He made for this tree at full speed, the wolves gaining on him with every bound. He saw he had no time to make the tree and climb it, his only chance being to jump for that one limb. So, he said, he made one desperate leap straight up in the air. His audience was in a perfect dither as they listened to the thrilling narrative.

"And did you catch de limb?" gasped one of them.

"Not right at fust," replied the hero, complacently. "Ah done missed hit goin' up-but Ah ketched hit comin' down."

Redwood Culverts Specified

On one stretch of the route from Cedarville to the Nevada state line the road runs through an old alkali flat or lake bed. Redwood laminated culverts have been specified on this work by the California Division of Highways. Tb€-reason for this, according to E. A. Brown, engineer for the Califorria Redwood Association, is that durable wood offers more resistance to the destructive action of sulphate alkali than does other material.

This should be interesting to lumbermen, Mr. Brown says, as offering possibilities throughout the West where problems of this character have to be dealt with.

Sees General Business Pick-up

E. J. Calloway, president and general manager of the Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, Tacoma, returned recently from a six weeks' tour of the principal cities of the East and Middle West.

Mr. Calloway returned by the way of California where he visited Harrl Hart of their Los Angeles offi,ce, and Larue Woodson of the San Francis'co office.

He reports a decided pickup in business throughout the country with dealers everywhere clamoring for stock. This applies to virtually all lumber pr,odu,cts, he says, but particularly to plywood.

S. F. Hardwood Dealerg Meet

San Francisco Hardwood Dealers' mas luncheon at the Clift Hotel, San n. John C. Haring is secretary.

Club held its ChristFrancisco, December