Hoo-Hoo Supreme Nine and Executive Committee Meet

At the call of Supreme Snark of the lJniverse, Don S. I{ontgomery, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an all-day session of the Supreme Nine and the Executive Comrnittee o{ Hoo-Hoo was held at the Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, Monday, January 19. Present for the Supreme Nine were: Snark Don S. Montgotnery, Milwaukee, Wis.; Senior HooHoo HalR. Dixon, Spokane, Wash.; Junior Hoo-Hoo Martin J. McDonald, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada; Custocatian Ray E. Saberson, St. Paul, Minn.; Arcanoper Charlcs R. Black, Corning, Arkansas.

For the Executive Committee: President Sam L. Boyd, Vice-President T. T. Jones, Secretary W. M. trVattson, all of Minneapolis, I\{innesota. Past Snark Ben F. Springer of Milwaukee, W'isconsin, Roland W. Slagle, Indianapolis, Indiana, and I. N. Tate of the \Meyerhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, presented special reports.

Plans were considered for carrying out the recommendations made at the 50th annual convention of the Order, held at Hot Springs, Ark.

Past Snark Ben F. Springer outlined proposed changes in the ritual to be submitted at the next annual. I. N. Tate suggested ways in which the Order could assist in disserninating the information being compiled by the Public Relations Committee of the American Forest Products Institute.

Roland W. Slagle, secretary of the Indiana Lumber & Builders' Supply Dealers Association, heartily endorsed Hoo-Hoo concatenations and banquets as a part of the entertainment features at Lumber Dealers' conventions.

Hal R. Dixon of Spokane, Washington, called attention

PRIVATq CAPITAL MUST DO BUILDING

Washington, Feb. 1S.-Private capital and builders have been charged by Abner H. Ferguson, Federal Housing Administrator, with the responsibility for providing a iarge part of defense housing facilities.

"Private capital and private builders must supply the new houses now needed for workers," he asserted.

to the undesirable features of the Forest Omnibus Bill introduced by Senator Bankhead and now before a committee of the Senate in Washington.

Special recognition was given to a faithful member of the Order, John F. Judd No. 94 of Longview, Texas, a member of the Order for over fifty years who has the distinction of haVing attended more annual conventions than any other member.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was selected as the city for the Annual Convention of the Order to be held September 9, ro, 1942.

Officers Elected

Ben F. Springer was elected secretary of the Order, and offices will be at 4M E. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee. Wisconsin, after February 9, 1942,

T. M. Partridge, who has been treasurer of the Order and the Reorganization Committee the past several years, requested that he be relieved of his duties as treasurer, and W. M. Wattson was elected to that office.

Sam L. Boyd was re-elected president, and T. T. Jones, vice-president for the Hoo-Hoo year ending September 9, t942.

Past Snark Arthur A. Hood was appointed chairman of a special committee to promote Education programs, dealing particularly with the needs of the young men entering the rnarketing branches of the Forest Products Industry.

The visiting Hoo-Hoo members attended a Concatenation held by the Twin Cities Hoo-Hoo Club, in connection with the Northwestern Lumbermen's Convention, Tuesday afternoon, lanuary 20.

E,AST BAY CLUB MEETS MARCH 16

The next dinner rneeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club will be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, March 16.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, and member of the Supreme Nine, will be the speaker of the evening.

lVest Coast Appoints Public Relations Ceiling Price Set for Southern Hardwood

Director for Oregon

Seattle, Washington, February 4, I942.---The West Coast Lumberman's Association has appointed Arthur W. Priaulx public relations direc' tor for Oregon, with Headquarters in Eugene, according to an Association announcement. Mr. Priaulx, widely known Oregon newspaperman and editor of the Eugene Daily News for the past three years, will extend cooperatiou of the lumber industry of western Oregon with organizations interested in forest questions, the announcement said.

The Association maintains two offices in Oregon, with H. J. Cox manager of Willamette Valley branch and Paul C. Stevens Portland manager.

"The public relations policy of the West Coast lumber industry, which Mr. Priaulx will carry on in Oregon, is simply to bring about clearer public understanding of the industry's problems and what is beirrg done to solv,: them," the Association said. "Planned tree grow'ing on the industry's harvested forest lands, large-scale planting of seedlings on fire-denuded areas, public education on the forest-fire problem through the Keep Oregon Green and Keep Washington Green progralns, the huge and complex war mission of lumber-these are headline examples of the many vital enterprises in which the industry needs iniormed and friendly public support."

Correction

The Western Pine Association advises that there was a typographical error on page 7 of the first few copies mailed out of the ceiling price schedule for Western Pine iumber. The price on f x 6" D Bevel Siding Ponderosa Pine should be $23.00, wliile the $16.50 price applies to the same size of E Siding. The ceiling price schedule appeared in our February 15 issue, but their letter did not reach us in time to make this correction before going to press.

San Francisco, Feb. 6.-fssuance of a price schedule for substantially all species and grades of southern hardwood lumber was revealed here today by Harry Camp, regional director of OPA.

The schedule becomes effective Feb. X,1942.

Prices on most items in the schedule are reduced $2 to $5 a thousand feet from current levels and tough white ash prices are cut as much as $10 per thousand feet in the thicker sizes. Maximum prices for oak lumber are substantially those prevailing today.

Maximum prices are established only for shipments of lumber which originate at a mill. Direct mill shipments pursuant to orders of less than one thousand feet are excluded from the schedule, since in most of these shipments the mill performs the function of a distributing yard.

Frank C, Schmitz

Frank C. Schmitz, a resident of Wilmington since 1903, passed away at his home on February 8. He was born December 2, 1869 in Redwing, Minnesota. Mr. Schmitz helped to build the Southrvestern Lumber Company, now the Consolidated Lumber Company, and was associated u'itlr the lumber business until he retired in 1932.

He is survived by his widow, two daughters, a son, a sister, and trvo brothers. Fu'neral services were held Tuesday afternoon, February 10.

Lumber Yard Fire

Fire destroyed a shed and a quantity of lumber at the plant of the Pacific Lumber & Supply Co., 123 N. Ave. 18, Los Angeles, early Saturday morning, February 21. The fire was discovered in a shed at the rear of the yard about 2:30 a.m. H. C. Wehlest, one of the owners, states the com,pany has been having trouble with vagrants who slip into the yard from nearby tracks to sleep. They have been caught smoking and he expressed the opinion the fire might have started in this manner.

California Visitor

Ray Lewis, sales manager of \'Villapa Harbor Lumber Mills, Raymond, Wash., was a recent business visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles.