Hoo Hoo Launches Movement to Purchase Home of its Own

The detailed plan for financing the purchase of a home for International Hoo-Hoo has been announced by the Hoo-Hoo Home Committee, of which past Snark of the IJniverse L. M. Tully, of St. Louis, is chairman.

Members of the Order at large are asked to subscribe to the $50,000 fund required to make the project a success. Subscriptions are to be on the basis ofunits of $10 each, and each subscriber will receive a certificate of appreciation.

The Home Committee is compoSed, in addition to Chairman Tully, of past Snarks of the Universe Julius Seidel and James H. Allen, St. Lsuis; A. L. Porterm, Spokane, Wash.; secretary of the lMestern Retail Lumbermen's Association; and Louis Burgess, of the Rikerd Lumber Co., Lansing, Mich.

In an open letter published in the February edition of The Bulletin, the monthly publication of International Hoo Ifoo, the Committee sets .forth the details of the plan and urges members to co-operate promptly and generously.

"Hoo-Hoo,no longer is just the'playground' of the Lumber Industry^" the letter states. "It has taken on new and bigger tasks and has shown an exceptional capacity for performing them. Its outstanding work along practical lines has been in forestry. Its Friends of the Forests mo\rement has received the commendation of the public of the United States and of Canada.

"It has defended the wooden shingle and the wooden box-resenting unfair propaganda against these members of the wood family r,vhen the Industry itself, for the most part,was lackadaisical. It fought the Federal Capital Stock Tax by voicing its opposition in messages and resolutions of protest to the Congress of the United States.

Hoo-Hoo is and shall continue to be the playground of the Lumber Industry, but it no'lv embraces the practical services of direct ben,efit to the Industry that no other organization within the Industry is able to perform. HooHoo works hand-in-glove rvith the local and national associations-promoting the interests of these lumber bodies in every way within its power.

"All these things are being done in the face of tremendous handicaps. With these handicaps removed, the Order can prove itself the greatest power for the advancement of the Lumber Industry and its products within the grasp of the Industry."

The Committee's letter points out that the increased capacity for service that a Hoo-Hoo Home would make possible, is important to the continued progress and growth of the Order. It also stresses the prestige that will be gained through the establishm,ent of a rbal headquarters for the Lumber Industry.

Besides these things, the Home would have a lumber library as complete as any in existence, which would be accessible to members of the Lumber Industry at large.

The Committee further recommends that the building be called "The Bolling Arthur Johnson Hoo-Hoo Memorial Home", in tributeto Bolling Arthur Johnson, founder of Hoo-Hoo, lvho died in December.

_ "To make this project the success that it so obviously d,eserves, we must have a typical Hoo-Hoo response tb this appeal-a prompt, generous response on the part of every member, from the oldest Cat to the newest .Kitten,,' the letter concludes.

SADDEATHOF HERBERT C. STONE

Los Angeles building circles were shocked, on the morning of the 14th of March, to learn of the death of Herbert !, Sto19, _Secretary Manager of the Los Angeles Building Material Dealers' Credit Association, r-ho passed arvay on the 13th, after a thr.ee weeks' illness.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, the l7th.

Herbert Stone, forty years of age, was known throughout California as an authority on credit matters, the mechlnics lien larvs, .and other matters concerning the building material business. He was a prominent member of the Masonic Order.

Benson Plans Purchase Of Vessel

Announcement has been made by Mr. Frank Lynch, president of the Benson Lumber Company, San Diego, of plans to purchase from the U. S. Government, a 7,000 ton steamer which will be motored with 1,00O horsepower Diesel engines, and be put in the off shore lumber 1rade.

A Correction

"I note in your issue of March 15 you carry an announc€ment of the election of the officers and trustees of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Company at its recent annual meeting. Through a misunderstanding this information was given out by the office in €rror. Mr. George S. Long rvas not elected chairman of the board, but a delegate at large. The position of chairman of the board rvas not filled and I\{r. W. H. Talbot rvas made honorary chairman."

Yours trulv.-E.

G. GRIGGS, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co.

New Record Made At Port

A nerv record for unloading lumber cargo for Long Beach-Los Angeles Harbor rvas made in the unloading of the steamer Missoula, of the Hammond Lumber Companl' fleet. Under the direction of George C. Cable, superintendent of the port mills and terminals, her entire cargo, a total of 4,2m,m feet of lumber, rvas removed from the vessel in sixty hours.

The new discharge record made by the crew that unload. ed the Missoula establishes an average of 70,0000 feet of lumber an hour, rvhile on the first day a total of 1,800,000 feet or 75,000 feet an hour rvas discharged.

Upon accomplishment of this record unloading feat, the Missoula sailed for the Columbia River where she will ship a capacity cargo of lumber for Japan under charter.

Barr Suffers Fire Loss

Fire of unknown origin, srveeping through the entire plant of the Barr Lumber Company, at Orange, on the 13th of l\{arch, caused a loss of approximately $30,000.

C. E. Merritt Will Attend Texas Convention; Will Exhibit Fine Edgegrain Shingles

C. E. Merritt of Vancouver, B. C., will be in attendance at the 40th Annual Convention of the Lumbermen's Association of Texas at San Antonio, April 13th to 15th, where his company will have an exhibit.

Mr. Merritt is president of the Vancouver-Iowa Shingle Co., Ltd., and secretary of the Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co., Ltd. Both these companies have large mills at Vancouver, B. C.

The Huntting-I{erritt mill is one of the largest and most up-to-date mills in the Pacific Northwest. The plant is electrically driven, each machine and saw being operated by its own motor.

Mr. Merritt is also president of the Shingle Manufacturers' Association of B. C. and takes an active interest in association matters. He is a great booster for high grade strictly EDGE-GRAIN shingles. He believes that if the Red Cedar shingle manufacturers of the Northwest had produced larger qgantities of EDGE-GRAIN shingles and less slash grain and 6/2 Star shingles in the past twenty years, the industry would be in far better shape. He maintains that the worst enemy the Red Cedar shingle industry ever had was the miserable 6/2 E'xtra Star A Star.

In 1924 the Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co. shipped three solid trains of Huntting-Merritt Edge Grain shingles to the Northeastern States. The first train consisted of 50 cars, the secohd 75, and the third 140 cars. It is believed that the last train is the largest shipment of any commodity ever made across the continent by one shipper. Every car was sold before it was loaded. The load was so heavy that the draw bars on the first cars were not strong enough to pull the cars behind, rvhich necessitated dividing the train in three sections.