Hoo Hoo Club No.9 Observes "American Forest Week"

"American Forest Week" was observed by Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 at the regular club luncheon held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisto, on Thursday, April 22. C. L. Hill, Chief, Office of Forest Products, United States Forest Service, was the speaker of the day, his subject being "Ame.rican Forest Week and the Problems We Don't Know Yet."

N{r. Hill's address was very interesting ancl instructive, and among the many things mentioned ir-r histalk were, the purpoJes of "Americari Forest Week", the timber resources of country, the effect that the continued increase of population in the country will have on lumber consumption, 1nd the necessity of a more intensive research work by the lumber industry.

S. R. Bla'ck, California Forest Protective Association, was the chair,man of the day.

A. B. Wastell, or,r'ing to the absence of President John C. McCabe and Vice President Harry White, presided over the business session. Garnet Fraser, Picnic Committee, announced thatthe annual Hoo-Hoo Picnic would be held this year at Kendall Dell on Sunday, August- 22.^'l.h-omas Cotter, Eureka, formerly general manager of the California & Oregon Lumber Co.'at Brookings, Oregon, said that he had forgotten all about lumber and sawdust during the-past two months and had just returned from a trip to New York City. He gave a short talk on conditions in the eastern part' of ihe couitry. Mr. Cotter is a former Vicegerent Snark in the Sacramento District.

W. C. Connor, formerly of Hottston, Texas, but now-locatecl in San Francisco ai Pacific Coast Agent for the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Co., was introduced to thd members. Mr. Connor is an active member of Hoo-Hoo, and at one time was on the Houston Nine.

John Stroud was appointed to act as Chairman of the Day at the 'meeting on May 14.

ROY E. HILLS ON EA'STERN TRIP

Roy E. Hills, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, is in the eist on a business trip. While in the east he will visit the large lumber consuming centers and cont_empllt-9!- 9!ing as lar as New YorkCity and Boston. Mrs. Hills is accompanying him on the triP.

FR,ANK TRO\i\/ER BACK AT HIS DESK AGA'IN

Frank Trower, who was confined to his home with illness for about two weeks. has returned to his desk and reports that he is feeling fine again. Frank is an active Hoo-Hoo worker and was-missecfat the Oakland Concatenation by the Bay District members. He says it is the first-Pay District Concat that he has missed for a long time. I{is many friends are glad to see him back on the job again.

E. R. LONGLEY KILLED IN AUTOMOBIIJ ACCIDENT

E. R. Longley, well known Peninsula lumberman and general manalei of the Southern l-umber C9. of San Jose, i.vas killed onlhe evening of April 14 when his automobile left the highway and plunged over a forty-foot ernbankment in the San"ta Cruz mountains, as he was driving to his home in Boulder Creek. He was fottnd the next morning pinned under his automobile. death resulting from a fractured skull and a crushed chest.' NIr. Longley was 57 years of age and is snrvived by his widow.

OREGON PINE T'REE 420 YEARS OLD

BEND, Ore., April 20.-In connection with the observance of American- forest week a cross section oI a huge pine tree, 42O years old, is being displayed here. This tree fushed its way through the soil of the Deschutes watershed 14 years aftei Columbus discovered America.

The big pine rvas 27O years old when America declared its inclepenclence, and *ai 37 inches in diameter when Oregon became a state.

SPENCER LUMBER CO. BOOST.FOR \MALNUT CREEK

The Spencer Lumber Co. of Walnut Creek have sent out ar.r attraitive letter to their fellow townsmen and friends in the lumber trade, asking them to drop into their office ancl get a "Booster Plate". The plates are very attrac,tlvely made up, having a yellow and red background rvith Walnut Creek printed icross the plate in large black letters. The plates ian be attached to the automobile licelse plate. H. F. Sp.nc.tisthe owner of the Spencer Lumber Co' and is aisisted in the management of the br.rsiness byhis son, Ray Spencer.