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President Hoover Made Life Member of HooHoo

Washington, May 23.-President Hoover was yesterday try he stood, by the force of personal example, for those made a life member of Hoo Hoo by fellow Californians of things which you lave urged in behalf of all business. Simithe Tom McCann Club of McCloud. At an informal cere- l_Tly the Tom McCann Hoo Hoo Club of McCloud, and the mony the President accepted graciously and with evident Hoo Hoo clubs elsewhere throughout the land, are standappreciation. As a token or his membership, Mr. Hoover

!1'as presented with a beautiful certificate, handworked on ,,The Hoo Hoo Ciubs are the i.riends of the Forest, and silk and encased in a handsome hand-tooled leather port- they are powerful agencies for promoting fair dealing in folio. the lumber trade, and interest in the perpetuation of-the

The presentation took place in the Executive Offices, lumber and wood using industries. where Mr. Ifoover met with a committee representing the "You have often manifested your interest in the welfare Tom McCann Club, consisting of Senator Tasker L. Oaaie of the lumber industry and your confidence and approval of Nevada, Congressman Harly L. Englebright of Califor- of its purposes and its public policies. You have had, and nia, DwightM. Swobe, traffic manager for the McCloud do now have, the assurance of the confidence in you and River Lumber Company, and Wilson Compton, Secretary este.em for you on the part of those engaged in the lumber and Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Ai- business. sociation. The scene was marked by an informality un-

"You have, too, I know, many happy reminiscences of usual for such occasions, and President Hoover recalled McCloud. I have great satisfacti-on, thiiefore, in company both pleasant reminiscences of fishing at McCloud and with these, your distinguished fellow citizens from Caiifoihappy associations and acquaintanceships among lumber- nia, and with what I know to be the concurrence of Amerimen. can lumbermen everywhere, in presenting to you this em-,

At the request of the Tom McCann Club Mr.Compton 9J.- :J -hoqo_r11-

*"_-b:ll!tip in the Tom McCann Hoo made the prisentation. The membership was awarded in Hoo Club of McCloud, California. I hope you will accept recognition of Mr. Hoover's national sernice to the lumber it as the sincere expression of a grateful industry. indq:try. fn a brief address, expressing the attitude of the "TheTom McCann Hoo Hoo Club says.the fishing is McCloud Club and of lumbermen generally, Mr.Compton good and they hope you will come back." said:

Congressman Engiebright, Senator Oddie and Mr. Swobe, _ "Mr._President, we are here with a commission from the who made a speciaf cross--continent trip to bring the memTorn McCann Hoo Hoo Club of McCloud, California. Tom ber.ship certifiiate from McCloud, concurred in "the presen- McCann was one of the most distinguished of the present tation-as an evidence of good wili on the part of the Presigeneration of American lumbermen. In the lumbei indus- dent's fellow citizens.

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