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Peninsula Hoo Hoo Club Meets At Palo Alto
Dalton McCarthy, traffic representative of the Western Air Express, was the speaker of the evening at the dinner meeting of the Peninsula Hoo Hoo Club and San Jose and Peninsula lumbermen held at the Gumwood Inn, Palo Alto, Monday October 28.
Mr. McCarthy gave a very interesting talk on "Commercial Aviation," illustrated by motion pictures.
President Bert Bryan of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, and Rod Hendrickson, also ,of the East Bay Club gave brief talks.
D. C. Essley, Field Manager of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and M. D. Bishop, secretarymanager of the Coast Counties' Lumbermen's Association also spoke briefly.
Pr'esident Fred F. Boes, Hubbard & Carmichael Bros., San Jose, presided, and arrangements for the meeting were in the capable hands of secretary-treasurer Paul Overend.
Ford Purchases Oldtime Lumber Camp
_ The entire equipment of an old-time lumber camp in Otsego county, such as flourished in Michigan during the s.eventies, has been purchased by Henry Ford for his Early American Museum at Dearborn. The equipment includes bunks, blankets, ox yokes, big wheels, chains, spike skids, draws, sleighs, saws, axes, markers, grun books, loader crotch, comealongs, skidding tongs and other pieces of equipment whose usefulness has long since passed away.
Joins KTAB ,/
Miss Mae Thompson, switchboard operator of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently resigned her position to become a member of the staff of radio station K T A B, San Francisco. Miss Thompson, who is a soprano singer, had been doing part time work for some time past for this station and also for station K F R C.
Coast Counties Hoo Hoo Club To Be Organized
Paul E. Overend, recently reappointed Vicegerent Snark of the Monterey District, which includes all the coast counties from San Francisco County to Ventura County, announces that a Coast Counties Hoo Hoo Club is in process of organization, and that an announcement regarding the formation of the nerv club may be looked for in the near future,