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John Rockwell Furman, 82, retired founder and chairman, Furman Lumber Co., died May 10.

A graduate of Cornell University, he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy during WWII and commanded the destroyer U.S.S. Register, which rescued survivors from shark-infested waters after the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis.

He founded Furman Lumber, Billerica, Ma., in 1956 and oversaw its growth into a firm of 12 regional distribution centers in the East, South and Midwest. The firm was acquired by Boise Cascade in Sept. 1999, at which point he retired.

Laurie Calvin Battle. 87. retired board member, American Lumber Standard Committee, Inc., died May 2.

A native of Wilsonville. Al.. he earned a Masters degree from Ohio State University and an honorary doctorate degree from Birmingham Southern College. He served four years in the Air Force during WWII, retiring as a full colonel, having received the Bronze Star and several battle stars for service in New Guinea, the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan.

An eight-year U.S. Congressional representative from the Birmingham, Al.. district. and author of The Battle Act. he served on several committees

Woods From King Neptune

Little River Hardwoods and Jim McNutt Hardwoods, Knoxville, Tn., producers of rare hardwood lumber and flooring since 1970, are now making flooring, paneling, furniture and lumber salvage from shipwreck woods and river logs.

In 1969, McNutt helped salvage five large rosewood logs from the San Jose, a Spanish plate fleet galleon that had sunk in a 1733 hurricane off Tavernier, Florida Keys.

Among the woods that McNutt and his crew have found are 850-year-old Portuguese white oak, Honduras mahogany on English brigantines, heart pines and cypress on Civil War-era wrecks and dye wood.

Historic shipwrecks are archeologically surveyed and salvaged, and the and was chairman of the Economic Affairs Subcommittee. He was an ALSC Board of Review member from 197 1 until his retirement in 1994. woods specially treated, preserved, dried, and then made into unique wood products.

McNutt, the author of Quest For Shipwrecl*, a non-fiction book about maritime salvage, said that all shipwreck woods and river logs come with a notarized certificate of assurance containing information about each piece.

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