Obituaries

Charles E. Thomas Jr., president of the American Wood Preservers Bureau, Springfield, Va., died July 9, 1989, in Newark, De. He was 67.

He joined the AWPB in 1979 after many years with Koppers Co. and Wood Treating Chemicals.

Mr. Thomas is survived by his widow, Jean, a son, a daughter and a brother.

was murdered June 30, 1989.

Mr. Moore was killed while shopping in a local market, lle and the owner were found shot in the head with their hands cuffed behind their backs, according to his son.

A native of Hazard, Ky., Mr. Moore moved to Leslie County, Ky., in 1946 and opened up a small sawmill, which grew into Moore Lumber Co. He later opened a second store in Smilax, Ky. He was a former member of the Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association board of directors.

Mr. Moore is survived by his widow. Cloma, two sons, one daughter, two brothers, two sisters, | 3 grandchildren, and five greatgrandchildren.

name of black magic, attacked the tree with deadly poisonous herbicide. Arresled and charged with criminal mischief, he could spend up to 20 years in prison and be fined $10,000.

Letters

Pray For The Oak

The fi ve-hundred-year-old famous Texas Treaty Oak, which has witnessed every war and battle that this country has fought in, is now itself in the biggest battle of allthe battle for life.

Only a wastrel creature, lower than the pitiful ones civilized people have learned to endure. would strike such an irreplaceable national treasure as the Treaty Oak.

But it unlortunately has happened. A single misguided man, apparently in the

Personals

(Continuetl Jrom page 27)

Kevin O'Neill has been transferred to Universal Forest Products' Auburndale, Fl., lacilities as gen. mgr./operations. Claude Parent is now in N.C. as head of Universal Eastern Co.'s purchasing dept.

Billy Alderman and Lance Hopper are new to sales at Steel City Lumber Co., Birmingham, Al.

Alan Koerner has been promoted to v.p.-general merchandise mgr. for Moore's, Roanoke, Va. Robert Strong is now v.p.-operations.

Raymond C. Holoman is now v.p. of the contractors div. of McCoy Lumber Co., Greensboro, N.C. according to pres. E. C. "Bucky" Mdoy.

Rick Hagel, Burns, Morris & Stewart, Inc., Nacogdoches, Tx., is back from vacation.

That won't help the Oak though. Before there was a Texas, before a United States, when native Americans reigned, before the white man made his first march of subjugation, the Treaty Oak was thriving and growing. Only a few living things precede even ancestral memories. Even its name makes it almost sacred and for sure mysterious.

We can only hope and pray that our Nation's best scientists and foresters can work their magic 1o save the oak.

Bob John Executive Vice President

Mid-America Lumbermens Association 800 Westport Rd. Kansas City, Mo. 641| I

Lynn Martineau has been transferred to Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., as v.p. of store operations, overseeing, Al., Ga.. La., S.C., Tn. and Tx. Elizabeth M. Pease is filling the new position of director of communications at the National Hardwood Lumber Association, Memphis, Tn.

Laurence Bryan has been appointed comgr. of 84 Lumber, lrondale, Al. New mgrs.: Ernest Vaughn, Marrero, La., and Tommy Chalker, Warner Robins, Ga.

James Hardy is a new distributor advisor for RedMax, Norcross, Ga.

Amplification

Over 1000 people attended the recent Curt Bean appreciation cookout at Amity, Ar., not 100 as a typographical error had it in our July issue, p. 29.

WooOodrq Vs Tfnbor Cutthg

A l"orest Service decision to prohibit timber harvesting within 314 mile of red-cockaded woodpecker colonies is being challenged by the forest products industry in a formal Notice of Appeal.

Timber sales from national forests in Louisiana, F'lorida, Cieorgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and North Carolina are affected by the decision.

"The Forest Service seems committed to this course of action out of sheer bureaucratic momentum and a desire to appease groups opposed to clear cutting," said Mark Rey, vice president of the American Forest Resource Alliance. a coalition of forest products producers and users. "lronically, there is nothing in the Forest Service record that shows the necessity for this decision."