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Donald A. Campbell, retired executive vice president of the Kentucky Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, died in Lebanon, Ky., on Oct.27.1985. He was 84.

From 1928 to 1955, he owned the Boner-Campbell Lumber Co. in Lebanon. In 1936 he served as president of the Kentucky Retail Lumber Dealers Association and was executive vice president at his death. He was also a director and from 1937 to 1938 president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. Mr. Campbell was chairman of the Board of Review of the American Lumber Standards Committee in Washington, D.C., from 1950 to 1956. He was vice president of Marion National Bank in Lebanon for 20 years and mayor of the city from 1946to 1954.

Mr. Campbell is survived by a daughter, two sisters and three grandchildren.

Treated Wood Buye/s Info

The retailer is the key to the success of the voluntary Consumer Awareness Program for treated wood being instituted as part of the wood preservative settlement agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Each person buying pressure treated wood must be given a Consumer Information Sheet (CIS) advising him to wash his hands after working with treated wood, wear a dust mask when sawing or machining such wood, wear goggles to protect eyes from flying particles when power sawing and to dispose of treated wood scraps by burial or normal trash collection rather than burning.

Treaters must attach a CIS to each bundle or batch of pressure treated

Lumber Dealer Failure Rate

Lumber retailers fail at the rate of .8890, according to the Small Business Administration which based its study on Dunn and Bradstreet data.

The national average for all industries is 72 failures per 10,000 businesses. Lumber wholesalers have a slightly higher average of 83 failures per 10,000.

Don Dixon, office manager of American Timber Products, Dallas, Tx., died after a heart attack in Shreveport, Ia., on Oct. 4, 1985. He was 56.

He was with the company 22 yeans of his 3Gyear career in the industry. A Hoo-Hoo member, he resided in Dallas.

Mr. Dixon is survived by his widow, Elonia, and five children.

William J. McFeeley, owner of McFeely's Hardwoods and Lumber, Lynchburg, Va., died Oct. 16 after injuries received in a forklift accident. He was 34.

A forest biometry graduate from Colorado State, he started his own business six years ago after leaving Hickson/McFeeley Lumber of Lynchburg.

Mr. McFeeley is survived by his widow, May Carter, two children and his parents.

Abraham Meltzer, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Triangle Pacific Corp., Dallas, Tx., died on Sept. 16, 1985, after a long illness. He was 68.

After starting the company in 1943, he built it into one of the nation's largest manufacturers of building materials and kitchen cabinets. It now has manufacturing plants in California, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Texas.

Mr. Meltzer is survived by his widow, Florence, and four children.

wood leaving the plant plus attaching a CIS to each pressure treated wood sales invoice and provide adequate quantities of information sheets and signs or placards to wholesalers, retailers and other distributors.

In addition to distributing the CIS to each purchaser of treated wood, a distributor (wholesaler or retailer) must display the sheets at the sales counters and post signs in the sales area.

The program, which will go into effect immediately, will be evaluated in June. Pressure treated wood associations are urgtng dl those who produce, sell or promote treated wood products to make every effort to ensure the success of the program.

Producers of manufactured wood products such as plywood and particleboard have excellent records being among the l0 types of businesses least likely to fail. Sawmills are among those most likely to fail with only coal mining and miscellaneous small retailers being higher risks.