OBOTUAROES

JAMES R. PYNES

James R. Pynes, 57, died December 3l in Portland, ending a career spanning 35 years in the western lumber industry. He was chief quality supervisor for Western Wood Products Assn. since 1964 after holding a similar position with the Western Pine Assn., a predecessor of WWPA.

Born in Peason, La., Pynes spent his early years in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado before moving to Oregon in 1934. He joined the Edward Hines Lumber Co. in Burns in 1936. He earned a lumber grading certificate, awarded for exceptional proficiency, in 1940. After Army Air Corps service in WWII, he rejoined Hines. He was hired in 1948 by WPA and stationed in Klamath Falls, Or. for 12 years. He was named chief inspector in 1961.

He headed a WWPA staff of 35 men responsible for supervising the grading of nearly two thirds of Western softwood lumber production.

He leaves his widow. Edna: two daughters; three brothers; one sister; and four grandchildren.

HAROLD O. SCHADT

Harold O. Schadt, 49, international markets manager for the American Plywood Assn., Tacoma, Wa. died December 26,1975.

Schadt was a forestry graduate of Iowa State University. He joined APA as a field representative in Chicago in

1956, promoting structural applications.

He transferred to the International Department in 1964 as its first international representative in Cologne, Germany. He was made international markets manager in 1966, headquartered in Tacoma.

Survivors include his widow, Betty; four children; a brother; and his stepmother.

EDWIN O'KELLEY

O. Edwin O'Kelley, 51, v.p. and sales manager for Wisconsin{alifor- nia Forest Products, Redding, Ca. died January '7 , l9'76 of a heart attack.

Mr. O'Kelley was past president of both the Sacramento and the ShastaCascade Hoo-Hoo clubs, a member of the Redding Elks Lodge and Riverview Golf & Country Club and a U.S. Army veteran. He was chosen Lumberman of the Year during Forest Products Week in l9'14.

Survivors are his widow, Eleanor; two sons and two daughters.

F. P. BAUGH

F. P. "Paul" Baugh, president of F. P. Baugh , Inc., died in Duarte, Ca., January 10 of a heart attack. He was 87.

Born in 1890 in Bedford. In.. Mr. Baugh worked for L. W. Blinn Co. and E. V. Wheelock, Inc. He was the president of the W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber Co. (the retail branch of that firm is now a part of National Building Centers). He was also a Mason and was a 55 year member of the Sierra Madre Lodge, F&AM.

Survivors are his widow, Dorothy; one brother, two sons, six grandchildren and four great grandchildren.