OBITUARIES

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Harrison Clark, 70, a pioneer in the plywood industry of the Pacific Northwest and the retired secretary of what is now the American Plywood Association, died April 26 at his home in suburban Tacoma. Wash.

A native of Montana, 1\{r. Clark went to Tacoma nearly @ years ago and took his first job in the plywood industry with the Tacoma Veneer Co. in 1922 after complet- ing high school and studying photography in New York City.

Stafting as a laborer, he worked successively for Wheeler-Osgood, Walton Veneer and Oregon-Washington Plywood Co., finally rising to foreman and then assistant to the sales manager of the latter firm in 1931.

In 1933, he was one of the organizers of the Douglas Fir Plywood Manufacturer's Association and helped open the association's offices.

Mr. Clark retired in 1963 as secretary of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, now known as the American Plywood Association.

At the time of his death, Mr. Clark was secretary of the Plywood Pioneers and was actively engaged in compiling a history of the plywood industry in the Pacific Northwest.

Sun'ivors include his widow, Myrtle; a daughter, Mrs. Joan Loechner, Pittsburgh, Pa., a son, Kent, of Bellevue, Wash., and seven grandchildren.

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Walter Swanson, partner in the Swanson Lumber Co., Noti, Ore., died April 27. He was 66.

Mr. Swanson was born in Deadwood, Ore., in 1901, he lived the major part of his life in Eugene, Ore., where, in 1965, he served as first president of the Lane County Heart Assn.

He belonged to Junction City Lodge No. 128, F. & A.M., a charter member of Applegate Lodge No, 212, the Eugene Scottish Rite, Hillah Shrine Temple and the Applegate Chapter No. 182 of the Order of Eastern Star.

He is survived by his widow, Fern; two step-sons, Ronald and Larry Ingram; a sister, Olga Stevenson, Wenatchee, Wash.; eight step-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.