OtsITUARIES

Wendell B. Barnes, retired executive vice president of the Western Wood Products Association. died June ll, 1985, of a heart attack in Walnut Grove, Ca. He was 75.

Prior to moving to the Portland, Or., area in 1964 to join WWPA, as its first executive vice president, he was prominent in midwestern Republican circles and was named general counsel of the Small Business Administration by President Eisenhower in 1952. A native of Oklahoma. he was an attorney.

Loren F. Dorman, who had been chief executive of three national building materials trade organizations, died of cancer in Washington, D.C., May 25, 1985. He was 69.

After working with several companies including l0 years with Weyerhaeuser Co. in public information and advertising, he became advertising director of the national wood promotion program sponsored by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in 1958. He later served as executive director of Wood Marketing, Inc., executive vice president of the National Lumber and Buildine Materials Dealers Association and president of the American Wood Preservers Institute.

When Mr. Dorman retired from the later position in 1980, he helped form Quantum Communications, Inc., in Arlington, Va., serving as vice president and treasurer until his retirement in 1983.

He is survived by his widow, Virginia, a son and two sisters.

Peter Johnson Jr.,61, general manager and secretary-treasurer

Valley, Ca., died June 9, l985,of a heart attack.

Mr. Johnson had headed the Redwood Inspection Service, the grading and quality control agency of the redwood industry, since 1976. He was a wood technologist and had also served for many years as technical manager of the California Redwood Association.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Mr. Johnson served during World War II as a carrierbased pilot in the United States Navy.

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He was active in many redwood and timber industry organizations, had been chairman of National Forest Products Association Technical Advisory Committee and was the redwood representative to the American Lumber Standards Committee. For many years he was treasurer of the Forest Products Research Society and was also a member of the Cooling Tower Institute.

Mr. Johnson is survived by his widow, Vivian, four children and two grandchildren.