OBITIUARIES

Howard Shirvan, 89, chairrran and co-founder of Consolidated pine. Prineville, Or., died Sept. 24, 1992,in FortIre, N.J.

Mr. Shirvan began his career as a builder before founding distribution yard Consolidated Lumber, Brooklyn. N.Y. (now Clifron, N.J.), with Sidriev Kulick in rhe lare 1940s. In 1952, thev started Consolidated Pine as a source of supply for their yard bv acquiring offices in Prineville anO a moirtdinE plant in Bend, Or. The plant wai moved to flineville in 1961.

In 1984, he and Kulick bousht Yountain Valley Moulding C-o., Dorris, Ca., selling it four years-later. '

Edward V. Davis, 64, fomrer supervisor of tle Pacific Lumber Insoec_ tion Bureau, Bellevue, Wa., died Sent. 18,1992, in Coos Bav. Or.

Mr. Davis served as pLIB supervisor for nearly 20 years, first in Southern California then for l0 years in Coos B,ay, before retiring in iggO due to medical rqnons. prev-iouslv. he had spent two years at Roseboro iumberp-o., Sp_ringfield, Or., and 15 years at West Coast Lumber Inspeition Bureau.

_ Chuck Rose, 60, former trader at North Pacific Lumber Co., portland, 9., {gd of an aneurysm of tne neaii Sept. 27, 1992, inMisl Or.

Born in Rawlins, Wy., he ioined No4! _Pacific's industrial depaitnent i1 .t9f9,-lgriring afrer sufi'ering a stroke in 1987.

Still More Mill Ctosures

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Forestry is proposing further restrictions on private forests in California that will eventually result in ttre complete closure of our mill," said v.p. Andrew Miller. "We will then have been forced totally out of business in California."

Restrictions forced the closure of Miller's Crescent City stud mill in May and veneer plant last year.

Medford Corp., Medford, Or., will

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begin permanently closing its 3l-yearold plywood division Dec. 18, with production fully ceased by the end of January. Affected are the large plywood plant, powerhouse, log yard, machine shop and about 320 employees. In the spring, equipment will be auctioned off and buildings torn down.

"There have been no Forest Service sales in southern Oregon in two years," explained v.p. Hank Snow. Roseburg Forest Products shut down one head rig at its Dillard, Or., lumber mill, reducing production by 20Vo andeliminating 90 jobs.