Obituaries

Edwcrrd L. OMcrlley

Edward L. O'Malley, 74, vice president and former general manager of the O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix, Arizona, passed away on December 2O from a heart ailment. He had been hospitalized for about two months prior to his death.

Born in Louisiana, Missouri, Mr. O'Malley came to Phoenix in 1908, when he and his brother, John O'Malley, organized the lumber company. Mr. O'Malley also served as president of the Southwestern Sash & Door Co. of Phoenix,

He was a life member of the Arizona Club, and a member of the Phoenix Country Club.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mary O'Malley; a son, E. V. O'Malley, secretary and general manager of the O'Malley Lumber Co.; two daughters, Mrs. H. W. Powers of Tucson, and Mrs. William A. Evans of Phoenix; a brother, John G. O'Malley, president of the O'Malley Lumber Co.; two sisters, Miss Margaret and Miss Nora O'Malley, both of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, December 23, in St. Mary's Church, Phoenix.

Roy A. Seemqnn

Roy A. Seemann, head of the Seemann Lumber Company, passed away in a hospital in Whittier on January 2. He was 54 years of age.

Mr. Seemann was a native of Minnesota, where he was connected with the retail lumber business before coming to California. He operated retail lumber yards at Encinitas and Whittier. He was a member of the Masonic Order, Elks Club, American Legion, Al Malaikah Shrine band, and was vice president of the Whittier Shrine Club.

Surviving are his rvidow, Mrs. Emma Seemann, and a son, John Seemann, who rvas associated with his father in the business.

Funeral services n'ere held on lanuary 6 at Whittier.

Wcrrren G. Tilton

Warren G. Tilton, forest engineer'in charge of conservation work for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, passed away suddenly on December 23, at his home on Mercer Island, Seattle, Wash. He was 47 years of age. He served in the Pacific area during the late war, returning to civilian status with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Funeral services were held December 27 in Seattle.

Herbert L. Lcrndis

Herbert L. Landis, vice president of Hill & Morton, Inc., wholesale lumber dealers, Oakland, Calif., passed away in Oakland December 30, 1947.

Mr. Landis was a member of the firm of Landis & Cottle, accountants, San Francisco. He was also a lawyer. He started his career in the lumber business, and was for some years with the Sunset Lumber Company, Oakland, and also the C. & O. Lumber Company in Oregon.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna C. Landis; a daughter, Mrs. Avis Margaret Lavoy, a son, George L. Landis; two brothers, Guy T. and Mitch Landis, and a sister, Mrs. Wilse Hall. He was born in Tennessee 63 years ago.

He was a member of the Masonic Order, the Fraternity Club of San Francisco. and the Executives Association of San Francisco.

Berncrrd L. Johnson

Bernard L. Johnson, 63, 'Western editor ol American Builder died suddenly at Seattle, Wash. on Dec.22.

Born and reared on a farm near Ypsilanti, Mich., Mr. Johnson attended public schools and enrolled at Kalamazoo College where he studied for several years before entering the University of Chicago. He obtained a degree in Liberal Arts in l9O7 and after a year as an architectural draftsman became associated. with the American Builder. In a short time, he became editor, a position which he held for 34 years. In 1942 he resigned as editor to establish his home in Seattle, Wash.

He was a well known figure in the building industry, and wrote and edited numerous books on home design, home building, and construction. He was a member of the Hoover Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership; president of the Chicago Association of Business Paper Editors, and winner of the Associated Business Papers prize for the best editorial written in 1931.

Mr Johnson is survived by his widow, Ruth Wheaton Johnson, Seattle; a daughter, Mrs. Melinda Gutt, Redlands, Calif., and two sons, Dr. Maxwell A. Johnson of LaCrosse, Wis., and Dexter W. Johnson, managing editor, Western Building, Portland, Ore.

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Timber Engineering Company Will Increase Laboratory Space and Add New Equipment

To meet the increasing demand for research in wood product development and wood chemistry, the Timber Engineering Company early in 1948 will''double its present laboratory space and add new equipment.

In an annual report just submitted to the company's directors, Harry G. Uhl, president, outlined d wide range of research work that has bedh carried on.the past year for the particular benefit'of small companies embracing nearly all fields of the wood working industries. The company's facilities were also used by lumber and other trade associations.

Eight hardwood manufacturing and consuming associations, in a cooperative enterprise that is now in its fourth year, had work. done on hardwood pulping, cigarette burnproof furniture tops, hardened desk legs, quick setting adhesives and, treatment of green lumber at the mills.

Other projects included chemical seasoning, kiln drying, laminating hardwood products such as bowling pins, croquet balls, golf club heads and rollers, coloring sapwood and testing wood preservatives.

In the engineering field the Timber Engineering Company acquainted architects and engineers with an improved type of timber connector truss that saves up to 5O/o ot material and labor for roof trusses of 50 foot span. Timber trusses designed to this new system were found to be 25/o cheaper than steel.

In the housing field the Teco trussed rafter that reduces labor costs and eliminates interior bearing partitions was used throughout the country for hundreds of housing units, including multiple dr.vellings and garden type apartments. Some 18,500 units are in prospect for 1948.

To provide more sturdy wooden farm buildings the company introduced during the year a new type of framing anchor that eliminates toe nailing, notching and provides excellent wind anchorage. These new devices will be exhibited at retail lumber conventions this winter.

As a part of the company's educations program it supplied in the.fall 450 professors o{ architecture and engineering with a course in timber engineering. For student use professors were also supplied quantities of technical literature Tor class instruction.

The following were elected directors of the company at the annual meeting held in Chicago November 17. J. R. Bemis-Prescott, Arkansas; C. Arthur Bruce-Memphis, Tenn.; Leonard Carpenter-Minneapolis, Minn.; Dr. Wilson Compton-Pullman, Wash.; R. A. Colgan, Jr.-Washington, D. C. ; George W. Dulany, Jr.-La Jolla, Calif. ; M. L. Fleishel-Shamrock, Fla.; A. J. Glassow-Bend, Oregon; Earl Houston-Kansas City, Mo.; Charles W. Ingham-Eugene, Oregon; Otis Johnson-San Francisco, Calif.; R. G. Kimbell-Washington, D. C.; Earl McGowin -Chapman, Ala.; John M. Musser-St. Paul, Minn.; W. B. Nettleton-Seattle, Wash.; Corydon Wagner-Tacoma' Wash.; Harry G. Uhl-Washington, D. C.; J. W. Wat4ek, Jr.-Chicago, Ill.; Dawson Winn-Laurel, Miss.; R. C. Winton-Minneapolis, Minn.

"Ou, Abundant Forests"--A New Booklet

Washington, D. C., !an. 7*America is entering a new phase of forest economy where we are growing nearly as many trees as are removed each year by cutting, fire and natural loss, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association reports.

The Association points out that when the colonists landed 300 years ago, the forests were like a storehouse and produced little new material annually. Today, it says, modern lumbering practices have turned the forest storehouse into a forest factory, producing new materials each year and growing trees to replace those cut.

The booklet reports a steady improvement in forest management and lumbering methods. Our forest resource situation has improved tremendously and we are close to the point where the United States will be growing more trees each year than are removed.

Causing this improvement, the Association says, are such things as better management methods on private lands; employment of professional foresters by private industry; better fire protection, and campaigns sponsored by the lumber industry to grow more trees.

We produced 32 billion feet of lumber in 1946, plus other forest products such as posts, firervood and pulpwood, and still have abundant forests, the booklet says.

More land is being used for gror.ving trees than ever before, it points out, and more trees are being grown each year. Whereas in 1925-29 the Forest Service estimated annual growth at 8,912 million cubic feet, in 1944 it put the figure at 13,370 million cubic feet, an increase of more than 50 per cent. At the same time, annual loss of trees was diminishing.

"With the increasing interest in growing more trees in America we soon will be growing more forests yearly than we use," the booklet concludes.

Additional copies of "Our Abundant Forests" may be had in reasonable numbers without charge. Simply r,vrite the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1319 18th Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

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Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., San Francisco, moved their offices last month to the 6th floor, 1 Montgomery Street, where they are now occupying practically ihe entire floor.