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Rolph L. Smirh lumber Gompony Completes Monster Stornge Shed

Anderson, Calif.-Workmen have put the finishing touches on a monster shed that will store uD to 5 million board feet at the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Compahy plant here. A. B. Hood, generafmanager of the Anderson operation, said the 144x105x 65-foot shed was already being used to store lumber while paint-

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1355 Morket 3t. SAN FRANGISCO phone: Klondlke 2-2311 ers were applying a white coat to the interior in December. The building cost $189,718 and was started last July by a Redding construction firm.

The building, as previously reported in these columns, was constructed entirely of wood except for steel roof-supporting beams, a concrete foundation and a steel track supporting a giant hoist that rolls from end to end of the shed on a track 50 feet above the floor and shifts decks of lumber to any corner in the shed, stacking it much higher than is possible in other Smith Plants. Mr. Hood said that storage facilities were being taxed in the company's four Northern California mills before the shed was built. It also houses a sorting chain for lumber from the dry kilns.

Obitucrry

Hql M. ATKINSON

Hal M. Atkinson, 72, veteran East Bay millman and owner of the Atkinson Mill & Mfg. Co., Oakland, died January 3 in Ross General hospital after a brief illness. He had been identified with Atkinson Mill & Mfg. for practically his entire working career. Mr. Atkinson was a 43-year member of Oakland Rotary (33 years with IN/o consecutive attendance), of the San Francisco Yacht Club, of the Windjammers, and of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39. lIe was a native of California. He leaves his wife Ruth, a daughter, Mrs. Janet Bowman, and a brother Robert of Piedmont. Funeral services in Oakland, January 6, were well attended by Bay Area lumbermen and millmen.

Jomes W. McIEOD

James Wilson Mcleod, 66, one of the early members of the Philippine Mahogany industry, died January 22 at his home in San Marino, Calif. He was born in 1893 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and served in World War I with the army from I9l7-19. Starting as a young man with the Cadwallader-Gibson Company in 1925, he had spent more than 30 years in the business before his retirement last year from the Mahogany Importing Company, Pasadena. Following 18 years with Cadwallader-Gibson, 1925-1943, in which he rose to treasurer of the company, Mr. Mcleod was affiliated for three years, 1943-46, with Precision Kiln Drying Co., in which he was partner and co-owner. His last activity was 12 years in Mahogany,Importing Company, 1946-7958, and he was president of the firm on his retire-