\food-Preservers Meet in Minneapolis

Efficient distribution of treated lumber through retail lumber dealers in the Pacific southwest has developed the wood-preserving industry's finest home building market in the nation, the diversified uses committee of the American Wood-Preservers' Association told members at the group's 38th annual convention. This meeting, attended by over 200 executives, technologists and users of preservatively treated lumber, was held in Minneapolis from January 27 to D.

Reporting that retail and wholesale lumber distributors in the area carry complete stocks of treated lumber in standard sizes, in addition to the large stocks maintaincd at the treating plants, so that builders have the material on call, the committee declared in its report that treating costs are reasonable, and the competition among dealers for treated lumber business serves to maintain a fair retail price situation.

"In Southern California treated wood has become a standard material for residential construction," the committee said. "The building code requirement in Los Angeles affords protection to the building owner from losses due to decay and termites. These regulations are accepted and used for new construction outside the code area because of their protective advantages."

Considering problems of war-time production and the probable conditions after the war, Association members laid much stress upon (1) educating the home-owner to the value of good wood construction, (2) use of treated lumber as a substitute for structural steel, and (3) changing the specifications for fireproofed lumber to make a new product, now in growing demand, available for retail distribution.

The Association was urged to formulate action for the revision of fireproofing standards of wood. "At present, fireproofing specifications define product performance:' L. K. Andrews, a member of the technical staff of the Ameri. can Lumber & Treating Company, pointed out.

"If these specifications were changed to govern composition and retention of fireproofing agents, whereby a lor development oI the P<rcilic Soulhwest rncrket lor prersure-kected lurnber. finished product with known characteristics results, as in lvood treated to make it resistant to decay and termites, a market for the use of fireproofed lumber in ordnance plants, aircraft hangars, supply depots, railroad roundhouses, freight houses, bridges, construction scafiolding, mine timbering, garag'es, soap plants, paper mills and other construction where fire hazards arise would be open to wood," Mr. Andrews said.

The availability of salt preservatives and creosote may be affected to some extent during the coming year, Georgtt N4. Hunt, chief of the wood-preservation section of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., predicted.

Petroleum solutions of pentachlorphenol and of tetrachlor,phenol may be available to be used as preserviug agents to help the industry over the war period, if creosote pr<-r<luction should fail to meet needs.

Greensalt, a new salt preservative for poles, reported by cngineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was described in reports by engineers of the organization. Poles treated with the new preservative were recommended for lines in urban areas where cleanliness is a requirement.

W. P. Conyers, Jr., Spartanburg, S. C., was elected president for the coming year.

George Gorman Passes On

George \,V. man, well knorvn Sarr Francisco Bay district lumberman, passed away at his home in Alameda, Calif., oll the morning of January 31, after an illness of about three months.

Pacific Tank & Pipe Company and Pacific Timber Fabricators. He rvas also a director of Port Orford Lumber Gor- Company.

Mr. Gorman took up flying again in 1934 and, flew his own plane many thousands of miles to save time on long business trips. Flying was also his main hobby until r:ecently when regulations grounded all private planes. He rvas president of the Encinal Yacht Club, Alameda.

He was one of the best liked men in the lumber business and will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends.

He was born in Multnomah County, near Portland, Oregon,47 years ago, and moved with his family to Edmonton, Alberta, where his father engaged in the machinery business. His first contact with the lumber business was when he sold machinery to \Mestern Canada sawmills as assistant to his father.

His business career was interrupted by World War I, when in l9l7 he joined the Royal Flying Corps, and after thorough training went to France in the spring of 1918 as a scout pilot with the rank of First Lieutenant. His experience there included much squadron and individual combat work over the enemy's territory. He was finally shot down in combat in August, 1918, and was a prisoner of war in Germany until the Armistice. Following the war he went into the aviation business as an exhibition and commercial flyer in Western Canada for a period of tr,l'o years.

In 1922 he retired from active flying and returned to the United States. He became associated with the Whitney' Lumber Company at Garibaldi, Oregon, and later came to California as this company's Northern California sales representative. When this concern was merged with the Hammond Lumber Company in l92V he joined the Hammond organization as salesman, became assistant sales marlager, and in 1932 succeeded the late Henry Faull as sales manager. at the San Francisco office.

He went into business for himself in 1935 in San F'rancisco and moved his headquarters later to Oakland. He was president of the Gorman Lumber Company, and of Gorman Lumber Sales Company, which operated the

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. N{arion Ide Gorman, and three children, William, John and Virginia; three brothers, John A. and Anthony J. of Alameda, and l\fervyn Gorman of Chicago, Ill.; and three sisters, Miss Nlary Adele Gorman of Alameda, Mrs. Rosemary Gaboury and idrs. Helen Cashman of Edmonton, Canada.

Funeral services were held on Monday, February 2, at St. Joseph's Church, Alameda. The attendance included a large number of lumbermen.

Arthur B. Shelby

Arthur Byron Shelby, 57, vice-president of the Calaveras Cement Company, San Francisco, died suddenly at his home in Piedmont, Calif., on February 1.

A native of Dallas, Texas, Mr. Shelby was already known as one of the West's leading authorities on cement when he came to San Francisco in1927 to take the position which he held at the time of his passing.

He was a member of the Athenian Nile Club of Oakland, the Sequoyah Country Club, Stock Excha.nge Club and Engineers Club of San Francisco, and was active also in Masonic circles

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Josephine Smith Shelby, and three sisters.

Mrs. Annie M. Kelley

Mrs. Annie M. Kelley passed a.way in San Francisco on February 5, at the age of 90.

She was a pioneer resident of San Francisco, having lived there for 60 years.

Mrs. Kelley .was the mother of Albert A. Kelley, sales manager of Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. R. G. Ipswitch, Mrs. Mae Mueller, Mrs. Dorothy Webb and Mrs. Barbara Blas, and another don, James P. Kelley.

Funeral services were held on Monday, February 10, at St. Vincent de Paul's Church. San Francisco.