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Brurlch ffices: ern California Retail Lumber Assn., in which he served 25 vears from 1930-55. Dealer Knight has been a longtime, iamiliar figure at the annual SCRLA conventions-talking with his flllow lumber retailers, soaking up the valuable information at the business sessions, and always one of the first to visit the exhibit booths and remain to ask the salesmen manning them for additional points of information to help him in the successful conduct of a retail lumberyard.

Brown Resigns From NRLDA

The resignation of Robert B' Brown, materials handling director for- the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Washington, D. C., effective January 15, is announced by H. R. Northup-, executive vice-president. Brown has- accepte.d a pPSition as'special representitive for the Materials Handling division of Ylle and Towne Manufacturing Co.

Mr. Brorvn has served as director of the NRLDA's materidls handling activities since July 1956' He org,anized and conducted an indu"stry-wide program in which lumber dealers, manufacturers and wholesileri, together with the railroads, cooperated in the test shipping of uniiized lumber and other building materials. He alsb conducted demonstration programs for the Expositions in 1956, 1957 and 1958, and'for various regional and- state lumber dealer conventions throughout the country'

Curris WlttlAMS

Curtis Williams, 85, retired lumberman, died January 28 at his Los Angeles home. Mr. Williams was born in Oakland, Calif., reared in San Diego, and went to Los Angeles in 1895 and entered the lumber business. lle rose to assistant manager of the old L. \4r. Blinn Lumber Qo. but left there in the very early 1920s before it became the late Patten-Blinn operation. Mr. Williams then entered the wholesale lumber field and is believed to have partnered with the late Wilfrid M. Cooper and others, later dropping out of his own business to serve as secretary for the wholesalers' association in Southern California. He was later engaged in liquidating the Mox Wrecking Company and served the industry well in this capacity. Mr. Williams suffered a stroke about 25 years ago and retired from lumber activities and had been an invalid most of the time since. He leaves his wife, Ellen, of the home at 2237 S. Hobart Blvd.. where he died: a son in Rock Island. Ill.. and a daughter in Los Angeles, and a brother, Ernest S., the well-known retired Pasadena attorney.

John H. TYSON

John Hampton Tyson, president of Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, division of The Chas. Nelson Co., died January 23. Mr. Tyson was only in his early 50s but had been in ill health the past several months with a liver ailment. He became president of The Chas. Nelson Co., lity ZS. 1952, in the election of officers following the death of his older brother, James Tyson, Jr., and had only moved his headquarters to Southern California last Tune. Iohn Tyson was a graduate of the University of California and had been in the lumber and building materials business with the Chas. Nelson Co. his entire career. He leaves his wife. Cornelia. of the home at 1915 Kewamee Drive, Corona del Mar, and two sons, John and James. Funeral services were held in an Oakland mortuary, January 27, and burial was also in his Northern California home city.