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Lloyd Moore

Lloyd Moore, 50, owner of the Moore Mill & Lumber Co. at Lompoc, Calif., was killed in the crash of an airplane in Mexico. Februarv 22. The retail lumber dealer u'as one of three Californians who lost their lives when the plane crashed as it was coming in for a landing. the others being a LomDoc attorney and an oil comoanv field foremarr. The coronei said the irlane, of t'hich Deaier Moore was a coowner and the pilot, crashed and exploded near an airstrip at San Felipe, fishing port on the Gulf of Califonria in Baja California. The boclies were taken to a X,[exicali mortuary. Mr. Moore leaves his wife. Laila X{.. a co-owner with him of the retail lumberyard.

In Memoriqm

Edwin C. Porter, 84, one of the co-founders of Rounds & Porter Lumber Co., Wichita, Kansas, died January 2l at his home there after several years' retirement. NIr. Porter participated in the opening of the Cherokee Strip in Oklal-roma and entered tl-re lumber business in the last centurv. establishing his own business later and, in 1901. organizing Rounds & Porter .ivith Ward Rounds, a younger brother of D. C. Rounds. A wholesale sash-and-door divisiorl was later started and the firm at one time operated branch warehouses ancl as many as 44 retail vards Roderick Arbuckle Smith, 62, executive offrcial of tt-r" P. J. Walker Co. and a veteran of 35 years in the building coirstmction business, died February 22 in Oakland. Frrneral services were in Los Angeles, u'here the builcler livecl. He was a past president and national director of the Associatecl General Contractors of America i\{rs. Irma Frances Smith. 51, daughter of C. S. Simpson, former I-os Angeles lumbermarr, died February 22 at her home in Torrance.