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Eorl H. Houston

Longview, Wash.-Earl H. Houston, a well known leader in the lumber industry for many years, died in Longview.

Houston retired January 1, 1960 as general sales manager of the Long-Bell Division of International Paper Company after more than 46 years in the lumber business. His entire career was spent with the former Long-Bell Lumber Company and International Paper's Long-Bell Division.

A native of Springfield, Missouri, llouston started in the lumber business in 1913 in the Long-Bell mill at Longville, Louisiana. He began sales training in Long-Bell's sales department in Kansas City, Missouri, two and a half years later and worked out of the branch sales office at Pine Bluff. Arkansas.

In 1918 his service with the company was interrupted by World War I during which he served with the United States Army.

Houston became district sales manager in St. Louis in 1920 and moved to Longview as manager of domestic sales four years later. He was named manager of western sales in 1934 and became general sales manager in 1943.

He was elected to the board of directors of the Long-Bell Lumber Company In 1947 and was elected a vice president in 1948.

With the merger of the Long-Bell Lumber Company into International Paper Company in November, 1956, Houston became general sales manager of IP's Long-Bell Division.

Houston was active in the West Coast Lumbermen's

Association since 1924. He was a director of WCLA and an honorary director for life of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. He served for many years as chairman of NLMA's Committee on Building Codes and Trade Promotion.

R. J. Lqwrence

Funeral services were held in Helena, Montana, on February 15, for Robert J. Lawrence, who died suddenly at his Helena home on February 12. Mr. Lawrence was manager of the Montana Retail Lumbermen's Association.

Mr. Lawrence joined the Montana Retail Lumbermen's Association in May 1957, and, during the past four years had served on several NRLDA committees. Most recently, he served as program manager for one of the business clinics at the 1960 Building Materials Exposition in San Francisco.

Prior to joining MRLA, Mr. Lawrence worked as a sales engineer for a building materials manufacturer. He also worked in real estate and land development, and during the war, served in the Army Air Force.

B. D. "B.tck" Pewthers

B. D. "Buck" Pewthers passed away Monday morning, February 27,1961 at Byron, Texas. He is survived by his widow and two sons. Buck Pewthers was active in the retail lumber business in Oklahoma for 17 years, prior to World War II. Following the close of the war he operated a lumber mill in Oregon in the Tillamook area. He was well known in Southern California having spent more than eight years with E. U. Weelock Inc., and later as Purchasing Agent for Summerbell Truss Co.