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22ll Jerrold personal friend of K. E. "Mac" MacBeath, who was later to become his partner. The partnership, known as GordonMacBeath Hardwood Co., was launched on January l,1944, in Berkeley, the partners later adding another warehouse at 8400 Baldwin St. in Oakland. The business was sold to L. J. Carr & Co. of Sacramento on December 7,1954, but Mr. Gordon continued on with the Carr organization, benefiting it with his thorough hardwood knowledge and associations.

A telegram was received April 10, as the last pages of this issue of The Merchant were going to press, that J. Edward Martin, editor and manager of this magazine for most of its 36 years, had passed away April 9 in a hospital at Lake Worth, Florida, where he had wintered since his retirement from The Merchant four years ago after a series of strokes. Word of the popular editor's death was given to the SCRLA convention on its last day of meetings at the Ambassador hotel and saddened his many, many friends in the crowd. A review of Mr. Martin's career will be more fully reported in the next issue.

Mr. Gordon leaves his wife, Josephine, of Berkeley; a brother, George, himself a veteran hardwood lumberman, and two sisters, Mrs. Murray Dickhout of Oliver. B.C.. and llrs. Rufus Steele of Lewiston, Idaho.

Mr. Gordon was a member of Hoo-Hoo International, of the Berkeley Rotary Club, and a charter member of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club 109. Services were held at the Berkeley Hills Chapel, March 31.

Don 9UTHERIN

Don Sutherin, 68, long and popularly known in the Southern California retail lumber industry, was found dead March 21 in his quarters at the recently vacated PattenBlinn Lumber Company offices in downtown Los Angeles. He had bought up the remaining supplies of the now defunct old lineyard company and was engaged in disposing of them piecemeal at the time of his sudden death, which was believed to be a stroke caused by heart failure. When he failed to return to the home of his widowed sister and nephew with whom he had lived since the death of his wife three years ago, Mr. Sutherin's nephew went to the Patten-Blinn yard around midnight and found it lit but, getting no response, contacted the police who made entry and found Mr. Sutherin lying dead in the warehouse. Don Sutherin started his career with the old Montgomery-Mullin Lumber Co. about 1914, later worked with Russell Mullin at a company yard in Cottonwood, Ariz., and joined PattenBlinn in 1919 as assistant auditor, becoming auditor within a few months, a job he held the rest of his life.

Joe P. BOYD

Joseph Palmer Boyd died March 20. He was last active as inspector for the Los Angeles Board of Education on school jobs. In the early l92os, he was with the Vernon Lumber Co. and Teagarden Lumber Co. in retail capacities. He went with Patten-Davies when that firm bought Teagarden and served in the Main and Slauson yard. also at the main office.

In Memoriom

Complete details are not available but word has been received of the death late in March of the grandmother of llomer Hayward of the llomer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas. She was president o{ the lineyard company but inactive in the business Mrs. Noma Newton Withers, 72, daughter of George Newton, a pioneer lumber merchant in Pueblo, Colo., died March 28 in a Los Angeles hospital. She went to Southern California 33 years ago. She leaves three sons: Newton W. Withers, publisher of the Daily Construction Service, with whom she lived at 2315 Lorain Road, San Marino; Grant Withers, the motioh picture actor, and Ernest E. Withers of Garden Grove.

Western Red CedarThis giant cedar reaches its finest development in the rainy forests of British Columbia's southern coast, where it may grow to 200 feet tall and 18 feet in diameter. With its straight, beautiful grain, light weight, working ease and exceptional all-weather durability, Western Red Cedar is highly esteemed by home builders the world over, for both exterior and indoor use. It has a very low shrinkage factor and its cellular structure gives it a very high insulating value. Heightening the interest of this fine wood's attractively figured grain is its wide color variationranging from a delicate straw tone to a dark ruddy brown. Left in its natural state, or stained, bleached, varnished or painted, Western Red Cedar graces every setting with a rich look of warmth and character.

Pqcific Hqrdwood Soles Building Dry Kiln Plont in Ooklqnd

Construction of a $75,000 hardwood and softwood drykiln has been started at Pacific Hardwood Sales, 1817 Embarcadero, Oakland, according to Fred Branch and Mervin Mento, partners in the firm. The kiln is being built on the company's 65,000-square-foot site leased from the Port of Oakland in the Brooklyn Basin industrial area. Upon its completion, the company will provide custom kiln-drying services for importations of Philippine mahogany, and other domestic and imported lumbers.

Branch said the recent designation of the Port of Oakland as a terminal port by both the Trans-Pacific Freight Conference of Japan and the Pacific Westbound Conference is expected to make the local plant competitive.

Upon completion of the kiln, lumber will be received from an ocean carrier, kiln dried at Pacific Hardwood Sales and trans-shipped by rail on through bills of lading.

The new lumber kiln will incorporate the latest methods in turbo-flow kiln drying. The capacity of the kiln when completed will be 150,000 feet per week. The building is being constructed of wood.