OBITUARY

WARD F. HIGGINS, 65, widely known West Coast lumbermani and member of the long-time Higgins lumber family, died in his Alameda. California home on March 24. Until his retirement in 1959 Mr. Higgins was general manager and vice president of the J. E. Higgins Lumber Company in San Francisco.

A native of Alameda and a Stanford University graduate, Mr. Higgins had spent his entire career with the Higgins organization which was founded by his uncte, J. E. Higgins, Sr., in 1883.

Mr. Higgins leaves his wife, Marjorie; two sons, James Ward and John M. Higgins, both active in the lumber firm: a brother. James E. Higgins; and six grandchildren.

EDWARD S. HOUGHTON. 76. since 1920 associated with the wholesale lumber business in the Southern California area, died suddenly on March 23. I{is home was in Eagle Rock, and he had been in semi-retirement the past few years.

Mr. Houghton is survived by two sons, Robert and Donald; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Neeley, Mrs. Mary Shreck and Mrs. Betty Vaughn; a brother, Ralph, and three sisters.

JOSEPH W. MATLICK, 62, wholesale lumber dealer of Los Angeles, died March 25. Mr. Matlick had been in the lumber business for over 40 years. Previous associations w'ere with C. P. Henry and, during the war years, with Whiting-Mead where he served as manager.

He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Joan Sterling, of Manhattan Beach.

Pqcific Builds Repoir Shop

A large shop for the repair of heavy logging equipment is being constructed by the Pacific Lumber Company in Scotia, California. It will replace the woods shop at the Jordan Creek camp. Another woods shop at Yager Creek will be maintained.

Overall floor area of the new shop is 142 by 50 feet. The wallg reach the eaves at 38 feet. It will house a 15-ton capacity Moffett double bridge steel crane. Operations will be 100/o electric. The building is constructed of Douglas fir frame with steel supports and roofing of corrugated galvanized concrete. The exterior will be of T.P.L. Co. plywood. The foundation and slab flooring is of steel and Douglas fir. Eddie Oliver is resident engineer. Ed Carpenter is vice president of operations of Pacific Lumber Companv.

Plqne Crqsh Kills Two Prominent Lumbermen

Virgil Whiting, 44, and his brother, Farr, 54, members ol an Arizona family which owns extensive lumbering operations and a service station chain, were killed in a crash of their private plane ina heavily timbered canyon near lfeber, Arizona.

The Whiting brothers have been owners of the Kaibab Lumber Company, Flagstaff.

liked Convention Coveroge

Mr. Ole May California Lumber Merchant

Dear Ole:

Please accept from me and from the members of our Association our very warmest thanks and appreciation for the superb coverage you gave the IHPA convention at Ojai on February 8-10, in the March issue of the California Lumber Merchant.

I express this appreciation not only for the splendid support and coverage you have given in this issue to the hardwood plywood industrytogether with the thousands of American users of this product-but much more than that, for the equally splendid coverage and reporting your rr'agazine has given to our industry and Association throughout the past 50 months that I have been Managing Secretary of IHPA.

With your subscription coverage extending throughout the entire United States, you have, indeed, made a valuable contribution to our industry.

Again, my warmest appreciation and best wishes for the continuing success of the California Lumber Merchant.GORDON D. INGRAHAM, Managing Secretary, Imported Hardwood Ply- wood Association, Inc., San Francisco.