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C. A. SCHTEEF

C. {.. _"To_1y" Schleef, 47, assistant chief lumber inspec- tor of the 'Western Pine Association, died unexpectedly early April 15 in Oroville, Calif., after but a shorf illnesi. Well_known throughout the Western Pine lumber industry, Mr. Schleef had been an association inspector since 1952 and was named assistant to the chief in 1955. His earlv lumber career included grading with the Swayne Lumber Co., Oroville, where his father was general manager; the Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, and Associated Lumber Products Co., Shingle, Calif. IIe leaves his wife and two sons, all of Oroville, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schleef, Placerville, Calif.

Williom B. IAUGHEAD

Word is received from Susanville, California, of the death around mid-April of William B. Laughead. Services were held in the Lucero chapel in Susanville and the body was taken to Sacramento for cremation. "Old Bill" was associated with the old Red River Lumber Company in Westwood, Calif., and was known and generally acknowledged as the originator of the far-famed "Paul Bunyan" stories.

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Lum.berman Laughead is gone but his Paul Bunyan legends will live forever. Mr. Laughead's death was reported to Ttre California Lumber Merchant by C. C. Stibich during a temporary sales assignment with the Paul Bunyan Lumber Company at Susanville.

In Memoriom

Miller, A. Garrison, 67, vice-president in charge of opera- tions of Monolith Portland Cement Co., died .A.pril i8 at Saint Francis hospital in Lynwood, Calif. He -made his home on his ranch near Tehachapi. He went to Monolith in 1923 as a timekeeper, became superintendent in 1929 and, vice-president in 1951 . Edmund A. Lockett, 74, president of the pioneer construction supply company, E. Lockett & Son, oldest building supply tompany-in-Southern California, died March 31 at his home in Pasadena. where he had been a resident since 1887. He was a past president of the Pasadena Merchants Assn. and holder-of mlny civic and fraternal offices and honors. Funeral services *.i. .o.ducted in Scottish Rite cathedral, Pasadena, April 6 Pete Falabrino, owner of the Mission Flardware Store, San Gabriel, died at his home there, April 1. He was active in the store until his death . . George Witter, 49, head of the Witter Construction Co., died March 30 in his North Hollvwood home after a heart attack. He was formerly senior inspector of the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety and had been superintendent of a Richmond shipyard and assistant construction superintendent of the Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland. FIe was born in the West Indies and educated at Port Arthur, Tex. He had recently organized his own construction firm and was vicepresident of a firm building a road across Venezuela. A prominent pianis.t, Builder Witter was also a member of the faculty of the National Guild of Piano Teachers. His two children, a girl l3 and a boy 12, both pianists, had lost their lives June 19, 1956, when their Venezuela-bound plane crashed into the Atlantic ocean . . . Mrs. J. William Back, 47, wif.e of the prominent Los Angeles wholesale importer of lumber and Oriental plywood, died April 21 in Saint Mary's hospital at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., after a year's illness. Mr. Back was with his wife at the time of her death. Mrs. Back was very active in social and Catholic church work. Funeral services were conducted in Los Angeles.