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Louis S. Ward, Jr., 36, popular youtlg Sacramento lumber executive, died of cancer, May 24, following a long illness. Better known as "Lou" to his many friends and business associates, he had remained on the jbb as general man-

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New contract negotiations between 270 retail lumberyards in Los Angeles county and 3,500 employes in five union groups resumed June 5 in the Mayfair hotel on behalf of Lumber & Sawmill Workers Locals 1407 and 2288, Teamsters Locals 692 and 420, and Operating Engineers Local 501. Union demands this time reportedly include a Z5c-hourly wage boost, a 35-hour work week, two more holidays and increased health, welfare and vacation benefits. Henry W. Becker, former NLRB district director in Southern California, is representing the employers. He was formally introduced at a recent luncheon of SCRLA members and made a favorable impression on everyone.

ager of Bercut-Richards Lumber Co. despite his losing battle with the disease. He had just become 36 years old on April 3.

Young Ward was a member of the first 4-year graduating class at Sacramento State. He volunteered and was accepted as an Army Air Corps cadet in 1943, was commissioned a second lieutenant in early 1944 and transferred to Douglas, Ariz., for finishing course in multi-engined B17s. At end of WWII, he re-entered Sacramento State. lle was married that same year and started fulltime work with Bercut-Richards, becoming an outside salesman the next year. His career with the old lumber firm was interrupted at outbreak of the Korean War and he was recalled and sent to Germany as a procurement officer. After his second hitch with the Air Corps, he resumed his lumber career in 1952.

Mr. Ward leaves his wife, Delma, and young son, Jim, of Sacramento, where funeral services were conducted May 26.

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Harold A. Smith, 51, Pasadena contractor and homebuilder for more than 30 years, died June 3 in Joshua Tree, Calif. Mrs. Eva Ratkowski died May 30. She was the wife of Giles E. Ratkowski, Alhambra, Calif., planning commissioner and president of Moulding Supply Co. there. She leaves three daughterd in the immediate family. Funeral services were held Tune 4.

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Eureka, Calif.-More than 130 lumber seasoning experts from seven western states, and their wives, met in Eureka May 7-8 for the llth annual meeting of the Western Dry Kilns clubs. Host for the meeting was the Redwood Seasoning Committee. Three technical sessions and a boat trip across Humboldt Bay to tour Georgia--Pacific Corporation's new dry kiln installation at its Samoa plant lvere the principal items on the convention agenda. -Activities for the ladies included a bus tour through large redwood groves on Friday, May 8, followed by a luncheon and a visit to The Pacific Lumber Company operation at Scotia.

In charge of arrangements for the dry kiln meeting were Bob Newman of The Pacific Lumber Company, who is chairman of the host Redwood Seasoning Committee, and William Brubaker of the California Redwood Association, who was program chairman for the conference.

The convention ended Friday evening with a banquet attended by delegates and their wives. Speaker was T. P. Jenkins, manag'er of the Humboldt Division of Pacific Gas & Electric Company, who described construction of a 50,000-kilowatt nuclear power plant on Humboldt Bay, expected to be the first economically competitive nuclear power plant in the U.S. when completed in 1962.

A no-host banquet was held Thursday evening, at which Fred Landenberger, forester for the California Redwood Association, told of "The Fascinating Redwood Forests," illustrating his talk with color slides.

A technical session on the opening day of the meeting was devoted to reports by representatives of the individual clubs. Technical papers on a variety of subjects which highlighted the final day of the meeting were presented by guist speakers and club members.

Federal Housing Administration spokesman Arnold Runo, San Francisco, discussed the new Minimum ProDerty Standard of the FHA, stressing the MPS relative to the moisture content of wood used in home construction. Other speakers included Eric L. Ellwood and Robert Erickson of the California Forest Products Laboratory. Edwin Knight, research engineer for the Western Pine'Associat_ion; Donald J. Miller, wood technologist for the State of Oregon's Forest Products Research eenter, and William Van Fleet, Eureka, Calif., architect.

Delegates to the dry kiln's clubs' meeting were invited to hold next year's conference in the Pacific Northwest as guests of the Washington-Idaho-Montana Dry Kiln Club. The invitation came in the form of a wire from Estel Sundell of the St. Maries Lumber Company, St. Maries, Idaho, r.l'ho is secretary-treasurer of the group.