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In Memoriom

John W. Salmon, 67, longtime chief appraiser of the Federal l{ousing Administration in Los Angeles, died February 11 at his Costa Mesa home. Mr. Salmon was one of seven men selected from the Southern California area to take FHA training in Washington, D.C., when the administration was founded in 1934 and was the chief appraiser in Los Angeles from 1941 until his retirement in 1954 . William E. Sanders,43, assistant general counsel and director of the Tax division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn., Washington, D.C., died February 14 at Palmetto Medical Clinic in Wauchula, Florida. He had been recuperating since last November from a circulatory ailment and hacl been due to return to his Silver Spring, Maryland, home the day he died. Mr. Sanders was widely recognized as a leading authority on technical problems in fecleral timber tax matters and built his industry reputation as a thorough- ly competent spokesman for lumber interests. He was largely responsible for many decisions by federal tax officials improving the tax position of forest landowners. He joined the NLMA in 1948 after work in Arizona and New Mexico. He was accorded military burial services in Arling- ton National cemetery, February 19, following his outstanding war record in which he won the ETO ribbon with seven bronze service stars James A. Roland, 69, retired board chairman of the Fry-Fulton Lumber Co., St. Louis, Mo., died at Incarnate Word hospital there, N{arch 11, fo1lowing a heart attack. Mr. Roland started to work Feb. 6, 1906, as an office boy for the Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Co., which became the Fry-Fulton firm on Jan. 1, 1929. He rose rapidly and, as traffrc manager, wrote a tarifr for the railroads when mills predominantly owned their own spur lines. He was known as a brilliant salesman and introduced several new woods to his trade area, and was also instrumental in bringing the first plywood to St. Louis about 1917. He became president of the firm in 1952, board chairman in 1957, and had retired a year ago Dr. Walter R. Hearst, president and founder of the Flamort Chemical Co., San Francisco, died there March 20. The firm will continue under his widow, Mrs. Gabrielle M. Hearst, who had been actively associated with the firm since its founding and has now been elected president William Harrison lJpson, 78, former president of The Upson Co., which he helped organize in 1910, died March 7 in Lockport (N. Y.) Memorial hospital after five years of ill health. He was the first secretary of the building materials firm, then held the positions of executive vice-president and secretary until the directors elected him president in 1947. He was-succeeded by his son, James J. Upson, in 1956 Hamilton Roddis, 84, chairman of the board of Roddis Plvwood Corp., died March 27 at Saint Joseph's hospital in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He had been identified with the Roddis Lumber & Veneer Co., the predecessor firm, since 1897 when he left a position in Milwaukee to helo his father, William'H. Ro<idis, rebuild the plant that had'been destroyed by fire. At the turn of the century he returned to Marshfield as secretary-treasurer of the firm to start his lifelong career in the plywood industry. He became president in 1920 and served 38 years until the board chailman position was created in 1959. Mr. Roddis was a Mason, an Elk and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was an historical scholar and avid traveler who, on humerous occasions, toured Europe, the Holy Land, Africa, the West Indies. He had set up a philanthropic foundation, a religious and educational trust known as the Hamilton Roddis Foundation. The firm he guided for four decades today employs 3,500 people in the U. S. and Canada . . . William Maldra Brown, 33, planing mill operator at Exeter, Calif., was crushed to death, April 21, by a boulder shaken loose in a dynamite blast as he and a helper were clearing a trail to a spring which they planned to develop into summer homesites. The lumberman leaves his wife and two sons . . The State Forester's offrce reDorts the death of Frederick H. Cowles, 84, on April 72. He resided in Santa