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(Continued from Page 6) the Cornnrittee are J. C. Snead, C. S. Pierce Lumber Company; Louis Frame, l)iamond Xlatch Companv, and Ed Schlottharrer. \\'illard l-umber Company.

Stockton dealers on N{ay 27th heard a report of lumberstamping actir.ities in other areas of the state from Jack Pomeroy, the Association's execrrtive vice-president. While agreeing in principle to the need for gracle stanrping, the Stockton dealers have decided to postpone a definite clecision pending further committee study.

In San Mateo an initial meetir.rg n'ith respect to grade stamping u'as held on \Yedr.resday, N{av V)th. The dealers present heard a report bv Ken Buck of the LNIA staff on the possibilities oi a grade-stamping ordinance. Another meeting u'as schecluled for San N{ateo ct.rttnty dealers on Thursd:r1' evening, June 5th, at r.vhich time the advantages of gracle stamping were to be further cliscussecl and a committee appointecl to further investigate the use r,f grarlest:.rmped lumber in San Y"r;" county.

The Association's 1956 Surr-ey of f)perating Results r,vill shortly be released to members. The Survey for 1956 has been expanded and n'ill provide a tl.rree-year statistical comparison among other neu' featttres.

Speeding was blamed for 13,830 deaths on U.S. highways in 1956.

0bltaarles

Fronk A. Pendolq, Jr.

Frank A. Pendola, Jr., whose death was briefly reported in the last issue, died May 27 in Saint Mary's hospital, San Francisco. His untimely death cut cruelly short the meteoric lumber career of the young president of the Cal-Pacific Redwood Company, Arcata, who would have been 43 next October 12. Born in San Francisco, the son of Linda Newsom and Frank Pendola, and educated there, he is remembered at St. Ignatius High School as an outstanding athlete. IIe passed up a college education to join his father in forming the Yuba Lumber Co., Grass Valley, in the mid-30s and, together with his brother William J., who joined them after WWII, the Pendolas built a farflung lumber organization over the years.

Frank Pendola, Jr. was president of the Cal-Pacific Redwood Co., vice-president of the Yuba River Lumber Co., a partner in Ostrom Lumber Co., Marysville, and partner in Idaho Pine Co., Meridian, Idaho; a major stockholder in all of the firms in slightly over 20 years of his life, and each firm a major lumber concern in its own rights. Such was the pace the junior Pendola set in his short life.

He is remembered by all who knew him for his intimate knowledge of all phases of the industry-timber, logging, sawmilling and sales. Though his first love was for the woods, his understanding of the others was just as keen. His best friends remember him as an ardent sportsman as much at home deerhunting in Nevada as fishing the strearns of Northern California. He leaves his parents, his wife Dolores and'four chil- dren; Frank III, Patrick, Catherine and Joan;,his brother William and two sisters. Funeral services were at Saint Patrick's church in Grass Valley and this one of the true.and real leaders of the lumber industry was buried at Catholic Cemetery there.

ArthurW. Bernh.ruer

Arthur William Bernhauer, 73, president and manager of the Fresno (Calif.) Planing Mill Company and a leading citizen of. Fresno for many years, died at his home there, June 3, of a heart ailment which caused his latest illness May 13. Mr. Bernhauer will be remembered by many in the industry for helping to found the original Millwork Institute of California in the 1920s and serving on its board and as its president from 1928 to 1935, and in which he took part in many industrial conferences on the Pacific coast and in Chicago during NRA days. In addition to his many other civic works, he helped otganize the Fresno Builders Exchange and Fresno Building Materials Assn., was a director of the city and county chambers of commerce, past president of the Merchants Assn. of Fresno, and was president of the Central Building Company and one of the original directors of the Vendorlator Mfg. Co'

Born in Illinois, Arthur Bernhauer was brought to the Fresno area by his parents when he was four. Son of a rancher, he entered the business world as bookkeeper in a department store, worked for a packing company and became office manager for Madary's Planing Mill before he and others organized the Fresno Planing Mill Company in 1908. Some years later he became its president and manager and held these offices at his death last month. Besides his wife of the home at 4175 N. Van Ness Blvd., Fresno, he leaves a son, A. Claude Bernhauer, two daughters and a brother, C. E. Bernhauer, of Fresno.

Fred Woolridge

Fred Woolridge, well-known Medford, Oregon, lumberman, died suddenly June 11. He had spent his entire life with lumber and was general manager of Ross Lumber Sales, Medford, at his death. Before he joined that firm, Mr. Woolridge had been superintendent of Southern Oregon Sugar Pine Co.

Henry A. Nell

Herny A. Nett, 45, office salesman for the Blanchard Lumber Co., North Hollywood, died June 4. He had been with the retail yard 12 years. He leaves his wife of the home at 12316 Milbank St., North Hollywood; a son and three brothers.

Jock Hedrick

Jack Hedrick, 34, of San Jose, foreman of the Econ<tmy Lumber Co., Campbell, Calif., was drowned in the San Joaquin River delta, June 14, while on a fishing trip. His body was re-