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FERN TRUCKING COMPANY
Ofiers Combined Service Of:
Charles L. Billingrs
Trucking
Ccr Unlocding
Pool Ccrr Distribution
Sorting
Sticking lor Air Drying
Storing ol Any Qucrntity ol Forest Products
Ten Hecrvy Duty Trucks card Trcilers
Fourteen 3-Axle AJI Purpose Army Lumber Trucks
Seven 16,000 lb. LiIt Trucks
Twenty-Seven Acres Pcrved Lcmd at Two Loccrtions
Served by L A, lunction Rcrilrocrd
Shed Spcce lor Two Million Boqrd Feet
Spur Trcrck to Accomrnodcte Thirty Rcrilrocd Cars
Bcrcked by Twenty-hno yecrs oI Experience in Hcrndling Lumber and ForeEt Products
This Compcrny Is Ow:red ccrd Opercrted by FERN-cmdo I. Negrri
4550 Mcrywood Ave., Los Angeles ll
IEfferson 7261
Obituaries
Charles L. Billings, 60, vice president and general manager of Potlatch Forests, Inc., passed away in a Lewiston, Idaho, hospital on June 2O alter a short illness.
He was born in St. Paul, Minn., and attended the University of Minnesota. As a young civil engineer, he became interested in forestry while pioneering railroads through the Inland Empire. He began his career as a forester with the Forest Service in Butte in 1910. He joined the Edward Rutledge Timber Co. in Coeur d'Alene in 1920 as land agent, and in 1925 he went to Lewiston as assistant manager of the Clearwater Timber Co. which later became the Potlatch company. He had been general manager of Potlatch since 1933.
Mr. Billings was a director of the Western Pine Association, Idaho State Chamber of Commerce, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., California Pine Box Distributors Corporation, and National Lumber Manufacturers Association. He was active in the Western Forestry and Conservation Society, and a vice president of the Lewiston Rotary Club.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Molly Billings; three sons, Lee, Robert and Frederick Billings; a daughter, Mrs. Destern Fairbank, and a sister, Miss Virginia Billings.
Fred Schcllock
Klamath Falls, Ore., June 29-Fred Schallock, president of the Ewauna Box company and partner in the organiza. tion since 1913, passed away suddenly at his home here Sunday, June 27. He was 69.
A native of Klamath Falls when it was still known as Linkville, Mr. Schallock and the late Claude Daggett became partners in the Ewauna operation in 1913, one year after it was established, and remained associates until Mr. Daggett's death in 1939.
Mr. Schallock was long a member of the Western Pine Association's Klamath District board and served several years as its chairman. He was long-time member of the Klamath Falls Elks lodge.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Agnes L. Schallock; one daughter, Mrs. H. O. Bell of Santa Maria, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. C. H. Daggett of Klamath Falls and two grandchildren, Marilyn and Edna Ann Bell.
Services were held here today. Interment was scheduled at Forest Lawn in Glendale. Calif.
Hcrry Iles
Harry Iles, 96, publisher of the Southwest Builder and Contractor and board chairman of the Iles-Ayars Publishing Co., passed a.rvay of a heart attack on June 28 at his home in Los Angeles. He had remained active in his business affairs up to the time of his death.
A native of E,ngland, he came to Los Angeles in 1884, and three years later bought a paper called the Builder and Contractor, nor,v the Southrn'est Builder and Contrac. tor.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Adelle A. Iles; tu'o daughters, Mrs. Neva L. Clement of Vista, and Mrs. Zella E \\rright of San Marino ; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
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