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retirement of his father in August 1939. He was long identified with conservation and s4fety activities in the redwood region, establishing the C.,R. Johnson Memorial Safety Award in 1941 for safety records in the woods and mills. A longtime director of the Cilifornia Redwood Association, he served as its president from 1948-50 and was one of the founders of the RRCC in 1950 and the first to suppq,rt establishment of a forestry course in a secondary school. Under him, the Union Lumber Company certified itd first Tree Farm in 1950 to insure sound foresi nianagement and production in the future. At present, the entire operating timberlands of Union Lumber Coppqny are units of-the C. R. Johnson Tree Farms, totaling 170,000 acres.

Mr. Johnson leaves his wife, Marion Marvin Johnson; the son, C. Russell Johnson; two daughtets and nine grandchildren.

Adolph ftI. SCHWARZ

Funeral services were held in Globe, Arizona, June tr8, for Adolph M. Schwarz, 8f, founder of the Schwarz Lumber Co., Miami, Arizona, who died June 15 in the Mesa, F,:rizona, Southside hospital. Burial was in Phoenix. Veteran Dealer Schwarz was generally acknowledged "the dean of Arizona retail lumbermen" and was thtrs honored at the recent convention just this May of the Aizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Assn. in Phoenix, which he attended as usual.

i\4r. Schwarz was born in Germarty and came to the U.S. in 1890, landing in Arizona in 1896. He went to Yuma in 1908 and to Globe in 1'909, entering the grocery business. He later entered the lumber business with his father-inlaw, William Whalley, in the Whalley Lumber Co. The Schwarz Lumber Co. was founded in Miami in 1919 and he played a prominent part in the development of the retail lumber industry in the state through the ARL&BSA. The widower leaves three sons, Fritz W., Karl E. and W. Mark, all of Miami; a daughter in Globe, and a brother in l-ong Beach, Calif.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Milton P. BERONIO

'Milton Paul Beronio, wbll-known San Francisco lumber dealer, died unexpectedly June 30 at his Mount Madonna, California, ranch. A native San Franciscan, he had headed the Beronio Lumber Co. there the past 25 years. The dealer leaves his wife Elsie C., a daughter and two sisters, and follows in death his four brothers, the late Antone, I-ouis, Edward and John Beronio. Funeral services were held July 3 qith Requiem high mass at Saint Ignatius and interrnent at Holy Cross.

E. L (Kelly) KETSO

Elliot I-oren Kelso, 45, owner of the Peck Road Lumber Company, El Monte, California, died June 8 at Veteran's hospital-in -Long Beach. The young lumber dealer, taken in his prime, was popular in the Southern California industry. He was born in Hemet, Calif. Funeral services were held in Midway City and interment was made in Costa Mesa.

John W. frlcGlURE

"To the strident whistling of a cardinal high in a sycamore among the hardwoods surrounding the park-like cemetery, John W. McClure was laid to rest in the white oak casket which he had made frbm personally selected lumtier as many friends and loved ones paid their last respects," said the June 25 bulletin of the National Hardwood Lumber Association announcing the death of its only President Emeritus on June 17 at the age of 78 in his Memphis, Tennessee, home. The veteran hardwood industry figure had been confined with a heart ailment the past several months.

"In the words of one of our past presidents, the passing of Tohn W. McClure certainly marked the end of an era, one in i*hich tte gave his best in tilent and energy to the industry and the city hC worked so diligently to improve," the bulletin said. One of the famed lumbermen who helped make Memphis "the Hardwood Capital of the 'World," Mr. McClure began as a stenographer in the lumber industry in 1896 and rose to its, top leadership before retiring in 1951. He was the top executive officer of the NHLA and lived in Chicago f.rom 1934 until hi.s retirement. The John W. McClure Hardwood Inspection School in Memphis, which draws students from over the world, was named for him in 1951 and, in 1955, the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis recognized his long service with an award by_the,', club to which he-had belonged since it was founded in 189. Ife was 23 when he went in business for himself, working in three firms before taking office in the NHLA. M. B. Pendleton; the present executive officer of the hardwood association, wag',. one of severnl honorary pallbearers at Mr. McClure's funeral', services.

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