MILLI|.IORK FULLMILL L. Solberg

4160 Whlteside Ave., Los Angelcr 33, Colif. ANgelus 1.6n,

Ccrroll B. McElroy

Carroll B. McElroy, 63, office manag'er for E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, passed away in the Hollywood Hospital on July 16 where he had been confined for a few days following a heart attack.

Mr. McElroy had been with the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. for thirty-five years, and was widely known in California lumber circles. Before coming to Los Angeles in 1937, he was connected with the company's San Francisco office.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Abina McElroy; three sons, John 8., William C. and Frank S. McElroy, and a daughter, Carolyn M. McElroy.

Funeral services were conducted in Los Angeles Monday morning, July 19.

Joseph R. Blunt

Seattle, Saturday, July 17, 1948-Joseph R. Blunt, 55, prominent in the West Coast lumber industry for three decadi:s, died today in Seattle after an illness of several months.

Mr. Blunt rvas born in Roslyn, Washington, July 7,1893. He graduated from the College of Forestry, University of Washington, and was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and of Fir Tree, honorary forestry society' The red cedar shingle and lumber organizations started Mr' Blunt on a career that led into a series of trade promotion projects for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, in which he headed the Portland branch and served as Washington, D' C., manager.

Mr. Blunt had recently returned with his family to Seattle and was residin g at 5268 University Way, when stricken.

A spokesman for the West Coast lumber industry at lumber conventions nation-wide for many years' Mr' Blunt made a multitude of friends in the trade.

Surviving are his wife, Jessie, three sons, David Harold, La'ivrence George, John Richard, and a stepson, Kim Robert Blunt.

Iohn S. Billheimer

John S. Billheimer, 88, passed away in College City, Te*as, on July 9. A resident of Pasadena from 1888 up until two years ago, Mr. Billheimer had owned lumber companies in Pasadena, Temple City, San Dimas, Sierra Madre and La Verne. Surviving are the widow, Stella Ora of College City; a daughter, Mrs. Vera Schonfeld of Eagle Rock; " ,on, Glenn, of Pasadena; two brothers, Clark and Frank, both of South Pasadena; and a sister, Mrs' Cordy Fink of Eagle Rock'

West Coast hemlock, an all-purpose tree which grows to tremendous size and is used for lumber, pulp and aircraft manufacturing, springs from a seed so tiny that it takes 285,000 of them to make a pound'