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business with the C. A. Smith Lumber Co. at Port Chicago when he was in his late teens. He later operated his own retail lumberyard on Foothill boulevard in Oakland for several years, closing that business in the late 30s to become g'eneral manager of Smith Lumber Company in Oakland. In 1940, Mr. Freitas 1'oined Eureka Mill & Lumber Company as salesm-anager and was promoted to vice-president and salesmanager in 1950. He was a member of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39 and active in the Saint Vincent de Paul Society and East Oakland Rotary.

Mr. Freitas leaves his wife. Albina. of the home in Oakland; a son, Robert, of Phoenix, and a daughtqr, Mrs. Joan Favors, of Lafayette. Another son, William, was killed in a similar accident three years ago.

\A/. E. ARBTASTER.

\A/illiam Edward Arblaster, 65, vice-president and general manager of the Mount Whitney Lumber Co. division of American Forest Products Company, .died August 12 in Huntington Memorial hospital. He had been a resident of Southern California since 1908. The well-known and universally popular lurnberman and rancher was a veteran of the industry and, at his death, was the chief administrative ofiftcer and policy maker for the Tule and Mount Whitney divisions of the large California lumber concern, which now operates 12 sawmills throughout the west. Besides serving most actively as general manager of the Mount Whitney Lurnber Co., Mr. Arblaster was chairman of the board of directors of Harbor Box & Lumber Co., vice-president and director of American Forest Products Company, San Francisco, and operated a citrus ranch in Porterville. He was also active in many civic and fraternal clubs.

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Mr. Arblaster leaves his wife, Gladys, of the home at l306 W. Pine St., Alhambra, Calif., -two sisters and a brother. Funeral services were conducted at an Alhambra mortuary, with interment in San Gabriel cemetery.

Potrick [. HERON

Patrick L. Heron, 74, former salesmanager of the West Side Lumber Company, died August l2 in Sonora, Calif., after a short illness. Mr. Heron was born in New York City, March 17, 1885. He was educated in England but returned to the United States upon reaching manhood. He began his lumber career with the old Red River Lumber Company in 1915 as an accountant. In 1919 he moved to Sonora to accept a similar position with the Standard Lumber Company, now the Pickering Lumber Corp. Later, he was appointed salesmanager of Pickering, a position he held until the mill was shut down in the early 1930s. In 1935, "Pat" became salesmanager of the West Side Lumber Company and served with distinction and popularity in that capacity until his retirement in 1947.

Mr. Heron leaves his wife, Mabel; a daughter, Emily Nisbet; two sons, James and Francis, and ten grandchildren. Word of the veteran lumberman's passing was kindly reported by F. L. Heron, 2545 Rollingwood Drive, San Bruno, Calif.

ln Memoriom

Gustaf Juhren, 61, a forester with the U. S. Forest Service for 3l years and a nationally recognized expert in development of fire-resistant mountain plants, died August 2 lrom a heart attack at his Altadena. Calif.. home. He conducted his research on the cistus plant in connection with his USFS work. He was born in Ostersund. Sweden. educated at the Royal College of Forestry, and came to America ]n 1926. He was a member of the Angelus Natl. Forest staff since 1945 after terms in the Cleveland, Plumas and Stanislaus National Forests Dr. Lee F. Hawley, 77, one of the founding pioneers of the U.S. Forest Products I-aboratory, Madison, Wis., died Aug. 19 in a Madison hospital. He had joined the Forest Service as a chemist in 1907 ancl went to Madison in 1909, while the Laboratory building was still being constructed. Dr. Hawley remained in this life's work until his retirement in 1942, rising to chief of its Wood Chemistry division and making many notable contributions to wood research and progriss in utilization of wood by chemical means. He was the author of several noted industry books and was honored in 1952 for his 50 years of service. lfe was a member of the Society of American Foresters.

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Too Hot for Golf, But Record Crowd Hos Fun in the Sun

Through the courtesy of Hollow Tree l-umber Company Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181, the club's annual Swim and BarPresident Bill Moores, who literally threw open the doors of becue played a repeat performance at Moores' home on his beautiful Ukiah home to members and guests of Black July 17. A near-record S0Mendocino county lumbermen and furociotc A{cnbrr:

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Keep your eyes open and your mind awake. Watch for the imitation rut-the rut that takes you away from your own work and your own ideas and makes a duplicate out of you instead of an original. Creators stand in a class by themselves. Pay tribute to the head oir your own shoulders. Get the habit of initiative.

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John Driscoll to Bqf for Hobbs Wcrll Lumber Co.

Former "Simpsonman"

John Driscoll (right) signed ol1 as "oinch-hitter" for Hobbs Wall Lumber Company on August 5, accordirg to Al Bell and Lew Godard, who noted that, because of Driscoll's extensive redwood knowledge and follorving in the East as well as on the West Coast, he will divide his time between eastern contact work and sales calls from both Hobbs Wall's Los Angeles and San Francisco oftices,

Driscoll, a native of Massachusetts, originally joined Simpson Logging Company dtrring 1949 at tl-re company's San Francisco sales office. He spent five years covering the 1l western states area for the company's Shelton division and, on September l, 7954, trans- f erred to Simpson's Redwood division. He continued covering the 11 western states region for Simpson Redwood until early last year when he was transferred east to work out of the Chicago ancl New York of6ces.

Nqtionql Homes Corp. Buys Up Seven Smqller Pre-fqbbers

Lafayette, Ind.-Directors of National Homes Corp., the nation's largest prefabricated house builder, have approved the acquisition of seven other home-manufacturing companies by purchase or merger. Chairman James R. Price said the acquisition will boost National Homes' 1959 production to 45,000 prefab home units and its 1959 sales to $100,000,000. He estimated that National Homes will now build about 3.5/o of the single-family, non-farm, privately financed homes in the U.S.