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Jqmes P. CRONIN

James P. Cronin, 58, former owner of the Cronin Lumber Co. in Van Nuys, Calii., died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage August 19 in Maryland, where he and his wife had gone to a naval air station on vacation to visit their daughter and her husband. Jim Cronin was born in South Dakota and grew up in retail yards owned by his father, John S. Cronin, a pioneer lumber merchant.' Coming to California, he was first with two retail yards in the west San Fernando Valley and then, in 1928, bought the yard at 14423 Calvert St. from Alley Bros. Lumber Co. After 27 years, he sold it June 20, 1955, to Gordon Leadbetter. A large property owner, he had been in semi-retirement the past year. The body was flown back for burial in California and Mr. Cronin's funeral was held August 24.

In Memoriqm

William Allen Merigold, authority on building construction and plywood, died August 9 at his home in New York City. For the past eight years he had been associated with Georgia-Pacific Corp. as manager of plastic plyrr,'ood sales, and earlier with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in the research and sales of building materials. lle was a key figure in the development of plastic-faced plywood, widely used in industrial construction . . Clifford C. C. Tatum, 76, prominent Los Angeles realtor, died recently at his home there. Active in real estate since the turn of the century until he suffered a stroke in i948, he helped found the Los Angeles Real Estate Board and served as its president in 1925. In 1922 he was president of the California Real Estate Assn., and two years later served as vice-president of the National Assn. of Real Estate Boards . . Herman J. Spaulding, 88, retired Long Beach hardware merchant, died August 11.

Bethel L. Lillie

Bethel I-. Lillie, 45, former assistant manager of the Fallbrook Lumber Co., died July 29 in Grossmont. The Escondido Times said he had been found wounded July 23 in the warehouse of the Spring Valley Lumber Co., of which he had been assistant manager for the past year. The coroner's office described the gunshot wounds as selfinflicted. Little and his family had moved to San Diego from Fallbrook.

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