OBITUARIES

H. R. }IORTHUP

H. Il. "Cotton" Northup, veteran of more than 36 years in national lumber and building material trade association work. died September 4. Northup, 71, in ill health since his 196:l retirement as senior vice president of the National Lumber and guilaine [later.ial Dealels Association, hart joined NLBNTD-\ as its chief executive in 1940.

He steered dealers through difficult war- time and post-wartime housing shoi.tages and the milieu of government regulations, restrictions and priorities. Within a tu-odecade span the association gre\4' into one of the larger national trade groups in Washington, representing thousands of retail lumber dealers throughout the nation.

-{n organizer of Operation Home Implovement, no'w' the National Homc Improvement Council, he championed dealel interest in the remodeling market. He ser.ved on enumerable committees representing the nation's lumber dealels-the American Lumber Standards Committee, Chamber of Commerce, Producers Council, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and the National Association of Home Builders.

A native of Washington, Northup atten(led George Washington University and dur:ing World War I was an officer in the field artillery.

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MERIE I-()TL

Merle Loll, owner of Loll's Building & Supply Company in Scio, Oregon, died Sept. 4 at Santiam Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. He u'as 57.

Mr. Loll u'as boln in Tillamook. Ore.. anrl lived in Salem since 1949. He was a member of the Scio Lions Club.

The Lolls opened their building supply business just four years ago.

Mr. Loll was a member. of the Christian Church, was active in the community until the last few months. He and his wife maintained a home in the vrooded hills of Turner-Sunnyside, Interstate 5 Freeway.

He is surwived by his widow, Ethyl; parents Mr. ancl Mrs. Roscoe L. Shreve of Portland; and brother Harold Loll, Portland, Oregon.

Today as Americans-supporting other countries yet making few friendsspending millions to arm and defend them yet losing ground to Communism

-enjoying prosperity at home while watching government and personal debt skyrocketing-can this be attributed solely to poor navigation inhigh places?