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for many years. Additional details of Mr. Taenzer's eventful life and untimely death will be available for the next issue.

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The industry was stunned earlier this month to hear of the untimely and completely unexpected death of "Phil" Creden in Chicago at the age of 57 and on the very eve of the NRLDA Exposition in San Francisco next monththe annual lumber dealer Expositions of which Mr. Creden as much as any other man was the "father." For the 1960 Exposition, next month, he had been working daily as the Exhibits Chairman.

Phillip H. W. Creden, the nationally known lumber executive and former newspaperman, died Thursday, October 6, while waiting in Golf, Ill., near his suburban home for the commuter train that dailv took him to his work in Chicago, where he had been foi many notable years the director of advertising and public relations for the widespread Edward Hines Lumber Co. "Phil" apparently experienced and died on the spot of a heart attack. Just two days earlier, on October 4, Mr. Creden and his wife Catherine had happily celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.

Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Dec. 30, 1902, Phil Creden studied engineering at M.I.T. After a year in the railroad industry, he joined the staff of The Chicago Daily News as a sportswriter, covering golf and Big 10 football. He had also worked for the old Chicago Examiner and The Chicago Tribune, switching from news reporting to advertising on the "Trib" where, after eight years, he joined the vast Hines lumber enterprise on Jan. 1, 1938, to direct its national advertising and key its Chicago promotions. Mr. Creden was active in all lumber industry organizations, secretary and a director of PPW and chairman of the advertising committee. For the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. he had been one of the founders of its annual Expositions in 1954 and chairman of the Exposition Committee for three years. He was also active in the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and the Home Improvement Council. Phil Creden had also made appearances as a welcome speaker at the annual conventions of both