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Notionql Wood Tonk lnstitute To Hold S. F. Meet-April 2l-22
The National Wood Tank Institute will hold its Spring meeting in San Francisco on April 2l and 22. Conventioi headquarters will be the Sir Francis Drake hotel, and the George Windeler Co., Ltd., of San Francisco, will host the meeting. The following wood tank manufacturers of the United States and Canada will be represented : Arrow Tank Co., Inc., Buffalo, N. Y.; Atlantic Tank Corp.,-North Bergen, N. J.; Brooks Lumber Co., Belling- ham, Washington; W. E. Caldwell Co., Inc., Louisville, Ky.; Fluor Products Co., Santa Rosa, Calif.; Amos H. Hall & Sons Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Johnson & Carlson, Chicago, Ill.; Josyln Mfg. & Supply Co., Crossarm Div., San Leindro, Calif. ; Kalamazoo Tank & Silo Co., Kalamazoo, Mich, ; Mayer Tank Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.; A. T.
Stearns Lumber Co., Neponset, Boston, Mass.; Wendnagel & Co., Inc., Chicago, Ill.; George Windeler Co., Ltd. Canadian members who will be present at the meeting include: Canada Barrels & Kegs, Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario; Pacific Coast Pipe Co., Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.; and Ca= nadian Wood Pipe & Tanks, Ltd., also of Vancouver.
Money Soving Forms Avoiloble
On a form available to lumber dealers can compare the applied costs per 1,000 for Masonite lap siding or Shadowvent sidings. The Sfuxll-inch tabulation lists lap, exposure, cost per thousand sq. ft.
and builders, they sq. ft. of coverag'e with comparable type, width, head footage required, averag'e man hours, painting labor and cost of primer. Forms are available through company representatives or from the company, 111 W. Washington St., Chicago 2, Ill.
Frederick rJ\f. ROTH
Frederick W. Roth, 64, died in Oakland, March 8, following a short illness. He had been active until shortly before his death, calling on the Bay Area trade for the Oakland wholesaler, Fred Payne, Jr. Mr. Roth's long lumber career touched all phases of the industry, in California and the Northwest as well as the Hawaiian Islands. His early industry education was with Sudden & Christenson Lumber Co. in both its San Francisco shipping and lumber departments
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and its logging and sawmill operations. After his return from a WWI tour of duty, the firm recommended Mr. Roth to John H. McCallum, then president of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners, to manage his retail lumbe,r operations. 'Ihis position, as well as managing the Empire Planing Mill (of which McCallum was half owner), occupied Mr. Roth until 1939, when he joined City Mill Company in Honolulu. On the declaration of WWII there, Mr. Roth took a temporary assignment with the Oahu Railway & Land Co. as coordinator between the U. S. Navy, Army and Hawaiian Air Depots with private industry and the railroacls to speed convoy unloadings and shipments. After the war, Mr. Roth sold his stock in City Mill and organized rOceanic Traders in the husbanding of ships. He also later bought out Pacific Lumber Company, a Chinese retail concern, and operated it as a subsidiary. He sold his Hawaiian interests in 1951 and returned to the Mainland to work for California Lumber Co. in San Carlos and, later, rcpresenting Seaview Lumber Co. in northern California. He was active in the Elks, the Masonic order and, until recently, the Olympic Clu'b and the Calif. Commandery Drill Corps. lle was also an active Hoo-Hoo and onetime member of the Supreme 9. Mr. Roth leaves his wife, Mary, of the Oakland home; a son, Fred, Jr., and a married daughter.
Richord E. DOHER"TY
Richard E. Doherty, died unexpectedly, February 10, at the age ol 47 in Marin General hospital. The native Californian had spent most of his lumber career in the Bay area, operating his own wholesale business, the R. E. Doherty Lum,ber Co. in Kentfielcl, the past five years. Prior to that he had managed the old West Oregon Lumber Co. sales office in San Francisco until its liquidation in September 1954. Mr. Doherty leaves his wife, Beverly, of the home in Kentfield, a son, 14, and two daughters, 12 and 8. He also leaves a sister of San Carlos.
Gene V. REYNOTDS
Gene V. Reynolds, 58, died suddenly March 8 at the Fluor Products plant in Santa Rosa. He had been serni-retired since his retirement from Weyerhaeuser Co. in 1955 but had been "keeping his hand in" as a part-time timber inspector for Fluor Products the past few years. Mr. Reynolds was a native of Kansas City and a true "old-timer" in the industry. He began his lumber career in 1914, handling ordcrs for Buschow Lumber Co. in Kansas City. A year later he went west to work for East Oregon Lumber Co. at Enterprise, Ore. In 7977 he began a 38-year association with Weyerhaeuser at its Snoqu.almie Falls mill, first in clerical work and later as assistant salesmanager.In 1923 he was appointed manager of its Spokane fir department and, in 1928, was returned to Snoqualmie as salesmanager. During 1934, another promotion elevated Mr. Reynolds to manager of sales, Coast mills, for the Central division
