Obituaries

(Continued from page 61) moted to personnel manager and hired all the workers for the new mill.

He left Weyerhaueser in 1958, after being elected to the Oregon legislature. During his 12 years of public service, he helped pass landmark legislation that included Oreson's landuse planning law.

Dan Froehle, 73, former sales manager at South Coast Lumber Co. & Affiliates, Brookings, Or., died June 14 in Gold Canyon, Az.

In the early 1960s, he moved to White City, Or., as sales manager of Med-Ply. Previously, he had represented the company in the Phoenix, Az., area. He then worked for Hearin Lumber, Portland, Or. In 1981, Mr. Froehle became sales manager at South Coast. He retired in 1996.

Jay Neal Wright Sr., 52, owner of now-defunct North Valley Lumber & Truss Co., Oroville, Ca., died of an apparent heart attack Aug.25.

Mr. Wright operated numerous framing businesses and in 1995 acquired Las Plumas Lumber Co.'s Oroville yard, renaming it North Valley. He closed the yard in 1997. Earlier this year pled guilty to multiple counts of insurance and tax fraud.

Tony Salel, 93, a pioneer in the West Coast hardware industry, died Sept. 25 in Oakland. Ca.

After working in sales for U.S. Gypsum, he opened Foothill Hardware. Oakland. Ca.. in 1947. With 25 other San Francisco dealers, he cofounded Western Wholesale Hardware, a buying group that later merged with Ace Hardware.

Over the past 50 years, he bought adjacent parcels of land and increased the store's size to 65,000 sq. ft. In 2000. he became a Do It Best dealer.

John Calvin Jureit, 87, inventor of the Gang-Nail connector plate, died Sept. 9, from head injuries suffered in a fall at his home in Stuart, Fl.

Mr. Jureit studied engineering at Georgia Tech and filed more than 60 construction-industry patents. By 1955, he had perfected his connecting device, which required no nailing, gluing or drilling and revolutionized the roof-truss industry. The company he started to market the invention, Gang Nails Inc., went public in 1961 as Automated Building Components. It now goes by the name MiTek.

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