California Building Permits for December

Obituarieg

Gilbert W. Atkinson

Gilbert W. Atkinson, ,co-owner of Atkinson Mill & Mfg. Co., Oakland, passed away suddenly January 9.

lle was a native of Oakland, and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Helen L. Atkinson; a daughter, Mrs. Edward Griffith; two grandchildren, two brothers, Hal M. and Robert H. Atkinson, and his parents.

IefI M. Vcn Gundy

Jeff M. Van Gundy, mill superintendent of the Hollenbeck-Bush Planing Mill Co., Fresno, passed away January 12 as a result of injuries received in' a headon collision on the Golden Gate Highway during heavy fog. He was born in Missouri 67 1,ears ago.

Surviving are his wido'iv, Mrs. Katherine Van Gundy, a daughter, Dorothy Cooper, and a son, Joseph Van Gundy of Fresno.

Frcnk H. Ransom

Frank H. Ransom, president of Eastern & Western Lumber Co., Portland, for many years, passed au'ay January 10.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Isabelle Ransom; three sons, Frank C. of Portland, and Richard N. and Robert Ransom of San Francisco; a daughter, Helen Monroe of Coronado, Calif., and three sisters. He r,vas born in San Francisco in 1870.

William J. McCready

William J. McCready, founder of the McCready Lumber Co., Forest Grove, Ore., died on January 1. He rvas 7O years of age.

Born in fowa, he rvas.affiliated r,r,'ith the Copeland Lumber Co. in that state. The firm rvas sold in 1910 ancl the owners moved to Oregon, locating in Hood River. 'Ihe company organized under the Copeland name in Oregon in 1914. Mr. McCready rvent to Forest Grove in 1914, acting as the local representative of the Copeland company until 1926, when he organized his olr'n lumber business, which has general offrces in Forest Grove alrd operates in several Oregon cities.

Plywood

The OPA has established dollar-and-cent ceiling prices for die boards manufactured in the northeastern states and for birch and maple hardwood plywood panels made in Ner,r' England and Wisconsin. (Amendment 7 to MPR 568, effective Jan. 22.)

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