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GRANTS PASS, ORE.

P. O. Box 516

While most ol our lumber is going into Government wcrr uses, ute hcve been tcking ccrre ol our decler customers' requirements to the best ol our cbility, crrd we thcnk then lor their pcrtience cmd coopercrtion"

ThisHoma Cost Two Thousand Dollars Russell T. Gheen Promoted

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The roof is split rvooden shakes, and stained a dark brorvn. A long pergola built of 2x4's across the front offers a place for vines that give shade in summer, but lets the sunlight through in winter.

The exterior is sided lr'ith 1x4 and 1x6 rough siding, low grade. Narrorv 'ividths are cheaper and do not split' The eave lines are dropped. The house is low, saving about lS/c in cubical content, and obviously saving money with it. There is a cheap heating system that functions very rvell, the owner says.

So there you are ! I submit it to my friends in the lumber industry as something to think seriously about. If all the people in this country who could pay for a two thousand dollar house and enough land to put it on could own a hon-re like this one, this would be the happiest nation in the rvorlcl. The automobile people are going to supply the nation rvitl'r cars comparable in price and usefulness to this house. Can the building industry do the same ? It is no trick at all to tliink of difficulties in the' way. Negative thinking is the rvorld's simplest {orm of athletics. But r.regative thinking r,von't bridge the gap betu'een 'n'ar and peace; rvon't save the nation from the terrible bumps that will be forthcon.ring unless all the capable thinkers and doers of the cottntry enlist in determined efforts along practical lines.

Anyrvay, hou' do you like this trvo tl-rottsand dollar horne ?

To Lieutenant Colonel

The promotion of Major Russell T. Gheen, director of the Salvage and Redistribution Division of the Sixth Service Command, Army Service Forces, to I-ieutenant Coloncl has been announced by Major General H. S. Aurand, Commanding General of the Sixth Service Command, with headquarters in Chicago.

Colonel Gheen, a former forester and lumbernlan, wellt on duty at Sixth Service Command headquarters as a Major in tl-re Quartermaster Corps November 16, 1942. At that time he u'as deputy director of the Salvage and Redistribution Division. He l>ecame director of the division fottr months ago.

He rvas a Captain in the Field Artillery in World War I and u,as overseas eleven months' A graduate of the Pennsylvania State College and New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Colonel Gheen was Los Angeles manag'er for the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation before going into the Army. In Chicago he lives at the Union l-eague Club.

Kilns Get Government Certilicction

The dry kilns and kiln operators of Western Hardwood Lumber Co., of Los Angeles, have been certified by the Army Air Forces and Forest Products Laboratory for drying of aircraft lumber.

This company l-ras added a new Ross Carrier to its lumber handling equiPment.

Obituaries

E. T. Robie

Edwin Towle Robie, president of the Auburn Lumber Company, passed tb his rest Monday evening, April 17, 1944, after a long heart illness. E. T. Robie is well knorvn to'the lumber industry and to community development in all of Central Cali{ornia. He was born in Corinth, Vermont, July 22,7870, and rvas in his 73rd year. His first ancestor in America, John Robie, started a sarvmill in Exeter, N e rv Hampshire, in 1634, and his family has since largely maintained a similar inclination.

Mr. Robie started his life work soon after coming to Towle, California, in 1882 with his father, John H. Robie, who was associated rvith Towle Brothers Lumber Company headed by the pioneer lumbermen, Allen, George, and Edwin Towle, the uncles of young Ed Robie. Their California operations began in 1856 and they supplied much of the lumber required to build the first railroad in California. Ed attended school for short periods, .ivhile rvorking in the general store of Towle Brothers Company, which carried all sorts of merchandise necessary for the workerf employed by their logging camps, railroad, and sawmills. When working steady three years later, at 15, Ed founcl that 88 working hours per wedk rvas not unusual.

In 1887, the Robie family moved to Auburn, where John H. Robie became manag'er of the Towle Brothers lumber yard. The change was made principally so that young Edwin, then 17, might attend the Sierra Normal College. He took the work rapidly and graduated in 1889 with a sound fundamental knowledge of mathematics, accounting, and business administration, which did much to guide his later life. While going to school, he worked and did the accounting for Towle Brothers at Auburn and Newcastle. After graduation, he returned to work at Towle and did the surveying;for their line of railroad to mills at Texas Hill, east frorii'Emigrant Gap. He was then brought into tl-re general ofrfice and later became secretary of the Towle Brothers Company.

In 1902, Mr. Robie organized the Auburn Lurnber Company as successor to the interests of Towle Brothers Company in Auburn. This enterprise expanded under his management, with operations and interests in ten cities of Central California. He added banking to his many activities, and for l0 years was president of the First National Bank of Auburn. He later organized the Central California Federal Savings and Loan Association, and as president guided a successful operation. For seven years he was president of Lumbermen's Supply, Inc., a Sacramento rvholesale building materials firm.

During his lifetime, he devoted time and attention to the lumber industry associations representative of California, and served many times in executive capacities. In a similar way, he gave willingly of his time to ,civic promotion in the City of Auburn. In World War I, a fine Placer County record of over subscription to five Liberty Bond Drives was made under his direction as Chairman.

Mr. Robie was married May 3, 1894, to Ina Stone, the daughter of a California pioneer family. It was his hope duriag the last illness to carry on a few months longer to reach a fifty-year wedding anniversary with his devoted wife. Surviving also, is their son Wendell Robie, an active associate with his father, and their daughter, Mrs. Edwina Robbins of Yuba City. He leaves two grandsons, John Robie and Edrvir-r Robbins, and a grand-daughter, Ina N{ay Robbins.

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Mr. Robie lived through a rapidly changing period of colorful California history, as a vanishing legion of old fortyr.riners gave way before the advancing mechanical age.

A long, honorable, and successful career evidenced the esteem in u'hicl-r E. T. Robie rvas l-reld.

R. F. Pray

R. F. Pray passed arvay in San Francisco on April 16. He r"'as 70 years of age.

Mr. Pray 'ivas identified with The Red River Lumber Company for many years. He went to lvork for this company in the 189O's at their Crookston, Minnesota mill, going to Akeley rvhen construction of that mill rvas started in 1898. He u'as manager at Akeley u'hen he left in 1914 to come to the ner,v Red River operation at Westu'ood, Calif., and he played an important role in the planning, construction and operation of the town and plant zrt Westn.ood. He left the company in 1924 to be general rlranag'er of the Michigan-California Lumber Company's new plant tl.ren starting at Oroville, Calif.

Returning to Red River in 1930, Mr. Pray handled sales at San Francisco and Nerv York, came back to Westrvood \n 1934 as sales manager, and later as ltroduction manager. He left Westwood and the company's ernployment in 1940.

Since leaving Red River, he operated as a llroker and rvholesaler in San Francisco. Later, he bought a hotel in San Francisco and following that, an apartment house'

His survivors are his u'idorv, Ruth Wright Pray, a claughter, Mrs. Richard Bovard o{ Bakersfield, and two sons, Rupert and Ruel Pray of Los Angeles.

John T. Barker

John T. Barker, auditor for The Red River Lumber Company at Los Angeles, passed away on Monday, April 10. He rvas 55 years of age.

A native of Nebraska, he lvas a resident of Los Angeles for twenty years, and had been connected with The Red River Lumber Company since 1925.

He is surlived by his rvidorv, Mrs. Golda B. Barker; trvo daugl-rters, Mrs. Virginia Hunsaker and l\[rs. Ruth Pagel ; a sister, Mrs. Mae Hamilton, and three brothers, Fay, Fred and Earl Barker.

Funeral services rvere held at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lau'n Memorial Park, Thursday afternoon, April 13.