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Frcd Roth Vrita From Honolulu

Fred Roth, former San Francisco lumberman, has sent us a newsy letter from Honolulu. Fred is now a manufacturer's representative for Transpacific importers and exporters operating under the name of Oceanic Traders. His letter follows:

"LET US ALL PULL TOGETHER." I quote fom an adVertisement of Lewers & Cooke, Building Material Specialists-"Our 91st Year. Just think, founded in 1852; twenty-three years before Hawaii granted to the United States the use of Pearl Harbor as a naval base; forty-six years before Hawaii was admitted to the United States as a territory and become its first line of defense in the Paci6c to aid in our war against Spain. Again on December 7, 194L, when the Japanese Government perpetrated its dastardly crime against Pearl Harbor in particular, and mankind in general, Lewers & Cooke, together with other local building material houses, were in your front linc trenches as your outpost of the Pacific. Thanks to our largc stocks of Douglas Fir from the Pacific Northwest and the Redwoods of California, rve were able to carry on a great emergency war program."

Today, as I now sit in the office of Fred D. Lowrey, president of Lewers & Cooke, we glance over a monthly business letter from the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu and read as follows:

"Business and industry in Hawaii in the first six months of 1943 has effected a recovery from disruption which existed during the corresponding 1942 interval following tlre outbreak of war.

"Retail and wholesale trade shows an average gain of dbout D/o in the first half of this year "o-p"r"d with the same period last year.

"The opening six months of the current year ended with business at improved levels. Sugar and pineapple shipments are approaching their prewar volume. Bank clearings and. real estate transactions continue to gain. private construction has remained at a low ebb, but it is expected that this situation may improve with the expected release of materials at such time as fulfillment of war needs will permit."

Hugh Alderman, who by the way is now in charge of purchases and sales of Lewers & Cooke's lumber department, operating directly under C. S. Goodknight, first vice-president, comes into the office with a smile on his face as broad as a Georgia colored boy eating watermelon. "Fred, f wonder how many lumbermen dusted off their Bibles to check on Jack Dionne's editorial pertaining to what Jesus Christ had to say about lawyers in the Eleventh Chapter of Luke?" f confessed I was one of them.

Fred Lowrey asks Jack Dionne and Ed Martin to extend his Aloha to the lumber fraternity in California and the Pacific Northwest. He states: "'We have all your difficulties of the OPA and WPB and the rest of the alphabet plus the obvious transportation difficulties due to our situation.

"fn conclusion may we ask our mainland contemporaries to pull with us and for us until that day when we can all get together and say weren't we great in the last war. If only we could find as great a market today to build for everlasting peace."

It has been my privilege to meet with Stuart Smith in conference and to have him at my home for dinner. Needless to say, our conversation ran like this: "Remember open house dav when Eddie Peggs opened up his office; remember that Hoo-Hoo concat in Los Angeles; remember that Lumbermen's banquet at Harry Marquard's in San Francisco," and so far into the night- Stuart has gained a warm Aloha from the entire lumber fraternity in Honolulu.

Lieut. Iim Pierce Home on Leave

Lieut. Jas. R. Pierce (j.S.) U.S.N., who was home on leave with his family in Piedmont, Calif., for 3O days while his ship was undergoing repairs and overhaul, left for duty early in October. A big event in his homecoming was seeing his son, James R. Pierce, Ir., Z% months old, for the first time. Lieut. Pierce was formerly associated with Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco.

J. Earle Heber

Obitueriec

J. Earle Heber, sales manager for E. J. Stanton & Son, died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles, Saturday morning, October 2. He worked a full day on Friday, and while apparently in good health was stricken suddenly during the night. He was 64 years of age.

Born in Marengo, Iowa, Mr. Heber came to Los Angeles in 1901, and had long been identified with the lumber and building material business. A number of years ago he managed several lumber yards in the Imperial Valley which were owned by his father. Later he was general manager of the Truscon. Steel Co. at Los Angeles for several years. He also served as secretary of the Metropolitan District Material Dealers Association, after which he was a member of the millwork firm of Maule-Heber Co. About two years ago he went with E. J. Stanton and Son.

Mr. Heber was a member of the Chapparal Club and the Terrible Twenty Tournament Golf Club.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Charlotte Heber, two daughters, Mrs. John Lyman and Mrs. Richard Paulin oi Los Angeles, and four grandchildren.

Ivlrs. W. E. Cooper

Services were held on Wednesday, September D at the Wee Kirk o' The Heather, Forest Lawn, Glendale, for Mrs. W. E. Cooper who passed away at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, as the result of a heart attack, on September 26.

Mrs. Cooper was the wife of W. E. Cooper, Los Angeles lumberman, president of W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., and W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber. She was prominent in club and philanthropic circles, and was a member of both the San Marino and South Pasadena Women's Clubs.

In addition to her husband she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Alma Kleindinst; two sisters, Mrs. William Mobley and Mrs. Minnie Vigles of Los Angeles; three brothers, Walter Kleindinst of Los Angeles, and Earl and Arthur Kleindinst of Milwaukee, Wis.

Three step-children also survive: Mrs. George Bradford of'Bakersfield, Calif.; Mrs. Robert H. Garrison, Los Angeles, and Charles M. Cooper of Westwood.

George A. Houston

George A. Houston,'Weyerhaeuser Sales Company executive, died suddenly on September 30 at Vancouver, B.C., while attending a meeting of Weyerhaeuser officials. Mr. Houston was stricken with a heart attack shortly after his arrival from St. Paul where he made his headquarters as general sales manager in charge of specialty lines. He was born at Dixon, Missouri, in 1881, and had spent most of his business life in the lumber industry where he was widely known. For several years he represented l,ong-Beli Lumber Company in various important metropolitan markets and then as general sales manager with headquarters at Kansas City. He joined the Weyerhaeuser organization in 1936.

He is survived by his wife, a son, a sister and two brothers, Homer and Earl. The latter is West Coast sales manager for Long-rBel,l Lumber Company, Longview, Washington. fnterment at Springfield, Missouri.

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