National Hardwood Magazine - August 2011

Parton Lumber Company,

Parton Lumber Company, Inc. The Parton Companies - “Integrated Lumber Manufacturing... from stump to finished product.” Producing over 50 million BDF of Appalachian Hardwood and Eastern White Pine lumber annually in: • Red Oak • White Oak • • Poplar • Eastern White Pine and others upon request 4/4 to 12/4 green, air dried and/or Parton Lumber Company’s logo is proudly kiln dried. displayed on the bundle of lumber above. Export Prep • Container Loading www.partonlumber.com To serve you, we have modern band mills and other state-of-the-art equipment such as: a planer mill; a 90 bay sorter; dry kilns; and, grading facilities at one site in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Please Call Us at (800) 624-1501 when we can be of service! 251 Parton Road, Rutherfordton, North Carolina 28139-9420 Tel: (828) 287-9669 • FAX: (828) 287-9423 SALES: Jimmy Clay, Norman Atchley, Alfred Mayo and Kimberly Clayton Hardwood Forestry Fund Plants trees for future lumber and veneer harvests. Contributions are tax-deductible. Call (877) 433-8733 www.hardwoodforestryfund.org hffund@hpva.org QUEBEC TRENDS - Continued A Canadian-developed infrared sensor designed to help monitor forest fires, pollutants and volcanic activity was launched into space in early June. An Argentine satellite with eight instruments aboard - including the Quebec-built sensor - rocketed into orbit at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for a five-year mission. The sensor will detect: saltiness of the ocean; retrieve ocean surface temperatures; and monitor hot spots around the globe, such as forest fires and volcanic activity, said the Canadian Space Agency. It is hoped the data will help officials spot fires that cover as little as one square kilometer for firefighters to fight blazes as soon as possible and cut down on casualties, damage and carbon emissions. An average of more than two million hectares of Canadian forest burn each year, and researchers expect this number to rise due to climate change. The infrared sensor was developed by teams in Canada and in Argentina, and constructed by Quebec-based Institut national d’optique (National Optics Institute). • ONTARIO TRENDS - Continued from page 7 on the re-election of the Conservative party. The federal budget 2011 delivered in June, which included all of the measures that were previously announced in the March 22nd budget, which was notadopted prior to the dissolution of Parliament on March 26, 2011, was rather disappointing, as they felt the forestry sector did not loom large in this budget, even though forestry is known as a mainstay to Canada’s economy and how the world relates forest products to Canada. However, some tax and industrial investment credits, which will be extended to all sectors nationally will be useful, and the forest industry will benefit from these credits. The forest industry allocation, supporting the transformation of the forestry sector by proposing to provide million in 2011–12 to help forestry companies innovate and tap into new opportunities abroad, compared to the climate change allocation (0 million over the next two years) is seen as largely government department and internal project funding for government groups. It is reported that none of that funding is anticipated to flow directly to any businesses in the forest sector. It is seen as department funding representing department status, and the climate change government departments will tower over forest industry government departments in priority. The budget also allocated 0 million in 2011–12 for the ecoENERGY Retrofit – Homes program to help homeowners make their homes more energy efficient and reduce the burden of high energy costs, with more details on this program to be announced. It also provides assistance to Canada’s manufacturing and processing sector by extending the temporary accelerated capital cost allowance rate for investment in machinery and equipment fortwoadditional years. • 56 Hardwoods Have Resiliency

OBITUARIES Stephen Berry, Sr. Greensboro, N.C.—Stephen Badin Berry, Sr., 78, died recently. Berry attended school at St. Benedicts in Greensboro, preparatory school at the College De Levis in Quebec, Canada, and Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wis. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. in 1953. He subsequently served four years in the U.S. Navy. Berry was an officer and a Naval Aviator, stationed in various locations including Pensacola, Fla., Hutchinson, Kansas, and the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. He was proud of his aircraft launch scenes in the 1954 film “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” filmed on the Oriskany. Steve finished his naval service as a flight instructor. His love of flying continued after the Navy and he was an active pilot until the age of 66. Berry worked in various capacities in the lumber and furniture industry. He was owner of ABW Lumber Industries Inc. He was a past Director of the Appalachian Lumbermen’s Club and a past President of the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Greensboro/ High Point. Berry is survived by his wife of 52 years, Rosemary Furlong Berry, and five children, Shawn Berry, Stephen B. Berry, Jr. and wife Holly Berry, Deborah Berry Castrodale and Grant Castrodale, Brian Berry (Marcie Flores Berry - deceased), Christopher Berry, also granddaughters Bethany Berry, Dara and Logan Castrodale; also siblings Dr. Margaret Berry of Greensboro, Ben and wife Jerry Berry of Charlotte, and Thomas Gabriel and wife Stephanie Berry of Greensboro. The youngest of 13 children, he is predeceased by his parents, Elizabeth Vize Berry and W. N. Berry, and his sisters, Sr. Mary Elizabeth, Katherine, Ann, Theresa; and brothers, Jack, Fr. Thomas, Francis X, Jim, and Joe. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lupus Foundation of America, 2000 L Street, N.W., Suite 410, Washington, D.C. 20036, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 1311 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 310, White Plains, N.Y. 10605, or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Online condolences can be given at www.forbisanddick.com. • Robert A. Gross High Point, N.C.—Robert Argyle Gross, 89, recently passed away. He was born December 15, 1921, in Elkins, W. Va., and he grew up there. He graduated from Elkins High School, where he was a member of the basketball team and a drummer in the school band. He attended Duke University and graduated with a degree in Business Administration in 1943. While at Duke he was a member of the varsity basketball team. He graduated in three and a half years from Duke, so that he could enlist in the Army. During WWII he was in the infantry initially, but was transferred to the Army Air Corps, Air Transport Command soon after his enlistment. After the war he returned to marry Catherine Lunsford Dillon, on February 9, 1946. They were married 64 years until her death last year. After having several jobs in the Hardwood lumber industry in sales, in 1954 he was transferred from Indiana to High Point, N.C., to sell lumber and veneer in this area. He started his own company, Gross Veneer Sales, in the late 1950’s, and worked at it nearly every day until his hospitalization. He had good success selling sliced veneer to the furniture companies in the region, and was a well-respected member of the industry. Gross also served on the High Point City Council in the 1960’s. He and his wife were also members of First Presbyterian Church of High Point since the mid-1950’s, where he served as a deacon, an elder, and chairman of several building committees. He was preceded in death by his parents C.A. and Winifred T. Gross of Elkins, W. Va., and by his wife, Catherine D. Gross. He is survived by his four children: Catherine G. Hendren and her husband, Tom, of Winston-Salem; Robert D. Gross and his wife, Jan, of Lexington; Jill Soderberg and her husband, Leif, of Lake Forest, Ill.; and William T. Gross of High Point. He is also survived by nine grandchildren: Matthew and Cate Hendren, Will and Anne Gross, Alexandra, Peter and Lucy Soderberg, and Tally and Dan Gross. There is one great grandchild, Owen Dillon Lee Gross, and a dear family friend, Gracie Setzer. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to one of the following organizations: Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 725, Kernersville, N.C., 27285; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, P.O. Box 6066, High Point, N.C., 27262; or Hardwood Forestry Fund, 1825 Michael Faraday Drive, Reston, Va., 20190. Online condolences can be made at www.sechrestfunerals.com. • Dwight Lewis Co., Inc. 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