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  • From Page One The Asheville (N. C.) Times, Wed., Dec. 27, 1972 Reuben Robertson Dies At Age Of 93 was an outstanding athlete. From 1900 to 1903 he was a student at the University of Cincinnati Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1903 and was associated with his father's law firm until 1906. On June 7, 1905, he was married to Hope Thomson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Thomson. Mrs. Robertson died Sept. 19, 1958. They had four children, Dr. Robertson and Mrs. Russell Norburn, the former Hope Robertson, both of Asheville; the late Laura Thomson Robertson, and Reuben B. Robertson Jr., who was killed March 13, 1960, when struck by an automobile near his home in Glendale, Ohio, a Cincinnati suburb. M r. Robertson's survivors also include 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. He joined Champion Fibre Co. in 1907 at its lumber and pulpwood operations at Sunburst, N.C., and became the firm's general manager at Canton in 1912, vice president in 1918 and president in 1925. In 1935, Champion Fibre of Canton and the Champion Coated Paper Company of Hamilton, Ohio, were merged under the name of Champion Paper and Fibre Co. and Mr. Robertson became executive Vice president of the new firm. He became president of the company in 1946, succeeding the late Logan G. Thomson, and its board chairman in 1950. At that time his son, Reuben Jr., became president. But in 1955, when his son was appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr. Robertson again assumed the presidency and served in a dual capacity until his son's resignation from the government position in 1957. Mr. Robertson was a master papermaker who pioneered in forest conservation and good forestry practices in an era when other men leveled forests instead of farming them. He built the first mill in the world to make white pulp from chestnut wood, the first in the South to make spruce sulphite and the first to produce high quality white pulp from Southern pine trees. Under his leadership, Champion's Carolina Division at Canton was the first mill to organize a safety committee, the first to' establish a credit union, the first to provide an old-age pension, the first with a wage incentive plan and the first to establish profit sharing. Mr. Robertson's career was studded with 'honors, including the American Forestry Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1952 and the Distinguished Citizen Award by the North Carolina Citizens Association in 1957. Through the years, Mr. Robertson served in a number of top posts in the public and private sectors in North Carolina, the South and the United States. In 1926 he was appointed chairman of the National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce by Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce. And when President Roosevelt called his industry-labor con- erence after the Pearl Harbor attack in December, 1941, Mr Robertson was one of the 12 industrial representatives i n that group. He also was appointed by the war-time President to the National War Labor Board, on which he served until May, 1944. Mr. Robertson's name has been given to a professorship at. North Carolina St»atej University and a dormitory building on the Cullowhee cam pus of Western Carolina University, of which he was chairman of the board of! trustees. On Jan. 31 in Canton, at dedication ceremonies for the Reuben B. Robertson Memorial YMCA building, D w i g h t Thomson, then board chairman of Champion Papers Inc., described Mr. Robertson as "a legend in his own time, a man who has given 60 years of his life to his company and 60 years to his beloved Western North Carolina." Champion Papers is now a division of U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers Inc. With continued expansion of its operations overseas, the company earlier this year announced a new corporate designation as Champion International. Among his numerous associations in the Asheville area's civic, business and professional affairs, Mr. Robertson was a former member of the board of deacons of First Presbyterian Church of Asheville. He served as a director of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. of Winston-Salem, chairman of the board of trustees of the old Western Carolina Teachers College, Western Carolij1* University, and a trustee of fD University of North CaroU"3 and of Asheville School. Mr. Robertson served a^ president of the Asheville Pe" and Plate Club, Yale Club ° Asheville, the Yale Club « Western North Carolina, tne Canton Civitan Club and We Biltmore Forest Country Clu^; He was a member of Zeta FS1 (Yale) and Phi Delta Phi. The J. William Hendon Funeral Service, Asheville, ism charge of funeral arrangements. Mr. Robertson's family has suggested that, ;n lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Reuben B. Robertson Memorial YM^ in Canton. From Page One Ceremonies For Truman Start Today a family spokesman
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When it opened in 1908, the Champion Fibre Company was the largest pulp mill in the world. For 60 years it was under the leadership of Reuben "Mr. Champion" B. Robertson and was a...

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