Adolph Cheek
Private funeral services were held in Chico for Adolph Cheek, 74, University of California alumnus who attained prominence as an authority of crude rubber production in Malaya, it was learned here today.
Mr. Cheek, who established several Pacific Coast track records while attending UC and Oakland High School, died Sunday after a prolonged illness.
Spending most of his life in Malaya, he was for many years in charge of the Singapore buying branch of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He also made many exploratory trips for the company to Mexico, Central and South America and Africa in search of suitable locations for new plantations. The mammoth Firestone plantation in Liberia was the result of one such trip.
In 1941, the US Government commissioned Mr. Cheek to try to develop additional sources of rubber in British Guiana in an effort to alleviate the then critical shortage. He discovered and brought into production large areas of jungle covered rubber plantations there which had been abandoned for 20 or 30 years by their British owners.
Considered his greatest contribution to the rubber industry was Mr. Cheek's discovery of the cause of Red Spot - a fungus infection causing extensive damage each hear to sheet rubber. He introduced practices in the processing of latex which prevented this infection and saved the industry enormous annual losses.
Besides his widow, the former Lou Mills of Berkeley, he leaves two sons, M. A. Cheek Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y. and Dr. David B. of Chico, and two daughters, Mrs. Cheryle C. Reese of Walnut Creek and Mrs. Horace Fraser of Buffalo.
Berkeley Daily Gazette 3 Jan 1951
Private funeral services were held in Chico for Adolph Cheek, 74, University of California alumnus who attained prominence as an authority of crude rubber production in Malaya, it was learned here today.
Mr. Cheek, who established several Pacific Coast track records while attending UC and Oakland High School, died Sunday after a prolonged illness.
Spending most of his life in Malaya, he was for many years in charge of the Singapore buying branch of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He also made many exploratory trips for the company to Mexico, Central and South America and Africa in search of suitable locations for new plantations. The mammoth Firestone plantation in Liberia was the result of one such trip.
In 1941, the US Government commissioned Mr. Cheek to try to develop additional sources of rubber in British Guiana in an effort to alleviate the then critical shortage. He discovered and brought into production large areas of jungle covered rubber plantations there which had been abandoned for 20 or 30 years by their British owners.
Considered his greatest contribution to the rubber industry was Mr. Cheek's discovery of the cause of Red Spot - a fungus infection causing extensive damage each hear to sheet rubber. He introduced practices in the processing of latex which prevented this infection and saved the industry enormous annual losses.
Besides his widow, the former Lou Mills of Berkeley, he leaves two sons, M. A. Cheek Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y. and Dr. David B. of Chico, and two daughters, Mrs. Cheryle C. Reese of Walnut Creek and Mrs. Horace Fraser of Buffalo.
Berkeley Daily Gazette 3 Jan 1951
Adolph Cheek
Private funeral services were held in Chico for Adolph Cheek, 74, University of California alumnus who attained prominence as an authority of crude rubber production in Malaya, it was learned here today.
Mr. Cheek, who established several Pacific Coast track records while attending UC and Oakland High School, died Sunday after a prolonged illness.
Spending most of his life in Malaya, he was for many years in charge of the Singapore buying branch of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He also made many exploratory trips for the company to Mexico, Central and South America and Africa in search of suitable locations for new plantations. The mammoth Firestone plantation in Liberia was the result of one such trip.
In 1941, the US Government commissioned Mr. Cheek to try to develop additional sources of rubber in British Guiana in an effort to alleviate the then critical shortage. He discovered and brought into production large areas of jungle covered rubber plantations there which had been abandoned for 20 or 30 years by their British owners.
Considered his greatest contribution to the rubber industry was Mr. Cheek's discovery of the cause of Red Spot - a fungus infection causing extensive damage each hear to sheet rubber. He introduced practices in the processing of latex which prevented this infection and saved the industry enormous annual losses.
Besides his widow, the former Lou Mills of Berkeley, he leaves two sons, M. A. Cheek Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y. and Dr. David B. of Chico, and two daughters, Mrs. Cheryle C. Reese of Walnut Creek and Mrs. Horace Fraser of Buffalo.
Berkeley Daily Gazette 3 Jan 1951
Private funeral services were held in Chico for Adolph Cheek, 74, University of California alumnus who attained prominence as an authority of crude rubber production in Malaya, it was learned here today.
Mr. Cheek, who established several Pacific Coast track records while attending UC and Oakland High School, died Sunday after a prolonged illness.
Spending most of his life in Malaya, he was for many years in charge of the Singapore buying branch of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He also made many exploratory trips for the company to Mexico, Central and South America and Africa in search of suitable locations for new plantations. The mammoth Firestone plantation in Liberia was the result of one such trip.
In 1941, the US Government commissioned Mr. Cheek to try to develop additional sources of rubber in British Guiana in an effort to alleviate the then critical shortage. He discovered and brought into production large areas of jungle covered rubber plantations there which had been abandoned for 20 or 30 years by their British owners.
Considered his greatest contribution to the rubber industry was Mr. Cheek's discovery of the cause of Red Spot - a fungus infection causing extensive damage each hear to sheet rubber. He introduced practices in the processing of latex which prevented this infection and saved the industry enormous annual losses.
Besides his widow, the former Lou Mills of Berkeley, he leaves two sons, M. A. Cheek Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y. and Dr. David B. of Chico, and two daughters, Mrs. Cheryle C. Reese of Walnut Creek and Mrs. Horace Fraser of Buffalo.
Berkeley Daily Gazette 3 Jan 1951
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