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The News-Register, McMinnville, OR., March 7, 2002, page ____
Includes portrait

Howard Jefferson Adams
1910-2002

A memorial service for Howard Jefferson Adams of Dayton will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Dayton First Baptist Church. Interment will be in Spring Creek Cemetery, Goldendale, Wash.
Mr. Adams died March 3, 2002, in Willamette Valley Medical Center, McMinnville. He was 91.
He was born Dec.29, 1910, in Klickitat County, Wash., the son of Thomas D. and Alice E. Duffield Adams. He was educated in the Horseshoe Bend School District in Washington. The family moved to Centerville, Wash., in 1922. As a youth, he was gifted in mechanics, science and math.
He worked for Hyster. He joined the Navy in 1943 and was trained in a diesel school at the Great Lakes Training Center. He then served on a landing ship marine repair ship, which took him to areas such as the Yangtze River in China. After World War II, he attended Multnomah College for more than a year and Portland State College for a year. He graduated with honors from Oregon State University in 1955, with a degree in industrial engineering. After completing college, he worked for Hyster and for Publishers Paper, Oregon City.
Mr. Adams worked in a metal stamping shop in Newberg, including work on a machine that was to automatically play a violin. He worked in his own machine shop in Portland in 1947-48. He worked for the Boeing Corp. on the Bomark missile and on a precursor of the Boeing 707 aircraft.
He also worked in the Bremerton Shipyards in Washington, conducting thermodynamic studies of ships' power trains and working to minimize the noise and vibration produced in the propulsion Systems. He also developed ideas for improving efficiency in the internal combustion engine.
He had lived on his 17-acre farm in Dayton since retiring in 1976.
He is survived by a brother, Hugh Adams of Salem.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Lee Adams, on March 1, and by three sisters.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Dayton First Baptist Church in care of Macy & Son Funeral Directors, 135 N.E. Evans St., McMinnville, OR 97128.