A non-hippie happening-work

' There was a "happening" in San Francisco recently at the offices of The Robert Dollar Co. and although most people connect tohappenings" with the recent plague o{ hippies that has descended upon that fair city, this o'happening" was entirely the opposite. This o'happening" was to honor a man that worked! Worked for an entire half century, as a matter of fact.

The man is William Stoy Elliott, Dollar's, Glendale, Oregon, salesmanager, who celebrated 50 continuous years with the respected San Francisco-based firm.

Although Stoy has spent mo6t of his career either in the Orient or in Oregon, he was born in Sausalito, Calif. He joined Robert Dollar as an office boy in 1917, following graduation from a San Francisco business college, and it wasn't long before he caught the attention of management and started moving up. He also soon caught the attention of a young lady by the name of Marian Howard and they shortly announced their engagement.

Meanwhile, the company was expanding its operations throughout the Far East and in 1921, Dollar offered Stoy a chance to participate. Stoy reluctantly kissed his promised goodbyc for the time being and sailed for Shanehai.

For the next nineteen years he worked for Dollar in China with only a few visits home, but on the first one he and Marian were married in Oakland and she returned with him to the Orient.

Stoy moved up steadily and by 1926, he was sales manager for all Northern China and when the war started he was the Oriental Manager, located in Shanghai. There he was caught by the surprise Japanese attack and spent two long years in an intern camp before he was exchanged.

ln \946 Stoy n'ent back to Shanghai to pick up the pieces, but it was only three years before the comrnunist take over put an end to his activities there. This time he got out ahead. In 1950 he was named salesmanger of their big lumber complex et Glendale, Oregon, where he's still going strong.

Stoy and Marian now reside at nearby Grants Pass, Oreeon, and have raised three fine children, Bill, Joanne and Corinne, now grown up, married and making the Elliotts grandparents six times over. Bill, their first, is now a captain with United Air Lines, piloting a jet plane, while Joanne is living in San Francisco and Corinne in Cincinnati.

An active sportsman, Stoy sailed S class yachts as a boy, became a fine billiard player, an excellent golfer and was among the tops as a bowler. He still plays golf with a deadly eye (his handicap is ll, nine more than it was at his best) as many lumbermen around Glendale can readily attest.

R. F. Nikkel Nomes Two

Elmo McGraw and George Kavoores have been appointed to sales with the R. F. Nikkel Lumber Co., wholesale lumber and millwork manufacturers. Robert F. Nikkel, president, reports.

"Both men have had extensive backgrounds in the distribution of wholesale lumber and millwork products. McGraw began his career in the tim,ber fields of southern Oregon in 1935. Since, he has worked in various phases of production and distribution of West Coast lumber products.

Kavoores com'es from the Hines Lumber Co. of Chicago, Ill., where he worked for several years in the wholesale lumber and millwork department.

Porticleboord in Door Stondord

Particleboard has been included in the recently issued Interim Industry Standard for Hardwood Veneered Flush Doors, published bv the National Woodwork Manufacturers Association, the trade association for manufacturers of hardwood veneered flush doors. The standard is a gauge by which to measure the quality and performance of flush doors.

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