Lettetrs

David Cutler

California Lumber Merchant Dear Dave,

My brother and I noticed, without alarm, the letter to You by a Mr. Don Linford which appeared in your MaY issue. ("Win A Real Live Girl," P. 10).

The promotion to which the gentleman refers was (a) tongue in cheek, (b) quite successful, and (c) enjoyed by all excePt, evidently, Mr. Linford.

We have no comment to make other than it is always true that anyone can find something nasty in anything if he will try hard enough.

Some people would undoubtedly put diapers on the crotches of trees if given the chance to do so.

Jim Cooper Cooper, Davis & Co. Los Angeles, Calif.

David Cutler

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Dave, Thanks for the personal.

Old Vienna is still the same -many things did not change in the last hundred years. Like always it is a beautiful citY. Going from here to Hungary, Yugoslavia and Greece and Turkey.

Greeting:s, Morris Tropp Vienna, Austria

California Lumber Merchant

Dear Dave.

Thanks for your write uP in the June issue about the Millwork Institute convention in 1926.

Well, Dave, I have decided to retire as I will be 82 on November 21st this year, and I want to quit while I am ahead. 'We have a house at Twain Harte, above Sonora, that we will settle down in right beside the lake, and do a little visiting and fishing.

I tried to retire when I was 80 but the boss wouldn't hear anything about it, as I was still active and healthy, but I am breaking in a 'man to take rny place.

It's 31 years since I first left California for New York for White Pine Sash Company of Spokane, Washington. I was selling my patented wood window and covered all the conventions east of the Rockies. I left New York December 16, 1937 and came to Miami where I have been ever since. Of eourse we have been back every bouple of yearn as my wife has three sisters in Stockton and my son and gtandson and two great grandchildren are in San Fra^ncisco, so we will be back near them. I have a retired brother in San Jose. Be seeing you in California.

Bill O'Keefie Miami, Florida.

California Lumber Merchant Dear Dave,

Thank you for senditrg me the June issue of California Lumber Merchant, which was very interesting, and for which is enclosed $1 for it' and Your July issue please.

The Hoo-IIoo party was very pleasant and renewal of, long acquaintances was quite a treat. Beet wishes.

Sincerely,

Chas. A. Peirce Hollyrrood, Calif.

The Key

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Vern

Rockport Redwood Donotes House

Sometimes it's not so easv to promote a product and other timei an opp,,rtunity occurs that seems tailored just for vou.

Such was the case of the Rockport Redwood Co. in Cloverdale. Calif.. when thev u'ere approa<'hed br KQEI). lhr. Sun Francisco educational television station. The TV station's l2th annual fund-raisins auction was fast drar.r'ing near. \\'orrld Ror-kport care to donate some merr.handi-.e. perhaps some lumber, to thc station, prcceeds from the sale of which would sustain their nationally.acclaimed program ? It's taxdeductible, too. Please?

Well. perhaps Rockport could donate enough redwood {or a lence. Nlatter o{ {act.

why not an entire home. built entirely of redwood !

So it was agreed that Rockport would donate one o{ their pre-{abricated Rockport Redwood Homes, a $3,500 modified version of the o'EurekaL" pattern.

The KQED auction was first started in 1955 in an effort to save the station, one of the most important of its kind in the nation, from early extinction. Normally, KQED is a sedate, non-profit community operation beaming daily to school children and adults. It is only at this one time of year that the station lets down its hair and brazenll. solicits the advertising and publicity proponents they shun at anl' other time. But the station benefits. and the community does too, and Rockport Redrvood receivt's invaluable publicity.