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Lumberman Wins Golf 1 Trophy
_ Bob fngram, sales manager of the E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., recently won the W. H. France trophy at the Grays Harbor Country Club with a g_ross score of. 78, handicap 17, giving him a net of 61. Clayton Apple, of the GrayJ Harbor Lumber Co., Hoquiam was second with 65 net.
Air Travel
Finding it necessary to be in San Diego first thing in the morning in order to close a deal for a large shipment of a product for which his firm is Pacific Coast sales agent, E. A. Gordon, salesman for the Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, boarded the afternoon Boeing plane at the Oakland airport on June 10, and was on the job bright and early the next morning. After completing his business at San Diego, Mr. Gordon made some business calls at Los Angeles and returned to Oakland with a minimum expenditure of time.
Eight-Year-Old Heroine
San Francisco and Oakland papers re,cently contained accounts of the heroism of Bessie Lee Gunton, eight-year-old daughter of Howard M. Gunton, of MacDonald & Harrington, lumber wholesalers, San Fran.cisco, in saving the life of baby Joan Marshall, aged two, who had fall& into the rvater at Clear Lake Park, Lake County, July 4. When she saw the baby struggling in the water Bessie climbed down a ladder, reached the baby and held her head above water until help came. It is said that Lake County residents have started a movement to obtain an award of a Carnegie medal for Bessie, who is an accomplished swimmer.