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R. Stanley Dollar, whose death in New York City, September 24, was reported briefly in the last issue, during his 78 years not only built one of America's greatest shipping lines but was active in finance, lumber, oil, radio, ranching, aviation and other businesses. Mr. Dollar was born July 6, 1880, in the little Canadian town of Bracebridge, Ontario, wl,ere his father, the late, great Capt. Robert Dollar, lTad a lumber caryp. lle was named Stanley after the celebrated reporter who had located Dr. Livingstone in darkest Africa.

The multimillionaire was president of Dollar Associates. Inc., the Robert Dollar Company, and Globe lVireless. Ltd. He was a director in four other companies. He most recently made financial headlines when he won $9 million share in settlement of the court case against the government for seized stock of the Dollar Steamship Line, now the American President Lines. Among the homes he main-

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tainccl was one at Walnut Creek, Calif.. and he hacl been in San Francisco just the week before his death to receive a Propeller Club award as The City's "Shipping Man of the Year." He flew back to his New York City apartment, where his death came on a Saturday morning within half arr hour of a sudden collaose.

It. Stanley Dollar crowdtd enough activity into his everltful life to provide a dozen normally successful careers. The award he so recently won was said not to be for ally par- ticular activity but-simply "to honor Mr. Dollar's-miny contributions over the years."

He began his business career in his father's office at 10 California St. in San Francisco as a 17-year-old office boy ancl bookkeeper. Capt. Robert Dollar's "fleet" at that time was one small schooner, The Newsboy, to carry the lumber frorn the Dollar mill along the California coast. The company's first major ship, The Grace Dollar, was launched in 1898 to carry lumber but was converted to take goldseekers to Alaska. When a long line of Dollar ships, all named after rnembers of the family, was put into the Orient trade in 1902, R. Stanley was left in charge of the San Francisco office as vice-president and general manager. His name became a byword in American and worldwide shipping after 1922. When Capt. Robert Dollar died in 1.932, the fleet consisted of 32 ships and R. Stanley Dollar, then 52, took over complete control of the huge shipping and lumber empire.

"At heart I'm a lumberman," R. Stanley once said; "I happened to need a couple of oceans in my business. That's how I got in shipping."

It was observed in the early 30s that there would have been no American Merchant Marine without the Dollar family. During the depression, the Dollar Steamship Co. pledged its stock for government help. The change of the shipping line's name and the long court suit ensued. The Robert Dollar Company, during the years of litigation befole the $19 million settlement by the government, and Dollar Associates and other firms set up to replace the ship- pir.rg company returned to lumber as their main interests.

Although he was largely out of shipping in later years, R. Stanley's advice and wisdom were still sought in maritime circles and his statesmanship much valued. He had said in recent years that "no man is ever old enough to retire" and followed his own creed. He often declared. "\A/ork is the foundation of all real happiness." Although he hacl spent most of his time in later life in New York, Mr. Dollar remained active in the comDanv businesses in San Francisco.

He leaves his wife, the former Esther Johnson of Oregon; two children: R. Stanley Dollar, Jr., Walnut Creek, and Mrs. Joseph Hickingbotham, San Rafael; five grandchildren: R. Stanley III, Daphne and Debbie Dollar, and Heicli and Joseph Hickingbotham, Jr. llonorary pallbearers included W. Stoy Elliott and C. A. King at the funeral services which were held at tl-re First Presbyterian church in San Rafael, Calif., September 29. Interment was in the l)ollar family mausoleum at Mount Tamalpais cemetery in San Rafael.

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Frank R. Hill, 59, officer of the Rossman Mill and Lumber Co. and one of Southern California's best-known and most-respected retail lumbermen, died September 25 in Peralta hospital, Oakland, after long illness. The recent bulletin of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association called Mr. Hill "an esteemed oldtimer in our industry as a leader in years of service."

Frank R. Hill was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 29, 7899. He served as vice-president, treasurer aird ge.r- eral manager of the Rossman Mill and Lumber Co.- for many years, directing the activity of the lineyard operations from the Wilmington main ofrces. He firit becime ill a year ago when he had to undergo serious brain surgery. He was a member of the Point Firmin Masonic lodge-, the Al Malaikah Shrine club, El Bethel Shrine clubl and the (Continued on Page 40)

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