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J. G. Frampton, salesman for the wholesale sash, door and general millwork department of Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, is a man who has a background of experience that equips him well for his present position.

He learned the carpentry trade after leaving school, working at it from 1908 to 1914. From 1914 to l9l8 he was with the Gordon-Van Tine Company, retail lumber concern of Davenport, Iowa, and from 1918 to 1923 was associated rvith Weyerhaeuser & Denkman Company of Davenport. With this latter organization he was in charge of the department which financed and built houses.

ln 1923 he came to Oakland and was put in charge of the nill department of Tilden Lumber & Mill Company. He was with Lannom Bros., Oakland from the fall of 1924 to 1930, when he started with the National Mill & Lumber Company, Oakland, selling millwork. In June 1933 he became credit manager for Tilden Lumber & Mill Company and associated companies, remaining in this position for five yqars. He joined the Hogan organization in October, 1938.

Mr. Frampton is married and lives in Oakland. He is the father of a son and daughter who are both married. His hobby is horseback riding.

In his work he travels the San Joaquin Valley. Coast Counties, San Francisco and Oakland territory.

P. \(/. Combs, Sr. to Locate in So. California

Elsewhere in this issue is an article, "Improved Sales Performance," by P. W. Combs, Sr., who is widely known among building material dealers in the territory east of the Rockies.

Mr. Combs recently came to the West Coast and decided to locate here permanently. For many years he has been a popular speaker at dealer conventions; to dealers' sales stafis on subjects of merchandising, salesmanship and advertising; and has written many articles on these subjects which have appeared in business and trade magazines.

A class in Salesmanship at University College, U,niversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, is now receiving instruction from Mr. Combs, who teaches from a background of long experience as sales and advertising manager for such companies as Swift & Co., The Atlas Portland Cement Co., The Pennsylvania-Dixie Cement Corporation, and as Market Consultant with numerous other companies.

A. N. LOFGREN CALLS ON MILLS

A. N. Lofgren, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, returned recently from a trip to the Pacific Northwest, where he made contact with his mill connections. He found the mills with fairly good order files and optimistic about business for 1939.

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