Chairman, acting president, and chief executive officer, Roberts, Sanford, and Taylor Hardware, Sherman, Texas. Family background; establishment of hardware business in Sherman, 1881; incorporation of business, 1897; employment as warehouser and truck driver for hardware wholesale company; description of store inventory; father’s appointment as co-manager of business, 1915; comments on “Texoma” trademark and sporting goods products; appointment as vice- president and sales manager, 1939; description of personnel; comments on reasons for liquidating company and problems of wholesale hardware and sporting goods businesses; description of expansion into Dallas/Fort Worth market; views on company liquidation, 1986; comments on sales volume and distribution area; financing of business; comments on employee relations; dealings with Labor department and OSHA; civic and trade association activities; comments on business competitors.