CLIPPER FUND, INC.
                      CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO RULE 497(j)

     The undersigned on behalf of Clipper Fund , Inc. ("the Registrant") hereby
     certifies that the form of prospectus and Statement of Additional
     Information that would have been filed under Rule 497(c) would not have
     materially differed from that contained in the Registrant's most recent
     post-effective amendment to its registration statement. The text of such
     amendment to the registration statement was filed electronically.

Dated:  May 5, 2008

Clipper Fund, Inc.


By: /s/ Thomas D. Tays
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Thomas D. Tays, Secretary