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Wedawday, 3Iay 11, I960 THE HAMMOND TIMES Page D-9 RICH 50 A' EAR HISTORY HANSEL and GRETEL United Boiler Adds New Tractor Division Celebrating Woodmar's 5th Anniversary With 5th Anniversary Specials The values listed here also include many high priced sets from famous matters of shorts and top sets. Buy now and save money on hot weather clothing for your youngsters. "that's his father and said quietly AKORDA PLEATS SWING INTO By BLAINE MA HZ Tune Staff Writer A 50th anniversary itory on Hammond United Boiler Heating ts. Foundry Co. presents a priority problem involving head on collision between hard new.

and rich feature material. The feature ingredients are plentiful. Acorn to oaks growth, a business and a family tale wealthy in the early history and development of the Calumet Region. These point the way for a look into the past. BUT JUST as compelling in the news sense is something new at 4909 Hohman The United Tractor and Material Handling the boss.

Family business in really all encompassing when applied to United Boiler. L. R. Domke is general superintendent; E. H.

Mester-harm is -thief engineer and assistant secretary and George Sivore is a very genial sales manager. All three are family by marriage. The late J. J. Mehan, one time North Township Trustee, served as a director and purchasing agent of the company.

He was a brother-in-law to C. N. Nau. A son, J. M.

Mehan was with United for a time and still retains tenure as a director of the company. Margaret Nau Domke is treasurer of United and has been with her One of many styles that creates the "pretty girl" look. Swishy skirt permanently pleated II around, with attached bloomer and coordinated sleeveless blouse or crop tops. Exotic Altec drip-dry print, pastel plaids and polka dots. BLACKSMITH SHOP in an old western movie? No, it is picture of original building in which the United Boiler Heating and Foundry Co.

began operations a little more than 50 years ago. Things have changed since then at the 4909 Hohman Ave. location. equipment being born as 50 years of existence of United Boiler father's company for more than 25 '3 Toddltrt 2 to 4 $3 SilCI J-6 Silil 7.14 4 at the same location goes Into C. N.

Nau married Elizabeth record books. SHORT SETS EDITOR'S NOTE: United Boiler Heating and Foundry Co. is one of five Hammond firms celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and which will be honored tonight at the annual dinner meeting of the Hammond Chamber of VALUES FOR BOYS, TOO! Murnighan of Bloomington. Two of her nephews, Louis White and Kenneth White, affiliated with United. Her brother, the late Bernard Murnighan, and a sister, Alice Murnighan, had early affiliation with the company.

No mention of the veterans at United would be complete without the name of Miss L. E. Dahlkamp, private secretary to C. N. and office manager.

She is also secretary of the company. T. T. Nau and C. J.

Nau both spent many years with the company Bsy'i Sim 3-7 Two-Pnc SHORTS AND SHIRT SET. I muni II. Hit Wl 1 1 I J.J LA 1 '3 lay's Sites 3-14 WALKING SHORTS AND United Tractor is a brand new division of United Boiler and represents a near radical departure in that for the first time in its but left to become successes in I Credit Card Pullmen Crtirgs or leyewiy its other businesses locally. They are history the company now has own product. IT' sons of C.

N. nse and Qretel In its first 50 years, United has been primarily a fabricator in metals, building items to customer specifications in a variety of shapes and sizes. Now it will build and market its own line of industrial tractors and platform trucks. These are of the commercial type seen bustling around airports and handling huge quantities of material in factories on Vutstanding Children Apparel 5nops If 'lme' MIKE NAU, as spokesman for United is proud of the family set up which he believes has given United a long leg up in the company's "personal touch" policy in dealing with others. He is also proud of the record of United as a business and of the members of the firm personally in community civic affairs.

CONVENIENT LOCATIONS I- TW0 1 Woodmar She pping Center HAMMOND "uu Ol'u'0': "Ve have always felt that Ham- 9:30 A dealers organization is aireaay m0nd and United Boiler were liked operative. A number of tractors by something much more personal have been completed and work is 'than a business location. This is 3520 Ridge Road LANSING Opsn Daily 5:30 Monday and Friday to 9 FREE PARKING IN LANS THEATRE LOT Frt. Moa Thuri proceeding daily on building up an our home just as much as it is the inventory. FREE PARKING FOR OVER 1.500 CARS president; Mel Fath, tractor shop foreman, and Mike Ulrick, asst.

foundry supt. Ulrick is the oldest employe of United in point of service. United is one of several 50-year Hammond firms being honored today by the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. (Hammond Times Photo) home of any resident and we are aware of an obligation to our home city," he asserted. OLD AND NEW blend at United Boiler Heating and Foundry Co.

Sparkling new is the platform truck in the foreground, one model of line of industrial tractors which mark step of company into a new field-manufacture of its own product. Looking at the vehicle are Mrs. Eyleen Snell, head billing clerk; Donald N. (Mike) Nau, executive vice The records show that feeling For Independence U. S.

Bonds goes much beyond the lip service stage. United executives have assumed leadership roles in many civic campaigns. The company has industrial leader was only 10. The i board since it was organized in result was that Nau was working! 1940. His record for fair play in and supporting a family before that capacity has gained state-wide an outstanding record in United Fund, Red Cross and other similar undertakings.

Perhaps due partly to the athletic background of the executive vice president, United has sponsored teams in Softball and other sports. The company has a good labor record. This is important from the production viewpoint and in another vein when Nau reports that at times as Enthusiasm for the new tractors and their possibilities is a tangible thing at the busy United plant. Everyone is looking forward to the first public display at a major dealer's show in Los Angeles. Initial effort is being centered on the Chore Boy, a platform truck model.

This bright yellow beauty, while designed for sterner things, looks like it might be a lot of fun for dad and the kids on a Sunday afternoon rip around the block. But while United people are obviously happy about putting their own "baby" on the market and taking new step into the business world they are quick to point out that development of United Tractor will not have the slighest effect on the continued operations of United Boiler. That' easily understandable. United Boiler has been a successful and progressing industry for In The Woodmar Shopping Center Starting Thursday, May 12th he was a dozen years in' the world. C.

X. XAU PRESENTS an impressive figure of what appears to be a vanishing breed in the United Statesthe self made man. He was an early friend, ho helped and depended for help in return, from 9:30 A. M. to 9 P.

M. recognition. United Boiler helped fill gaps in Hammond in more ways than one through the years, as you may have noticed in walking across manhole covers on the city streets. Other items made in the firm's structural, plate, machine shop and foundry operations have included furnaces and heating equipment of all kinds, sluice gates, brake shoes, stacks, breechings, hoppers, duet work, tanks. Summing it up the company is engaged in fabrication of iron and steel products on a very broad scale and of a new line of commercial tractors.

Only time will tell how broad that scale will become. many as aw men nave Deen em- guch rPgjon pioneers as Peter Meyn, ployed in field work installing: Murray Turner, Ray Daley Sr. items fabricated in the plant. and Bm Beatty. His story and the Iron is a basic item at United i story of United puts the Nau family and iron was a basic component in the same Hammond tradition in the early make-up of C.

N. Nau. as the McEwens, the Paxtons, the He came to the United States from Hills and the other pioneers who Celebrating Woodmar Shopping Center's 5th Anniversary! 50" years and company officials 'in his native Germany at the age of 2. His father became a coal miner and died in that taxing occupation when the future Calumet Region breathed life Into a new community. C.

N. Nau has served as chairman of the North Township draft tend to see that progress continues, SENSIBLE business people Woodmar Shopping Center HIE ME mm Savings of 30, 40 and 50 (some even more) on floor sample, one-of-a-kind and odd lot furniture for the next 3 days. You've seen these beautiful pieces on our floor, now, during our Anniversary Sale, buy them at big reductions. Hurry for these first come first served Sale starts at 9:30 A. M.

REGULAR NOW NOW REGULAR would do anything else with an operation whose sales now gross in excess of $3 million and the United people are very sensible. Entrance into the commercial tractor field and plans being made for a development in the next 50 years of the established business of United commensurate with that of the first half century are a quick look into the future. Now into the past. United Boiler Heating and Foundry Co. was formed in June rf 1909 through a merger of the North Star Foundry and the Hammond Boiler Works.

United, judging from old records, originally was not too much of an acorn. But then neither were many of the small Industries which, went on to become stout giants in the industrial growth of the Calumet Region. jhe firm started with orders totalling exactly $2,500 and with a wprk crew consisting of a dozen men. Over the years the sales have Riiown to that J3 million gross previously mentioned. The average nilmber of persons on the production payroll is 250.

There are some mighty green leaves on the resultant oak tree in the shape of an annual payroll in excess of $1 million, local purchases over the million dollar mark. J-'ROM A FIRST building, bearing a startling resemblance to a blacksmith shop in a television western, United has now grown to several modern buildings providing 12P.O0O square feet of work area under roof on a six acre site. As mentioned before, the people who rifh United are very sensible. There is! room for expansion. The story of United is also the stry of the Nau family, pioneer residents of the area who were, are and show every indication of continuing to be an integral part of the community both on the business and civic basis.

S'au and United became synonymous in 1916 when C. N. Nau left a top prestige job with the New York Central railroad to come into the company. He acquired controlling Interest the following year and has remained as president of United ever since. His impact on the local business scene was such that he acquired the nickname of "Mr.

Hammond Industry." A year later a brother, Felix J. Neu came into the firm, also from the New York Central railroad. still holds the title of vice president emeritus. That started a long line of family ownership and operation. The progress of United over the years is indicative of the wise decision of N.

Nau to make the business a family proposition. Most of the family members have elected to remain with United despite offers and opportunities to take their varied talents to other fields. Don-Bid N. (Mike) Nau, son of the president of the firm currently holds the title of executive vice president and general manager. But make no mistake about it, C.

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$0 POO Mapl. finish, 9 on. to sell JEWBGftRYS CHARGE ACCOUNT You buy what you and your family need when you need it! You save time, effort and waiting! You don't need ready cash on hand! You can take advantage of Newberry's values at any time! 1 ITlEE SVIHH 'ill Nefarrv ChT Pe" yUr WHO WAS dubbed "Scrap SHOWN HERE ARE ONLY A FEW OP OUR OUSTANDING FURNITURE ITEMS ON SALE SORRY: THESE VALUES PRICED SO LOW ALL HEMS CASH AND CARRY Iron." in his football days at Ham mond High is the nominal man in charge of operations. Pressed for further explanation of the United set up he pointed to a picture of.