The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 11

PAGE ELEVEN FRIDAY, MAY 40, 1963 Me Mas Sem 1 1 33 Studmts To College POWER MOWERS Whv truQol with a tired-out wof n-out mower Alito Dealer when rt't worth bifl mony on a new lawn-boy Bring In your old mower and choose from ix new Ptrfarmtnct-Provtd lawn-BOYS. Then find out how easy lawn care can be! Ailowae and 'her counselor, vouched her character was too. That girl became a member of the Higgins household, which already had two children in school and two pre-schoolers under foot. George bought the -dresses and footed the bills, not only through high school but nursing school as well. The Higgins Foundation was to come later, but that is where it took root.

His next dozen students were helped in an unorganized way. GRADUAL GROWTH Higgins began to look about for others who met what still are requirements for help: Be deserving and needy and a resident of Fern-dale. When he found one, like the engineering student who needed $120 to get through his last six weeks, Higgins simply dug into his pock- Lm thw9Kt far our rv 0towtt Illlllilll i if lilll fvv Deluxe Model mi.M'eiH, set et. if out as needed. The report come to Higgins.

Many a student has received from this man who has served as both a state representative and senator and is now a member of the Michigan Employment Security Corrtmission a blunt letter, "You've got to scratch. You're not riding a gravy train," PRAISES STUDENTS "I haven't had three in the whole bunch," he. says, "who didn't make good. But the kids we pick are the kind who would have made it somehow without me." Maybe, but "the kids" will tell you they couldn't have shot for the moon without him. One of Higgins' particular prides Is the Ferndale newsboy whose hustle and personality intrigued him.

He now holds a i i s-sponsored degree in pharmacy and owns a truly thriving drugstore. "But let me tell you right now," Higgins says, "this is no gravy train. We get most of our leads now from recommendations made by counselors at St. James (catholic) or Lincoln (public) High School. LETTER OF GRATITUDE The only reward Higgins Is looking for is the warmth he feels in his Presbyterian heart when he pulls open a filing cabinet stuffed with wedding and birth announcements and report cards and letters like this from one who is now a teacher: "College has offered me many things.

My father and I are very grateful to you. for sticking with me even In the bad times when my marks must have been disappointing to you. May God bless you." Sir Edmund Hillary, the con' querer of Mt. Everest, has built a school for Sherpa children in the high himalayas. Easy ONE-PULL etarting.

Easily adjustable cutting hefgtrtt Adjustable hi-io safety handle Activated pilot wheel keeps cutting level en any terrain 1 Blade stabilizer for even cutting Drip-free full time lubrication Largest muffler of any mower for quiet power LOOK AT THESE Ni FEATURES Hill mm Hard Times Set Up Foundation To Help Others By A. F. MAHAN. DETROIT (AP) Because George Hlggins never got the education he so longed for as a youth, three young people will pick up college diplomas in June just as 133 Higgins-sponsored students before them. Incidentally, there are another 13 of what he calls "my girls and boys" still in college below the grade of senior.

And there will be more. George Neil Higgins, now 63, ran away from home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula so he could go to high school. His father was dead. His farmer, grandparents thought an eighth-grade education enough for a farm boy. Higgins made it through high school.

Until too late, he wasn't financially able to make it to college, as he had dreamed. But he has seen to it that the dreams of many another poor youngster came true. WEALTHY NOW And this well-to-do stuto dealer Is miffed that a lot of others who have struck it rich aren't doing the same thing. Squinting over the rims of his glasses, Higgins explains between cigar puffs. "It wouldn't cost them a dime.

COLOMA BANDSMEN WILL ATTEND CAMP: Five members of Coloma high school band' have been awarded scholarships by Band Boosters club to participate in Western Michigan university's summer music camp in July. Awarded the scholarships were (from left) Bonnie Kliger, Tim DeRosa, Suzy Meahl, Fred Bogdan and Sue Young. They were chosen by Band Boosters committee and band directors George Smart and Ronald Drum. (Buskirk photo) -y. He was digging so deep by 1946 that his accountant suggested income taxes on money that ended up as handouts was becoming a serious financial drain.

Why, the accountant asked, didn't Higgins set up a foundation which still could educate youngsters and not cost Higgins a dime in income taxes? So they called in Higgins' lawyer. FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Accountant Hugh A. White, Lawyer Dave C. Pence and auto-dealer Higgins became trustees of the Higgins Foundation. They still are, but Higgins is planning to add industrialist Roy G.

Michell, who donated enough stocks in memory of his daughter to give the foundation a sizeable dividend income. Higgins-sponsored students pick their own colleges. They have ranged all the way from Annapolis to Oklahoma. The money goes directly to the college, which ladels 20 DISCOUNT ON LAWN BOY MOWERS It's tax deductible. I'll send them a copy of our (Higgins Foundation) charter, so they can see how it's done.

He adds: "Why. hell, you can't take it with you. Do something wothwhile with it. Give some young people a chance. It's the best idea I know of." This brings on reminiscence of how a poor farm boy ran away to the nearest big town.

It had a high school. It was Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. FIRST JOB Higgin's first job there was a washing walls, scrubbing floors- and tending furnace at the high school. He graduated from this to drugstore soda clerk.

Diploma finally in hand, Higgins struck out for Detroit. He found a job in an auto factory. But shortly he decided there ought to be something better than 65 cents an hour. He chucked that job and took mm ij)tia3tiifi FOR BEST RESULTS TRY CLASSIFIED ADS one as a commission salesman for a Chevrolet dealer. That was in 1923.

George Higgins scored. By 1925 the former soda jerk was the nation's top Chevrolet salesman. He went on to sales manager and finally to owner of his own Pontiac agency in Ferndale, a Detroifsuburb. While he had prospered, not everyone among Ferndale's 31,000 inhabitants had. HOW IT STARTED In 1931.

a counselor at Fern-dale's Lincoln High School telephoned to ask Higgins' help. The daughter of a widow-laundress at a hospital was going to have to drop out of school. The family was out of finances. There wasn't even enough for mother and daughter to stay together. Could Higgins take it up with some of the town's civic clubs? He didn't find any quick help.

The issue was pressing, so George talked it over with his wife, Eva. This girl wanted to be a nurse. Her grades were among the best, Coloma Girl's Drawing Wins In I Contest Penneys' 7) ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY BLOSSOMTIME plans to attend college after graduation. There are 32 oil producing states in the Union. SPECIALS FOR A drawing" that appeared in an Indiana Electric Co.

advertisement Thursday in The "News-Palladium was drawn by tt-year-old Kathy Scheffler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus-tave Scheffler, Coloma. "Miss Scheffler had submitted the drawing in thel "Smart Bird" contest now going on, and it was picked out of hundreds of other drawings to appear in this week's ad. The drawing won for Miss Scheffler the weekly first prize of an electric tooth brush.

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The "Lucky Old Laundromat Automatic Washer Sweepstakes" runs from April 15 to June 15, 1963. During this period, we will have posted a list of 1,000 Laundromat washer serial numbers chosen at random by Westinf house. Each number posted will state a specific prize. 2. Come in, phone or write(to check if yoe have winninc number.

If you do, we will record your name and address and the model and serial number of your washer and send it to Westinghouse Contest Headquarters. Claims for prizes postmarked later than June IS, 1963 will be ineligible. 3. Each winner must aire to allow a Westinghouse representative to check the serial number of his washer in order to claim his prize. Winners must be the original purchasers of the machines.

Used washers resold are not eligible. 4. Winners will be notified by Westinghouse and prizes will be awarded after winners are identified. Place of awards will be at our store. Only one prize will be awarded to a winner.

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