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The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 9

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Eight Men And Two Women Named i i loKeceive success htory Awards NEW YORK Eight men and two women who rose from lowly origins to peaks of business! success were named for honors and Florida's largest landowner, and did housework while J. Donovan Forney, 57, of Ft. (attending college. She became i Collins, ofjsecretary to Oliver Ritz-Woller, Forney Industries, Inc. Because of King-Bee, and two Wednesday by the Free Enter- of a family breakup when he was years later married him.

He died! prise Awards Association. I a child, he worked on farms for They will receive "American board, and at 11, had only th'rd- iccess Story" awards at cere- grade schooling, but ran away Success monies here Dec. 11. Starting as farmers, reporters, e'gar rollers and in odd jobs, the 10 were cited for "achieving suc- cess despite adversity, through in- dustry, sacrifice and ethics, sym- bolizing the success possible un- der our free enterprise system." The association is a non-profit, non-political agency set up to pro- mote American democracy and! its free-errerprise system. and put himself through college, working as harvester, farmer, college barber and in other jobs.

He invented a soldering iron, bartered models for food, diversified industrial firm bag sales in the multi-millions, with 1,500 employes. His in 1939. In the 14 years since, she has expanded King Bee's out- put of safety and lighting uets to new highs. Dudley D. Sherman.

68. of Chi- cago, president of National Chem- ical and Mfg. Co. The son of Russian immigrants, be was brought to this country at the age of eight, lived on New York's' Bonnell Sauls, East side, worked as ly and oilier jobs, earn- jjing a Columbia teachers college DALLAS lina Gov. Its chairman is Talbot T.

head of a Maryland new chain. Baltimore" Business WmlantT and one of Americas oldest any founder his death newspapers, the 23vear oldl she ntrodueed new products? doubled plant capacity to make the company the world's largest independent aluminum extruding to be pan 01 the world, part of jihe dynamic new South, part of their own new day." i Dgl degree. He taught school in Pat-j Bamboo rimmed sunglasses don 't think we are doing a rthm I Says Schools Must Do Better Job (AP) North Carp-jbut the South has the "We have too few teachers--not! "If North Carolina has demon- Terry Sanford saidjhe said. "Time and pay, not enough security, Crated noihin" else the events of Wednesday be does not think thejcharge you with the duty of de-inot enough freedom, not enougbJthe past two "years have demon- South is doing a good job of pre-jliyering the answer to "all thejstanding." Sanford said. trated that the people will sup- paring a new generation of school people." jclasses are generally too port educat'on that they do ui- children for a new day.

Sanford pointed out that libraries are generally the need, that they do He spoke before the Comnus-! ha i (he students in the South dojlarge enough." i believe in preparing for the fu- 1 oa Schools of the )not school He added The Tar Hee! governor also had i ture of their boys and girls, and (boiunern Association Oi na not half enough of the able'a word of praise for his own state'that they will make the necessary Schools. Sanford is chairman go to or techni-'which'recently increased schoolisacrifices to their of the Southern Regional Educa- ca! sc 00 ls. 'appropriations' (schools." ition Board. The governor said he did not that Southerners forsake good things of the I past, but we do need to free our- selves of the weakening bondage which has held us down Our children must prepare themselves raised was newspapers, the 235-year Maryland Gazette. The 10 winners: Walter Tuohy, of Cleveland, president of the Chesapeake Ohio Railway and subsidiaries.

Born on Chicago's South Side, the, son of a police sergeant. Tuohy left high school at 16 arid went to night classes for nine years to earn a law degree, while working at odd jobs in the daytime, later ecr N. for three years, be- fore becoming a salesman, and beginning his rise to eminence in the chemical and paint field. Harold F. Coffej N.

president Manufacturing Union Mirror! Nuwoods. ture Manufacturing, Inc. Reared! I I I I firm, witn million annually in on a farm ie worked sales, and 1,100 employes. Lilburn S. Barksdale, 54, of Los A owner of Barksdale Valves International Manufactur- ing Corp.

raised on a cattle ranch, he was a laborer and earn- father in making furniture. i built ed an engineering degree. Hei built Kent-Coffey from a small shop into a leading producer of bedroom and other furniture. Dr. Charles D.

Bradley, 55, of Hamden, president, found- er and owner Bradlev Semi- the Bar ale or a Corp, New Haven, jtrom small shop to Conn Tne son of a railroad engi- leadership road industry. John D. MacArihur, 65, ownerip rom i nence producing various of Bankers Life Casualty of valves Chicago, the insm-j Mrs Zella Ritz-Woller, He" earned an ele? 5 He worked after school as soda-jerk and newsboy to help ance group and various other en-Elmhurst, 111., president of King terpmes in Illinois and Florida, Bee Mfg. and Ritz Products, The son" of a pastor he worked of Belhvood. 111.

The a and phvsics de- with used eauipment i i i 111 ICC C-, i-LDtu a laborer as a youth to help sup- ter of Hungarian immigrant coal; a borrowed 55 000 and built port a family of seven He was ajmiaer, she began taking jobs at- major producer rec- newspaper copy boy before or- ganizing his first insurance firm in the depression. He is rated one of the ntaion's richest men. i the age of 10, left high school to itifiers and assemblies help support famny and save for business college she worked James ohio 66 of Worth Dres ident of Su- BOTTLED IIV BOND IOO PROOF as a stogtt roller a cigar burban Motor reight; jn Co- llumbus, Ohio. A farm boy and larmy engineer, he earned a de- jgree in animal husbandry. When cholera ruined his hog raising, he began hauling milk and sup- i plies for farmers.

From a one- Iman, one-truck start he built his trucking company into a concern jwith 1,000 employes and 30 termi- jnals. serving 5,000 communities, land an annual gross of BOTCHED THE JOB i AREZZO. Italy (AP)-A pair of thieves broke into a jewelry store and made off in a fancy sports car with S16.000 worth of mer- chandise, but they botched the Job. Police found the car aban- Idoned and most of the loot in it. and straw boater add a tropical flavor to summer sports collec- i Sanford said.

"For that matter I tion shown recently in London. ont he schools across 'America are doing what they are capable of doing." He said the South needs "our own and new kind of Emancipa- tion Proclamation which will set us free to grow and build, set us free from the drag of poor peo- IProbable Cause non rror T7 1 1 and Furni-lround In raise his Pretense Case He BURLINGTON, N. C. (AP)-No probable cause was found at a Municipal Court hearing Wednes- day for James Adkins, 36, of Huntington, W. charged with false pretense in a case involving merchandise coupon books.

Charges- had been filed Nov. 14 by two Burlington men, Joe H. Perry and Fred Lamb. poor'schools, and from hate, from demogoguery This kind of proclamation can be written in one word: It must be the kind of education which seeks excellence, reaches all, looks to the future." Sanford said members of the Southern Association must show jthe way. "The" South has its problems.

Firm To Double They testified that they had Plailt At purchased coupon books for S4 each in return for which they were to receive goods or services amounting to $40 from several Burlington business firms. They complained that some merchants refused to honor the coupons. Adkins had headed a team that spent several days in the city making arrangements with mer- chants and selling some 200 books to the public. After hearing the testimony Judge C. C.

Gates Jr. ruled that Adkins was not guilty of evil in- tent in cases where merchants did not honor the coupons. INVITES SCIENTISTS STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Swedish atomic scientists have been invited to visit the Soviet atomic city of Dubna, 80 miles north of Moscow, the Swedish news agency TT reports. Wall Street Views By JACK LEFLER AP Business News Writer been considerable trading volume around the 650 level. So the mar- RALEIGH (AP) Gov.

Terry Sanford announced Wednesday that AMP Inc. is doubling its manufacturing plant at Gary, and plans to add more than 100 new employes early next year. "North Carolina is happy to lave such a company as AMP Inc. as an integral member of its growing industrial family and we are glad to see it expand as so many other Carolina-based firms' are doing this year," the gover- nor said in a statement. Plant manager Harvey White- hurst informed the governor wom- in workers will continue to be mployed at the Cary plant for ight assembly work, involved in lie production of special electric wiring products 'for electronic processing machines.

a better You can provide security and peace-of-mind for your family with the right kind of planning. American National's Trust Department can help. Come in for a confidential discussion. men can ational AND TRUST COMPANY OF MtraUf fedtrol Deposit huuronM Corporation RIVERSIDE BRANCH SLAIN OFFICE: Main at Market FIVE FORKS BRANCH NOR-DAN BRANCH NEW YORK, The stock ket may work slightly lower over market has reached another cruc-jthe next few days before going on ial point--much as do the congestion area. But teams which have to win a certain from the appearance of things game to stay in the championship now there would seem to be a good possibility of a further mar- ket rally before the year-end." Benson B.

Sloan Jr. of Harris, Upham emphasizing than an uninterrupted rise of the cur- race. The market, as measured by the Jones industrial average, has hopped over the 650 level. This, in U.e minds of same Wall Street- ers. is an area where the market rent ex te is unusual, says a i could have its advance snagged, norma i correction at this point at ieast temporarily.

wou be considered an extremely These experts figure that at thisj healt development. prices have risen so high Thonison and so fast tnat there could de- McKinn it doesn fore a situation which more an retum to the unre will prefe. sell ond take. inflation psycnology of profits than to buy. earlier this year, and consequent- serious and that prices will bej.

higher a month from now. After an advance of about 100 'points by the industrial average i since the Cuban crisis was at its i most critical period, some techni- correction and profit-taking Us probably in order, comments analyst E. Scruggs of the brokerage firm Goodbody Co. "Moreover." he adds, "we are near ly thinks a unbroken stock price isn't in prospect for th ture. "Technically, there is a formid- able overhead supply (of stock) overhanging the market which should become more in evidence as prices move up through the 650 area on the industrial average," it observes.

"The stage would seem $'420 I QT. OLD DOVER 100 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON (BOTTLED BOND to be at the end of the six-month i set, therefore, for rather wide holding periol for stocks trans-j swings in stock prices in the pe- i ferred during the market break riod ahead which will provide op- Uast Mav to qualify (under tax for selective accumula- tax-wise as for long-term quality issues i capital gains. iand elimination of fundamentally "Finally, in mid-May, just prior'questionable or unsound situations to that severe decline, there had i from portfolios." President Starts Military Base Tour Beginning Thursday, November 29 the Following Stores Will Be Open Each Night Until Christmas (Except Saturdays) For Your Shopping Convenience NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS COMPANY, N.Y. From November 29 'til Christmas At These DOWNTOWN STORES: Belk-Leggett Co. Rippe's, downtown Danville Hardware Co.

Sater's Men's Shop Harnsberger's Haynsworth's Inc. Thalhimers The Children's Shop President John F. Kennedy (right), accompanied by Gen. Max- well D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base, for a whirlwind tour of Southern military bases.

He will visit four bases in Georgia 1 and Florida that were poised to back up his action in the Cuban crisis. The Chief Executive is hatless and coatless despite a chill I breeze that causes Gen. Taylor to hold on to his hat. Johnson's Dept Store Thompson Shoe Co. Kresge's Raylass Woolworth's.

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