Mexico Ledger from Mexico, Missouri • Page 7

MEXICO, Nov. 7 Business and Legion Quits Plans Industry News KC THIRTY-ONE YEARS later, still with the Green Company in their background, the four brothers posed for this recent picture in the Company board room. From left, Curtis, Norman, Charles, and Claude. Four Brothers Total 147 Years At GreenCo When a service award is presented to a Mr. Strange at the A.

P. Green Refractories the presentation often has to be repeated in triplicate as it seems another Mr. Strange is always stepping forward to 1 mark a milestone in his career with the Green Company. The reason is due to four dedicated Strange brothers, Norman, Charles, Curtis, and Claude. Combined the quartet has 147 plus years of service with the Company and in a few more they will have reached 150 years of service.

-That's some act to follow and a record employment for brothers that may never be broken. Out of the Ozarks they -came, one by one, first Norman, then Charles, Curtis, and finally Claude. They have all spent nearly all their working careers at the Green Company, becoming knowledgeable experts in both manufacturing and sales. In speaking about the brothers' remarkable-' 'service record, Harry M. Stover, Chairman of the Board, stated, "Our compnay was built by men like Norm, Charlie, Claude, and Curt." Norm was the first to join the Green Company.

Starting in 1939, he now has 38 years of service. The other three brothers each has 36 years with the company. Each started in the Mexico plant. Claude and Curtis are still employed in manufacturing departments here while Norm is Works Manager at Green's Sulphur Springs, Texas plant and Charlie is a District Sales Manager in Marietta, Ohio. Even in World War II, three of the brothers served together in many of the same campaigns, even though they seldom were able to visit.

Claude and Curtis both received their draft notices on the same day. Each received citations for participating in the Battle of the Bulge, Crossing the Rhine, and the Central European Campaign. Claude and Curtis also took part in the Normandy Invasion. Norm's first job was as an iron worker helping construct the front brick wall at the Mexico plant and around the "southwest now the Greenlite Plant. He held jobs later as an electrician, car.

penter, welder, and mechanic becoming the Mexico first foreman in lubrication and later a in construction, specialties, and dry press. In 1955, Norm moved to Wood; bridge, N. J. as Superintendent of Engineering and Maintenance of the Green plant located there. He remained in Woodbridge for 16 years, becoming Works Manager in 1969.

In 1968, he accepted a four-month special assignment to help improve quality control and production at a Green licensee's plant in India. In 1971, he was promoted to Works Manager-Philadelphia and two years ago he moved to his present position in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Commenting on the family's service to the company, Norman said, "We four brothers represent a small cog in the gigantic machine that is the A. P. Green Company today, but we believe we have contributed in our small way.

It is our hope that we can continue to provide concrete and positive contributions for the remainder of our service." The Miller County brothers, Charles, Curtis, and Claude, all joined the Green Company in 1941. Charles came to the Mexico plant right out of high school. He worked in air hammer for two years, before the Army called him. He returned to the plant in 1946, working in stiff mud, tunnel kiln grinding, and industrial engineering, before becoming a sales correspondent in 1954. The following year, he became a salesman in Charleston, W.

and was named District Sales Manager for that territory. Charlie is also a noted authority on Currier and Ives prints and has one of the finest private collections in the U. S. Curtis was the next of the brothers to sign up with the company, leaving his construction job at Fort Leonard Wood. He started in August of 1941 and quickly found a home in the air hammer department.

"It didn't take them long to find a place for me," said Curtis. All of his 36 years have been in the air hammer department where he estimates he has made over 2,000 different special refractory shapes, some of which weighed over 200 pounds each. He is the department's top employee in seniority. He has held almost every job in the department from mud hen operator to relief supervisor, but he is most recognized as a skillful air hammer operator for over 30 years. The quartet of Strange brothers at the Green Company was completed in October, 1941 when Claude started working here.

If it hadn't been for freezing MOU can Bani-i on it! Presented by Commerce Bank of Mexico. We deal in money at the bank, but we're really in the people business. Sure, we use computers like just about everybody else in almost every kind of business. We have to in order to give our customers good services at a nominal charge. But the computer is only one part of a total system, not the system itself.

A computer is a cold piece of machinery intimidating to many impossible to communicate with. The real challenge at the bank is not to design computer systems but to have a banking system that is effective for our customers. Designing such a system requires more than equipment engineering. It takes a high regard for keeping the real relationship between the bank and the customer a personal one. We have computers, and we know how to use them.

But the most important part of our business is you you can BANK on it! weather some 36 years ago, Claude might not have joined his three brothers here. "I was working for a roofing contractor at the Green Company, but after a bad freeze, we couldn't get work. I worked for a while at Fort Leonard Wood where a lot of construction was in progress, then came to Mexico to join the others." Claude worked in finish grinding for a few weeks, then for two and a half years in air hammer. Since returning from military duty, he has spent the last 31 years in the construction department helping rebuild many offices throughout the plant and repair or build cabinets, desks, and other office equipment. A skillful craftsman, Claude is an expert wood carver and has whittled many beautiful and delicate items.

Claude resides at 528 S. Abat and Curtis at 829 N. Kentucky. The Strange brothers have been an important part Green Company over-the years and the Green Company has been an important part of their lives for over 36 years. Few companies can claim such outstanding service from one dedicated family.

Pork Prices Up In Mo, Marketbasket JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Beef prices were mixed and pork prices were up sharply last week, according to the Missouri Farm Bureau's weekly market- basket survey. The price of turkeys dropped 6 cents, with 16 to 22 pound turkeys selling at 65 cents a pound. T-bone steak was up 4 cents to $2.20 a pound and rib steak moved 3 cents higher to $1.77 a pound. Sirloin steak was up a penny to $1.90 a pound and ground beef was unchanged at 81 cents a pound.

Three beef cuts fell 3 cents this week. Blade roast was down to 83 cents a pound, arm roast fell to $1.12 a pound and round steak sold at $1.57 a pound. Among pork cuts center cut chops moved up 9 cents to $1.96 a pound and pork blade roast was 4 cents higher at $1.13 a pound. Pork steak advanced 2 cents to $1.16 a pound and butt portion ham was up 1 cents to $1.08 shank portions ham was down 1 cent at 96 cents. Whole chickens moved up 2 cents to 55 cents a pound and cut up chickens were 3 cents higher at 63 cents a pound.

Counterfeiters In Real Bigtime LOS ANGELES (AP) Three men have been arrested and more than $500,000 in counterfeit bills seized in what Secret Service agents described as "the largest and most complete counterfeiting operation in the country." In addition to the bogus bills, authorities said they seized counterfeit cashiers checks, municipal bonds, drivers licenses, thousands of pounds of paper stock for counterfeiting and large commercial printing presses. Arrested were August L. Station, 50, Donnell Miles, 31, and Russell H. King, 65. Station was arrested at a large print shop he owns in central Los Angeles, authorities said.

All three were booked for investigation of counterfeiting, the FBI said. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Differences between a hotel and American Legion officials has spurred the Legion to move its 1979 convention site from Kansas City to Houston. Legion officials approved the move after charging that the management of the plush Crown Center Hotel, which was to be the convention headquarters, was too slow in completing convention plans and not flexible enough in granting price breaks and free rooms to the Legion. Officials said Monday the decision means the loss of $5 million they had expected the convention to pump into the Kansas City economy.

"They apparently didn't take us seriously enough in negotiations," said Bill Miller, the Legion's national convention director. "So we pulled out." Convention and hotel officials were surprised by the Legion's move. They had been working 18 months to reserve nearly 7, 500 rooms for the convention, which was expected to bring 20,000 Legionnaires into the city. "I was as surprised as any- one that they pulled out without notice," said Chris Marker, general manager of Crown Center. The Legion had asked for a complimentary room for every 50 Crown Center rooms rented and for some of those free rooms to be complete suites.

The hotel agreed to meet the Legion's request to reserve 600 rooms and agreed to kick back $1 to the Legion for every room rented by conventioneers. Miller said the decision to move the convention to Houston came after the hotel was slow in providing a written version of a verbal agreement for free meeting space for conventioneers. Miller said the written copy of the agreement arrived on Oct. 3, only a day before a meeting of the Legion's convention commission in Indianapolis. He added that the agreement included conditions for free space that were not in the verbal agreement.

"We didn't know until it was too late the seriousness of the Legion's October deadline to have all pricing arrangements fixed," Marker said. A 'BUSINESS FOR BEAUTY AWARD' was presented recently by Ardell Eide to Rod Kidbble, store manager of Aldi's, on behalf of the Mexico Women's Club, GFWC, project. Several improvements have been made to the building including many to the exterior landscaping and appearance. (Ledger Photo by Richard Vance) Florsheim Gives Awards For 25 Years Mexicoan Named To Advisory Group A Mexico resident has been named to serve on a new citizens advisory committee for the Warren E. Hearnes Youth Center at Fulton State Hospital.

She is Mrs. Telitha Harvey. The Advisory Committee is being established at the request of the State Mental Health Commission in order to provide citizen input and participation in the developing treatment programs at the Youth Center. A broad cross section of professional and lay citizens have agreed to work with the Fulton facility in attempting New C-Of-C Members The Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors accepted the following firms as new members at their Nov. 16th meeting: Nu Look Beauty Bar-Mrs.

Bob Schulte, owner 419 S. Olive, Sun 2000 Real Estate, Castenada- 1007 West Monroe. A tentative date of Jan. 12 has been set for the annual meeting of the chamber. to assess and meet the needs of disturbed and disturbing youth.

Devon Hardy, coordinator of children and youth services for the Division of Comprehensive Services, Missouri Department of Mental Health, in announcing establishment of the Advisory Committee, noted that disturbed children have very few active advocates. "These youth need active interested advocates of their rights to care, concern and treatment," Devon states. The first meeting of the Citizens Advisory Committee was Saturday, at the Hearnes Youth Center. Wal-Mart Dividend The board of directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has declared a quarterly cash dividend on the common stock of four and one-half cents per share, payable Jan.

3, 1978 to shareholders of record Nov. 30, 1977. Wal-Mart operates 193 stores in Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Florsheim Shoe Co. has; given 25-year service awards to a mass of workers in several different departments, plant manager Mitchell Skorupa announced.

Those honored were: Cutting department: Mabel Bruckerhoff, Beulah Craghead, Evelyn Garrett, Opal Glatz, Joyce Goslin, Helen Isgrig, Darline Tucker, Phyllis Young and Rosellee Zimmerman. Fitting Department: Dorothy Barker, Mary Blake, Hazel Durfee, Bessie Griffith, Helen Hill, Mildred Mayes, Mildred Smith and Lena Stewart. Stock Fitting Department: Alma Albright, Billie Barnes, Alice Harper, Marguerite Jahla, Lavon Lehenbauer and Pauline Sumpter. Bottoming Department Dorothy Dillard, Betty Rouse, Clara Rutherford, Juanita Stewart and Frankie Timbrook. Packing Department: Pauline Adkins, Mary Durham, Mary Fox, Annie Harper, Pauline Henneberry, Addie Johnson and Minnie Potts.

Shipping Clerk, John Pace. Maintenance Supervisor, Omar Boulden. 2 Florsheim Workers Retire Two long-time employees of the Mexico Florsheim Shoe Co. have recently retired. They are Mrs.

Ocie Leonard Holtkamp and Mrs. Hazel Huff Durfee. Mrs. Holtkamp, 1609 N. Olive, began work for the company in November, 1934 and has most recently been a member of the wood heel department.

She is a native of Sturgeon and is married to Grover Holtkamp. Mrs. Durfee, 615 Webster, began work with the company in 1947 and retires a member of the fitting department. Wetterau Sets Dividend The board of directors of Wetterau Incorporated, Hazelwood, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 17'2 cents per share, payable Dec. 15 to shareholders of record Dec.

1. Legal Holiday OFFICE CLOSED Thursday, Nov. 24th In Observance of Thanksgiving CITIZENS SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.