Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 14

PAGE B-2 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1964 Telegraph Reports News of Business, Industry in Area Walters Promoted at Grrinania Charles B. Walters, loan officer at Gennania Savings and Loan Association, has been named assistant secretary of the institution. Walters, who has been with Germania for about eight, years, began his career as a savings officer. He was instrumental in forming the association's monthly publication, and he began the G-Man Club for young savers. To Manage Social Security District Dale E.

Branch, who formerly worked In Alton, has been named assistant district manager of the Social Security Administration. Branch reported to the Alton office, 543 E. Broadway last week. He, his wife and three children will live in Bctlulto. Branch worked for the Social Security Administration in Alton two years ago as a field representative, a position he held for three years.

McCormick to Undergo Training P. D. Boalwright, local branch manager for the National Cash Register has announced the selection of H. R. McCormick serviceman, for advanced electronic training.

McCormick will spend the 12 weeks required for this training at NCR's new service training center in Dayton. McCormick is married and has three children, all sons. They reside on Straube Lane, Brighton. Keehner Joins Alton Law Firm James D. Keehner has become associated with the Alton law firm of Wiseman, Hallett and Mosele, it has been announced.

Keehner, a resident of Belleville, was with the firm of Sprague, Bock, Norton and Keehner since 1960, folowing his graduation from the University of Illinois Law School in 1959. Completes Management Course Roger C. Greene, vice president of Peavey Flour Mills in Alton, was recently graduated from a four-week management course conducted by the American Management Association in New York City. The graduation luncheon, honoring the 56 members of the graduating class, was held at the Americana Hotel. Promoted to Product Manager Robert W.

Smith has been promoted to the position of product manager with the Granite City Steel Go. it was announced last week by John A. Leschen, vice president for sales. Smith has been a salesman in the company's district sales office in Minneapolis since 1952. Arlaii's Stores Set New Records Both sales and earnings of Arlan's Dept.

Stores, attained new highs for the fiscal year ended Jan. 25, 1964, surpassing the previous records established in the prior year, it was announced week by Herbert Palestine, chairman, including concession sales, totaled $139,248,718, a gain of 35.82 per cent over sales of $102,527,649 for the preceding year. Net earnings from operations increased 49.91 per cent to $3,032,590, equivalent to $3.01 a share on 1,006,245 shares outstanding at the end of the fiscal year. An additional $255,475 was realized from a rion-recurring gain from a real estate transaction which represents an additional 25 cents per share. Creeling Attends Sales Session Wilbur Greeting of Frank Lynn, 3689 E.

Broadway recently attended a three-day, intensive product and sales training session at Vienna, home of the Southern Training Center of Tractor and Implement Operations, Ford Motor Co. With 19 other Ford tractor dealers from his region, Greeting arrived aboard Ford Motor Company's turbo-jet convair plane in the most unique "Gyration Airlift" in the industry. Metropolitan Investments $926 Million Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. assets invested in Illinois amounted to $926 million at the end of 1963, it was announced last week by Donald Schwuchow, manager of the company's Alton office. Metropolitan contributed significantly, said Schwuchow to demands for capital in Illinois to finance industrial expansion and research, to help meet the needs of large and small businesses and to spur the trend towards home ownership To Construct Weissmuller Pools The appointment of Dugger Thorpe Swimming Pool Contractors, of Bethalto as a Johnny Weissmuller Pool builder in the Bethalto area, has been announced by Robert Hall, national sales director for the Aluminum Pool Corp.

of America. According to Hall, the Dugger, Thorpe organization, headed by Loo E. Dugger, will merchandise and build a completely new type of pre-engineered swimming pool. The new pools feature lightweight, corrosion- resistant, high-strength Alcoa walls coated with DuPont's Tedlar, a virtually indestructible coating that is immune to the elements, pool chemicals, alkyline solutions, impact damage and discoloration. Accepting Fair Reservations Ronald Whiteman, Nimrod camping trailer dealer at U.S.

Route 67 and the Beltline, is now accepting reservations for campsites at Sprout Lake Park in Peerskill, N.Y., 40 miles by expressway from the New York World's Fair. Graveinann Photos Win Prizes Ralph Gravemann's bridal, portrait, of. Mrs. Alvin H. Gvillo, nee Miss Frances Manning of Wood River, won second place recently in the semiannual contest sponsored by the Southern Illinois Art League, a professional photographers' tlon, in Carbondale.

Photographs were exhibited In the University Center ou Southern Illinois University's Carbondale campus, The winner was a Iti by 20 inch photograph. Two candid wedding photos took a second and a third place, and a portrait of a woman took a third. All photos were in color. Wins 'Name the Tiger' Contest Mrs. Harry Davis, 2423 Robin was winner of the "Name the Tiger" contest sponsored by Drake Tire Co.

Mrs. Davis won a set of four Tiger Paw tires. The name of the tiger was Gary Lane. Mrs. Gus Tomlinson won the second prize of two season tickets to the Missouri University home football games.

Brorkway Opens Real Estate Office Jack Brockway, local real estate and insurance broker, is opening hit. own office. It will be known as Jack Brockway Real Estate. Mr. and Mrs.

Brockway and family reside at 796 Franklin Alton. The moved to Alton froir EkltvardKville in 1952. Olin Plans To Build in 'Kankakee Plans for locating a new plant 'or the production of paper- )oard folding cartons in Kanka- have been announced by the Packaging Division of Olin Mathicson Chemical Corp. Construction of the iquare foot facility Is scheduled to si ait within the next 30 days, with completion expected In late 1964, according to E. L.

Holloway, manager-cartons, for Olin's Forest Products Operations. Forest Products, part.of Olin's Packaging Division, has headquarters In West Monroe, La. "The new Olln carton plant will contain complete, modern manufacturing, warehouse, truck and rail shipping facilities for a broad range of folding cartons and beverage carriers used by various industries in the Middle West," said Holloway. The Kankakee facility will be Olin's second folding carton plant. Its first carton manu facturing plant, which began operation in West Monroe in 1958, ships its products throughout the mid-continent area of the country.

"The plant at Kankakee will allow Olin to serve carton users belter in the industrial heart of America," Holloway said. Paperboard cartons are used to package numerous consumer products from aspirin bottles, toys and hardware to cereals and detergents. Olin also produces paperboard take home carriers for soft drinks and beer. Plans Purchase of New Diesels Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad has placed orders for 12 additional diesel locomotives and 25 special-type freight cars at a total cost of $2,800,000, accord ing to President Glen Brock. Brock said that delivery of the new engines will begin in August.

General Motors Corporation's Electro- Motive Division of LaGrange is the builder. With their delivery, Brock said, will have passed the half-way mark in its program to completely renew its motive- power fleet in through freight service. The 25 new, 61-foot-long flat cars, costing $400,000, will be equipped with roller bearings and they will have fastening chains to secure lading such as lumber, pipe and steel products. They will be delivered in July by the Thrall Car Manufacturing Co. of Chicago Heights, said Brock.

Discussing railroad business prospects for 1964, Brock said that a large-scale development of a Southern Illinois coal field served by the railroad would lead what appeared to be a rising curve for most general commodities handled by the railroad. The road had gross revenues of $77,191,000 last year, with net income of $4,628,000, or earnings per common share of $4.52, up from earnings of $4.25 per common share the previous year. Hemphill Lists Recent Sales of Real Estate The Harry F. Hemphill Agency today announced recent real estate sales made by the Agency: For Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph H. Claxton, their four room home located at 1309 10th Cottage Hills, was sold to Mr. Raymond R. Crum. For Mrs.

Martha F. Wilhite, her six room brick home located at 604 Central Wood River, was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. White.

The four room residence located at 2913 Buena Vista Ave. was sold for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buettner of Waterloo, to Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph W. Farrell. Mr. and Mrs. John C.

Matthews purchased the four room home located at 512 Goodfellow Ave. This home was previously owned by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Richardson.

For Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bannister, the four room home located at 1300 3rd Cottage Hills, was sold to Mr. and Mrs.

Frank N. Howard. THREE CARS IN ONE Ford's new Mustang actually is three cars in one, according to Lee A. lacocca, Ford Motor Co. vice president.

Starting with the economical Mustang, the huyer may select options to give him a sports car for street or competition use, or a luxury car geared to either economy or performance. Standard Mustang equipment in both hardtops and convertibles includes bucket seats and molded nylon carpeting with a full- width seat in the rear. Options include a selection of threeV-8 engines with up to 271 horsepower; 4-speed manual or 3-speed automatic transmission, handling package, center console, power brakes and steering, and air conditioning. The new Mustang will be introduced Friday at Chuck Diering Ford Sales, 1400 Broadway, and at Button Ford, Wood River. At Glass Company Miller Promoted Whittington New Manager Of Dragway Don Whittington, 32, has be- manager of the Alton Dragway.

Whittington, who was born in Hobart, entered the racing field in 1954. Since then, he has raced dragsters and modified stock cars. Before coming to Alton, Whitington was employed by the Mar-Car, dragstrip in Oklahoma City. "The Alton Dragway is one of the finest and most modern dragstrips I have ever seen," said Whittington. Owens-Illinois Glass Plant 7, has announced the promotion of Norbert H.

White and James Miller. The announcement was made by A. C. Budd, general manager of Plant 7. White, decorating department supervisor, has been promoted to the company's multi-wall bag plant at Valdosta, Ga.

Miller, decorating shift foreman, will replace White. While began his service with Owens-Illinois in 1931 while attending the University of Illinois, and after his graduation in 1938, he worked in the Plant 7 accounting department, before being transferred to the industrial engineering department of the Central Shops. In 1946, White was appointed supervisor of Ihe decoraling de- parlmenl, a posilion he held for 10 years before being reassign- NORBERT WHITE ed as supervisor of the planl's quality and specifications department. JAMES MILLER In 1961 he returned to the decorating department as supervisor. White attended Alton elementary and high schools, Shurtleff College and of I.

He and his wife, Jean, have two children, James, 18, a student at Alton High, and a married daughter, Mrs. Robert Legate. The Whites have two grandchildren. Miller began in the corrugating department in 1941, and in 1942 he transferred to the service department as a stock records clerk. In 1945 he was transferred to the decorating department as a machine operator.

In 1953, Miller was advanced to shift foreman. He attended elementary school in Fayette County, and graduated from St. Elmo High School in 1935. A resident of Fosterburg, Miller has four and two grandchildren. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

has opened an all-out campaign to protect its buried cables from being cut during the fluny of excavating activity which occurs in the spring. Torn Faudree, wife chief for Illinois Bell, said there is a constant threat to the cables during this period from earth-moving machinery and even from the spade of an energetic gardener. "But accidents of this type Not a Great Deal But a Lot NEW YORK (AP) Every stage player's work varies from night to night, but actress Sati dy Dennis' definition of her own mutability is something special. Yes, my performance changes from nigiit to night," agrees the star of "Any Wednesday." Broadway's newest comedy hit. "It varies very a great deal, but a lot." NINE TONS SUSPENDED An architectural first for the area are these suspended concrete panels, some weighing as much as nine tons.

The panels are being welded to the Wood River High School's new Fine Arts building's steel frame. The building's architects, Hanner Breitweiser of Wood River, said the largest of the panels are 35 feet long and eight feet high. Tom Boy Stores Given Award By Brand Names Foundation ment in the Food III category of Tom Boy, wholesale grocers, was recently presented a 1963 Certificate of Distinction from Brand Names Foundation in New York. The award represents achieve" Stores-Class the Brand Names Retailer of the Year Awards competition. Clemens G.

Krckeler, president of Tom Boy, accepted the award for the 68-year-old firm. Tom Boy, has grown to be the largest and most successful business of its kind in the St. Louis area, officials boast, since it was founded in 1896 by Krekeler's father, first as a partner then as sole owner. Tom Boy stores in the Alton area are Pearl Market, 835 Cen tral I. C.

Hamer Food Mart, 1904 State Rain Rain, 2521 State Walter's Tom-Boy, 3400 Brown Reid's Tom Boy Market, Meadow brook; Silver Ridge Market, 63fi Broadway; Rosedale Super Market, Rosewood Heights; Schutz Food Mart, Wood River; Jerman's Market, Hartford; and Dauer Morris Market, Rox- OWN YOUR SHARE OF AMERICAN BUSINESS It doesn't matter how much you have to invest we'll be glad to talk over your investment plans with you, no matter how small the amount you think you can invest. Serving Alton Investors for Afore Than 32 Years NEWHARD, COOK Co. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE JOJ Fvril Nauon.l IMione: 465-5586 John K. Greenwood 'il Itcjirescntutive B. SllllltZ Jtenideiit Muimger Our Office Is Open Saturday Mornings ana.

New Plant To Distribute Fertilizer A plant for the distribution of fertilizer and anhydrous ammonia is now being constructed on Illinois Rte. 143, two miles west of Edwardsville. This facility which will have storage space for 120 tons ol liquid fertilizer and 40 tons of anhydrous ammonia, is being built by Edwardsville Agrichem Sales and the Alton Bottled-Gas Co. The new plant will be managed by Albert Fahrenkrog, who managed the Bunker Hill elevator for seven years and worked with the Federal Crop Insurance Program. The Alton Bottled-Gas which will supply the liquid fertilizer solutions, has been in Alton for 10 years and has manufactured and distributed liquid fertilizer and anhydrous ammonia for more than 10 years.

It was one of the first com panies in the state to manufacture liquid fertilizers. At present, 20 per cent of the fertilizer sold in Illinois is in the liquid state. Custom application service and several types of rental applicators will be available at the plant at nominal rates to the farmer. The plant is expected to be completed and services avail able in time for the present crop season. Serving You for Over 30 Years You'll Find All Your Office Supply Needs at OFFICE SUPPLY GODWIN "Alton's Commercial Stationer" 111 E.

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The area also has 17 trunk line railways, 55 major truck lines, 5 barge lines serving the Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, plus one of the Midwest's most diversified skilled labor forces. Diggers Threaten Cables. Says Telephone Company can be prevented," said Faudree. "A call to the telephone company's repair service prior lo digging might save a neighborhood or a whole community from inlerruption of telephone service. Every year, about 800 cases of Illinois Bell cable damage of this lype are reported, but lasl year alone, close to 10,000 calls to the telephone company before digging kept this number from being higher, said Faudree.

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