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JbMflNST Morris Rivkin Pioneer In Sale of Wristwatches Graham Patterson Magazine Publisher time and demonstrations attracted considerable attention Rivkin was born in Russia emigrated to die US as a young man started out working at a variety of menial jobs and eventually financed the emigration and other support of' more than a dozen relatives from the old country He became social and business colleague of many important figures in commerce and was the first Jewish executive some of them had ever worked with Rivkin lived in Wood mere for about 20 years and on Caffrey Avenue Far Rockaway for some 15 years before that He died of a heart attack en route to a hospital yesterday morning He is survived by his wife Pauline three sons Philip of Montreal Canada Samuel of Manhattan and Bernard of East Meadow a brother Daniel Baker of Brooklyn six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren A funeral service is scheduled at noon Friday at Inc Rockville Centre Burial will be in Mount Ararat Cemetery Farmingdale Special to Newnday North Miami Beach Fla Morris Rivkin 77 formerly of Wood me re LI a pioneer in publicity and sales of wristwatches in the US died here yesterday Rivkin traveled the country organizing retail distribution and sale of the wristwatclies at a time when the pocket watch was the commonly accepted personal timepiece At various times during his career Rivkin was sought out for his detailed knowledge of the jewelry industry by such firms as Bulova Elgin and Gruen In his business endeavors he organized a chain of jewelry stores principally in the New York City area Rivkin lived at 754 Broadway Wood mere until retiring here about seven years ago About 35 years ago Rivkin publicized the then novel claim of by the Swiss-made watches he sold by arranging demonstrations in which the watches were thrown against walls or dropped from airplanes Airplanes themselves were still pretty new to the public at that tion In 1939 he merged the Farm Journal with Wife magazine In 1943 he acquired Pathfinder a semimonthly magazine published in Washington He was a Republican and his articles reflected this viewpoint though he did not consider this a major component of the contents have to read Farm Journal very long to discover where its political sympathies lie but partisanship is a minor he said Patterson was born In Pittsburgh and attended Cornell University where he was president of the Christian Association and business manager of the yearbook In his high school days he had been in charge of advertising sales and of printing for the school magazine He was graduated from Cornell in 1904 and after that he was successively advertising manager for the Federal Electric Co of Chicago Chicago representative of Circle Magazine advertising representative of Suburban Life magazine and president of the Union Electrotype Co of Chicago In 1918 he became president and publisher of The Christian Herald a nondenominational weekly published in New York and also headed a fund drive for President Wilson to raise money for Chinese famine relief the same year He also headed the New York Bowery Mission and the Christian Herald Home in Nyack NY He was recruited for Farm Journal by its owners the Pew family of Pennsylvania whom he is reported to have advised at the time to be prepared to pay well for a publisher because it would be the best way they could spend their money 7 rv O' Chicago Graham Patterson 87 publisher of Farm Journal largest agricultural magazine in the country died Sunday Patterson became publisher of the Journal in 1935 installed modernized printing machinery and revamped the editorial staff and went on to build the circulation to 3000000 monthly He retired last year a3 chairman of the board of Farm Journal Inc after 17 years in that post Patterson insisted on the primary importance of agricultural production to the nation and toured agricultural regions to find out at first hand what farmers wanted to see in the publics- Joseph Mullin A Mayor at 61 Newburgh (AP) Services were scheduled today for Joseph Mullin 61 former Democratic mayor who led his party to control of city hall in 1964 for the first time in city history He died Sunday of a heart attack at St Hospital where he had been admitted Friday with chest pains Mullin pulled the' Democrats from their winless ways in the 1963 city elections and was himself vaulted into the mayoralty with an upset victory over Republican Joseph Fogarty His political fortunes reversed in the 1967 elections however and he lost reelection to George McKneally as the GOP recaptured the city During his tenure Mullen was credited with keeping tempers cool during the 1967 Newburgh disturbances He headed a committee to end a strike that had kept pocketbook workers out of work for 11 weeks and in a city where more than one-third the population is nonwhite he created the Newburgh Human Relations commission He is survived by a brother Mark and several nieces and nephews Jones Socialite member of the Daughters of the Cincinnati National Society of New England Women and the Society of the Descendants of the Mayflower She was a member of the Colony Creek and York dubs She is survived by her husband Nicholas Ri dgely Jones two daughters Mrs Catherine Beale of Glen Cove and Mrs Ruth McElwain of Baldwin and three grandsons A service was to be held at 2 PM today at St of Lattingtown Locust Valley Burial was not announced Mrs Katharine Glen Cove Services were to be held today for Mrs Katharine Black Jones socially prominent North Shore resident and former regent of the Manhattan chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Mrs Jones 73 of 550 Park Ave New York and Red Spring Lane here died Monday in Community Hospital Glen Cove She also was a former president of the New York Diet Kitchen Association a past director of the Glen Cove Lincoln House Settlement and a Milburn Wilson 84 US Official Samuel Ribicoff Hartford Conn (AP) Samuel Ribicoff 87 the father of Sen Abraham A Ribicoff (D-Conn) died Monday in Mt Sinai Hospital A native of Poland the older Ribicoff came to the US in 1905 and settled in New Haven where he worked as a bread peddler and later as a factory hand He lived in New Britain until five years ago when he moved to the Hartford area Washington (AP) Services were held yesterday in Bethesda Md for Milburn Wilson 84 a former under secretary of agriculture who advised President Franklin Roosevelt on farm problems and nutrition programs Wilson died Saturday of injuries suffered in a falL Wilson credited with developing the domestic allotment plan became the first wheat production administrator under the Agricultural Adjustment Act Later he helped establish and direct the subsistence homesteads division of the Interior Department Wilson also advised several other countries on farm problems He also helped establish the UN Food and Agriculture Organization He retired in -1953 His wife Ida a daughter Mrs David Simens of Ithaca NY and three grandchildren survive at the Boyd Funeral Home 448 Main St Babylon LI Requiem Mas at Our Lady ot Gtace RC Church Weal Babylon on Friday 9:45 AM Interment LI National Cemeteiy MrDOXNKIV Mat ot Holbiook LL on November 24 1989 in her 691 year Beloved wife ot Jama adored mother ot John and Bernard McDonnell Alio aurvived by aix grandchildren and tour gceat-grandchTldren Reposing at Daniel Lake Funeral Home Lake Ronkonknma where rellgioui services will be held on Wednesday evening at 8 PM Mass ol The Resurrection will be celebrated at St Joseph' RC Church Late Ron-konkoma on Friday at 10 AM Interment following at LL National Cemetery Pinelawn LI Family will he present between the hours of 2-4 and 7-9 PM York Ave Masaapequa LL Religious service Friday 11 AM WALLACE George of Unlondale on November 25 1969 Beloved husband ot Grace Devoted (other of Bruce and Craig Dear brother ot David Reposing at The Williams Funeral Home 181 Greenwich St Hemps lead Religious service conducted hy the Rev Willis A Baxter 10 AM Friday November 28 Interment billowing at Craeafiatd Cemetery Hcmpatead MEMORIAE! YON Gloria Morrissey Two vears you've gone There's nothing let! (or me Your baby's got a sister now Which should Delong to you and me Why did you have to go and lave mg all alone Why could you not have stayed awhile F01 me "no kna no love" Just only memories I'll always remember you Your broken-hearted mummy Kay Wilson ME-Vm NOTICES Ulrm-Silviton on November 2 1969 Beloved husband of the ills Anna Loving father or Ucorge Jron and Louis Survived by men Reposing at Thomas Rey-Kilda Funeial Home lr8-14 Northern Bhd Flushing Requiem Mam at St Kevin a RC' Church on Friday 9:30 AM Interment Calvary Cemetery Charlee Sr on November l9UBr- Brloved husband or Ella (nea (raerei Onuled rattier ot Mia ctaE? V1' and Charles Jr Grandfather ot Kevin Patricia Martin and Brian Reposing at Reeky Point Funeial Home Rte 2SACmdiir ltd Rocky Point Visiting 2-3 and 7-1(1 PM Man Pridny 9-30 AM St Anthony's Churrh Interment Washington Memorial Pm SIKIM Kenneth on November 34 1969 ot Oania Florida Helmed husband of Anna Devoted fattier ot Mt Patricia Ferrara Kenneth and Ronald Laving aon of Mra Ruth Dolan Dear brother of Mra Regina Gardner and Willlnm Alao aurvived by one grandchild Religious aervice Friday III AM at the Ctiarlea Schmitt Funeral Home 3963 Merrick Rd Senlortl Interment till lowing at I I National Cemetery Viaiting hour 2-3 and 7-10 PM HORN Chat lea on November 23 18 or Woodhaven Beloved huaband of Estelle I Horne Devoted fattier of Patricia A Jenrslk Virginia HOy-son Chariea Jr and George Horne Brother of Eat her Donnelly of Seldeii and Dorothy Smith AIM) survived by ala grandchildren Funeral from Walker Funeral Hume 87-84 S(Hh St Woodhaven NY Maaa of TheResu rrect ion Church or St Thomas Tlx Apostle Friday 9:45 AIL Interment RockvlUa Cemetery JORGENSEN Johnny suddenly on November 24 1969 Devoted father of Frames McCloln and Norman Jngrnsen Dear brother of Chriatian and In Norway Ludvig Jorgensen Also survived by seven grandchildien Reposing at Uia Stulzmann A Son Funeral Home 224-39 Jamaica Ave (Jueeni Village LI Religious aervice Wednes-day 7:45 PM Funeral Friday 10 AM KRZVWIt'KI Stella on Monday No-vemlicr 24 1969 wife or the lata John dear mother or Stanley Kriatlan of byosart LI Reposing at Martin A UleaKin Funeral Home 149-20 Northern Blid Flushing NY until Friday November 28 at 8:45 AM Requiem Michael's RC Church at AM: Jntannent Ml St Mary'a Cemetery Visiting hours 2-3 and 7-10 James suddenly on No- ember 23 1968 Beloved husband or ifanry (nee Perry) Dear lather of KuseMI Loving brother ot Dora Emanu-eh Anthony Freda Palminterl Killy Stabile Jack John and Sadie Barbara Reposing at the Hartnett Funeral Home Ave Unlondale until AM Wmn Requiem Mass Friday 9:30 AM SI Marthas RC Church Unlondale Interment LI National Cemetery Seymour suddenly on Monday November 24 1969 ot Rockville Centre LI Beloved husband ot Enm Fallier of Warren Also urvived by three grandchildren Service al the Petlit-Clayton Funerat Home 2(1 Stahert US Army ot Vietnam on October like Beloved aon of Robert Sr and Mary Mason Devoted brother ot Cutty John and Todd Mason Repoalng Nwemlier 24 1969 Husband ot Ann (nee Slot!) hither ot Ruth Mever and Ann Smith Brother ot Mrs Connor of Flushing LI Mrs Keonetli Jewell ot LaJnlla California and Charles Oddy of Flushing Also survived by five jtrsnd children Funeral aervice at the Filed ner Funeral Home Inc 190 Middle Neck Rd Goat Neck LL Wednesday morning November 26 at 10:30 AM In lieu of flowers donations to the American Hart Association Phyllis (nee Gumardo) age 41 Rockville Centre on November 24 1969 Beloved wile ot William dear mother of Phyllis Ann Antoinette Pamela William and Francis Fond daughter of Frank Guzzardo Dear sister ot Beniamin ol Florida Reposing at the Lavelle Funeral Home 437 Merrick Rd Rockville Centre Mam ol The Resurrection Frida)- 9:45 AM St Agnes Cathedial Interment LI National Cemetery Viaiting hours 8-5 7-10 PM Vincensa of Oyster Bay Suddenly on November 24 Beloved wite or Eugene Devoted mother ot Mrs Nancy Pletrawski Mrs Camel Stella Louie Mrs Jean Ma-hanna and Mrs Betty Ford Alio survived by 12 grandchildren two great- irandchtldren six sisters and two irol tiers Reposing at the Orlando Funeral Home 2U1 South St Oyster Bay Man ot The Resurrection on Friday at 9:80 AM al St DominlCi RC Church Interment St Patrick's Cemetery Brookville LL VOVDIAK Katherine ot Masaapeoua LI on Ndvemlier 24 1969 Beloved wife of Joseph devoted mother of Vera Mirtmlek and Vlasta Molie AIM survived by (Ivo grandchildren and five fimt-grandrhiMren Reposing at The lassapegua Funeral Home 99 New CEMETERY PLOTS PINELAWN 2 CRAVES AVAILABLE 4 BURIALS THOMAS A DWYER ATTORNEY PI 6-4400 MrKKKVER Margaret November 23 1969 ol New Hyde Park LL Beloved wire of Charles Devoted mother ol Brian Rosemary A and Marilyn Friends may all 1-5 and 7-10 PM at New Hyde Park Funeral Home 506 Lakeville Rd New Hyde Park Solemn Mass of the Resurrection Friday 9:30 AM at Notre Dame RC Church Inleiment Holy Rood Cemeteiy Westbury LI John A of Bedmore LI on November 24 1999 Beloved husband ot Henrietta Devoted father ot Sera-fin Virginia Kathleen and Rlchaid Also survived by six grandchildren Reposing al the Bartholomew A Son Funeral Home 302 South Bedford Ave Beilmore Mas of The Resurrection 9:30 AM Friday November 23 at St Bamalnt RC Church Beilmore Interment St Charles Cemetery Pine-I8WB4 at FLORISTS HENGSl'ENBKRG THEO A BONd Mem he: FTD GARDEN CITY 741-0810 FLORAL DESIGNS CUT FLOWERS fTXEUAr Tomes THOMAS QUINN 1 SONS INC Levlttown 8095 Hemp Tpka PE 3-3300 CIAUDE BOYD FUNERAL HOME Babylon: 448 Main St MO 9-2409 Deer Park: Deer Pk A Grand MOT-8014 Thomas Howland Suddenly 58 14 IVewsday.