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DETROIT iii Wl 3 Wednesday. May 15. 1955 rass Company Glad It Moved to Michigan iGOREN ON BRIDGE The outgrowth was a line of to such an extent that It was decided to build a plant in Sarnia, Dummy standard products "shelf goods" for healthier flowers, shrub and which could be sold through wholesalers and retailers. The first of these important products was a fitting for joining Happy Thought. vegetables lengths of copper tubing with BY JEROME HANSEN Fr Fresn Staff Writer PORT HURON The Mueller Brass Co.

was virtually forced to set up shop in Michigan. Now it is happy that it did. Mueller's contentment with Michigan is easy to understand. From an insecure beginning, it has mushroomed Into the sixth largest firm in the copper and brass Industry. It serves 3,500 customers in 5ti Trump Often Peril BY CHARLES H.

GOREX "For several years thereafter the firm struggled for Its very existence. "The fat that we had located In Michigan played an Important part In winning that struggle. Had we located anywhere else, we might not have made It. "In Michigan we were close to our customers and sources of supplies. Our transportation costs were lower than those of our competitors in other sections of the country.

Therefore, our prices were lower. "BEING IN MICHIGAN, we Ont. SOON AFTER the factory was completed, World War I broke out. The Canadian Government asked Mueller to convert to the production of munitions. The Mueller firm developed a technique for forging brass artillery shell fuses, a technique so successful that the United States asked the company to establish a plant In this country.

This plant became the Mueller Brass Co. as we know it today. Mueller was virtually forced to pick Port Huron as the site. It vulnerable. North Neither the United States and 260 in 55 for- No.

4 eign countries. It of a has more than Series 3.200 workers and For magic results from everything in flower pots to garden plots use GARD-N-GRO, the perfectly balanced organic base (4-12-4) plant food. Use GARD-N-GRO before planting and during growing seasonyou'll have flowers, shrubs and vegetables equal to professional growers. Available in 5 and 10 pound self-pouring cartons, 50 nd 100 pound bags. NOW rOTIFIE0 WITH thmvHt siow soluble son.

mnauze THE STADLER FERTILIZE CO. 1010 Diion Ave, Clavtlond 9, OM deals. NORTH A A 9 1 6 2 fi 4 A 7 5 3 piled up sales of $49,395,000 last the use of solder. Previously, all such connections were threaded. THIS DEVELOPMENT almost revolutionized the copper plumbing, heating and refrigeration industry.

It elevated Mueller to its present high rank in industry. Riggin, looking back over the company's history, said Mueller never once thought of leaving Michigan during its bleak years. "We like it here and we have faith in Michigan," he declared. "Michigan has been good to us." In recent years, Mueller has purchased two other plants in Michigan Valley Metal Products of Flainwell, and Sheet Aluminum of Jackson. (TOMORROW Why The Cross Co.

decided not to move out of Michigan.) year. The Mueller story Is another EAST 10 10 4 3 10 9 8 3 3 8 6 WEST A 6 5 9 7 5 Q5 10 4 also were able to hire skilled labor to produce high quality products at a competitive price." Mueller, at first, produced brass rods, copper tubes, forg-ings, screw machine products and sand castings primarily to customer specifications. Not content to remain static, the company decided to branch out. This time It dipped Into Michigan's huge reservoir of topflight engineers. was opposite the Sarnia plant and could be managed by the same men.

THE TLANT was well along in turning out munitions when the Armistice stopped all production. Fred L.x Riggin, executive vice president, picks up the story from there. He related: testimonial to the opportunities and advantages offered to industry by Michigan. It is a story which began in 1857 when Hieronymus Mueller, a. skilled mechanic, came to Decatur, from Germany and entered the plumbing manufacturing business.

By 1912 business had grown go for the new LIVE taste IKSMT UGER IEE SOUTH 8 13 A 8 A 7 3 A 2 You See the Friendly Free Press Everywhere GPEBFl BSEWIN5 DETROIT AND MUSKEG0. MICH. OAKLAND, CALIF, The bidding: North East South Pass Pass 1 A 3 Pass 4 A West Pass Pass Pass Pass The fifth trump in dummy seems to cast a hypnotic spell over many players 'in Europe as it does in rIXI our own i i nuj 1 52? C'X i "'V ''ttsf sXl' -i tL I n. 1j J.J: tmml C5fTjl .1. i Si r.

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This was enough to arouse the bood pressure of South who, in some cases leaped directly to slam, and in others maneuvered around until a level of five spades was reached. No amount of restraint could prevent South from making one mild attempt to reach slam. As will be seen, there was no play for 11 tricks despite South's powerful hand, and even a four-spade contract is in jeopardy. North, despite hi' previous pass, has nothing more than a single raise. The hand Is worth only nine points in support of spades which cornea quite within the limits of a single raise.

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Declarer won and extracted trump3 in two rounds. It now appeared that defeat of the contract was inevitable, for apparently declarer must lose a heart, a diamond and two clubs. However, there was a remote hope. If West had only two diamonds South could maneuver him into a favorable lead. The hearts were already stripped from declarer's hand and dummy.

The adverse trumps had already been drawn. Now declarer cashed the two top diamonds and got out with the ace and another club. West was in with no diamond to lead and Kortchou discarded his losing diamond on the forced return. M- iri.nMin.M 1 n-n. in, Tin IMHf MWllIM mr IW I S.

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