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o gNDAY, STEWB 13, 1. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE, Accountant Married Boss's Secretary; Heads Comoanv . ; New York (UPI The aspir- Ing accountant wanted to mar. ry the boss's secretary, so he answered a blind advertise, ment that offered a raise in ' pay. And got the job, at $42.50 a ween. L. Walter Lundell and th, former Miss Jewell Beaumont Hussey celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary last ween with a bit of his more than $100,000-a-year salary as presiaeni ot the company. "It's all been very undra matlc, Lundell said apolo getically of his rise to the handsome presidential office of C.I.T. Financial Corp., Into which he moved just four months ago. Really Worked Hard "I've just gone from one job to another. It's not just a per son who s a success here. We have a battery of successful executives who fit the same pattern - we started early and really worked hard. ; "I've always liked to work." .' C.I.T. (it was originally Commercial Investment Trust, but the initials are now its .proper name) is something of a department store for money ,-a collection of lending, fac toring and related corpora tions which make it one of the nation's largest financial .houses and its largest inde pendent consumer and indus trial financing company. It has a subsidiary also in Cana da and new firms underway in Germany and England. Lund'U's associates agree that there's nothing perceptib ly dramatic about their quiet, serious, attractive president, whose formal education be yond high school consisted solely of Northwestern uni versity night courses in ac counting. But they speak admiringly if his ability to grasp quickly and grow with and beyond all of the many jobs he has held in the firm. , "I'm sort of a non-specialist," Lundell said. "I've learn ed from the people I've work ed with. I read widely. Any man in business today has to do that. When I'm not doing anything else, I'm reading. I've always done this." Lundell had to think a bit to decide how he'd come to grow up with what he con sidered a natural desire-"to ; always do the' best you can with what you've got." Good Marks Expected As many families in modest circumstances, he said, his iown family "just thought in terms of being industrious. I was the same in school - we were expected to get good marks." Lundell was born in Chi cago, Nov. 14, 1903, the eld est son of six children of a Swedish born metal worker, who eventually owned his own small brass foundry, and his American-born wife, also of Swedish descent. Their son's eyes are deep blue and his receding hair is till a reddish gold. "I guess I was always self supporting," Lundell says, "from the usual paper route and after school jobs." He went to work full time after grammar school, as a $6-a-week office boy for Swift Co. in Chicago. Two years later he entered high school, continuing to work for Swift after school. He became in terested in accounting and evenutally became a Certified Public Accountant through his night university courses, although he has never since worked at it. Lundell was 21, and in Swift's accounting depart ment, when he began looking for a better-Job so he could .1 f , t5 '. WALTER LUNDELL, . Rose From Office Boy- . marry the girl - he'd met at work and courted for three years. . .:': The newly formed Chicago Acceptance Corp., which hired him as office manager at a $2-a-week raise, became a part of C.I.T. three years later, in . Lundell held . many . jobs throughout the organization. His decisive step toward top command came . after World War II when he was selected to rebuild Universal C.I.T. Credit Corporation, the larg est subsidiary which provides credit for auto and other .con sumer appliance purchases on the installment plan. Indifferent Golfer Lundell became - president of that firm in 1952, executive vice president of the parent firm in 1959 and was elected president last May 2. Lundell describes himself as "a very indifferent but en thusiastic Saturday golfer." Sundays he's more likely to be admiring his wife's handi work in the garden of their Long Island home. They have three . grown children and a ninth grandchild on the way. He -habitually reaches the office an hour before it's offi cially open. Before that - he may have spent an hour be fore a TV set, watching, a "sunrise semester" course .on science or the arts. - 'I marvel at the things that are available . today, if you just, get up early . enough," Lundell said. , , Central Point Group To Host Conference Central Point Community Bible church is to be host for the fall missionary conference of the Southern Oregon and Northern California Commu nity Church Fellowship, Fri day, Sept. 23, from 10:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. Pre-prayer serv ice will start at 10 a.m. ., Mrs. Lillian Ekstcdt of the Netherlands Antilles will be one of the guest speakers. Miss Ruth Arneson of Mexico will be the other missionary speaker. . During the day two mis sionaries will receive their commission to the foreign field according to,' the Rev. Paul Kroon. Election of officers for the coming year is to be part, of the program that day. -' ; ! Any one interested In mis sionary work is invited to the conference. Those who attend are to take sack lunches. The Central Point church women will provide beverages and dessert, as well as child care. No Detail Too Small Every funeral held her is the result of infinite attention to details. Planned with devoted care, even our modestly priced services are brought step-by-step to ' an : Impression of reverent beauty. . rX Funeral Home n .-- a aam SPACIOUS PARKING LOT Tropical Storm Due To Increase Winds, Direction Miami (UPD - Tropical storm Florence, moving on a path closely paralleling that of Hurricane Donna almost two weeks ago, was expected to increase its 55-miles-per-hour winds today and change to a more northwesterly course. The latest advisory from the Miami Weather Bureau pinpointed the center of the little sister of Donna 5 and Ethel near latitude 21.0 north, longitude 71.9 west, or about 60 miles southwest of Turks Island in the southeastern Ba hamas and 20 miles south east of Miami. Florence, the season's sixth tropical storm, was moving al most due west at about 11 mph. Forecaster Arnold Sugg said the storm probably would increase in intensity and hook upward on a more west-northwesterly course some time today. Winds Fan Out ' Winds of 30 to 45 miles per hour fanned outward 175 miles in the north and east semicircles and a short dis tance to the southwest. . The advisory said persons living on the northeast coast of Cuba and in the southeast ern Bahama islands should be ready for increasing winds and abnormally high tides early today. It said increasing winds and tides would ad vance into the central Baha mas and along the north and central Cuban coasts later to day. The bureau cautioned small craft along the north coast of Hispaniola, the northeast Cuban coast and the south eastern and central Bahamas to remain in port. Sugg said Florence posed no immediate threat to Flor ida, but warned all Interests to keep in touch with future reports today. New Type Rocket Engine Tested Buffalo, N. Y. - (UPD - Bell Aerosystems Co. has achieved a major advancement in America's space program with development of a fluorine- hydrogen rocket engine, it was announced today. Officials of the Buffalo fa cility said full-scale firings of a complete turbo-pump-fed rocket . , engine using liquid fluorine and liquid hydrogen as propellants pave the 'way for increased payloads in space and orbital vehicles. Bell handled the project under a contract from the Na tional Aeronautics and Space administration. 1 Firing of the rocket engine climaxed a series of tests in itiated four years ago by the Air Force to evaluate liquid fluorine as an oxidizer when used with ammonia, hydra zine and hydrogen as fuels. More than 600 rocket fir ings were conducted w 1 1 h thrust levels as high as 35,- 000 pounds. Rocket engines using the fluorine hydrogen or fluorine - hydrazine combi nations now can be built into propulsion systems for space vehicles and can result in size and weight reduction without sacrificing perfor mance, officials said. Oregon Youths To Receive Awards Cleveland - (UPD -. Three Oregon high school youths will receive cash awards in the 1959-1960 James F, Lin coln Arc Welding Foundation award program for high school students taking voca tional agriculture courses. , Melvin McDonald of Shedd received a $50 award for a project submitted on concrete rollers. Receiving cash awards of $25 were Mark Counsell, La Grande, for a project on hay wagons and Ronald Sloan, Sheridan, foi' a project on calf squeeze and table. Award totaling $5,000 were shared by 107 boys from 22 states. Manner of Choice Draws Complaint Salem - (UPD - Roy Taylor, president of the Oregon State Personnel Officers as sociation, has -complained to Gov. Mark Hatfield in a let ter about the manner of se lection of the deputy director of the Oregon Civil Service department. Taylor said that prior to the position being filled, no competitive examination were called for. Melvin Cleveland, state civ. ic service director, said the appointment of Seville T. Ford, an assistant professor of management at the Unl versity of Oregon, was pro visional and will become fi nal only after Ford passes a Try arid Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- JOHN FULLER had an interesting conversation with booklover in Westport, Conn. It went as follows: . "Have you read C P. Snow?" "No I couldn't plow " through bim." "And Tht Good orth?" "I didn't dig it" "How about The Leop ard?" "I found it spotty." "Surely you enjoyed Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope?" "I just skipped through' it." This same Fuller has aome names for proposed new Hilton hotels to add to the Tiltm' Hilton in Pisa, and the Comrade Hilton in Moscow. John now suggests a Jiltin' Hilton for Reno, a Wilun' Hilton for the Sahara Desert, a Stilton Hilton for cheese lovers, and, for Improvident souls who have charged too much on their credit cards, the Up-to-the-Hlton. o 1990, br Bwnwtt Cert, fiiitrlbuted by Kinr Fnturu Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From London: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has expressed confidence that better times will come in relations be tween the Soviet and the United States. He expressed this view in a message from the vessel Baltika, . carrying him to New York. He added: "The sun will finally rise. the gloomy clouds will clear, and all people will under stand the necessity of friend ship and cooperation between countries. I think the govern ment of the USA too will in time realize the need for improving our relations and joining in efforts toward the main aim - that of agreement among all states on total and universal disarmament under the strictest International con trol." COMMENT? i Let's ntit It this wav! DEAR Mr. Krooch: Yftlir wnrric ar FINF. words. They tinkle pleasantly in the ear. But the time , of which you speak will get here a lot quicker if you will get around .to the point where what you say can be DE PENDED ON." i Relations between nations and other nations, you know, are not unlike relations be tween individuals and other individuals. Their relations will be far better IF THEY TRUST EACH OTHER. After your scandalous ex hibition of untrustworthiness in Paris last spring, it is hard to have any confidence what soever in what yoti say-now or. at any other time.- B ACK now to the Congo. What's going on there? T ET'S take a look at a re--J cent shooting ruckus in the village of Manono. Captain Pierce Barry, commander of the Irish detachment of. the U. N. forces, gives this ac count of it: Trouble started when about 1 r 1 ; " A O V" 1 irr jt'y ' 1 800 Baluba tribesmen came into town from the surround ing countryside. They got to gether . with the local witch doctor, Nkubu the Elephant, who is reputed to have magic powers. He fixed them up with a charm. . , A FEW minutes later, the Katanga army dropped grenades on the African quar ter of the village in reprisal for. the killing of a Belgian captain in an ambush a cou ple of days earlier. The gre nade dropped in soft, muddy ground and FAILED TO GO OFF. As a result, Nkubu was regarded as immortal. That gave him an idea. He prepared magic mixtures and for . two shillings (28 cents) each he sold portions of the mixture to the Balubas. He anointed them with the stuff and told them: "The white man's bullets can't harm you now." HPHEY seemed to believe him, for immediately they start ed firing on a police patrol. Hundreds of them marched on the town hall, where po lice formed up to fight. The Balubas walked into a hail of fire. ' They fell like tenpins be fore the rifles of the police. 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