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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
6
K. S. Grenewald founded West Texas Wholesale Drug and Sundries four days before Pearl Harbor and grew a garage start into a sizable firm. The entire sales force participates in profits, fueling rapid expansion from a one man operation to an established business.
The firm operates an incentive based system with 11 salesmen across three state areas and cities including Lubbock Oklahoma City Abilene Albuquerque Childress Clovis and San Angelo. Each contracts for a share of net profits with no fixed salary. Independent operators, they set their own sales policies under partner E D Yeager and inactive partner Dr J F Williams. A new Jackson Tire Co unit opens in Amarillo with Orvin Carroll as manager. Ted Lokey's adds Seiberling Mobilstatic Precision Balancing equipment to improve tire balancing and reduce metal weight use.
The piece notes varied Memorial Day observances causing headaches for wholesalers on out of town routes. It suggests a governor proclamation and mayoral cooperation to standardize closures, while quoting a wholesaler on the irregular practice. It also cites editorials by B C Forbes and Chester Bowles. A brief home visit reports Mrs. John C. Evans of Glen Ridge arriving Sunday to stay with relatives in Durango.
In Stratford South Dakota a breeze carried a ten dollar bill from cattle buyer O H Gerharter to his son Allen in a feed lot. A six month old calf picked up the bill and chewed it while Gerharter wrestled the calf to retrieve the money from the animal’s throat. The tale ends with the grandfatherly remark that the calf had mistaken the money for hay.
Perry W. Pine and Ivan Pugh each polled 100 votes in the Terre Haute Democratic trustee primary. After a recount they remained tied, each having lost one vote. The Coast Guard has begun an intensive educational campaign to prevent oil pollution and its hazards in American ports.
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