Finland's Millionaire Boss Who Built an Empire
Rakel Wihuri, a near-century figure in Finnish business, heads a diversified empire spanning railroad gear, buses, tractors, plastic wrap, offshore drilling, wholesale retail, wallpaper, auto sales, and a global fleet of freighters and tankers. Her family runs 5,000 employees, funds a arts foundation and a private hospital, and she recalls starting before women could easily enter business. She owns historic homes near Helsinki and preserves a storied art and antiques collection while overseeing a vast corporate network with three sons guiding the ventures.
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Gay Pauley
UPI
Helsinki
Rakel Wihuri
Finland
Norway
Hawaii
Los Angeles
United States
Europe
Wihuris
Lished
Heart
Mrs. Wihuri
Porvoo
Jeyo
Seminar On Starting Plants At Home In Dallas
Uel Stockard of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service promotes home plant propagation. The free seminar at Texas A&M Research and Extension Center North Dallas Coit Road on June 10 at 7 30 p m features Dr Robert Moon and Neil Sperry as speakers. Topics include seeding cuttings layering division budding and grafting with time for questions. Call 235 7108 for more information.
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Uel R. Stockard
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas A&m University Research and Extension Center
Dallas
Coit Road
Robert Moon
Neil Sperry
Sperry
Cemetery Corporation Re Organized Sunday
Brown Cemetery lot owners meet Sunday to organize a non profit cemetery corporation. Registration begins 11 a.m. with lunch at noon and a business session at 1 30 p.m. Owners are urged to attend to elect directors and transfer title to the lands for cemetery purposes.
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Cemetery Corporation
Brown Cemetery
Birthdays listed for June 4 to June 7 on Lifuka Island
A list of birthdays for residents dated June 4 through June 7 includes numerous names such as Teresa Bingham R A Adams June Harvey Eddie Thompson Joe Neely Mrs Stanley Stevens Melinda Brooks and many others. The passage ends with a cultural note that on Lifuka Island in Tonga greeted by women and children with the phrase It is good to be alive.
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Teresa Bingham
R. A. Adams
June Harvey
Eddie Thompson
Joe Neely
Stanley Stevens
Melinda Brooks
W. R. Locke
Curtis Cummings
David Collins
Clyde Hancock
Deann Caldwell
Ruth Deloach
Beulah McMurry
la Nell Kennedy
Clif Mankin
Minnette Bilbo
Polly Adams
James Anderson
Dean Cummins
Elsie Faith
Ralph Snodgrass
R. L. Phillips
Mary Bell
Maggie McMillen
Alma West
Florence Fitzwater
Debra Smith
Dan Welsh
Cheryl Edgar Dyer
Peggy Little
Homer Sturdivant
Harvey Howard
Patricia Fink
David Neal
Hayes
Lifuka
Tongan Islands
Gober HD Club Visits Gilbert Nursing Home
Gober Home Demonstration club members entertained Gilbert Nursing Home residents in Leonard for Senior Citizens Month. Nine members wore bicentennial dresses and performed songs and games with N Smith as pianist and Mrs Anderson singing. Winners received bonnets, punch and cake were served.
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Gober
Gober Home
Gilbert
Leonard
Its A Boy Jason Ray Stevens Born May 31 1975 Dallas
A baby boy named Jason Ray Stevens was born Saturday May 31 1975 in a Dallas hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stevens of Richardson. The infant weighed 4 pounds 10 4 ounces and has a five year old brother, Christopher Lance. Grandparents are Weldon Stevens of Bonham, Virginia Clayton of Richardson and Bully Clayton of Lewisville. Great grandfather George Clayton of Bonham also listed.
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Jason Ray
Dallas
Richard Stevens
Richardson
Christopher Lance
Weldon Stevens
Bonham
Virginia Clayton
Clayton T
Lewisville
George Clayton
Finland’s Mrs Wihuri Runs Strong Diverse Empire at 70
Mrs. Wihuri, age 70, runs a vast business empire after expanding from her brother’s bicycle shop and her late husbands’ ventures. She says she is not retiring while her sons support her, has sat on Finland’s first bank board, attended Lloyds of London meetings, and blends shipping with wholesale trade without leaning into politics or the women’s movement.
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Finland
Lloyds of London
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Modest Millionaire
Joel Moore
Harold Ashlock Motor Hwy & W. CQ. Inc
Gober HD Club
Foirviens Ssrsinea
Betty West
Kennedy
Bonham Daily
Bonham, Tex
Hess
Hellbender
ZEBCO
Rod
Dad
Bermuda
Bentley
I Ea
Ry Ei
Fogger
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