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William and Irene Trerice of Algonac, Mich., were shocked to learn that their son, a 6-ft. 5-in., 230-Ib. high school football tackle, had died of a heart attack. "He was always lifting weights and jogging, and he could bench press 300 Ibs.," said the senior Trerice, a 13-year Air Force veteran. He might have accepted the loss, he said, had it not been for "snafus" in informing the family of Paul's death and in returning his body. His suspicions were also raised by some of Paul's friends on the Ranger; one sent...
Clair River at Algonac, Mich. Today, from its Pompano Beach, Fla. headquarters, Chris-Craft operates nine plants that produce more than 8,000 boats a year, from 17-ft. runabouts (at $3,335) to 66-ft. motor yachts ($160,000). In the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1959, its sales to taled nearly $40 million with earnings of $2,500,000. Sales are running at a rate of more than $50 million a year. Smith will remain as chairman, along with the rest of Chris-Craft's management. Wall Street speculated that NAFI would soon change its name...
Fish & Fiddle. Christopher Columbus Smith was born in 1861 in the treetopped village (pop. 1,200) of Algonac, Mich, on the St. Clair River. Algonac was a tough sailors' town situated in the midst of busy Great Lakes maritime commerce. There were a few small hotels, a general store, plenty of canvasback and redhead ducks, walleyed pike, yellow perch, black bass and an occasional sturgeon-and lots of sitting...
...brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high school; instead, he shoved off as a deckhand on the steamer Arundel, worked summers on the lake boats. But as vacationing sportsmen came to Algonac, Hank and Chris began building small boats for rent. Hank and he would search the woods for a walnut stump, dig it out and work up a naturally curved boat stem from stump and roots...
...firmly planted on his head, brush-mustached Chris Smith spent a lot of time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...