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...Route 283. The fields surrounding the neat farmhouses on either side of the road are as brown as they always are in March and covered with a stubble that suggests a two-day growth of beard. Middletown, a community of 11,000 whose residents farm, work at the Fruehauf factory, or teach at the local state university campus, looks as scrubbed and businesslike as ever...
...fellows who just missed getting jobs making license plates will soon be back behind the wheel of the world's largest truck and trailer producer. Robert D. Rowan, 57, former president and chief executive of Detroit's Fruehauf Corp., and William E. Grace, 70, the former chairman, were convicted in 1975 of defrauding the Government of $12.3 million in excise taxes. Though both are stitt on probation, next month Rowan will return to his $440,000-a-year job and Grace will become chairman of Fruehauf s executive committee...
...overstated the company's excise tax credits and understated revenues. The men were originally sentenced to six months in prison, but later got reduced penalties. They were placed on two years' probation and ordered to do full-time community service work until early May. Last week the Fruehauf board voted that when those terms are up the two officers, who have reputations as big profitmakers, may return to the company from their unpaid leaves...
Well, not entirely. By 4:30 the first evening, the Pullman Trailmobile thé dansant for 4,000 was in full swing. Thereafter came such perennial draws as the Fruehauf Corp.'s mighty two-night bash, for which they trucked in Count Basie and band, as well as a disco combo, plus dance instructors to help unlimber the foxtrot generation; Thermo King's "Saloon," featuring the Great Jubilee Banjo Band and drawings for a radio-controlled miniature tractor-trailer for someone's lucky kid; and, of course, Mack Trucks' elegant soirée in the Trianon...
...weeks ago Fruehauf Corp the producer of truck trailers, threw in the hammer and joined a long parade of big companies out of the modular-housing field. In the last year or so ITT Levitt, Florida Gas Co., Potlatch Forests Inc., Hercules Inc. and Wickes Corp along with a score of smaller firms, also pulled put of the industry. Last year Florida's Behring Corp. cut its losses and closed down the nation's largest house-building plant. Beset by production and marketing troubles, another industry leader, Stirling Homex, crashed into bankruptcy seven months...