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Under normal circumstances, a Negro mayor would be a certainty in Gary, Ind., this year, and Richard Hatcher, 34, the Negro councilman who won the Democratic primary last May, should, by this time, be choosing his office curtains. Voter registration is approximately 4 to 1 Democratic, and the Lake County machine is one of the smoothest in the country; as a consequence, no Republican has been elected mayor in the last quarter century. But circumstances are not exactly normal in Gary this year...
...become chief executive, along with the chairman's post he already held. Zender has stirred Peter Paul's cor porate structure as thoroughly as the chocolate in its giant kettles. He took flying tours from the home office in Naugatuck, Conn., to plants in Salinas, Calif., Frankfort, Ind., and Dallas. In Dallas he discovered "an unhappy plant" because workers did not like the cafeteria menu and the manager refused to change it; Zender changed both the menu and the manager, brags that "now it is a happy plant." He and President Lloyd W. Elston, 40, met with independent...
...throughout the nation. Last year, although crime rose in the city by 5.2%, that was less than half the national surge of 11%. Meanwhile, Margaret Moore, former editor of a small-town Indiana weekly, who joined the News in 1952 after nine years as director of the Franklin (Ind.) College journalism department, keeps on working. The News, which pumped $6,000 into the Crusade last year, refuses to take credit for her accomplishments. Says Editor M. Stanton Evans, who is also Mrs. Moore's son-in-law: "We provided the umbrella for this at first, and we will continue...
UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE (Ind.) John D. Harper, LL.D., president of the Aluminum Co. of America...
...railroads that earned money on that kind of traffic. Or accomplishing unlikely mergers: in a recent move that caught Wall Street by surprise, Heineman announced that for cash and stock exchanges totaling $367 million, the C. & N.W. was acquiring Essex Wire Corp. (annual sales: $375 million), a Fort Wayne, Ind. firm that makes wire, cable, switches and auto parts in 54 U.S. and Canadian plants. The railroad seems to be getting a bargain. Essex itself last week announced that it was acquiring Stevens Manufacturing Co. and Boyne Products, Inc., both of them small manufacturers of control devices...