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...Chairman Jasper F. Crouse 1Ed. said yesterday that a committee of 26 is seeking contributions from each of the School's 248 students. Funds raised will help the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research in its drive to raise at least $1,000,000 toward the Center...
...these, Jasper Danckeart by name, set out from Staten Island on a bright morning in 1679. He traveled by birchbark canoc to the hamlet of Elizabethtown, where he disembarked and set out across country towards the warmer climes of the southwest. But let him tell his tale...
...Clayton, 69, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-47) and longtime chairman of the Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest cotton brokers; and Susan Vaughan Clayton, sixtyish, who had divorced him last May after 47 years of marriage; on Aug. 6; in Jasper, Alta...
Onions & Potatoes. Wisconsin-born Bill Gehring became a scientific farmer through spare-time study. He moved to Indiana in 1929 after marrying a Hoosier, got into mint farming by way of potatoes. Jasper County had been a heavy onion grower. When that market slumped, Gehring bought 350 brush-covered acres at $60 an acre (now worth upwards of $375), turned the fields to potatoes, and gradually added to his holdings. "Potatoes," explains Gehring, "meant rotation. To get steady potato crops, I reached for more land. For a good rotation crop, I chose mint. Mint and potatoes meant irrigation and controlling...
PERCY CRAIG SPENCER, 55, a lawyer turned oil executive, took over the presidency of Sinclair Oil Corp., succeeding aging (72) Founder Harry F. Sinclair, who was ready to leave responsibility to younger men. "Spence" Spencer, born in Jasper, N.Y., graduated as a lawyer from the University of Nebraska and became general counsel of Producers & Refiners Corp. in 1927. When it merged with Sinclair in 1934, Spencer went along. Said Harry Sinclair (who becomes board chairman) : "No changes in major policies are to be anticipated...