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...heat from solar panels in the roof is collected in a bin containing 1,000 sealed, plastic bottles of water, which can hold the heat for as long as three sunless days. The system provides between 50% and 75% of Evans' home heating requirements. Alden and Margaret Krider of Manhattan, Kans., have fashioned their own solar collectors from discarded aluminum printing plates, storing solar heat in discarded paint cans filled with water. They are delighted with the results. Says Krider: "Every 1,000 cu. ft. of gas I don't burn now is 1,000 cu. ft. that...
...KATHLEEN KRIDER Colby, Kans...
...When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson, he retire at his peak. Avery again refused, saying...
Once, Avery launched into a disjointed discourse that rambled on for 27 minutes. A stockholder wanted to know why President Edmund Krider was being retained in view of Ward's steady profit drop. Avery turned away in bewilderment, searching for the voice out of the loudspeakers. "Turn him around." someone howled. Avery struggled for his bearings, turned back and pleaded: "I can't hear that at all. What's the purpose?" (Avery's daughter, Mrs. Rogers Follansbee, a spectator at the meeting, wept...
...time." The traditional right of a majority is also "impaired," since the majority would have to "wait for two or three years" to get control of the company. Claim & Counterclaim. Wolfson's court victory was no proof that he would win the proxy fight. Ward President Edmund Krider, who said that the company had spent $125,000 on the fight so far, boasted that Avery had proxies for "well over 51% of the 6,700,000 shares outstanding." Therefore, said Krider, "There is no chance that Mr. Wolfson and his backers will elect a majority." In Chicago...