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...Ferguson: "We've always kept to kindred products based on utilization of our basic material-wood pulp. Good manage ment is one that concentrates in a given field." The company has also been careful of its community relations. Recently it decided to close its paper mill in Oswego, N.Y. But first St. Regis found another company that needed a mill and arranged to have it take over the plant, thus assuring an industry for the town...
Neither Snow, nor Rain . . . In Oswego, N.Y., Mrs. Thomas Keefe finally received a postcard mailed April 8, 1911, in Lyons, N.Y., 35 miles away, by her brother Godfrey, who died 39 years...
...Blaming its trouble on rural electrification and on the increased use of cigarette lighters and paper book matches, the Diamond Match Co. announced it would shut down its "kitchen match" plant in Oswego, N.Y. for ten weeks...
Beyond the fence were other barriers. When the foreigners spoke brokenly or had trouble with restaurant menus, some Oswegonians snickered. Once, when a Yugoslav couple bade a visitor goodbye at the bus station and the men kissed each other on the cheek, townfolk watched with open amusement. Staid Oswego (pop. 22,062) was unprepared for such a massive transfusion; it could not help gaping, winking, misunderstanding, resenting...
Barriers Burned. Some of the refugees were readily assimilated. The Oswego High School graduated six of the refugees in June, and Principal Ralph Faust was impressed with their maturity and eagerness. Seven girls enrolled in the local business college. At the Fort, where private welfare groups like B'nai B'rith aided a recreation and work program, women crowded the beauty-culture school. Men and boys learned woodworking. Olga and Michael Mikhailoff-who once were in Italian films -got an amateur theater going. Carl Selan, who used to represent 20th Century-Fox in Zagreb, booked movies into...