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...well last week at the Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Detroit, the biggest U.S. manufacturer of truck-trailers (1953 sales: some $200 million). President Roy Fruehauf, 45, and his brother Harvey, 60, the company's founder and board chairman (at an estimated $150,000 a year) had had a falling out and were battling for control of the company...
...trouble began when Harvey moved to Florida, got into the oil business and dropped out of active participation in Fruehauf Trailer. Roy demanded that his brother come back and spend more time with the company. Harvey refused. Roy forced him out of the chairmanship, but let him keep the title of honorary chairman...
...kitty, and we're going to put it where it will provide the best return to serve the cause of responsible trade unionism ..." The Fruehauf deal, Beck believes, com bines good investment sense with good unionism. He likes the way Roy Fruehauf has fought for uniform truck and trailer size and weight regulations. Besides, the union is getting 4% for its money instead of the 2¼% it got when the money was in Government bonds...
...Near Holbrook, Ariz., one Carl J. Folk, 60, a burly (215 lbs., 6 ft.) carnival operator, invaded a roadside trailer and tied up Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Allen, a young Pennsylvania couple who were parked there for the night. He raped Allen's wife, set fire to her hair and seared her body with burning newspapers. After five hours of torture, he choked her to death. Allen managed to get loose after Folk had gone, got his pistol, gave chase, and shot and wounded the killer. Folk is a paretic who was declared insane in New Mexico after beating...
...Paradise, four highway workers sleeping in a trailer were carried on a wild 100-yard ride by the raging winds but escaped with minor injuries...