PAGE TWENTY • EVENING HERALD, Thurs.. Feb. 1, 1979 ____^ Good Growth Prospects Bon Ami Makes Comeback looted it. By LeKOV l*OI»E Beaham bought it in 1971 as a hedge against The formula still is almost identical with the NEW YORK (UFI) — Bon Ami, the feldspar the possibility that growth prospects for the one the old Scot soapmaker worked out in Hear St Freed Pope Returns based cleanser and polisher that "ha.sn't household laundry starch market would be Court to Hear Tough Away Contests Connecticut. But nowadays, the feldspar Seeks Solitude To Vatican City scratched yet," is making a comeback. limited by the trend to garments that don’t doesn’t come as a waste material. It is Blue Lau>a From 1890 through the early 1950s, the com­ need starching. For Schoolboy Quintets harvested by Shoshone Indians, who use piano Page 3 Page 3 pany prospered. He has built Bon Ami’s sales until the com­ Page 4- wire to cut the material in mining it. Page 11 During the great depression of the 1930s, it pany again has a significant share of the Feldspar is lower in the abrasive scale than was one of the "golden sixteen" companies market and good growth prospects. the silicon abrasives used in most cleansers listed on the New York Stock Exchange that Made both in cake and powder form, the and that’s why Robertson adopted the famous never reduced dividends. cleanser is used in home and workshop for a trademark of the newly hatched chick that Then, in the 1950s, the company was looted wide variety of cleaning and polishing jobs. ilanrI)PHtpr "hasn’t scratched yet." by the stock swindler, Alexander Guterma. In 1886 John T. Robertson, a Scotsman who Bon Ami comes in both the original cake and M i "After Guterma. who had acquired control ran a small soap factory in Manchester, a powder form now. Cloudy Today of the company by stock manipulation, backed Conn., discovered that a chalky waste When Faultless first bought the company, a rented armored truck up to the Bon Ami of­ material called feldspar, separated out from Beaham put his signature on the Bon Ami ■J Fair Tonight fice one day and took $3 million worth of cash the finely ground Quartz he used In making label. This had the unexpected result of Datallg on pago 2 heavy soap for millhands to use in soaping the mf'; and securities out of the .safe. Bon Ami fell on bringing him thousands of personal letters evil days." says Gordon T. Beaham, president weaving spindles, gave a lustrous polish to the vat stirring tools. from housewives complaining they no longer of Faultless Starch of Kansas City, which now could find on Bon Ami on supermarket shelves owns Bon Ami. Robertson made this material into a soap and asking where it could be bought. "It went through several ownership cake. A clergyman friend suggested the name turning Brralb “My wife undertook the job of answering More Winter changes. Some of the owners were strong Bon Ami, French for “good friend." Vol. XCVIII, No. 104 — Manchester, Conn., these Itters,” Beaham said. "She has anwered PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (UPI) » A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 a 20» Single Copy » I5it Home Delivered companies but they just weren't sufficiently Robertson sold Bon Ami at a good price in 15,000 of them individually while I toil at get­ 1898 to the Childs family, which operated the — It’s going to be six more weeks consumer oriented to enable Bon Ami to hold ting Bon Ami back in a good shelf position in ,.s market share against newcomers. " company successfully until after Guterma of winter weather for the nation, the stores." according to the annual long-1 range forecast of the nation's No. 1 groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil. Precisely at 7:28 a.m. today. Huge Crowds Greet Khomeini TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) - Tens of Phil crawled out of his dark government would be assassinated. Khomeini stood in an open window Moriarty^s Used Car Showroom thousands of cheering Iranians The United States sent five Air burrow on Gobblers Knob and A caller for ‘‘The Commando near ground level, waving and Khomeini declared upon his arrival spotted his shadow. mobbed the h ead Q u arters of Organization of the Warriors of the Force planes yo Iran today to airlift Thursday. Moriarty Brothers opened this new facility Jan. 1 to house their Used smiling. Some youths threw their Americans from the country that If the groundhog had failed to I Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini today Constitution" conveyed the warning Khomeini also appealed to a still Car department. The new building has room for displaying two used caps to him. He caught them deftly was whipped into an anti-U.S. frenzy see his shadow, spring would have | to greet the smiling religious opposi­ to the UPI but declined to identify and flung them back. undecided army — which remained in cars and contains a conference room for meetings. Moriarty Brothers tion leader on the day after his by the scowling Khomeini with vows barracks during the tumultuous been just around the corner, ac­ himself or give details about the A one point, six solders in uniform realized that with the increase in new car prices many people were triumphal return from nearly 15 group. to oust foreigners and allies of the celebrations — to come to the people cording to legend. were joyously passed hand over hand turning to less expensive used cars. years in exile. shah. and unleashed a blistering attack on Dozens of marshals wearing green above the heads of the crowd to With this in mind they expanded their inventory from an average of Premier Shahpour Bakhtiar moved armbands tried in vain to limit a The ayatollah, head of Irans Shiite the United States. Attend Services shake hands with the 78-year-old holy Moslems, shunned all efforts to pre­ 25 cars to an average of 45 cars and display a feature car every week in Quickly to confront Khomeini, throng pressing into the courtyard of man. In Washington Thursday, a Pen­ NEW YORK (UPI) - President | ordering the army to arrest anyone the high school where Khomeini is vent a confrontation with Bakhtiar tagon spokesman said five Air Force , their new showroom Carter and his wife Rosalynn Khomeini was expected either since his return, and said he would named by thee 78-year-bld holy man living. A tidal wave of humanity, today or Saturday to name the planes today will pick up any of the planned to fly to New York today to an Islamic Council intended to rule arrest both the prime minister and 8 , ^ Americans still in Iran who mostly males in their 20s and 30s,' members of a revolutionary council, to attend memorial services for | Iran, government sources said. Parliament unless they made way wish to leave. surged through the broad steel dou­ which would supplant Bakhtiar’s for his revolutionary council. former Vice President Nelson A. At the same time, an underground ble gateway of the school and into the Pan American Airways in New [ Business 1 Rockefeller. organization warned that anyone struggling government and prepare But government sources said there Y()rk said it would also resume its 1 I' courtyard, half the size of a football for the “pure Islamic state” the Mayor Edward Koch was | joining Khomeini’s planned Islamic field. were ccintingency plans by the army daily flight to Tehran today, now that PRICE PAINT SAIE ayatollah envisions. to take into custody anyone named to .Account Executive Hamilton Standard Division of United 'A scheduled to greet the president Mehrebad Airport has been reopened the ayatollahs council. WEST HARTFORD- Alfred T. Bova of Technologies Corp. and first lady upon their arrival at | to civilian traffic. In an interview with French Radio, East Hartford has been named account the West 30th Street heliport at The homecoming of the mullah was Others elected to the credit union's 10:35 a.m. and join them in the t Bakhtiar said he was willing to meet executive for WVTT-TV, Channel 30. SAVE 4.50 eloqgent testimony to his power, and board of directors included Horace SAVE 4.00 ride to Riverside Church. the ayatollah for discussions to t ^ to the threat he poses to Bakhtiar. Bova previously was advertising and Ballard of South Windsor. TO 5.50 The Rev. William Sloane Coffin defuse the situation between them, Parliament and the government marketing director for Webb-Co Enter­ and prevent an outbreak of civil war. prises Inc., East Hartford. was to preside at the invitation- are illegal and if they continue we .Moving lo Tampa Bakhtiar was quoted today by Lon­ He attended Souhern Connecticut State 449 only memorial service for will, arrest them, he said. I will shut gallon gallon Rockefeller, who died of a heart | dons Guardian newspaper as saying College and Yale University and is a TAMPA, Fla. (UPII — Reflectone, a Rog. 7.99 their mouths and I will appoint a ■ R e g . 6.99 attack a week ago. He was 70. he hoped to establish contact with graduate of the University of Connecticut. firm that designs and builds flight VELTirrstipn government with the support of the simulators and training devices for the L i CHANNELPUT Private funeral services were Khomeini today or Saturday, but that Iranian people. _ ___ iMOMiciiunra, is up to him. Troy Appointed aerospace industry, is moving its plant to CEILING WHITE U m PAINT n. held Tuesday at the familys He aci;used the United States of Tampa from Stamford, Conn.