PAGE SDL THE STAUNTON NEWS-LEADER, STAUNTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1953 1 i 1 111 11 I i i evs Items Sales Courtesy Highland County Donnie Trobaugh Will Leave Today For Akron Soap Box Derby Finals irrrrtTnrw a a rf Tint Mviuiuuii, Aug. JXLTS. jaCK Peters of Richmond, is spending Mr- and Mrs. Robert Kewlin of a lew days ol vacation with her wamous. ju, nave been visiting parents, -Mr.
and Mrs. John Gut- relatives at Blue Grass and Forks shall. of Water. pear interested In a career of racing. He said he liked the sport and probably would be a fan all his life, but he wants to be a civil engineer.
Grandparents To Accompany Youth Staunton's 1953 Leader Papers-Chevrolet Soap Box Derby win- Visitors of Mrs. Fannie Beverage and Brooks on Saturday were Miss i Ruth Cunningham of Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham, Clinic Opened Dr. Boone Tillett, a former professor of salesmanship at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, opened the four-day Sales and Courtesy Clinic yesterday at Stonewall Jackson Hotel by discussing psychology in selling and customer elations.
The clinic is sponsored by the Merchants and Business Men's Association. Wednesday moAiing at eight I Ipllli The young boy mentioned the HomelsSought For Staunton Girl The Deparbuem oT Public Welfare is looking for a free faster home far a 15-year-old girL Superintendent Mrs. Mattie p. Rice said yesterday. Mrs.
asked that any families interested in providing a home for the young girl either call by telephone or visit the welfare office, located in the Wita Building on E. Beverley St will be leaving the city Wednes- I "adel f01 Carolina as his day afternoon for an important coUee preference, destination Akron, and the Donnie went out to the Derby AU-American Derby. this year fully determined to win Donnie said he already ld reporter, "I just! sent his racer to Akron, as re-1 kept saying to myself Tm going quired by rules. Before shipping i t0 wm or down trying Warwick and Mrs. Gene Gates of Reading, who were enroute to visit other relatives at Huttons-' ville, W.
Va. Miss Patricia Forbes has arrived at the home of her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Arbogast. Mr. and Mjrs. John GutshalL Mrs. Jack Peters Herthel, Harlan and Darlie Gutshall spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Simmons' it, though, he put in a lot of work He is an avid reader of maga on the wheels and body since win- Zines dealing with anything ning the Staunton race on July 11. mechanical and frequently puts His big chance for a knowledge he gains this way to use. In addition to building scholarship will come Sunday, Donnie likes to build when he will compete with some lacers o'clock. Dr.
Tillett will use as his topic, "Personality Patterns," discussing the personalities of both customers and salesmen. Yesterday, he stressed that a customer must really be "sold" on a product before he will buy. He described how a person lsarns through the senses "83 per cent of what we learn conies through sight" and how important it Is to properly display merchandise. Dr. Tillett closed by saying there is something in each product which will sell and said a salesman must find the strong poir' of the product, in order to make a sale.
Demonstrating, he told of a "model airplanes and boats and MISS YOUR PAPER? If your carrier fails to leave your Staunton News-Leader or Evening Leader Dial 5-3473 CITY CAB for delivery inside dty models of almost anything Lived Here All His Life A FORMER menial patient, George Saleeby, 43, Is shown after he was arrested while attempting to deliver a rambling letter to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in New York. According to police, Saleeby then confessed he was the sniper who wounded two men and killed an- 150 other boys, representing every state in the Union and several foreign nations. He seems to think he has a better than average chance to, win top honors, too. The youngster will be accompanied to Akron by a couple of people who are mighty fond of the boy his grandparents, Mr.
and T-j I mini ii mum in ViTimimini iiiain, ,11 TTi fi iftl' IliMiiiiiaMl mi A resident of Staunton all of his 15 years, Donnie was born on June 20, 1938. He has received his education in the public schools and is a member of St. Paul's E. U. B.
Church. "Ef -other' whose death had been4isted ho-five years ago-show- ed him a shirt, all the while babbling" about the long-wearing as due to natural causes. Saleeby is married and the father of a daughter, 3. (International) Day or Night Service U-Drive It Do not call Leader Office Call City Cab 5-3473 collar. So, said Dr.
Tillett, 'he bought the shirt and was wearing Mrs. F. O. Peters. Mr.
Peters is the man who several years ago thought the Soap Box Derby was a lot of nonsense, but his idea about it has changed considerably now that his grandson Is a winner; Early interest in almost any One last note about his racer: Donnie weighs 132V2 pounds leaving 117y2 pounds for his racer, as the total weight limit is 250 pounds. Donnie did such a precision Job that his car weighed 117 pounds. it at the clinic. Then he opened his coat, allowing the assemblage to see his shirt a perfectly good collar with the body battered and torn. mm irniw thing that ran on wheels paid off handsomely for Donnie last month as he swept to victory after This, he said, was what he meant by each product having a strong selling point.
victory in the Soap Box Derby, winning almost uncontested, interested In Cart We'll allow you full retail prkt for your old tubes AMERICA'S UnthBr.snH.friilrtV I ST. Joseph! I ASPIRIN POP CMILDWg.Wj DONNIE TROBAUGH packs his bag in preparation for his departure Wednesday for Akron, and the All-American Soap Box Derby. The young Stauntonian won The Leader Papers-Chevrolet Derby here in July- (Staff Photo) inouiin iiu ifiiiiH Donnie says he and some other children used to build little wag FAVORITE! making a total of 249 pounds and 12 ounces, just four ounces under the limit. About his trip to Akron, to compete in the All-American Derby, he didn't have much to say, except that the feeling was "great." He wouldn't venture to say how he would finish, saying he didn't know what kind of racers the other boys will have. But he seemed pretty confident.
Grandfather Excited If he does win, it would be hard to say who would be happiest Donnie or his grandfather. Mr, ons and cars when he was still wearing short pants, some seven GENERAL Puncture Sealing Safety Tubes Forget flat forever! Hundreds of thousands of users now acclaim this the greatest tube ever built. All nie carries is no stranger to his grandfather. Mr. Peters related he used to carry almost the same route some 46 or 48 years ago.
or eight years Ever since then, he said, he has been interested in cars and Just naturally wanted to compete in the Soap Box Derby. He entered the second Derby In 1951 but was eliminated in the first heat. when he was a boy. The biggest difference 1 those days and these, he remembered Is the pay natural rubber. In 1952, he showed a vast im- GUARANTEED PUNCTURE-PROOF OR A NEW TUB! FREE He talks about, walking all over Sears Hill and nearby areas delivering papers for $1 a week.
provement over his previous ef Peters really is excited about this thing, even though he tries not to show it. When Donnie rode to victory in the fourth annual Soap Box Derby in July, it was Mr. Peters who delivered some of the papers on Donnie's route. And now it is Mr. Peters who is splitting a three- fort and finished as runnerup to' FJtq considerably less than a paper i boy gets these days.
And those i snows! DOZIER TIRE CO. week "vacation in two so that he So, Wednesda off goes Donnie and Mr. and Mrs. Peters, on their way to Akron and and his wife can watch Donnie B. F.
MILLER JR. Phone 52-L, Weyers Cave 508 Greenville Ave. Dial 5-21 91 PLENTY FREE PARKING run in the big Derby, Of course, the paper route Don- the All-American Derby. This demonstration showed me the way to a better deal! Arnold Bosserman in the big event This year, he used an almost completely new car and left little doubt in the minds of the hundreds of spectators that his racer was the fastest in the race. Worked All Winter Donnie said he believed the main reason he won the Derby was "running the wheels in," a process he said took him all winter.
He also said his "car was more stream-lined this year lower and narrower, longer co*ckpit, and the back end was lower than the front." The youngster seemed to think" of almost everything in his effort to win. As a final touch, he said, "I sealed all the air-holes to keep the air from holding me back." Donnie said, everything included, it took him more than a hundred hours to perfect his racer. A carrier for The Leader Papers for about a year, Donnie is the son of Mrs. F. P.
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