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At 95 He S Still King of the Merchants
started in that little store al   45th-flmr hearing. But from his  ney chain that now numbers  ly, in dark suits, and always  give up the box this year and  Rut if , ..
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It is not , alone that ,     is, says anassociate. "Nobody   His face is ruddy, jowly, and  nally gotten used to it, we will wife have had some dismnssions him I put it into two different a partnership and he opened
“Mr potag, alone that makes  would do that to Mr. Penney,  marked with a silver mustache,  keep the box.”                   about the subieot                 banks.”                         “The Golden Rule Store" in
neriftnneytit is the man- eventhen.”                       The children never tire of The present Mrs. Penney is “If I want to talk tsmon The father asked why the two Kemmerer, Wyo., in 1902.
NEW YORK (AP)— Ms wife with firm beliefs qsimple.man Until recently Penney would the stories,” says Mrs. Penney, his third wife. The first two died in the middle of the afternoon, banks.                             They whispered in Kemmerer
callshim “Jimmy." A few close   has nevr waved He whichihe   waitton customers when he en-  “They want to hear them over  at early ages, presenting him  I’U pick up the telephone and   . Because if one fails, I’ll still  that this young man was money
friends call him Jim. Occasion-   st dow a "ayedHewilnot   ter d one.of his stores. Someone  and over again.”                 with three sons, two of whom  make the long-distance call Mr    have part of the money,” the  mad and a fool He would open
any “J.C.” is heard in the halls   until n thenuncheon table   once called Penneys summer    He is not a man of hobbies, al-  survive. He was 50 years old  Penney has suggested I waitn_   youngster replied.               at sunrise, stay open as long as
of the skyscraper named after seated He winomenhave.been home in Connecticut to ask if though his wife has educated when he married his present til after the cheaper rates come 111 never forget the smile on there were customers on the
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moonn           steps on the doquntoyou." _________. . will be easy to remember t tip FielearsagosemadeteThoseswho surround him likeyStories.of Pennex.turning off didn’t Choose to me to be a ness, a remarkable figure for
"Heis 95 now, silver-haired, rirThessountonsupon-which-he   EE .“P when you meet a proposal’thim                 tnetdlanecdates ot his frugality.                                                                  thesmalitown. ,
"o-themtotherstoreofaPen Penney dresses conservati ve-The Metropolitan opera. Les
was 225 for»« a 2 1
S in M father ask about Penhey poufed mapest
the light 8 turn out pay or vacation or benefits. He sonal fortune of $40 million into
6                           wanted me to learn the busi- the company to keep it alive. He
ness.”                             and his wife closed all but two
penna, did              . rooms of the mansion in White
health too i 1. but soon 1 Plains, discharged 11 of their 12
heaiththegbeginnings ° con- servants and sent their two
West He cot ced.him to 8° young daughters to Arizona to
but OUk when hJJ l in Denver live with Mrs. Penney’s mother,
buduitwhen learned the 1 went to the housekeeper at
two different^ same items for the closest house and asked her
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But Paw," he protested, upon the shrewdness of the cus- calls Mrs Penney
“my shoes have holes, both of tmerHe [earned of a butcher "I was amazed at Jimmy’s at-
em Could you get me one more shop for sale in a small town 40 titude. He wasn’t at ali bitter I
new pair, then let me start in?" milesfromDenver, took his life was a little bit. j wondered Why
His father, a farmer six days 8    $ 00 and bought it this could happen to a man who
a week and a Baptist preacher The previous owner told him did so much good for others."
on the seventh, was firm. Pen- that to get the business from the Penny served as president of
ney began running errands and hotel it was necessary to bribe the . company until 1917 and
soon had one dollar, enough to the chef with a bottle of whisky chairman of the board from 1917
buy a pair of shoes he thought each week.                      to 1958 and continues as a mem-
ugly. But it was all he could af- a dig it (hp f ir .berof the board of directors,
ford. From that dav on. he nid , I did it the first week, but it "Now, 1 want to live to be
for his clothes             P bothered me. Then I started 100,” he says, “and I want those
thinking of what my father days to be the best of my life.
It took three attempts to get a He saved up $2.50, bought a would say about such a dealing. My doctor says I can do it”
tax bond issue passed to build a pig and fattened it on garbage 1 informed the chef there would The work he does from his of-
new high school Now they have   he collected from neighbors. He   be no more whisky.”             fice mostly concerns his founda-
a new, modern building, but   sold her at a large enough profit     The chef was good to his  tions and his cattle ranch in up-
“It’s a pretty pessimistic wav     Right’now  life is iust one   they have to worry about keep-   to allow him to buy a dozen   word, switched his business to a  state New York.
of looking at  Pgs but I  way   lone football’season for the fifi   ing it filled.                        shoats. He needed more gar-   rival butcher shop and Penney    As he leaves the office for the
think"igingnKsgrow,doh stuentstinthessniorocithsdt Even With the megingohot neighbors lost his life savings.             dayy, he takes otf his suit coat
said. “And it’s sad.               Hamilton High. They haven’t er school into HamihorL enrolL complained of the smell            He found a store that remind- and places it over hisarm be-
When you lose the kiddies, you  got their futures planned further  ment is only at 771-up 16 from  father hemnow, ordered his  ed him of the one where he   orehe puts on a trench coat. .
lose the best part of your com- than the next Saturday night but the previous year                father Pe ney protested. He learned the business back in Wonder why I do that. he
munity... ”                   one thing almost all of them say    The S theTieh school were  wouldmakemuch. more money   hamilton, Mo., and got a tempo  asks . ,
One of the babies Dr. Cleve-   is it wont be in Hamilton.         faced with the prospect that the   little could hold onto them justa   rary job there. The man who     Okay,.why?
land delivered is J.K. Gardner, “Nothing to do,” says Bob, yearbook might be abolished tlelonge i a . owned it T. M. Callahn, was s because the coat would
now 46, a partner in the town’s summing up the problem of becuse the 8wterena bonished tsThoughtfulness.andconsidera- impressed with Penney’s ability mussed m the car and then it
one funeral home and also a Hamilton’s young people. Sts or adverHsers to tionoth to h is more and when the temporary job would need pressing. And press-
partner in a monument manu- The one movie theater rarely Support it adertisers to important, the preacher told his was over, he asked him to go to ing will wear 11 out sooner."
upntoemakealarger farms and   Hamilton states the population   facturing concern                shows current fiims and the bill Penney, Gurtingdnk to tursaid
"aMis,weedisplaced. • iS 3,106—that s the figure from Far from relishing his profita- changes infrequently Attending off.
tMost to the small communi- the 1960 census and no one has ble situation, Gardner has run a movie means a drive to ndng He is fond of crediting his suc-
tienin therountyinoredthe                                  ads in the weekly newspaper for 65 miles a^y                 cess to his parents, when he
renounti was “ 7- and  2,716, released this year,  five years emphasizing the need    . .     .            was 8 years old his father took
now are.’only wide spots in the  They are still hoping that a mis-   for the young people to stay.         In town, the high schoolers him aside and told him he was
roadswith a general store and a take was made in the counting. “It’s good to be from HamiL spend Saturday night cruising old enough t begin b uying his
servicestation. Many lost their Mayor T. D. Craddock, who ton. It’s better to be in HamiL 1116 town, stopping when they re- own clothes.
towns is slowly withering as a P cesand, do. not even has held the nonpaying post for ton,” a recent one said.           C ognizethe car of a friend and
result                            have a postmark left to indicate  12 years, can cite a dozen ways    Gardner, whose father and   sing, ‘What’s up?’' Thenthey
The sound of youth elsewhere   wheregenerations were born,   he says the figures are mislead-  grandfather lived in the county   all head for theDairy Kreem, a
’ inthenatinmzolddiswdert livedarnd. died,             . ing. For instance, he says the on a 106-acre farm, has found localhangout that offers 35 cent
or alarming or shrUl. Here, its   had 74 timoH anilton pounty  city has the same number of  the population problem coming   hamburgers and pinball ma-
absence shows wherever one  three snsus$tgiphas  electrical and gas units it did 10  home to him.                   —n6s
looks. It is a look of decay. cised its smounse Fairy years ago.                           His older son, Jim, 25, left for The most exciting thing Bob
Hamilton County’s 844 square ago when its enrollment shnmk The town realist is Dr. CC' college, then 1116 Army. Now can recall happening in HamiL
miles show boarded-up school   t 150 luniis cnronntsstrun  Cleveland, 76, who has been  he s getting a master’s degree  ton was three years ago when
houses, empty stores, signs for   years Lo down to fin            practicing medicine for 54 years  at the University of Texas and  several high school boys low-
rest homes, abandoned farm   Alemancumo with ni is nyS  in Hamilton County. During  there are no jobs in Hamilton  ered themselves in a basket
houses, the weathered faces of   mentani sLn tlont 15       World War 11 when he was the   where he could really utilize his   over the water tower to Paint
old men sitting outside the kSeTdown to 74 and only doctorin the county, he de- graduate work.                   Go Big Red" on its side. Red is
courthouse on stone benches,   Hico has 329 Sndownto 74 and   livered 600 babies in four years.     His daughter Jayne, 22, has the high school colors,
known locally as the Shade Tree    Is just a matter of time al   Now he doesn’t deliver babies   moved to Arlington, some 120
Senate. It population is at its   though residents of the?et^o   because he can’t take the irreg-   miles away, and his younger
lowest point in 60 years.           -nourgnresid “ i these j   ular hours-but also because  son, Bob, 18, is a high school
The population decrease in   mon m niiestareyelat country   there just aren’t 11131 many   enior who wili be going away
Hamilton County came natural school buses wiU bring ainost more being born                 to college next year,
ly, by having more deaths than all the county’s children into the
births. No one seemed to notice county seat, the town of HamiL
at first Finally, there was no ton.
way to overlook it                 Hamilton, a pretty town with
Population has declined from tree-lined streets, has been se-
10,500 in 1950 to 8,488 in 1960 to cure in the knowledge that it
7,132 this year. A recent survey was the county seat and would
showed that 26 per cent of its always be necessary as a site
population was over age 65, the for the county court houses and
highest such percentage in the other governmental agencies,
state. ,,           . However, recently, the citL n
ihe U.S. Department of Agri zens have been reading articles .
culture says that this year there arguing that the county form of
are 520 counties which will lose government is obsolete and the
population—about the-sixth of Hamilton citizens have been la-
the nation’s total,                 menting what a “crying shame”
Like most of these counties, it would be if small towns be-
Hamilton is agriculturally came a thing of the past
based. Forty years ago, a farm- Hamilton, they say, is a great
- er could start farming with 100 place to rear children-80 per-
acres and $100 for equipment cent of the high school gradu-
usually two mules. Today it ates go to college. There are no
takes thousands of dollars and traffic jams or pollution, drug
several hundred acres. Gradual- problems or racial conflicts,
ly the small farms were bought A sign welcoming visitors to
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