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Bill Smile
They are trying
o buy me out
00, 1N
of it, VII mosso
• t yosliNtintissen.j
there andwolt 111°01 west to 400
Other oltopla. ales bre lr1>
hurt.
Tit** af*bit el in the
VIII r. One of
haled. The
maid is more like a
sW*111p. tan a market. Inflation
W $O* thewits out of people
n Politicians.
It wa$ moble that some of
III bigger butes in the financial
atsad
business game would be
ittectedpersonally. Sure enough,
rve been caught in a personal
bind anti don't know whether to
go for broke or go for the hills
I've been a pretty big share-
holder
hareholder of a stock called Peel
Elder. I have 25 shares. It's a
long story and I've Igen told it
before. But I got in on the ground
floor, as we say on Bay St. and
Wall St. These are a couple of
well known streets in the
financial world. One of them nuns
down to the bay, in case you want
to drown yourself when the mar-
ket is slumping. The other has a
,wall for potmding your Maud
against in the same eventuality.
Well, as I was sayine, I got is
early. Was discharged Dun the
air- force with . a couple of
thousand bucks the paymaster
had thoughtfully post a far woe
while:I was in prisms call*.
I had. decided I want t gate iR
slug and sweat all my Nikita IIs
make a lisp I was going tie
make it fast, and make 1 iigr,
I looked the field osier pretty
carefully, searching far a cava
With a brit -in Mote.. AM the
field lacked rig* bask at me
wits and steely eyte„
Sayer, in effect, "What do you
know •how to do, besides crash-
landing an aircraft in a plowed
field?"
There wasn't really much I
could answer to that. So, I
thought, "The heck with the big
corporations, when they can't
recognize talent, drive and sheer
ability, even though these are bu
.staring them right in their cold, ha
:corporate eye." .
'Thermal straw arrived when a
personnel manager, . at Bell
Telephone told me warmly that
yes, he thought theremightbe a
real future,. for Me with the
03.the sx
,ght find:a place for. mein three ev
four months, but I'd' have to
startat the bottom, like everyone s
else. dee
.41
It turned out that the bottom
was sweeping floor "s at s�Hata
like $48 a week. Even ip those
days The Bell paid good waw.
That's probably why they have to
ask for a rate increase every
couple of years, to compensate
for their incredible generosity to
their employees.
Anyway, the bottom didn't
have much appeal. I'd bad
something in mind more like
Vice -President in charge of
Public Relations.
So I shook him warmly by • the
hand, with that sinc�erityy\that
only a V -P m charge of PR' can,
mum, Masked him, and ;said,
'Mustn't take any mem of" your
time. I have to dateah to the Royal
York er hutch with Jack
McClelland et Kind and
Stewart, theacat ck the afternoon •
train fcr its, w%er+e 'resi-
t dent of the CPR has been
trying le get hold of rhe for a
week. By the way, hf' you get sick
mf TThe Bei, look me up in a year
or so, and I aright have
samething for yea. Just , 'oatact
IN1 sooty Associates, Inoorpii-
aiai, wart to set me Umiited."
At �t I kit him with his
urs opt but I was ming,
insiic tae people seethe on the
ode, bat I always do it inside.
Airway. I strode out of there,
�, "All right. O.K. If
that's the spray they want it. I'll go
it some. i'It' destroy them all
within five years. Fllplunge into
the stock market and buy them
all up and have mergers and con-
glomerates and' caviar and all
sorts of stuff," Even then, young
and inexperienced, I knew the
jargon of . big business.
So I phmged, It was like a
butterfly
plunging .. at a bull
Oh, I didn't just roar around
buying up companies. I didn't
y just any old stocks. I wish I
d. I bought some so new the ink
wasn't dry on the certificates.
But I proceeded With caution. I
wasn't going to be taken :in by
some smooth -talking operator
working out of a telephone booth.
On the. advice°oi:my landlady's;
steal, who had her ham
very Wednesday with a fiend
w ho baby-sat for a prominent
tock -broker's former wife,. I
ided to plunge into Northern
Ontario gold.
My first choice was a lucky
one. I bought into a company with
a property so rich that even the
moose who used it for pasture
had gold filliugs in their teeth.
And I didn't fool around with
penny stocks. That's for the little
guy with two h 'gndred bucks to
invest. No, I went for the solid,
blue chip stuff.
I snapped up one thousand
shares of this stock for 22 cents a
share. Within two days it had shot
up to 23 cents. I was on my way,
and I've never looked back since.
It hurts too much. In three weeks
the stock wasn't listed. tho
financial page: 13141 chalk It
because some linotype opera,*
was sore because sone of uoWere
.
making forhines, and he left the
name of the mine out of thef
through sheer spite.
But all this is getting, us
nowhere. I started out to tell You
•-how a couple of big cone-
atee'\or condomiiuiums or what-
ever they call them are ganging
up to get hold of nay 25 shares 'or
Peel Elder. They've offered to
buy them for $13 a share andl
could have sold them a month ago
Spirit Hfter
for the w
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Anyone who really want
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wants ;tie. withhis heart
and w go after them, Then
God will bless him with hapF .
ness,
"Ask' and it shall be given
you; sok, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be oPned.
unto you,' --°Luke 11;9
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construction of a grandstand for
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