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Vital statistics: Pre-polio, two years at Case Institute of Technology. Age 27. Polio '53. Office: his home at 336 Halle Drive, Euclid, 32, Ohio.

SALESMAN -- SPECIALITY ADVERTISING

TED COON, Roswell, New Mexico. "I can recommend the selling of speciality advertising to anyone. There will be some respiratory persons who can be very successful with it and some will not be able to sell any at all. The most important thing in being successful is hard work. I have made as much as $130 a day. My weekly income is about $200. "I make calls on all my accounts but it might be possible to make sales on the phone. To begin as a salesman will not require any investment of any kind."

Ted's employer wrote, "We have better than one year's experience with Mr. Cook selling our items. He has been very successful. He gives his helper a commission on his sales to drive his car and push his wheel chair. Our speciality items are imprinted items such as pens, pencils, lighters, etc. These are sold to business firms who give them as goodwill gifts."

Ted is 26 years old, married, the father of two girls and one boy. Polio in 1954. High school education.

If you are interested in becoming a salesman, write to Speciality Advertising Co., Mr. H. B. Binns Jr., Wyoming and McGaffey, Roswell, New Mexico.

SALESMAN

BOB DAVIS, Walnut Creek, Calif. Age 23. Polio 1956. Bob's business is selling bowling shirts, balls, shoes and bags. He sells from his home by using a specially rigged telephone. Most of his customers come to his home. He has a mailing list of prospective team sponsors plus repeat business. For the 1959 fall bowling season, he netted $400 and works on a 30% profit. Through Diablo Jr. College, he takes two college courses per term. He has a direct intercom system to the classroom.

TUTOR

MARY LOU SPIESS (Mrs. H. H.), Sebastopol, Calif. Mother of one son. Pre-polio -- an elementary school teacher. Polio 1955. She sleeps in a lung at night and uses the pneumobelt during the day. At present, she does a thriving business of tutoring both elementary and high school students in languages, algebra, and remedial reading. Her average monthly income is $130. To start this service, she first contacted school principals. It has grown through friends and satisfied parents, so that she now has a waiting list. She had tried advertising in the local paper, but this netted nothing. She is promoting classes of two to four students as well as individual tutoring.

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