The Wholesale Distributors Association, which will celebrate its 74th anniversary in 2003, is planning to make some changes to its annual convention and is having discussions with the Southern Wholesalers Association on a possible joint convention in the future.
In 1896, Halsey W. Taylor lost his father to an outbreak of typhoid fever caused by contaminated water. In 1912, he developed a sanitary drinking fountain he named "The Puritan," and began producing it in Warren, Ohio.
Brass Craft Manufacturing Co. received the Silver Award for outstanding safety and health achievement at its Brownstown plant from the Michigan Dept. of Consumer & Industry Services.