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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES,

Locdl Man Directs $1 Million Corporation From

REMODELED WHOLESALE BUILDING—This attractive building at 233 S. Meridian St. is the base of operations for the C., I. D., wholesaler~of toys, prepared drugs, stationery and drug sundries. The building itself ebst $45,000 and $55,000 to remodel “The stone front cost the company $12,000. » » 2

Lewis A. Warrenfelt, Paralysis Victim, = Active in Two Other Business Firms

The quarterback crouched and apolis where he had a brother,| whispered his signals. The ball Orville, a freight solicitor for the was snapped. From the opposite Monon Line, and a sister, Mrs.| side of the line a 21-year-old bun- Gladys Wright, 222 N.. Drexel & dle of muscle charged through, Ave. He believed he could find | nailed the ball carrier. {something to do. | After the referee’s whistle died| For two or three years he did| away, the tackler did not get nothing. It was in these years up. His right arm and both legs that a new man was born. refused to move, | Today, as head of the C. IL D.| The tackler seemed to recover, Corp., ($1 million annually) he)

WHEEL CHAIR PRESIDENT—From his wheel chair and with | —

capable partners, Lewis A. Warrenfelt, president, paralyzed from | oe2 when Te rented small

and played the rest of the game. works in a wheel chair, which) the waist down with the loss of most of his right arm, directs the |iorg’at 126 Virginia Ave. for $15/a year. This is his own. Three days later he again lost/gets him around faster than those| Central Indian Distributing Corp., which owns its own building. |a month. His line expanded. He -the use of his right arm and who walk. mas

He keeps a writing] § : er both legs—this time for life. - board in his lap, and he Keepe [Sune behing SR rene bopent $15.50 worth of Cyristmas Doctors Couldn’t Help |an ever-cHanging map of they, ©. Boswell, attorney, wholin the classified columns, He sol The tackler was Lewis A. War- business. continually in his mind. scans their deals and helps bring|the cards for 50 cents a box. They | renfelt, now president of the fast-| The C.LD. Corp. is operated expansion greams to reality. [sold them for $1. He ran the growing Central Indiana Dis- by Mr. Warrenfelt along with| ow. cot active big game Dusiness from his bedroom. tributing Corp., 233 S. Meridian such far-sighted business builders] y ! g8 | Agents came back

: ts He advertised for agen S125 agents,

Business Expanded

Massachusetts Ave

{from a canoe in Ontario last could find to sell. He got moth Time Stick Candy Co. in a third retail business on the] C.I.D. wholesales toys, sports|year, and this year got a deer|pads and things to hang in closr| He then bought the East Side. goods, stationery, drug sundries/in Canada. He enjoys fishing for ets to keep moths away. For Lewis Warrenfelt, this was and prepared medicines.

the beginning of one of the most|3g employees and has just reamazing careers business.

outright, and holds part interest Robert Wacker.

{carnival goods. In 1939 the

He shoots pheasants from the agents. in American modeled its own building at 233|back of an open convertible in| |S. Meridian St., having paid $45.-/the Daketas, He is a fight fan, products, flavoring, kitchen prep-

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He tried doctor after doctor.000 for the building and $55,000 (a football and basketball enthusi- |arations, moth killers and cards,| Warrenfelt Supply Co., at gM th : ® EE =

Wheel Chair

HE KNOWS TOYS—Karl Keubler, vice president and toy authority at the Central Indiana Distributing Corp. is shown going over his Christmas supply. | : : but not for those who buy early. Other officers are Ernest Graff | There is a new thrill to hearing . . , the thrill of hearing and Robert Wacker, also vice presidents and important cogs in | clearly though no one notices you wear a hearing aid. this fast-growing wholesale business. A forced him out of the house in Meridian St,

{moved to 336 Massachusetts Ave. the Smith Furniture Store at 4609 A |with three times the space and E. 10th St.

Two years later he outgrew the in ore st His Own Creation | the next moved to 11 N., New Jersey St. St. who owns another business as Ernest Graf, Karl Keubler and hunter, shot a moose and a bear), A500 and asked what else he He also bought the bankrupt Old

Busi-| Novelty Sales Store at 131 S. Me-/ Worked hard on the civic com-| It hasithe big ones in far north waters. ness was good. He soon had 12|ridian St., selling novelties and mittee responsible for installa-/,

Finally his stock of heusehold/company closed and he merged|$5 for his fourth jllegal parking the Novelty Sales Store and the offense soon after the meters

Sky-Styled Rooms For Former Flier

LOS ANGELES, Nov, 6 (UPy tatching modern coffee tables —Phose ' plexiglass “bubbles” in|from them, which he exhibited at modern warplanes that keep the the 22d semi-annual Los Angeles sky out and the fliers in, might furniture market. not seem like suitable ornaments | Most fascinating was a huge for a living room. {fishbowl in a rattan-bound table, But they are, after former Air with a movable glass oval for a Force Sgt. “Herbert Ritts —getsitop.—Anether was a transparent through with them. plastic desk, with drawers you Mr. Ritts bought some surplus don’t even have to open to see B-29 “Blisters” and made eye-|inside.

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