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Show JOHN D. TELLS OF FIRST JOB Sixty-seven Years Ago He Found Work After Six Weeks' Hunt ! TARRYTOWN, X Y., Sept. 27 Slxtv-seven years ago a wholesale produce pro-duce commlesion man told a lC-year- ! old boy who had been searching for employment for six weeks in Cleveland , to "come back after dinner and well ( see what you can do." At Pocantlco Hills, the Rockefeiw-r estate. Tuesday John D Rockefeller celebrated the sixty-seventh anniversary anniver-sary of that incident his first regular regu-lar Job, which was bookkeeping. During tho morning. Mr. Rockefeller Rockefel-ler attended to hie correspondence. Ho then played a game of golf, a four-some four-some at nine holes In which his side won three up. ami two to play. Later he went for an .automobile ride. Mrs John ,D. Rockefeller. Jr., his j daughter-in-law. entertained at luncheon, lunch-eon, at which tho financier recounted incidents In his search for a Job. "I wasn't discouraged during the search," Mr Rockefeller explained. "I never thought of obstacles and' T waa already at work looking for work." The first three months of his first Job, Mr. Rockefeller said, paid him 50, nr |