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ron Fireman's executives stand high in Portland because they stuck to their home town, though the Pacific Northwest seemed an unlikely spot to start a plant producing a heavy mechanical product for world-wide distribution. Harry Banfield's old contracting partner and predecessor as Iron Fireman's president was killed in an airplane accident in 1928. Mr. Banfield was badly hurt in the same crackup. Quiet, reserved, he still likes to build bridges on the side, sometimes does. Vice President Edward C. Sammons was named "Portland's First Citizen for 1935." Another high-powered Iron Fireman is General Sales Manager Clarence Theodore Burg, an ardent Rotarian who made all his salesmen wear flaming red neckties during Depression, urging them to preach "red tie optimism." In self-defense he has had to wear red ties himself ever since.