The small industrial municipality of Oss, in southern Holland, today conferred honorary citizenship, a rare distinction in this country, on Saal Van Zwanenberg, a Jew and founder of the famous chemical and food corporation Royal Dutch Zwanenberg Organon. The honor was conferred on Mr. Zwanenberg’s 65th birthday.
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