ALLEN HETTEEN- POLARIS CO-FOUNDER, DIES

November 1973 - Allen Hetteen, Co-Founder and past president of Polaris died November 24, 1973 as a result of a tractor accident on one of his farms near Roseau.
Hetteen, a pioneer in the snowmobile industry, began work on his first snowmobile in 1954 while in business with his brother, Edgar Hetteen.  The the Hetteen brothers, along with David Johnson, thus established Polaris Industries as a snowmobile manufacturer.  Edgar Hetteen later founded Arctic Enterprises in Thief River Falls, Minn.
Allen Hetteen became president of Polaris in 1960, and managed the company through its high growth years of the 1960's.  Polaris was sold to Textron, Inc. in 1968, and Hetteen continued as president until his resignation in m1970.