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At the outset of World War II, Sal Bellia went to a recruiter's office and inadvertently got in line with others who wanted to join the Navy. "But he always got seasick," says his son, Tom Bellia, "so he stepped to the next line to join the Army. The Army assigned him to the communications corps and taught him how to run a printing press. He traveled around Europe, printing maps for the infantry." And that's the round about-way one of Gloucester County's business leaders became patriarch of Bellia & Sons, the quintessential family business.