The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-21
BIuffton, Marion, Seymour
and Richmond Bust
neSSeS Grow.
WAGES PAID INCREASE
Studebaker Corporation Re-
ports $1,78O,58O Gain
for Seven Months.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor, The Times


! Additions to plants of industries
in four Indiana cities and prosper
Gus conditions of others are notable
in business and industrial survey
of the State for the week ended
today.
An addition to cost $4,000 will be
built to the Hoosier Condensed Milk
Company plant at Bluffton. 1t will
house machinery for production of
powdered milk and will permit of
an output increase of twenty-five
tons daily.
The Dryer Paper Products Com
pany, Marion, will build a 35x83-
foot addition, to permit handling
increasing business.
Storage space for 5000 more bush
els of apples will be obtained
through completion for the Hall
Orchard Company, Seymour, of
new storage building.
Purchase of a four-story brick
building is announced by the Ma
tional Autmatic Tool Company,
Richmond, for use as warehouse,
and the room in the present plant
now serving as storage space will
be utilized in production work.
Wages Show Increase
Wages paid employees of the Stude-
baker Corporation, South Bend, dur
ing the first seven months of this
year are $1,780,580 in excess of those
paid in the same period last year.
The corporation sold more autos
during August this year than in any
other August in it's history.
Contracts for printing, which will
total $1,250,000 over a f1ve-year pc
Rod, have been obtained by the r.
R. Donnelly & Sons Company,
Charlottesville. Work on the con-
tracts will begin Oct. l.. Some new
equipment will be added and the
working force increased slightly.
Enameling equipment is being
-Skded by the Globe Stove and
Range Company, Kokomo, to keep
pace with steadily increasing de-
mand for a furnace, production of
which was started three years ago.
Production of a new toy automobile
by the Kokomo Stamped Metal
Company will begin next week Sew
eral large orders for the new prod
uct have already been booked, John
Reuss, general manager, announces.
Glass Sales Gain
Sales of mountaineering glass, a
new product for the Johnson Glass
Company, Hartford City, are show
ing a gratifying increase, the man
agement states, and several large
auto manufacturers are among buy
erS
Conditions in other cities are
shown in the following summary:
LEBANON-The Lebanon Electric
Hatchery is new business here.
Equipment will include two incu-
bators with a total capacity of 3d.
600 chicks.
FIT. WAYNE-The present work
ing force of the local General Elec-
trio Company plant is 6,150, the
largest in it's history, and more
workers are needed. An average of
100 women weekly have been put
on the pay roll in the last month
and a half.
Plant May Be Re-opened
BLUFFTON-Hope is expressed
here that the Great Northern
Glove Company, which went into
receivership a few days ago, will
be taken over by other interests
than those now in control and
placed in operation. The plant
has been idle for some time.
SHIRLEY-Merger of the West
ern Glass Company here with the
Highland Glass Company, Pitts
burgh, Pa, is expected to result
In steady operation of the local
plant during the coming winter.
It was closed last winter.
OAKLAND CITY-David and
William Ingle, Evansville, an
nounce plans for opening new
deep vein coal mine six miles
north of here. Workmen are al
ready engaged in digging slope
to a seven-foot vein of coal which
will be brought out by conveyors
instead of the cages usually en-