The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
AUTO PLANT
OFFERS JOBS
FOR $1,000
Studebaker Corporation Will
Add to Force at South
Bend.
NEW FACTORY AT GARY
Electrical Manufacture Will
Occupy $4,000
Building.
NEW FACTORY AT GARY
BY CHARLES G. STONE.
State Editor. The Times

This weeks business and indus
trial survey of Indiana reveals that
10000 persons will be employed at
the South Bend plants of the Stude-
baker Corporation, automobile
manufacturers, as soon as some al
terationS at the works are COM
pleted. The pay roll of the corpora
ton for the first ten months of this
year exceeds by $2,509,000, that of
the same period in 1927.
The increased force will include
$500 workers to be transferred to
South Bend from the Detroit plant
in shifting several departments. The
parts and service department will
be concentrated in the Indiana
city.
Conditions elsewhere in the state
are summarized as follows:
Calumet DiStIict-Recent CONSOLE
dalton of the Grasselli Chemical
Company and the E. 1. Dupont de
Nemours Corporation is expected to
result in expansion of the former
Grasselli plant at East Chicago. A
$4,000 plant is being built at Gary
for the Pacific Electrical Manufac-
turing Company.
Jobs May Be Given 1900
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are cur
rent that the Auburn automobile
manufacturing plant here will have
$500 persons on the pay roll by
March l.
TT. Wayne-Plans for new build
ing for the Lincoln National Bank
and Trust Company reveal
twenty-five story structure, which
will be the tallest in Indiana. The
Chamber of Commerce announces
appointment of an industrial ex-
panSion, industries prospect and
marketing committees as aids to the
city'S business.
Charlottesville - The Busenbark
Grain Company has added a ham
mer mill to its equipment, permit
ting a wider range of products than
was heretofore possible.
Capacity to Be Doubled
EvansviIIe-Work of erecting
$500,000 addition to the Chrysler-
Dodge building at the Graham
Brothers truck plant is under way.
The building will double the plants
capacity.
English-Employment will be
given 125 persons by the reopening
of the English Basket and Con-
tainer Company plant, closed since
Nov. 1, which has been purchased
by William Falk, New Albany.
SuIIivan-The new plant of the
Kraft-PheniX Cheese Company here
will be opened Dec. 8.
Terre Haute-A fifty-two-page in
dustrial survey of this city has
been published by the Chamber of
Commerce, and 1000 copies printed
for distribution.
Completion of an adj
dition to the National Tile Company
is expected within six weeks. An
addition to the Anderson Stove
Foundry has been completed and
another is being constructed. This
will be used as a stockroom. It's
dimensions are 60x100 feet. Record
breaking business during the winter
is forecast for the B. g. B. Man
ufacturing Company, which has
moved into larger quarters. An over
head valve for Chevrolet auto
engines is one of the company's
products.
KOkOmO May Get Plant
Chicago interests are
considering this city as the site for
a cellulose factory and are making
inquiries among Howard county
farmers as to the outlook for sup
plying cornstalks, raw material for
such a plant.
Portland Excellent business is
reported by the Straley Chemical
Company, manufacturing cleaner,
polish and disinfectant. Its patrons
include 5000 housewives in prac-
tically every state, the state of In
diana and the Union Traction Com
pany.