The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-12
Indiana SHOWS
GOOD BUSINESS,
NEW FACTORIES
HagerStoWn, Anderson and
Fl. Wayne Companies Re-
port Good Outlook.
PLANT MAY BE SIGNED
Industry Seeking Site at
GreenSburg Would
Employ 800.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor. The Times


BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor. The Times
Prosperous conditions in several
Indiana cities and location of new
plants are features Of an industrial
and business survey of the state for
the week ended today.
With one quarter of the year
ended, the Perfect Circle Company,
HagerstoWn, piston ring manufac-
trer, announces the outlook for the
remaining nine months Of 1929 SIS
The brightest in this firms history"
More of the company's products are
being used as standard equipment
by automobile makers and replace
ment business through jobbers
shows a go per cent increase over
1923, officials announce.
A carload shipment to Scotland
was made this week by the Lynch
Glass Machine Company Of Ander-
son. None of the city's industries
expect a slump during the summer,
1t is shown in a survey covering
the DelcO-Remy plants, Guide Lamp
Corporation, Anderson Stove
Foundry, Van Loon Pattern Com
pany, Anderson Pattern Works,
Howe Fire Apparatus Company,
Reliable Machine Company, Hill
Standard and American Playground
Device Companies, Certain-teed
Products and Anderson Rubber
Works.
Begin Full Time Work
All Bloomington units of the
Showers Bros. furniture factory at
Bloomington went on a full time
schedule this week, with officials
announcing it would continue for an
indefinite period. The company's
new plant at Bloomfield will be
ready for use by June l.
A report of the Greersburg
Chamber of Commerce shows that
industries it has brought to the city
IN the past two years are without
exception enjoying good business.
Announcement is made bA the
Chamber Of Commerce at Green
field that plant employing 300
persons is ready to move to the city
provided 1t is provided with a fac
tory building rent and tax free for
a period Of five years. A holding
company composed of Greenfield
citizens may be formed to finance
erection of the building, which
would cost $4,000.
Kokomo Gets Factory
The Great Thread and Yarn
Company, Detroit, Mich, a subsi-
diary of the General Gable Com
pany, IS to have plant in Kokomo
employing more than one hundred
persons, the Chamber 9 Commerce
announces.
Employment and industrial con-
dltlons in Ft. Wayne are excellent,
according to officials of sixteen of
the city's leading industries. Oper-
atlng schedules range from full time
10 some instances of double shifts.
The sixteen industries have 10000
persons on their pay rolls.
The Chamber of Commerce at
South Bend is seeking a $500 900
fund for use in obtaining new in
dustrieS. A fund of the same amount
was raised last year and expended
IN acquisition of ten new plants.
For the first : " in its history, all
export ma .ture Of the Stude-
baker alton is located in
South Be- following moving of
the last of the units of a plant at
Detroit.
Payroll Increases.
Other data shown by a survey of
South Bend includes increases in
the payroll of the Fulton-H arwood
Company from $500 to $1,000 a week
in the past year; the Independent
Concrete Pipe Company, a 100000
concern, is to open a new plant
p within thirty days; further expan-
sion of the Oliver Farm Equipment
Corporation, recently formed
through q merger of the Oliver
company and two other concerns,
will result from its absorption of the
American Seeding Machine Com
pany. with plants at Springfield, O.,
and Richmond, which is awainting
approval of stockholders. A three
story store and Office building to
cost Sll5,000 is to be erected by the
Indiana Public Service Company.
Operations have started in Plant
of the United States Radio and
Television Corporation at Marion.
first unit completed in a 100000
expansion program.
Adds IS to Force
At Terre Haute. the GraSSelli
Chemical Works announces seventy
five men will be added to its force.
The Terre Haute Malleable Manu-
featuring Company plant is operat-
ing on a full time and management
of the Highland Iron and Steel
Company announces its business
now is better than at any time in
the last ten years.
Completion Of an addition to the
Time-O-Stat Control Company
plant at Elkhart. set for May l,
will more than double the present
capacity.
A fountain pen factory is to be
installed in a building owned by
Oakland City college. Oakland City.
in which at first only students will
be employed
with fifty-six women already en-
ployed on the new plant of the
Overall Corporation of America at
Nc. Vernon. additional workers are
he.rR sought following installation
Of "a s>sore machines.