Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-06-24
STAND A R D TO
GREET GUESTS
AT Open HOUSE
Auto Show, Free Baby Sit
ting and Taxi Service Are
Planned Today

Hundreds of visitors will tour
the Port Clinton Division plant
of the Standard Products Company
from noon until 9 p. m. this Fri
day, June "a, when open house
will be featured in the observa-
ton of the local plants 18th an
niversary.
An automobile show, featuring
many new cars for which The
Standard Products Company
makes parts, will be among the
highlights for the day.
Baby-sitting service, free trans
portation, souvenirs, refreshments
and music have been arranged
for the enjoyment and convenience
Of open house guests.
Free cab service will be provid-
ed for guests who need trans
portation to the plant. Cabs will
leave the corner of Madison and
Second Streets every Is minutes
beginning at l and continuing un-
til 6 p. m.
Cabs will be identified by signs
and will proceed along this route /:
West on Second to Harrison; south
on Harrison to Third; west on
Third to Erie Gardens, circling
Erie Gardens then to Fremont
Road; on Fremont to Laurel Ave,
south on Laurel to Sixth; east on
Sixth to Fulton; north on Fulton
to Third; east on Third to the
Standard Products plant.
On the return trips, the free
taxis will travel the same routes
and will pick up riders anywhere
along the route.
For families with children, a
baby-sitting service will be pro-
vided at the plant under the SUI
pervision of a registered nurse.
L. S. Larson, division manager,
has invited all residents of the
Port Clinton aera to attend the
open house today. Production
lines will be in operation turning
out window channel, rubber parts
and metal stampings.
Those people who have never
toured the local plant will be
pleasantly surprised at the di-
versity of products manufactured
and the magnitude of the plant.
Founded in 1884, the Port Clin-
ton Division of the standard Pro-
ducts Company makes more than
half of all automotive window
channel-the basis for Port Clin-
tons title of Window Channel
Capital of the World.
Nineteen shiny new automobiles
displayed by dealers of the Port
Clinton area, are lined up at the
side of the building for the auto
show. Included are Mercury, Lin
coin, Crosley, Chrysler, Plymouth,
Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Studebak-
er, Kaiser-Frazer, Packard, Cadil-
lac, Pontiac, Hudson, Dodge, Bu-
ick, Nash, Ford and WHY'S. All
these cars contain parts made at
the Standard Products plant.
Welcome banners have been
placed to welcome the visitors
and the interior of the building
is almost spotless, showing the
careful preparation that the divi.
sion's 600 employees have made
for their guests.
Signs, placed at key points
throughout the plant, will explain
the various manufacturing opera
tions that produce such parts as
accelerator pedals, food freezer
Innings, seals for gasoline tanks
anti-rattle rubber parts and the
hundreds of other items for the
automotive and refrigeration in.
I dustries.
Also on display will be products
of the company's four other divi
sions in Cleveland, st. Clair, anc
Gaylord, Michigan, and Windsor
Ontario.
Technicians from WLEC, San
dusky will visit the plant this
Friday afternoon to record a pro
gram which will be broadcast al
| l2.lh u m Saturday