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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1957
Page
3
Ohio's first quarter 1957 work stoppages were below average while illness time far exceeds stoppage time. Toledo dockworkers and Elyria firms face ongoing labor actions as UMW and UAW locals plan delegates for the union summer school.
Richard Palmer president of Local 177 Office Em ployes International Union plans to leave the union to attend Fern College in Cleveland this fall. Palmer, a 15 month worker at American Standard Air Conditioning, helped negotiate a one year contract with a 4.7 percent wage increase the largest in four years. Local 177 will hold officer elections soon.
Pfaudler Co will grant a two cent an hour cost of living wage increase for its employees. The increase applies in the first pay period of August under the contract with Local 1161 United Auto Workers. The boost was set by the June cost of living index.
Vienna reports a new Austrian airline is being formed with 70 percent of the capital from Austria and 45 percent each from the Scandinavian Airlines System and a private Norwegian line. Sources say the venture consolidates European air links and aims to start services soon.
Colson Corp. hires a new sales staff member with a background at Amherst High School and U S Navy service in World War II. Previously with Bendix Westinghouse, he served as a sales correspondent for Colson. Married to Betty Lou Smith of Elyria, they have two daughters and plan to move to Cleveland when housing is found. They currently live at 371 Longfellow St.
Fruehauf Trailer Co. plant in Westfield Massachusetts won the annual Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association safety contest for the third straight year in 1956. The Westfield plant completed almost a million working hours with only three lost time accidents, besting Avon Lake and Memphis plants among more than 100 manufacturers in the nationwide contest.
Lorain County sales tax receipts fell sharply for the week ending July 1 from the prior year, with statewide collections also down. The Nabakowski Co. in Amherst elected R L Becker president in charge of sales, recounting his long federal service and varied roles before returning to the firm.
Norman Miller was installed for a third term as president of Local 995, United Auto Workers Union, at the UAW-CIO Hall on East Bridge Street with C. Franklin Carr officiating. Six officers were installed for two-year terms under a new one to two year system, including Marvin Workman as vice president and John Marshall as four-year trustee. Local 996 represents about 240 workers at Brown Fintibe, Elyria Belting and Machinery, and Manufacturers and Fabricators.
Bil Palm owner of Palm's Pure Oil Service Station recalls the old days of car travel, noting today’s motorists benefit from modern service stations offering carburetor, fuel pump, ignition, brakes, cooling systems, heaters and even scientific tuning. He contrasts rough roads and few stations with today’s widespread repair garages that keep cars going with minimal preparation.
Del Myers of North Ridgeville is named truck manager for Prout Chevrolet at 112 East Bridge St. The move creates a separate truck sales department. Myers has spent most of his life in trucking and has been a North Ridgeville dealer for eight months. He and his wife Lois Watson reside at 6889 Brecker Ct.
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