Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1940 — Page 23
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“JONES AUTO CO. NAMED DEALER
“FOR PLYMOUTHS|
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Capito Ave. Firm Has Been +“ In Business for 22 Years.
. <The Jones Auto Co, 345-49 N. Capitol Ave., has been named a 3: % dealer for DeSoto and Plymouth au- . tomohiles. ; The appointment was made: by fA R. Jones, president of Jones . & Maley, Inc. DeSoto and PlymLouth distributors in the Indianap‘olis area. w quarters have been completely remodeled. More than 15,000 “square feet of floor space will be “devoted to the salesroom and service department. A used car lot ad‘Joins the ‘salesroom. The Jone§ Auto Co. has been in ‘Business at the Capitol Ave. location for 22 years. Its staff in- « cludes 11 salesmen, with a used “car sales. manager and & service * department manager. . Officers are O. M. Jones, presi,dent, and V. L. Jones, seapetary- - treasurer.
‘Meridian Pontiac, Inc.,
‘To Mark Anniversary
A month-long Open House will mark the celebration of the first “anniversary of the founding of : Meridian Pontiac, Inc., dealers at 923 N. Meridian St.,, on March 15, 1939. = © During the last year, according ‘#0 O. A. Chillson, company presi- - dent, the organization has sold “about 500 new cars and 1000 used , automobiles. “Since we started business in In- - dianapolis, Marion County Pontiac _ sales have increased 119 per cent. We feel that we have been responsible to a great extent in bringing this about,” Mr. Chillson - Said. The company plans to install a reconditioning shop in the near future at recently-leased property at the rear of the present new car showroom and service department. Leon Meyers, who has had approsimately 20 years’ experience’ in the automobile business, is general sales. manager for the company. He Phas been with them since Septemer : Harry Peters, with 15 years’ ex“perience in the automobile business, is used-car manager. John Over“man is parts department manager and Charles Terrel is service man- © ager, Salesmen are Gene Ball, Edward Lynn, K. M. Riggs, Eddie Stevens and John Volrath, all members of the national Pontiac Master Sales_men’s Guild, which signifies each sold at least 50 cars last year.
~ Gives Warning on Polarized Lights
“It would be murderous to equip : some cars with polarized head lamps “and not equip all of them,” according to P. J. Kent, Detroit, chief electrical engineer of the Chrysler
Corp. Mr. Kent has been in Indianapolis for a meeting of the Indiana section of the Society of Automo- _ tive Engineers. Polarized glass, because of its “crystalline structure, has the power to halt or diminish light waves when the glass is turned at right “angles to a light beam. To be effective, not only the headlamp lens, but also a visor for the driver or polarized glass in the windshild, would be necessary. According to present methods of control of polarized light it would “take approximately 90,000,000 screens “to equip the 30,000,000 automobiles now in use, he said. Ome screen , would be needed for each lamp, he , said, and one—maybe two—for the -driver’s, vision. All cars must be - equipped at once. Polarized screens s also would require stronger bulbs “and generators with twice the output of present ones. “As long as lights for night drivIng must. be powerful, they will have “glare,” He said. “They are all right _ If drivers learn to use them prop‘erly ard depress them when other - ears approach.” He said that in one Eastern state “which has frequent checkups of headlamps it was found that 20 per cent of the drivers did not know what the dimmer button on the “floor was for or how to use it. * Some inventors have been working on an electric eye mechanism which would automatically dim * lights when struck by rays of an “approaching car, but so far this ~has been found to be very expen“sive,
:Buick Spring Sales Drive Gets Under Way
.. The Buick dealers in Indianapolis 4 are settling into a steady stride in “their spring sales campaign, by which they expect to set new records in Buick sales for this area. - The campaign, called “Spring “ Fever,” or “Get ’Em While We're “Hot,” started Monday and will last ‘ through May 10. . All salesmen and sales managers —. are AL eligible. Points will be given 7 depending on the size of the car
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Thirty girls will start on new jobs tomorrow. They got the jobs because they attended the Indiana State Employment Service’s training course in operation of a cash register here yesterday. They were assured of the jobs, if they took the course. The first cash register training course held by the local office of the Employment Service was at the Christmas buying season. Sixty-eight per cent of the girls trained then got ‘jobs. About 30 per cent kept the jobs after the Christmas rush was over. So Miss Katharyn Bowlby started another class for the Easter rush. But the course operates differently this time.
50 Requests Received
Indianapolis employers so far have asked the Employment Service to furnish about 50 girls qualified to operate cash registers. The-employment office sends applicants to the employers, who intérview them and agree to hire the girls after they have been trained in operating cash registers. It is these girls, all of them with jobs already, who were trained in Miss Bowlby’s class. Many of the girls are starting on their first jobs; all of them are
PRESENTS DRAMA OF AUTO PARTS JOBBING -
An all-day dramatic program illustrating distribution of automotive parts was presented yesterday at the Columbia Club by the National Automotive Parts Association. More than 220 jobbers from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio saw the presentation, which was given from the jobbers’ point of view. Association members said it was “the largest single business dramatization of its kind” ever attempted. The local host was the Central Motor Parts Co. a member of the national organization. At a business conference, Henry Lansdale of Detroit, association president, reported .that parts jobbing business was up 25 per cent from last year throughout the country. He said Indiana business was lightly above that average.
FORMER PRO NET
—Phocian C. Rhoades, 43, a former professional basketball player, died at his home yesterday after a sixmonth illness. A native of Culver, Ind, Mr. Rhoades played basketball there and with the South Bend Y. M. C. A. amateur team for several years. Later he played professionally and for a time acted as an official.
sold and the kind or automobile taken in trade. Mean=28, nation-wide Buick sales from the first two months of the year were reported up 44 per cent. Sales were substantially above the same period in 1927, Buick’s previous record year, according to eompayy y officials. Is said they particularly were gratified because the increase came in the usually “off” season and eliminated much seasonal fluetuation.
Lincoln-Zephyr, Mercury Add Two New Colors
Lincoln-Zephyr and Mercury will show two new colors for spring. Each automobile will be available in 10 colors. The new Zephyr colors are a light metallic gray and ‘a light metallic green. The gray is patterned after Bennington Pottery and the green after the color used by Stanhope, the carriage maker.
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Garnet, a light maroon, and Cots- |: wold Gray are the new Mercury|: colors. The deluxe Ford also will:
4 NEW DETOURS “ADDED IN STATE
{Total Now Is 12; Qil to Be
"Applied to 700. Miles Of Dirt Roads.
The A of highway construc-
| tion work has resulted in four new
detours on Indiana roads this week,
{bringing to’ 12 the total number in
effect over the state. Meanwhile, the State Highway
Commission announced : that plans}
have been completed for the application of oil and other dust-laying
I | materials to 700 miles of roads in
2) Times Photo.
: The Jones Auto Co., headed by O. M. Joties, (left) president, and V. L. Jones, secretary-treasurer, has been and Plymouth automobiles. The company has been in business 22 years at its present location, 345-49 N. Capitol Ave.
30 Cash Register Students Start New Jobs Tomorrow
a dealer for DeSoto
“juniors,” around 18 years of age. Employers say that it takes two or three hours to train a girl in cash register operation and that this time must be taken from hours which are valuable to the store. Miss Bowlby trains the girls, away. from the store; giving about an hour and a half’s time to each class of ten.
5568 Placed Last Month
Meanwhile, J. Bradley Haight, acting assistant director, reported the 25 offices of the Indiana State Employment Service filled 5568 prjvate jobs in February. Mr. Haight said this was a record for February and was the 16th consecutive month that private place-
ments exceeded totals for the cor-f|
responding months of previous years since the Service began operations in 1933. The private placements in February was 21 per cent greater than the 4610 jobs filled in Fabruary, 1939. In the same month there were 57 public placements and indirect placements in private industry of 796 workers. ¢ Mr. Haight’s report on field office activities also showed that 13,545 new applications for employment and 9767 new claims for unemployment- compensation were received during February.
QUARRY WORKER KILLED
KENTLAND Ind. March 15 (U. P.)—Harlan Duttenhaver 24 was killed yesterday at the Newton
County Stone Co. quarry near here when a load of dynamite exploded. Several other workers were injured. Cause of the explosion was not determined.
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the next few weeks. “Several hundred other miles of
unimproved roads will be surfaced}
treated with oil mat work,” T. A. Dicus, Highway Commission chairman said. Detours now in effect are:
Ind. 1—From U. 8. 35 north, 2 miles over U. 8. 35 and county grave.
Ind. 8—At Kouts, 3 miles ave countv
gravel. U. S. 20—East of Michigan City, miles over Roads 36 and 2 In 26—East of Fairmount. 3 miles over county gravel.
30—=In_ Valparaiso and east, 3} | miles over Roads 2 and 330.
d. 51—From U. 8S. 8 Jo East Gary. 4 miles over county oil mi Ind. 62—West of Rs Bo 7 miles over Ind. 250 and Ind. 129 Ind. 67—Closed from "south junction Ind. 39 near Martinsville to Brooklyn: through traffic use county road from Mooresville to Ind. 37. Ind. 120—Just west of U. S. 27. 2% miles over county gravel road. Ind. 218—From Delphi to Camden. 11 miles over Ind. 25 and county oil mat. Ind. 229— From Oldenburg to Metamora. about 24 miles over county road and U.
Ind. 252—From Morgantown to: Martinsville. .26 miles over Roads 135 and 44. eo ie —————————
|HEIR LOCATED BY
RADIO GETS $20,000
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, March 15 (U. P.).—Carl H. Proehl, Long Beach, Cal, who was notified
through a radio’ program that he}
was heir to a $44,000 estate, was awarded $20,000 today. A stipulation filed by A. H. Sanzenback, administrator, set aside another $15,000 pending outcome of a suit brought against Mr. Proehl by Andrew Horkey, Minneapolis attorney. Mr. Horkey charged Mr. Proehl agreed to pay him $15,000 for helping him settle the estate. Mr. Sanzenback said expenses cut the estate down to $35,539. The estate was left by Mrs. Emma Proehl who died in 1935. Mr. Proehl, her only son, had left home five years before and lived in California under the name of David Barry until located through a “missing heirs” program.
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