The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1953, Page 7

General Motors Makes Amazing Comeback Epic Achievement Follows Industrial Fire By ED WINGE Of The Detroit Free Press ceived on the night of basic recov jan was con- ne ihe ‘he fire|western contractors back into De- Parts started flowing from mid- DETROIT w—Last August the|by Sherwood E. Skinner, in ajtriot and at 10 a.m., Oct. 19, the costliest. industrial fire in history |plane hurrying to the disaster. destroyed first Hydra-Matic made anywhere the Detroit transmission] As vice president in charge of|for 6° days rolled off the assembly Treasury Dept. Has Openings For IRB Agents The United States Treasury De- partment has announced that it is now accepting applications from i 3 fi ri fi ge [: aes from the Motion Picture Academy. at adi F : Hi ab i f H f i : ik RE i Ff : Madre” was also written for the screen by Huston. For his screen- play he received a second ‘Oscar’ In addition to the father and son ‘team of Walter and John Huston, Jack and Tim Holt are also seen. in the adventure-drama. The younger Holt is the third man on \down-aad-out characters in a Mexico hotel where the treasure hunt is originated. Produced by Henry Blake,! | Wednesday, December 14, 1953 THE XEV WEST CITIZEN age 7 He has also served in & -| ity in McCrory’s Florida cities. High ranking executives of *s New Store Here To Other officials here for the jing include Mr. ©. 2. Reiter, play manager of McCrory’s York office, Mr. S. R. to the NEW McCRORY'S. KERR BROS. PAINTING CO. 222 Duval Street Et Of Sierra Madre” is a division plant in Livonia—the only|GM’s accessory group, Skinner/|line at Riopelle. Another 199 fol- ‘Treasure th . Te-reli source of General Motors Hydra-|was responsible for the Detroit!lowed the gto a Pee age in = Warners Bros, re-release. ission: mission i y Nov. 15, Riopelle was - ine fire, touched of by sparks New: York then the fire broke out, ind transmissions ao old capaci-| Internal Halreal nts or special Case Dismissed : y burned | Oper: jjty rate of 1,200 a day. agents (tax fraud). The entrance rite a eculilide eater plant|him one ox tereget omnes Starting from scratch, GM con-|salary for these positions is $4205 sud: Geetrened or damaged every|the Livonia plant as a complete|Verted the former Kaiser Motors|a year. TELEPHONE 2-2838 WASHINGTON (#—In line with its new policy toward use of the one of the highly specialized ma-/loss. Makign Matic parts, lan. plan. Yet, on Oct. 18—68 days ara While the apo _ east, GM began assembling Hydra-Mat-| Skinner outlined in at a top- . lesa prosestion quantity at the old/ievel policy meeting with other|4@YS 4, week, 40 GM engineers|anq' the Canal Zone. Riopelle transmission plant in De-|GM executives. troit Three basic decisions were ham- And on Nov. 4—just 85 days after) mered out: the fire—GM had duplicated Livon- 1, To salvage the vital machinery certain assumptions, |Corp. bomber plant at Willow Run into a fabrication and assembly] various offices of the Internal Rev- chines capable of making Hydra-/he sketched out the basic recovery plant and built the first production |enue service in Alabama, Florida, model there in 77 days. designed the Willow Run layout in the incredible time of 17% days ia plant at Willow Run and started|from the Livonia plant and clear|"¢V'sions in the assernbly line. quantity production of Hydra-Mat-jthe site, ies there, 2. To go back to the Riopelle Tomorrow—four months cook four|plant in Detroit and assemble Working 12 hours a day, seven lina, South Carolina, This inclnded plotting the pre- for persons with accounting train- ‘machines ,and making extensive “It the boss had come up to me internal revenue service. The duties of these positions include office the day before the fire and told is me we were going to move,” said Bost of income tax retuene oF These positions are located in the} Georgia, Mississippi, North Caro-| Tennessee This is an unusual opportunity ing or experience who are interest- ed in career employment in the field investigations, examinations, world “free” in advertising, the Federal Trade’ Commission has dismissed a complaint against Doubleday & Co., Inc., of New York. Last September the commission said it will proceed against use of the term “free” only where the circumstances tend to mislead or deceive the public. Doubleday had been cited for using “free” and “bonus books” in connection with its operation of several book club plans. The now- BEST WISHES to days after the fire—G: hejtransmissions from parts made|ficector of standards ond melhor \and audit of accountigg books and fie hecks cone cere a able to make transmissions at Wil-|wherever possible, getting back “T would have told him I needed records of individuals, partner. “free” ase : y low Run as fast as it did at Livonia |into limited production in the short- six to eight months to get the new ships, corporations, trusts, etc, bec Persons getting —at 4,000 a day. é a tine home for the| Plant on paper.” Full information may be obtain-|them had to buy at least four other Behind these epic achievements,| 3. To a new home for the H i J.\¢d from J. F. Mathews, at the loc- : fantastic for even such an indus-|Detroit transmission division and| 4", CuPucating Livonia at Wil-)31 post Oitice. f : trial goliath as General Motors, is| get into volume production for Wright Honored McCRORY’S Key West's Newest many ways than designing a new perhaps the most amazing come-/1954 models by Jan. 1, plant, he added Ci ~ : ‘k effort in the history of the| A skeleton assembly line still > * ivil rvice jew ry atatad ob e with GM's For example, 370,000 dust some Pooling talents, resources, |fabricating machines out of com- square feet, or one-fourth of the scrambling lines of ‘authority, GM mission, the parts had to be made|Ceiing "eotie ie“ fest sett rie [Exams Announced launched an industrial miracle {by outside sources. DONSON STACK CHAIRS For Easy Storage-- STACK ’EM! Genuine Firestone Plastic Webbing Assorted Combination of. Colors ... PermaGleam Aluminum Tubing .. . Non-Corrosive Lasting Finish! SPECIAL OFFERING Use Our Layaway Plan for Christmas Giving! Key West Venetian Blind Co. AWNINGS - JALOUSIES WINDOWS 123 DUVAL STREET PHONE 2-5531 Hydra-Matic purposes, work of steel girders 20 feet from the floor to carry the intricate net- belts, The assembly of Hydra-Matics \also posed a special problem. For its size, the automatic transmis- sion is as finely tooled as a watch. It must be assembled in a dust- free, air-conditioned atmosphere |where the temperature is a con- stant 74 degrees, The only way to get these con- ditions in the huge, 35-acre Willow Run “barn” was to build a factory May | Within a factory. And that’s what GM engineers did, | They erected a concrete block structure 240 feet wide and 600 feet fay | long and air-conditioned it. Then, as a finishing touch, they put the assembly plant under 4 ounces of air pressure per square inch above normal, This was done so that every time a door was opened, air would rush out, pushing away any dust par- iticles that might try to sneak into ‘the aseptic atmosphere of the as- sembly plant. GM recruited a labor force from all over the country to convert | Willow Run into a transmission plant and install the complicated machinery, An average of 2,500 men have | worked two 10-hour shifts since early September. The overtime bill at Willow Run and for the salvage job at Livoni must be enough to turn a cost accountant’s hair snow white. The original target date for start- : | ing quantity production at Willow jRun was Nov. 9, This was one goal Hydra-Matic missed. It beat it by five days. \Jailed On BOISE, Idaho W—Joe Ann Rog- ers, 43-year-old Los Angeles wo- man charged with selling worthles. GM engineers had to build a net- For Two Br. anches work of utility lines and conveyor|Commission has announced new The United States Civil Service examinations for Manual Arts Therapy Instructors and Educa tional Therapy Instructors, rang-| ing in salary from $3410 - $5060 per | annum. The Manual Arts Therapy In- structor and Educational Therapy Instructor Examinations will be) used to fill positions in various Vet- erans Administration Hospitals lo- cated in Alabama, Florida, Geor- gia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Applicants must be fully quali- jfied posted at all first-and second. class post offices and Government} installations throughout the Fifth U. S. Civil Service Region. The incumbents of these positions | work directly with training and re- habilitating patients located in the various Veterans Administration Hospitals. . Further information and applic tion forms may be obtained from the Commission’s Local Examiner in Charge Mr. Jack F. Mathews located at Civil Service Window, U. S. Post Office or from the Vet- erans Administration Medical Tea- jching Group Hospital, Memphis 15,| Tennessee, where the registers on| these examinations will be main- tained. Applications for these positions will be accepted until further notice by the Board of U. S. Civil Ser- vice Examiners, VA Medical Tea- ching Group Hospital, Memphis 4, Tennessee. ‘ More Gold Sold WASHINGTON (#—Foreign coun- tries are buying more U. S. gold |852-foot flight that began man’s p'anes screaming overhead, this little town of 113 will’ honor its rer son, Wilbur Wright, Thurs- ay. at's the golden anniversary of the day that Wilbur and his broth- | er Orville made the 59-second, journey into the airways. On April 16, 1863, Wilbur, the | older of the two famous brothers, | was born in Millville, midway be- | tween Newcastle and Hagerstown | in east central Indiana. The family moved to Ohio a year later, but returned to Richmond, | Ind., when Wilbur was of high school age and Orville an elemen.- | tary pupil. JUST IN TIME BUTTE, Mont. #—Butte police | missed their quarry, wanted for Passing bogus checks, but it was'| a good thing they went after him | anyway. | They discovered his room was on fire and called firemen, who spreading. Snowman |—a_ sign their economic health is | getting better. | The U. S. Treasury said Mon- If your s of your front doorway, another television stock, waived prelimi.|day it sold $1,140,400,000 worth of ver way to use those doors with nary hearing before Probate|gold abroad in the first 11 months large glass panels is to “build Judge John Jackson Monday and was sent to the county jail for lack of $5,000 bond. She was arrested in Salem, Ore., last month and charged with ob- taining money under false pre- tenses in Boise by posing as Clau- Man’s Family. of this year. By contrast, leign nations sol for-! ld 393% million dol-|Use several bed pillows a snowman around the newel post. and cover co" id lars to this country in the full with sheets or cotton, an old hat, ra of 1952. pipe and a colorful searf for the Foreign gold purchases psually snowman’s neck. Light your happy | indicate economic well - being doorman with a 150-watt projector abroad,-since they generally repre-|spotlight placed so that it is nee dia of the radio program One/sent the use of dollars earned be-\uncomfortable for guests enter-j lyond what is needed in trade. ing or leaving the house. 5, 10 and 25¢ Store HARDEN ELECTRIC 216 Duval Street Telephone 2-5982 CONGRATULATIONS McCRORY’S WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE TAKEN PART IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR NEW BUILDING M. E. BENNETT Construction Company Gereral Suilding Contractors 217 DUVAL STREET TELEPHONE 2-2333