The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 31

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1954 THE NEWS-PALLADIUM, BENTON, HARBOR, MICH. PAGE NINE Eight Qmiices Or 20 Tom Superio Steel Makes It Products Known Far And Wide Industrial Auscos Sees Growing Field For Automotive Disc Brake Rubber Will Build Plant I IT "WillAugment Present Works Engineering And Research Famous Stevensville Foundry Is on an "optional" basis, Autos foresees "standard" equipment days from all car makers just around the corner. The company continued to back Its hunch of 20 years of experimenting and some undisclosed hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Company Will Push Line In Coming Year Typical of suppliers to the auto Business dropped 10 to 12 per cent in 1954 from that of the pre ceding year at the Industrial Rub ber Goods company, but the man brake this year by moving its Busy Place agement thinks 1955 may show motive and farm implement fields, Auto Specialties Manufacturing hydraulic Jack production from Hartford to St. Joseph and expanding Hartford plant by 16,000 square feet at a cost of $86,000 to make One of the thriving smaller in company ran slower In 1954 than it did in the preceding year. Price squeezing in a competitive market knocked down dollar volume about 12 per cent from 1953.

Contributing also were a decline in room for more brake production. Victor Falenske, the pre, dent, at least concedes that much of a prediction by saying the first quarter of the coming years looks definitely good. The balance rests' with consumer spending habits, particularly for This brake was first known as dustries in the twin city area is the Anstey Foundry located la Stevensville since 1945. the Lambert, the name being taken from Its designer, Col. Henry Lambert.

Last summer the company farm Implements generally and the shading of a major automotive cus bought all rights in the brake automobiles over some other typically American engineering marvel, he adds. The stress is placed on automo from Lambert, Including the renaming of the end product. tomer, a large customer, namely, Chrysler, by its principal competitors. The latter two factors exhibited themselves notably In the steel and malleable Iron foundries. This OTHER IMPROVEMENTS Headed by Tom Anstey.

the com- pany bearing his name produces gray iron and semi-steel castings for local and "outside" industries. The plant is situated with excellent railroad and highway transportation facilities and employs an average of 50 men. During 1954 the plant has operated on fourandflveday schedules. Anstey said the company's busi Other major Improvements this biles since three quarters of Industrial Rubber's output goes for window stripping and other sensi year at Autos include $423,000 spent year they produced 30,000 tons each to build and activate an 80,000 compared to 36,000 apiece in 1953. square-foot section in Edgewater tive points in a car.

A fifth of the firm's production Is taken by the to consolidate all machining opera home appliance industry, mostly in tions in the St. Joseph division, Nothing, It would appear, can baf- fie Superior Steel Malleable Castings Co, researchers, metallurgists, draftsmen, designers, engineers, pattern-makers, furnace operators and grinders. The end products may be an Industrial component weighing eight ounce or more than 20 tons. In either case the customer can be assured that be Is getting a product of unexcelled quality produced in one of the country's best equipped plants. It Is no exaggeration to say that there are few American Industries that do not use Superior Steel products.

The Benton Harbor company has upwards of 300 customer accounts and as wide a diversification of output A partial list includes 82 American railroads, rubber. mill machinery manufacturers, makers of flexible couplings, press dies, slaughterhouse equipment, major stel producers, manufacturers of road-building 'equipment, farm equipment, logging tools, automatic pin-setting machines for bowling alleys, makers of steam pumps, tractors, semi-trailers, material handling machinery, water meters, air conditioning equipment, taxicabs, forging machinery, glass- making equipment, military ordnance, diesel engines, canning and paper machinery, electric motors, refrigeration equipment, printing equipment and overhead Industrial cranes. TESTING LABORATORY An outstanding division of la its testing laboratory, designing and layout staff. Experimentation and research go on con Autos, though, says 1955 shows a more silvery lining. Competition will remain stiff, but the company feels it has a couple of off-setting answers.

and $26,000 for an additional 6,000 HEAVY INDUSTRY: Typical scene at Superior Steel Malleable Castings foundry, as molten steel is poured into rnolds. the form of drain hoses for washing machines, and the remaining square feet of working space at its ness was good during 1945 and ha expects production and employment to Increase in 1955. "Business is good for those who go after it," Anstey commented. He said plana five per cent finds miscellaneous end employment. One is its cast steel crankshaft which Autos intends to push to the limit from now on in.

lor expansion of the company's fa Riverside plant The company's 1954 payroll in this area ran about $8,000,000, a decline of about $1,000,000 from 1953 and reflective of customer drop from the preceding year. By plants and number of employees, this divided as fol The other is a hunch that its Whirlpool Corporation, the big customer of Industrial In the home appliance trade, sees 1955 as a good year, so understandably this local rubber processor hedges its pre cilities are contemplated. Park Planned For Employes Ausco disc brake eventually is go lng to become standard equipment ears or steam or diesel locomotives. The chances are that if you are driving in Chicago or other major cities and cross a river bridge, its lifting machinery includes gigantic gears cast by Superior Steel. The giant gas and electrical furnaces and annealing ovens use pig iron and scrap But there are other on any number of automobiles.

Cur DROWN PREVENTS DROWNING EAST MOLINE, HI. (AP) -Jesse dictions oi inings to come by a cautious estimate on automotive A recreational park for employes Drown, 9, rescued Ross Jones, a production. PLANS EXPANSION rently its market is for tractors and a few high priced Chrysler cars; but If Ford, Oeneral Motors or others in the Chrysler auto of the Leco Plating Co. of St. Jo first grade pupil, from drowning lows: St.

Joseph, 1,500 employees, Riverside 550 employees, Hartford 140 employees $500,000. Foundry society and 'the guiding genius of Superior. Figuratively speaking, he was born with steel and iron in his veins. Son of one of the founders, he began at the bottom, as an apprentice. He knows the business from experience and study.

Gilmore is frank to admit that business volume in 1954 has been disappointing, but optimism is a byword at Superior Steel. It is optimism based on facts, not fancy, for this progressive firm is unceasing in it development of new methods and new products. Its calculations forecast a rise in business in 1955 be seph and Its sister factory, the Laboratory Equipment will be Nevertheless, some underlying optimism must support its views on in the Hennepin canal. An unidentified adult pull him up the bank. family break loose with the brake Sales are divided 25 per cent to developed during the coming year 1955 because this coming spring vital ingredients Including carbon, limestone, sand ferro alloys, nickel, At the Black Hawk School on Bis Industrial intends to start building Island where both attend, Ross was copper and aluminum.

There are, In addition, special alloys. ployed about 85 to 60 people for a malleable Iron castings, 25 per cent to steel castings, 30 per cent to car Jacks and 20 per cent to the Ausco brake. Ford, Chrysler, Gen a new plant on the 20 acres it owns along Hilltop road. It will house the on a plot adjacent to the two Hilltop road plants. Carl E.

Schultz, an official in both firms, said the park Is to be established' on a 350 by 600 foot payroll cost of $250,000 a year. declared unhurt but "scared" and Jesse was lauded as a hero. No Waldorf chef ever prepared or Officers at Industrial are the splicing operations of its extruded rubber products, thereby relieving mixed the ingredients of a soup or salad with greater artistry than eral Motors (except Cadillac), International-Harvester, Oliver, Case crowded production space in its fr under and older brother of the president, Frederick C. Palenske who serves as board chairman and those who turn out Superior cast- at Autos are James W. Tiscomia.

Allis-Chalmers, Massey Harris (now Edgewater plant. The eight acres in Edgewater have been outerown cause new markets and new fields of endeavor are constantly developing. An expansion program is said Ferguson Tractor) and Mlnnea- togs. 40 TEARS OLD president; Waldo V. Tiscomia, executive vice president: Alfred W.

tract of ground fronting on Lake View avenue. An old brick farmhouse that formerly occupied a part of the site was torn down. In addition to picnic facilities and ball diamond, the park may even con polls-Moline are major accounts treasurer, and Harold Diamond, secretary. Vice presidents in charge of the following functions are: The Benton Harbor firm was Military out put from the Riverside plant In the form of 60, 81 and Zick, secretary and comptroller; Lester C. Tiscomia, treasurer; for some time.

The new unit probably will start with 50 to 100 employes shifted from the Edgewater plant. Others to be "in the works" for 1955 but details are not available at this time. Walter F. Sigler, sales; Frank H. 280 millimeter shells, is about 20 Henry Cantelon, president of the Kasischke, purchasing; Willett S.

will be added if conditions warrant tain a small artificial lake. Schultz said the feasibility of developing a small lake on the property Is being (Doc) Chinery, research- and de stantly. Wide diversification is one fundamental policy; accuracy and quality another. In the laboratory are costly and intricate devices that measure tolerances to the thousands of an inch, record steel stresses and determine static and dynamic qualities. There's probably not a freight train rolling In America this moment that does not have some Superior equipment on its per cent of total volume.

Currently the company is building a garage and cafeteria build' velopment; and J. Richard Byers, More than a fifth of the coal mined in the United States comes the Increase. Employment held up well at In founded here nearly 40 years ago by E. Doster and W. R.

Gilmore. It has grown to be one of the area's big industries and now dominates the Graham avenue industrial district. It's no happenstance that the present president, Ross Gilmore, is president of the American studied. production. Canadian subsidiary at Windsor, William G.

Ferrell, vice presi-' dent in charge of manufacturing; and Millard. B. Lucker, vice president in charge of engineering. Tha three Tlscornias, Zlck and Cantelon are the board of directors. Installation of Victor Palenske as dustrial.

Its Edgewater plant For Leco Plating Co. In the year I from mines owned by steel, rail-road, utility and other 'consuming ing at Edgwater. The cafeteria section Is expected to be ready In the mustered some 550 employees con president took place this past spring ahead, Schultz. 'who is secretary and moves directly into treasurer, predicted spring. a continuing slstently at a nannual cost of about $1,450,000.

The New Troy plant em- contemporaneous with the' com pany's 35th year of operations. their operations. Principal management members good pace of business. -W from 3 IT 4 it It ALL of US i i fcvj us i sr tr ti ii nrv, -v i i to of YDU 1 1 Once again the time comes to pause and express our heartfelt thanks for the many kind things that you have done for us during the past year. It is our sincere desire that the new year will bring peace and happiness to you.

I -if I 71 iu Aj 4 i I 7- if KnXx Frederick H. Rahn Robert E. Reagan H. B. Ross Donna Standley William A.

Vawter Sally Grail William GraH Lily Henningson Loretta Pedde Bertha L. Barren March F. Durren Merle P. Durren Vance E. Fisher Joyce Fraser C.

Irving Gal William C. Gard Shirley Y. Graeber Mary Alexander Jane Brannock G. L. Cassler liillard Deaa OCIATIOK SAYINGS 1 J-L Of Benton Harbor, Michiai Drench Offlco flaplsr 4 Colfax- f.Tain Office 165 Plpssfons.