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Waste Without Haste. In Lockport, N.Y., the city council spent seven hours at its first 1960 meeting discussing ways to speed up meetings, arrived at no firm conclusion...
...Petard. In Lockport, N.Y., police got a complaint that Walnut Street was a haven for speeders, set up a radar check point, nabbed speeding Mrs. Jeanne E. Spaulding, the complainant...
Also elected were: Frank G. Hutchins, of Leverett House and Berea, Ky., History and Literature; James D. Lorenz, of Eliot House and Dayton, Ohio, History; Charles S. Maier, of Leverett House and Scarsdale, N.Y., History; John C. Miller, of Lowell House and Lockport, N.Y., Mathematics...
...strike ends within three weeks. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. last week laid off 521 workers at two Midwestern plants, will drop 1,200 more by the end of the month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division plant in Flint, Mich, and Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y., 900 employees were put on a four-instead of a regular five-day week to conserve steel for use by divisions with less inventory. Some companies with big inventories were in trouble; they were running out of specific types, as shortages among suppliers cut off vital parts...
Last week Ed Ragsdale announced his retirement. G.M. handed his job to Edward Dumas Rollert, 47, boss of its Harrison Radiator Division at Lockport, N.Y. Like Ragsdale, Engineer Rollert moved up via manufacturing instead of sales. He joined G.M. out of Purdue ('33), rose in the AC Spark Plug Division as metallurgist, chief tool-and-die designer, assistant works manager. During the Korean war he managed the Kansas City, Kans., Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant, made his mark by converting it into G.M.'s first dual-purpose plant, turning out cars and F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters...