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The 1971 directory's lines, resolved to Bremen
A name in the lines, a plant in Bremen:The 1971 Polk volume carries South Bend residents in its alphabetical lines as Stauffer laboratory workers, and no Stauffer entry stands in either banked business fragment. The court record settles the geography: in Alfaro v. Stauffer Chemical Co., 362 N.E.2d 500 (Ind. App. 1977), the thirty-three plaintiffs were Stauffer's salaried employees whose employment ceased on 31 August 1971, when "the plant and associated business was transferred as a going concern to United Foam, Inc." — and the testimony in that case places the plant at Bremen, Indiana, twenty-five miles south, where its personnel manager worked. The Justice Department's own complaint in the United Foam matter lists Stauffer's urethane foam plants as Los Angeles, Bremen, and Franklin, New Jersey. Stauffer's plant was Bremen's; the South Bend lines are commuters' lines, of the same kind this record prints for Mishawaka's works, and the firm takes no South Bend entry.
Sources:
- Polk's South Bend City Directory, 1971, alphabetical — the residents' lines as Stauffer Chemical laboratory workers.
- Alfaro v. Stauffer Chemical Co., 362 N.E.2d 500 (Ind. App. 1977) — the 31 August 1971 transfer to United Foam as a going concern; the Bremen plant in the testimony.
- U.S. Department of Justice complaint, United States v. United Foam Corp. and Stauffer Chemical Co. (1972) — Stauffer's flexible urethane foam plants at Los Angeles, Bremen, Indiana, and Franklin, New Jersey.