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AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE ASSOCIATION
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE ASSOCIATION. Representatives of all branches of the automotive industry met on March 9, 1934 an established the Association to 'work out various trade problems and police all automotive service to the end that best interests of both consumer ans service operator may be served and to assist in compelling compliance with the various codes of the automotive industry."
The activities of the association would include the City of Dubuque and Dubuque County and extend to the area within a radius of fifty miles in all directions from Dubuque.
Officers of the organization included Cy Schroeder, president; Charles Newkirk, vice president; Earl Gadient, treasurer; and William Bock, secretary.
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Source:
"Automotive Service Group is Organized," Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, March 11, 1934, p. 11