RACES: Seneca

While Ellsworth R. Schindler, a Seneca Indian, was working last year in the Detroit plant of Ford Motor Co. he contracted with Contract Purchasing Corp. of Detroit to buy a 1936-model Dodge for $500 in installments. When he lost his job last December he went home to Cattaraugus Reservation, taking with him his car, on which he still owed $296. Receiving no more payments from him, the credit company sought to repossess the car.

After a long hunt they found Ellsworth Schindler, who had meantime become a power on the reservation, one of...

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