Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1938 — Page 8

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‘BUILDING PERMIT VALUES IN SHARP RISE OVER 1937

80 Per Cent Gain for Week Noted; Seasonal Job Boom Expected.

An increase of nearly 80 per cent in the value of building permits issued during the week ending Aug. 27, as compared to the corresponding week last year, was reported today by George R. Popp Jr. City Building Commissioner. . Value of permits issued last weck was $351,270, a gain of $155,018. The number of permits, however, dropped from 304 for the same week of 1937 to 301 last week. Total value of building permits issued from Jan. 1 to Aug. 27 this year was $6,108,167, a decrease of $486,453 over the same period for last year. ° Meanwhile, the State Employment Service predicted that in 41 industries employment would show a normal seasonal increase of about 2 per cent this fall. Martin Carpenter,- Service head, said employment in theaters would gain about 27 per cent during September and that confectionaries would pick up 20 per cent, while employment in such seasonal businesses as -ice cream, beverages and ice plants would continue to drop off until next spring. ahs

Canning Expansion Due

“The lines which normally expand their employment most during September: are: Canning, about 73 per cent over the August level; food, 12 per cent; cleaning, phonographs, radios, fur goods, retail trade, stoves, boots and shoes and jewelry 6 per cent.” :

Local Retail Sales Dipped During July

Times Special See WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Retail sales in Indianapolis “were 14.5 per

cent less in July this year than the |

same month a year ago, compared with a state drop of 20.6 per cent, the Department of Commerce reported today. The July, 1938, Indianapolis sales were. 18.3 per cent below the June total, as compared with a 13.2 per cent decrease in the State. The July sales total reported by 79 Indianapolis retail stores was $1,493,500, as compared with $1,746,500 for July, 1937, and $1,828,000 for June this year. 5 Total sales in the State, reported by 596 concerns, were $4,738,100 in July, 1938; $5,965,500 in July, 1937, and $5,459,000 in June, 1938. Terre Haute reported the smallest decrease in sales volume during July, . 1938, with a loss of 8.6 per cent. The largest drop was 48.2 per cent in Hammond. Other cities reported the following decreases from July, 1937: Evansville, 225 per cent; Ft. Wayne, 244; Gary, 36.6; South Bend, 37.5; Michigan City, 12.3, and Muncie, 26.2.

STATE SCHOOL ROLLS. MAY TOP 745,00

65,000 to Enter Classes for “First: Time.

State school officials today estimat- :

ed that more than 745,000 Indiana children will return to classes this fall and that between 65,000 and | 70,000 of these will be entering school for the first time. i; ~The estimate for those starting in kindergarten was placed at 11,000. Classes in most Indiana schools are to open Tuesday. A few opened this week and others aren’t to open until late next week. J. William Bosse, State Education Department fiscal officer, said attendance would not be appreciably greater than last -year. Reports have not been received from local units on the number of teachers employed or the number of schools consolidated. Mr. Bosse said approximately 55,502 of the state total will enroll in parochial schools. . SIR DAVID WILKIE DEAD LONDON, Aug. 30 (U. P.).—Sir David Wilkie, professor of surgery at Edinburgh University since 1924 and a close friend of the late Sir James M. Barrie, died Sunday night.

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CIRCLING . An all-day picnic at ‘Garfield Park today marked the end of the summer recreation season for thousends of boys and patronized municipal playgrounds

and pools during school vacation. All City playgrounds and pools are

to be closed tonight.

Joining with the Park Board in sponsoring the picnic were Marion County WPA recreational leaders, The Park Board announced that Re-

creation Director HL W. Middlesworth has been given a three months

leave to join the Butler University football staff. !

State hardware associations affiliated with the National Retail Hardware Association today will discuss fair trade laws and plans for “National Hardware Week” at the Hotel Lincoln. Rivers Peterson, managing director, is in charge. James C. Lucas, Columbus, ‘O., labor relations head for the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, and H. P. Sheets, head of the national association’s research and finance department, will speak tomorrow and Thursday.

Real estate transactions totaling $87,700 were reported by members of the North Side Realtors yesterday. Deals included sale of a four-unit apartment building in the 2800 block Central Ave., and several homes and lots.

Outstanding trainees of the C. M. T, C. are to be awarded medals for military, citizenship and athletic achievements at Ft. Harrison tomorrow, following final review of the regiment at 9 a. m. on the main parade ground. :

The Warrick County Club of Indianapolis, composed of nearly 900 former ‘Warrick County residents, will hold its fourth annual picnic Sept. 18 at the home of Municipal Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, 2511 W. 36th St. Judge Bradshaw is club president. Other officers are Frank Miles. Indiana Reformatory superintendent, vice president, and Ernest W. Owen, secretary. Directors are William

Fortune, Mrs. Eva Tyner, Mrs. Pres--

ley J. L. Martin, Dr. Ferdinand Weyerbacher, Mrs. Margaret ‘Frahlich and Philip Lutz Jr. :

“Discovering the Child” is to be discussed by Dr. Albert Mock of the Butler University College of Education at the annual Carroll County Teachers’ Institute at Delphi tomorrow,

Courses in food preparation and household management are to be offered in the Butler University evening school, George F. Leonard, director, announced today. Registration for the courses, which are to be taught by Mrs. Florence R.

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to 17.

T. Ernest Maholm, Indianapolis attorney, has been appointed to the advisory board of the Indiana Motorists Defense Alliance, Inc. it was announce dtoday. Mr. Maholm was

‘active in a-campaign to: repeal the

windshield “gadget” law.

The Friedens Evangelical and Reformed Church, Parkway Ave. and S. Alabama St., will sponsor a “fun festival” Thursday night. - A plate junch ‘will be followed. by games,

contests and entertainment. Otto

V. Hoffman is general chairman.

Tribute was paid today to Dr.

Robert E. Lyons, retired head of the

Indiana University chemistry de-|

partment, by Dr. W. D. Gatch, dean of the School of Medicine. Dr.

Gatch said Dr. Lyons’ voluntary re- |:

tirement after 49 years of service

terminated the “academic career of |

one of the greatest scientists and

teachers ever on the faculty of In-}|

diana University.” Dr. Herman T. Briscoe, member of the chemistry

department faculty since 1922, will

succeed Dr. Lyons.

A hot weather program of songs will be presented at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow by the Kiwanis Club in the Columbia Club. Performers will be the Arion Male Quartet, composed of Farrell Scott, first tenor; Lowell Springer, second tenor; Forrest Scott, first bass; Fred Jefry, second bass; . Virginia Jefry, accompanist.

Dr. Henry G. Nester of the Butler University zoology department has been appointed chairman of the Men’s Council, President James W. Putnam announced - today. Replacing Prof. A. Dale Beeler, who resigned to become acting head of the university history department, Dr. Nester will supervise general student life, housing social relations and personal problems.

He has been a faculty member’

for nine years and a Council member for six.

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