Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1940 — Page 17

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Trucks Carry The Mail For Santa Claus; Warnock Aid Predicts Used Car Gain

WITHOUT TRUCKS TO CARRY THE MAIL, Santa Claus, Ind., would be hopelessly lost in the flood of the

million pieces it handles each Christmas week. This

tenor of an article on: the tiny southern Indiana town in the current issue of “Automobile Facts,” monthly publi-

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Remains; 18 Detours “In Effect.

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of a five-mile stretch, was reopend for traffic today, mission officials announced.

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~ Produce Foodstuffs, ‘Educator Says.

. CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (U. P.) —Elec= | tricity employed by scientists. of to-: ‘| morrow. may replace the sun in pro-

duetion of foodstuffs and revolutionize ‘the textile - industry, Dr.

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SPORTING GOODS’ BICYCLES, SLEDS

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cation of the Automobile Manufacturers Assdciation. Work on the shoulders of the Calin ‘G., Fink, head of the Electrochemistry Division at Columbia Uni-

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and Other Toys

. Plans for ‘adoption of a manual for property assessment on a a or Seovel standardized basis are discussed by three members of the Indiana 7 28 north,| County Assessors iation in conference at the Claypool Hotel. er Ind. 28 and county gravel: | yn the group (left to right) are Assessors Ed Kraft, Evansville; Elmer

Ind, 26 East of Fairmount, 3 miles over county Jrayel. Ind. —From Ind. 1 to Ridgeville, 6

the ground between rows of plants

U. S. 224—From Ind, 303 to Markle, 4 miles over Roads 303, 116 and 1

Santa Olaus, like 48,000 other communities in the nation, is not|road remains to be done, and the | ‘ants. And when the first stream: of Christmas mail starts rolling, ajresmmption of the construction. | deluge, makes around five trips a day between Santa Claus and Lincoln They are: a's »: 22 miles over Ri or Wayne, miles over Roads 118 and 1 d 9— (Ford-Mercury dealer) lot at 911 Virginia Ave. today predicted used Ind. 7—From Burr Oak north to Plymo 1, sales by 20 per cent. Aused gar market has been flooded, : 1—From U. 8. 6 to Past Gary, 2 2 = mi plant leaves speeding up growth to a ~increased employment and higher nettsville, 30 miles over Roads 335, 150 : : for tax assessments on property in 2s : : 20 miles, ox property meeting: yesterday and today, re- electricity in the wires - causing Mr. Cory, who is married and has Ind e Incetor county gravel, concrete an hd. 85 From Owensvi sociation. is “losing thousands of dollars an-|cregses the rate of photosynthesis— years. From 1936 until he joined From 2% mnfles South of Wot 1. Adoption of a valuation man-| He said: failure to collect all this Yow Industry. Visi Jamestown, ow ustey: Visioned

on a railroad. ' The nearest station is Lincoln City, six miles away. road will be closed again in’ the | For 11 months a single auto handles the mail of the town’s 60 inhabi-|spring when the weather permits | ‘railer is hitched to the mail driver's car. By this week, however,| Eighteen highway detours are in | “he remailing- requires a motor truck, which, during the final days’|effect in the state. . so | Silty. : {| Ind 3—From Charlestown to Ind. 203, / ds 62 and 362. From Fs Z ® = = Zanesville to Ft. Wayne: DRsSenger cars I | Predicts 209, Gain In Used Car Sales | irudks “from nd. 118 “to Ft. Wayne, 43 q TOM CORY, NEW USED CAR manager for the C. O. Warnock Co. From Sounbis, oy oR 1 car sales during the next year in 1 miles over county oil mat and Indianapolis would exceed last year’s § ~ Because of the tremendous busi- § ness new car dealers are having, the § 3 d. 29 from Ifdianap-| Cook, Ft. Wayne, and Claude Wise, Huntington. he sald, resulting in a general lower- . 8, FR and energy leaps from the wires. to 4ng of used car prices. This plus 4 Jniles over founty of pat ; : : p Ind. 60—From junction Ind. 335 to Ben-| Resolutions calling for extensive | member of “the State Tax Board great extent ape Makes ihe used guy gales outs “ind. “s2—prom Evansville to Boonville. legislation fo set up a new System op presided .at the assessors| “The effect is brought about by Joo! “axcep jona Vy 200 Jp e sai ; es over county pavement an ads Indiana next year were adopted to261. , ionization, or the electrical .chargin nd. 64—West of Princeton, 6 ‘miles over - 3 : oy . g a 6-year-oid son, has been in the vel, concrete and U, 8 410 day by the County Assessors As- vealed that the State Governments the plants which .in turn inautomotive business for several 15 miles over Roads 168 and 41 Proposals set out in the resolu-|nually “through failure to collect! the starch making process— and : py 3 : s . ’ ro § » : Rs ~the Warnock forces he sold automo- Lakalie, Ly; wiles sofia, "1% ames. eves [1iong pYOvIded fori all’ intangible taxes. growth,” Fink said. : ~tive advertising for The Star. Be- ual and card index system on the tax was due to the lack of per-| value of every piece of real estate sonnel and money for prop ad-| He predioted revolutionary

ors at he was a retail salesman Re no for Pac iac-dealers in ; : 1 : 2 i both Stiobura and St Se “He miles: over Ero S03" county gravel’ and in _Togidng. his to. hile exita Tisteation of hi in sngivle law. changes in textile manufacture. “was born here and was graduated "Inc." 403—From Speed east, 2% miles ctor pprep ay as i oa : . a mn 5 a t Cloth manufactured by use of from Butler in 1931. over county stone. s of clerks and appraisers forthe responsibility for administra-|the phenomenon of electrophoresis, : sociated with him at the lot are F 2 BY 32 From iy Warne to Auburn, [the re-assessment .of real estate tion of the intangibles law with the| the migration of particles in solution “Bob Re pe Ralph Dun he nd A = iri next year. State Tax Board without giving if|from one part to another brought on “C. Cory, The By 2 id Tom Cory . » . Optimistic PURSE HOOKED FROM AUTO | 3. The appointment of commit-lan appropriation for the work,” he|by an electric fleld, may become “operates a used car location ‘next to the new car store, 819 E. Wash- Say ANTO MO, rex. Dec BB tens o assist assessors in _deter-isaid. | more popular than natural wool; ‘ington St. ’ ” (U. P.).—Police are locking for two mining fair land values. “Last year the Tax Board col- | cotton fabrics. Nin HS a 8 youths who put a new wrinkle into| 4. Creation of reviewing ‘boards|lected $1,300,000 intangibles tax and| “A new industry may be born by ‘ ; . purse snatching. Juanita Rickett re- [to make proper adjustments wherelit is the opinion of Board members| placing in solution various . comTanks Tested In Brown County ported they hooked her purse with a (lack of equality lexists: in individual{that with sufficient funds for proper|pounds, such 3s wood pulp or rayon, Wermcpsx Se ; > long wire as they drove along in an |valuations compared to real-estate administration, the collection s|and then-dsawing the particles to- . DOWN IN THE HILLS of Brown County some strange “monsters” | automobile. She was walking on the [in adjoining taxing units.’ would run well over three million |gether electrically into mats or tufts, are ranging the rugged and picturesque terrain. sidewalk. Meanwhile, Marshall Williams, dollars, annually.” out. of which fabric can be woven.”

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‘Marmon-Herrington trucks and tanks being tested over the roughest :

°In’a speech prepared for delivery % FOOTBALLS 55 he Ntional Juséria) Cheuieal ¥ 1 erence Dr, I predicted that scientists will replace ight, the sun's |ff BASKETBALLS $i ih energy, with iscirieity, “another § We Up rm of energy, in producing things|# BOXING | , ! to ‘eat synthetically. oo 4% GLOVES. Set of 4 $1.95 Up. , Potato Used as Example’ BADMINTON . 95 . : wooing the potata ‘as‘an example, RACKETS B n Up ak said electricity could drive.to-|% BADMINTON ~ @ gether carbon, hydrogen and oxygen $3 . to form the potato. starch now BETS 19 Up Created by the sun’s rays. TABLE TENNIS i 25 a electrically,” y aid. "it 3 “Charged wires are strung low to H&B oor $2.95 Up H&B GOLF IRONS $ J 95 Up True-Temper Steel CASTING RODS $1.95 Up VELOCIPEDES | $5.95 4, Yankee Clipper SLEDS $ | 50 Pp FOR THE BOWLER Give hing a, Gift Certificte for a new Brunswick k . | Bowling Ball ... $15.95

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area within 100 miles of Indjanapolis. For Marmon-Herrington all- x ‘wheel-drive trucks, track-laying tractors and tanks are designed and 8 “built to operate where other vehicles would bog down. * ‘No. ordinary, man-made testing grounds would be difficult enough = to try their mettle. Only over hills that are “almost straight up,” through natural creek bottoms, hub-deep in sand and mud, and through brush as tough as barbed wire ran these vehicles be put to the real test. , ANY SUIT, TOPCOAT OR Not only for service to industry, in the oil fields, in the logging OVERC 1 1) ‘country, in road construction, road maintenance and snow removal but : ; % \ a : ' jn military service as well ‘are Marmon-Herrington all-wheel-drives and 3 ; ; 4 ; ry 2% ; \ Iu track-laying units being used. Thousands of the vehicles now operating sg Si awill be augmented by the additional thousands to be turned out by Marmon-Herrington’s expanded plant within the next year. "The all-wheel-drive vehicles range in size and.type from half ton pick-ups to massive-six-wheelers of 35 ton ‘gross. capacity. The smaller 3 1 DOWN

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. 8 8 = Named Dodge Truck Regional Manager C. E. Sering, Cincinnati regional manager of Dodge Bros. Corp., today ‘announced the appointment of W. H. Kreeb as regional truck manager. Mr. Kreeb will operate in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and

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