Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1947 — Page 15

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ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE persons philosophy is the only thing that exists you also convinced that no one ever thitks of theother guy? The guy who is a little down ? 3

BAGS OF GOODWILL—Fred Anderson hands Charles Hall a bag of used clothing which will be taken to the Goodwill Industries where it " will start a "second round of service."

inside Indianapolis

picked up BSpapeis. Bags of siothes, Amp Sxtures

a damaged hotplate. At 1118 Ewing st, Mrs, Frances Skillman had

tated. ,. Clothing will be sorted by five persons who are in‘capacitated in some way. Most of the 120 workers

Bosart ave, I mentioned to Mr. Hall that “We sure got a stack of papers here.” Bedes the paper there was an electric fan and a bag

uch,’ Mr. Hall said. “On the picked .up a whole crate of Life jos... .

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had been saving such as a telephone table, toys, a floor lamp, hot plate, woven ‘baskets, hats and old clothes. But as most things that find their way to the basement tney just took up room.

Things ‘Someone Might Use’ “L FINALLY made a clean sweep of the situation,” Mis Lorton said. “Maybe someone can find some use for those things." They sure can, Mrs. Lorton. Mrs. Melvin Hinchman, 905 N, Layman ave., also

had a few things she thought “someone might use.” |:

The men put a mattress, a generous piece of linoleum and a bag of clothes on the truck. There were several quick stops. We'd pull up to an

+ address where the donor had & Goodwill bag on the front porch. Mr. Anderson would pick up vhe full bag

‘and we'd be on our way. The woven baskets we picked up from Mrs. Lorton came in handy af 965 N. LaSalle st. Mr, and Mrs. Eurl Kepper are moving to the country and besides clothing and ‘paper they had some canned goods to give Mr. Hall and Mr. Anderson, A cardboard box of canned tomatoes was no problem to carry out to the truck. But the loose jars of tomatoe juice, apple and grape butter were until Mr. Hall thought of the baskets. On the way back to the plant I read the printed message on a Goodwill bag. “The materials you have given to the Goodwill Industries have started on a second round of service helping handicapped and needy people to help themselves.” When Mr. Hall drove his truck in the driveway to the unloading dock he was fourth in line. You know, it's a nice feeling to know that there are a lot more people around like the Lortons, Keppers, Hinchmans, Skillmans and Denniss who think of starting “a second round of service helping handicapped and needy People to help themselves.”

Pass the Caviar

WASHINGTQN, July 18.—You meat eaters will be interested to know that chuck roast and hamburgers cost less today than under Chet Bowles’ OPA price

controls. This information raised some eyebrows in senatorial circles. But Dr. Robert J. Eggert of Chicago (who produced it) stuck by his guns (all right, meat cleavers), » way ‘ “ As asspciate director of marketing for the American Meat institute the doc, was clad appropriately for his grilling by the lawmakers. He wore a suit the color of a brindle calf and a tie the exact shade of beefsteak. Take Hamburger, said he, When a housewife had to slip the butcher red coupons as well as cash under the Bowles regime, Dr. ®ggert said, she paid a legal 20.4 cents for one pound of “hamburger,. Her husband paid another 8 cents a pound for it in the form of a packers’ subsidy taken from his income taxes. Of course, said Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, the lady buying the hamburger didn't know about that 8 cents. “No she didn't,” agreed Dr. Eggert, “but there it was, anyhow. “And then she. paid another 6.6 cents overcharge on her pound of hamburger and . . ." “What?” demanded Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, chairman of the joint economic report committee. ¥

Omits Mention of Pork Chops

+ YEP, THE DOC SAID, he'd sent out shoppers In 1 cities during OPA’s heyday and 6.6 cents was the average illegal nick given the housewives’ pocketbooks by the butchers. “Some butchers didn’t charge so much above ceiling, but some charged a great deal more,” Dr. Eggert added, “and we believe that 6.6 cent figure is very conservative. So the 20.4 cent ceiling price, the 8 cent

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. By Frederick C. Othman

subsidy and the 6.6 cent overcharge brought the cost of a pound of hamburger to 44 cents, retail.” Today, he said, hamburger in the same 11 cities 1s 404 cents a pound, without hocus-pocus. The same] formula—Jlet us cheer—makes chuck roast cost hall a cent a pound less than it did during the war. All other kinds of meat, and pork chops in particular, cost more now than they used to, ‘even by: figures of the meat men. Dr. Eggeft i pork chops in his speech, but he did submit a stack of charts. :

Bulging Purses Blamed

. THESE SHOWED that Mr. Bowles priced pork chops at 37.5 cents a pound, that the subsidy was 56 cents, and that the average overcharge was 4.1 cents for a total of 47.2 cents. Today pork chops cost 70.6 cents a pound and I'll take caviar because it is cheaper. 4 : ! Senator Taft agreed, though he didn’t exactly put it that way. He wanted to know how come the cost of meat has soared 100 per cent since 1939, while the overall average cost of living is up only 50 per cent. Dr. Eggert said there were many reasons, but the main one is that people have more money than they used to. They're spending it for beefsteaks. He said, in fact, that the price of meat for many years has varied almost exactly in ratio with the size of American payrolls. “But price itself is a rationer of product,” he added. He's telling me. Meat has been rationed around my house lately more strictly than Mr, Bowles ever dared. Some militant ladies here are organizing a buy-no-meat week. And a hamburger sandwich in my favorite joint now costs 40 cents. Dr. Eggert said he thought prices might drop a little this fall. But I'm afraid by then I'll be a confirmed vegetarian.

Glamazon

HOLLYWOOD, July 18.~Hollywood is a town nor mally associated with sylph-like feminine figures of 5 feet 2, ; : But that was before inflation. : So we have with us today attractive Dorothy Ford, glamazon actress. Dorothy weighs 143 pounds and usually is 6 feet 3 inches tall - “But,” she whispered, “when I take off my shoes people are surprised. I'm really only 5 feet 11%. 1 always wear 3%-inch heels.” . Dorothy builds herself up because it's paying off rather picely. She just played a big role with Jimmy

over the country titled, appropriately, “The Big People.” ; y But, just like a woman, Dorothy was happy to

work with Mr. Stewart and Mr. Fonda, a couple of

. By Erskine Johnson 'io miles an hour by an old city .

a big girl. On a recent personal appearance tour around the country, Dorothy walked into the Statler hotel in Cleveland. The room clerk took one astonished look and assigned her to a special 7%-foot bed usually occupied by Hank Greenberg. News photographers heard about it and rushed up to her room. Dorothy slipped into a fetching white negligee and then climbed into bed while the cameras

clicked. |

Actually, Dorothy sleeps at home in a standard size bed. But she has to take off those 3':z-inch heels really to get comfortable. 3

Veloz Speaks His Mind ~~ .’

“WHAT THE movies have been ‘doing to the art of ballroom dancing shouldn't happen to a dog.” Frank Veloz of America’s most famous dance team, Veloz and Yolanda, speaking. “I close my eyes in pain evety time the leading man and the leading lady get up to dance,” Frank said. “Any similarity between the music you hear and the steps they do is definitely coincidental.” The crushing blow, insofar as Veloz is concerned, is the fact that actually the terpsichorean saboteurs are excellent dancers. On the polished floors of Hollywood's dancing spots they're lovely to look at. If a new dance step pops up, many of the top stars show up at Veloz and Yolanda's dance studio to learn how It's done. But get them in front of the movie camera, and wham--they’re back in the one, two, three, woops, pardon me, class.” :

By Ruth Millett

SECOND SECTION 4564 Wiig

PERSONALITY—The Nick Kerz Co.'s oldest employee from

help in selling.

BACKGROUND—In 1894 Nick Kerz entered business in this grocery at W. Michigan and Patterson sts, He is shown here with Mrs. -Kerz (in white apron); and four of his six daughters.

Patrons Even Show New Clerks Location | Of Stock; Established 53 Years Ago

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG A DEPARTMENT STORE where many of the customers show new clerks the location of stock, and where they keep coming back to trade

V yeur. bh * That's Nick Kers Uo. at College and Pairfield aves., established in Indianapolis 53 years ago by a man who believed in a policy of keeping his customers satisfied at any cost. nA LS ‘founder opened his first store : he gen ope corner of W. Mich- |ment of the store in 1907 when their igan and Patterson sts. April 1,|father died. 1894. He stocked groceries gnd By that time the atmosphere of

meats at first. - The store grew from the store was changing as the the start. > groceries and meats gave way to

general merchandise.

LATER on as his six daughters| “When a customer asked for an : item we didn't have we put in a

and -one son grew up and 100K | stock so it would be on our shelves places in the store they added t0|the next time he came in,” Miss

its stock extra items of wearing | Lily Kerz said.

| apparel from quantities they bad| ypu o0 porICY has determined ordered for themselves from the'ihs gsiock ordering of the store wholesale houses. down through the years. The Kerz sisters, Katie, Tillie, El-| In 1925 Nick Kerz' was moved to vira, Lily A, Sadie and Anna E., its present site in a newly connow Mrs. Paul Ulrich, and the son |structed one-story building. It was Phil, took over complete manage- la full fledged general store by that

Moves to Raise Train Speed Limit/'n an Unroyal NEW YORK, July 18 (U. P.).—~ : Harbor police waited for low tide Police Chief Howard Sanders sald tay he would ask the safety board today to rescue Buste, the king of

to pro an ordinance raising the the wharf, from beneath a Brooklyn

pier. speed lmii on trains now set at Susie chased a rat that dived into

the ocean. Susie was traveling so

law. fast that she dived into the ocean Asked to enforce the ordinance)...

Miss Myrtle Osborne (left), shows the store's clocks to her customer, Mrs. J, V. Raber, Anderson, Ind. Miss Osborne remembers customers names and finds it a

after a train-car accident here Friday in which three persons were killed, police today were finding it dificult to bring the trains down to|

When she came up she was under the pier. She scrambled onto a crossbeam slightly above high tide

level. ‘ the “crawl” required by the old| workmen tried for six hours to measure. rescue her late yesterday, Chief Sanders said he believed] Then they gave up until low tide the ordinance might have been today when they could rip the end proper in “horse and buggy days,” {off the pier, paddle a boat 1500 feet but he felt the speed limit for trains | and seize Susie, y should be the same as for auto-| Dock workers insist New York mobiles. {harbor rats are the biggest rats in He said he would ask the council the world. to recommend an ordinance setting| Susie arrived in Brooklyn eight the speed limit at 25 to 30 miles months ago on a ship from India. per hour. If the safety board agrees| Weighing 20 pounds, she drew with him the proposed ordinance a will be sent to the city council,

WORD-A-DAY

138th St., Madison, Will Be Repaired

The’ state highway commission

By BACH ‘ today announced plans to start — Work Aug. 1 an resurfacing of sec- “- tions of 38th st. and Madison ave. HALCYON |= ", z, The work, to be done by the ¥ rd f Indiana Asphalt Paving Co. Inc, hal si-un) ADJ, | will cover 4.63 miles of roads 31

and 67 on the two local streets. Work on 38th st, which is road 67, will be between Northwestern (ave, and Fall Creek boulevard, and jon Madison ave, road 31, betwen N' Glendale ave. and the Pennsylvania rallroad and also between Dela ware and Georgia sts. "A stipulation in the contract provides that the maintenance work on 38th st. cannot be done :between Aug. 23 and Bept. 10 because of the Indians state fair traffic, :

REFUGEES GET NEW CHIEF

PEACEFUL; HAPPY; CALM

"The Indianapolis ’

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1047

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ACCESSIBILITY —The

TOYS—The store's big Two tiny customers, Sandra Fultz, 4349 Winthrop ave., (left) and Betsy Brown, 2224

isfied

est drawing power lies in its giant toy department. t need a sales talk from Saleslady Martha Wichser, 3317 N. New

present store at College and Fairfield aves. is easily

reached by northside residents who can take the children without all the. preparation

for a downtown trip. The tomers.

time with wearing apparel for the family, houseware, drygoods, notions, hardware, gifts, small electrical appliances, greeting cards, candy and a giant toy department. A second story was added in 1920 when growing pains again hit the establishment, Through the years the store has retained the same personal touch it held when the founder greeted his neighbors on W. Michigan st. » n » THE STORE'S employee with the most years of service, Miss Myrtle Osborne, 3519 College ave. (across the street from the store), began work 18 years ago. ;

Susie, King of the Wharf,

Predicament

herself up to her full one-foot height, stfitted onto a pier and tangled with the rats. The first week she killed 10, Last Saturday she killed eight in four hours. The dock workers named her king of the wharf. Later they learned the king's name was Susie, but they let the title stand.

$15 Million Glass

thousands of items of stock were "requested" by the cus-

“I thought it would be a good number of customers and business idea to remember people's names| associates, :

sa ¥ made » special effort to do so,” scm; Es AN loud, une Miss Osborne declared. THE ANSWER. was a

fled “NO!” : Phe other'day a womah customer| So Nick Kerz will remain “as is. came into the store and Miss Os-|The same name, the same stock, the borne called her by name. It sur-

same personal touch. ' prised (and of course pleased) the| - And by all means, the same. toy woman because she had been out of department. There the hundreds of the city for six years, . {items, slides, bicycles, dolls, boats, A few days ago the Kerz family and books, constitute a year-around sold the store to John 8. Pearson Santa Claus land to the childre Jr. His father formerly owned| Customers say Nick Kerz: gets to Pearson Co. furniture stores. {be a habit’, . , a friendly place to Mr. Pearson at first considered |shop, where you can find what you the possibility of modernizing the | want, and where you can take the store and he asked the opinion of alkids in their play clothes.

Strike in 2d Day At Mayer Plants |. oe iid

Three hundred George J. Mayer [Senior - scout units of Central Ine Co. employees continued on strike diana council Sunday at. Por today. .. Optimist, 30th st. and White river, Sixty days negotiation for a new| Two séa scout ships and two exe contract between the rubber stamp piorér posts attained the high firm: and United Steel Workers of |honors, America, Local 2606 (C. 1. O.) ended| John L. Buehler,

Four Scout Units =~ Win High Honors

National honors for smartness of

senior scout

in a walkout yesterday at the 829 E.-Maryland st. and 540 E. Market st. plants. Last union request had been for

committee chalrman, will award the ratings to sea scout ship 47, Ine dianapolis, led by Skipper Earl Koel

ling; sea scout ship 362, Crawfordse

a wage increase of 10 cents an hour |ville, led -by Skipper Ernest Sheet;

Suit May Be Ended

| A special master in chancery to‘day recommended dismissal of a

|$15 million anti-trust suit against

seven major glass companies. Master Samuel Dowden ruled that

ed the law. The Turnér Glass Corp. bo Indianapolis had accused them of trying to force it out of business.

The suit has been pending for

eral Judge Robert C. Baltzell is necessary for final disposition.

Defendant companies are Hart-ford-Empire Co. Hartford, Conn.; Owens-Illinois CGilass Corp. Toledo, O.; Hazel-Atlas Glass Co, Wheeling, W. Va.; Corning Glass Works, Corn-~ ing, N, Yi; Thatcher Manufacturing Co., Elmira, N. Y.; Glass Container Association of America and Stevenson Corp., both of New York.

Lodge to Install

Chappell Rebekah lodge 702 will install officers at 8 o'clock tonight in the lodge hall, 1120 W. 30th st. Installation officers will be: Mrs. May Dunbar, past noble grand; Mrs. Grace Culbertson, noble grand, and Mrs. Blanche Lizenby, vice grand. ; ;

bah

the seven companies had not violat- |

five years, and a judgment by Fed-|

and paid holidays. The company | explorer post 28, Indianapolis, had offered 5 cents an hour more Gerald Druley, post adviser, and eXe {and provision for periodic increases | plorer post 79, Beech Grove, Lestér | depending upon production, | Wiltsee, post adviser,

Carnival = By Dick Turner