Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1948 — Page 1
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Meat Sale Dare
E. Side Grocers Issue Defy in Price Dispute
By DONNA MIKELS
The dare of two East Side gro-
cers to Indianapolis housewives to “take over and try to sell meat any cheaper” was being considered by leaders of the “petticoat brigade” today. The challenge was made by] Louis B. Daniels, national representative of the Meat Cutters and Butchers Union, on behalf of Harold and Karl Koehler, owners ofy Koehler's Market, 2340 E. 10th St. He offered the run of the meat counter for one week to any person or group who would order
sell it ‘cheaper without running in the red. : ; Butchers Feel Pinch “More than 260 butchers got
the pinch between this resistance and wholesale cost,” Mr, Daniels
“Now if anyone can wave a magic wand and work this thing
out better than the ones Who've pion cost of living. She is going
been at it 25 years, we're willing| to be shown.” Mrs. Velma Perk, who has led a telephone campaign to launch a city-wide “Buy No Meat" pod starting Aug, 23, said her gro might accept the dare. But, she added, they would not accept until they could find someone who *knows the business.” : ‘Might End in Red’ “If we went in not knowing anything about it we might end up in the red,” she said. “Maybe that’s what they hope we'll do.” She said the “buy no meat” campaign is already being waged by many and that she hoped the unified efforts later this month would = definitely force prices down. Out of the City
Karl Koehler said his brother,| cart
who is now out of the city, had been considering the challenge for a long time.
“Our father came over here
from and started this place when the city only came to ‘Woodruff Place,” Mr. Koehler said. “It's been in the family for 62 years and it's grown every year in business. “We're proud of family effort that built it from a small store into a super market and wholesale supply house—but we're willing to step aside for anyone who can do. a better and fairer job than we can on this meat situation.” He added that the store's meat department had made better profits when meat prices were Ww. Similar meat strikes were reported in cities throughout the ‘country today by United Press.
NO TAKERS— "Take it and do better," Grocer Karl Koehler, 2340 E. 10th St. dared a shopper, Mrs. Jean Myers, 928 N. Keystone Ave., as she bewailed high meat prices today. She declined.
Housewives Study $3.28 Food Fare Wins
said the cheaper menus were not as practical and nutritious as
menu to her family of four, which includes two sons, years old and a 1-year-old. Her|the Staib household, but through
School with the class of 1042 Maryland 4.00 odx together last a a image igre home economics stu- St. The least expensive, most| coq - mn 1epOrAd. they : : “she avoids steaks and practical and most nutritious, expensive cuts of ‘meat in
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1st Times Menu Prize
Mrs. Henry Staib Serves Economy Meals .
To Family of Four, Set to Join Meat Strike
. “By ART WRIGHT MRS. HENRY STAIB, 4310 Crittenden Ave, is the first winner in The Times’ daily Economy Menu Contest. The judges awarded today’s $5 prize to Mrs, Staib for her $3.28 menu which is published herewith. While other menus submitted were less expensive—and many were more expensive—the judges
Staib’s entry. LE Se Mrs. Staib has served this SUNDAY DINNER is the
one 3 week’s most expensive meal in
husband is a carpenter appren- Mrs. Staib’s ingenuity she has tice. . leftovers that last until Tuesday. 5 4 She usually serves a picnic ham THE STAIBS' weekly food or some other type of roast. budget is” between $20 and $22 You can win a daily prize of and includes canned milk and $5 if you send your most baby food. Mrs. Staib, a gradu: economical menu for a day to: ate of Arsenal Technical High Today's Economy Menu, Indianand 'apolis Times, 214 W.
and pr haven't eaten a steak for be so long I wouldn’t know what it best menu received this week will tastes like” she said about the earn an additional $10. The decision of the judges will to join the Aug. 23 boycott.be final and all entries become against meat by local house-/the property of The Indianapolis wives, P Times.
Today's ‘Economy Menu For Four—$3.28%
By MRS. HENRY STAIB, 4310 Crittenden Ave.
BREAKFAST—53"2 Cents
WINS MENU PRIZE—Mrs. Henry Staib prepares one of her low-cost meals in her home at 4310 Crittenden Ave. She is the first day's prize winner in The Times Economy-Menu Contest. ss = e 3
hoa i SL published in The Times. The year on the upkeep of wooden stands, the Speedway Corp. has a|.,, long-term plan to erect the newtype stands around the south curve. :
fans - worthwhile Shaw said.
mile track tore down the sections this morning and set the material afire, ment was summoned to stand by.
Start $150,000 Speedway Project
Officials to Replace Wood Grandstands
Half of grandstand E at the Indianapolis Motor burned today, but it was planned that way. Speedway officials started . a $150,000 project to replace wooden structure.
Glenn Funk disclosed his office is probing complaints.
lever encountered. Some of the more conservative lending
-| sions.
‘State, County Officials §&5 Scrutinize Practices
Of Some Companies Consider Revoking One Firm's License; Probe Excessive Prices, Misrepresenicisn By RIGHARD LEWIS A two-way investigation of illegal used car finance practices was under way today by state and county agencies. : The probe followed disclosures in The Times that violation of laws regulating finance companies here and shady used car finance practices are bleeding Hoosiers of thousands of dollars a month. > The Indiana Attorney General's office called State Department of Financial Institutions officials into conference this afternon, AT the same time, Chief Deputy Prosecutor
The “State Department of Financial _ Institutions, charged with enforcing the law, is on the verge of cracking down on one of the biggest finance company violators, The department will confer with the Attorney General on whether to revoke the license of this company to do business in Indiana. 5 Fantastic Used Car Market State officials describe the operations’ of this and certain other finance companies as the most vicious they have
agencies are alarmed at the antics of what they call “the lunatic fringe” in the business. The operations now under investigation center on the fantastic used car market. Hundreds of Hoosiers have been “hooked” on used car deals with excessive finance charges, misrepresented prices and installment payments and illegal rebates and reposses-
Some of the companies’ linked to questionable deals have defied the State of Indiana to take
pany. The interest rate on this
action against them. In most cases, the victims are helpless. vin The state law gives only
spend money each
Rather than
entire Sections Torn Down “We want to give the Speedway seats” Mr.
Maintenance men at the 500-
The Speedway fire depart-
BLENDED FRUIT JUICE—Four six-ounce glasses from a | 46-ounce can at 25 cents will cost 14 cents, CEREAL~—Cream O’ Wheat, one-half cup from a l4-ounce package at 18 cents will cost 5c cents, ENRICHED BREAD TOAST—-Eight slices from 13% pound loaf at 17 cents—5% cents, . { FORTIFIED MARGARINE-Four servings from 29-cent pound, 3% cents. MILK—1 quart for cereal, coffee and to drink, 20 cents in
on. COFFEE—Enough for meal from a 40-cent pound, 5 cents.
LUNCHEON—99 Cents
CREAMED DRIED BEEF ON TOAST-One-quarter pound . of dried beef, 33 cents; one can of milk (diluted), 15 cents; eight slices of toast, 514 cents. . Total cost, 53% cents. HEAD LETTUCE WITH JRENCH DRESSING—One head of lettuce, 13c: one-fourth of a 21-cent bottle of French dressing, 51 cents. Total cost, 18%¢. JELLO--One package, 7 cents. MILK—One quart, for drinking, 20 cents.
DINNER—$1.76
BARBECUED MEAT LOAF — One pound hamburger, 55 tents; one grade “B" egg from a 6l-cent dozen (plus bread crumbs, onion, seasoning), 5 cents; one-half of a l14-cent bottle of catsup for barbecue sauce, 7 cents, Total. cost, 67 cents. BAKED POTATOES--Four 1srge potatoes, 12 cents. SPINACH-—One can, 13 cents. FR SLICED TOMATOES One pound, 15 cents. BREAD--Eight slices, 51; cents. MARGARINE-—Four servings, Cla cents. CHERRY COBBLER-—Qne can of cherries, 25 cents; one cup | of biscuit mix from a 40-cent oox (plus milk), 10 cents. Total, cost, 35 cents. ; MILK~—For biscuit dough and to drink, 20-cent carton. COFFEE—For two adults, 5 cents. ES ———————————
On Inside
Marion County in red on relief cases .......Page 2
Ex-OS8 officer calls accus~er ‘nuisance’ at spy probe . . . Report Russ arrest 38 at Uranium mine .............Page 8
Dr. Roy Robbins of But- -
ler . . . typical college - professor . , . a picture
Other Inside Features
Amusements 6 Movies ..... 6 6 Opera singer Marilyn Cotlow was 9 married yesterday to Eugene 7, Altschuler of Detroit, concert-§1000. 4 master of the New Orleans symComics ..:.. 19| Mrs, Roos'v'lt 12) phony orchestra. Crossword.. 5 Side Glances 10 Editorials .. 10! Society ..... 12|apolis, was the 1948 Metropolitan Judy «+sxs 10; Sports ... 4-15 Opera audition-of-the-air winner. . " 6: Teen Prob... 13/She is a former resident of Los a 3 9, Women's ... 13' Angeles.
Ernest Blau. 12 Mrs, Manners Bridge ..... 12/ F. C, Othman Business ... 11 Radio ..&5, Classified. 15-18) Records ....
Rob Sheet Metal Plant Donors Save Hame (Of $1050 Material Of Parents of
Staking claim to the most un-| usual theft of the year, somebody hauled away $1050 worth of “pre-war” solder early today from the Joseph Gardner Co.|- LAGRANGE, Aug.'10 (UP)— sheet metal manufacturers, atiMr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell today 533 Abbott St. .- {happily shelved their plans to Plant officials Said the ma-isell their home. {terial can't be replaced on to-| Sympathetic donors have proday's market. Packed in 14/vided the money necessary for 100-pound crates, the loot ap:ian operation for their 2-year-old parently was carted away in aldaughter, Judy, the county's only pickup truck observed by neigh-|“blue baby.” 3
a - bors at 1 acm THE CAMPBELLS had planned
to sell their house to get enough ‘Opera Singer Married |noney for an operation in Chi-
cago Sept. 7. Harry Smythe, To Concert Master ooeetor of Buck Lake Ranch in ‘NEW YORK, Aug.-10 (UP)— Angola, read the story of the Campbells’ plight to patrons. of the ranch and they contributed
Upstate Blue Baby
Then Lagrange businessmer organized a campaign to raise The bride, a native of Minne- money for other expenses for
You Need a Home? Times Will Provide
they deal and signed the case, the vie-
tract. In tim admits with “1 did not know what I was
The Times learned many Vvictims could not possibly know what they were signing because the contracts they signed were blank. These were later filled in” by the finance company, In Indianapolis today, this racket is the joint enterprise of one or more finance companies and some used-car dealers, with
Between them, the victim takes
‘One Free for Year
Some fortunate visitor to The Times Home of Ideas in Windsor Village is going: to get a year's FREE RENT in a two-bedroom house there.
Visit The Times Home of Ideas—at 6030 E. 22d St— any day from 12 noon ufitil 8 p. m. Get your contest entry blank there, take it to The Times Contest Home at 6030 E. 24th St. and find five of the 10 errors intentionally made in home decorating.
There is nothing to buy . .. everybody is eligible to compete. There are five prizes worth $1500, -.
Warm Weather,
Showers Forecast
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 66 10a m... 79 Ta. m... 68 11am... 82 8 a Mm... 72 12 (Noon). 85 Sam... 7 1p m...5858
Hodslers throughout the state can expect above normal temperatures for the next five days, accompanied by showers Thursday, Friday and Sunday, thesWeather
a loss on the car he trades, pays an inflated price for the newer model and winds up with a conditional sales contract to which he never actually agreed. This is how it works: The used car dealer takes the customer's old car in trade on a ‘newer model. The balance is to be financed.
The Streamlined Way
The dealer induces the buyer to sign a blank contract, giving the customer to understand this is a streamlined way of doing business. Beldom does the buyer question the signing of a contract in blank, although this is against the law, Once the buyer has signed that blank contract, he’s hooked. The finance company fills in the blanks to suit itself, When the buyer receives his payment book from the finance company, he finds: ONE: The sale price 'of car
have completed the used-car|they were instaliment
embarrassment: th,
the dealers acting as “front men.” | 18
We. But in most cases, the purchaser unwittingly signs away his protection when he signs blank contract, or other “neces-
won't run. In that case, finance company helpfully offers a repair loan in addition to the installment contract. May Alter Payment One repair loan of $60 on such a car cost the buyer $28 in interest and “service charge” for nine months, Bn This is against the law. In addition to altering the price of the car, the finance company also may alter the monthly pay‘ment simply by crossing out the payment agreed to and substituting a higher figure. : This is against the law. When the customer defaults under the weight of his payments, the finance company seizes his car and sells it back to the dealer it was purchased from. There is no public sale, no ad-
he has pure ansd has been raised.| yartised sale. : has to pay more law. than the Sealer and he would. Thi is against the aw, THREE: monthly pay-' Tomorrow: Balloon Contracts.
WASHINGTON, A
Bureau said today, The temperature is expected to remain from one to three degrees above normal during the rest of the week. Nights may be warm-
i Registration of men {thr
not /veterans. The local boards
er than average, but daily tem-
peratures will remain about the
same, Northern counties are to have temperatures varying from B4 to 61 degrees, while southern. counties will be warmer with a temperature range of from 88 to 64 degrees.
Showers are expected Thursday, . than
Friday and again Sunday. rainfall may measure more one inch or more, according to the
will begin classifying the men
‘soon as the questionnaires are
| returned.
officials said, it will be impossible to induct any draftees before Oct.
i120 because of administrative problems. 0 > | Return in 10 Days
The actual date of inductions, when
forecast.
Partly cloudy skies were tore-| petals believe the first men called
cast for Indianapolis tonigh
~
65 degrees is expected
t and yp won't be in uniform much be-
Judy. tomorrow. ! fore Nov, 1. st hext 12 montha.__ a Mr. Campbell requested that! The mercury is - expected to| Registrants m return their - ‘year-o cannot . guardian be appoifted for the rise to 86 tomorrow. A low of questionnaires 10 days after they ducted until they reach 19, alreceive them. though they may volunteer, :
‘Greetings’ for Draftees Due in Mails by Sept. 7
, 10 (UP)~—Local draft boards have been instructed to mail out first questionnaires to the nation's new peace- | time draft registrants on or before Sept. 1. . ; i through 25 starts Aug. 30. Men 19 that today's dollar th 25 will be drafted for 21-month hitches. imore than the 57
t questionnaires will go to 25-year-old single
for possible military service as 10 million questionnaires already
In any event, selective service fornia and Oregon.
men who are|
Officials said the first of some
have been shipped to state directors in such distant states as Cali-
rectors will send the
The state diquestion- | _
insurance protects only
cent & year. fe : em
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clude union |
average cost of