Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1948 — Page 33

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25,000 Jobs

By HAROLD HARTLEY : JNDIANAPOLIS’ post-war expansion, pouring $300 million into construction, will create at least 25,000 jobs with an increased annual payroll of $70 million. These are new workers to be added to the city's employed (now estimated at 144,000) and the figure does not include those who are working in the construction. . Of the $300 million post-war expansion, $175 million is going into job-making expansion, equipment and buildings. The other $125 million is going into residential and other commercial structures, such as replacements which will add new jobs. . Confident industries are plowing back profits, building, buying equipment, making more jobs for families who are buying homes, erecting churches, schools, investing their savings to make more money in the newfound Hoosier business Klondike. > 4 o

THE 10th Air Force just billeted at Ft.

payroll to town. The new Western Electric Co. plant going up at 21st and Shadeland ($30 million-plus, estimate) will add another $15,690,000 annual -payroll by 1950, all.fresh money to be spent and respent in the city's self-energizing business cycle. Key to the magic growth is found in the prophetic investments of the eye-to-the-future utilities. Indianapolis Power & Light is spending a cool $50 million, the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. $20 million, adding eight stories to its N. Meridian St. building; the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, $11 million,-and the Indianapolis Railways, Inc., pursuing the population out into the subirban farmlands, $3.2 million. > oo

SO BRISK has been the business expansion that Archjtectural Forum, building arm of the Life-Time Fortune magazine combine, chose to survey post-war Indianapolis as the city which has stepped forward fastest. The Glidden Co., Cleveland, (paints and farm foods) is investing $3 million in soybean processing and storage elevators here.

Expansion of the American Foundry will

run close to the $15 million-mark with Diamond Chain, the Cornell Dubilier Corp. (ca-

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“LEAD KINDLY LIGHT" ~The Church-in-the-Wild- ... wood, formally called Union. Chapel Methodist ‘Church, “Beeckoms with ‘glowing windows-on prayer meeting night. Each Thursday after supper, farm families gather “here on Haverstick Road to sing, pray and hear a religious talk. Although the oldfashioned prayer meeting has been discontinued by ‘many city churchesy-rural Wnign Chapel carries on as always. Faces indicate the Bibla message and the earnest words of the minister fall upon listening ears. All tha farm chores are done for the day and members. seem cheerful, relaxed and at peace. | :

* meets away from the downtown area.

pacitators) ; Kraft Cheese Co.; American Can Co. ($1 million), United Motors Division of GMC; the Advance Paint Co., pushing the expansion figure to fantastic heights, The 16th and Harding development, a Klein & Kuhn vision, is one of the newest, fastest growing. It boasts the impressive Western Electric warehouse and Bell Telephone garage; the Behr Manning Corp. (abra-

sives); the Goodyear development, United

Motors: Division of General Motors, the H. J, Heinz Co. and the Catholic Youth Organization stadium, under construction, and other lesser projects. } > oo

OTHER, SIZABLE post-war construction includes the Eli Lilly & Co. buildings, the purchased Bridgeport Brass plant, Peerless Pump Division of Food Machinery .Corp., E. C. Atkins new plant on the old site; PitmanMoore (pharmaceuticals), the low-lying, expansive Chevrolet plant, the Tnterndtional Harvester Co., still under way, the J. I. Case project, the J.'D. Adams Co., R. C. A. Victor Division, and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co.

Keeping pace, medical developments in-

.clude, the projected State Board of Health “oo buttding 32 million) west of the: Medical Clen~ i+ wet fer on W. MItHIFAT "St (HE ERR UE Carter ..mental_ screening hospitat-($3.5 miilion).; the.

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mental health building in connection with General Hospital. ~

All of the big downtown department stores either have expanded or are in the process. These include L. S. Ayres & Co., the Wm. H. Block Co., H. P. Wasson & Co., and L. Strauss & Co. and there are others.

Ce oe ONE OF the major developments will be the new quarter segment building to house a J. C. Penney store on the Circle and the remodeling of “the Insurance building, just sold, also on the Circle. Suburban shopping centers, super-mar-

kets, as fresh and inviting as tomorrow's

dawn, are appearing wherever heavy traffic

The two new buildings at 38th and Meridian: Sts., the 10th and Arlington project, and the 38th

and Sherman (3800 east) are just a few, biit™ _ typical.

They're cropping up like crocuses in a spring lawn where main roads cross.

Drive-in theaters and drive-in eating places, no longer small-change businesses, fleck the edge of :the ®ity on the -main traffic

THERE'S THE new Department of Agriculture Produce Terminal which will ‘run-at least $2 million, now under survey. And truck terminals dot the city wherever highways rub elbows with industry, the biggest downtown.

““EXpansion of business means expansion of population, more employment. People need homes. Where will they live?

250 have moved in. . The Meadowbrook apartment project ($5.5 =

; A blimp's-eye view of the city gives the answer. You can see whole colonies of brightly-roofed, glistening white utility-type houses, lying to the northwest along Route 52 and to the northeast (Windsor Village). The Windsor Village development, costing $10 million, will house 700 families. About

million) will take care of another 650 families. It's in the plastering stage, no occupants for a month or more. id > ®

IN THE not-too-distant future, Project

A,’slum clearance, will be converted into an _

area of small modern homes between W. 10th and 16th Sts., west of West St. Put down any yardstick anywhere and you find the city growing both population and businesswise at a speed that outdistances imagination. You can’t measure it all in a day or month, It's a town which won't stay still, with a good stabilized labor market and rail and truck transportation webbing out in every direction, - There's nothing temporary about it. It's concrete, steel and lumber, rising steadily be« : fore your eyes wherever you 160k, a moneys muscled city building its own tomorrow.

SHEPHERD — The pas | tor, the Rev. A. |. Carter (lower left), truly serves as

Chapel flock. In time of .teouble, day..or.night, he...

home of stricken parishe joners. Most of them live = on farms of the surround. ing countryside, others in the city. The minister pers forms the ceremony when | two of them are married, baptizes new babies, visits | the sick, comforts the dying and buries the dead . in the cemetery alongside the church. Forgetful of self, he adjusts his mood to the demands upon him. “It's all in the day's work: a preacher is callad of , God," he reminds you. _e

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