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By JEAN TABBERT and LOUISE FLETCHER N THESE DAYS OF HOUSING SHORTAGES, news of a pending vacancy generally brings out swarms of applicants Well, there's a house at 4343 N. Meridian St, to be vacated in January, for which there are only six applicants, There's a “hitch in it, though.. The householder must be OK'd Tuesday by . all the voters in Indiana. The house is the Governor's Mansion.

Since it looks as if only two prospective tenants have much chance of moving in, the “race” for First Lady of Indiana bolls down to the wives of Hobart Creighton, Republican, and Henry . F. Schricker, Democrat. If Mrs, Creighton does the shifting to Mrs. Henry F. Schricker a new home base, she'll be leaving the house her husband built pa MR for her 25 years ago. He and his brother, Russell, began the structure in spring and the newly-married Creightons started _housekeeping on the farm near Warsaw the following August. Ever since, Mrs. Creighton’s career has been homemaking.. Up at 8 o'clock each morning, she “pitches In” to start her household running for the day.

To Mrs. Schricker, playing hostess in the Governor's Mansion would be a repeat performance. But when she had that role from 1941 to 1945, the executive mansion was the comparatively modest English timbered house just east of the Marott Hotel. It's occupied now by the City Parks Department. Purchase of the present mansion was once discussed though, during Mr. Schricker’s term as Governor, and friends of his wife still chuckle over one of her comments at that time. At a luncheon she listened as another guest congratulated her on the prospect of moving into a more imposing home. “But,” said Mrs. Schricker, “the one we're in now is as nice as any I ever anticipated.” » “ ¥ » " #

OOMING ALONG WITH the Creightons would be their youngest daughter, Martha, a freshman in Mentone High School, and Eddie (William Edward), the only Creighton son, a junior in the same school. Barbara, Mrs. Stanley Sowerwine, lives in South Bend and Josephine is a student nurse in the Indiana University Medical Center here. The children call Mrs. Creighton “Mom.” A nurse and domestic science teacher before she was married, she doesn't sew any more—just “patching.” Now that the first Creighton grandchild has arrived, Mrs, Creighton says she'll have to learn to knit.

If Tuesday's balloting puts the Schrickers into the Meridian 8t. mansion next January, they'll be moving from the . Ambassador Apartments, 30 E. Ninth 8t. Just the two of them would pack up, since their three children, all married, have their own rooftrees. Daughter Margaret and her husband, Dr. Lewis C. Robbins, are in Boston, where he is with the U, 8. Public Health Service.

Their younger son, George W., is in Bloomington—a senior in Indiana University's School of Business, His wartime service , was in the Navy. His wife was Jean Laramore of Plymouth.

Down in Columbus, Ind., is 16-month-old Christine Schricker, only. grandchild of the former Governor and his wife. Christine’s father is Henry Jr. (called “Hank,” just as his father is) and her mother is the former Evelyn Gullion of Indianapolis, Henry Jr. served in the Army and also attended IU. And, again like his father (who was a Fletcher Trust Co. vice president until his nomination in June), young Hank is in the banking business . . . working in the Irwin Trust Co.'s trust department.

Photos by Henry BE. Glesing Jr., Times Staff Photographer.

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