Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1949 — Page 25

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By JOHN V. WILSON MONDAYS, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are school days

at the Indianapolis Stockyards—school days for GI farm trainees who study the marketing of livestock. “Professor” of the school officially called the Indisnapolis Stockyards Marketing Institute is I. M. (Ike) Hoagland. A retired vice president of Armour & Co. in Chicago, he has worked more than 40 years in the livestock industry. : RL —— Last year Mr. Hoagland got the idea for the one-da and the Stockyards. Groups from throughout the state ¥ have been making the seven-hour tour from pen to packer § since December. Mr. Hoagland shook his head as he explained how his idea has mushroomed. Almost 1700 GI farm trainees and their coun ‘sellors have booked tours through June. # . » » . . THE COMPLETE tour takes the groups from the chutes for incoming livestock to the packing house. Groups see actual sales of hogs, cattle, lambs, sheep and calves made between the commission men and the packer. Most members of the groups, who have never before visited a stock yards, come away with a better understanding of its functions. Beyond the narrow confines of their individual Hvestock raising they see the total picture of the giant industry. A typical group making the tour recently included 12 GI farmers and their instructor from Roachdale in Putnam County. The ‘men, either studying under P. L. 348 or P. L. 16, meet four

hours a week with instructor James Risk in their Jackson Township school.

» . » . ~ og LED BY Mr. Hoagland, the group started early one morning last week on the tour of the Stockyards which sprawls over some 110 acres. Sales of live hogs were explained by Paul (Doc) Beckner of McAdams & Beckner Co, Using a long sorting pole, he pointed out how they are graded and factors influencing their sale.

After a load of hogs was sold (at $21), it was herded onto a large platform scales for weighing—where ownership changes hands, The particular load of 40 head weighed 8230 pounds. Weigher Lloyd Thomas completed the job in a matter of seconds. isitors heard several speakers explai RI. Speakers were AL W. JoF, aise for the Production and Marketing Administration; U. B. Market Reporting Service; C. Ii. Farrington of mission Co.; Prof. Claude Harper of Purdue University, and L. C. § McIntyre, secretary of the Indianapolis 8 Co. :

Photos by William Ostes, Times Staff Photographer.

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A DEPRESSION, a dislike for selling insurance and two Latin American révolutions set up Bruce Fox in business in New Albany, Ind. vi World War II almost put to death his 1937 basement-born firm of Bruce Fox Wrought Metals, Inc, Today, he believes his company is the only one in the nation that makes decorative pleces in cast aluminum. Closed throughout the war, the firm now is booming. From a one-man shop in the basement it has grown to a 43-man establishment in two bulldings, covering 28,000 square feet of floor space. ; The yearly income figure has changed from $1000 to a quarter ° million. Customers have grown from neighborhood friends to 1750 retail outlets in all 48 states and 16 foreign countries and possessions, . ~ . ¥ ” x ” TRAIN as an artist, but self-taught as a sculptor, Mr. Fox personally creates or assists in the creation of every design. There Is nothing in the decorative field he will not tackle and try to reproduce in minute detail. Goblets, book-ends, ash trays, plates, trays, silent butlers, candlestick holders, plagues . . . his creations run into the hundreds. All are hand-made and hand-finished. There is no mass production. Many of the orders are for single items or but a few, A native of Philadelphia, he served in the merchant marine in World War I. His travels took him to Panama City, Panama, where friends convinced him he should go into the advertising art business. He did in 1925. :

NN 8 » . » » IT WAS there he met his wife, a New Albany girl on a cruise. They were married before she was scheduled to return to the States. In 1931 they fled a revolution and came to New Albany only to find a depression. ; Immediately they turned around and went to Cuba. More advertising and then another revolution in ‘34. They caught the . last boat. For three years Mr. Fox tried his hand at selling Insurance, He longed to return to his art. In Panama City he had begun a business in gift and interior decorating pieces created from scrap. The family returned to New Albany, his wife's home. It was as good a place as any to start,

” » o . ; TODAY he Puinbets some of the nation’s foremost individuals ‘and industries among his ctistomers. It all tarted in a basement. > =Pictures and Story by Victor, Peterson, » y i ’

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