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Steel-Fabricating City 1} Expanded in Wartime; Cleanup Drive Is On

Restaurants Face Crackdown; Cuneo Press

Taking Over Former General Electric Plant By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor KOKOMO, Mar, 19-—-The “sweet and simple folks of Mokomo, Ind.” whom Betty Grable sang about in “Mother Wore Tights” have, indeed, something much more serious on their minds. They are retailoring their town, and cleaning up their restaurants. This steel-fabricating town tumbled out in every direction like the head of ,a hoy.with an overdue haircut, until the townsfolk

outgrown its short, === decided It had ig a made-to- komo. Week before last one bank Dire planning system. turned $26,787 worth into cash. mas scrapped their 25-year-| The biggest bank headed by wll ordinance, drew up afconservative B Denton (Dent) old zoning which won't let a Mitchell . showed resources of Dew no house or a junk yard|$21119677 in its last statement, SE residential property values. |E. D. Seward is vice president. at of the plan is a bypass for| Kokomo has a new high school

like (gymnasium near completion. The ings, seating 7200.

‘Retailoring

This is Kokomo's new $850,000 gym which will be ready for next fall's play. Across from the high school, it will serve for meet-

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Joe Rocchio and his wife, who run a liftle : * grocery, are happy that the Cuneo Press is mov. 12 No ing in. Joe's eating a bun loaded with butter, “When the plant opens," he said, "'l can sell buns."

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Stores in ‘Kokomo are undergoing a face-lifting. Here is the scaffoldfronted K & S Department Store. One of the town's main stores, it is less than a block from the square.

original estimate was

$709,000, . rd | hone. . s concrete Dagar ome suspicious but: the cost will exceed $850,000. Am p Oil Stocks r their restaurants, too. They It will seat 7200 and will give didn't lke the smell or the taste Kokomo a chance to see ils own

team on the floor. All but one ge - the food. So Mayor James H. : i retired industrialist, ap- ame this year was played out of | urnace 4 p ‘pointed R. P. Good, head of the to. board, and passed an ordihee py Rr restaurants High School is being paid for were given a year to remodel and partly by taxes and partly by the| clean up |sale of five-year season tickets| Tired but Well-Heeled land lifetime tickets. Then there _Kokomo's 40,000 citizens came were contributions. | out of the war tired. Bil TapRY| Few Vice Problems ‘plentitul supply in Indianapoits and well-padded with the spun) Kokomo isn't bothered by itsitoday. And the swelling reserve which. pays the grocer. Just » eh morals problems. There are re- has given the oil furnace business Paral 334. a a. a ($24 ported to be at least two estab-/a needed shot in the arm. pockets a 24 lion Si million lished vice resorts near the downac . ? ve : farm income), the General Elec-(loWn section, but they're

Salesmen in Clover As Shortages End

Once-precious fuel oil, sold by

run ast were cautious about oil burn-

y |quietly. And slot machines sing... They wondered if they could § tric Corp. folded iis [fractions merrily in the clubs, but dare not| o.oo) to keep then horsepower motor plant. ““Ishow their cherries, lemons and

going. Last winter their trou-

about 700 workers their jobs. bles were over and oil furnace

Today total unemployment runs about 2500 but Kokomo

bells in public places. The town's in good shape finan- ) ’ cially, owes only $348,500, far un- #8 44M were noe er. to th der the permissible figure. Park- il furnaces returning into the wateh the trade winds say Pu ing is a headache even with me-. highly competitive market stepped ntmployment Janka A vet [te 8. up selling effort in all lines, sto$s s ows, demanding jobs | It has a top airport left by the ker, coal and gas. A to Yet them. Young Navy, four miles north of town. | A Times survey showed these men, except under seniority, get! There was a pinball flare-upieactors priming the revived oil the first call this year when a young WOTKer sr nace business: Kokomo's best stroke of bread- COmplained that he had pumped ONE: The small space In| and-butter luck was the recent $1200 18 nickels ine Fo — newer dwellings, such as econool a X . purchase of the General Electric council is getting set to license

lant by Cuneo Press, Inc, larg- . ) ie printing house in the world, the Hight and-bell. maghines at with headquarters at Chicago. $30-each as a result. TWO: Oil furnaces are less Will Print Magazines Quiet and Tolerant bother. Users find the time-sav-Dow Richardson, editor of The ing and tropble-eliminating ele-

for coal furnaces and the fuel as for oil furnaces and the fuel.

John F. Cuneo, president, will spend about $1 million improving Tribune, the town's only news- ment in oil heating worth the the plant and will have 500 at paper, watches over Kokomo's difference, although its cost is work within 60 days. In two weifare zealously. He is slight as much as 25 per cent more. | years. the Cuneo payroll Is eX- and grayish, a portrait In _poise., THREE: People are becoming | pected to stretch to 1200-t0-1400, Twenty years with The “Tribune more and more automatic-con-rinting such magazines as Good has taught him every family his- scious. | ousekeepiug, The America niiory in the town. Distributors of gas, oil and Home and Cosmopolitan. Even down at Cecil and Joe's. .5a) furnaces vary in their esti-| The town's steadiest wage pro- where the workingmen have their... oc (he bproportion sold.| ‘ducer is Continental Steel (wire, heer, it's quiet and tolerant, live por cw prop il fur! nails and sheet metal) employing and let live. Dealers who specializegin oil fu =] more than 2000 under the guid-| But Jesse McCov. behind the MACS set the rap at 20 to 1 for| ance of President Ralph Clifford. bar at the Francis Hotel, mused °l I comparis 9. goal. Continental is still adding men. | while he was polishing glasses at, Other dealers vAry from 15 to Delco Radio (GM) is reported 11:30 a. m. “This is a Seven } for oil to 3 to 2 for coal. One| down about 700 from peak but Crown town. and when things are dealer said the-ratio in the early still has some 2100 cards In its pad, it's almost a hundred pei 40's stood at 10 to 1 for coal time clocks, There's something cent beer.” , Lack of gas for gas furnaces encouraging going on at _the - - lin Indianapolis limits service of| Delco plant. A $1 million addition furnaces for this fuel. Distribu-|

is In the steam fitting stage. City to Restore {tors report furnaces are sold, but] There are whispers about tele- . only to out-of-town buyers who, Colonial Garb

yisiop. can procure gas. | foduces Steel Substit [= A oe] Substitute LEESBURG, Va. Mar. 19 (UP)| This historic city, once the tem-

Haynes-Stellite, Inc., subsidiary capital of the United

of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., turns out a substitute for POTArY steel (much harder) used for air- States, plans to recapture some plane parts and for surgical in- of its past glory by restoring its struments. Stellite is an alloy in. APpearance as it was in colonial ° tim

vented by Elwood Haynes, who es. Charles W. Snyder, head of the

project said the corporation would employ architects to make drawings and models of the town as it was in the 18th Century. The drawings and plans will be made available to property own- . ers planning to remodel. washable gabardine |

skates, radios and auto parts) is In S14, resident James Maat: off a little, as local reports go, son an 8s cabinet too refuge

o but not much. And the Globe Wao ish were burn- C ; i S S § C American Corp. (dutch ovens and Another Virginia eity, Williams: |

stoves for Maytag) was practiy . burg, has nearly completed restocally closed before Christmas but ration to its AN in colo-

should be back to 500 employees nial times SR — | Some Bonds Cashed | $875

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