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Shoppers Hurry Back fo Store For After-Christmas Sales
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By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor
business was over, after-Christmas sales.
+ Stores came through the Christmas buying with al
well-measured stock of giftig, items. There isn’t much of them left.
ty of suits, dresses, hosé— regular, wear, all marked down.
Coats with zip-in linings were
moving in quantities. It was the delayed impact of heavy clothing buying. The winter has been mild thus far, but anyone who can read a calendar knows that the harsh bite of winter cannot be far away. Shoppers were getting ready | for snow and ice. In the crowds which assembled!
But there’ is plen- 7
But Thcing this he must ‘expect to. spend money. Perhaps when! added up over the years it might! be the same as buying the house all over again, = m ~ BUT ABOUT THE only way in| which you can have anything left rom your once lustrous invest-| ment. If made year by year, it does not hurt your pocketbook as much, and it preserves value. If all heuses were kept up alll the time there would be no slums. | [Tt is disrepair which does it. and| [sends perfectly good houses to an
at the doors this morning few early grave.
carried boxes and bundles for ex- |
change. This meant the people) were keeping their gifts, a com-| pliment to the selections of the
givers. | ~ “ »
this year. Last year they held! their fire sales, for the most part, until Jan. 2. This year the sales|
I was interested in what Harold| |W. Sweatt, president of Min-| {heapolis - Honeywell Regulator {Co., had to say _about house; [obsolescencé. *
He said that America has 23;
{ more. Of course, heating systems, ‘his words at
he is selling
sales, but he
"\ Lo ie FOR THE LAST two weeks stores opened their doors| 1 to waiting hordes of gift buyers. This morning the shoppers were back again.
The gift ance "But they were moving in fast on the|cellaneo
“The accident death toll-.of rose to 581 over the nation today
¢ ' included 77 children. 3 Indiana during that period ng ‘died, 14 In highway and five others in mis-
mishaps, vo Girls Killed Latest ty die on Hoosier highways were two Terre ‘Haute department styre clerks, Laverne Haddock, 19, and Shirley Joan /Calvin, 20, bukped to death as their car careendd over a 20-foot embankment on UN. 8. 40 west of Terre Haute last r Their car was in a vehicle driven by |40, Marshal], II, glazed highway. The trapped in the car. Another. addition to th toll was the death of- Misa Irma Sanson, 18, Monticello. She\ died {in a Logansport hospital night of Injuries suffered in a rom an automobile Christma morning. Cafe Worker Killed
In Kokomo, Eugene Ellis, 71,/2
died Christmas night, 24 hours {after he fell into a bucket of] scalding water while scrubbing al cafe floor. Two other persons died of in-|
THE STORES DIDN'T wait million dwellings 30 years old or juries received previous to the)
holiday week-end. In Indianap-|
and is aiming ois, Carl G. Ebersole, 57, of 12}, 00 §
N. Randolph St., died in Method-
cannons were touched off on the happens to be speaking the truth. jg Hospital of injuries received
first business day after Christmas, and those who received
money or gift certificates were co... o house, you can figure that Central Ave.
in the front line getting what] they wanted at reduced prices. le At least one store, L. Strauss & Co. has its front window em blazoned with the sign reading) “The Sale Is On” over the week-| end. That's all shoppers wanted | to know. They were there. and| at every other large store, to ol more for less without the tent pressure of the Dec. 25 deadline. It looks like a brisk shopping week, and that is unusual. Proof, too, that the bottom of the cash
barrel wasn’t scraped before Christmas. There is still lots of cash
around, and it's being spent.
By the Trainload OUT AT THE Williamson Candy Co. gifts were ushered into the annual Christmas party in a locomotive with “smoke” pouring out of its stack. Earl Williamson, president, and Homer J. Williamson, secretarytreasurer, had the gifts for 110 in the Williamson employee family ushered in by a locomotive made of cardboard sides and tubes. The idea took hold, and the candy makers went into their holidays under “full steam.” A word abouf the “steam.” Down in the smokestack there was dry ice sputtering in water which made realistic “smoke” come pouring out. There was roast ham and all of the Christmas tongue teasers
spread before the candy family. A: Each went home with a an from |L
the “train.”
Homes Get Old, Too
WHEN A MAN buys a home,
he somehow gets the idea that it|(%
IF YOU pay $10,000 or $15,000
five or 10 years neglect can knock from $3000 to $7000 off the value, depending on where it is lo ted. Keeping your home up w important as buying it. And {money reinvested in it is really money saved. Any banker, or {other man who knows values, will] tell you that,
[Lubricants Plus
Dec. 1, when his car struck the rear ‘of a truck at 38th St. and In Evansville, Marvin D. Heath, 37, died of injuries received in a trafic accident {July 1 Indiana's 1949 “holiday accident toll was below last year's two-| day Christmas period in which 28) Hoosiers died, 20 in traffic acci-| {dents The state of Texas this year| led the nation in the number of} laccidental deaths. Seventy-five
|persons were killed, including 36
THERE IS A FIRM In Indian-
apolis which does an interesting plane crash and 25 in miscella- in the stockyards today were
business, one we seldom think of. 1t adds chemicals to oils to make them do a better job. The firm is the Burns Laboratories at 514 W. Wyoming St, which makes synthetic organic chemicals. This home town industry takes petroleum products for industrial use a step farther, harnessing them with chemicals such as chlorine and sulphur to withstand extreme pressures,
The right lubricant saves] money for an industry. Gears last longer, there are fewer
breakdowns and machinery continues to do its precision work long after it would have worn +jout with straight-from-the-crude lubricants,
Local Issues
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pe: in traffic, 12 in" fires, two in a neous mishaps. California, as usual, led in the number of traffic deaths with 43. The state was second in total casualties with 56. New York had a total of 33 deaths, 25 in traffic, and Illinois had 32, of which 27 were on highways. Delaware, Vermont and Montana were the only states which reported no accident fatalities in the three-day week-end. The number of dead in traffic] |was below the National Safety! Council's gloomy prediction, the highest in council history, that 435 persons would be killed on streets and highways. But Council President Ned H. Dearborn believed the final total would reach the predicted figure. | “It is ironic and tragic that the
devoted to by killing approximately 400 per: sons on the highways—especially
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will last forever. His one thought as he scratches his name on the dotted line is what a grand world it will be when he gets the mortgage paid off.
He figures he will pay it out jHook
“like rent,” just as the real estate man said he could. -But this, as thousands of home owners will
_ tell you, is not exactly true.
Fhe buyer does make his “pay-|
ments with the regularity of rent. And he pays his taxes, tod, unless
. he has one of those package deals
with the taxes figured in the pay-
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ments.
iN But his big mistake is thatrhe Ny believes his house will pot getisN
old and wear out. It will. EVery- proses lige Som me Eu 8erv >
thing in this physical world does. And the best the buyer can do is Rox
to keep on top of his repairs; keep son a ook E
his house in condition. In that!]
way he can always have a livable Tanner &
house, 1:0 matter how old it | is.
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of mercy,” he said.
since most of the victims were on happy holiday trips or missions’
Bad weather, including cold]
.'|waves, sleet and snow, increased!steady prices. + the death count by making high-
ways hazardous and causing many householders to over-stoke stoves and furnaces, thus setting off fires. ~~ Chokes to Death {| One Illinois girl choked to {death on a piece of Christmas
- 38 wr candy and a San Francisco resi4 Guy 4 : 20 (dent died when he choked while he uN ich B #4 eats Mis 8 eating his Christmas dinner. A oda pa, VE sea SR $74 100 [California woman was acciden-| nc s Water Co” com com i 1s /tally killed with a rifie she gave. *Indp) a 05° 'e ‘ther son for Christmas. By Notions hn Hn 0 bis The number of dead in Texas * On. ud, 4s cn ey % 43 included a mother and five of Karmen, Hersiesion com’ .o5: Be 87.2 her six children who burned to) 8 SP)
714 death when an over-heated stove fed western yearlings was steady |destroyed their house at San An-{at the selling price of $18.50. —
tonio, and a couple and their two|
1 ie ib children killed in_a collision with|steady-at $6 to $10
/a gdsoline tank truck. The truck’s driver also was killed.
A late tabulation showed that from 6 p. m. Friday to midnight t night, 611 persons in the nation died in auto accidents, 63 in , four in plane crashes and 124 in miscellan in miscellaneous accid accidents. The
In Moderate Trade
trade today at at Indianapolis
nation spent Christmas, a holiday|$15.50, while canners and cutters goodwill toward men, brought $11.50 to $14.25.
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the Christmas holiday week-end and included 19 Hoosier fatalities.
Hogs. Hogs 25-50 | Down
235-Pound Class Suffer Full Drop
Hog prices were 50 cents lower | than Friday's market averages in moderately active opening
Stockyards. Weights 235 pounds and down | suffered the full price decline. | plenty of le Later trade was more active on| available with all weights but prices were still 25-50 cents lower than re Sun) Some sales of medium weight hogs brought near steady prices! in late session trade. Bulk $16 to $16.50 The bulk of good to choice 180pound barrows and giits sold | at\$16 to $16.50. Uniform head) {weighing 180-240 pounds, sold | largely at $1625 to $16.50. Weigh $14.75 to $16 in early trade and| |sold latex at ‘$15 and above. Hogs to $15.25. Heavier weights wexe scarce. A small showing of Nghtweight 100- 160unders sold at $14 to $15. The bulk of ing 300-550 pounys sold at $11 to $13. Small lots weights near {300 pounds or der brought 1$13.25 to $13.50. d extreme, heavies, 600 poundsAand above, sold mostly at $10.50. Cattle Sluggis { Steers and heifers sold slug|gishly. Most buyers were {25 to 50 cents lower for {short feds. A few other were weak to 25 cents low Most of the steers and heifers
Christmas Spirit
medium to low good quality. Two loads of medium to “low good 950-1100-pound steers sold at $26 to $26.50. Numerous loads of just medium “warmed -up” light weight steers moved at §21 to $23.50. A few common natives brought near steady prices of $17 to $20. One load of good 800-pound heifers sold weak to 25 cents at $26. A large part of the heifer supply was eligible to sell at $23] down. ; Cow trade was slow. Some in-| terest bidding was 50 cents to|° 1 lower throughout the session. arly sales were largely weak to 25 cents lower. Medium to good beef cows moved at $15.50 to $17.50, with odd head bringing up to $18. Com/mon sold largely at $14.50 to
Bulls About Steady Bull prices were about stéady.
| Medium to good heavy beef and James Hightower oy
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sausage bulls sold at $17 to] sale—and a Merry | $19.50. James Hightower rang\ up Dealers sold actively at fully] this “No Sale” key at his
to choice| head brought $30 to $32. Choice head, however, were scarce in the session. Common to medium head brought $18 to $29 and most culls sold at $14 to $18. The sheep market was sluggish and the demand for all classes of sheep was poor. Especially on good to choice lighter than 100pound weights, the undertone was weak to $1 lower. ’ Odd head of good to choice na-| tives sold at $22. Because of! heavily-burred fleeces, a load of mostly medium 84-85-pound fed westerns sold at only $20.50. A single deck of good to choice
City Cafe, 410 E. Washingt 8t., yesterday as he gave ou 400 free chicken dinners to his customers. Mr, Hightower, who says he had neither family or close friends to shower with presents, put a sign in his window offering free dinners to the first 400 persons to come in between 10:30 a. m. and 2 p. m. His employees volunteered their services and the E. Wash--ington — Santas with played to a full house. of the 400 tried to pay their checks on the way out, but Mr, Hightower told them all: “No Sale—And a& Merry Christmas.”
"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES LIA
19 Hoosiers | mong 61 Y Yule T oll of Dea
14 Lose Lives on Indiana Roads; Texas Leads Nation With 75
240-270 pounds brought| Will be shown to the public in dealer Pictures released today by L. director of Chrysler Corp, president of the Dodge division, showed Sports Roadster. aling 270-310 pounds the Dodge longer and lower in appearance as a result of restyling.| All models are powered by the! Rear fenders are larger and longer and the rear tread is two|Dodge
aprons {the Many}
The sturdy 1950 Dodge with a” “new face," wider rear window and soft-toned interiors with
and, head room will be shown by déalers Jan. 4. This is the Coronet four-door sedan, Gyre-Matie transmission,
Dealers Schedule Public Showing Here for Jan. 4
Rear Fenders Are Larger and Longer While Wider Tread Makes Road-Hugging Easier
DETROIT, Dec. 27~The 1950 Dodge line, the “practical car,’
rooms Jan, 4.
L. Tolbert, vice president and]
inches wider for easier curves and » road-hugging on the fast straightaway. The Chrysler line
is making
§ much of the increased glass area, [in its rear windows, giving great-|
er visibility to the rear as a safety precaution. New Personality The front end of the Dodge has been given a new personality through vigorous restyling with a parallel bar grille of separate pieces to minimize repair bills, This same thrift has beéen applied to the fenders which are bolted on so they can be romoved for replacing or repair. The , instrument panel, which car makers regard as highly important in styling, has been done over with spun aluminum backgrounds to instruments and a soothing non-glow light, The new line will be available in 10 body styles and on two |standard wheelbases, generous head room, room and leg room, seat height and wide door openings. These were the Chrysler factors which blazed a path against the overcrowding of the “torpedo” type styling popular after the war. Standard Equipment Fluid drive is standard equip-
fluid drives, The Coronet Series
ment on all models using the Gyro-Matic transmission. Dodge has built more than a million
will be shown in six body types including
Buick Slashes Prices WH
FLINT, Mich, Dec. 21 (UP) . Buick today announced pricecuts on its 1950 models Haging from. $65 to $310 when combined with ~:~ the recent $40 reduction for aus tomatic transmissions, The Buick price cuts eame despite a $4 a ton boost in the price of steel on Dec, 16. The réductions were the second announced . by a General Motors Division. | Oldsmobile shaved a minimum of $65 from 1950 models the day before the steel price boost ‘was an~ nounced, . Changes in lst prices for Bu[icks * principally affected the {Roadmaster and Special Series. ‘But py cutting prices on optional \equipment and making other op{tional items standard, the price Gm {of the Special now is $87.10 un{tne Diplomat, TDotgy s hard- ~top der Ene ahnouted price last July. convertible: st slash was on the Ri Also b po Co lis in the Roadmaster series, ronet line is the! now listing at $2675 compared {station wagon which has a fold-| with the 1949 price of $2985. The |down rear seat making an elght-| Roadmaster sedanette was cut |foot carry-all light hauling bed. $65 from $2430 to $2365. = HS Other models are the Meadow- | The Super estate wagon 4
| brook four-door sedan, Wayfarer, $2675. Shop Lo, lag at
'|two-daor sedan, Wayfarer busi- made on convertibles in the Super {ness coupe and the Wayfarer| series and $75 in the Roadmaster . (line, / % The Super four-door sedan was |unchanged at $2008, but its twin engine with|in the Roadmaster series was cut ‘to ) list at $2465.
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