Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1950 — Page 20

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In Bread Li

Hoosiers Spend Big Money For Cheapest of Foods

Lots of Dough

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By HAROLD HARTLEY, Times Business Editor

+ ROLL UP. YOUR SLEEVES. We're going to get into!

: big dough. ;

It's the sticky kind, a mixture of flour, sugar, lard and

milk, enough to turn out nearly 31 million loaves a year.

That's what Colonial Bakeries is doing in its plant at’ 2265 Winthrop Ave. and in Muncie, under the watchful

eyes of one of the oldest

bread families in Indiana. ‘Alex Taggert Jr. sits in the move mostly at night when the

Pc {roads are fairly free from paspresident's chair, runs an indus |senger cars.

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- try which blankets the state with bread. He knows a few bread secrets. In good times people waste it, Jet it get stale, throw it away. In bad times they use it carefully, and more of It, because it's the cheapest ready-cooked food.

" . . BECAUSE the prosperity waste and the greater consumption about balance off, the bread line on the business chart holds about even. Strange, too, it is that Indiana wheat is seldom preferred for breadl making on a commercial basis. But Hoosier wheat is tops for cake, The reason is that Indiana wheat is usually a soft va riety. The baking industry likes the hard dry grain best. Another believe-it-or-not about the bread industry is that the vitamins are taken out to make the bread look white. It ‘sells better. When the vitamins are

mean when they say it is “enriched.” « ” RJ . THE PUBLIC preferences in bread may surprise, yon.

BAe ie Fat

per cent like rye and the vest goes into the specialities such as raisin bread. The biggest problem in the bak-

lines at night, stymie your speed. They are the trucks which

In the last year the tremendous

{trucking Industry rose from 7

Hmillion to 7.6 million vehicles, and it’s still moving.

Lawmakers are careful about! trucks, and here’s the reason: 'N® company attacked testmony

There are 10 times more trucks | PY public witnesses that the rates on the farms than commercial firms.

The farmers have a big vote

fire.

Sweet Tooth

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HOW MUCH CANDY did you eat last year? Philip P. Gott, president of the National Confectioners Associa

State Ends Phage Crvroir Feature

"Rate Hike Hearings

Co. witnesses today.

Hearings in the company’s pleal for $3.8 million of increased rates may be resumed Jan, 13. Mr! Steckler also will introduce testi-

mony on the company’s pension payments early in February.

A decision by the Public Servlce Commissiofi” on the case ap-

peared unlikely before March.

In cross-examination of Earl] ¥° R. Moore, inventory and - costs engineer for the utility, Mr.

Steckler sought to show that the

establishment of depreciation

rates on certain types of equipment. was based primarily on

{#peculation. Earlier in the series of hearings

were too high on simjlar grounds. Cites FOC Ruling Mr. Steckler pointed out in to-

80 anything done to hamstring 32Y's session before the PSC that trucking, or make it more expen-|the Fede ral Communications sive, could have a political pack-| Commission recently had ordered the Americah Telephone and Telegraph Co. to reduce the annual depreciation rate on long distance equipment.

American Telephone and Telegraph Co. is the parent corporation of Indiana Beil

tion, said yesterday that Ameri-| pao Mary Weber :

caps ate 2.5 billion pounds of

{candy last year. And they Spent

$850 million in doing it

As a matter of fact, and some | surprise, candy consumption is put back in. That is what bakers expected to go up 10 per cent! this year, Prices are down and!

advertising is up.

may be the:

ME SAL MOP candle ROMEasl eat it just to have some- she was a member of the St. thing to do. {Catherine Catholic Church and

Local Servitemen Return to Posts

+ |Tokyo, Japan, after a holiday rest.

They are:

30 8. Marjon Ave, a clerk.

open-top, or round-top, loaves.

square sandwich bread is

baked with a lid on the pan which!

Candy production has been]

upped 50 per cent in the last 10;n Blackwell

Bix Indianapolis servicemen, five af them from Indianapolis, recently returned to duty with the 844 N. Capitol Ave, who died

First’ Cavalry Division near Wednesday ‘in his apartmegt ithere, will be at 2 p. mi. tomorrow

Crystal Chapel. Pvt. Cecil K. Coglan, son of Crown Hill. He was 37. Mrs. Glinda Frayner, 2104 English Ave. a rifleman; Cpl. Jack Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. L. Verhines, son of Mrs. Raida where he was employed seven - Henderson, R. R. 1, a telephone years, linésman; Pfe. Charles H. Russell, cated in Indianapolis. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Russell, member of the First Baptist North! {Indianapolis Church.

Pfe. Rodger C. Brandelin, son Survivors include his wife, Mrs. |

Requiem Mass Set *

Requiem mass for Mrs. Mary Agnes Weber, who dled yesterday in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Edward Conerty, 4500 Carson Ave. will he sung at 10 a. m. tomorrow in the St. Catherine Church after services at 9:30 a. m. Irvington Funeral

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Royal Neighbors.

| Sutvivors in addition to Mrs. |{Conerty Include two sons, Harry and Walter Weber; a grandchild {and three great-granddaughters.

Thomas Willet Jr.

Services for Thomas Willet Jr.,

Mr. Willet was a tube man in powerful engine,

many sandwich loaves as round|son of Mrs. Louise Schutte of In-/ Johnson.

top, 50 more heat is required per Jo. There is about one cent

(dt is still the nation's No. 1 and the cheapest, It gives eater bulk and nourishment. ¥ou could do without almost

dlanapolis.

|degan Rd, has returned to his pq. will b unit in the 27th Infantry Regi- after services at 3 p. m. Monday P

Pvt. Charles Hinds. son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hinds, 5047 Har. "00 St.

‘Walter S. Johnson Walter 8. Johnson, 723 Harriwho died yesterday In Veterans Hospital, Cold Spring e buried in New Crown

prerything else and still live, Ment. Osaka, Japan, after a 22-/in his home. :

Maybe you've heard of the Mbread and water” diet given politary confinement prisoners? That's proof you can live on ! read and nothing more,

Let Uncle Sam Help

+ WOR 25 CENTS the government will help you hold down your income tax, The treasury may not like it but the Department of Commerce doesn't seem To mind,

"The booklet printed at govern

ment expense on holding down Your tax to & minimum fs avallable at the U. 8, Department of Commerce at 332 8S. Michigan Ave, Chicago 4, Ill. It's titled “Your Federal Income Tax,” contains 138 pages and is well indexed. This is the government's offer: “Many businessmen could make Impressive savings on thelr intome taxes If they had a complete understanding of the numerous deductions to which they are entitled. Uncle 8am wants only What is due and nothing more. In most cases, it is not necessary To spend large fees for informadion or publications on Income taxes.” 1There it 18. If you want to whittle your income tax to rock bottom, just ask your Uncle Sam.

Truckin’

‘They get in front of you in

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day field maneuver at the base! jof Mt. Fuji, Pvt. Ronald Frank{lin, son of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Thomas Was born in Ripley County, and

Regiment at Oifu, Japan. First Lt. Albert W. Buesking

Mr. Johnson, who was 53, was a veteran of World War 1. He

Franklin, 2221 Arsenal Ave. is a lived in Indianapolis 40 years. |riffeman with the 24th Infantry Fof the past five years he was em-| {ployed by the New York Central

Railroad.

He is survived by his mother, {husband of the former Miss Mrs. Edith Johnson, Indignap{Willlamay Willis, 3535 N. Penn[Sylvania 8t; has been assigned Schmiedeke, Evansville program and analysis officer: for

olis, and one sister, Mrs. Elsie

the 13th Air Force at Clark Air RECALL DUTCH TROOPS

Japan.

Stephen A. Day Dies

was 67.

sraduate Osteopath |,

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Force Base, in the Philippine I1silands. Robert E. Keller, of Mar- (UP)—All Dutch troops in Indotingville has been promoted to nesia have been withdrawn from the grade of private first class. He|their posts is with the Yokohama Engineer repatriation, it was announ Depot, Eighth Army, Yokohama, | today.

CHICAGO, Jan. 8 (UP) —| Stephen A. Day, former Illinois Republican Congressman and son of the late William Rufus Day, Excess. since Ji Secretary of State under Presi-| The following t dent McKinley, died at his home '§{, 0, "er “4 High Low in suburban Evanston yesterday Atianta Pr aRE YE ere A 8 Jafter an eight-week illness. He Burbank

Richard H. Messham of Indi Ipdianandls city: {anapolis, is a member of the ) {January graduating class of the {Kirksville College of Osteopathy Nev York : : | {and Surgery, Kirksville, Mo. He Pittsburgh 0000000000004 1 YOU SEE THEM on the roads. plans to take an internship before, lentering practice in Indianapolis.

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SLELT SNOW

May Resume Jan. 13

Public Counselor Willtam - BE. Steckler completed cross-exami-nation of Indiana Bell Telephone!

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ission wired no clutch pedal, of course. New Models to Get First $400,000 S. Local Showing Tomorrow ‘Powerglide’ Unit Eliminates Clutch; Engine Horsepower Is Stepped Up | The public will get its first look at the 1950 Chevrolet tomorrow, |

in the Patton Funeral Home the first car in the lower-priced field to have an automatic trans-| Burial will be Inimission..

hevrolet automatic transm

Motel Planned

Rezoning Petition Before Commission

A $400,000 motel and trailer |} 5 3

It is called Powerglide, and is coupled with a larger, more Park will be erected in the 3100 block of Madison Ave. lustrated simply. It is like a lump Marion County Plan Commission a re-zoning petition for | re ihe

if ‘the Hydraulic Powerglide is il

| N. Wood Rites in California

“Tiof sugar moving inthe bottom |2Pproves lof a coffee cup through the ro-the tating of a spoon in the liquid. . |The transmission has a compact ter T. Brydon, Indianapolis con- |Faulta spinners and tractor, will be considered Jan. 19 1 Earl N. Wood, paddlewheels, with the spinners bY the commission. of Mrs. Alverta Brandlein, 644 Frances Willet; the mother, Mrs. formerly of Indianapolis, who!linked to the crankshaft and Woodlawn Ave. Pvt. James Emma Johnson; the father died Tuesday in Hawthorne, Cal, peller shaft. requires more hand work. Then, Stratton, R. R. 3, Nashville, Ind... Thomas Willet; a sister, Miss | wil be held there tomorrow. too, the ovens will not hold as/and Pvt. Melbourne H. Schutte, Ruth Willet, and a brother, Earl}

He was born. and edu-

; | Su: The petition, presented by Wal- | Del

Chevrolet also introduces the formerly occupied by the Floyd ere the last Bel Air, a six-passenger hard top Jones Trailer Camp on U. 8. 31 i {at the south edge of the city,|Indpls P & L 5 |said the project would involve construction of a Bedford lime-|idgdis Wate Istone-faced building, providing Kings & all- Space for 22 apartment h

Mr. Wood lived three years, after hé moved from convertible. The line includes two _indi-idually-styled two-door sedans, d two four-door sedans, a sport

{from the New York Centra] Sys-|, {tem. He was ‘a member of “the, Brotherhood of Railroad Train. coupe, business coupé and me steel station wagon, Most bodies motel units. {are available in “special” and! “deluxe” treatments. improvements are!

s and 20 Line

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Includes Auditorium The main building, he said, {would contain a large auditorium! and an up-to-date

the Misses Mary and Carolyn all of Hawthorne, and a

son, Richard C. buretor eliminates “lean periods”

in gasoline feed and gives quicker warm-up in cold weather. Larger capacity helps!

Also surviving are three sisLydia Lukenbill, |dianapolis, and Mrs, Minnie Cox

land Mrs. Lal Lunsford of Haw-|POWer output. | n Chevrolet this year stresses| U0

the “power team.” Increased cool-| |Ing and greater intake and e

for meetings of local clubs, civic cox groups and fraternal organiza-

ns. thorne; a brother, Robert Wood, Although he purchased the en-|y x. | tire 10-acre tract, Mr. Brydon said, the motel and trailer park! would utilize “a fraction

t : he manifold has! six acrés.” The more than three- Ame

Mrs. Carl Williams | Services for Mrs. Katherine M. Silent hydraulic valve lifters. Williams, 521 8. Bosart Ave., who! died Tuesday in St. Vincent's Hospital, were to be held at 1:30 p. m. 4:11 to 3:55 to low engine speeds) Brothers Irving and achieve what the company Burial will be in calls the “most satisfactory per-| formance ever devised with an| She was born in Elwood and automatic shift.” lived in Indianapolis since 1922. She was a member of the Chris-steering post with positions at|sors’ Association has elecfed Roy |“park,” “neutral,” “drive,” “low” |T. Combs, Marion County's Cenand “reverse.” “For most driving ter Township assessor; as its new Carl H. Williams, Indianapolis; a the lever is set in “drive” position, president fo Sara Ellenand that's all that is necessary 1950. Thomas, Compton, Cal; a step-/for forward speeds. ison, Robert Snelson; a stepdaugh-|

Axles Ratio Reduced The axle ratio was reduced from|

and am ing today in Shirley

Combs to Head Assessors Group

The Indiana Township Asses-

‘IMemorial Park.

A quadrant is located on the

Survivors. include her husband,

454 able shows the tempera- : ties In Powerglide, the car does not who succeeds ter, Miss Pearl Snelson, both of free-wheel as in many automatic/L eon Granger, Indianapolis, and two sisters, Miss shifts, giving the car better con-/Lake County, Louise Haskett, Elwood, and Mrs.|trol on down grades. Emma Zown, Indianapolis. Also surviving are three broth- glide Roy and Albert

The engine used with Power- honored by 105 horsepower. National Haskett, Power in the cars not equippediciation of AssesIMunefe, and Paul Haskett, El- with Powerglide mounts to 92 sors in Califor‘horsepower at 3400 r. p.m. "|" The cars will be on display at when he was all dealers tomorrow.

Gets 2'2 to 10 Years oF, For 82-Cent Theft DETROIT, Jan. 6 (UP)—War- Lincoln Mr. Steiner had beem {ll theren Smith, 20, was sentenced to Steve 8. Gersack. Lake County,| [last 10 years. He lived in Indian- serve 2% to 10 years as a pick- vice president |apolis from 1905 to 1929. He was pocket yesterday. But he doesn't Work, Vigo County, Becretary-

{a cashier at Keith's Theater 10 think it was worth the effort. [ Smith pleaded guilty to. going

‘Arthur A. Steiner

Services were being arranged

named chairman » (Of that group's |Land Value Committee. | Other officers elected by the In- —-

Arthur. A. Steiner, . diana Assessors meeting at the'gge"

Indianapolis, who diéd yesterday |in his home there. He was 53.

He was born in Marion-| 8 ville, Pa., and was a. member of/through the pockets of the man will sponsor a long range pro-|—— the North Park Masonic Lodge, next to him in a theater, mak- gram to improve assessment techling off with 82 cents and a pack-! niques “for the benefit of all the

Survivors include a sister, Miss age of cigarets, ‘taxpayers of the state

and two brothers, Harry E. Steiner, Indianapolis,

New Cough

Services for G. Miles otion director of e News, who died

Batesville, will 10 a. m. tomorrow in Flanner & | Buchanan mortuary.

Masonic rites will be conducted by the Capital City Lodge, F&AM, of which he was a member,

OUSANDS have asked for iv ~now it's here! The

In Fairly Active Trade brought hog prices steady to g a hundred pounds in the ‘Best grades of receipts estimated at 8000 showed the advance. Good and choice 170- to|steady. {230-pound butchers brought/choice natives $16.25 to $16.75. pounds

: ce : i pounders dropped to $11.

t sales were $16.50 or higher. A few -Jots| Odds and of & {brought $16.85. A short (incom-{good grades and a plete). load reached $17, °°. [108 t Weights from 230 to 275 pounds|Nine decks of good moved at $15 to $16.50. Prices 85from $14 to $15.25 were paid for sold at $23.75 270- to 325-pounders. Te

moved at $14 to $15.50.

Light-

All slaughter classes sold

steady prices in a cleantrade, Cows brought fairly trad ’

Small. lots of

cows brought $16.25 to

Medium and good sausage bulls “|sold at $18 to $20. a

Couple to Note |S Im Golden Wedding Pr. Lingénan

. » The 50th wedding anniversary a : of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J, [ 3 eman Corbin, Sandborn, Ind. will be ’ }

celebrated there and in Linton

: Sunday, Charles E. Corbin, 5315 Rites Tomorrow

beef $18.50.

N. Capitol Ave., a son of couple, announced today. Corbin said a family

dinBN Se hos 5 Eo 3 YARN cP + Deryibesn Sore Dorr Biwhgr og po His father, 82, is a retired farm- Lingeman, 5133 N. Capitol Ave; |" er, Mr. Corbin said, and married Who died yesterday in the home, his mother, Mrs. Pearl Corbin, 0f a daughter, Mrs. Robert. Burnow 69, on Jan, 2, 1900, in Vin-|rell, 3921 N. Pennsylvania St., will {cennes. In addition to the som, be at 3 ». m. tomorrow in Shirley Charles, the couple has a daugh- Brothers Central Chapel. He ter, ‘Mrs. Harley Disque, Sand-/Was 62. born, and four grandchildren.

Mr.

Vealers sold at

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high-medium to 850-1125 - pound steers

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Burial will be in Crown Hill Mr, Lingeman was one of In-

Local Issues

STOCK | American States ptd { American Sta *yrshire Coll 8 res 4'q

| Pami | Hay, |Herf1-Jones el v

Mr. Brydon, who recently pur- |Home |chaséd a 10-acre tract of land|i

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103, emies of Ophthalmology and Oto6 laryngology, the American Lar-

ln sis yngological, Rhinological and

Joon. Heli}

P R Mallory com soundproof | pup serv b : The auditorium, he|fub Serv of Ind J'a ptd ’ Ross Gear Tool gom ‘added, would be made available 80 Ind G&E com

ind G & E otd ely-Van Camp

8 Machine nited Teieph Union Title C *Ex-dividend.

All & Bt Be SON en ew ® OVeT | American Losn 4'3s 60 rican Loan ¢'3s 85 van Morley

;acré parcel facing Brill Rd. he Batesvil

sald, would not ‘be put to use. " Citizens

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| Investors {Kuhner Packin

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| WASHINGTON, Jan ment expenses and receipts fo {rent fiscal year through pared with a year sgo

| Expenses {Receipts |Burplus . | cit [Cash bal bh. debt {Gold res

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| Public Traction

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dianapolis’ leading ear, nose and throat specialists, He was associated in practice with a son,

Asked Dr. Raleigh E. Lingeman, at 411

tHume-Mansur building.

e'* He wax born and reared in .... | Brownsburg, but had Hved and

"7" |practiced in Indianapolis since

av 1919. He was graduated from

|Indiana Univessity School of

1% Medicine in 1912 and served as 190° 3 Navy Heutenant in World 1% War I.

| - Dr. Lingeman was on the med-

100 ical staffs of Methodist, St. Vin~

cent’s and General Hospitals, and

$4l2/the Indiana University Medical 4 Center. Ls 100: His affiliations included the In-

12%! diana State Medical Association,

.iMarion County Medical Soeiety, {Indiana and Inidanapolis Acad-

4)» Otological Society and American 112 Medical Society, - He also was a member of the

0h | ily, | Paul Coble Post No. 26, Ameri {ican Legion; Masonic Lodge at

8 | Brownsburg, Shrine and the

® Brownsburg Christian Church.

23 In addition to Mrs. Burrell, he

Ye > 19%12|is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ma-

19's bel E. Lingeman; another son,

ta gi Whitten L. Lingeman, Indianap-

s*lolls, and his father, 8. N, Linge--{man, Brownsburg.

#0 “children and two aunts.

* John H. Berry Rites we To Be Held Sunday

! Times State Service | GREENWOOD, Jan. 6— Services for John H. Berry of |Greenwood, who died yesterday in tthe Johnson County Hospital in

Sts Tor ineYerr- | Franklin, will be at 2:30 p. m. . com-|Sunday in the J. C. Wilson Fu-

|neral Home here. Burial will be

t Year 27,341 449 y 7 11987 82.831 In Greenwood Cemetery. He was 30,121,081 (87

Born in Marion, he lived in Johnson County most of his. life,

| I~DravArouls cuEamive wous [land Baptist Church.

| Cloarings Debits

Local Produce

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grad

ss—Current receipts. 24c: Grade B larg \ 20¢

Poultry —Fowls {under 4 bs and arvey L. snd stags. ic {than . | _Butterfat—No, 1. 86c; No.3. 83e.

Mr. Combs announced that he Local Truck Grain Prices

Survivors include two sons,

. 5, 9.840.000 7. 4433208 [Orville and Chester Berry, both

of Indianapolis; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy «Hickman of Logan, W.

wo oss |VA., fouf grandchildren and two A great-grandchildren,

RHEUMATIC PAINS

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No. 3 red truck wheat, $1.09. No. Nn. p

oats. " yellow soybeans: $3.10.

ODERN MARKET

34 N. DELAWARE Owned and Oper:

Armour's—Stark Wetzel's

I. 35¢ Legs A ». 29¢ wn 326 | Shoulders » 210 » 300 | Chops » 29¢

wn. 256 | Stew or Roast » 190

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pounds Brought $20 to $23. and cheice

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pets. At various racket was em likes of Tony Chrysler, Ed Hi «ney and Lucy Not to neglect

Morgan's show, smash success and as a draw evident she had » id 3

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now she would | affectionately ki dame of the ca

r TONY BIDDIL el Biddle Jr; proper for you fancier of pug nounced the {di among the cont It is my recollec to $50,000 to ob the lethal force Vos who was ac middleweight ch at the time, Mr. Biddle ha in his brute ai tht in exhit his friends. On coming out par a private bang glossy Hotel 8 attended by wh bly be called a mocracy went | bands—Ben Be Lopez—alitern dreamy bleats. Mr. Biddle | with the grape.

“to ‘admit that 1

the gathering d most exact rati of bubbly cons veloped later th: on Mr. Biddle’s | breakage . . . §

o ” IT WAS PR well that Walte withdraw from field entirely wi to the fascinatic invested $35,00( assets, if any, o sen, formerly ti

Oklahe Footbc¢

Won't | Facilitie OKLAHOM versity’'s footba to drop the spo: University was being disc stadium facilitie Smith said tr proximately $2! during the 1946 “Football wil ~until--such tim able to provid facilities and be He said OCU on “basketball 1 and- put more ei tramural compe The announc a meeting with coaching staff agreed that all tions would be | that scholarshi tinued and coacl tained until Ju expire, Orville Tutt! coach, said he v ket for another is officially dro During World not field footb: 1946, when the | with Bo Rowlal the team won one, The followi won sevén and