Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1950 — Page 9

- * decennial census,

Whether the census taker is a man or a woman, the same questions will be asked. They'll want to know not only how many members there are in your family and their ages, but the census takers will have 60-70 other questions.

They'll want to know what you do for a living, how many times you have been married, how many times you have been married, how many bathtubs in your home and so on down the line.

be edited {for completeness and sent to Washington for tabulating.

Mr. . and. Mts. _{ America” and their offspring will be a part of the permanent statis-| secretary of state. tical ‘records of our growing ne} | tion.

Janet Caulfiield, Charles Ep|stein, Margaret Hiatt, Ted Moore {and Max Schumacher, superin{tendent of public instruction; Ann Amato, Patricia Ball, Dorothy | Jeffries, Joy Lacy and Jean Wright, for auditor.

ahPiicants for jobs as census If you live out in the country ol a ts a Local Students

. on a farm, there'll be about 60|ters, Postal more Westious of a purely agr- Tilinols St. Bulag. 352 8. Honored at IU cultural nature In this 17th| census Times State Service | per capita basis. Ther wna 2 BIHOMINGTON, Jan. 21—Nine The head census man in Indian- signed territories of not more Indianapolis students at Indiana Correspondent, has apolis and Marion County 18/than 1000 persons each in the University have been elected of- Pointed assignment Harry BE. Neal. His formal title| city, Workers in the county willl Monday editions of the Short is district supervisor of the decen-| have not more than 28% farm | 3C¢T® of social fraternities and ridge Echo, school newspaper. i Snsus. wa Hive. 36 | dwellers to question. |sororities for the second semes- The Indiana University Womsouthern Indiana native, Mr. ter. |en’s Club sponsored an annual tea Neal Taraied at one time In| eps 304 Qutaried RV ashing | New officers of Pi Beta Phi in- !ast week for Shortridge senior Giraette SOB. ol ea grad lare not yet available in Indianap- clude Carolyn Jones, 59 N. Ewing girls and their mothers. Fifteen School and attended Lane Bar olis. They are based on the 1940 St. president; Janet Polson, 5723 Pupils attended the tea at the IU ness College here. | Decennial Census, plus what the Winthrop Ave. vice president, Extension Center. Both Wis, he-served-as o Bureau of Census calls a ‘“rea- and Mary Lou Wampler, 4708 ColNavy personnel officer. While stip | S0nable increase factor.” lege Ave, pledge trainer. in uniform during World War I,| The 1940 census showed Indian-| Robert Lollar, of Camby, was he married the former Mildred SPolls with a population of 386,. | named president of Alpha Tau Darmody, daughter of the late|%72 and Marion County (includ- Omega, while Borden Crews, 1001] Thomas D. Darmody. Mr. Dar-| 28 Indianapolis) 460,062. But aE. 86th- St, was elected vice mody owned the old Darmody| 1948 estimate, employed by local|president and Richard Sharkey,

been editor

‘Mary Cain to Speak At Library Conference

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library employee,

Candidates are Charles Allen,|

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boosting of prefabricated homes into the HY HE arena. since federal authorities tried to spur output of low-cost “pre-fabs” in the early post-war days, many companies have been struggling vainly to make a size-

ot able den} in the housing market.

Only in the last year have a few begun to achieve real progress. One of those is the National Homes Corp., headed by the Price brothers, James and | George. Starting with a small plant here in 1940, these two have hiked production to a present £8 houses a day --140 a week -—and are promising to more than triple, figure in two years. {

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» & > | THE COST of their product {seems to be a big factor in the

of yohn Finley, Kenneth Hixon, Don- Price brothers’ success, Their twojald Morris and Lucinda Rohm,

bed-room “thrift home" sells for {$5100-—within range of the family learning only $40 a week. They, [turn out a three-bedroom model for $8300. Cost of the Jot is not | ineluded. Says James Price, company president: “The market is limit. Jess, We are building for people]

{who new live in trailer camps,

Marilyn Lewis, Shortridge news g¢tics and basements.” | ap | of that the market for homes in this|

The government would agree’

{price “bracket is wide. Housing |officials regularly call on the] building industry to turn out a $6000 “economy” house that will {top the broad mass demand. National Homes produces its dwelling units in room-sized. sections, with plywood the chief material for exterior and interior (walls, Unassembled pre-fabs are shipped from the factory in specially designed trailers which op{erate over a 500-mile radius, More

Miss Mary J. Cain, Indianapolis distant shipments can be made will|by rail--two housés to a car,

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' Thrift Home: Two bedrooms for $51

RATHER than accumulate a backlog of unsold pre-fabs, deal-

| National Homes has shipped ers focus their resources on de-Fred-Beall, Jack Brezett, Forrestmore than 17,000 houses during veloping community areas.

von Foerster and Earl Wilson, for|its brief lifetime, and claims t0/install sewers and other utilities, senator; Richard Christy, Carolyn be ‘the world's largest maker of put down streets and sidewalks McClurg, John Mercer, Horace pre-fabs Whether true or not, the and jandscaping. Turner and Robert Vance, for firm now is producing nearly a treasurer; Jerry Burton, Kenneth third of U.S. output Eiler, William Gant, Richard Lu-| ar and Mary Reiner, for attor-| By December, 1952, the roar of I general; William Arbaugh,

Erection of pre-fabs in community groups is relatively new. National Homes soon will start building a 600-unit project at Columbus, Q. It has already put up 1000 in Indianapolis and 500 each in Ft. Wayne and South Bend Ind. Many are gathered in compact. neighborhood settings. Fifteen years ago James Price

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quit farming for a $75 a month

job with a defunct bank. He got

|into real estate through his work in disposing of the bank's prop-|

erty holdings. From there it was

a short stride to creating Na-|

tional Homes in 1940 with a meager $12,500 capital,

tion. Between 1941 and 1045 Naional Homes built 7500 units for var workers and military personnel, With the capital amassed

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Hence was “thrift home” in late 1948, It offers a 12x16 living room, kitchen with built-in sink and cabinets, utility room with water heater and wall furnace, considerable storage and closét space, ” . » THE Reconstruction Finance, Corporation granted National Homes a $6,500,000 working credit in 1947 but thus far the company has borrowed only $2,000, 000 against it. The Prices say the business is sound. But they expect rising production to necessitate further borrowings of at least $800,000, The Price team ants to reach into the rich housing markets of the Pacific coast and the Atlantic seaboard. They claim they can ship a house to Los Angeles for $300 and still undersell competi-

2 {tors by $1000. And they're talke THE WAR gave the company a, big push into healthy produc-|

ing of establishing a branch plant In New York state this spring. Those efforts to spread natione wide may be the real test whether prefabricated housing is at last to make the grade as big busi ness.

Candy Co., which was on the site 80vernment planing units, indi- 973 N. Bolton St., reporter of the association midwinter conference of L. 8, Ayres & Co.

| THE COMPANY now offers |cated a population of 427,500 in A. T. O. chapter at the University. ts be held Jan. 26 through Jan, customers 16 different exterior

Thrives on Work

| the city and 517,000 in the county. Citizens will be included in the

Mr. Neal thrives on paper work. census no matter where they live.

visor will-involve tons of it.

{Interviewing inmates of the Coun- tary of Phi Kappa, and Jack Gar-| ciation. will

Since January, 1947, when he ty Jail and other institutions.

John Batten, 2263 N. Illinois St. was chosen treasurer of Lamba discuss the needs in books

Chi Alpha; James Bugher, 34 8, young people. And his job as local census super- Census takers will spend hours Warman Ave. was named secre-|

linger, 2208 N. Arlington Ave.

Miss Cain will] for

,/29 in Chicago.

During the conference the assoannounce the 50 "notable books” of 1949. Field

designs, eight each for the twobedroom and three-bedroom models. A major sticker in expanding pre-fab production has always been dealer trouble. Too often

was appointed supervisor of gov-| Many Interesting, humorous was elected marshal! of Sigma Phi|citations for library recruiting ac- dealers have found it impossible ernment censuses in 31 central and pathetic stories will come tol Epsilon. Itivities will be awarded. to finance the purchase of enough — ——— —— EE RR A ER LE units to get into business on a |large scale. National Homes gets around | this problem by using its 150-man {dealer organization to solicit or{ders before the houses are built [in the plant. Thus, dealers do not {have to pay for units they may {not be able to sell.

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Radio Star Acquitted In Woman's Auto Death

LO8 ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UP) —Radio Star Frank Haven MacQuarrie's manslaughter trial was halted when a judge ruled the quiz-master was innocent of re{sponsibility for a pedestrian's |death. | Municipal Judge Leo Aggeler {cleared Mr. MacQuarrie, 55, after (the radio producer testified that {Mrs. Dorothy Friedman, 47, was {hurled by an auto onto his car's {hood Oct. 7. She fell to the street | {and was run over fatally by a (third auto before he could help her, Mr. MacQuarrie said.

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Striking Miners Find Plenty to Do

BIRMINGHAM} Ala. Jan. 21 (UP)—Striking coal miners at suburban Mineral Springs spent their idle time clearing four acres of ground for a school and community playground. They built streets, barbecue B | pits, swings, tables, benches, sand piles and horseshoe pitching |court.

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