Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1950 — Page 24

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Muncie Hospi May ‘Become Polio Center

____* Government Aid Project Would Enlarge Ball Memorial by Possible 364 Beds

MUNCIE, Eeb. 11—Ball Memorial Hospital, a center of emer-|

may be expanded under a government aid plan.to increase its ca-| ‘pacity by a possible 364 beds.”

center serving emergency cases from Jay, Randolph, Wayne, Fay-| ette, Délaware,- Grant ad ri] > ford Counties. Ball emorial would take the severe cases when| Just Sew Sew | care is unavailable in the sur-| rounding counties. : Administrators doubt that any| “~~ work along the lines planned can be started for at least two years. The hospital is 36th on a govern-| ment priority list of hospital ex-| pansion programs under the HillBurton Act. State Board of Health representatives and the board of directors of Ball Memorial will meet Feb. 22 to hear reports on| latest developments. Under the Hill-Burton Act, In-| diana is getting $2 million a year through 1952 to increase hospital

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gency action for seven counties during last year’s polio epidemic]

If the plans are realized, the hospital will become a regional |

Firm Seems to Have

Great. Many Friends By HAROLD ¥ HARTLEY

THERES one pia one place wh where you, can’t pick a- fight today. That's In an A&P store.

{does is wrong. ‘A can of corn, not quite up to] snuff? Just tell the manager. You don't have to bring back) what's left in the can. He'll re take your word for it. And {if your turkey had a busted gall bladder and was as bitter as the gall-which flavored, {it inside, just tell the head buteh-| jer. You'll get another turkey.

And if you discover it too late, 'after the turkey is in the oven,

| Ukely as not the head butcher) ’ {will call at your house and take {you to the store, load you down | with thick, juicy steaks. jon the house.

But that doesn’t square the ® wt Fad in the watchful eyes of | Neat, black-tied Bill Swhear helps Mrs. Robert G. Risk to her car.

{woman customer didn't know

the A&P stores. The next day! {you get another. turkey free, and you've already eaten the replace-| ment steaks.

There the way of the customer {is as smooth as silk. Nothing she|

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customer handling techniques.,

“THE ; INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

In Government's Anti-Trust Suit Against. A&P Co.

House mail box and this tremendous realization may weigh not little ‘in the anti-trust decision when it gets to a final decision. The A&P is careful about prices. It figures - prices are inevitably wrapped up in the cost of doing] business. So the A&P, with the customer never wrong, plays along for volume and a scant margin throughout the store.” This is the A&P offer to any § customer who thinks she can feed her family cheaper elsewhere.

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There are tricks the go-along| And a business which stands well shopper knows. For instance a woman may see steaks advertised at 69¢c a pound. But when the! amount of bone and fat are taken into consideration, the com- chocols pany’s shopper will show the cusPa that she actually may be paying 89¢ a pound for edible steak. —8o if you have noticed that! 4 Lune Annlacas clerks are extra nice in your A&P food store, remember that you, as voter, and an ultimate decider} of the highest interpretation of the law are the jury in one of the biggest lawsuits in history. -. As likely as not, what the average customer thinks will be re- ears flected quite accurately when the solemn voice of the court hands ‘down its final decision. —. The A&P is bending over backwards to be fair to its customers.

ing supply he gets through his farm agent.

The A&P will send a shopper with her each time she goes to any

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But it is a different story today. | “Charlie, ” but the idea went over, |Enmiployees have been screened. that this was a special “turkey, {And they have been carefully] picked out with care for a par-

other store. And the A&P guarantees that when a week is up, the same items in the A&P willl

facilities,

PLANS ‘BEEF NIGHT’ : | HAMMOND, Feb. 11—-Mayor | Vernon C. Anderson of Ham- | mond has something new in the | way of municipal administration. i Wednesday “he will hold the second of his newly adopted “Citizen's Beef Nights” at 7 p- m. in his office. Under the Mayor's plan, tax‘payers are given an ‘opportunity to voice their complaints and offer suggestions for remedial ~ action. The sessions are primarily held for citizens unable to see the Mayor during regular. “office hours. ;

HOOSIER WINS PATENT

LAFAYETTE, Feb. 11—A Pur-| due University physics professor _.has been granted a patent on a new method of teaching by dupli-| cation. . «Dr; C. H. Robertson received the patent on. “Methods and! Means for Teaching Manual Skills,” a process of superimposing a mirrored image of the pupil ©. on a moving picture or stilled image of an expert. i. The process uses a transparent] mirror, a semi-transparent screen and a moving picture projector to teach the pupil. By posturizing and exactly duplicating the expert's motions, the pupil learns what must be done to copy the ‘. expert's actions,

* 3 - COLUMBUS, Feb. 11-—The Bartholomew County Commissioners have granted permission for American Telephone & Telegragh Co. to lay a cross-country co3 axial television cable through the * morth end of the county. «~The cable will connect Indian- ; ‘apolis with Louisville, Ky., and 3 put the cities in line for broad- ; casts on nationwide network chains,

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"Miss Midinette (seamstress to | “you)-of-1950". is Elaine Paudeau, | Young. Paris fashion designer. | er election as seamstress queen coincides withthe opening of the -Paris spring fashion | _showings.

of execution requested vy deputies] attorney general until the case can be ruled on by the Supreme Court. Grigsby has served 11 years of

idecide the relation of authority

” ” ” GAS PRICE WAR SPREADS FT. WAYNE, Feb. 11--The retail gasoline price war continued its spread in Indiana today with several Ft. Wayne dealers indigating they would cut prices on regular gasoline to 24.9 cents a igallon and drop to 26.9 a. gallon on ethyl today. A spokesman for the Gasoline Retailers Association of Ft. Wayne said the “full scale price war” could be prevented if whole-

SET FLOOR ON CAR VALUES FT. WAYNE, Feb. 11--That old = akin “lag y be wheezing along legs” but it's still $50 In tax evaluation If you oo enough of it to put on 1950 lcense tags. At least it's that way as far as representatives of nine northeastern Indiana counties are concerened. New 1950 models, however, will be taxed on the basis “+. of 80 per cent of their listed Red 2° Book value, - Representatives met with the State Tax Board here Thursday

to determine property valuation scales,

LAKE COMPLETION SET : BLOOMINGTON, Feb, 11— - Mayor Thomas I. Lemon yester--day said he expected Bloomington’s projected 1800-acre lake along Bean Blossom Creek to be built and filled with water by Jan. 1, 1952, The new lake will be the city's new water supply "to supplement Griffey Lake, when droughts press the present supply below normal. Mayor Lemon sald the ‘most immediate step In acquiring «land for-the dam Site"

FREEDOM FIGHT DELAYED

salérs of brand name gasolines

would offer the same prices to their distributors that ‘independ-

ent operators enjoy. On the open market, some dealers contend, the independent dealer can purchase wholesale gasoline for less,

DIES OF BURNS

MUNCIE, Ind., Feb, 11 (UP)—|

Fred Goodall, 21, died of thirddegree burns today hours after he was rescued from his automobile which burst into flames after sideswiping a tractor-trailer. Mr. Goodall was {trapped In the car and suffered severe burns before firemen freed him from the wreckage. Fredine Goodall, 20, a passenger, was rescued. She sufTeréd only minor Injuries. i Police sald Mr. Goodall apparently lost control of his machine and crashed into the tractor

outfit. His death was the first|-

1950 Delaware County trafic fatality.

Breaks $300 Window To Get Three $1 Bills

¢lared handling of customers

development” {towns as Greencastle and Leb-|

a life prison term. Deputies sald] they wanted the high court to)"

between federal and state courts.’

THE P food hain is being Schooled, even before the anti- ticular cu customer. sued spo government on eng trust sult, ih how to make custom-'

ers like to shop at the A&P.

trust charges. And while no official in the! chain will tell you that the sug-| ‘THE company did a film on ist handling customers. It is titled

connected in any way with the appropriatedly, “Our Best Cus-

! suit, simple deduction tells you!tomer.” She is the lady with the {that ‘one of the hardest things market basket, any lady who en-

the government will have to beat|ters the portals of a company] is the goodwill of A&P customers, |store. In Indiana A&P cash registers| The meat man, the produce ring about 25 million times a| manager, the staple goods spe‘year. That is the approximate!cialist, the cashiers; all have been transaction count. | taught how to make customers’ That means that the 1600 em-| come back again and again. ployees in. the 25 major super-| Ag an illustration, an Indianapmarkets served out of the Indi-lolis woman ordered a turkey be-|

|apapolis warehouse, and the. 15| tore Christmas, Her husband

served out of the Cincinnati ware-| called for it. The butcher brought | (house, plus the horde of “special it out, held it up, asked the hus-! stores In such band to feel its firm, plump flesh. “Tell the Missus Charlie picked

, anon, contact customers 25 mil-'it out” said the butcher proudly. Happy with Sor; new title of {tion times a year. -t

“Who's Charlie?” asked the They make the most of it. But husband. . the customer relations program “Oh, he's the head butcher,”

began fn A&P stores some five explained the man behind the | years ago. At first it didn’t get counter, “He ‘sees that everyone: far. Wartime help was not up to gets the best.” par. There were rough e edges ini Now it so happens that

“Charlie” aid

cost no more and probably less.

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: BRAZIL, Feb. 11—Roy Grigsby, —— 48-year-old convicted slayer, has] won a writ of habeas corpus but not his freedom.

surveyed the wreck of a big plate glass display window. Someone had tossed a brick through the window, to get three

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