Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1950 — Page 39

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The: Week in or Busippttm

“Chidls Callouses |; Y ' Aching Again

Plight of Miners Tops List I Of Rough Economic Pains

By H AROL D n HARTL EY, Times Busines Editor | THE PUBLIC'S CRISIS CALLOUSES, grown thick and| i tough since the strike-bumpy mid-Thirties, last week were | . beginning to soften and ache. : It was the second full week of the miners’ clamp-down, | after seven futile months of contract bickering, which did it. The miners had decided it was the only way to shake off the plague. of the three- stirred into the bartering cake, day week. This has all but they had a feeling that the gov-| _ starved them since last July 1, ernment would be “more under-

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, standing” than the operators, ~ Would their crack-down strat- The bite of cold weather in the 2 egy win? Maybe. But it also

latter part of the week had put a > flesh on the coal shortage ghost, ea made it real. - Through carefully self-imposed rationing, dealers had stretched their meager coal supply through

“might milk the last cent from the ‘United Mine Workers treasury. / Indiana's 8500 miners had this to think about over the week-end. They were face-to-face with the

law of the land. “Their. union {he lean months, bowing to gray bosses have a date with federal market truckers with inferior / justice. in a W ashington court grades and up to now, they had " tomorrow. kept the home fires smouldering. What mayv be at stake is the Last Friday they threw up their ability of the judiciary. the last hands. They were at the end of refuge of organized security. to their string. They cut all deliv-

eries to a half-ton. “It's that or none,” they said. And up in Muncie the police were inspecting coal bins with flashlights to make sure coal or-| ders were not going to hoarders. And yesterday, with the city! ermined in the heaviest snow of the .year, Mayor Al Feeney de-| clared an emergency in Indian-{ apolis, with police ordered to en-| force the half- ton rationing limit.|

keep order and protect the public welfare. And fines running into millions of dollars do not sit well with miners who have had to keep up full dues payments on a three-day. week. What the miners really want is that the government take the mines away from the owners and make the contract deal, then hand the mines back to the own- . ers, With the UMW's 400.000 votes

‘ The coal shortage was biting down hard Pay roll Pinc on industry and State Employment Security| rays figures did not begin to tell the sad story of growing, unemployment, i Few industries were shut down completely due to the lack of] ¢oal. And that was sensible, All of them wanted to keep a trickle of products flowing to customers. - But payrolls were feeling the pinch. Plants had chosen to cut

hammers out. Now is the time to strike, not in the John L. Lewis]

the work week to four, three, or in through -an aroused ; even two days. And while this ; : ‘ crowded family budgets, it did Tey Ze Jeranding SoBe! i 4 not show up in state employment ere its legislative bull wip over the heads of union

Just slide the vial .

figures which do not reflect work cuts so long as they do not go " Sri Week IE under the $20 a-week mark. Business combines. But every dealer and a good The Taft-Hartley law slipped] 1 = many manufacturers were saying through Congress like a greased! - ») :

monopolies, apply the same Marsh| penalities used to break up big

at they had been saying allupig at a time when the public was mg, that the situation would feq up with what seemed to be Ling a comnléte shutdown within ypjon arrogance and unfairness. a week. But his time there was a And now, the dealers reasoned, ! L tell-tale tremor in their voices. might be the time to smack down \ The “re scared. the United Mine Workers with an| 1 's also had their political antimonopoly law.

33 D The ( “hrysler strike which has been all bit lost in| ays the gathering shadow of the coal crisis was rolling] up unemployment across the state. But people weren't talking about | §t much. not when their skins were cold and their own jobs were! feeling the Lewis coal In five Indiana towns plovment roils, in four of seriously, In Koknma, New Castle Evans: ville and Frankfort the Chrysler:

squeeze. the Chrvsler shutdown had. dented em- |

them war fund,” company money used

to fight the company. Rut it really took a strong po-! tion to arouse the public, some-

choosing

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UAW pension fund tilt had thing like getting cold or losing ghunk payrells and fattened store pay through shorter work weeks. | ’ credit accounts. Neither the Chrysler strike, or fashions? In Indianapolis where the the impending but delayed teleAmerican Foundry turns out phone strike, or the railroad walk-|.

out had wringing,

.. For at least 15 years the pub- |

. Chrysler motor blocks there was caused much hand-| salon collections a shutdown. but the city’s prod-

- uct-spread had eased the pain.

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Model Home Spreall® Wings On North Side

Builders Toss Out _ | Inspection ‘Mat’ | In Windcombe Site | By LARRY STILLERMAN

Times Real Estate Editor THE “HOUSE that grows” ‘has grown up. From the basic one-bed-room exposition-stopper, the 1949 Home Show centerpiece has spread its wings. Tt'= to become a

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. . 7936 Windcombe Blvd

by Bill Oates, Times Staff, Photographer.

now ready Fo the first April exposition, grows” wilf he inspection todey until Mar. 26

time since tha the “house that open for public It will b® shown

Sponsor Showings The house is now a three-bed-room ranch style dwelling nestled in the rolling. wooded terrain of Windcombe, the city's newest and rapidly expanding north side community Constructed by Walter 1. the model home at 7936 cambe Blvd. has joined luxerious “centerpieces” in ren H. Atkinson's 96-acre velopment The Indianapolis Home Builders, Inc, are sponsoring the showings, The dwelling will be open from 2 to 7 p. m. today and every Saturday and Sunday for four weeks, During the week the house will be displayed from 6 to 9 p.m The house that sands. of Home Show visitors will stop Hoosiers again as they approach the snug limestone and wood-sided dwelling along Windtombe Blvd. It caps-the higher- priced dwells ings along the 1';-miles from the Broad Ripple shopping center. Glide Into Room > The house is designed for cheerful, luxurious living. It's the typical Hoosier ranch style dwell ing. From a dual-lane concrete road-

7936 WINDCOMBE HET r i : 4 - BLVD. il § ; {way to the attached two-car gar-

ite lage, home-seekers today wilil

Stace, Windother Ware de-

glide into a rose-painted shining {living room., A. fireplace punches a graceful jopening into the limestone south

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Realtors Disclose

w > i o . ; North Side Sales “ ; w | ; = | Transactions for ° | Week Number 27 TWeEnty-seven sales were Tes ported thi week by the Assos

ciated North Side Realtors . Property at 813-15 N. Keystone Ave. Hsted by ANSR last week as sold by the Spann Co, Inc, and Jack . Carr was strictly a Carr transaction, Association [Secretary C. Scott Padget eaid.

ork to California The Chrysler-UAW deadlock lic had been put through one fear WINDCOMBE ’ | yesterday. seemed to simmer down to one cycle after another, until nerves! ADDITION - Dwellings and property sold basic point: Whether “Chrysler could jump no longer. Reople had Functional, bright, sloping RE the living room. ENTRANCE Glass and tila. . . . the main bathroom. last week included: would put up the pension money learned to sit them out patiently. ——— - : Willis Adams—4641-43 Caroline without sharing in the=handling Worry" didn't get them anywhere. Ave. of it. Chrysler's private fear Since the mid-Thirties, thé pub-' Hoosier Farmers Watch Here’ 3 the. way. Real Estate- Fdgar F. Brodbéck — 4857 seemed to De that the welfare lic had grown crisis callouses, rr —F | fl Graceland. : fund «could well become a union thick and tough. P National Cc of C eminine n uc een Jack «C. Carr—453 N. Edgehill, S I Sh h tv’ th rice 0 ro uc S a 1936 N. Moreland, 1911 W. Michicity's growt 1 N 4 D van St. 3124 Graceland, 6226 InSeeliown of nows M © Way |. is. only nurtured Indianapolis Meat Packers Report “Issues Study of n ew ome esigning diangla. 815-17 N. Keystone .Ave, « ( ) 0 make it a city. 5 99 . or v7 J - A. : Cr 1222 Burdsall Parkway, 1119 N. Take Pittsburgh. Cn Fall of 2-3 Cents On Wholesale Level Civic Planning NAHB Recognizes Value of Appealing Bancroft, . 38-50 Fuclid, 6208 ere the citizens an e state joined hands to mold what — — . . ny ( ! earl ag been panned Tor more han 30 sears : } By MARION CRANEY EE —— To Women. With Houses That Are Functional [roadway 140, FN. Dearbort: - epee Bye 5 2 the ——Steet-—TFown'st — - ed. Meat prices are slipping again. - WASHINGTON, Jeb... 2 Berber cee B3 Times. Real Estate Editor... 132351 0th-8t.,-and. Jot No. 3. in _dream of a metropolitan face-i | the State. The Equitable Life As-| Whether the cause is the weather, Lenten abstenance from ‘meat, book of “simple” lessons ‘for a. THR "WOMAN'S place is in the home, Stout's Kessler Crest. z lifting will he near completion. surance Society (the same organi- or buying curtailed by tighter pocketbooks-—meat experts aren't sure. oo Not so much making it more livable, but designing, planning . Fieber & Reilly—19 lots in the Through redevelopment park and zation erecting: the Penney build-! Indianapolis meat-packers. reported pork and .pork products difficult eivic problem was issued oq yi ing in it ) 73d St. and Springmill Road" vi _planning._authorities, Pittsburgh, ing here) Will dish out $50 mil- suffered a two-to-three-cent price drop on the wholesale level last last ‘week by the 1, 8 ‘Chamber The National Association of Home Builders recognized the sell- cinity. a - fs wading through concrete blight lion for new office buildings” on WeeR.“HOORIET TaTIETS arched Prices or thet ros drop i a eye Gp aR Re ee VEER OT AP PEATE ta TE Te mMTATHE THRTTRCYE 61 Targe airy Kitch: Hall Hottel Co—2206 N. Sher a olle 0.2206 IN. Sher-

trade Friday.

to renovate the“ (yolden Tri- the fringe of this park. CL { angle.” : CL The Aluminum Company of Farmers and meat trades men bring steady prices under stropg ) ’ ALES mpany..o “Sti -contend —muotations—at—the demand here. Best grades of heef } The recent report by ‘the Indian America will erect a 31-8tory. (..4c will reach $20 a hundred continued to: remain scarce but - apolis real Estate Board's down- all-aluminum building in the tri- pounds before the end of March the available supply sold at in : town committee reprinted a letter Ange. Ho nxt oni stores (hen last fall's hog crop pushes changed SE } jos. of wi expanc their 10ldings on th nn Qrai . . or 10 week, choice grades. o ar " - em down again. But speculators . from 1. l.eonard Aronson, top city-condemned blighted areas. ,.en't so Care f hogs under 160 pounds and over notch Pittsburgh realtor. “Many large industrial. plants 80 . 240 pounds moved at zteady prices Mr.. Aronson gave a capsule (will spend) over $100 million in Continued to Sell in the yards. Weights between 160 sketch of what Pittsburgh is do- the Pittshuigh territory,” Mc. They point out that farmers last and 240 pounds, in greatest de-

‘Ing to create the new gate-way to . the Middlewest. He reported plans for a 36acre e park on land purchased by (Continued or Page 40—Col. 7

Aronson wrote.

A modern 2600-car garage and in active trade,

prices. And receipts aren't going While.

Coen to Head Apartment Owners for Third Year

Paul Coen’s direction of the Indianapolis Apartment Owner's As 0 . sociation was extended for a third year. last week. He will be installed as president of the group at the annual in- ; stallation ceremonies in March, along with other officers and di-} rectors, William P. Snethen, manager of the group, said. Besides Mr. Coen, other officers re-elected were D. J, Zimmerman, - vice president; H. H. Woodsmall, treasurer, and 8S. C. Bodner: counsel. Named Vice President

lto be’ marketed throughout the 47 350. nation this month, a total of 5.100.000,.or more than 20 per cent, K4s been predicted to flood the market in.March. Although colder weather usually means stronger demand for meats, Mrs, John Q. Public began

» $239

last week: A shortage of coal could mean a lay-off for her husband any day. Other wage-earners, Insurance |carried lighter lunch buckets, tive. | They were eating less during lent. | Meanwhile,

‘Shows Sharp Decline

“ — Bituminbus coal output

+ K . -New directors named were Leo Coal : .Bures, A. R. Hall and Brooks H. Lloyd. Directors - re-elected included "ee Isidore Feibleman, David T. Nicoson, Robert Bromiley, F. R. Buck, Charles: R. Fant, R. A. Franke, nan, W. J. Twiname, Charles Por- approximately 39 million tons L. Russell Newgent, Glen H. ter and Robert Kershaw. Mune, E. A. Kirk, , R. B. Boys The election was held Feb. 22. Al :

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The Indianapolis watching her pennies a little closer Board last week approved appli-

cations of four realtors company

Active classification beef continued to was accepted from the membery ship committee for Riley K. Bituminous Coal Output Craw. general manager of Good, 2 | Homes, Inc.; tand Joseph A. Rentsch Jr, | WASHINGTON. Feb. 25 (UP) Clated with his father at 4609 in the Evanston ‘Ave,

Mrs. Helen J. Gibson and Mrs. week ending Feb. 18, was 2,425,000 These new Board Callie Cotton were named vice § ‘net tons a drop of 75,000 net Must pass: realtor ex: president and secretary, -respec- tons from the preceding week. before receiving official tively. , ? This was disclosed last week by tion.

Edward K. |The association reported nearly with the Spann Co. fall coal produced last week was granted junior classificition. Wil-| {by non-union and Progressive liam J. Valensi, employed by the | Gulf Insurance ,Co.. Output for 1950 to date was nized as an associate member. membership compared to 79 million tons in headed by :C. Scott Padger: ap- headquarters before. the meeting the Sorresponding period’ in 2949. proves the applications, > :

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46.505 hogs

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week continued to sell their hogs mand sold at quotations steady to despite lowered 25 cents per hundrédweight lower. only to pe any lighter next month. marketed the previous week, |While 4,300,000 hogs are expected week's run totaled an estimated

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—— Tot oF . ens and hedrooms, easy-tocclean corners and windows, A 44-page hooklet giving point 19 man Drive

ers inslayman’s language on ef They're huilding homes, lafRe oo fective use of zoning regulations and emt with these —“hutit-in’-histened. —read-and - studied plans John Max Realty Co. ~l.0t No, was releazed ov the? of (* tg features, of homes designed strictly from 6 in the Country Side addition ) aid businezsmen and civic leaders But more {han this, The Huild- 5 woman's viewpoint. - Harry ¥ Robbins Ren Hy——t0al appraise and evise loca rdi- ers this vear acknowledged the , No. 95 in Williams Creek. apy r weal ordi- er hi en 1eknowled ger ¢ Woman architectural students ) nances functional aspects of women de ) . F. C. Tucker & Co. = HT20 E, The booklet also offers new signing their own house put down specifications for fam- 20th St. and 403 F. 54th St. The ideas being used in progressive “Frankly. they admitted. it takes ily living . with maximum con- latter was a cross-deal witk Fieber communities to make zoning a a woman to Know what a woman veniences at minimum cost. They & Reilly.

more effective tool in promoting progress, the Chamber explained . on ”. .

a home, first time NAHB

came up with single-story houses which emphasized spacious, yet; economical Interiors.

needs to make a house This year, for the in its six years association,

Walt Veon Realty Co.—4723 E. 5th St., 6607 Michigan Road, and hii Primrose. The latter was a

THE WORK was compiled by a on eross-deal with Butterworth & five national city planners who Landsca e Fit | 3. Gavin, editor of American Builder, po... 1 lessons | ont c0- JHA of the contest, called the reviewed lessons in-zoning prac- in many respects to that of average Ford Woods & Co. — 2012 > WL

women's plans ‘superior practicing architects” And the winners exteriors. “Because that's the house that fits into the landscape”

tice, learned during the past two decades. Copies of the booklet

New York Su.

Residential Appraisers

produc ed houses with lean-to or flat roof

“Zoning

aval ‘Civic leer Dacact “We're taught to fit the house’ AE oom extending trom feor 19 Plan: Meeting Monday ment of the Chamber at 30 cents nto thi terrain and plan t around Glass for more light, she ex | TO S00 0) hl CAPT —. Ts 8 Farally Nba ok pH 2 41 She Ay Pe Hy plate pi dential Appraisers at their month- > ex D -rib a Real Estate Board tent Graham Bell of re Foe. also. fea- cis Jim will dem-

tured a lounge between thes bed- onstrate wall construction. Movie

Carnegie, Pa. | room and the rest of the house, continuity will be given by D. D.

“The plan comes first and then

Sets Meeting

"a , Dawson, local representative of A local realtor panel will ex- the over-all house she. said. {Continued on + Page 40—Col.- 1) the Gypsum firm “THs hat: FY HE $ ) . . plain current mortgage uses to La Wh a . Goehler Ohmart, president of Indianapolis real estate brokers t : SRA, will conduct the 6 p. m, Mar. 9. br: iid CONBLEY st. Louis Analyst dinner-meeting in the Canary The panel will speak at. the She. admitted] To .Address Realtors Cottage. _ mem weekly luncheon meeting of the her winn Ing" Roy Wenzlick, St. Louis real . Indtanapolie. Real Estate Board hans in the ite charts and graph AGEL Carpet Co. Raises i TAs t atel $13 rice in te : aoe on | > aha bracket Pa will address ‘the Indianapolis Prices 1 -3 Per Cent PWIS . ves w ( a 4 y oe » the HS aa ry a exactly for the Real Estate Board on Mar, 23. NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPY— Hensley will speak on conven. mass market. Mr. Wenzlick will be the guest pra SR hy ats tional loans; M. C, Mackey, FHA Bul, ne Faas, of the L. M. Brown Abstract Co, tT ly ? to wt Ah cent 1 10 . : . middle neome loans; George. H. Dirks, GI loans family planning while co-sponsors of the meeting | grades of woven carpet to go into -

and Melvin W. Berryman, 505 and| recapitulation sections.

Miss Bell

ghould, followswill be the Lawyers’ Title Insur- effect Mar. 6.

: : the same precepts that designed ance Corp. and the , Hancock | G.,C, Denebrink, vice president The panel will also. answer, 0, oo o.c0. Livi ng” County Abstract Co. {for sales; said the price adjust{questions submitted - to © IREB } + The meeting, annual luncheoniment 15 being made on certdin

Her five-room dwelling. featured, of the Brown Co., will be heldigrades whose production A costs

by local realtors.’ rT. toa large picture window in the liv- “lin the Indianapolis Athletic Club.inecessitate an increase. 3 - ¥ el = : ’ - ¥ P Ni : Sle = - Giving, £0 wid \. 2 » x [ my sr \ & \ ia ~ r - ok \i= —¥ en : \ Sl Ey : y 2 . oe el Ly Eo Se Sly