Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1950 — Page 33
the events ly affected
eded up a which was and other n short in
day, prices sd 50 cents 50, highest 8 50 to 76 re paid for
id out well heep. Prace cattle sold
with bulls ,. for over a"
jday on the
rop spectacular losses set s down 50 d with last as largely ng dressed
traded week's adand cows rent upturn [wenty-five he previous
reipts were as it was, tock cattle ler -dealers, were about is year. ght in a may force shed meat meat trade Ath--on-thee put slaughs e red.
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month oute ,009.825 vee gh June 30, une totaled
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~ Business Another Push
Jittery Public Wants Good Wheels To Ride Out Another Conflicc =~
By The Times Automobile Editor 5 The automobile business, already racing in high gear, gota Just) tug upward last week. It was the Korean war, plus the memories n World War IL Dealers were besieged by buyers who had cars on order. They wanted delivery. And a healthy interest among prospsas showed
of the acute car
up with the first war headlines.
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Dealers reported-that-seores-of
an people phoned to get an approxi-
mate trade-in value on their old cars. Dealers knew what this meant. People wanted to go into
a new war with a néw car, hop-|
ing it would last through. But the business didn’t need the lift. Some agencies dre as much as 60 days behind in deliveries with new models as close as 90 days away. That's unusual, Ordinarily when the new models are getting close buyers wait to get the next year’s car, less depreciation, But that doesn’t hold this year, And dealers have orders to keep cars moving, clean out their] showrooms, no holidbacks. They | are told -to maintain low inven-| tories in new cars, : But the war lift did not affect! the used car market immediately. 1t remained good, but there was no rush to buy, get in under the wire “before the car freeze.” The used car market usually! drops off seasonally after July! 4. Then is when the bulk of the vacation touring is.under way and the appetite for a better car subsides, Kuhns Near Ready Bill and Paul Kuhn, top-notch
Chevrolet distribytors in the Middle West are pushing work on
their new $500,000 sales and serv-|
icé agency at 1045 Broad Ripple Ave. The Kuhn boys are not sure of: the exact opening date but they! go over to. the building two or three times a day and watch it-go' together. And when they do open up, Paul Kuhn says, it will be a big relief to their customers who have been patient through y
present quarters at 836 Broad . Ripple Ave,
NoSpin There's’ a new device on the way which will prevent wheels spinning in the mud. It is called NoSpin. Now, with the present differential, one wheel will spin in the mud. 8. F. Baker of the Detroit Automotive Products Co., which makes the device sald it may be available on passenger cars as optional equipment “after another year of experiment.”
They are not new. Mr. Ba-|
ker’s company has built 150,000 of ‘them for military vehicles in the last 10 years, but it still is a little noisy for passenger cars. And they'll have to be quieted down Two big auto firms ‘are inter-| ested and trying them out.
100,000 Powerglides
Chevrolet reports that it has made more than 100,000 auto-!
Output is running about 1300 units a day, and Chevvie is step-| ping up production to 2000 units a day as ‘soon as added equip-| ment can be installed. T. H. Keating, Chevrolet gen-| eral mahager, said there are 607 parts An the Powerglide with ex-| tremely close tolerances making | it a precision job.
493 in” May R. L. Polk, Y car sales counter, reports that dealers sold | 493.000 new cars in May. The figure reverses an earlier | estimate in which it appeared the total for May would be less than for April which was lower than! March. " On the basis of new truck registrations, from 29 states, Polk! estimates that May new truck! registrations will approximate! 87,000 units. This compares with 92.241 new trucks registered for! April.
Double Shift The Ford assembly plant in Norfolk, Va., will begin -a double] shift July 17, M.. L. Wiesmyer,
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Buick Higher in June | Buick hung up 32,377 new car ” sales for the first 20 days in June pointing to a new sales record for June. Sales were up 44.8 per cent over a year ago when 22,851 cars were isold. | -Buick’s total for the year is
262, 907.
Olds Expands
Oldsmobile which ‘has had phe|nomenal success with its “Roeck--et” engine is planning another multi-million dollar expansion program. a Beginning ®t. 1, 8. E. Skin-! iner, Olds general manager, said Olds will concentrate on the “Rocket” engine and will discon-| tinue [Production of its stx-cyi} inder. “76” Series,
New DeSoto Wagon DeSoto is out with .a station wagon with a fold-down rear seat. It gives more luggage and utility space.
This is Chrysler's latest, the which quickly converts it from a
This is Ford's new “Country Squire." from an eight-passenger carrier to a one-level-floor cargo wagon in three minutes. The center seat folds down, the back seat comes out, without tools. This one is tarrying a 12-foot boat.
porches, attractive to American people.
| room for two large bedrooms with
Exterior Designed Of Horizontal Siding
“Here 1s a little story-and-a-half . home and among the desirable features are front and side have always been
The exterior has been designed of horizontal wood siding, with the exception of ledge rock or fieldstone trim around the living room picture window and the rough brick outside chimney. * . - .
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THE DOWNSTAIRS. provides
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‘ample closet space and cross ventilation and there is room in the unfinished upstairs for two or ; |
‘three additional bedrooms and
Small Home Features Two | Po , or
bath. A dormer extends along the entire back of the house.
Traveler, It is an alpurpose vehicle with an fold-down rear seat six-passenger sedan to a three rpassenger sports. car with large cargo
area. Note the luggage rack on top.
> * | wood “venetian blind” has been!
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! wih a "double-duty" station wagon which can be converted
The wagon carries six ord narily, and three with the - t Real Estate— folded . down into smooth, rugged floor,” - floor.
Building Soaring House-Buying In ‘Mom Town |i eroi
{call is out to other realtors to do {the same.
(Continued From Page 81) the survey. The ad agency wants {ment proposals are being han- 0 talk to the buyers.
{dled by the commercial realty division of the Roane-Anderson the vast buying boom here, all
Co.., agent for AEC, Mr, Moles- it has to do is look at the exist-| : ing residences and the new homes |
worth said.
Hoosier builders say they've got 80ing up and the current census
{enough to handle in their own report for our fair city. That and state without investing money in the high income, employment and Dixie. the easy-to-make financial set-up. Nevertheless, projects up and Those are the reasons in capgoing up in Oak Ridge include a sule. Want any more? 29-building, 453-unit apartment project, 500 individual homes, 343 750 G's singles and duplexes and a block! 1 WONDER if the Reconstrueof 286 duplexes, all under private tion Finance { contract. Contracts have also been let for ‘construction of 450 more
{Housing Administration will lend me $750,000 to get started. I've come across a good deal.
apartments and bids are out on 50 Something that will return me, a wha is the Tile Ci about $500,000.a year. But I need!
{larger single family dwellings. Community construction also!
a loan, first. Includes two new elementary |
The deal: | auditorium.
Developers and businessmen |in Florida, no less. iare also, leasing government- | The price:
which to construct buildings. |are being consummated on long- unpaid balance.
term basis. J | Oak Ridge claims title of Amer- estate magazine. | resident is 33 and there are ap- Paint Push {proximately 7000 children - of - pyuy PAINT industry is ali| | AEC said.—(LMS) [ding boom. W S St | They're marketing a product] fl {tard mildew, resist yellowing and [fading and will dry in 20 minutes. (Continued From Page 31) |Ing out for paper and other in- | will be finished by the first freeze, | {terior decofating- products cutting! | PAINT CHEMISTS have pulled re sum. pointed out, could: linseed oil apart, put it back toSPRIHEF long-time: ‘Results Better-drying Need Government Afq: (Product. treaking,—so-—their prodeetion | a roof overhead 1s the econom=|" {ically isolated, those who can. PrOBram now calls for this bean L-stomaech-coating—stuf fin 15 for those OF publi¢ TOUSE. It ose! hydrated form “is now “being | will uarantee the JEovesnment ar coke Adsyntheties rubber It or not, Is taking the-odor out
jica’s youngest city in addition. to] Then I turned the page, quick. school age and a lke number of |gioyeq up, keeping one swish of | | now that will keep moisture from Home Huntin |-- They're not---only -eyeing--the: [new homes and office and apartif the war should become a full-|in on their walls, ‘easily: lead to speculative buying Sether ‘and omitted that part] ~The part ‘of the housing short: Fen they-discovered--sqybe {not afford to buy: on the beam. ‘who cannot raise the $500 or! used in rr i Look for the housing boom to
National Group to Take
of crowded operation at Yhetr| | Realtors won't be mentforied fn
If B&B wants the answer to;
Corp. or Federal,
A big 75000-acre| | schools, a new high school, civic/ranch with 13,000 head of Brah-| {man and crossbred cattle for sale bors and prospective tenants are Sustey had ever had » to that
$1,925,000, but the what they want in a West Side lowned buildings or land - ‘upon owner will accept 750 G's and a Public project to be built this ‘Wash - Stands Both ‘mortgage on the property for the} ‘summer, “The authority and the com- In Many Shapes, Sizes |
Saw the deal in a national real lames planning board corralled|
synthetic resin var...
believe iy:
{—{f war tension increases — and
commercial growth.- Average city! | pre-school age in the community, iy, brush ahead of the cu rrent| {collecting on interior walls, re-! ment buildings, but they're look=] blown struggle, would be ‘the end| o.8 8 which “would drive prices up even which makes paint sticky for a age which is still clamoring for| Of! shrugs ‘off yellowing, od And this lies behind the talk| Castor oil — that Kida He} [350 dawn payment, evesTiihie nishes and interior enamels. take an additional shoot upward
to hold its own even if the war
of paint. Besides it helps rapid drying and easy-brushing. Paints are being mixed like a
J even with furious building activ-
lcools off. jdruggists’ prescription. And | There still are not nearly they're being put on surfaces betenough houses for all classes of ter, too.
incomes in Marion County, and
lit ‘may be three to five years, NEWER methods of applica-
tion for the newer product includes spray guns and a roller
ity, before the thirst for shelter that sweeps over the surface. as
begins to slack. smoothly: as after-shave “Totion
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Buick Sets Production.
Record During June
FLINT, Mich, July 1 (UP)— “Buick set a monthly production. record in June, rolling out 54.074} cars, Ivan Wiles, general man-
Pulse Here
painter comes around to your ager of the Gensral Motors Di-/
'house. He's in a competitive mar- Vision, announced today. {ket same as the corner grocery-| It was the first time that Buick man. And like the grocer has his produced more ‘than 50.000 ears super market, so the painter has in a month. The previous -monthhis new paints and paint putter-!y high was 48616 in March of lon. {this year. * Buick also set a daily
{production record when it turned Beat Me, Buddy
jout 2637 cars June 16. THE BOYS who beat fhe drum re {for housing material manufactur-| Sale of Oil Burners
Sg Jeally kuow whers and HOW rs Hit Peak in 1930
to lay on the percussion. About| two editions after the President | The possibility that 1950 will be inked the allocation of federal the biggest year in the history of {dough for 1500 public housing the oil heating industry is indi-| {units here, the Tile Council of cated by the statistics on the sales. America ships a handout urginglof ofl burners diring the first use of quality materials in 1oW-/ four months of this year. rent unit bathrooms and kitchens.! Sales of oil burners during the! And what are those quality | first one-third of the year were! materials? You know better than|65 per cent ahead of 1949. If this to ask that. |ratio holds for the remainder of : ncil of (the year, the total for the year wt will be in excess of 900,000 units.
| merica? Oh, now, pulee
‘Communify Plan UP IN CHICAGO, the neigh- | Which was the best year the in-
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{neighbors and “renters,” asked | {them to help the architects and made in Such 4 variety of sizes planners: Eight subcommittees were set! up to determine exterior design, | {how high the sinks should be, | {garbage disposal, storage space, | {play areas. They're working right |with the professionals. It's a! [my project.
spaces, and special types of lava(tories made to go into corners. There are oval bowls, rectan{gular bowls, and bowls shaped {like the letter D. Some are made o hang from the wall, ‘others
| How it’s workingrout is another |j, thing.. I can just see two. .pros- i |pective tenants, neighbors-to-be,MoON one wanting -a—pieture—window;
“There are 1 {the other a pine-paneled opening. | cartiauni og ne he aor
One whose wife fs tall wanting a Righer sink, the other a smaller [nearest ‘is tarthest aw Holy are
{sink because Ris spouse is shorter. Not belittling the project idea; it's fine, if it can work. z But did you ever get two women to agree on interior house idesign, .let.. along-:a--big--rentai project? Hmmm?
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