Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1950 — Page 8

Limited Income ~ Squeeze City

Purchasing Officers Forced Into Open Market on Critical Items

By DAVID WATSON : Soaring prices. Short supply. Limited income. This is the picture facing administrators of the City of Indianapolis in 1951. Purchasing officers are watching their dollars shrink before they get them. Already they have been forced to go into the “open market” for some critical| oq cderal agencies recently’ items formerly purchased msued a call for ome million to

through annual bids submit- two million sheets.

. 1 di Mr. Lanahan recently received ted by manufacturers and dis-, 3.4 or $625 on a stainless steel tributors. This means greater ., 4 cart hut was required to

cost and faster spending of money. two weeks fora board meetJ ted by budget. ing to approve the purcsase. | Prices on some essential Gen-| Tyne that time the price es Hospital equipment have jeaped to $785, plus $40 freight Egoubled since start of the Korean charges. ~~ Cat-gut ~ suture costs ar. In other departments, Ome pave jumped three times,

Taylor Is Ammainted | | - Executive Secretary | | Appointment of Richard L. Tay(lor, 5612 E. 21st St., as his execuar, at St, as his execu | OPEN SUNDAY night by Congressman-elect | to § P, M. Charles B. Brownson Mr. Taylor has been Indiana political reporter and day news editor of the United Press bureau here. A member of the U. P. staff since 1947, he is a former LouisiAna newspaperman. Mr, Brownson also named three secretaries to his staff for the 82d Congress. They are Miss Ann (Frederick Comm, Mrs. Florence Wright Hancock and Miss Anna Harshman. Held Previous Post Miss Comm, a native of Hunttington, W. Va., has been a mem‘(ber of the staff of Rep. Jay Le! Fevre of the 30th New York Dis-' trict. Mrs. Hancock was a member! of the staff of Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) for the last Height years. She is a native of Rensselaer. .

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CASH DESERVES A DISCOUNT.

Yes, Cash on Furniture Deserves a ‘Discount. Every stick P' of furniture in’ our stock is plainly marked as to price—and we think you'll find it generally priced lower than you would expect to pay—but to the folks who want to pay cash we offer a little something special in the form of a discount , . . . Yes, let's call it an extra dividend for cash. After all, we save a lot of bookkeeping and auditing and that costs money— so we pass this savings right along to our cash customers. Cash Deserves a Discount!

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We're located out here in the country, yet | We invite our friends and customers to it's within easy driving distance from any | come out and look around. If you have part of the city. We own olir own building | time on your hands, this is a good way to «and are fixing it up nice and pretty, but no | _ use it. We are located on Road 67 (38th fancy trimmings that cost a lot of meney St.) just a mile east of Shadeland. The

basic operating equipment may gimilar conditions are evi Miss Harshman, a daughter of| ; Saki el : : become unavallable it World War gent in other city branches. Mes: W.W. Harshrian, 3648. N.| to keep up. We hgye a low overhead and building is being remodeled right now— 11 perienc *a can be used as 8 y lanier Supplies Dwiagle . 4 : : Grant Aves as ME Browpaons) a low expense and our many economies go | we have grown out of our old space—but “iremen are finding dwindling| i : os . s | ] i : any he iat 5 Calis for Bids Unanswered supplies of blankets. Their me-| Miss Marilyn Schreiber, 3331 Brookside Parkway, South Drive, she is a graduate of Butler Uni-| toward selling our quality merchandise ot you'll find it easily—it's on the north side

fn recent weeks calls for bids chanics” are buying sheet metal [ndianapolis Red Cross gray lady and Pvt. Tom Lawrence, 20- versity. a real savings to our customers, whether of the street. Our salesman are maybe

t high i f . . . { Miss Esther Pillen, secretary > at . + have Brought no Shera oa me ey a gier Drives: year-old Korean yeteran, Eau Claire, Wis. . . . he dances on Lo Doth the Inte vl Louis Lud they pay cash or take their time on our a little lazy, so we like to let customers me ) / nw od . | 0 : A ! : i . : a FATE of 90-day delivery, and repair jobs. “frozen feet" at the Army hospital, Camp Atterbury. {low and Rep. Andrew Jacobs—| easy credit terms. Seeing is believing browse around and look for them- ; h losche sald bids are in- / {who lost the election to Mr.

IF, accumulated orders can be Mr. —so drive qut and save the differ- selves, Everything is plainly marked,

{Senate crime investigation willl 4raft board examiners pital purchasing agent, said laun-, On thé other side of the pur-iput Chicago gangland on the spot | blinked whén they saw dry soap has scored one of the chasing ledger, buy feel that/in public hearings starting Dec. |

er, biggest price jumps. Formerly controls would be of ti help/18, Chairman Estes Kefauver! these results of a question-

; ® cents a pound, it now sells at beyond setting up thie budget. |announced today. : naire . among prospective % 17% cents a pound. {| The city might/ get enough! The Tennessee Democrat) soldiers: : The Hospital normally uses money to operate, /but would find scheduled open sessions in the! Q. How do you get your 4 about 80 of the 210-pound bags there was nothing Hn the market nation's - one-time crime capital se 0 ©

mail? a year to wash about two tons| to buy. 4 Ta {despite failure of his special crime A, The postman puts it of laundry a day. 4 : committee to locate several key! in the box and I take it out Linen goods, sheets and mus- LAVA FL ow, HA ALTS “lwitnesses. , lins have jumped 40 per cent in| ( ATANIA/ Sicily; Dee, 9 (UP) The crime committee has akked] Q. Where were you born? price listings in the past_ six — Rivers off flaming lava which! he Eomate 1 : al : A. At sister's house. LL months. Sheets are on the hos- had threafened two villages on the Senate to on ” Spe 3 aITes : pital hard-to-get list. he slopes of Mt. Etna halted to- Warrants: for eight wanted MACHINE PERMANENT Prices Jump Fast day. Theg/ molten rock cooled and witnesses.” Anthony “Tony” Any style, Includes To make the situation worse, stopp 600 ‘feet from Rinazzo Accardo, Murray “The Camel” ll ®aireus. Soft Water 95

« Municipal hospitals now have to and 1900 feet from Milo. Another Humphreys, Rocco Fishetti, his! Shampoo and Set, compete with the federal govern- strea¥p. halted 1000 feet from the brother.Charles, and John Patton, [J AMelutely Guaranteed ment for purchase of sheets. high ay connecting the two one time “boy mayor” of a CENTRAL Beauty «With hundreds of Veterans Ad-|towfis. Authorities suspended the Chicago suburb, are on the war-| Catlege; Ine. _ninistration hospitals being re- lev tcuation of Rinazzo and Milo. rant list. ;

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creasing on auto purchases be- CAMP ATYERBURY, Dec. 10 landed in a bomb crater. When | prownson--has retired from ub- | \ , ! mat yithin hat Hime, itation De- ¢ause of new federal regulations. = A WisconSin veteran of the 1 crawled out I met face to face lc life. p enc nd there is a big difference. only quality furniture 65 ard hit is ® San 20 truck The city pays cash for fts new Korean cgnflict is recovering with 20 North Koreans. They. | i ———— "EASY ‘WEEKS - partment seeking 9 : oy 2 The cars, whereas the private cons@m-| from shot wounds and shot me in the back as I rolled ‘Say t y Get 50 C } i DE ee pv Sox er uses credit. frozen ffet at’ Camp Atterbury. into a second homb Frater filled F nis k * ents | CREDIT TO PAY! , , . i The entire purchasing program Pvt. /Tom Lawrence, 20, of with water, I played dead when | 3 tember. It isn't here yet. This Bs is further hobbied by budget pro-| Eau (laire, Wis., went into the they came in after me and took | oF roen Street Lights CASH DESERVES A DISCOUNT ON FURNITURE the sama tire used for huge Army cedures set up under state law. Korgan fighting zone as a para- my clothes and jewelry.” ! CRANFORD, N. J, Dec, 9 (UP) vehicles. : . Tax money earmarked for spend-| trogper and believes he is alive He said he remained in the | —Town Clerk J. Walter Coffee City Purchasing Agent Albert ing next year was computed on today because hé “played dead” crater until the enemy forces | concluded today from an anonyLosche said nails have bec ome at the basis of this year's dollar| while Communist soldiers left and then spent three days |mous letter he received that somehut Impossible to find, Assistants value. | &tripped him of his clothing and getting back to the American |one is trying to get in good standyesterday were fruitlessly see ing Controls Would Help / jewelry. forces where he could get medi- |ing with Santa Claus. sight to OE OT ‘| As prices climb, the sity wf “I went in with a wave of cal aid. His feet were frozen | The letter contained 50 cents get less for its money e hospi- | paratroopers,” he said, and from exposure, {and an unsigned note in childish ; po . . Should the international sue tal budget was prepared last M 3. F op coe ei handwriting, which said: STORE HOURS: ; 7950 Pendleton Pike FREE € DELIVERY ation become more criticil, road perore the Korean War starfed Chic o' Gan land Wi G “Inclosed you will find money DAILY 8 A.M. fo 9 P.M. e : OPEN oils, fuel oil and gasoline may Mr Tosche said price co Tols ago s 9 Ise vys— tor two. street lights I have SUNDAY AFTERNOON become harder to get in the quan- would help, especially in pr¢para- Faces More Hearings BoD 3 broken - . SUNDAY: 1106 5 P.M. | On Road 67—1 Mile East of Shadeland tities needed for municipal oper- tion of the budget. Administrators 9 : DOTHAN, Ala. Dec. ation. would know what base di to| WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UP)—| (UP) Houston County Roy T. Lanahan, General Hos- use,

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