Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1950 — Page 15

the state there are 1,277,400 ng behind retail counters, g typewriters and compbanding filing case prs in both private and govment offices. .

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most eyes turn to Allison, the sturdy power-hearts fighting planes are born. employment is on the way It is figuréed on a 10-month adding about 5000, mostly

‘2 Allison Stands Ready © Allison's quickest response to mr orders came in CD-850 heavy transmissions (the figure sans horsepower) and the lighter model CD-500. 3 f But Allison has been turning parts and a few jet enfor the sound-racing J-33 J-35’s. Allison knows that big ot orders are on the way. The plant has been told to get ready. " Allison, and other manufachurers, have been reaching out classified ads to the far éorners of the state, quoting v . What Allison cannot quote {8 rentals or guarantee places to A ousing for workers in the fast

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to getting them. “Why take je job,” they say, “if 1 have to ‘gleep in a park.” Some give up,| 8° back home.

io of war production is the

; Rents to be $80, Up | fo house these workers there are about 1000 new rental unite . @@ming on the market. Rents ‘be $90 and up. But even at that, ‘families will be asked to double 5 move over and make room for Slatives or friends who come to town to get in on the war wages, with overtime. The government is geared to ‘put in defense housing. Civic leaders don’t like it because it's minimum housing. But local contractors will get the jobs. Next to Allison, but not in size, is the Naval Ordnance plant. It's been on the jump since we tangled with North Korea. Since then Capt. Miles H. Hubbard, commanding officer, has added 700 jobs, will go still higher as pressure increases. On his waitfng list are a good number of draft-deferment hopers. But if they get jobs, it means little. Capt. Hubbard doesn’t keep them out of uniform. 40 Drafted, Our Policy 80 far 40 have been drafted from the Ordnance Depot, and| only. five, in highly specalized jobs, deferred. “That's our policy,” said the captain. Stokely - VanCamp Co. has packed more than $3 million in| C-rations (combat), but added to this another $2 million in regular mess, canned and some frozen. The C-rations have meant a lot to Indianapolis. They were all packed here. Regular mess was spread through the Stokely network of packing plants. Kingan’s have been canning

No Shoe Rationing ‘Is in Prospect’ Now Indianapolis residents today re-

membered well the coupons needed for shoes during World War II

WEEK

With proclamation of the national emergency, The Times telephones were jammed with calls) questioning possibility “of ration-|

Informed sources in Washington, D. C. last night said that there was “utterly no indication) shoe rationing is in prospect.” |

Couple to Observe Golden Anniversary

Mr, and Mrs. Hiram Kinman, 5441 Hardigan St. will observe their golden wedding anniversary Friday. Open. house will be next Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. ~ They have been residents of Indianapolis 44 years. They have Mrs. Clara Cham-

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away workers. Again it's “Don’t

Newman at the Naval Ordnance Depot.

meat and meat mixes for some In power, the town is ready. time but in spurts. It's a bidding| Indianapolis Power & Light Co. is proposition. The government speci-| pushing through its $70 million-

fies quality and amount. The low- plus expansion. And the new na-;

est bidder gets the business. But tural gas line will step up the Kingan's is expected to produce supply for industrial heating. considerable tinned food for fight-| And transportationwise, there ing forces. {are more automobiles than ever. Eli Lilly & Co., because of its| city hus equipment is good, a lot capacity and quality, has already of jt bought since World War IL felt the repeated tap-tap of war| Chief worry is what will be on orders, penicillin, field and base the pages of the “full mobilizahospital drugs. But war basis ijon” order when the government quantities still are lacking. \opens the book. How much unNo Order at RCA employment? How many busiRCA has no war orders and nesses who can’t convert will be none in prospect, so far as local wiped out? officials know. But said one,| And how soon will civilian la“We can’t shoot anybody with bor dry up as workers scramble television sets so we'll be making |for fat war checks—and speaksomething else.” Ing of checks, here's what hapOne war plant, in steel, and pened: hushing its name, reported that it is getting plenty of war orders but no materials. And the boss

Check Girl's Story

A check girl in a hotel (WW II) was making about $12 a week. She went to a war plant, knocked terrible.” He's even been to]

Washington, begging for priori= ties.

Some firms are charging openly that other companies are luring

tossed her fur coat in the face of her successor, strolled into the dining room, touched off her dinner with a double old fashioned, left a 50 cent tip. quote me.” They won't say who.; Picking up her coat, she said Chevrolet a nd International|“Get wise to yourself gal.” Then Harvester won't have to make she whispered something confi much of a switch-over. They'll dential in the attendant’s ear. stick to metal plate work and| Next day the attendant was in engines. a war plant, too. Ideal Plant Is New Western Electric has no war orders but it is the newest plant in town, ideal for electronics, and ‘surely won't be missed when the pressure goes on. And the big $20 million Chrysler plant up the street will be ready for whatever by mid-year.

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[Labor Federation Pledges

‘0 Sqcrifice for Security

Indiana State Federation of Labor today stood solidly behind ithe national defense program with members pledged to all-out ‘sacrifices to preserve the security of the nation. Approximately 200 delegates attended the two-day biennial legislative conference at the Claypool Hotel yesterday and today put the Indiana federation on record as being 100 per cent behind the national defense program. . The Sonference. held every two threatened,” the lieutenant govyears prior e convening of] “ Ti Cetera! Ascembiy to nor declared. “We are fighting discuss the federation's legisia- 2" Unknown quantity. We have tive program, acted for the entire to prepare our country for an : {emergency of unknown magnitude. The people of Indiana must A spokesman for the federa-| D¢ Prepared for any eventuality.” tion said members would not| The AFL conference, scheduled quibble over longer work hours,|to close this afternoon, is in sesthe loss of privileges such as Sion primarily to study proposed

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Bread Not Fattening =

LINCOLN, Neb. (UP)—There pa cancelled an elaborate comlls nothing to the “old Idea” that ing-out ball for his daughter “in bread is fattening and must be keeping with the austerity of the omitted from reducing diets, ac- times. : icording to a University of Ne-| praska nutrition expert. Dr. Ruth Leverton cited an ex-| periment in which 12 overweight young women lost an average of : 2.8 pounds a week, even though! bread was included in each meal during an eight-week test period. No single food is fattening, ac-! ‘cording to the expert. She said a person gains 6r loses weight ac-| cording to the total number of calories in his diet. {

Diet Expert Asserts WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UP)— E. Tydings (D., Md.)

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The patient face of the man behind the guns . . . Harry J.

national emergency. month, “We call upon all citizens of

groups to join us in our determi-| 1.0 000d United harmeul to States from a ruthless aggressor. jap,r The. conference statement con-| — {tinued to urge “those with the iability to do so” to pay a fair share of taxes. The conference voted to issue [the statement regarding the cur-! {rent crisis following an address yesterday by Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins, whose chief topic was! the present national emergency.! “We know our freedom is!

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Leaders said a legislative i this and other free nations to gram, embodying a Be join us in fighting the great beneficial to labor would be ap-| idanger now confronting us,” the proved and offered to labor rep-| conference statement challenged.resentatives in the General As‘We call upon the farmer, the semhly, The conference also was! small businessman and all other expected to condemn certain other| While-U-legislation considered | .the cause of organized I

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