Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1950 — Page 19

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HAROLD H. HARTLEY Times Business Editor

IT DIDN'T TAKE General Motors long to turn the key

in the door.

: i Rising labor and steel costs, wouldn't take the price. 2° 10 50 Cents

freeze. So GM said simply it couldn't do business that way.

GM probably could take

bonate of soda for over-eaters.

the freeze as well as Ford, 1t's scarcest of all.

principle is wrong and GM is not going to try to rum its business backward. : » . » ANY COMPANY WILL go broke quickly if its selling price are frozen and its costs aren't. Ford, only other member of the Big Three in 1951 production, played it the other way, is counting on a wage freeze which has to come in the industry if the

IF YOUR COAL MAN takes-off 170

his hat, stands in the cold and lets go with a burst of palace manners, don’t be s y The coal industry hereabouts is {brushing up on its selling. And {chances are your driver in the future will act as if he wanted [to deliver your coal and not that he had to, and couldn’t there be an easier way to earn a living? The Coal Heating Service of Greater Indianapolis, run by

price freeze sticks. |triendly Frank Harper, has held

This is Christmas week, end

of the year, considerable absen- ,.4 frames cued to films,

teeism, getting books in order for the close of the business year,

The industry no longer accepts

the old belief that le buy coal] and some inventory taking. And| peop y

it seems to me that GM, in con.

merely to keep warm. There are Other factors almost as import-

trolling one-third of production, |,

has chosen a good time for a| as

showdown.

Two-Way Squeeze

DEALERS IN TQWN are not]

going to get caught between GM and the government. Today some | told me they would not sell their

” IN. ADDITION | there's convenience, the right kind of coal for your furnace which (won't let the fire go out, and {leaves little ash.

Then there's the safety factor,

cars in stock even After GM says and economy, and performance,

they could. They hold valuable franchises and none of them wants to go afoul of either their prosperous corporate parent or the government, - They're going to ‘wait, and I don't think they will wait long. Dealers here believed GM would continue to ship cars for storage and not for sale which would ease the unemployment

Stockpile? WHEN THE COMPANY and the government settle their differences, the dam will let. go and

dealers ean deliver cars right and Fing of pride, such as “That's my

eft. aba Ford will sell but it has a production problem. Ford is oversold right now. For customers it’s a bad time for the deadlock to come in Christmas week when so many want new cars parked out front on Christmas morning.

- » » 1 CHECKED around among the men who watch prices by the hour and not many were moving this morning. This was especially true in food where I expect to see pressure.

As it stands you can’t tell who's buying for Christmas or who's hoarding, but reports in the grocery trade over the state say there is some hoarding in the smaller towns, not much in Indianapolis. y - »

MY GUESS is that once freezes spraw

start they have to go all the way. How fast people grab products will determine how long it will take for the solid freeze. Today there is plenty for.everyone. But it ote that way rt ple begin to ~ months or a month ahead. The hoarder will have searce items in abundance, and the non-hoarder will not. But I can think of something else the hoarder will have, which the non-hoarder will not. That is a sense of shame,

Biggest Food Week

HOUSEWIVES THIS WEEK will pile pantries high, load refrigerators and deep freezers, They will pay nearly $2.5 million into food cash registers. = They will buy more than they did at Thanksgiving. And it will cost them more. Prices are up,

(business with him again.

and the selling of a brand name, something the buyer can rely on, What the coal industry is discovering is that people like to demand a certain brand of cigarettes, a certain make of car, or a certain brand of coal. They like to buy it by name, that name being the bond of faith between seller and buyer.

an authoritative voice, “I want Luckies.” Or they say Camels, Phillip Morris or Chesterfields. But whatever name falls off their tongues, drops out with a

brand, bud, don’t try to switch me to anything else.” The coal men are selling brands by name. And by doing so they are building up a knowledge of the differences in coal, which coal is good for what, stokers or shovel furnaces, and why. = ¥ © IT WILL DO A LOT for the coal industry. And they aren't missing their most important contact, the fellow who delivers your load. 0 He'll have a new set of manners, a fresh and winning smile. He'll be nice to do business with. And he'll make You want to do

Big Things, Quietly IT’S PRETTY FAR out east and you don’t see it, often “unless you live’ that way. But the ling, security-sealed Naval! Ordnance Depot is stepping into war gear, mowing up, to toe.the mark for the when-and-if war signal. * The Ordnance plant has trouble getting skilled men. -It has no money to advertise, has to depend on patriots who want to get into straight line war work. . The depot needs 150 machinists with about four Years progressive experience on at least Shree machines. 2 out there they are doin big things, quietly. They are os veloping : equipment, new radar and fire control designs, and right in our backyard are matching ingenuity with the best behind the fron curtain.

Tree. Time—

~ Hog Prices Up

Here in Active {Opening Trade

classes with sound slides and rec’

to comfort,

8 85 =» 3 wr. nn. 1 : I HAVE HEARD men buy a : package of ‘cigarets. They ste T ffic C ash up to the counter and say with| I I Bs

| Prices on Gilts, . Barrows Advance

ROE

Hog trade opened active today at the Indianapolis § yards with prices on barrows and gilts 25 to mostly 50 cents higher than Friday's average. Hogs 10,000; choice No.,1 and 2

gilts, $19 to $19.50; choice 240 to 270 pounds, $18.50 to $19; uni-

form near 240 pounds, $19.25: 270!

to 330 pounds, $17.75 to $18.50; uniform near 270 pounds, $18.75;

120 to 160 pounds around $16 to f

$17; sows about 25 cents higher; choice 300 to 550 pounds, $15.50 to $16.75; few $17.

Cattle 2000; calves 400; steers,

| quality mainly medium and good ‘only moderately active, early {sales about steady; 2 loads high medium to mostly good 1025 to

good to 33.50; good 850 to 1100 pound steers and

{good 850 to 900 pound heifers $30; {small lots medium heifers $25.50 to $30; cows active, strong to 25 cents higher; good beef cows $22| to $23; confmon and $18.75 to 822; vealers active] |steady; good and choice $34 to 3351 commond and medium $24 to

| Sheep 1000; salable supply imainly native lambs and few

to 240-pound barrows and!

1150 pound steers $32; small lot .

majority medium to low!

$ I medium |

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{mixed yearings $30 to $31.50: 2 {loads average medium to average

VFW to Send Gifts

To Dads in Korea Fairbanks Memorial Post, Vet-

(ewes; native lambs active, fully | Ported It has collected 80 Dames

{steady; good and choice various!

| weights $31 to $32; common to, {Just good mixed grade lots $26 {to $30; slaughter ewes steady; medium to choice $9 to $15, most-

{ly $12 up.

Fatal for 3

Car Rams Into ~ Parked Truck

‘Three more Hoosiers are dead today and a number of others remain in hospitals as the result of week-end traffic accidents. The dead: Roland Leisure, 43, New Castle. Howard Godby, 33, Atlanta, Ind. Clyde McAfee, 19, Kempton. | Mr. Leisure was instantly killed] early yesterday when his automobile crashed into a properly parked trailer on U., 8. 40, near Dunreith. State police said he apparently fell asleep while driving or lost, control. The truck driver, Cecil Hancock of Cincinnati was asleep in the parked vehicle and there were no witnesses. Mr. Godby was killed and his wife, Sally, 29, was critically injured at midnight Saturday when he apparently lost control of his car and crashed into a tree on| Rd. 19, near Cicero. A passenger, James Uir, 15, of Atlanta, suffered minor injuries. Two-Car Crash Mr. McAfee was killed instantly yesterday on Ind. 28, near Tetersburg and four others were injured in a two-car collision. State police said a car operated by Mr. McAfee and with Robert Swallow, 24, also of Kempton, as a passenger, crashed into a vehicle driven by Richard A. Bren-

and James Hamilton, 20, both of Elwocd, were passengers. Police said Mr. McAfee's car skidded on the ice and struck the

» IT SEEMS everybody and his

day. I saw dozens of cars. with

Some ‘of “the “stores which con tracted for turkeys early willl have them as low as 49 cents for the big toms, 160 22 pounds, and smaller, juicy hens about 67 cents. AER | Those are jo yp Bp ng key prices range from is to 70 or 75 cents. But that isn’t all

of the turkey, sold ‘at Thanksgiving for two pounds for 25 cents. They'll be about two pounds fi 29 cents. . ve

AND PRICES at the fresh vegetable counters will drive

t will be higher. Leave it in the cold, out back or Canberries, colorful teammateiin the garage. Cor

spruce, balsam and riding fenders or sticking out the windows. , nning to show the impact of early buying. ast longer, A tree will keep as well at! your house as it will on the lot.

£ Ld o ” . 3 Si ANOTHER TIP: Ask the man When Mr. Wrightsman prepared farmon. Herrington com |

brother were buying trees yester- Before

pine boughs soo $260 in cash from the Trim-| ble Corner Service Station, 302 ;

Prices are firm. But stocks are N: Meridian St. early today after Ind Mich Ei 4% pid begi

Cold Thief Warms Up

“A well-dressed; fleet-footed thief;

Don’t wait much | POUTS “keeping warm.” |

Warren Wrightsman, 28, of Castleton, manager, told police the pleasant-talking str Tr hung around the station for two

‘hours; chatting with employees. Lincoln Nat Life

who sells you the tree to sell or his bank deposit for the day and

give you extra boughs. They're turned away momentarily, the Nat Homes ofd

swell for trimming doors or mirrors or pictures.in the

Christmas-cozied living room. |

stranger grabbed the envelope and fled. 3 : Mr. Wrightsman and two others,

many a housewife to the deep| Pine smells good, too, outdoor- pursued, but the thief escaped in

r. The worst budget offen-

freeze ‘der will be fresh green beans, if - you can find them.

They'll be about 39 cents. At Thanksgiving they were 19 cents. Then cauliflower sold at 29 cents a head. It will be at least 33 cents. 2 x The reason ‘is that ¢old weather, hit Florida and Texas, snow, clogged roads, stymied trucks. Frozen foods will be the buy, just

‘a as good, too.

Bie oe PrOsecutor-Elect Fairchild Appoints Court Deputies

Frank Fairchild, prosecutor-elect of Marion County, announced!

sell about the same. » - . AND THE NUTS passed around at the end of the meal are plentiful. Here you'll do best in medium English walnuts which [ as low as 29 cents. Mixed nuts, which have not been runwill probably

ON es ; over the board, up 12' ay, down 12

ish, robust and as heady as the the crowds, ; {

Maine woods.

Easier Soon

QUITE SOON I EXPECT the Ordnance plant to soften requirements for workers. :

| Already the federal civil service

commission has simplified its hir-

his court deputies today.

John Daily was named chief trial deputy in Criminal Court, ‘Harry E. Riddell will be supervisor in Municipal Court, and : to their best quality, are 49 Scott McDonald will be chief trial deputy in Juvenile Court. ning quality. Ray

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- {Room 3; ‘Ben ‘Weaver, Room 4,

Use 20 Million Tons | Of Steel Rails in U. S. There are abcut 20 million tons {of steel rails in use in the United | States over which nearly 3 billion revenue tons are hauled each year.

Court deputy, : ; Room 2; Arthur B, Patrick,

R ner, 20, of Elwood. Jack Case, 19, Belt RR &

automobile operated by Brenner. Co

Staging Robbery i

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of children of servicemen in Korea for its special Christmas project. : The Post project is making certain that every child whose father is in Korea gets a “present frome dad.”

are children of men of every rank and many of the fathers are casualties,

Seeks List of Names |

Fairbanks Post urged that any additional names be mailed im-

mediately to Fairbanks Memorial [request.

Post and Ladies Auxiliary, 1608 N. Park Ave. Every child will receive a 50pound Christmas stocking, loaded with toys, candy and other re-| membrances from “Daddy in Korea.” | The Santa Claus Benefit Show being sposored to finance the pro-| ject will be held starting at 6:45! p.m. Thursday in Vogue Theater. The film “Casino to Korea” will be shown, and a stage show will be presented. . Korean wounded

Atterbury will be special guests.

Switchmen Walk Off

Job ‘on 3 Major Lines

TOLEDO, O. Dec. 18 (UP)— Switchmen walked off their jobs early today on three major railroads, apparently resuming their protest strike over wage negoti-ations-in- Washington. Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen began reporting “sick” on the midnight shifts of the Baltimore and Ohio, Wheeling and Lake Erie and Detroit and Toledo Shore Line railways.

Local Stocks and Bonds

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Today's Weather Fotocast .

«|Friend in Need

ai In Detroit, a collie was alive

: Alfred Bergdoll, 23, whose father n Prices Edo

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FATOEAST SCATTERED a JACI SHOWERS Tote SALEY SHOW (Co) io roms TU RAIN

Atterbury Gls IN Yule Party Host |

. ‘ Times State Service CAMP |—Approximately 250 needy children from Indianapolis, Columbus and other central Indiana [communities were special guests {of the 28th Division's 109th Regiment yesterday. s | The GI's contributed more than {$2000 in preparation for the big {camp Yule party for needy kiddies {in the area. : : | The underprivileged children, se[lected by welfare organizations in {their respective areas, were trans-

ported to Camp Atterbury in| {private cars and chartered busses ;

{by GIs of the 20 companies. Gifts ranging from toys for the [tiny tots to watches for the teenlagers were distributed. The chil\dren were treated to jeep rides tand inspection of tanks and big

dinner in the mess halls.

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Gl Insurance Bill

TODAY AND TOMORROW-—Arctic air will continue to flow over the Great Lakes area dur- |

tow choice $32.50 to, Ing the next 24 hours, with temperatures reaching lows of around zero. Some scattered snow flur--| ries are forecast during the period.

About People—

"4 Suffer Minor Injuries For Yule Project In Helicopter, Auto Crash

| Maryland Airman Brings Craft Down on | Highway in Front of Car During Emergency

i Something new has bee.f added to accident stories—a collision _ ‘between an automobile and a helicopter. ans of Foreign Wars, t0day re | Alfred Bridgeford, of Rockville, Md. was taking his family|National Service Lite Thur nce ‘for a Sunday spin in his flying windmill yesterday when the need Program,

Voted by House

Free Payments WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UP) —The House today passed unan-

limously and sent to the Senate!!® d0 what people have a {a bill to give all servicemen free

{insurance of $10,000.

The insurance would be retro-| {active to June 27, the date which the heads of governments of all

{American forces were committed |

to the Korean War.

under which service-

to make an emergency landing brought his craft down on a high- men, at their option, bought polway directly in front of a car in which Kenneth Butts, also Rock- icies at rates a little less than

ford, and his family were taking 'a Sunday spin.

somebody was | Mr. Bridgeford and his three found lots of dirt in the box, but]

fooling.

{those charged by commercial in-

They surance companies. 1 Men in service who already

sons were treated for minor in- DOthing that could possibly ex-nglq NSLI policies could keep The names collected thus’ far juries. None of the Butts family Plode.

‘was hurt.

Asped ‘to Leave

‘Home for Christmas | Little Jimmy Harris,

; : ‘stepmother had asked Santa instate their is 9-foot 2 oe a A os. (Claus to find folks in Detroit who/discharge. Premiums since June

{them, However, they could sur{render their policies while in serivice, taking the protection of the

whose gratuitious program: and then re-

NSLI policies upon

ton, D. C. hotel yesterday—by SOMld afford to keep him, will 27 would not be refunded to those

The bus boy who delivered a’ 'bottle of milk to Mr. Pasteur’s

celebrate a happy Yuletide.

The freckle-faced youngster, 1

has been taken into the home of case of eat! an aunt who hadn’t seen him! of Sah ie

{who switch to the free program. 0, Under the free program, in the beneficiary

room spread wide consternation go “yuo El aunt, Youd get 120 equal monthly pay-

when he reported “a guy's up Mrs.

Florence Hardy,

hadn’t

iments, running about $92. There

there petting a great big snake.” Lo Timmy's father’ had de.| ¥oUM be no optional methods of

A policeman found the cobra

serted the boy's jobless step-

sleeping peacefully in ‘an OPeN.. ine. Mrs Irene Harris,

suitcase, wrapped in a blanket.

{payment as there are NSLI program. ;

| The House also approved by

in the

As he packed to leave, Mr. Pas- Charity Begins at Home unanimous consent, and sent to

teur explained he operated a

snake farm in Grand Mere, Ont, sil and often takes pets traveling Foun

with him. “I'm always having

rom the Army Hospital at Camp trouble at hotels,” he said.

Teamwork Colleen Townsend, who quit a $750-a-week film career to dedicate her life to {the Church, to‘day eaid she will work beside her new husband when he enters ‘the ministry. { Miss Townsend, 21, js honeymooning at a desert resort (with Louis Evans Jr. 25, seminary student. nije Townsend {The couple was married yesterday by Dr. Louis {Evans Sr., father of the groom, ‘at Hollywood Presbyterian Church.

Ski's the Limit’ Air Force Pilot Raymond W.

"|Cobb, 24, of West Palm Beach,

Fla., will be honored Saturday as one of the few Boy Scouts in history to earn all 111 merit badges. Lt. Cobb, an Eagle Scout, completed requirements for the skiing merit badge in Stowe, Vt., since snow-less Florida gave him no chance to practice for his final dge.

today because 12-year-old Sandra Warden jumped into an icy creek to save it. on

neighbor, broke through thin ice. Sandra saw its head disappear

+|below the surface, broke the ice, a! waded in and pulled the collie out.

3} » » ” % . Yule Surprise— Robert R, MacLean, 22, adver:

tising salesman for the Oakland, Cal., Tribune, was frightened when he looked into a box delivered to. his home. Labeled “Don’t Open Until Christmas,” the box gave forth

pound stick marked “nitro gylcerine,” a complicated clock

. mechanism, two batteries and a

maze of wires. ; The hox was rushed to police headquarters, where experts said

'Bergdoll Son Dodges Draft,

Pleads Guilty

was the most notorious draft-

g the draft. : Federal Judge Sylvester J.| Ryan set Thursday, Dec. 21, for Bergdo

O'Connor,

The daughter of President Baof the National dation for Infantile Paraly-|

the White House, a Senate bill to

ATTERBURY, Dec. 18 ¢)

‘guns, and were given a big turkey

$10,000 Policy Offers

and prayers, aré scheduled. , Archie N. Lawson, president of

“Confronted with the

The free. insurance program | would replace the World War II!

leaders,

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of a war of such proportions oo re Te a

done when other helpers fail and comforts flee—turn to God. . Prayers for United Nations “We need to pray earnestly for

nations; that they be sensitive to the grave responsibility they bear to the people of the world. We need to pray for the United tions, that they may act ¥ wisdom and not with fear or with anger. " i “We must retrain, ‘trom ‘fufile criticism of our duly constituted a time 5 tional harmony. Pray, in that God will overrule wills of men .in . the universal kind.” x

grocery store

Sandra was skating on a pond{} when the dog, belonging to al]

a ticking sound. Inside were a 1-|| ¥ Wheel Balancing

" NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UP)—|

sis, left Warm Springs, Ga. for! {a Christmas trip to her White Post, Va. home today, almost cured of polio. Near recovery of Mrs, Bettyann Culver, mother of five, was made possible by the March of Dimes,’ ‘contributed through the organization her father heads. 4 ‘Ready, Willing The widow of Confederate Gen. i . t is preparing to Iput on World War II slacks and! [back the once-hated Union for the second time. Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet, now presumably in the upper 80's, sald today if war comes she'll head pack to the Bell B-29 plant! {near her Marietta, Ga., home. In| [the last conflict, she never missed

a day in two years of work as ‘an assemhler,

Long Shot : Bookie S!dney Lockyer, who faced a London jail term because he cou'dn’t pay off when a custo-

factor, Joe Eiler McCallen, of “somewhere in the U. 8.” read of Mr. Lockyer’s plight and- kent him -g $60 money order. ‘The 51year-old Britisher tried to make money at bookmaking because his small didn’t provide enough income to feed and clothe {his 20 children — 15 of them at home.

on,

{make disabled veterans of the aL or DDE nw iKorean war eligible for voca- 3 i= tional training on the same basis Phone CH-OMY as World War II veterans. — ELBY 40 Escape Death When SHEL - UPHOLSTERY CO.

mer hit for 20 pounds ($56), has|CHff to pass up stretchers bearing been saved by an American bene-|the infured. The temperature was

Bus Plunges OFf Cliff

GRAND FORKS, B. C., Dec 18 (UP)~—Forty University of Brit- ge ish Columbia students mirac- . ulously d death yesterday when their Greyhound bus plunged 400 feet down a mountain cliff, aaa ci Five persons were injured, two seriously, police reported. } The loaded bus ripped through pine trees as it careened wildly. down the slope, finally coming to rest in a dry creek bed. i Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the bus missed a curve on! the winding trans-Canada highway and headed . straight down the 400-foot embankment. Snow and rain had made visibility poor. Police and passing motorists formed a human chain down the

near freezing.

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