Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1950 — Page 58
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finger-shaking at business.
Everyone who manufactures or sells can point. more 3g of Ioeeipta, less Active. with directions than he has fingers in placing the blame for high
prices.
Every manufacturer, whole-| saler or retailer will demand that! AMONG THE FIRST evidenecs
his own costs be cut before he! rices. Then they will, onich ged sien pass the Mh on |S reported a heavy run on tires. go): choice uniform near
to customers. = =
» "VE BEEN TALKING with 3 BS dds today. They have] METAL GOODS is going at &/sows 25 to mostly 50 cents higher; voluntary order, Jeoken ih The yn an down or Pliances don’t know whether it 18/$16.50 to $17.50: Fags weights near else,” and nearly every one con-| lush Christmas buying or if it hasg00 pounds and above, $15.75 to tends he is making no more in|
frofis percentage than Jast res, A merchant reported. yesterday slaughter classes active, steers
hat he had a carload of auto-land yearlings strong in limited and some of the food stores, are t y not “playing the market.” That] Hille Washers in, and sold them price tests; cows strong to unmeans they are not putting up|in a day prices on old merchandise when Mince Wince
the cost of replacing it goes up. Hs
IN METALS, they point to eat all of the mince meat you/medium weight steers $33; several
steel, copper, zinc and aluminum. |
They want the side street chisel-|
ers washed out of the picture.
But some of the stuff comes from cares? It's a holiday delicacy|/cows $22.50 to $23.50; odd head Man platoon that disappeared on outside the country. There our with a solid run from Thanks-|$24 to $25; common and medium! money is good, but our govern- giving to New Year's Day. {$19 25 to $22.
ment orders get laughed at.
Lots of the steel increase comes| OTHER ITEMS on the hop arebeef sausage bulls $24 to $26.50. from handling, buying the stuff/paper products, due for a quick] Vealers active, steady; good raw, and shipping it from plantirise of about one cent a roll. And| land &hoice $34 to $36; common to plant to get it processed. That soaps are sliding up. That's the and medium $24 to $33:
{vegetable oil market. | Sheep 1000; ewes scarce; all hg gti oT search-
ing parties to look for the missing members of the Royal
adds freight, real cost.
man has a $10 Hd Pe ae for $12. When €rop is beginning to show up onisteady; bulk good and choice his cost goes up to $12, he con-/canned goods shelves. Prices are /native wooled lambs, including tends he should have not a $2/Up In wholesale about 2% cents weights up to 109 poufids, $31.50 profit, but a $2.20 profit, based a can.
on his investment, =
THERE'LL BE SOME snarls in this, some¥lusty fights with the
/ HAROLD H. HARTLEY 3 Re by Times Business Editor I a Ee be mata
THE VOLUNTARY rollback will be a strollback. Indianapolis At the moment it means nothing more than a fatherly |or price advance. Livestock of-
Attribute Rise To Receipt Shortage
ficials attributed the rise to short-
most bids 25 to 50 cents higher ueans the Jughost standard Hoo- than yesterday's average. It was
‘War Buying? to the yards today.
“ " $20 to $20.50, few loads $20.75; jof “storing up” for a war came, 154 choice No. 1 214 pounds, to light this week when tire deal-/g51. 249 to 270 pounds, $19.50 to
240 One of the big outlets here told pounds, occasionally $20.25; 270 to |m me, “I can’t keep them In stock.”|325 pounds, $18.75 to $19.50; 120 to 160 pounds, around $17 to $18; {clip But merchants selling ap-/choice 300 to 550 pounds, mostly
a little war-scarcity steam behind $16.50. . | the push. Cattle 900, calves 400; ay
evenly 50 cents higher; odd head
load and several odd choice
{
want before the first of the year./lots good yearlings $32 to $32.50: Look for it to jump in January|scattered medium and good
Choice 170 to 240 pounds mostly
quarters.
choice yearling steers $36; part Platoon Disappears
| YOU'LL SAVE MONEY if you|mediumweights $35; load gooa| While Training in Bush PEMBROKE, Ont. (UP)—Soldiers searched heavily, Ne. wooded country today for a 30-!
about «20 per cent. ~ But who heifers $28 to $31; good beef
ss = | Bulls steady; medium and good
The shortage in the tomato slaughter? classes active; fully
to $32.50; short load good and And that goes for catsup andichoice 89 pound fed wooled {chili sauce, too. {western lambs $32; deck good and {choice mear 97 pound fall shorn). Dragonleather {yearlings $26.50; nearly 2 decks] KAISER-FRAZER came out to-
men,
vernment. And there'll be some bd business about what are day with a new custom line legitimate expenses, some loose called the Golden Dragon Serfes.| handling of money and charging They're hardtops with snappy it to the cost of doing business. {body colors and a mew type up-
and choice 102 pound! {weights $26.75; bulk slaughter | jewes salable $12 to $15.
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Fairchild Announces
It this sounds like economic holstery in leathery alligator pat.
terns. It's called “Dragonleather. They're using it to cover 3 More Appointments
| Three more appointments were padded dash panel, seats, door {panels and the rear window shelf. | ade today by Prosecutor-elect| And the colors—well rub your Frank Fairchild to complete his eyes—they’re. scarlet, Carribean Lore Py i ruths Ehedes, | | icoral, tropical green, black Indian They are: Charles Russell and | {Gerald Ohrn, civilian investiga-| Paint in Reverse |reporter- stenographer for the MOST PAINTS DRY when ex- Grand Jury. a posed to air. Here's one which]
| doesn't. Local Stocks and Bonds
It stays thin so long as or
Greek, boil it down this way: The chiselers who have specu-| lated and put prices up Talsely are in for trouble, ” BUT THE BUSINESSES you know here in town, the
spectable old-line stores and, Ceramic and Burma brown,
manufacturers have too much!
character about them to be af-| fected much. They play itl
straight. And they don't jump a
ce tag the minute they hear
e manufacturer's price has gone!
They base prices on what they pay in cash, And there's Sotho wrong with that,
Hucklebuck
LAST NIGHT I had a pleasant dinner with Homer Archer and his 100 employees out at McClarney's restaurant. Homer was there, fed every. body, gave them a good time, and thanked them In his earthy, com-mon-sense way. Then he passed out the dough, about $30,000 to those who had
helped him through a successful ar.
Highlight of the evening was ||. Advertising Group llndols P
Floyd Jenkins dancing the “Hucklebuck,” a shifty, sizzling rhythmic step, along with Joe the walter, white-capped and aproned. And after I heard the report on how well Homer had done, I thought that dance dedicated to the success of the Harry A, Sharp Co. tHomer's president): should have been called something beside “Hucklebuck.” “Hustlebuck,” I'd say.
Taste of Tomorrow THE STUFF WE BUY, but not to fight with, was booming in midNovember. That was in the last
stage of the get-ready push for|
Christmas. It was the factories making things of metal, which pushed Indiana’s non-farm jobs to 1,277,000.
And that included about 21,000
more jobs than had ever been on the books in 1950,
{table Sesurities 8 60 © «. 9 hs “JOHN CRISE, | official state job) Two utility experts hired by! Hamilton Mig Co ls " 5 asst tounter, gave out the figure, saw the state fo examine the records|[nqo|t Lait & Cor :
ft was a whopper. - But he knows, | If war production hits its stride, | the November figure will look!
pretty puny alongside of what's|.
to come. When that many people are working in Indiana, it means that
many families are getting their aid they found “several -dis-
food regularly, sleeping in out of crpencies” in the records but de-! the cold, and buying lots of things clined to make them public. VENEER SALESMAN
to make life Sasier,
IN FACTORIES making things prepare several exhibits. A- public |] Continuous supply of finest materials of metals, employment was up 117] hearing of the Indianapolis Rail- gnces and background. All replies strict.
per cent. Those are just figures. |
But when translated into living it] Jan. 17.
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{bubbles stream through it, hard-| STOCKS : i Asked | {ens when away from air. {American gtates com ...... 4 What's the stuff good for? It's a, iAgratire Collisries com wh un “seal” for tiny cracks and plumb-| [Belt RR & Stk Yrds ptd..... 62%
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for General Electric and has a|.300bs-Merrill prd ¢ia% named coined by Louis Pasteur. jCirele. theater com It's “anaerobic permafil.” The a he Bid .“ pnd 1% “permafil” tells what it does. The) ‘Camaiiiums eifance § TRE “anaerobic” means ‘“‘non-air-liv.|igontinCar-Na-V 3 ing.” E at rn ina Teie 5 pid There's lots more, but we won’t| Fam co bother. All we want to know is| fami ro pia what it is, and what it does. H §
RR & Stk Yrd 35 ing connections. It is developed sobbs-Merrill com Bu 15%
I don’t even care wh ra TA re d ¥. Hook Drug Co. errr 1nd rf RL : » . Six Are Initiated ing Shen abu urd
Initiated last night as honorary In SRE Wate com members of the Merle Sidener +[ndols Water Co 5% Chapter, Alpha Delta Sigma, ad- sindbis Water fin’ uife com m; Hn vertising fraternity, were six In- Kosa 5 So com vo 3% dianapolis advertising executives. | Lincoln Nat Lije on Sam Freeman, vice president of {jich Comp
Herrington com the L. Strauss & Co. spoke at] Mastic oehsphalt the ‘meeting at Butler University. {Nat Homes ofa "70.1 Inducted werde George Madden, | N {0g fob sich (0m oa publicity director, William H. |X Ing Pub Serv 44a oid . Block Co.; Howard Caldwell,|*Progress Laundry com...
president, Caldwell-Larkin Co.;| I Serv of Ind 30°
a training problem. One officer and 29 men left nearby Petawawa camp yester-inight in Yankeetown and charged day morning to train in the bush] several miles away. They were! due back for supper last night
Canadian regiment's 2d t of Korean reinforcements. The platoon carried no rations and was not equipped to spend the night outd
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be 04 & a lof the city's transit system com- ind Lim estone 4s "rs “is 3 LL | Ind Asso Tel 3s 7% 9 - pleted their preliminary survey | 1ndois Railways 8s 67 50% {today Kut \ner Facking 4s 0 4 “ angsenkamp B “w Nn } Me experts, William Stiegel-| § Ind Pub ory sa’ ne + 104% 0 | meler and Willlam Hammond of eager Art Go. aslo wed | Chicago, made the report to Pub- Traction Terminal 5a §7 ..... 82 .e
tEx dividend " lic Counselor Walter Jones. They ‘Listed Stocks
Bo 4 of Freelance commission man for Indian i th men are leaving for Chi lertitery to sell mahogany face veneers {cago tomorrow where they will]} and mahogany rough dimension lumber.
assured. Give full particulars, refer-
confidential: Address: Veneers. 815 ways, Inc, case will be held 3, Sontda Ave.. Jenkintown, Pehna.
egal Notices CE TO y TAXP AYERS O JomicE 10 APPROPRIATION Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers of erty ol Tewnahin of Marton Coun a
day of em 19! lowing additional’ appropriation | me the emergency xisting at this dme: | emergency exis 1" Bers K civil To wnship of Marion County, |
Ind) HT ear APP Pru ON AND
To keep you [ff \ 1 BEE AGE y s1.00000] \ informed ‘ee ‘The foregoing a oar ation is ‘in addi- |
vided for in the tion to AppIOn pristions provide Neretotore! Pent own, anslorting of funds ua set out
pi of the Beh wnalip FEN
George L. Dean, of and Traffic Officer Harold put the finishing touches on the
Christmas free which has been set up in the lobby at police head-
Local Truck Grain Prices
‘Arrest oS Man In Hit-Run Death
State police arrested Johnny
him with the Monday night hitrun death of Guy Watson, 64,
Mr, Watson was killed near Hatfield as he walked along the
Police said Schoeppe admitted he was the driver of the death car and did not stop after striking down Mr. Watson, He is held for a preliminary hearing in Rock-
5 ultra Pal Can't Get a Lift
with seats large enough for conversion into beds, defense officers d.
Services of Indianapolis Nash as a registration center were volunteered by W. A. Crawemeyer, company president, who presented the volunteer ambulance program to Mr. Thurston. Similar centers will be set up throughout the state, the director declared.
U. S. Statement
WASHINGTON, Dec. (UP) —Government expenses and dota 1 for the current fiscal year through Dec. 18, compared with a year i
s$ yy $19. 4 at Ta ts in 13.413.815. Catt Bal, y BL: ,919, 3 Pu Debt 258,768, 257.017.203.81 Res. 32.925.958,1 71 24,426.135,563 INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE
oors, officers said.
Debits
the Red-Nosed
ass fon Tusy so he sent elephant.
‘Packy the Ponderous
Club's Christmas for children at the Hotel night,
- - THE CHIMNEY, the elevator and the back door were all too small for Packy. Only the wide I Sunt doors Would let: him squesss
So Larry Combs, hotel manager, flashed the word and the {youngsters descended on the lobby to enjoy their Christmas party there.
many ——————————— Dr. H. C. Winckelbach To Head Podiatrists on | Dr. H. C. Wincklebach of Indianapolis, was elected the first president of the newly formed Marion County section of the Central Indiana Podiatrists As-
t. He will direct the foot specialists’ part of the county’s civil defense program. He will be assist: ed by Dr. R. E. Tanner, chairman of the civil defense committee for the organization. Other officers elected include Dr. E, W. Mode of Indianapolis,| vice president, and Dr. C. 8. Filiatreau of Indianapolis, secretary-
Ander Trustee
Wins by 4 Votes ANDERSON, Dec. 20 (UP)— Russell Welch, Republican, was elected Anderson Township trustee by five votes over Walter Democrat, Nov. T. 1'Whetstone asked for a recount. Madison Circuit Court officials Sala today the recount showed a change of only one vote, and Weleh 1 won by four instead of five
at South Bend, has been named Indianapolis division plant su{perinténdent.
Thompson, toll facilities engineer, has , been appointed d1istrict plant superintendent at !South Bend.
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The Indiana Bell Telephone €o, lannounced three personel changes today, ! Paul F. Brown, Indianapolis division plant superintendent, be{comes assistant personnel Sitfe-
Claude Zollinger, district .
superintendent
Howard H.
Mr. Brown has
Pe a Bell sints ~ Mr, Zollinger entered co service in 1928, and Mr,
son, a native of
started with the company in 1 as assistant traffic supervisor
Indianapolis.
Local Produce
un - v Ibs. and
17¢: an oy gs. 2° snd No 3 poultry, fod - ‘Butterfat—No. 1, 55: No. 3, 53.
ONLY 3 MORE DAYS!
...and what hectic days they'll be! Right now Santa * is busy packing his sleigh &. The jolly old Fellow © rarely forgets anyone, but YOU, in the rush of lastminute “3% shopping, might forget someone most important. Check ,/” now and //” again. Come to Murphy's TH, these next three days for everything you need {#. You'll find intimate gifts ({_\ for her. Toys for all good little girls & and boys
course there ‘are ties 4 and socks J for Dad as well as tools ¥=—x5 for the mechanically inclined. A sweater {{pto please Grandma (@. .. comfy slippers 4
for "Gramps" 42)! There are lamps and shades 4 £ to
merry with music §&=.. traditional Christmas records
enough hres lights and a .. also gift wraps
and ties . Above all have plenty of candy €® on hand for + your family and for all your guests!
make her home @ more beautiful... and cosmetto make her prettier, too! Make the day for S¥eiyone enjoys these : &D. Be sure you have
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