Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1951 — Page 6

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starts with a whistle in InDriven by shrill blasts from fortune grows from the thun-

‘dering hooyes of about 2.5 million Read of stock passing yearly

om the swirling dust in the heat of summer and the bitter ‘cold of midwestern winters, the endless stock flow has built a ~ business second only to the steel fndustry in size and importance bose Stockyards President : as Stockyards Presiden Charles Ranh put it: © “That's all cash on the barrelhead.” ‘ment built on the basic task of féeding a nation and dealing in one of the most ancient measures . of wealth—the domestic beast. . Jt 1s a business of wits and deeision, where yesterday's successful action cannot be accepted as the basis of success tomorrow. It is a business dependent on the strength of the spoken word for thousands of dollars worth of sales are made on competitive bids each day, with néver a contract signed.

World ‘Hog Capital’

Sales volume built on this “priwate treaty market” has boosted the Indianapolis Stockyards to its ‘place .as the “hog capital of the world,” though it ranks third nationally in the over-all annual stock count, " Compensating factor is the quality of the Hoosler hog. Big eastern buyers prefer the cornfed product. More than two mil‘Hion hogs alone go through the _pens here annually, The long, low moan of the stock handlers rolls from chutes scat“tered over 56 acres on the near ‘Southwest side. The slap of the driver's cane and the snap of the sguide whip crackles in 2000 pens on the grounds where more than 2,363,000 animals were sold for

: 250,000 owners in 1950. “8 Livestock “ne job for

commission selling is the fly-by-nighter. At the Indianapolis market a man with 25 years in the business here is almost in the jumior class, There are several with at least «BO years service at the yards. 4 A young man who wants to ‘ilearn the trade often serves as long as 10 to 12 years before he is allowed to represent a customer and sell his first animal,

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There are 13 eommission firm members of the local livestock sxchange, and their records range from 12 to 70 years service. Firet of thess opened with the

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TO MARKET, TO MARKET—These ambling pork chops are sub: ward bound from Indianapolis, to eastern markets.

yard operation back in 1877 when| There they will pit their buyer's the buildings and pens for 3000 gkil] against the know-how of the a 25.000 hogs covered commission men, There is no The meat packing industry was |SPecific price tag on the incoming becoming well developed then, and Stock The buyer and seller es- |

ming the yards and railroad lines and bickering. i which made Indianapolis their| The commission man may hub, show his wares to half a dozen Traffic pulled the market up by buyers and hear their private fts bootstraps and the Beit Rail-|Bids. But when he verbally acroad was built to circle the city cepts an offer, again in private, and relieve the shipping backlog. 811 other proposals are off. The The booming démand for stock deal is completed at the scales over-rode a disasterous fire which where the shipment is weighed. swept the yards in 1904 and busi-| Since operation of the local ness went on uninterrupted. The shipping market started, there yard still operates 24 hours a day, | has been a marked shift from with sales based on a five-day-irall transportation to trucks. week schedule; Every month approximately There is a force of 600 charged! 18,000 roll into the grounds with with maintenance of the equip-|& consignment or to pick up a

ment and the care and feeding of | Shipment. stock at the yards, Of the total hog shipments that

Game of Skill {come into the yards here, about Population on the grounds swells the state to the eastern buyers.

when the buyers go in for a check/hers than any other yard in the of the day’s stock receipts. world.

Lucky Ain't A-Talkin’ After Police Let Him Go

NAPLES, Italy, Jine 9 (UP)—, Police sources said Luciano, Charles (Lucky) Luciano, former|Who has been living a carefree

life in Naples and on the Isle of New York vice king, was released Capri, was arrested last night at

by police today after 20 solidithe Hotel Turistico here and

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the Influx of livestock was jam- tablish that through Inspection!tion’s hog capital.

{three fourths are shipped out of cattle

by another 135 persons every day More hogs are moved out from roll-back controversy in Wash-

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ALL ABOARD-—Skilled crews move hundreds of semitrailer loads

of cattle out of the local livestock terminal every day.

“And about $200 million returns,

most of that goes to the farmer.

side the Hoosier borders, por. Geography plays a major role!

in making Indianapolis the na-| Closer To East

which require periodic rests for shipped livestock,

eastern seaboard than any other | major midwestern hog market.

And Indiana is well into the] corn belt, producing the stock grades demanded in the east,

As many as 60 stock cars have been shipped out loaded in one day, and as many as 250 truck loads have been shipped in the! same period. ! Stock averages ‘were booming along at the usual rate last week when they suddenly collapsed in, lines and then spurted ahead at the heels of the price!

ington. There have since been predictions that cattle receipts will pick up, while stockmen go after the maximum price. Later, say some forecasters, the nation can look| for a beet shortage. The oldsters of the commission trade, those with 50 years behind! them, are hard-put to explain the

hours of questioning, reportedly quizzed steadily. Tonight, howon charges he brought $57,000 ever, Luciano appeared and a new Amarican aiitomobile| hotel. He looked {rim and dapper, [into Italy illegally. but refused to talk.

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| “There is nothing monotonous! Police found Carl A. Abbott, 45! to the state from these sales out-iapout it, no two days are the | Valparaiso, same, What you do today may | not be the best thing to do to-/grynken driving and leaving the {morrow,” he said. “There is noth- scene of an accident. i

ing like it in the world.” Or maybe it's the feel of action, said the accident Abbott was in-| ling dust in the summer, volved in was “minor.” He sald ng cold of the winter, and |Abbott’s the wailing “0000HAAAAAAo000” from him as was customary be- | Indianapolis of, the stock drivers muffled by cause this precaution “was not | is one shipping day closer to thethe sound of thudding hooves,

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