Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1951 — Page 15

and Engineer Joe Banta study for Shelbyvi

Forty years ago

Di fied Now Diversi & booming furniture town. The town 4 * furniture barons lived in the biggest houses on the widest streets. |vately, has just completed 49 low|Pri0ary, despite his record of i The rest did the best they could.|and medium cost homes. June 16| In 1930 Shelbyville had 20 inIVILLE, June 18...) plants; 18 manutectured|planned. At present, the goal is, lg the depression(25 houses, but the youngsters eaders organized the Shelby Inranquil, tree-shadedhit, the town’s one-industry econ-| around city hall figure the maxi.|Justries, Inc. to bulld a factory

was shattered completel large enough to house 25 workomy pletely! mum will be more like 150 homes. or. Today this Dull 18 direct.

ly responsible for the employCutting a wide swath through|ment of more than 600 persons. 0 And now more buildings are for things are happening here, j., ing has netted this town a/nonpolitical youthful engineer and being planned to attract outside

"By DON TEVERBAUGH : Times Staff Writer

th has a toe-hold on|surniture. When

highly diversified

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Mayor ' 's future. that have never occurred before ~and-the local folk like it.

ty seat town. And even a ,,4 ne townsfolk sprawled into of “Uncle” won't make mass unemployment. L go. But there is little chance of that happening again.

tern. Of its 43 industrial plants,|26, came highly recommended by 18 are metal, seven furniture, five| Purdue University.

trades, two printing, raphy, ‘and sign manufacturers, Other plants include the many Bisctare Soe ye iaition of such Joe Banta has done more for the Symmeditiss Jape » Sass, pas . So an a been done In the|ghelpyville . , . things are haphousehold equipment,

Blueprint for Action

But there's more , . .

managed by 27-year-old Warren|ization of the sewerage "system, 3 a. : Spangle, has ma a compl - he : . {blueprint for A part ods, replacing old fashioned city AND THE MISSISSIPPI hiel includes organising, list- Squtpament, and sazsying out a : classifying, and reclamation pro along all of the town's Industrial he the Big Blue River,

“we're initiating Pits Tcaceiatng the Shel survey, which will include all of information sites, locations, the local labor market, and other pertinen

Mr. Spangle explained how this| Now he is busy working on the industries $0 bid on prime war|flood and erosive damage and cts in competition with in-|yleld 13 acres for additional city les from larger areas, by|park land.

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JULY 12-13; 1951 TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. |

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Pickett

And the same progressive

A housing project, financed pri-

tion to a 38-year-old candidate. A second such project is now 3 ye

Busy Engineer Careful [the old conservatists, Shelbyville’s industrial pat- street commissioner, Joe Banta, industry.

three. needle

park project.

ning here. His work includes: Initiation of Peuing here

Mayor Harold ¥., Pickett, who thinking and planning is beingitook office when only 38 years of Shelbyville was carried out throughout the entire| o. 40.4 himself labeled “not

enough” at the last

achievement. He lost the nomina-

Back in 1940 a group of civic

“Shelbyville is bustin’ at the seams,” comments John DePrez, Right now Joe is busy saving| publisher of the Shelbyville News, photog- an estimated $15,000 on a 13-acre “We're confident in this town, so : much so that we've just installed In a year, the city hall boys say, new rotary presses for the News.”

And that's the way it is in

a long range street improvement program, outlining the functions of Commerce, [of the plan commission, modern-

improving garbage disposal meth-

In working on the sewerage system, Mr. Banta was forced to use a mine detector to locate many of Shelbyville’s manholes, some of which were paved over, nd others which hadn't been opened in 40 years.

New Land for Park

Mr. Spa the’ Shel

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‘City Of Shelbyville Is Going. Places

Times Photos by Bill Oates,

NEW HOMES—Forty-nine new low and medium-priced homes for Shelbyville; mere to come.

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