Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1951 — Page 36
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It’s what they call “the last half,” the sprint or stumble |
through the next six months.
af Big ? Hanging = Over Business 4 By Harold Hartley
WADING THROUGH the last week of June's white clover, business, from time clock line to button-pushing
Real Estate. | The Indianapolis Times [sn ; ection Four SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1651 i : Clases pier “
Business
*300,000 Low-Priced Homes Project To Erect 35 ‘Prefabs’ In Northeast
toward a starless night.
Wispy question marks hang everywhere on the horizon.
What will Congress do about controls How will the
Controlled Materials Plan work? Will it kill off the little fellow, starve him out? ! # a = AND STORES HAVE biggest years, It’s last year's figures, and trying to beat them.
Last mid-year the public was
grabbing everything it could get its hands on, and asking the price later. It was a hoarder’s spree. And those figures were far from normal. But this year the consumer is
normal. He's got his breath back,
working out of his time payments, and he no longer scares when someone says, “There's gonna be & shortage.” H n ” AS A BUYER, the consumer is war-broke. You could shoot
a cannon ten feet away and |
he'd never grab a white shirt or a white sheet, a tire, or bag of sugar. He may be wrong. But for a couple of months, he's been betting he isn't. Steel and other metals, rubber and somé chemieals, will be sgponged up by defense plants. And I am still willing to say that
quite a bit of civilian goods will] disappear in the second half of {ars had ever taken on the |
the year.
» » o THIS IS THE LAST week of the government's spending year. Next week the boys shovel out the tax money will have a brand new pile. Watch it go. . If anything has been held up by low federal funds, the flood gates will swing wide next week. And orders should go on a ram-
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» y ” TAKE THIS WITH, or without a grain of salt, But if the government's ever going ’ to town, it ought to be now.
better nail! their windows shut, |
T » y be some jumping. ’ , i here may ome jumping .| That's why there's been a grab- aU tomatic transmission, air
Shrink Fitting
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v ; evergreens, hoth needle and broadI HAD LUNCH with Bob Web- PVeTBTee x foreshadows | Smoother performance.
+ trouble for the nurseries. 2740 Madison Ave. With him Was/™'p "yo ohnitzius of the New Au./modern building,
his sales manager, C. M. (Mike) Shelburn. i We drove down to a quiet spot! near Greenwood, called Green Acres, a roadside eatery, with clean white table cloths and a| home atmosphere. It was "swiss steak, and I saw cocoanut pie four inches high. i Bob Webber has a mile-wide imagination. "His inventive mind searches new horizons like radar.| He's deep in deep freezers, not only for consumers, but for industry.
= u » ON THE WAY back to town, we stopped in his expanding factory. He showed me a freezer, and said, “Stick your hand in.” Then he said, “Wave your hand.” 1 could feel the cold air as if it were. slushy ice | water, Then he pulled out the thermometer. It read 60 below. | He makes these sub-Arctic cold boxes for Wright-Patterson Field, Allison’s, "Mallory’s, the Duncan Meter Co. at Lafayette, Studebaker up in South Bend and the Indiana Gear Co.
” ” 2 HERE'S HOW they are used. A| lot of defense work has Alaska! and polar flying in mind. Parts and instruments have to prove they can operate at 50 or 60 below. He provides these temperatures. But the big field, coming | fast into its own, is shrink- | fitting. It's so simple, it's been | overlooked for years. When one | metal part Is to fit into another | part permanently, it is dropped | to 50 below, then dropped info place with asbestos gloves.
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» ” ” WHEN IT RISES to room temperature, it expands and it stays.! Some companies already are using cold-shrunk rivets, They never come out. They can’t. | And my > guess is that Bob Webber, only a few years ago,| a trouble shooter for the Indi-| anapolis Light & Power Co. at $35 a week, is sitting on the edge of something: bigger than he ever dreamed existed.
Hear Harold Hartley with “The Human Side of Business” on WISH at 3 p.m. today.
LANDSCAPED BUNGALOW—This brick home was sold by John Marker of the Edsel Co. for Carl F. Fahrbach. Located at 1710 Loretta Drive, it has a:living room fireplace and is near
¥ =c.t High School. Bu iers wer. Jerry. Clayton and wife.’
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{ iranch houses, And if it doesn’t, hotels had |p 0 (OF
Sign on the Door
ROCKWOOD MANUFACTUR-|
[ING Co., which made transmis{sions for farm iquitting, after 65 years. |
| It happened quietly. This week| theiria sign went up on the door. It| up-coming headache in told of the decision to liquidate.!
| It wasn’t labor
it was the irrefutable truth, trols and current pressures, private and political, found it | couldn’t operate and make a decent profit. { About 100 employees had been
making their daily trips for| bread money to the plant at 1801| English Ave, {
But that day is done.
‘Holiday Dry-Up THE WATER COMPANY'S pumps have been running hot. A lot of things cause it. Hot weather turns on the lawn hoses, | runs the showers, uses more wa-| ter in automatic clothes washers. Then industry is bulging. And| industry is always thirsty. Last Monday the pumps | churned out 68,020,000 gallons. | That was a record, the heaviest pull the company’s 107,400 cus-
water lines.
{| ON HOLIDAYS we lay off the {water taps. I think the abstainers
{are mostly industry. But the gal lons will drop almost a third on Christmas, New Year's, July 4 or Memorial Day. | The dryup isn’t all industry. U've known some who don't touch water on holidays after they get out of their morning shower. |
Slow There, Too
LOW RAMBLING, limestone need rich-looking The green and the gray go together,
up of low-growing, slow-growing |
ber of the Webber Appliance Co., '®21:
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gusta Nursery tells me the labor shortage has slowed the evergreen industry, i s » ” | GOOD EVERGREENS are just as slow to grow in a nursery as
fin a front yard. It takes more od designing all plans in meas- pointed out. 'ithan two ‘years of cultivation be- urements divisible by four inches.| Right now building costs are
fore they're sold. There's not! enough labor to keep the supply coming.
equipment, is
. . particular. It wasn't taxes alone. It wasn’t | EW Ul in shortage of raw materials. But | that the company, under con- Methods Save
be 7] Two or Three-Bedroon w Designs Are Available
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In $7700-$9500 Range Rolling into the low-priced housing field on giant rubber tires of broad-shouldered trailer wucks, the “prefabs” are mushrooming in Indianapolis. shit The J & L Realtors is putting final touches on an
initial 28-home project at Bolton and 32d Sts. And now,
BUT EARLIER—The house fits together in numbered sections the Arm is about ready to start a second development of like a model airplane kit. 35 “factory-made” homes in
hin - the 3100 and 3200 blocks on 1 Sal . Br 5 SEE fh Adams St. es a . ie
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FINISHED PRODUCT—AIl assembled, the pre-fab looks like
any other house.
The first 28 sold like “hot! cakes,” according to dealer W. P.| . i Jennings. The second batch, ort | which will start popping about!
mid-July, will sell at $7700 to! : wii Sa i $0500, depending on: whether or! y if not basements are demanded. . | fd ors The homes, coming in numbered | . : sections somewhat like parts of| : a model airplane kit, go up in| The Associated North Bide short order and “everything is Realtors reported 46 sales during under roof” by nightfall, {the week of June 10-18, topping , They come in two or three- the previous week's sales total by A bedroom. designs and include & nine. : { kitchen, living room and utility oe room. ‘The kitchen has Youngs-|, Jitk Oo Carr: due reported 18 | J
town steel overhead cabinets and ~ _/the week. “They were: T7480 B. “ double sink. Automatic, blower 138th St; 2153 N. Wallace 8%:
Material, Time.
Shortages Beaten By Ingenuity Comes the revolution . . .
No, not the Commies, This is a different kind of revolution.
i i : all. ; . : type oil heat and a gas water 3 ¥ This is the revolution WHICh is EARLIER STILL—Workmen slide off a half-section of a side wall. Next step—fit 'er in place Bar APE in0 Be ee Sood = = York St. 7531 i The builders have agreed to/Morningside Dr; 1047 Winder
' now taking place in the building and fasten er down,
and contracting industries.
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|leave the walls and ceilings in {natural finish—-a rich cream color
mere; 3204 N, Keystone Ave. Also 1515 E. Ohio St. 3345"
Faced with severe : ’ * amont an nunaing materiais ana [11'S Hard to Find a Place
(“Yankee ingenuity.”
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unnatural rising costs, today’s
. Pro ose to Build lor to decorate as desired at | A * islight extra charge. Walls are 3
jconstructed of a granular-grained
t Sturdy Construction
| Despite the swift construction, these “factory-made” houses are
architec i is i ® | joe foot 35a builder > i eeting To Park a Parking Lot Four New Schools |shock resistant fiber board. ’
The problems of today in the By DON TEWSRBAUGH building field are a smug chal-|
: he ; ; : . ep lenge to the profession. And the Promoting more of the Street parking Areas In this |tough. Tests made at Purdue boys are picking up (he gauntlet. Parking-starved city is a commendable and highly rotarian| Ig l NS {University show that the walls The Problem act. And don't think that the Indianapolis realtors haven'y 4 i {will withstand 250 Joe. Plessure . i i , The baby boom will bounce into per square foot—-5la times ihe The problem is to find worthy been doing this for the past few years, Indtanancis schools with addi- requirement of the U. 8. Bureau Substitutes for scarce materials;) ~~ But parking spots are hard to find—you are probably tional thousands of shouting, of Standards. 0 find new ways of performing! : \laughing, hop - scotching first] These same tests also showed operations. and — at the same Vell aware of the fact. {laughing p g | time—maintain the same pace!
: yt |graders at the opening of theithe roofs of the pre-fabricated They are just as hard to 11952 fall term. {houses could carry a and quality at reduced costs. In other words, they've got to
indoor temperatures as much as] : find from an office desk as 15 to 20 De And the school board is going equal to 10% feet of
‘they are from behind the [to be ready for them.
do things the hard way. : {105 mile per hour wind. But the results are coming Wheel of your car. Tree Gifts is AN Oe. Their floors withstand weights through steadily. | There aren't any left downtown,, The current home building p lof 102 Ibs. per square foot. Most
ildi { ; ‘new high school, three new eleModern building ean reasona-! 7 talked it over with L., H. boom has revived the old custom| ary schools, and eight addi-
bly be compared with the mod- Lewis, head of the Real Estate of giving trees to newly wedded | ern auto. This is the day of the Board's downtown committee, couples. The custom has lon gt BY 10 presen schools. ° And after our chat, the gitua- Peen practiced in Europe and | F conditioning, streamlined design, {ion looked even more black. Japan. Trees are considered sym-
greater safety, less upkeep, | There are some lots now being belie of fertility and happiness, it
|building codes require only 40 ibs.
total | Mass production of these hous-
cost of to Mr,
lower
{High School to be built at Madi- for the according
And that's what i ihe § ‘used for parking, which eventu- {son Ave. and Pleasant Run Pkwy. homes, n ats what 1s coming In|. ,y will be sites of large muilti- Free Booklet | “The city needs this school and nings. according to] i on't bi ha man until it Arthur Wupper, prexy of the In. floored office buildings, or depart- P : iI won't be a pPY ig Tr, p r Iment stores. rom trees to lumber is a log= gets it, commented Emil + dianapolis Society of Architects. | } ical switch , . . , It's inevitable. As soon as the Lumber Co.. 1 H | : New Technique 'material shortage ends and gov- umber Co, 136 8. Harding St. commission. |drops cost, but enables the huildlers to order exact specifications,
“We've developed new tech- ernmental restrictions are lifted, offers a new free booklet which Money Available te. he added “I think with the: money we SULHPE waste, he :
: » discusses various painting prob-| niques more fully,” he points out.!some of these lots will net greater ? { “For example, the modular meth- returns for other uses, Mr, Lewis lems and how to handle same. |
Broadcast
This cuts down on labor costs! ahout three or four times over| “Housing Headlines,” a tremendously, reducing fitting, what we consider normal, he add- ‘minute radio broadcast sawing, and other time-taking|ed, But as business gains balance, household and home builders’| better uses will be found for this problems, is
Cuts Waste Materials are purchased in
about Project at full speed,” he added. | roofed plywood outside walls. All The last large building project 0 fully insulated in the walls, sponsored by the Was the $750,000 addition to the ceiling and floor.
snow | and withstand the pressure of an!
{budget for the building project is|es in the “housefactory” at La-| earmarked for the new Manual fayette is the apparent reason, Ave. 5236 Winthrop Ave.
these Pleasant Run Pkwy. and 5124
The Continental |ghaad, chairman of the building! ..i» 10ad lots, which not only!
| you do with the rest of it?
And it looks as if home land- steps. seapers will have to get in line! «yy jiyewise cuts waste by en- type property. get their orders in far ahead if abling mor specific-orders of ma-| And he's right. they want their homes filigreed terials and speeds up designing, : with evergreens. work.” he added. L Profits
People, Mostly This was started just prior to| Managers of the lots indicate Insurance men, always on the the last war and now is makings, the margin of profit for
tremendous headway in Indiana ’ - . 3 se usinesses is often move, pick cool places for sum and throughout the nation. these b mer conferences. | »
Berkshire . Life had W, J. McLane, James L. Rainey, Harold, «rhe trend today is toward orL. Schilling, Robert B. Whited ganic design-—to build structures and James E. Battis up at Stock- ror functional efficiency,” Mr. bridge, Mass, last week for theiwypper said. company's 100th birthday. Factories are designed for flexHarold Rosner, former execu- jhility, with movable partitions to Uiive ip wsident of FL opertireduce peacetime reconversion all Co., whic as one of its costs, | y 8 piperack clothing outlets at W. Institutional buildings are be- |, A Joss of several parking Its Maryland and Senate, has been ing designed with cheaper and is going elected president, Jestern Electric Co. notched | ; i a in its of-| Continued on Page 38—Col. 5 (from outside of a ficial family log last week. Keith - - HT {quite a on Oh ’ A. Weston and Norman E. Sher- Install L. W. Dunham PE i rh to ‘be too big bert (nice summer name) passed . their 30th ns 25th ome As Sales Council Head |a problem, these people are gorespectively. L. W. Dunham, sales manager Ing to shop af HOS: soa created Carl L. Ming, Indianapolis zone of the Chain Saw Division of A BV IAT OHI le islature manager for Pure Oil, is the new E. C. Atkins Co., in 1949 Dy the sia ol . Midwest division manager in Chi-/ was installed cago. R. H. McElroy, vice presi-|Friday as president, said he would replace James|{dent of the IndiP. Barclay who will retire. lanapolis Sales Russell J. Simpson is the pxecutives Counnew president of the Thdianapolisicil at the group's Association of Life Underwriters annual party at (insurance agents). First v.p. iSthe Meridian Ralph Griggs; 2d v.p. Leon Law-ii]1s Country head; secy. Helen Basch, and Cjubh. «He ,
|gas, oil, auto laundry, etc. A check of some local parking lots disclosed some interesting facts: About 85 per cent of all people
Organic Design
rate.
ess. better lighting, lower maintenance! Many of the shoppers: come
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problem.
|| Attic Fans
i lthe humid atmosphere of Indiana lis by using an attic fan. { The attics are the hottest. But
the fan draws air up through the suc-
treas., George Jackson. C 7 { reeds W, O. I've often wondered why they iCasg. who h hot aly (offer: 135. degrees). jn don’t : te 88, the attic. 0 put up dog food in half came chairman 1. W. Dunham The fan business has just begun
size cans for vacation traveling, A little dog eats only half a can; once a day. Then what do
of the board. . to take hold in Indiana in the last Named vice presidents wereithree years, But it has been goA. B. Nail of the Indiana Bell ing heavy in {Telephone Co. and E. 1. Van coast towns Riper of the Sidner & Van Riper high. | Advertising: Co. | Fans have heen known to drop
Four More Beautiful Homes
where humidity is
BEDFORD STONE—This stone ranch type at 6083 Riverview Drive was sold by Realtor Joe Berger for builder Sidney Gern. stein. Buyers were Mr. and Mrs, E. E. Kirkman, If features a marble fircplace and radiant oil heat. : v
“service station trade” they get—
the southern sea-
Spickelmier Co. and can be heard Broad Ripple High School two “= p= 4p, at 12:15 p. m. every Sunday on
Station WFBM.
Nerves for Houses Now, they say, psychiatrists
the have invaded the real estate and
building field.
They're diagnosing nervous! breakdowns for houses-—no kidding . . .
Symptoms include such things as flickering lights, distorted
The reason, according to the experts, is that an electrical system designed some 10 or 15 years ago cannot cope with today's modern “electrical” living.
NPA Clears First Local Building
The first local construction tol
|years ago.
developement now !planned, hardwood floors, new hip
New schools now being built. oe designs and newly styled
and scheduled for use this fall, ontrances will be featured.
are Schocl 90, at 3351 W. 18th St, {10 classrooms; and School 77, at {6040 Pleasant Run Pkwy. 12 rooms. A third, School 59, containing 12 classrooms and gymnasium, will be built at 59th St. and Key-
Istone Ave. It is now in the plan-|
ining stage. Additions are now being made
now using the lots are shoppers. images on your TV set, irregular for fall term use at the following have The others are transients, or rent| narformances of your electrical schools: 82, 69, 91, 56, Technical|inche space at a weekly, or monthly appliances and heating controls. High | Hmmmm, I wonder . . .
School, and the James E. | Roberts School for {Children. | Additions are also planned for {Schools 45 and 4.
Births Up Since '468
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{25 per cent in 1946 {slipped back since.”
“We can expect quite a few
|is now awaiting the results of a clear the NPA channels under additional pupils in '52, twice as {lengthy survey into the parking new regulations on building will many in '53, three times as many
{ Construction starts. in July with [completion expected in August. J. & LL. Realty will have one {of its models on display today at 3002 Stuart St., near the site of ithe planned project, | Insulated | Some of the houses are built on insulated concrete slabs. These asphalt tile floors. Two s of fiberglass seals the out-
inside of the concrete foundation] Handicapped against cold and the top is sealed
{against vapor.
i Actually, factory-made homes Week.
are not new-—they were originally conceived by Thomas Edison. The inventor even went so far as to
“This is a general expansion build such a house and transport 1gg5, about 148 off the {program,” said H. L. Harshman,|it from New England to Ft. Mey-| count and 163 under the fig lassistant superintendent of| ers, Fla. by boat. It still standsivear ago. lsechools. “The birth rate climbed there, the landmark, perhaps, off
toward mass-production.
Total Building Volume
be the new four - suite, ranch - in '54, and so on, until the birth| For Year-Still Up
styled physicians office building rate drops,” he pointed out. He,
to be erected at the southwest
One way of cooling a house in corner of 61st St. and College
Ave. Realtor Gil Carter reports that it took 14 weeks to get approval of the construction. space,
the building will
won't guess how many.
3 Indiana National Officers Are Promoted
Three Indiana National Bank
{open windows ‘and pulls out the: With 4000 square feet of office officers were promoted this week)
{building slumped again this week, ‘but engineering construction {seemed to level off at the $207 million low, recorded the previous week, the Engineering NewsRecord reported. Private housing contracts re-
house by the board of directors, Russell corded $17.6 million. Industrial
Ruckle 8t.; 6156 N. Delaware St; 5217 Broadway; 1934 E. 64th St.; 36 W. 58th St.; 5611 N. Delaware St.; 5466 N. Pennsylvania St.; 3921 N. Pennsylvania St.: 1319 Kessler Bivd.; 130-32 E. 51st St; and 5879 Washington Blvd. | Hall-Hottel Co. 7600 Spring Hill Rd. and 5170 Atherton North Dr. :
Fieber & Reilly=402 Berkley Rd.; 1220 W. 36th‘St. and Lot 73 on E. 80th St. Windcomb Addition.
Atkinson & Co. — 7828 Wind-
weight | comb Blvd, F. C, Tucker Co.
{co-operating broker. 5 F. C. Tueker Co.—Lot 18 7800 {Forest Lane, Windcomh Addition. | Norman L. Hammer—3502 N, {Capitol - | 3 | Bruce Savage Co.—5810 Kings{ley Dr.; 7100 Edgewater Place and {2413 N. Webster Ave. © 4
Walt Veon Co. 1004
{Primrose Ave,, co-operating bro- | ker Butterworth Realty Co. | Harry L. Robbins Realty Co.— | Lot 7200 N. Illinois St. and Lot 17 {Meridian Hills, 2d section.
| Hugh Teeters Co.—6145 Etving i . * *
d that which | In all, there are about 30 dif-| The Spann Co.—Lot 79 State (have now set aside an a di /ferent plans for these homes, Road 431 River Heights; 4630 Ralwe will realize on the bullding., i popular of which is thatiston Ave. lot 3000 W. 44th St. 15-|tax, we'll be able to.proceed on the |, i ated above, having weather- and 524 N. Wallace St.
{ | Driscoll Realty Co. — 1652-54 Park Ave.; 4577 N. Illinois St. and lot corner of 44th St. and Kingsley Drive. Knight Realty Co®— Tract 30, College Crest, 9300 Park Ave; [tract 5, College Crest, 9500 Waghjington Blvd.; lot southwest of Alilisonville Road on Kessler Blvd,
land 1810 Perkins Ave.
More Mortgages
Recorded in May
| Mortgages climbed to 1133 in (Marion - County during May, an increase of 91 over April, the Union Title Co. announced this
| The figure is 186 behind {May total of last year,
| Deeds registered in May
Total mortgages for the first
and it hasn't! the building industry's first step five months of 1951 was 5387—
1608 behind last year’s pace.
Total deeds for the same period
Residential and industria ¥ Edsel Realty Co.
Reports 87 Soles
A total of 87 sales were reported by the Edsel Realty Co, 1136 E. Troy Ave. during March, April and May.
“Sales have been up about 10
five individual four-room suites. L. White, president, announced. building was down to $27 million per cent over the game period ‘a
It will be constructed of. either brick or stone and will baseboard radiant heat.
have
feet
weeks,
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Sold by Realtors |
They were: Hugh R. Gray, transit manager tn asristant vice president; G. Wil-
assistant casher,
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MODERNIZED LIVING—Seld for Mr. and Mrs. Ray Howard; this fine home at 4236 Graceland Ave., is fuily landscaped. Buyers
‘were Mr, and Mrs. Steve Burris.
_ EH. Mclain, realtar-brokae,
The transaction was handled by eX
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$4 million less than the previous week, |
However, the total
similar period
hid E. Watlingias St., inclu and two acres operty, was 5
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commented O. Ia Cash volume
ago.” manager.
year | Guess,
building was up about 15 r cent, he Its dimensions are 100 by 28 bur Little, assistant transit man-ivolume for the first 25 weeks El aaded, : pe ’
with a 568 foot wing. Con-jager to assistant cashier, and Ar- this year was $6,966,200,000, an {struction will start in about two/thur M. Krug, security branch to increase of 29 per cent over a!May, 27 in April and 31 during
The firm handled 20 sales in
March.
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