Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1951 — Page 9

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* WESTPORT, Conn. Dec. 17 —When Arthur Diver retired in 1939, he found himself face to face with a problem. He and his wife were rattling around in a 12-room house set on 3's acres of pretty Connecticut soil. dis

daughter was® married, his son

in the Army. So he bought a trailer. The idea was first suggested

think too much of it. “I always thought a trailer was just a box -on wheels and that only ’ gypsies lived in them,” he says, looking over his spectacles with his twinkling blue eyes. “But Mrs. Diver, she said, ‘Well, -it can’t do "any harm to look at them. We bought one, and I've never regretted it; wish I'd a-done it ten years sooner.” The Divers are representative of a trend among retired people to live in trailers—or “mobile homes,” as some of them prefer to say. According to the Trailer Coach Manufacturers Association, which keeps track of such things, retired persons are the third largest market for trailers. » = - ACTUALLY, more than 15 per cent’ of all trailers are occupied by the pensioned set. The two, bigger classes of purchasers, incidentally, are mobile workers and temporary homeseekers, ; For a retired couple, a trailer offers certain advantages. The initial expense is low, upkeep and operating expenses are low, they provide mobility—and the housework is simple. These factors have . helped boost trailer sales 400 per cent since 1937. In that year, $4,500,000 worth of trailers were sold; in 1950, the figure was $22,500,000. With people retiring earlier in life, because of pension plans, the trailer manufacturers expect the trend to continue. A contributing factor is the spread of trailer parks, where trailer-

Diver, but he didn’t.

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- THE DIVERS’ trailer, after logging 136,000 miles, is now at home in a trailer park on the busy Boston Post Rd. at Westport. The wheels are off, there's a cement patio in front and a little plot of ground. “The rental here is less than $20 a month,” he says, “and that includes all utilities, Everybody has a plot of about 30 by 50 feet. There are 110 families here, about 20 of them retired people. The others are nurses, accountants, real estate men, sales executives and the like. We're all very congenial.” “Some of the residents had fixed their “mobile homes” into miniature estates. There were picket fences and rose-covered trellises, patios with big awnings covering them, television aerials sprouting from the roofs, and that absolute sign of permanence — the milk box — outside every front door.

Today, said Mr. Diver, many people buy trailers because it

offers such cheap living. You -

get -a four-room trailer for somewhere around $5500, and that includes all furnishings. a ”

5 “LOTS OF FOLKS buy them

without ever intending to pull |

them,” he says. “They buy them, take the wheels off and then sell the tires back.” ? To the argument that they're cramped, Diver points to his Thanksgiving dinner. He spent

the holiday with his som, who |

has a trailer in Naugatuck. There were 14 people in the trailer’'s dining - room, with plenty of room for the turkey. “The only think we lack,” he says, with a smile, “is an attic and cellar for storing things. But that’s a good thing. We keep only what we really need. “When we bought our first trailer, Mrs. Diver had three

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sets of china—the everyday, the Sunday and the Best set. She decided to keep six settings of | each, She put it all in a basket. I didn’t say nothing, but I was chuckling to myself, She was over in the trailer with that basket a few minutes, trying to put the things away. Then she come back. She wound up keeping a serving for four of just one set.”

» ~ . $ DRIVING a trailer was no problem, after he got used to RB, “The first day, I sweat bleod,” he remembers. “I worried something awful. I'd turn my head around every 10 seconds to see that the trailer was still there. But I learned there are only four - things ‘you have to remember. “A trailer is eight feet wide, a car only five. You have to allow for that extra width when you're passing. Then you have to learn to use the trailer brakes —they’re mounted on the steering wheel and you operate them with one finger. “You have to learn to make | a bigger sweep for a right turn. And lastly, you've got to be awful careful driving through a city.” oo

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