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Business Notes—

Beer Sales

A Barometer

Are

By Don Teverbaugh THE WHITE THATCHED economist

charts and graphs of economic fluctuations can't hold a

tandle to Uncle Louie in the corner tayern, or to a gang of masked thugs hijacking a truck on the highway.

Because, despite the profound calculations of college trained economists, the best barometers—according to a great) many businessmen — are how much beer we drink and how) many trucks are looted by highwaymen. J Beer sales point an accurate {finger at the poom areas and the lack of frothy steins coming across the bartop just as accurately pinpoints where defense cutbacks have hit hard. Right now sales are up in Cin-

“¢ <¢innati, Texas, and the North-

west. They've fallen hard in Detroit where the workers have

ee than 65,000 employees | Workers Warned Will not be stationed together, participated in the suggestion | At a closed meeting Monday However they have hopes of being

plan—a record high. Interest be-(night at the Claypool, Chairman

'3-Way Split |G| Here to Join Brothers in Japan | Spawned in pi | ya § County GOP

. March 15. | 4 A three-way split in the Marion| Pvt. Tabélman, | . a County Republican organization! who 1s 19, at-| began developing this week. i tended Technical] And County ‘GOP Chairman] High School and with all his John Innis was caught in the! was a utility op-|

middle of it.

party ‘ward chairmen, Chairman| Innis attempted to lead the or-| ganization into a neutral corner| —— in the fight between GOPers backand 30,393 were ‘adopted by the ng {7 §, Sen. Taft and those be-

business (company. GM. awarded $1.51 mil- hing (Gen. Eisenhower for Presilion to its employees for their gant.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES WEDNESDAY, FEB.

rtaking his Air Force basic train-| ing at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex. He will]

complete it about|

By NOBLE REED

erator for 15 months at West*ern Electric Co. before enlisting. He played first i base in municipal league baseball. His hobbies have {been automobile engines and air[planes since he was old enough to start tinkering with them.

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. [Delmer Tabelman Sr. live at 1829

In a series of conferences. with

Cpl. D. Baker T. Baker

Pfc. J. Baker t

Pfc. ¥. Eaton

Pfe. John Baker is on his way to Japan to join his two brothers who are in the service there. The

three” boys” are in different branches of the service; so they

| Pvt, Tabelman

able to get together on leaves.

gestions saving time and materi-| bandwagons

John, a signal corps lineman, has been in the Army 13 months. He is 18. Cpl. David is 21 and is in the

came greater no doubt, as® the|Innis warned party workers not company upped the award from (to “get on any bandwagons,” for $1000 to $2500. Awards are made any candidates for Governor or in U. 8. Savings Bonds. | President. | About $1 milHon of the total But the party ward bosses were awards were paid: out for sug-(split wide open on at least two

{16 months,

als. The remainder went for ideas|they were going in half a dozen|

tions, “housekeeping” and other test. |entering the service.

plant practices. Chairman Innis’ announcement|

|Air Force. He has been in Japan.

High School and was employed as| destroyer escort duty in the South AF Base. Fred is 19. improving safety, working condi-|directions in the Governor's con-|® €OPY boy at The Times before Pacific.

The oldest brother, Thomas, is Jarred, 1502 W. 26th St.

Medford St. | Pfc. Fred Eaton attending] {the Air Force radar school *at| Biloxi, Miss. He 1s the third of the Eaton boys to go through the

FOR LONELY HOURS—Patients at Central State Hospital were playing 100 radios today, gifts from the Rose Tire Co. The for President and| He is a graduate of Technical| During World War II has was on School which is located at Keesler, gifts were solicited by the Gold Ladies organization, which seeks

Pfe. J. Eaton

Cpl. B. Eaton

| to add a pleasant touch to life at the hospital. Shown handlin the radios are (left to right) Rose Tire president Joseph Rothbard,

Pfc. Jack, 22, just graduated b i procurement chairman James E. Payne and committee members

The boys are sons of Mrs. Mary from there and is stationed at| Larson AF Base,

nore I A far During ‘the past 10 years, GM that he would be a candidate for @SS money . officials report, almost 800,000 re-election as chairman at the HIGHWAY | BARDIY activity ‘suggestions have been submitted runs parallel to the pace o : ©land 183,150 adopted by the com-|by most of the ward chairmen, legitimate businesses. Belzures .,,, 1p that time awards total| One chairman, known to be a

not only keep pace with business g7 sx 1,ij1jon. Taft supporter criticized Mr. conditions, but also reflect supply - HH — Innis’ leadership and another! outlooks. identified with the Eisenhower

Truck thefts presently have hit $65 million per year—more than twice the 1947 total, And thefts “of truck loads of copper and brass are up more than 900 per cent over 1945 levels. . Some of the increases in truck|

forces also said a new c®airman will be needed in May.

Looks Like Hot Fight

A third group sald it would support Chairman Innis for re-

Says 1 Way ® Of Education hijacking is due to the in uc IN off Enough Slegi ion, Taft groups and those’

number of trucks pounding the] One way to educate everyone backing Gen. Eisenhower said] highways, but most to the boomiis outmoded. they would have candidates in the era, the experts say. | This opinion of Dr. Harold Tay- field against Mr. .Innis for the! SPORTING -GOODS SALES— lor, president of Sarah Lawrence! chairmanship. | Another accurate finger man for College, was expressed in his| «It'looks like there is going to the business world. Golf today|talk last night to alumnae, par- pe a hot fight in the party this! gobbles up $40 million per year, ents and educators at a dinner year” quipped Chairman Innis. as compared to a mere $15 mil- meeting in the Woodstock Club.|” Another ward chairman, Willion annually before the war. The session opened the local jjam Darrett, resigned as GOP Sales of fishing equipment have fund-raising drive in this area poss of the University Heights soared about 50 per cent over afor a new Student Arts Center at!, ran ast night, complaining the year ago. 0 Dx, N. X: Sollens. |pressure of personal affairs was . i Dr. Taylor presented his views! The Industrial Heart {on the modern techniques of ln a do Sontinug Party work. WE'RE IN a good spot rightjcation as they used at the gioned two months ago. here in Indianapolis. It's .the/women’s college. He uses ideas eo —————————————— | “heart of the nation’s most popu- which have been in practice in . lous area and a part of the most European. colleges and universi- Hog Prices Here highly ‘industrialized region on|ties for some years, but dresses the earth. up ‘the ‘techniques with all te Steady to Strong The central region is highly modern theories of the current diversified in its economy with an|schools of psychology. > excellent balance between agri-| Dr. Taylor first tried his moat [STOCKY RIS 100RY NOE fay Ao culture, raw materials production,/ods in teaching psychology at the | 1 ostly steady to strong with 16.4 commodity type production and University of Wisconsin, I

#heY stances of sales 25 cents higher, servicg type industries, A recentproved so successful he has gher

| “than yesterday's averages. article in “the Magazine of Wall adopted them on a much larger aR and ye ges, mod- | Street” tells the entire story. jscale at the women's college. {erately active. Steers and heifers! And for this reason the eco-| The program is organized, ac-|p. 14 about steady. | nomic trends of this-area repre-|cording to Dr. Taylor, to find the | fogs 10,000; fairly active; barrows and| sent the approximate average of interests, needs, capabilities and §il's mostly steady to strong, instances

cents higher; i the nation. Income here soared

Hog trading at the Indianapolis,

{ sows steady to strong: weaknesses of each student. Then bulk choice 170-240 pounds $17.80-18; top|

132 per cent here during the last her schedule is prepared accord-|3i773. 310-125 pounds. $13 20017 120-15 20 years as compared to the na-|ing to these points. pounds $14.50-15.50, few $16: choice. 300-

| 400-pound sows §15-15.75; 400-600 pounds {mostly $14-15.25 Cattle 1000; calves 200: moderately active. steers and heifers about steady: scattered small lots low choice yearlings, $32.50-33.50: bulk commercial to 16w choice, $37-32; utility and commercial mixed lots, $24-27.50; cows active. strong: utility and {commercial, $20.50-23.50: odd heifery kinds, | $2M-25. canners and cutters, $16.50-21.00; ibulls little change; utility and commercial, $24-28; best Sjiginle to $28.50; odd mood

Legality Test Set Mar. 4 hii,

durable goods production. By JOHN V. WILSON [to $1 higher; bulk choice and prime, $37-

tional average of 139 per cent. We are the greatest commodity producing region in the nation| and the largest producer of rod:

agricultural and industrial products, as well. The central region| is also the center of the nation's]

Bhee few commercial under 150 above the national average. The etta, wooled natives, $28.25; truck load 83-pound C {pound 1 ; 2 ; concentrated in high value-added Superior Court 3. bound lambs nearly full wolled, $27.50

May reorganization was met cooly |

120.150 Hint Egypt Wants Suez

26 and a nine year Navy veteran.| Pvt.

Delmer Tabelman Jr. is Wash.

Cpl. Bob, 24, is stationed at Ft. Worth, Tex., at Carswell Air

Double-Take Referendum

Moses Lake, Mrs. Walter Pritchard and Mrs. Maurice Spasser.

Board Maps

Two Teen-Agers Admit

WEDNTF

Mrs. Lc * Rites T.

! Services fo Russa will b tomorrow at

Burial will b St. Joseph Ce tery. ¢ Mrs. LaRu who lived at 1 §. Delaware died Monday 8t. Francis } pltal. She 61. She was ih, Compo-F 40, Sicily, com here 33 ye. a8o0.Her hush eame seven establish him at 603 8. Eas Survivors, ' Are two sons Indianapolis; Mrs, Henry | Edward Froe apolis, and Gary; two br Casper Rizzo Salvadore Sa Wis.; 15 gran great-grandc

Ex-Pha ~ Dies He

Hai ul . A 92-year-Foree Base nome of the B-36 Crawfordsville Holdup cist, ge mbers. yombers NS ilotes: up State ide CRAWFORDSVILLE, Feb. 20 known reme By BOB BARNES Vote Asked M Al ee A £3 © W (UP)~Two teen-age youths told asthma, die . Me gh SC . f home. on iss | Jack was a district circulation ° {police today they robbed a grocer Charles F ay Oo MH * {manager at The Times for 14 lu 14 ¥ of $547 and one said he spent 3on “gt. m: fn ousing months before entering the Air part of the loot on his 31-yeare (Wonder of ‘ Force. Bob was a dispatcher for. While city, county and parochial old girl friend home until a , A referendum vote on the hot the Pennsylvania railroad, and school officials reported .an in- The bovs. 16 and 17, admitted he sold the 24 public housing issue for Indianap- Fred worked at Kingan Co. crease. of absences today due to, robbing Kermit Childress Sune of illness. oy olis was recommended today by Whi B]¢ sons of ay Laton, illness. State Board of Health day, then driving away in Mr, "He former] : City Councilman Glenn W. Radel. =~ __ 7° Oph 9 i officials mapped plans to curb a Childress’ automobile. Police re. Brothers P Ls ! “While Some Tegal ; | : : e _ covered the car a short time later, Washington oo] HE d be stras gal questions . statewide outbreak of influenza. g,n. $300 was recovered and Mr. Baron {2 } | Radel 2 ved before 8 vote Bs Services Are Set lif it reaches epidemic proportions. the 16-year-old boy, whom Mr, nati, O., but SPE SEL : 5 : 2 Of ir sc “hi : ; he hold- is lite. ani by way to find out what’ In spot checks of their school Childress identified as the hol of his life. ! Ba ep 8 ES a at the public For P. I. Brandt |systems, education officials re- up man, accounted for $50 or $60 '" He is survi " « : Services will be at 2 p. m. Fri-{ported as much as an 8.5 per cent more which he said he spent on John U. and A A referendum is what should ; . ri lg . & i . ; HE rare! Js What SNouldl av at Gaidner Funeral Home {ninerenss in Shsences a! some pri 8 year old girl friend in Indi SHanagolls, x a | 8 8. Se arrie olle A |ing first got started here in 1949, | Vincennes for Paul I. Brandt, | j,' the Indianapolis public Police said both youths have Mrs. Louis M Apeit 20d the councilman added. local contractor. Burial will be schools, the check revealed an previous records. Towa. “Yep, seventy-three next Apri! Mr. Radel said he questioned in Bicknell. increase of 3 per cent over yester-» men a = Services w

glasses. the ordinance introduced at the

. without 1 still read

thority powers. ‘city kills public housing, Indian- Kessler Blvd. apolis must be prepared to pay| A native of Bicknell, Mr. Brandt more than $275,000 of Housing had lived here 12 years. He reAuthority debts. cently had returned from Florida, “A -vote is the solution. If the Where he had. contracted |public favors public hoysing, $ can go ahead. If the vote is no, Lauderdale and Miami. x |then the city will have approval He {is survived by his wife, 'to spend the $275,000 required to Helen, two sons, Phillip, and Ray-

Tipton Co. Welfare

’ Also two sisters, Mrs. Jo ET Reger - of | % Powell, Lawrenceville, III, Way te B10 Zid Officials Cut 13 Off Rolls ys. SHeey

{ TIPTON, Ind, Feb. 20 (UP)—!Fla. »Tipton County welfare officials ‘Talks, But on Own Terms erased 13 names from the depart-

| CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 20 (UP) ment’s rolls today. |—Egypt seemed ready today for

She's in Pakistan

lon the Suez Canal Zone dispute,| recipients, and said the anti-jday visit in Pakistan. After three but only on her own terms. | secrecy welfare law passed by! days here she will fly to Sibi, capi- | Political quarters in Cairo said the special session of the state tal of Baluchistan state. Then she ithe Egyptian ambassador to Brit-| legislature had little bearing on! goes to Khyber Rass, and on Monlain, Abdel Fatah Amr Pasha. ap-| any of the cases. day she will visit Lahore. parently had cleared the way in| mm EY ,_,—,,Y,, London talks with British .Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden for a resumption of negotiations. In Cairo, Premier Aly Maher| Pasha said the. negotiations, if;

Mr. Brandt died Monday while day, with 20.5 per cent of the stue council meeting Monday which being admitied to General Hos- dents absent today. Highest on {would wipe out all Housing Au- pital after his car hit a gasoline the list is School 9, with 31 pen i 1 He said if the|tractor-trailer at 30th St. and- W. cent of the student body of 776 For Fire n Home

missing. = Hits Other Areas

*Other lacales in the state have the been affected about the same, acwe building of houses in Tampa, Ft. cording to the Board of Health, but no plans have been made to unless

close any public schools® absences become more severe,

Helen of the virus. A vaccine has been and developed for the flu, and will be Dorothy Adams, Tampa, made available if the disease be- ? comes epidemic, he said. { A total of

{been -reported in the

Goshen Calls Conference

291 flu cases have state this year, 184 of them in the last week. KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb. 20 Last-year for the same period 115 | Authorities gave “various” rea- (UP) — Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt cases were reported, which is also {speedy negotiations with Britain sons for dropping the 13 welfare arrived here today for a seven- the five-year average for the state.

Burglars Blamed

Arson by burglars was blamed today for fire at the home of a

couple vacationing in Florida.

Marion velt Ave. They “considerable” damage.

velt was burglarized.

Goshen school officials

The epidemic

Firemen last night checked the blaze at the home of Mr. and Mrs, M. Patton, 2423 Roose. said there was

Police said prowlers broke

The Pattons have been vaca. tioning for a month. Last week their notion store at 2422 Roose-

with heaith ‘officials to determine whether schools should be closed. § said | there were 754 pupils absent today out of a school population of 2500, also ‘affected a dozen teachers, the superintendgnt

tomorrow at neral Home,

Crown Hill. “Mary S Dies in

Miss Mary + New York Ce here and at » yesterday at’

: his 1 | ‘W. Jac It hrough a door and ransacked all + 8he lived at 1 5 thorit bli- mond; his mother, Mrs. Dora I. Dr. James W. Jackson, State! is ID a wiLousifig ARtEon o Brandt, Vincennes; three brothers, (Board of Health, said specimens six rooms. Then they splashed wae 3 g : San |Harry, Indianapolis, John G., Vin- are being taken from infected kerosene on rugs, draperies and Pet fos Shark cennes, and Goldie, Bicknell. children to determine the severity furniture, and set the fire. eter & Paul

road Women’ Services w A. Mm. Friday and at 9 at i Church. . Bur i Cross Cemet Surviving : Catherine Mo ¢ Minn,, and M Indianapolis.

Local

A “near epidemic” of flu in of schools and two grade school Goshen city schools prompted principals. There were 598 chile ; authorities there to call a meeting dren out vesterday, officials said. EDWARD prt re 2954 N. Olne paperhanging

DEAL WITH Z/z° —TRADE-IN ANYTHING ON YOUR DOWN PAYMENT

& million in life insurance death

Our per capita income has re-| Trial of a suit to test the le- (38; tommerrial 1a mood sip af ounds. 33¢mained steadily about 8 per centigality of the 1951 law taking Juli-| Sheep 390 few o ! r, 180 the Marion County Home, slaughter ine hot ba pi big reasons for this are: A large out of politics will be Mar. 4 be-|shorited natives sao. (hack load 83-pound part of the area's workers are fore Judge Norman E. Brennan, 110-135-pound natives. $25. choice 99industries and their work OuLput —agricultural and industrial—is

average.

ing for both management and the workers to know.

feeling we all like to have.

Gabby GMers

GENERAL MOTORS employees, are a gabby bunch—but the management loves it. |

Bob Emerick, public relations Pare briets to support the law. |

director at the GM plant here, | says that the workers broke all kinds of records at telling man-| agment how to do their job during 1951. And that's just what management wants. It- keeps the employee interested in his company and their suggestions—some of ‘em—save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here at Indianapolis GM work-| ers collected a total of $61,429 in| suggestion awards. Eleven of these were for $1000 and three were for $2500. ln all, 1109) award8 were made here for sug-| gestions. i Begun 10 years ago, the GM suggestion plan set five all-time records last year. A total of 140,-/ 830 suggestions were handled in

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$43_ Million Insurance

Paid to Hoosiers

Indiana families received $43 benefit payments during 1951, compared with $39.43 million in the previous year and $24.4 million in’ 1941, the last pre-war year, the Institute of Life Insurance| reported today. ; The death benefit payments in this state last year were made under 41,428 policies, . compared with 39,061 policies in the previous year and 31,160 policies in 1041, the Institute reported. Of the ag- “ gregate 1951 payments in the state, $25,726,000 was under 11, 251 ordinary policies; $10,633,000 was under 4947 group life insurance policies; and $6,653,000 was under 25,230 industrial insurance

Judge Brennan is faced with |

INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE

{deciding whether health and hos-| considerably above the nationalipital facilities in Indianapolis and Debits {Marion County should be comThese facts are pretty hearten- bined.

It builds a payer's suit filed last July by Vin-, solid foundation for that secure ard ‘8. Buckner, 1617 Finley Ave. |Defendants are Mayor Clark and {the Republican-controlled county commissioners.

Clearings $10,308,000 Ll. si074.000 Speedy.

The law was attacked in a tax-

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Quick Decision Sought Mayor Clark pledged today to instruct the city legal staff to pre-|

After a pre-trial conference yes- | terday, the Mayor said he would press for a decision before July 1, when the health merger takes: effect, to forestall budget-making problems, | “After a study of the situation] in the city and county, I really| believe the merger is: the only. solution,” Mayor Clark said. But Jesse Hutsell, president of | the: county commissioners, side-, stepped questions on whether he § would seek to have the law upheld. - Appeals Planned Under the law, the commissioners are stripped of supervision of the County Home for the Aged. It will be-operated by a bipartisan board, three members apappointed by Mayor Clark and two by the commissioners. Regardless of Judge Brennan's decision, both sides have indicated! they will take an appeal to the! Indiana Supreme Court for a final judgement. | Mr. Buckneris suit charges the |§ law. is unconstitutional because it fj gives tax-levying and bond-issu-| ing powers to the appointive board. ? Passage of the law last year climaxed a long fight” by The! Times to take Julietta out of! politics and, to end “deplorable” | conditions at the county home. |

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