Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1952 — Page 26
‘In trading today at the Indlan-
PAGE o....
Seek to End | ‘Unfairness’
0f U. S. Agency
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UP) — The House quietly voted yester-
day to, reduce the taxes of con-| {
gressmeén in a move that could save some lawmakers thousands of dollars. : * Without debate and without any explanation of what was taking place, the House inserted the tax-reduction-for-congress-men into the $62,390,000 legisla-| tive appropriations bill which was| Passed a short time later. | House Democratic Leader John, McCormack of Massachusetts told reporters the action was designed ‘remove “a discrimination igainst members of Congressmen by the Internal Revenue Bureau.”
Deductions Not Allowed
"The bureau had ruled that, for {ax purposes, Congressmen are residents both of Washington and the district they represent. Thus, they aré not allowgd to deduct their travel costs, lodging, meals, tips and other expenditures .: Under Mr. McCormack’s proposal, this would be changed. The ¢ost of living in Washington could be charged off to income tax returns as business expense. | This could mean a considerable favings, particularly for Con§rjssmen who live in fancy hotels.
* “Hike OMce Allowance
i House members also voted to allow themselves up to $900 each r renting office space in thelr me districts unless such space lable in post offices or other eral buildings. Senators aldy have a similar allowance. § Tax experts said the McCorck plan, if it is approved by e Senate and becomes law, will t the losses Congressmen will far when they have to start taxes on their expense alwance Dec. 31, 1952 ,as well as $12,500 a year salary.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
lobe Members Vote Selves Tax Cut Without Pears
| =e
Today «Business
Hoosier Makes
That
!
But if the world beats a
to climb a flight of stairs.
By Harold Hartley HE'S DONE IT, that rattrap fellow.
{
Rattrap
path ‘to his door, it will have J
The trap is a killer-diller, ‘the best since the honored
|sclence of rattrapping began. |
It’s a de luxe job, all electron’ muttering, “What the-hell, it's his:
and sanitary, and sells for bucks, enough to make any rat proud of being caught in ft.
THE INVENTOR is Just a plain]
radio repair shop up, in Farm-, land, Ind. (population, 943), up Muncie way. A big man with big ideas, even on rattraps. The trap works 24 hours a day.
only allowed to smell it). It's got a swell name, “ElectriCat,” safe for pets and children,
It's fireproof and has a light in-;
side, for peeking at ne catch,
A. G. BURNS is ‘the inventor. And he's had it patented in the U. 8, Alaska and Canada. Hawali, ‘too.
of McCain and Associates, advertising, at 224 N. Meridian St. and Fred was fascinated. And I put a lump of sugar in my glass of water, and started to stir my coffee with a fork.
o » o @ I CALLED Mr, Burns. He sald he got hit on the head with a lump of coal some time ago, and passed out. While he was out, and his heart racing at 144 a minute, these ideas came to him. And when he awoke his tearful relatives were sitting all around waiting. But he had his rattrap well in mind.
inner-spring clothes pin, lasts a lifetime, never rusts, corrodes, breaks, tarnishes or loses it
£ House members made their full 15,000 subject to taxes last year when they were increasing taxes Por everyone else, The amount they benefit under new change depends on the ount they spend for “business SKpenses” while in Washington. —————————————
Pork Prices Up n Active Market
! Pork prices jumped 75 cents-$1
polis Stockyards. # Ary 170-250 pound hogs sold t $22.50-23. A few big weights ah at weighing 300-400 pounds, brought bids of $17.75-18.50. i Near 850 pound commercial and
spring-life. Then there's his broom-hangery good for other things like piten- 1 forks, mops, rakes, hose, with a special gadget for wiskbrooms and dustpans,
” . . IF YOU'RE laughing at the rattrap, and think this guy is a cracked-pot, I'll tell you that the West Coast citrus growers have bought 5000. At $75 a throw, that isn’t hay.! But it is the best rat tale of the! year.
Up a Little
THE DEPARTMENT stores are doing better, so long as they os
$10.50. Choice sows, pay too much attention to
year's figures. The Federal Reserve Board reported they gained 2 per cent in
good heifers sold at $30. UHItY the week ending May 10, and
and commercial cows had a price
were up, in that week, 4 per cent
range of $22.50-26. Bulls were | over the same week last year.
gcarce. Vealers sold mostly steady fo 50 cents lower, with the early
at $37. opened fet § uneven} 75
a ud Foy a i el 0
oar 3 Dou n 1 gy iS.
3 Rare arta" hd near 3 1 utility and : g host Canners and ute mercial 4 +30 30-38; putters a bs i vealers accents low
B fir ai
SEER na CR Gov. Dever to Keynote Democratic Convention
CHICAGO, May 18 (UP) —Gov. Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts will deliver the keynote speech when the Democratic National Convention meets here in July. The Democratic executive committee also indorsed Texan Sam Rayburn, speaker of the House
of Representatives, as permanent isms through the pages.
chairman of the convention.
National Chairman Frank E.
But from January to May 10, they still were being dogged by the distorted. Korean boom figures and were, the. Federal Re-
Mi gerve admitted, 4 per cent behind
a year ago.
(Hint in Print
TODAY the industrial editors
“lare getting together out on the
Butler campus, for the usudl reasons, to eat, listen, swap ideas. I read their plant magazines. I know they clip each other's jokes, for one thing. jokes which have been swapped and retailored tor years. And they're still good. I worider, as I thumb through the slick pages of wedding plotures, babies and vacation fish catches, whether plant magazines really hit the bullseye. And I think management wonders, too. » » . THE EDITORS know the story well. They know their business, what to print. But often tunnelvisioned management in the three-way wrestle with labor, stockholders and customers, allows itself to sprinkle a few bossA little preachy. The editors know better. But
‘McKinney of Indianapolis sald management pays them, so a lot the selections created “a good|of them, I suspect, bury. their
geographical balance.”
guy who runs a second - - story|about the printed word.
The rat never gets the bait (he's|
I had lunch with Fred Schatz
He's Invented other things. Anl
Ideals, | back out of the boss’ office,
-|urbs, where the buyers Chr a 1 Bowes a -gteer-
5 money he's wasting, why should’ I worry.” \ ~ » ~ - ILL TELL YOU something It's got to get itself read, or it's wasted. |And simply putting it on paper, doesn’t mean employees are going to read it.
I A short rule; write for the | employee, not at him. Use mouth words, not book words. | Write about his world, not yours, and you've. got yourself a reader.
How Much Heart?
HOOSIERS are taking a lot of money away from life insurance companies. The trouble is they have to die. Then they don’t get iit, someone else does.
The man who cares about his family, his lawn and his place in the world knows the long reach of responsibility. Take his wife. He dd. And aio! put her security in his hands on the day she threw the bride's bouquet. And those children, they didn't ask to be born. But they do ask to be brought up, fed and educated.
o ”
ance paid out in Indiana in the|s: first three months of this year helped a lot of families to do all those things. I like the man with endugh life insurance. He's a responsible citizen. As a matter of fact, I think it's a pretty good question in the application for a job. It| you a good line on the only| g.about a man that amounts to anything at all. That's what he's got inside, how much heart. '
Too Much Whisky
THEY'LL SOON be drum-beat-ing about 12-year-old whisky. There's so much of the stuff on? hand a lot of it can’t do anything but just get older. Scripps - Howard's Jim Dante! |}! reports the 8-year-old barreled hooch is wholesaling for $4 to 3450 a wild whisky 1s taxes. And = whisky is going for $1 Ba a gallon. ”» » HOW DID that happen? It's the same old story. The whisky makers. opened up the throttle when Korea took off, made two years’ normal supply in 12 months. The federal taxes are now $10.50 a 100-proof gallon. And states and localities tack another aVerage of $1.66 a gallon on that. -— ee - - BOOTLEGGERS love it. They've got their stills a-steaming in the hills, ' And the revenuers are knocking ‘off more -than ever. Even if whisky prices try to get lower, taxes never will. w . -.
n THAT $11,704,000 in life insur- Lo
MONTHLY INSPECTION—Members of ths Indiana State
monthly inspection of the Indianapolis post yesterday at Stout Field. Shown inspecting the pistol |
of Trooper Herbert E. Austin, 5724 Rawls St., are (left to right),
olis, board member; Superintendent Arthur Thurston, Paul Schnaitter, Madison, board member; Edward A. Wolfe, Shipshewana, board secretary, and d Goorge F. Stevens, Plymouth, board
president.
re igs FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1952
State OPS Bleeding Public, Jenner Says
when some of the government's
! By DAN KIDNEY own agencies tell us prices are
Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 16—S8en. falling? William E. Jenper (R. Ind.) today “The question naturally arises launched an attack on price —are these people working for controls by citing the cost of the public, or are they on the carrying them out in Indiana. |public payroll for political pure He said there are “almost 1000 poses. Almgst one hundred poemployees of the Office of Price litical appointees can be mighty Stabilization in the state, with effective traveling about the |salaries ranging from $2750 to State in a political campaign $9600. The payroll figures are J eee
exclusive of Lake County. Total cost in salaries he placed’, Sen. Jenner earlier charged 'at $264,645 ear. He then that the Federal Reserve Board 2 ’ 3. Year. had lifted down payments and
itemized other expenses. increased the time on retail ine |alone,” Sen. Jenner said, “there .. oo <» He maintained they was an item for the year Of g.tey now to retain their power 1951 of $17,584.52 for travel, j, gych matters, which expires $6020.83 for communications, and’ yyne 30. |things, other contractual services, |supplies, ‘materials ard equip- Th t's N $ | ment. ” a Oo He listed $10,239.01 for rents The grand total for 1951 was $338,404.60, Sen. Jenner said. OPS Declares Seven in Top Bracket {| “Seven employees receive the! Sen, William Jenner's charges top salary of $9600 a year,” he are facts, but they are not the provided me fails to state what Price Stabilization headquarters kind of services they perform. [retorted today. “The next highest salary grade Vernon J. Dwyer, state OPS Police Board conducted their is $8360 a year. There are eight|director, pointed out: Vayne M." Armsttong, Indianap- five $7040 annually. Twenty re- most 100” OPS employees in Ine ceive the next lowest pay of $2950 |diana, -but that’s much less than (a year, with one employee receiv- the authorized quota. Mr. Dwyer |ing the lowest pay of $2750.” tsaid-he-never hired the full staff
’
Local * Stocks and. Bonds
Produce
“In the Indianapolis district stallment- buying “for political {$40,005.14 for transportation of and utilities paid by the General ‘Wh ! SE Services Administration for OPS. | oie ory, continued, “but the information whole truth, Indiana Office of of these. One receives $7240 and| ONE—It's true there are “ale Sen. Jenner said he was in- of 135 allowed for Indiana, there-
[employees in Lake County and 000 a year. And Mr. Dwyer said
~May 16, 195% 8 Ing Pub Sery 4. 8 ord cannes 35% 10% TOL rogreas Gass ARS 16 Aske .ph Serv of Ind com ...... 30% 30% American Bae ‘Pub Serv of ind 3% pf ...... 85 {ean tate Cin A ofd ... © ""'"IRoss (ear & (00! com a A re Collieries com i 16% : Sond G & F gam 5% ofd.. 17% | i ae tk Yds oid 101 d 2. % Ind at Boom .o..0..... AY 2% " o In 8 pl . a a Ir Di = 0! id oe av Stokely-Van Camp com .. 15% Martin ‘|8tokely-Van Camp pid ... Bobb: My rel Ee we Torre ate’ Males Ste. y 13% Central To hr 5 ® ole ors " as" | Bisa Helesnane ota .. hamber of Commerce com 2% nion Coderiepant . ircle Theater com ven. 50Ve | *Extra dividene ¥ LMI GE nunby | Allen Xx Steep ds ...,. ” ees Qont Ga-lla.var | : ol «0 American Loan 4%s 60 ...0 95 a’ MA | American surity Ss 60 ..... 95 Belnning TE 44% vig. 1 14, American an 4's 55 ...... 97 Eastern OO Sold: th 2 Bastian Morley 5s 81 .....,.. 98 an .. | Being Tele Co 4'as ...... 95 Saujtable Securities ota Tete : Rann Farritizer as 58 “ee ve Family manes i re 01 . |e of Som, Bide, 4 Ys 1 crore 9 99 Tee ***'|Columbia Club 3-5s he bi 0 pid "od nt 3 | Hamiton ocr po o k ee 3 Hamilton fg Co com 1 amiiton Mig Co Ss es ise Paint & Cclor bs 64 » 3 Hord-Jones Clais A pd ov. dW via ali balt Loan 5864 .... 98 i Sskye 17% Inds Railways $3 87 ......00 88 | estone 48 75 ......... i Tia) “a {Tha Kaeo Toras 3 ate
A revave . A Langsenkamp §s 4 cen i Boh pri 88 03 |Maplehurst fr ine. 84s #11. 91 lepnone 48 pid... 2” |B
aper Arts Co $s 82 Cais i orague “ Ing” Pow : Sine Weal "go .. 34% 34% | Traction Terminal 8's 57 .. . 88% ta od 1s a Pow a it "A Mo ii 3 ] — er oom _..... a Indianapolis Water 4% of . { : sk indiana Water 5% De ...108 Puts Her Foot in It
Inffarson Np tion at tdfe com "we 13 haan & Co pfd ’
# BENZONIA, Mich. (UP)—SpecKian Fafrire o
‘tators at a trial in the Benzonia 7 gotporation aR all BE clon eo - 324 Hy courte looked up to see a ASDRAIt ........ . ih foot sticking through the ceil-| Na om 1 ing. Mrs. May Carter had pushed |
34a
Eggs—FOB Cinetnnatl consumer grade: NO sub-office there. the number of employees is de-
U.S A large white 40-42'3c; brown mix, “Wh, reasing because he has failed t A Shute gra TEE f ft ROFVines hese people 1) RE posts 8 as Be erc I per cent: extra large white $3-3 performs and oir Value 10 the tions.
ho receipts oases exchanged 28-30c. [taxpayer is anybody's guess, abod — J Smif oe “Hes hd Sen. Jenner concluded. TWO —Expense statements fg Supplies ample for a slow de-|
“Econdmists tell us there is, Vere honest costs of administer sns—Commercially _ grown gH very little, if any shortage of n8 and enforcing, OPS in IadiCc ns lig
ana, Mr. Dwyer said. Sen. Jenner
ke 28:8: hens heavy
old roosters 15-17c. commodities, except in those Pr . ot them from the OPS budget. cultygrs very firm. Supply’ hard to pro-'itemg where the bureaucrats have 5 THREE—Sen. Bali Ee).
at the higher prices. Hens steady unchanged prices utter—Creamery 90 S00re T4e:
{lum butterfat 6lc; regular
*' interfered with the laws of na- ,., ops employees are politickprem- ture or of supply and demand. ing is feolish. Mr. Dwyer said - “Why should we have an OPS about half the OPS workers are
Republicans. Economi Experts Ready Official Weather FOUR — As for price control To Open Conference | UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU
being of dubious worth, as the MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 16, Sunfise .
Senator charged, Mr. Dwyer said 5:31 | Sunset... 1:33 ithe zoom of inflation was a - | Precipitation 24 hrs. end. 7:30 a. m. (UP)—Top international econ wepiation 24 brs aod. Jan. ya
u gi soon after OPS started omists arrived here yesterday) | Batieicher, since Jan. isin February, 1951, 1f prices had | for a three-day conference on' The following table shows the tempera-
“| continued up at their pre-OPS
(ture in other cities: » srate, ‘Mr. Dwyer said, goods 'savings, inflation and economic Adatlon © © Heh Lowiwould have cost Hoosiers about
progress. Hoste 1$25 million more a year, The conference, to_be held at] Cincinati ens Somorrae {the University of Minnesota, will Bian
ANDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE
Clearings for th ne 33.000 linclude talks by Douglas Abbott, Bt: Wayne “00... §3 dg Debits for, the week + fess aa Thess ui Aas n { earings for * month rena Canadian Minister of Finance; Kunsas City sereesees ©9747 Debits for the month wa 149.000
Hugh Galitskell, Member of Par-| Los An . /liament and former Chancellor of | Mai -8t. Paul [the Exchequer for Great Britain; | Nex . and Eugene R. Black, president | Omaha ati
‘Local Truck Grain Prices
Truck ra hest, $2.20. Oats,
§ ind b Serv « TR ee ay 2% her foot accidentally through|of the International Bank for | Ses Francisco Bo New No.2 white orn. $1.14, N Bon ers 4k Grd 10: 34 %w from the floor above. Reconstruction and Development. | NG Re 8 8 Ju¥3 Fellow corn, $1.
GET T
THERE'S BEEN a glide to beer and wine. And that doesn’t relieve the whisky makers with the biggest production hangover | ever. | The, makers can't sell it all, they can't drink it, and they can't afford to pour it out. So it will sit there and .get older and mellower. And no tired businessman who likes a tingler at day-end will complain about that.
Quick... JOBS PICKED up 11 per cent the week ending- May 10, and State unemployment claims dropped off 2700, an up-puff in payrolls . . . Phil J. Gerringer, executive secretary of the Huntington C of ©, will get an honorary degree from Huntington College June 9... . Citizens Gas & oy Utility got an award for ads from Public Utilities Adver(tising Association.
1
| Mrs. George Bolds, 335 N. Rit{ter St. solved a mystery letter for me. It came from Phil and | Ray Watson in Pago Pago, American Samoe, three long pages, ‘both sides, single-spaced. Mrs. Phil Watson is her daughter.
8% (They read The Times away out § /there. They write one of those
‘long letters about once a Year, and mimeograph it. The NYC chalked up a perfect record for train time Apr. 30. The ‘one big day when all of its time-
GET THE'LOWDOWN... on handling ease
5 |tables were true, ‘| The Purchasing Agents will
|draw a bead on prosperity in a four-day go at Atlantic City May 25-28. They don’t pull pun®hes . Borg Warner's big sip-and sup is booked in the Columbia! (Club, May 29, from 8 till 9. But! |Who ever quit at 9?
American United Life Insurance Co., at the three-quarter pole of, {its first century, has nearly a! {half-billion in force and has paid out $219,549 211—oh yes, and 80 |cents—since its launching in 1877 + + The Producer's Council -will
{hold its Spring tee party at Merid-/
lian Hills, May 28. | The Whiz-Kids got a break {from Stewart-Warner with a com. {plete line of Hot Rod gadgets,
‘meter included . . . Westinghouse | is shooting $6 million on a steam |and gas-turbine lab at its South Philly works ... And Detrutts, Ly Hutson an Cos is turning on million Eg |store expansion, all in the subare.
1160-mile. Speedometer and tacho-|
Be your own truck expert. Check our feature-by-feature Show Down chart to find out why a Dodge “Job-Rated” truck turns sharper, maneuvers better, parks quicker.
on economy and. long life Compare Dodge and other makes for such moneysaving features as 4-ring pistons, chain-drive camshaft, exhaust valve seat inserts, and many others.
on bigger payloads Discover how superior load «distribution permits a Dodge “‘Job-Rated” truck to carry bigger payloads without overloading.
{
Yob-Rated' TRUCKS
4 ATTRACTIVE VALUES » LIBERAL TRADE- INS # LONG, EASY TERMS |
Ck SEE YOUR
1 » ass : i
DODGE DEALER x
—MAKE SAFE oui A nas... cuex our Tuc. . CHECK rcemoms ——____
‘AY
year. And traveling at the pub -
formed that “there -are no, OPS'by saving taxpayers. about. $125-
FRID Rail Shof In G
JOLIET, Ernest Ro; the Pere M police yest and beater first fired wooden po ing to Mr. The sho Willow . R: miles nort! lives on th by two no Mrs. Ro; band was a man abo said he w Rogers ang to the bar Mr. Rog he was ony and accus gasoline b Mr. Roger: but the ma tol and fi) nearby po! Then, M Roy Doerf other shot in the ne shoulder b The ass shooting.
Driver ¢ Falls Dc
NEW L 18 (UP)— Wayne, In day when trailer, its down stee here. After M truck plun guard rai through th the mount: fered - min treated at
Tidelan: Is Sent {
WASHII —The Ser gent to th give coast; submerged Senate promise n vote after honey (D “probably’ President vetoed a = The Hot the contro