Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1952 — Page 39
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Real Estate ; Tins
Civil Today «Business ney It's Swing Week fo. Into Playtime
y By Harold Hartley
THIS WEEK ALL HUMANITY changes pattern, and| clothes, too. | It is the automatic shift from spring to summer, to straw hats and white shoes, play clothes and bathing suits | which look better dry than wet. | The Three ‘Q’s’
| Gas hose snouts will be buried THOSE QUIET little companies’
in some 50 million tanks. Used car lots will be populated again, fool you. They are often better off than some of the bigger ones.
and stores will unload sun-glasses and tanning lotions, and light, ; The one in mind is the Dage Electric Co., 67 N. Second St. in
airy wear. : Pome. A Beech- Grove. It has 60 on the! IT IS A SHORT week for the payrool, full time. I had never stores. Thursday night opening heard of it until a day or two has been shifted, for. this week ago. only, to Wednesday night. . It makes radio frequency conSales figures for the week end- nectors for the Armed Services, ing: a week ago yesterday showed first “Type C,” and now “Type N” a drop of 9 per cent, but they which are merely model names.
, were still ‘only 3 per cent behind The connectors go into radio, TV
and radar equipment. They are| hardly bigger than your thumb. | ® = » ; GEORGE H. FATHAUER, president, turned out a half milout, more, pack the infield. . lion last year in what is known a =.8 as a highly competitive business. | COKE STANDS were loading.,He is young, out of the Univer-| The “Pause That Refreshes” will sity of Illingis in 1942, with two
last year, on the year to date. At the “500 Oval” they were getting ready for upward of 150,-| 000 fans, A good day will bring
jump, with sunny skies, about 40 years out for the Navy. |
per cent. If it’s a dull race, iti How did he‘get the business? | may go higher. When ‘there's ex- He credits the Three Q's. They | citement, fans talk more, drink/are Quality, Quantity and ; ‘Quickly. | ® x = | ON HIS TEAM are Joe G.| Badger, vice president, with a] physics degree from Indiana Uni-| versity; Howard W. Alvis,
The hawkers who dangle sou-| venirs in children’s faces are tun-! ing up at the track. Officials keep an eye on them to stop wrangles over wrong change. Us-
ually, there's no trouble. If there President, purchasing, and Rob-\who pays out wages, as well.
Woempner, secretary-.
is, they don’t come back, ert C. : |treasurer.
Fea.» This quick-footed little com-
i MEMORIAL: DAY is the kick- pany is not complaining. It has pensive home.
off day for summer eating, skin-|orders piled up from the best-pay-less weiners, luncheon meats. ling customer in the world, an Stark-Wetzel which has the hot [Uncle of yours, named Sam. dog trade by the tail will sell] HE about 150,000 this weekend, may- | od iy be more. And its new Trophy, "Loaf, all honey ham, no gristle! or fat, is leading the parade. But] it has a tough, old line com-| petitor. : ji That is baloney, hard to beat, easy to eat. It's cheaper, still a| front-runner im the between-| bread-or-bun. race, | » » »
THE GROCERS were stockpiling for the first big week-end. But one thing was missing. It was the potato chip price war, although one big chain will have 14 ounces for 59 cents, $
Red\ Dot Foods, Inc., local chip makers, were not caught in the potato shortage. The company! grows its own on big farms in, Wisconsin, and for the early, crops, extensive acreage in-Ala-bama. First car came in last week.
GEORGE FATHAUER —Made the Three "Q's" pay PY ss =» = 3 8 8 = THE POTATO SHORTAGE put| its blessing on an item few nad Idea Jackpot bought before, canned sweet WHEN A MAN gambles, he potatoes. They had been on thejought to gamble on himself. He market, peeled but whole, in 16/is his own best bet. ° ounce cans. Last week they ap-, Harold R. Clark, toolroom mapeared in 22-ounce cans, mashed. |chinist at P. R. Mallory & Co, Even lima beans got a lift. Peo-|In¢., had watched repeated efforts ple were mashing them for the to .Jpuild an automatic machine starch dish at dinner. {used in making timers for washIce tea will be sold in bags this/IDg machines. year, Its biggest month is from He tried his hand at it, built now until the middle of June, And|the first one out of scrap. It look for & cut in cheese, the two- {looked good to the company, so pounder. Mallory’s gave him a factory or-
The chicken spree is about over.|der for $550 to build a real one. Sales went up 300 per cent. But/He did it.
| # ” ” prices are stiffening. ... . | UNDER MALLORY’S generous : 8. 8. {Suggestion System he will ‘collect YOU'LL: SAVE MONEY by 52600 for half of the savings in
staying away from fresh straw-ithe first year. berries. It looks like 49 cents a| Majlory’s liked the machine so
quart from here, Buy them frozen, much it built three, and with 11}lawn,
much cheaper, and still with that ore. machines running two full fresh flavor. |shifts, he figures he will save the Boneless chicken will be cheap-/ company $45,000. But his pay-off
er than tuna. And pork and beans|is the first year only. |“feel” cooler. You are cooler.
will have the first of three big, With the $2600 he paid off the |
weekends, The other two, July 4 rest on his Mercury, then cleaned tree in the yard the temperature
and ‘Labor Day. up the bills left from the move
It'll be eat, drink and be weary, into his home at 4640 Brouse St. | oF» This week he expects the final] THE BIG REASON, of course,
for tomorrow we try—to get) over iti | . - { Still Down THOSE SHARP-EYED pur-| chasing agents still have the trend pegged as definitely down. Apartment Owners Meet Industrial buying is on “90-day, Herbert P. Kenney, director ‘of hand-to-mouth” buying with prices|tne . Indiana Legislative Bureau, getting tender. Nine per cent re-| wij] be guest speaker at the ported additions to payrolls, 24! monthly Apartment Owners Asper cent reported layoffs. [sociation luncheon meeting
check--a whopper—for $1100.
Harold Hartley Sp. m.
Hear on
WISH at
But they had a much betler| wednesday noon at the Washingview of Canada. There, they said,|ton Hotel, Paul Coen, president, business is better. dollar.
And so is the announced today.
vice They're -out to sell not only the wage earner, but the man |
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SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1952
ights Plank Stirs Up Housing Men
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Real Estate—
Pre-fabs Build Vy + Larger Homes
By DON TEVEBAUGH Times Real Estate Editor
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THE PREFAB BUILDERS are stepping up out of the| {low cost home market and into the medium price range.
Do you know why? It’s easier, ito find a buyer for a more ex- home maintenance and repair] ‘costs you know will come, you| | That's what Regulation X has can avoid false economies, |done to today's home buying| {public—eliminated the little guy. { The factory made home dealers] Economic uncertainties are |are selling two very big items on slowing the development of new
small? You Can Move
Uncertainty Slows Homes . * OUTSIDE INSIDE—AIl the charm and beauty of your garden
becomes a part of your new outdoor living room.
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WASHINGTON, May 24—The shaped up today as a new and explosive issue in the Civil
ion Laws
¥. LOFTUS onden ederal housing program
factions of the Democratie
| Barring a wholesale retreat by
{the party's New Deal wing; the
{federal housing {complicate enormously the Democrats’ job of writing a campaign ‘platform at their nominating con-| |vention in Chicago this summer. { The issue was projected into) the national spotlight little. more, than a week ago at the annual |convention of Americahs for {Democratic Action, who oppose the Southern conservatives in the, Democratic party circle on many domestic issues. |" Sparked by Mrs, Sadie Alexlander, a member of Predident "Truman's Civil Rigts Committee, {the ADA convention. -delegates went down ‘the line for a resolu{tion rejecting in advance any federal housing, health or educationlal legislation that does not spe-| leifically ban racial segregation.
South Walked Out
The Southern Democrats) walked out of the last nominating convention at Philadelphia in 1948 rather than accept a much
areas. In some military areas,
\question of racial segregation Nine sald, servicemen and thelr threatened 10|e, 0 i1jen are living in substandard |housing because the federal con-
trols have rolled back their rents to the point where they have no fricentive to seek better quarters.
No Need for Restrictions Alan E. Brockbank, president of the National Association of Home Builders, told the committee there is no longer any need for credit restrictions on home buying. : Mr. Brockbank sald the reserve board originally imposed Regulation X after the outbreak of the Korean War in 1850 because it was considered necessary at that time to conserve critical materials and to cut down an inflationary flow of real estate credit, The conditions that impelled the board to act in 1950 no longer exist, Mr. Brockbank said. The builder said there is no shortage of materials for home construction today and the big
|matider civil rights plank which| the ADA helped insert into the party platform at that time. 1 The ractal segregation touched off a furious row at this year's ADA convertion. Many of the organization's own leaders
fear it was so extreme it might weaken their whole position at the Chicago convention. They can be expected to continue hammering away for a compromise between now and convention time. : The resolution in effect called on the Democratic party representation in Congress to write into all future housing legislation a specific ban on racial egation in any program aided in any way by federal money.
All Housing Affected That, would include not only
fought bitterly to soften it for|
{the {fresher design.
tough selling job a little easier. Buyers are conservative. They're a little wary of prefabs,
less money. The Archwood, a sleek modern
feet of storage space in the attic —all for $25,000.
area.
Homes Corp. has just introduced their new line of prefabs priced as high as $17,000 — the most elaborate of their 80 defferent designs. v
” » MORE THAN 8000 people turned out to inspect a four bedroom, 1200 square foot Saratoga model here this spring.
son Homes, Inc., has come up with the first “L” shaped prefab which = features floor to ceiling window walls. ‘ And fhe next big move will be to offer strictly modern design prefab homes, such as the one displayed at the 1952 Indianapolis
Home Show. » » »
Color You Feel £0 More and more it amazes me, the tremendous effect colors play in our daily lives. : Take the color of a well kept for example. That deep green drops the temperature in your home about six degrees on
they envy the bigger house for
ranch styled factory built home
all-electric kitchen and 100 square
That's 3100 square feet of floor|
{ And up at Lafayette, National |
housing mart—space and housing communities, despite the
243,000 residential starts this
These two factors make a/quarter, the 53d periodic survey
of the National Association of Real Estate Boards reports. | The starts of 1952's first quar{ter almost equal the
| showed.
{251 communities surveyed
than in 1951.
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and site preparation.
tion's land planners.
|as the trend away from standard-
i
Down at New Albany, Gunni-|ized, production-built housing are
North Side Realtors Sell
(also factors tapering community |development, the report showed. { In two-thirds of the communities surveyed, prices on lots are higher than a year ago. Only 5 per cent of the areas reported a decline in lot prices. Volume of lot sales is up in 38 per cent of communities previously developed |and 45 per cent of those newly developed.
Steel Available, Building Starts At State Fair
260,300!
- o “ . {homes started during the same i BUT THEY LIKE the style and period a year ago, the survey answer for crowded home own- ceiling is of light stained ply-
re-| {ported less activity this year in sold by the Pease Woodwork Co. 39 per cent of the areas, Thirty-
of Cincinnati, offers Tour bed-/three per cent reported activity Put his pencil to work. He came, gotation further accents the in- affect housing legislation at this rooms, two baths, glass walls, an about the same as 1951 and 28 up with an attractive addition to door-outdoor decor, per cent reported greater volume pig present home, suitable for liv-
” ” ~ | UNLIKE BUILDING on pre-| pared available sites, community |living” is shown in Mr. Whitney development requires long range work. planning for market analysis, garden patio and large glass walls|
Fear of continuing or inereased) federal controls over home build- rials, this home owner built the/rasrm "home owners and f » r Teing and selling was reported as extra room on a cement slab and modeling within a or the greatest brake by the na-|covered the floor with cork tile. tor adding new floor, space. {Exterior and interior walls are
| However, higher costs for land of green painted plywood. The 42 cash National Homes prefab and land improvements, as well/ gr p pYW [42 cash prizes.
4ularly, but roofing repairs or the)
« tor of the session.
a warm sunny day. You don’t just weeks on a $328,000 building at the Fairgrounds which will centralize emergency services during! the State Fair and other events, | The final go-ahead came this!
And if you've got a broad leafy
comes down even more,
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{is the moisture which is pushed up {into the atmosphere from the lawn and through foliage. Trim |your grass too short or chop’down {that tree and you've destroyed the cheapest air-conditioning system ever made. Your lawn cuts down on glare and street noises, too. It takes the bounce out of the sun's rays by absorption and in the same manner filters noise. : But to keep your lawn effective don’t cut it toe short. The longer [grass blades comb out the sound waves, the engineers report.
Sock It Away
When things go wrong with your house, seemingly all at once,
of steel for the project.
assigned to the Fair, fire department, Red Cross and grounds
restaurant and an apartment for th Fair Grounds superintendent.
pleted by next year. The structure will be located at the site of the mule barn which burned during the 1951 Fair. Contract for general construetion has been awarded to Glenroy Construction Co. of Indianapolis.
Construction will start in a few|l€rsVile Rd.
To be three stories in brick, the, building will house state police
police. It also will include a large]
‘The growing family. An outdoor living room.
1
{bay window and it's
Here's an answer to today's biggest housing problem:
public housing, which already is
lending institutions are doing a more than adequate job in holding down excessive real estate
issue Credit, ‘ “In
fact,” he said, “it is pretty tough for a builder to get finance ing right now. “A return to normal lending practices would permit the home buyer, lender and builder in each case to work out mutually satisfactory terms varied to suit local conditions, the local market, and the individual judgment of the purchasers concerned.” he said, “This is not now possible under the rigid situation prevailing, where credit terms are centrally set for the entire country.” The builders and the real estate men have made it clear they are not satisfled with the relaxation of Regulation X now under consideration by the Federal Reserve Board, They want all credit curbs killed now,
under heavy fire in Congress, but
It’s built out from the rest of the house like a projected |another of those programs. the big
{ers who have no basement or wood.
| However, land planners in the!lattic to expand into. | Architect Whitney R. Smith room is raised 15 inches to be at|attempt were made to force a
a level with the rest of the house. nonsegregation policy on it. Clever use of ferns and other]
ling, dining and entertaining.
{land buying, community design [tie the outside to the home's in-
[terfor. Using modern building mate-
found himself in these shoes and
Today's trend toward “outdoor
The room opens into a!Y
The dining area in the new
‘Win a Prize
our ideas may be prize winners.
{plan of the remodeling to the | Douglas Fir Plywood Association, {Tacoma 2, Wash.
They have special contests for
Near-Record
The Associated North Side Realtors had their second best sales report of the year this week, listing 61 sales worth: a total of $889,060, Chairman Guy F. Boyd Jr. reported. Sales listed by Secretary Wayne Whiffing: Wayne Whifing — 65 N. Kenyon. St., 1321 W. 30th St. | Haynes Realty Service — 2522 |E. 18th St. 902 W. 53d St., lot {at 4843 Rosslyn Ave. 4699 Mil-
Gerdenich Go.—131 E, 36th St, Alfred Campbell — 6101 Burlington Ave., co-operating broker Jack C. Carr, Inc.; 7409 N. Illinois St., co-operating broker
Bruce Savage Co. ; J & L Realty, Inc.—3247 Suther-
Calhoun St. ton St., 1833 Calhoun St.
land Ave., 3423 Drexel Ave., 2065 3920 E. Washing-|
Walt Veon Co.—140 E. 36th St,
Yolume
the 5800 block N. Rural 8t., 3739 N. DeQuiney St, Whispering Winds Chicken Dinner restaurant, 501 Berkley Rd.,, 2200 Warman Ave. Butterworth & Co.—3045 Delaware St. The Spann Co. Inc.—4117-19 Cornelius Ave., 632 Udell St, Hugh ‘Teeters Co. — Lots 1 through 14 Fall Creek Addition, first. section, Harry L. Robbins—Lot Williams Creek, co-operating broker Russell Fortune Jr. Edgar E. Brodbeck — 3139 N. {Pennsylvania St. | F.C. Tucker Co —3740 N. Caro{lina Ave., 1488 Maynard Drive,
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week as the National Production American Estates Co.; 6165 Bur-|0t 97 Wynnedale Addition. Authority approved an allotment|lington Ave, co-operating broker
doe Berger — 5802 Evanston {Ave., 6l48 Oxford St. co-operat-Ing broker Normal IL. Hammer; 1336 E, 60th St., 14 acres Garrison |Home Place. | dack C. Carr, Ine.—1221 N. |Goodlet Ave, 1074 Eugene St, 119-21 'W. 37th St. 1416 N. Wal-
co-operating broker Willis Adams;jlace St, co-operating broker Walt
{ing broker Hugh Teeters.
The first two stories are ex-| 2122 Pamela Dr., 5773 N. Hillside|Veon; 4925 Crittenden Ave., 7520 pected to be ready for the Fair in|AVe. lot 7 Forest View Addition,iN. Pennsylvania St., co-operating August, with the rest to be com- | 3336 N. Delaware St, co-operat-broker American Estates; 5673
{Broadway, 2528 Broadway, 4838
| Knight Realty Co.—Lot at 95th English Ave, Hopecrest Farm at |8t. and Washington Bivd., lot at/W. 96th St., 2 lots in Cold Spring
{95th and Central Ave. Gregory & Appel, Inc. 11
in 71st St. Estates.
| A, H. M, Graves, Inc.—7 lots in
(Road Addition; 1732 Park Ave, {3645 N. Adams St. co-operating {broker F. C. Tucker Co.; 6120 E.
125th St, 814 Ingomar Ave. 2044
you want ‘em fixed immediately. And the best way to get it done is to sock away a few bucks for home repair and. maintenance every month, 4 If your home is pushing that 25 year mark, a repair budget isn’t just a convenience, it’s a necessity.
» ” » . GENERALLY, home repairs come in three groups: Those you can expect at periodic intervals, thoge you, can’t anticipate and those caused by age. | Redecorating rooms comes reg-'
collapse of your heating plant usually comes without warning, and requires immediate remedy. | And by saving regularly for the,
Educational Class K. V. Ammerman will speak! on “Frontiers In Real Estate” at {6:16 tomorrow night at the Antiers Hotel in the final Real Estate Board Fducational Class. Warren M. Atkinson is modera-
WOODSIDE ADDITIO Co. sold this attractive home at
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N—C. R. Harris of Greg
& A 5428 Woodside Drie or builders
owner A. Oertle. The four-bedroom home is now owned by an Indianapolis newspaperman, B Wm
N. Talbot Ave. Bruce Savage Co.—6137 Riverview Drive, co-operating broker American Estates; 7950 Morningside Drive, Greathouse property on Kissel Road, Zionsville; Weaver property on W, 84th St.
Tubes to Breath
Two Cleveland companies have developed new-type exhalers for homes, one of aluminum, the other of plastic. They are tubes which are inserted in %-inch holes drilled into the wall. They permit air circulation and help to eliminate paint peeling due to excessive moisture,
Appraisers Meet i Ross M. Hutchinson of Cambridge City will speak on “Farm Appraising” at 6 p. m. at the Martinique Restaurant at the monthly dinner meeting of the Society of Residential Appraisers, Scott Padgett, president, announced : today, A 4
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also the FHA and veterans’ housing insurance programs. Prac{tically all the home building now {in progress is covered by one or
More New
Homes Begun Last Month
Home building starts in Mar fon County surged during April The ADA move is not likely t0i45 reach a 4.6 per cent increase over the first four months: of 1951 pace, but still trailed, per-
Experts in and out of government say most of it would be forced to a dead stop, particularly in the South and Southwest, if an
session of Congress. But it could give the platform-writers plenty
If you're faced with a remodel'g/ing problem and intend solve it,
tion.
Congressional Hands Full Congress already has its hands full with housing legislation. The Senate is looking over a {House-approved measure which would cut President Truman's
More than $20,000 is offered in| Public Housing Program to the
bone—all the way down to 5000 units next year instead of the 75,000 he requested. The House wrote into that bil an amendment banning federal aid to any housing unit that shelters a member of any organization on the attorney general's list of subversive organizations. - That “rider” would affect FHA and VA housing as well as public housing, and government and private housing officials say it would rock the national housing program just as hard as would the ADA’s civil rights proposal.
Rént and Credit Controls
The question of federal rent controls and housing credit restrictions also is before Congress in the pending bill to extend the Defensé Production Act, scheduléd to expire June 30.
and home building industries went before the House Banking Committee last week to urge that in extending the Defense Production Act Congress kill controls on home credit.
speaking for the National Association of Real Estate Boards,
told the committee that the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation
income brackets who want to
down payments.
ing shortage in critical defense
| Harry J. Fitzgerald, Evansville, gn ignt Realty Co. sales staff is
|Julia' A. Kelly, Harry Kinght, firm manager,
buy homes but can’t afford the/p.a) Estate Board.
i Currently, Mr. Fitzgerald also recom-frm is handling the development mended an end to federal rent gs College Crest and Northridge
controls. He said these controls ,qaitions subur are merely perpetuating the hous-|gide. onthe ban. North
of grief at the Chicago conven- centage-wise, the starts within And if the ADA won its Indianapolis. point there, it might very well
provoke another Southern walkSend them with a simple floor q,¢
The County recorded 701 starts, a gain of 31 over the four month 1851 total. -
Starts within city limits, however, totaled 448, up 94 from 1951 a gain of 26.5 per cent. Home building within city limits also showed a gain in dollar volume, reaching $4.87 million— $1.7 million more. a Dollar volume for county home building skidded from $6.37 million to $5.68 million—a drop of more than $684,700 for the four month period. Here's the big difference: The average home started in . Indianapolis this year costs $10,874, while the average home started in Marion County this spring cost only $8100. A year ago, the average new city house was valued at $8900 and the suburban home at $8500. April was a big home building month nationally, too. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported more than 108,000 new housing units started during the month. That's the highest volume since June of 1951 132,500 units were started. The April total is about
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{10 per cent over March and 12
{per cent over a year ago. Spokesmen for the real estate
Julia A. Kelly Joins Knight Co.
Newest member of the ¥. M,
announced this
eek. Mrs. Kelly, employed by the X, which sets minimum down sion ™ Ser firm Spl! Tabor, is ment requirements on new homes, a
has accomplished nothing except orth hi to penalize families in the lower-| ocialize in XN Side vesiden
licensed saleslady and will
tial properties. She is also a member of the
the Knight realty
ua as