Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1952 — Page 3

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By TED KNAP “BUCK” MOSIER and his wife had 20 dollars in the bank when it came.

They meant to save more, but they had two children to feed and clothe, a car to pay for, and other bills. And you could hardly deny: them their two drive-in movies a week, their few beers and occasional night out.

Then Buck was laid off at the shop. That was six weeks ago, and he hasn't been able to get a job.

The plight of Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth (Buck) Mosier, 2415 N, ,5th Ave. Beech Grove, is shared by about 6300 other Indianapolis area families whose man has been laid off because of the steel strike. Some fare better, some worse, but all are in the same «pinch. Don’t get the idea the Mosiers are destitute. They still have their apartment and car, and they still eat pretty well. They're the first ones to tell you “we're not too bad off,” and they certainly don’t want pity. But ever since June 6, when Buck and some 700 other men got their notices from the New York Central Railroad shops in Beech Grove, the roses have been kicked _ from their path. s ” THE MOSIERS have two children, 3-year-old Donna Jean and 5-week-0ld Robert Elsworth. Plus a 1941 Chevvie, two rooms of second-hand furniture, and a lit- . tle insurance. No television. In the six weeks since the layoff went on the bulletin board, Buck has drawn two back pay checks totaling $175—one for the last two weeks in May and one for his five work days in June. He also draws unemployment compensation, which so far has been one check for $17.50. The back pay checks, used for

: rent, car payment, utilities and

|= 1) only goes with my mother,

{ over the bar. Now the only time

——§ AFTER forgetting the luxuries, |

monthly bills, were soon a memory. Two weeks ago the Mosiers started living on prayer, luck and relatives. vo s Buck’s take home pay used to be $65 a week. Now it's $17.50 in

A Little More on the Cuff .

Heads of about 350 families In Beech Grove (pop. 5685) were laid off six weeks ago from

the New York Central Railroad s

The community is beginning to feel it. These

are the signs: i Grocer James Gibson—Credit

from average of $1500 to nearly $2500. But

people keep buying, and business good.” Grocer; Fred Byrum-—Sales be Some people cut down on meat. silghtly.

Meat, milk, ice cream stay high.

"WE GOT ENOUGH TO EAT"—Mr, and Mrs. Elsworth (Buck)

Dr. Leon W.

hops there. Co-op State “up slightly.” Mrs.

load has risen

“ . off workers are remains “very

tter than ever. Credit up only x caulking. ‘Also

unemployment compensation, and although he's been laid off six weeks.

that's late. How do they manage? First, you cut out the luxuries, even those you thought were necessary. “We like movies,~and used to go twice a. week,” Buck said. “Now I never go, and Je who pays the way. ” » s : “WE USED to get a dozen bottles of beer about every week, and once in a while have one

I have a drink is when someone pops.” ’ 3 Jean said hér main spendin “vice” wds buying clothes for herself and clothes and playthings for the children. “Now I go shopping and come back with groceries. That's all.” “Two months ago I'd say you were crazy to tell us we could get by on: less. But when you know you've got to, you do, You'd be surprised,” she said. There's no bitterness or selfpity in the words. That's how it's got to be, so that’s how it is. Jean says the baby needs a play pen. The one she looked at costs $16, =o it just can't be had. Leisurely drives in the country also are a luxury. The Mosiers now do: without. Buck uses the gas, which he gets “on the cuff” from a friendly station, only for trips he has to make. The gas station man also keeps him in cigarets. And you can do without a newspaper, Buck used to buy one at the drugstore every evening. Now their folks save them and he catches up every few days. “The newspapers mean more than ever. That's because I decided I better keep track of that steel strike,” Buck said. ~

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you can nibble at some necessities.

Jean (his the wife and kids.”

France and Germany, and got to be sergeant. “If I don’t get called back soon, if things get really rough, Ill try to get back in the Army,” he said, “But I don't want to leave,

i Hn 8 ® BUCK HAS managed to do a few odd jobs during his layoff. Mostly it's been painting his father’s house and helping dig the ‘basement, and making some grocery deliveries,

lawn mowings and other jobs, ut ghere’sinot much in that.” “And odd jobs threaten a man's unemployment compensation. As it is, Buck is getting the crooked shaft on jobless pay because his one-week vacation was scheduled for early July. A worker is not eligible for unemployment pay until seven days after he is laid off. So Buck loses, not only the first week after his layoff, but also the first week after his vacation. .

it’s spoiled.” . The Mosiers figured, before June 6, that as soon as the car is paid off they could look for a bigger apartment and then start saving for their own home. Those plans are now set aside. “Even if I go back to work next week,” Buck said, “we’ll feel it for at least six months. It's like starting all over again, but we'll make out.” “And next time, I know we can save more money,” chimed in his wife.

“I looked ‘around @ little for

“This was the first vacation I | ever earned,” he said, “and now

Lola Newcomer, gency Relief Association—No calls for help yet. Hardware store owner C. O. Driskell—"Laid

"NOT FOR US"—Mrs. Mosier looks at beef roast she used

: Berger, dentist—No change until past week, when delinquents rose slightly.

Bank—Withdrawal of savings

Beech Grove, Emer-

busier than ever on their own

homes. Paint sales doubled in last six weeks. Sale of basement waterproof materials . more than doubled, due partly to heavy rains.” up is sale of nails, garden seed, roof cement,

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again Aug. 1, and although Buck is optimistic, he doesn’t know where it'll come from. They're ready to give up the car if they have to, but Buck figures they can arrange to cut the payments in half. He has only four payments to go. ~ ” » HOW TOUGH is it to get a job? “I've gone to so many. places, | I lost track,” Buck said. He fig- game and not in Detroit. ured it was at least a couple Meeting Set Aug. 7 dozen, mostly factories. A league meeting is scheduled] “If there is oxygen on Mars to ask for a job.” “Some of them say no soap be- 5,0 7 in New York City. At- there must be vegetable life, and S—— —— cause they've laid off their OWN|i mpg to set an earlier date have Where there is vegetable lite Mexicans Fail to Top men. Some are interested until, stymied by Jddie Shore, there can be animal life, even a A . they find out I'm laid off. I in-lgon oo 0h “oho reports he Face Of hufnan beings,” he said. Alaska’s Mt. McKinley tend to go back to the shops here, ;, aja ble” until Aug. 4 be- an. : and hei don Nant to Dire... se he is honeymooning. DR. PICARD and his scientist-|(UP)—Five Mexicans Puck has been at the Beech The Hollywood Ice Revue will wife, Dr, Jeanette Picard, Grove shops two years. Although hired as a machinist's helper, he draws full machinist pay because they tested him and found he could do the work. If he started at a new pint, he'd go back to| helper’s pay.

|—Stratosphere Explorer Dr. Jean ; {Felix Picard today guaranteed a [lls fans a young, fast, hustling Y

team and was visibly pleased at trip to Mars by 1954 to anyone the time. cutting the shackles of being a Willing to pay $250,000 for the, “I'm going to just settle down farm club. He is not interested ride. jand take care of a little garden lin “24-hour recall” players unless] The 68-year-old white-haired When I get out there,” he conhis team is riddled with injuries. scientist, who retired this year tinued. “And the only pictures He said when Indianapolis de-|from the University of Minnesota I'm going to shoot will be a few velops promising young players faculty said his flight had been snapshots. now, fans can feel sure they williset for 1954 because he believed| ‘I have some friends in Calisee that player here the next Mars would be in a most favor-|/fornia who used to be engravers

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Indianapolonesome—we'll have company all

{able position then for the obser- here; so of course I'll go around

fall, Oct. 9 through Oct. 28. { Mr. Miller is almost a native for ‘the projected flight. (Mt. McKinley, Hoosier. He came here when he, He said he would go to Mars highest peak. was 4 from Bucyrus, O. He at-|in free balloons, “already tested!

registered at Notre Dame only

! to leave a week later to join the “I've got only one year of high| : in Minneapolis, he said school, and it's pretty hard to/Army in World War I He/™ [0 polis, ne Said.

ing but a facto b,” coached football in the Army and jilld anyth 8 ry Jo |later played semi-pro baseball Sponsor,

k, who is 28 and lived and basketball. iva : around Indianapolis nearly ail his| Until 1041 he officiated high|aia Te added that. the adver.| With Mr. Bravos os life, served seven years in the(school and college football games. tiging value Army ‘during and after World Mixed with his coaching, manag- pe War II. He fought with a forwarding and playing were 15 years in observation battalion throug hithe newspaper busineds.

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“On Sunday we usually had Continued From Page One | Lk Now beet roast or steak” Jean re-| Continued From Page One |;.., cme to Indianapolis and Indisnspolls Times in 1922. Off Manhattan Regular Famous Brand Straw Hats . $ 50 called, “But not any more. Last|National League clubs and Cana- have made their home here since. wouldn't have any idea how 5.00 /2 Price Sunday we had meat loaf.” dian amateur teams. 1 sy many engravings I've made since NEW YORK, July 19 (UP)—A Buck said it was darned good.| Mr, Miller said yesterday it al-| N i I started,” he laughed. “It'd run small tanker exploded in the East So he coll) OF hambUIEORs OF wars nous: 2. for OT bin Job Ba the " into the millions, though, 1 think. River off Manhattan's East Side Regular > . . While $ 95 Ho meat at all they have during |cret ambition to {Indianapolis Sun which changed hi Dae 2s a BY 2 8 I oral-ltota hy ie oo Ra . 25 Califor nia Leisure Jackets 50 Last 14 They buy less meat, more Have oe Lae lta name to the Indiana Dally| Now that he's ready to retire voce’ drifted downstream rE vegetables. Milk stays the same./gependently ‘ John is going to take Lucy and i) ..qands of spectators. Fred Byrum, who runs the|,wned and that GC f T . {move to Baldwin Park, Cal. They mue orew dived overboard .as R | . . . Now grocery store below the Mosiers' ne was “amazed” varaniees Irip have a daughter, Bonita, lving|,, "1 =. 0 Lo". tied past a eguiar $ 95 apartment, started putting’ them st the amount {there, and have built a house sli 8 a st Nd Yree $10-12.50 d 1 ornia e1sure dC ets Only on credit Wednesday. lof financial To Mars by 1954 Fight next door {o hers. lot them P wre pulled ‘out of the So far, Buck and Jean paid | packin avail “Lucy is pretty anxious to get Aft i fv b ! their $28 rent promptly. Ditto], Bd In- For Only $250,000 out there, too,” he said. “But Just Cocsels. Mike Lizzul, the wae Regular Now with the $6 gas bill and $30.72 gianapolis busi- [like me she hates to leave all. cio ; All Wool 5 ort Coats b 50 a month for car. But they're due| ecemen. DUNCAN, B. C, July 19 (UP) our friends here. However, if] wo. firchoals ‘beached. “th 39 Ya Price > everyone comes out to see us 0 reboats beac e

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 19 tions” between Democratic “bigwho failed Wigs” and the handling of Justice

are and four Americans who made it Department cases. be premiered in Indianapolis this working at a retreat near this arrived here today from mountain

{Vancouver Island center on plans climbing expeditions on‘ mighty North America’s

The Mexicans, members of the

tended Manual High School and and proven.” An ultra-modern Explorers’ Club of Mexico, blamed! \ > B gondola for the balloons is in the bad weather for their failure to Th nority member of the House

| “The trip took up #0 lone that that was needed was a we ran out of food at the 18100-

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UN Accused

POWs As Spie

By United Press - TOKYO, Sunday, July 20-—The ommunists accused the United ations today of parachuting Red prisoners into North Korea to act {a8 spies. _ The Reds made the accusation {in & brief meeting of liaison officers before a 12-minute secret {session of the truce delegates at

{Panmunjom. Communist liaison officers {handed their United Nations

[counterparts a letter addressed to Jada Gen. William K. Harrison from the Communist chief negoGen.

tiator, Nam Il. . Gen, Nam told the United Nations senior delegate that Red {prisoners were forced “to act as}? {your special agents” after being {dropped by parachute into North | Korea. | Talks Strike Snag The brief session of the truce j {delegates caused a further slump

North Korean

{were making progress. ! After the meeting, United Na-§ tions officers announced only that § the delegates would return to the truce tent for another secret ses sion Monday. In charging the United Nations with forcing Red prisoners to act} as spies, Gen. Nam said these] prisoners were then listed as fugitives by the United Nations com-| “Many” prisoners listed as fugitives were dropped by Al-| lied planes in North Korea, he said. “Your side must bear full re-|i sponsibility for such actions of} compelling war prisoners to act as your - special agents which is in grave violation of internation al law,” Gen. Nam told Gen, Har rison. >

Rebuilt Installations SEOUL, Korea, July 20 (UP)— Carrier based U, 8. Navy planes swept down on repair crews at the Chosen power plant in North Korea Saturday and tore up installations being rebuilt after the giant June 23 bombing. Corsair and Skyraider pilots from the - Princeton and Bon Homme Richard treported the Reds had a tight'ring of anti-

NO BABIES AROUND?—Sen. Estes Kefauver, campaigning in Chicago for the Democratic nomination, kisses one of his favorite cousins, Mrs. W., H. Wright Jr., of Baton Rouge, La, at a press conference. sia y

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