Speedway Flyer, Volume 14, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1946 — Page 4

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Fire and Police Notice If it Is necessary for you to call the KRE DEPARTMENT or POLICE BEPARTMENT, Please call BELMONT 1400.

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We Need Speedway Properties List Your Real Estate Today! We Write Insurance A. C. Moldthan, Realtor 1452 Main Street, Speedway BElmont 2727

WILL PAY Seat Covers Batteries • HIGHEST (ASH PRICES —For— USED CARS BUSARD 1330 Main St. Speedway Be. 0303

DR. CHARLES C. COHEE, Dentist 1462 MAIN STREET Belmont 2006 Talbot 9440 Talbot 4068 Office Hours Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday—l:oo pt m. to 6:00 p. m. Evening Hours by Appointment

/ ' 4k HOW Mk AVAILABLE Lntest model highs P ee d fl°° r sander for rent. Everyto complete a ' ® c^ass j°b- Call ftZ or come to— Schoonover's Hardware and Auto Parts 16th and Main Street Belmont 4600

Backmeyer’s Grocery 5236 Crawfordsville Road Belmont 1363 Groceries Meats WE DELIVER ON SATURDAY Always Open Seven Days A Week!

SMITH'S BARBER & BEAUTY SHOP 4905 W. 14th Street Phone Be. 3411 THREE BARBERS ON SATURDAY WE HAVE SECURED THE SERVICES OF MARY SMITH TO OUR BEAUTY SHOP No Appointments Necessary BARBERS BEAUTICIANS Ralph C. Smith Mary Smith Ray Paugh < Monna Harvey

Open 6 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. DAVIS ’ S GRILLE Six Days a Week 1402 MAIN STREET SPEEDWAY BELMONT 4300 Steaks and Chops Home-Made Chili and Soups TRY OUR DELICIOUS SANDWICHES AND TASTY SALADS Prompt and Courteous Service * ’ 4 i ' ' HENRY MATTOX Prop; Good Food, Well Prepared A Modem Eating Place You’ll Like It!

Customer pp. By GEORGE S. BENSON jfz President of Harding College „ fly Searcy.Arkansas / J|f|CUU/

CATERING to the customer has been America’s most profitable and highly diversified craft for several generations, and it must never stop if this country is to stay great and free. Catering to' the customer is an honorable and interesting activity, and there is nothing to stop it but man-made laws. May they never be enacted! Certainly 1946 is no time to experiment with silly ideas. Take the automotive industry for an example. It is probably the best example. Automobile men have gone to great lengths to please the American buyer. His wish for speed has- been served, seasoned with safety. His need as to seating capacity, his taste in design, his whim in color, and (most important) his buying power, have been taken into account. Result: A car for a king. Primitive PERHAPS the first Notions time a car manufacturer decided suddenly to rip the insides out of his plant and put in new machinery to give King Customer a better dollar’s worth, the stockholders winced. Maybe, in that long-gone day, stockholders considered such expenses wasteful, but they learned better. Catering to the customer is exactly what makes dividends grow bigger each year. We may imagine also that, back in the early days of the horseless carriage, some factory workers worried about their jobs for a while after lower prices were announced. Probably some good workmen asked, “How long

Telephone (Continued from Page 1.) they want, when they want it and to resume long range plans for the development and improvement of telephone service. Specific projects for the future included extension of dial service, expansion and improvement in rural service, a method by which operators can dial certain out-of-town calls straight through to the called telephone, and experimental work in the field of radiotelephone service for motor vehicles. Lines And Equipment Crowded Last year the company’s lines and equipment were loaded beyond the standards for normal operation and all available telephone instruments were pressed into service. Long distance traffic was the heaviest on record. AH service directly related to the winning of the war and to the welfare of the public as a whole was furnished promptly, Mr. Carroll said. But there were thousands of requests for service that could not be furnished for

IT WILL BE AT THE SPEEDWAY HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM MARCH THE 21ST AND MARCH THE 22ND!

BABY NEEDS Simlac $ .89 S-M-A .89 Dextro-Maltose .63 Mead’s Pablum .39 .60 Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin ... .47 .40 Fletcher’s Castoria .. JI Sani-Tab Nipples 3 for .25 JO J. & J. Baby Oil '. .43* .25 J. & J. Baby Talc Jl* 8 Oz Baby Bottles .05 Baby Pants, Lrg., Med., Small. * .39 Diaper Liners, 40’s .98 Cotton Pickers .29 Q-Tips 25 Plus Fed. Tax Beck’s Drugs 15th at Main Street Belmont 2830

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can the big boss keep paying us after he starts giving his profits to the consumer?” These doubters are wiser now too. They know the wisdom of serving King Customer. ' Danger! WAGE earners and No Road stockholders have prospered together building yearly better machines, more handsome and less costly. Huge industries have resulted, creating thousands of good jobs. The road to national prosperity is plain but industry is being -urged to try a strange course, new to America; a road that has lost many a great race in hopeless poverty and want. By the new (?) route, business becomes servile to power. Partisan fact-finding committees may thumb private records at will. They wijk be concerned with wages only with wages. Car prices to the user will interest them little; returns to investors, not at all. Such committees will say what wages an employer is able to pay when rightly wages are based on a worker’s ability to produce. Such a scheme would ear-mark for wages all but such a paltry share of a firm’s earnings that investors would turn away. Down would come cash reserves, plant equipment and output. Quality would suffer, prices would advance and sales drop off. Paying men, according to the employer’s ability to pay, is the surest if not the fastest way to hopelessly low wages and a dog’s life for us all.

lack of necessary equipment. 35,000 Waiting For Service The peak of applications waiting for service was reached lyt September when the company had 45,000 applications on file. During the last three months of the year, it was possible to offer service to more than 17,000 of those who had waited longest. However, new requests for service were being received at a rapid rate and the number waiting for telephones stood at 35,400 at the end of the year. " Payroll $1,000,000 A Month Indiana Bell revenues in 1945 exceeded $25,000,000—up 8 per cent. Operating expenses increased 12 per cent to nearly $17,000,000, plus a record tax bill of $5,200,000. Total expenditures for payroll amounted to more than $1,000,000 a month. iNet earnings on the company’s nearly $67,000,000 investment in the business were $2,650,000. At the end of the year, there were 364,700 Indiana Bell telephones in service, a net gain of 20,000 during the year. Of the 572 Indiana Bell employees in military service, about half had been released and returned to work by the end of the year. In addition, the company had employed 167 other veterans of World War H, the report stated.

AMERICAN LEGION We all are aware of the wholehearted support given to our country by Speedway in both World War one and two. We of the American Legion are anxious to record for posterity these achievements. We can very readily secure the history of industry in Wars from Industry itself. Also the financial support from the purchase of bonds is well known. But the individual contribution of our men and women in the armed forces is pretty well in the 'background. It is chiefly this information we seek. A house to house survey seems to be the only sure method of securing it We are planning to undertake this job. We know it is a large order because so few are available for the job of making the necessary calls. You folks of Speedway can be of immeasurable assistance. 'Won’t you help us by furnishing this following information about each member of your household who served with the Armed Forces in either World War one or two? Name ; Serial No. Blood Type Branch of Servicel Date of Enlistment Date and Character of Discharge. Citations or Decorations Residence address Please mail or bring this information to Geo.ge L. Sauer, Publicity Chairman, Speedway Post No. 198, 1632 Christopher Lane, Indianapolis 8, Indiana.

SPEEDWAY PASTRIES We do our own baking Pies Pastries Cakes » Doughnuts Cookies C. W. KEPPEL L. E KEPLEY 8:30 A. M. to 7:00 P. M. 4906 W. 16th St.

FEDERAL TAX RETURNS Filed and Prepared STAFFORD'S uuw.mst

Skidmore’s Barber Shop 1542 MAIN STREET 3 Barbers “Friendly Service? Shoe Shine

Plumbing, Heating and Repairing AU Work Guaranteed ED. WOODLOCK & SON 4918 W. 13th St. Belmont 0721

■WATCHES DIAMONDS 'EASTERN STAR, MASONIC AND SCOTTISH RITE RINGS WITH OR WITHOUT DIAMONDS A complete line of jewelry, gifts and novelties for the entire f amity. HALLMARK GREETING CARDS o— SPECIAL ON LADIES’ IDENTIFICATION BRACELETS 8:30 A. M. TO 6 P. M. DAILY Robert L. Stout, Jeweler WATCH SPECIALIST. CLOCK REPAIRING 1432 Main Street Belmont 0446

PHOTOGRAPHS BABIES CHILDREN GROUPS ADULTS WEDDINGS COPIES RAMOS-PORTER Branch STOUTS JEWELRY STORE 1432 MAIN SPEEDWAY Every Friday , Noon to six P. M.

Speedway theatre ALWAYS A COMPLETE SHOW AFTER 6:30 P. M. THUR. FRL —SAT. MAR. 7 —8 —8 RAY MILLAND JANE WYMAN PHILLIP TERRY la “LOST WEEK-END” phis ' “BROOKLYN ORCHID” with WM. BENDIX MARJORIE WOODWORTH JASPER CARTOON SUN. MON. MAR. 10 GENE TIERNEY JEANNE CRAIN CORNEL WILDE in “LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN” (TECHNICOLOR” 4 and MARCH OF TIME"—"18 Million Orphans" LITTLE LULU CARTOON k NEWS TUES. WED, MAR. 12 PAUL MUNI MARGUERITE CHAPMAN in “COUNTER ATTACK” and “Scotland Yard Investigator” with ERIC VON STROHEIM JASPER CARTOON

SELL YOUR PROPERTY WHERE MOST PROPERTY IS BEING SOLD IN SPEEDWAY List Your Property Today and Start Packing WE STILL HAVE CASH BUYERS FOB 2 AND 3 BEDROOM HOMES * E. K. HARVEY, Realtor We Write Insurance 4830 West 16th Street Office—Be. 0699 Residence—Be. 3973

FACTORY RADIO SERVICE On all makes of radios. Our twenty years of experience qualifies us to give prompt and efficient service.. RADIO BILL 3050 West 16th Street Belmont 2484

SPEEDWAY REFRIGERATION. RADIO AND HEATING SERVICE 1610 Main St. Be. 0005 Complete sales, service and repairs on all makes of refrigerators, radios, oil burners, and stokers. • Immediate Service By Factory Trained Specialist

be lovely ALWAYS * * • VV*’ ' Wo cun help you find the way to loveliness. Our experienced open* I X wiU T ° ur hair te T ° ur b personality. MURRAY BEAUTY SHOP 1344 MAIN STREET BELMONT 2344