The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08

Offices, all permanent investments.
Allied industries are expected to be
attracted to the town.
Pathos and Joy Mixed
Pathos and JOY are mixed into the
stories of the new decade, so low
had Lawrenceburg sunk in the
swamp Of unemployment and hard
times.
It seemed once that the town was
destined to be the forgotten town.
For fifty long, suffering years,
changing times had crushed prof1ta-
BILE markets. Promising river traffic
died at birth. The coming OF the
automobile wiped out an established
reputation as the center of the car
riage making industry.
The flood of 1913 almost downed
Lawrenceburg completely. The pas
sage of the eighteenth amendment
struck the final blow. Three dis
tilleries located there were the
basis of the community's pros
perity.
Now, little fearful that the good
fortune will vanish as suddenly as
it appeared, family heads bring
home the first pay check in months.
Rental firms are deluged with re-
quests to fill up the houses, long
empty.
Permanent, Citizens Hope
One hotel keeper is greatly sur
prised at the mama, in the form of
paying guests, that has descended
upon him. One merchant, listening
to the tingle of cash registers, said,
I'VE have Christmas rush crowds
down here every day.
Lawrenceburg has known bleak
days too we'll to be careless of its
new prosperity. She is providing a
permanent economic future for her
citizens. Employment, thus far,
has been restricted to LaWrence7
burg persons. The distillerieS are
cooperating with the city govern
ment in solving the problems OF
LaWrenceburg.
w. H. Reed, general manager OF
Seagram & Sons, explains the pol
icy as, "Lawrenceburg isn't just a
location for this industry. It's the
community in which we are living.
Residence here carrier with it a
definite civic obligation. The old
theory of the devil take the town
is gone. We are anxious to do oul
part and we are glad that our pres
ence here is helping"
Possibility Of another disastrous
flood wiping out the community will
be averted by the rebuilding and
strengthening of the leveees, now
strengthening of the levees, now
100 men are working for the civil
works administration here. When
officials called for more workers,
several weeks ago, there was diff
Guilty in finding men enough for the
job.
Newspapers Lead Crusade
Two papers, the Press and the
Register lead the civic crusade for
good civic conditions. They are
anxious to avert the evils that gen.
orally go hand in hand with boom
town. Back of this crusade are
Mayor Jacob Spanagel and Police
Chief Edward NJ Fasnecht
Additional signs Of the boom are
five new retail stores that will ap-
pear shortly, proposed landing
field as an accommodation for
planes on the Cincinnati-St. Louis
airline, construction Of a new $75,-
900 postoffice, overhauling Of state
road No. SO and the possible con-
structiOn Of a new sewage system
and disposal plant costing $156,000.
Lawrenceburg takes her new
deal" soberly. Marriage licenses,
furniture and provisions sell best.
Luxuries can come later Old citi-
zens comment casually, This is not
boom. We're just getting back
to normal"
Farmers Are Happy
The farmers, too, are gleeful. The
dried grain from which the alcohol
has been extracted serves a useful
purpose on other markets. From
the highways and railroads, work.
ers from California to Maine, lured
by the prospect Of a job, are pour
ing into the community. They are
told to wait until the residents are
all served.
With excellent railroad facilities
and plants ready for operation, the
distilleries needed Lawrenceburg as
much as the town needed them.
The depression wolf loosened it's
fangs in December and skunk miser-
ably away as the diStilleries opened
their doors, long nailed shut by the
eighteenth amendment. Lawrence
burg is itself again!
LE,GALS