Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

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40 S* with a big reception at Mission Hills Country Club afterward. Jaccard's had the invitations on order. Then, suddenly, August 24, only a month before the scheduled wedding date, June's father died. And June, sorrow' ing from his loss, had to take over management of the business, at the age of twenty-five. But Scotty and June were married, nevertheless, on the date they had planned — in a small ceremony, at Scotty 's home. The year 1929, you may remember, was the final year of "Coolidge Prosperity" — climaxed by the fateful October break in the stock market which led into the "prosperity" that was always "just around the corner" as the great Depression of the 30's be gan . . . and continued. These were the years when the Moores were adjusting to married life — living in their first home together, on their own. Years when young June struggled to keep the family real estate business alive. The market break had wiped out their nest egg; and it was grim going. "I got my first white hairs that first year of our marriage," says Scotty. June worked day and night, in a real estate market that was anything but active. That was when the "thrift and tireless industry" preached and practiced by John A. Moore, Sr., paid off. Dapper June Moore was not going to be licked by a mere world-wide Depression ! They built their first home in 1932, a Dutch Colonial at 642 Huntington Road, for which Scotty had planned the kitchen. She was a girl with ideas translated into clever cupboards, a in9 compact and orderly working space for the housewife-cook, the newest in kitchen "gadgets," and decoration of liveable, practical beauty. The Kansas City Star gave the kitchen two columns of description; and builders all over town copied the design and layout for years. Two daughters, Marilyn and Nancy June, were born to the Moores— in 1934 and 1937. The latter year the Moores became part of the "Romany Road Gang," moving to a Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse on Romany Road — where their neighbors were the new city manager, Perry Cookingham; Ray Conlin, Dan Nee and Kansas City's present mayor, William E. Kemp. During World War II they all cultivated a community Victory Garden west of Ward Parkway. THE early years during which they lived on Romany Road were in the era when John B. "Jack" Gage was Kansas City's "clean-up mayor," following the defeat of the Pendergast city political machine. Jack Gage appointed June to the Park Board, of which he became president, serving from 1940 to 1945. Scotty has kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from those days — showing June in a