Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 6 December 1946 — Page 4

Rom where I sit... ly Joe Marsh

How to Stop Worrying

I guess folks in our town do about as much worrying as in yours—over housing and prices, and crops, and jobs—and the little domestic problems that are always coming up. Dad Hoskins, who’s lived to the happy age of eighty, has a simple formula for stopping worry. About every problem, he asks himself: Is there anything I can do about it? If there is, he never postpones making a decision, or taking necessary action. If there isn't anything he can do about it, he sets aside a “worrying

hour” after dinner, and gets his worrying over in one concentrated period. When that’s over, he relaxes over a friendly glass of beer with Ma Hoskins—and they talk about pleasant things together, until bedtime. From where I sit, that’s as workable a formula as you could find ... right down to the mellow glass of beer that seems to wink away your worries.

Urge Expansion Of Statehouse Indianapolis, Ind. — Expansion of Indiana’s “badly overcrowded” statehouse, “built in the horse and buggy days,” was recommended today by the State Office Building Commission. It urged the acquisition of four city blocks to erect three new office buildings, two additions to present structures, and a huge^ parking lot. Needed immediately, the commission told Governor Gates, was a large state office building which would provide most of the necsary space. Also, they urged a conservation and state museum building, a highway commission building, and additions to the state library and the State Board of Health buildings. The proposed parking lot would hold 1,000 autos. The commission, created by the 1945 General Assembly, said a survey just completed indicated that the number of state agencies and offices had increased from 16 in 1888 to 59 today. It said the statehouse, although “sound,” was seriously overtaxed. The survey, made in cooperation with the Indiana ^Economic Council, showed also that the state house annex, the library and historical buildings, and other buildings were similarly overcrowded. A planning authority, authorized to acquire land and arrange for construction, should be created by the General Assembly in January, Co-Chairman Roy Conrad, Monticello, and Mark C. Honeywell, Wabash, said. Land needed for the project would best be acquired to the west, northwest and north of the statehouse, the commission said. The four-block area is bounded by Washington, Missouri, and New York streets and Senate avenue in Indianapolis. The commission said expansion in other directions would involve acquistion of more expensive land. “The state office building should be located on the full block north of the state house,” the report said. It recommended construction of the conservation and state museum building on the quarter block northwest of the intersection of Washington street highway building should be located on the quarter block south-

and Senate avenue. The state west of the intersection of New York street and Senate avenue. The remaining land should be utilized temporarily for auto parking space, the commission said. A voluminous report filed included maps, photographs, sketches, diagrams and intricate models of the project. It will be on display in the statehouse lobby. Some 15,000 square feet of the 135.000 in the statehouse now occupied was intended for hall space and occupants now need 195.000 square feet, the report said. Other members of the commission included Reps. Nelle B. Downey, Indianapolis, Albert B. Thompson, North Vernon; Sen. Von A. Eichhorn, Uniondaie; Harry O. Garman, Indianapolis, George' A. Kuhn. Indianapolis; Richard E Bishop, Indianapofis, and the Economic Council headed by Kenneth L. Schellie, directors. Eight Ways To Save Your Coal

Washington, D. C. — Here’s what the Solid Fuels Administration says you should do to stretch your household coal supplies: 1. Make certain that walls of the fire box and the flues are clear of soot and ash, which act as insulators on water jackets and air magazines. 2. Use furnace cement to caulk all seams on the outside of the furnace and on smoke pipe joints. 3. Inspect grates and remove any broken ones 4. Be sure you operate your damper properly. If you don’t know how, ask a furnace expert for advice. 5. Maintain a thick fire bed. It is more efficient and economical than a thin one. 6. Keep the ashpit clean. 7. Use storm doors and windows where possible. 8. Close off unusuad rooms from other parts of the house, and lower window shades and blinds at night.

State 4-H’ers Win Chicago Trips

QUPERIOR records of achievement in 4-H Canning, Clothing, Field (5 Crops and Poultry award programs have won 1946 state championship honors for four Indiana club members. Each receives an all-expense trip to the 25th Anniversary National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, Dec. 1-5. The winners, who were selected bv the state club office, and brief outlines of their records follow:

Patricia Morgan Carl M. Orth

Patricia Morgan, 18, of Westville, will be one of the state’s delegates to the 1946 Club Congress as a reward for having the highest rating record in the National 4-H Canning Activity this year, : Her trip award is provided by the Kerr Glass Corp. During eight years in club work Patricia canned 2,958 jars of Vegetables, meat®, fruits, jams and jellies. She also helped her sister and an aunt with their canning work. She won numerous placings on her exhibits, including the county 4-H canning winner’s medal for three consecutive yea^s. Carl M. Orth, 18, of Terre Haute, won highest rating in the state 4-H Field Crops Activity, in which International Harvester provides the awards. Dpring nine years of club work, Carl produced 187 acres of corn, 85 acres of soy beans and one acre of potatoes. The total average yield per acre was 74 bushels of corn and 27 bushels of soy beans. He increased the yield each year by the use of more commercial fertilizer to keep the soil up to a high productive level. Carl won many placings on his exhibits, including $68.00 in cash prizes, which brought his total income from all projects to $23,379.28. He was vice president of his club

Jean Godfrey John Johnson

for two years and junior leader four years. Jean Godfrey, 18, of Sullivan, was named state winner in the 1946 National • 4-H Clothing Achievement Activity for having the top ranking record of sewing, making over or mending 48 garments for herself and other members of the family. She also made many children’s dresses and suits. Jean served her club as secretary and reporter as well as junior leader for four years. Her trip award was provided by the Educational Bureau of the Spool Cotton Co. Jean has been a 4-H’er for ten years, during which she completed 29 projects, 10 of which were in clothing. John Edward Johnson, 18, of Gaston, wins the Chicago trip award provided by Swift & Co. for his record in the National 4-H Poultry Achievement Activity. During seven years in club work, John raised 3,200 fowl. He won $5.00 in cash prizes on exhibits, which brought his total estimated income from all 4-H projects to $6,316.50. Four state co-winners who each received a $25.00 U. S. Savings Bond are: Donald Pershing, Washington; Charles Helt, Rochester; Lawrence Curry, Bloomingtoi), and Orval Ungethum, Evansville.

All of these activities wera conducted under the direction of the Extension Service of the Stfte Agricultural College and USDA co* operating.

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Woman Wants To Be Strongest In World 9 — Chicago, Nov. 27. — Lorettz Zygowicz, who can fell her 220pound brother with a twist of the wrist, announced today that she is going to be the strongest woman in the world. She’s going to do it by throwing other people’s weight around. Miss Zygowicz, a 23-year-old brown-eyed blonde, already can toss her two wrestler brothers in the air—one at a time—and lift a 330-pound weight from the floor. “But that’s not enough,” she said, flexing a 15-inch bicep. “I’ve got to be able to lift a lot more.” The strongest woman in the U. S. will be selected in a competition at Santa Monica, Cal., in December under the sponsorship of a physical culturist. The “Barbellias,” as they call themselves, hope to start an international competition as soon as the world realizes that women, as well as men, can be strong, and that is where Miss Zygowicz hopes to shine. Miss Zygowicz said she’ll probably be 30 or 35 before she reached her peak muscularity. Meanwhile she plans to spend several hours each evening practicing ju-jitsu, wrestling and lifting hen brothers —and other willing human barbells. She also goes in for lighting metal weights, which in four years have reduced her weight by 36 pounds to 160 pounds of muscle and given her a two-inch chest expansion (total 42 inches), a 28V2 inch waist and 41-inch hips. “I’m really a before- and-after specimen,” she said. “I used to have colds all the time and complain about my health. I was a wallflower. Then my brothers talked me into taking up weight lifting. “Now look at me. I’m slimmer. I am healthy. And I have lots of boy friends.” She said she was most popular with men weight lifters. The unmuscled males don’t quite approve of strong women, she said. “They are jealous because they are puny and women who lift dumbells aren’t,” she said. “They are to blame because there aren’t more women weight lifters. “I guess it’s because people expect "to see a big ugly brute of a woman when I come around. But I don’t really think I am.” Loretta said she attempted to let men think they were boss and has taken up sewing and cooking to prove it. She works as a personal shopper in a department store in the winter and as a life guard in the summer. “And I‘m probably the only living woman who isn’t really afraid to walk down a dark street alone,” she said.

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Rochester Horse Captures Honors

Chicago, 111. — Wing Commander, prize three-year-old of the Dodge stables at Rochester, Mich., captured the feature event of last night’s International Horse Show, placing first in the $500 stallion stake for five-gaited horses. Stonewall’s Dare, a five-year-old from the North Western Stables at Morton Grove, 111., finished second, and Kalarama Command, owned and shown by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Griswold of Cleveland, Tenn., was placed third. Monday night’s results included: Harness horses: Wensleydale Pilot, Hawthorne Farm, Libertytulle, 111., first; Bachelor King, Hawthorne Farm, second; Selection, Argyll Stables, Mount Carroll, 111., third. Draft horses: Sir Cedrick ano go, first; Tom and Fox, Hawthorne Farm, Libertyville, 111., third. Harness ponies: Glenholme Talisman and Glenholme Messenger, Argyll Stables, Mount Carroll,

Len Doyle, who plays Harrington on radio’s “Mr. District Attorney,” is a chef de cuisine -in his spare time, and one recipe that tickles ;he palates of his gourmet friends is his chicken noodle soup. The secret is in the noodles. Beat three eggs and mix with two cups of flour. Add water or milk until mixture is pliable. Roll very thin on flour and let dry a bit. Brush off jxcess flour with stiff brurh, let dry some more. Fold into sheets and cut very fine. Meanwhile - prepare soup. The wings, neck and back of chicken make a thin rich soup. After simmering 10 minutes, strain out ihicken, add finely cut noodles and Soil 8 minutes. Good? Why man it’s terrific!

111., first; King’s Peg and Modern Maid, Mark Peak, Wichester, 111., second; Glenholme Splendor and Reveille, Betty Lynn Stable, In-

dianapolis, Ind., third.

Three - gaited saddle horses: Gallant Delaine, Delaine Farm,

Morton Grove, 111., second.

Proposes Cities Built In the Air

Chicago, Nov. 29 — Inventor Leonard Z. Plebanek today suggested a new solution for the housing shortage. He wants to build cities in the air. Plebanek, president of an invention engineering firm and founder of the Inventors Club of Chicago, said an all-alumnium, helium-filled, jet-propelled city could be built in only a few years at a cost much lower than the cities now* resting on the earth. In 20 years as an engineer, he has invented a cookie-making machine, a peanut machine, a gadget that mends runs in women’s stockings, permanent wav- ^ ing machines, juke boxes, photoelectric rifle games and precision

tools.

Now he wants to go up in the air and take his neighbors with

him.

His cities not only would be clean and airy, but they could fly south with the birds in the winter and hover over cool sections of the world in summer, he said. “If residents of a city didn’t like the government which rented them mooring space, they could secede and fly away to a better country,” he said. “I’m not just building castles in the air, either. It can be done.” But Plebanek said he was willing to make a modest beginning on his housing-in-the-air project. He offered to start building individual houses, with a cruising speed of 150 miles an hour. He figures he could build two and a half rooms for $1,000 each — on an assembly-line basis. The houses would be dirigibleshaped, with gas compartments where the back porch should be and the pilot’s seat on the “veranda.” The living quarters would be in the front, with heat sup-

plied by conventional airplane-

type heaters.

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L Run- ^Plebanek said. “It means people

^could see the world without ever

leaving home.”

Wives, for instance, could drive their husbands to work, hitch the house to the top of their office building and then spend the day shopping in the city. At night, they could propel their home to a secluded spot in the sky away from noisy neighbors “And on vacation, they could fly to a nice, quiet sti’eam, moor the house to a tree and fish from the kitchen window,” he added Plebanek suggested that as soon as he built enough houses, he could hitch them together, build aluminum, gas-filled streets, of-

stores, and

Runzel, Jr., Norwood Park, 111., 1 UAliues to this kind of house,

second; Frank Volo, W

zell, Jr., third.

Five-gaited saddle horses: Lady Be Good, Forest Stables, Morton

Grove, 111., second.

Huhters: Arcadia Le Sou, Anne Krause, Mount Carroll, 111., first; Scamper Lass, Mrs. M. O. Bonham, Indianapolis, Ind., second; Mathematician, Loury Lucenti,

River Forest, 111., third.

Dan Patch Is Still A Hoosier, Gates

QUOTES ! OF THE'WEEK “Just in case my fair-weather predictions go wrong.”—S. D. Flora, Federal meteorologist in Kansas, who keeps umbrella handy in his Topeka office.

“Lock me up. I can’t stand this weather.”—Escaped Convict John Tuel, 47, reporting back to Salem, Ore., jail.

“It’s an outrage!”—Kids of Lowville, N. Y., on buyers’ boycott against six-cent candy bars.

‘Tower in the hands of fallible human beings—without responsibility—results in social chaos. The present labor crisis is no exception to that rule.”—Pres.H. W. Prentis, Jr., Armstrong Cork Co.

“It is obvious that something isn’t clicking when one man can tie up industry and cause suffering to individuals.”—Rep. Robinson, Utah, on the coal strike.

“I think it is un-American to strike against the government.” —Coal Miner Tom Carter, Westland, Pa., who struck anyway.

Indianapolis, Ind. — Governor Ralph F. Gates hoped today that the “war” between Indiana and Minnesota was near an end. The Hoosier Governor proposed a peace treaty with Minnesota in the battle over “ownership” of the famous harness horse. Dan Patch. Because “the ghost of a horse threatens to disrupt the traditionally friendly relations between Indiana and Minnesota” Gov. Gates suggested to Minnesota Gov. Edward J. Thye that a joint declaration be issued “holding that Dan Patch is the greatest harness horse of all time because he combines the best qualities of both Indiana and Minnesota.” The controversy as to whether Dan Patch was a Hoosier horse or a Gopher horse followed announcement from Hollywood that his life story was to be filmed. Filmland officials said the picture would be filmed with a Minnesota background. That made Hoosiers mad. Dan Patch was foaled, raised and trained in Benton County, Ind., they said. He raced and won his first race in the Hoosier

state.

“I| is true that Dan did go to Minnesota after he won his laurels,” Gates wrote the Minnesota Governor. “But Minnesota wasn’t eager to have him until after he had achieved his fame in Indi-

ana.”

Indiana’s Republican Governor sought to heal the breanch by pointing to results of the Nov. 5 election. “Indianans and Minnesotans are discriminating people,” he told Thye. “They proved that when they voted Republican. Thus, they share the elephant in common, just as they also have a mutual pride in the tradition and glory of Dan Patch.” “We should take joint action to ‘patch’ things up before they reach a runaway stage,” Gates

said.

The Indiana Governor said that affidavits had been pouring into the Statehouse in a constant stream, all showing that Dan Patch was a Hoosier horse. “In all fairness,” Gates told the Minnesota official, “I must add that here in Indiana we contend that ‘once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier!’ ”

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“A few years ago, I would have called such a project pure fiction,’ he said. “But today it’s entirely possible.” 1 o * - Reduce Speed Is Advice To Motorists “Defensive driving” was advocated for motorists by the state highway commission /today as it prepared to combat the forces of Old Man Winter. “Skidding and reduced visibility are the main winter highway hazards and we recommend that the motorists practice what we* call ‘defensive driving' during the months to come,” said John H. Lauer, chairman of the com-

mission.

“Defensive driving is driving so that you can anticipate the carelessness or mistakes of other vehicle drivers or pedestrians You are pretty sure what you are going to do but you can’t always be sure about the other fellow.” Mr. Lauer said that although the commission has received a few new ^trucks, scrapers and plows to reinforce the equipment depleted during the war years, it will still be working under difficulty. He asked for extreme caution by the motorist in adverse driving conditions. This year we will use every available man and vehicle during the dangerous snow and ice periods,” he said. “While proper maintenance is an important factor in decreasing accidents, in the final analysis, it is the driver hmself who represents the greatest factor in highway safety.” o More Grain for The Distillers

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for about two years because liquor must be aged at least that long. But with replacements assured, distillers now may release their reserves. Easier restrictions on brewers should mean an early increase in retail beer supplies since beer production can be stepped up almost overnight. Bonded whisky supplies are not expected to improve greatly until the government relaxes restrictions on the use of rye for beverage alcohol. Rye is in critically short supply on a global

basis.

Under the government’s relaxation order, distillers may use as much lower-grade corn as they wish. They still are barred, however, from using corn grading number three or higher, and from using rye or wheat. Brewers will be allowed to use as much grain as during the corresponding months of 1946 although they also will be limited in the use of wheat and rice. At the same time, the government junked its last controls over domestic flour distribution. The order revoked yesterday limited flour millers to 85 per cent of their deliveries to domestic consumers during the comparable period last year. o Go To Church Sunday

Asks Revision Of Labor Laws

Washington, D. C. — Amid the threat of a new coal strike, House Republican whip Leslie C. Arends of Illinois today called for revision of the labor laws “at the earliest possible moment by the new GOP Congress. Arends said the answ r er might be re-introduction and passage of the Case Strike-Control Bill which was passed by the last Congress but vetoed by President Truman. “It was a good bill then and it’s a good bill now,” he said. “It was not and it is not a bill directed against the interests of the workers. On the contrary, it was a measure designed td help maintain steady employment and to protect the rights of workers against the conniving of irresponsible labor leaders.” Arends said the Republican landslide in the Nov. 5 elections amounted to public repudiation of Mr. Truman’s Case Bill veto; He did not rule out the possibility of revision in the measure but said they should be “along fair and impartial lines.” “Changes should give full and equal consideration to the interests of the presently voiceless rank and file of labor and organizations, employers and the longsuffering general public,” he said.

Buy Savings Bonds

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES “Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, December 1. The Golden Text was: “There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against tkeiord” (Proverbs 21:30). Among the citations which comprised the Lesion-Sermon was the following from the Bible: “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh” (Galatians 5:14-16). The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one” (p. 82). “Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love” (p. 106).

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A horse, o carriage, and a furlough, in 6 beautiful spot in southern France, prompt the happy smiles on the faces of these two Guardians of Peace who are taking advantage of the opportunities to see the sights of the world offered fo men who choose to serve in the Regular Army. Travel, education, and a career are just • few of the advantages offered young men between 18 and 34 years of age, inclusive.

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