Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1955 — Page 14

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Police Chief Leads Town's Hot Rodders Organized Clubs For Town's Teen-agers COLUMBUS. O„ (INS) — The welcqme mat is out for hot-rodders in Worthington. Ohio, a prosperous Columbus suburb. More. Chief of Police James Lewis is a hot-rodder himself. He has souped up the department’s police <*ars and has organised a couple of hot rod clubs for Worthington’s teen agera—a club for the boys and one for the girls. But. make no mistake. Worthington's and the police chief's definition of a hot-rodder rules out that brake and tire-screeching character who roars up and down the streets and highways at night endangering the life and limb oT man or beast, disrupting the sleep of such of the citizenry as are abed. "Those guys aren’t hot-rodders, at all,” says Chief Lewie. They’re squirrels and yo-yos and shot-rod-ders. And.” he added with a grin, "for them the word lor the day—any day — in Worthington is "keep out or we’ll run you in.’’

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Not only do the police run in ■ outsiders and insiders who break the rules in Worthington, but the insider is in double jeopardy. Hotroddars impose a fine on any fellow member who tries to get away with shotrodding. It's all down in the constitution and by-laws. "That's part of the general idea," Chief Lewis «aid. "to let the boys and girls do their own policing. It increases their sense of responsibility.’’ Not that any policing should ever be necessary in Worthington beyond what the chief himself is quite able to provide. No culprit who knows anything of his background would dream of tangling with him. He used to play guard for the University of Utah; was former state heavyweight wrestling champion (amateur) in Ohio; and held the spotlight for more than four years in rings throughout the mid west wrestling circuit as a professional heavyweight. He was a protege of the colorful Don Eagle, and he can match Eagle's muscles if not his haircut. He packs 225 pounds of iron-hard musculature on his six-foot frame. But, the chief doesn’t have to depend on either his reputation or his muscles to keep Worthington’s teen-agers in line. He persuades. He participates. He’s right in there pitching with them.

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Hb became police chief of Worthington about a year and a half ago after a couple of years with the State Highway patrol, following his graduation from the University of Utah where he earned his bachelor of arts degree in iitical science. Worthington’s main street is U. S. Route 23, which passes through the center of the village, funnelling a spate of local and long-dis-tance trucks and cars from the south across the state from its entrance at Portsmouth on the Ohio River. From Worthington, it runs north to Toledo, thence into Michigan and north to the Straits of Mackinac. Just north of the village center bu still within village limits it widens to a four-lane parkway, soon to be widened to six. A temptation to speeders of all ages: irresistable to the teen-ager with a multi-carburetor, tuned-to-a-hair job. “Well,’’ said the chief, "let’s be reasonable. “You can’t stop the kids from owning rods, souping them up, and trying them out—somewhere. Not in this day and age. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em.” So, the chief ’jined ’em.’ He did it by organizing the Worthington Road Knights, complete with constitution, by laws, rules and regulations which among other things prohibit speeding on open ttreets and highways and with"* schedule of fines for offenders. “We weren’t in business very long," said Chief Lewis, “when some girls came around knocking on the club's doors and demanding to be admitted as members. They were ardent hot-rodders, too. But the Knights refused pointblank to go co-educatlonal. So, there was nothing to do but give the girls their own club. And so, “The Worthington Skirts" came into being." ~ In terms of safe driving for Worthington, the clubs have paid off, the Chief said. “We haven’t had a single traffic accident involving a teen-ager in more than a year. But,” he added, "safe driving is Bowl MURDER of a wealthy Kansas City, Mo., woman, Mrs. Wilma Allen, whose nude body was found southwest of the city Aug. 4, is believed solved with arrest of ex-convict Arthur Ross Brown, 30, in San Francisco. He is shown being hustled into the U. S. commissioner’s office for arraigntnent there. FBI agents, watching for a car stolen in Omaha, „ Neb., had been alerted to look for Brown at his aunt’s San Francisco home. He was found sleeping in a car nearby, and when questioned, blurted out an admission of the Kansas City killing. f/atemafioHal?

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not the only goal, it’s a bonus on the main investment, so to speak. “And here’s where the definition of a real hot-rodder comes hi. He —or she—is properly a junior automotive engineer with a big Investment in time and usually in money in a piece of precision machinery which needs testing—under proper conditions. That’s where ths confusion in the public mind between the hot rodder and the shotrodder has its roots.” The "proper conditions” as provided by the chief and the members of His two clubs include stop-and-go drag races on off street areas. Also on the agenda are weekly meetings for safety lee-

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