Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1934 — Page 8

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DISEASE LURKS AT POLLUTED BATHINGSPOTS State Swimmers Imperiled by Many Germs in Rivers, Lakes. BY WILLIAM COLLINS Times Conservation Writer I hope to live long enough to see the dawning of the day when the public conscience will no longer tolerate the obscenity ot a defiled out of doors. Not that I care particularly to save the state or the nation from the curse of men who create “Bubbly Creek.” for that is too great a task for me to perform singly. The public is more capable of performing this miracle than I as soon as they have the facts. It also is fitting that the general public shall be the motivating force behind the movement to make peace with the Creator ot all things both pleasant and cleanly. Then no man can accuse us of ramming an unwanted “improvement” down his throat. Public Health Menaced It is not the purpose of the antistream pollutionist to save the waters of the state for the swimmers. In any event, no matter how vile the ole swimming hole becomes, we still may rely on the public water works to furnish us with enough chlorinated water to keep ourselves clean. Nor is sole purpose of those who detest a filthy river to restore it to its pristine purity for the fisherman. It would be much less expensive to buy fish fr .1 Gloucester and hand them out. The urge to put an end to using yur public waters as running cesspools embraces chiefly our desire to be rid of a menace to public health. Boil that down to a statement that we fear for the safety of our children during the vacation months, then you will have the basic reason for most of the activity of the antipollutionists. Take five boys out of your neighborhood. Lay odds that no one of them will go swimming this summer and you will lose your bet four times. Lodge in Nasal Cavities If they swam in any mile of the more than 570 miles of grossly polluted river water in Indiana or in any one of the more than 600 polluted Indiana lakes, they have taken into their nasal cavities some of the following types of diseaseproducing bacteria: Coli-aerogenes. Not particularly a disease producing bacteria as it occurs in every human intestinal tract. When found by the water analyst, its presence indicates contamination by domestic sewage. B. Coli. Another of the intestinal bacteria. When escaping into the abdominal cavity, is the probable cause of general peritonitis, fatal. Proteus Vulgaris. Causing marked gastro-intestinal symptoms similar to ptomaine poisoning. B. Faecalis alkaligines. Under suspicion as causing diarrhea of children, accompanied by distressing symptoms. Life Short in Open B. Typhosus. Causing typhoid fever. Fortunately its life in open running water is very short and it is very rarely isolated from a public water supply, but that it is present in great numbeis below the outlets of municipal seweis during an outbreak of the disease in one or more perspns where strict sanitation is not practised at the bedside is not questioned. Streptococcus and Staphylococcus, the pus formers. The later is the most resistant to destruction of all nonspore forming bacteria and will easily survive long periods in polluted water. It is, with the strep, the cause of most cases of sinus infections, mastoid and inner ear pathology, throat infections and common colds.

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SEVERITY OF NATION-WIDE DROUGHT SHOWN IN RAINFALL FIGURES

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same period this year, as shown in black face type. Although the figures cover only the places designated, they represent fairly closely the condition of the surrounding country. In no spot, you will observe, has this year’s rainfall approached the normal. while in some places, as at Bismark. N. D., this year’s precipitation has gone as low as 15 per cent of normal.

was named as defendant in the suit, which charges that Mr. Patterson is entitled to restoration of a 10 per cent pay cut which he received in September, 1932. Mr. Holmes asserted that members of the police, fire, Gamewell and police radio units were given cuts after the 1932 budget had been made up. He charged that this action by the city is illegal. OFFICERS TO BE SEATED Eagles Aerie Will Install Fred J. Snyder as New President. Indianapolis Eagles aerie will install new officers tonight at the lodge home, 43 West Vermont street. The officers are: Fred J. Snyder, president; Guy Woodruff, vicepresident; Roy Salyards, chaplain; Leonard B. Thiel, secretary; Jacob

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FARMERS TRUST FILED New Appraisal of Realty Holdings May Be Asked by Receiver. Re-appraisement of real estate held by the Farmers Trust Company may be requested in the near future by Boyd M. Ralston, receiver for the bank, he said in filing his third current report in superior court four before Judge Clarence Weir. The new r appraisal may be necessary due to too high value placed

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upon properties. r . he report filed by H. Nathan Swaim and Charles W. Richards, attorneys, indicated that even after the payment of a dividend of 12 V 2 per cent to depositors, the bank’s receivership shows assets of $603,716.66 against $665,047.05 in the last report. The cash balance of the bank is $67,383.75. Total income and gains were re-

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_JUiNE 4, 1934

Two Die in Plane Crash By United Pres * LOS ANGELES, June 4.—A farewell dip to their friends as they were taking off was blamed today for the deaths of Thomas Jenkins, 31, Los Angeles pilot, and Maurice Schroeder, 25, of Gardena. Their plane struck telephone wires and crashed near San Diego.