Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1940 — Page 32

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AIMS CHANGE IN 2-YEAR HISTORY

Bel-Rose Group, Formed for + Bus Dispute, to Mark 2d Anniversary.

By TIM TIPPETT . Not quite two years ago a proposed change in the route of the 52d St.-Keystone Ave. bus ‘line by Indianapolis Railways, Inc., brought residents of the affected area into a united group. On March 11, this group, now organized under the name of the Bel-Rose Civic League, will observe its second birthday at a meeting at fnew School 91. : _: The proposed change was abandoned by the bus company and a thew proposal is being worked out by league and company officials, but in the last two years other problems have been discovered by the league and committees have been appointed to find their solution.

Two Main Objectives Held

. Main objectives of the league at present are: < 1. The elimination of the 52d St.

Monon Railroad crossing and the 49th St. and Keystone Ave. crossing. These two street-railroad intersections are “dangerous and must be eorrected,” league officers say. : 2. The extension of Baltimore Ave, from its present end at 42d St, through the State Fairgrounds to Fall Creek Blvd. The Bel-Rose Civic League members are blocked from. easy access to main arteries, running downtown by the State Fairgrounds. If this latter proposal was acted upon, the people living in the area would have a street running through the east end of the Fairground, which, they claim, would not interfere with any of the buildings on the grounds and would cut down their driving time to the Mile Square by almost five minutes. This also would eliminate the necessity of crossing several railroad tracks.

Seek Street Improvement

The league also will continue to work for better street paving and better sidewalks. ~The latest accomplishment by the ‘league is the assured passage in City Council of their ordinance to change several of the street names in their neighborhood. 3 : In May of last year petitions for street name changes were circulated By C. Titus Everett, organization vice president. . Name changes which will be made dfter the ordinance passes third reading in the City Council are: : Arsenal to Indianola, Sheldon to Rosslyn, Hovey to Primrose, Ralstone Ave. to Ralston Drive, Schofield to Buckingham Ave., Sangster to Norwaldo, Manlove to Crittenden, Baltimore to Evanston, Caroline to Burlington, Hillside to Cambridge and Brouse to Allenby.

Simplify Street Names

Most of the street name changes were proposed by the group so that the arteries would coincide in name when they are connected with their “other halfs” in the Broad Ripple district. Other cfficers of the league are Paul Webster, president, and Mrs. Allen Martin, secretary-treasurer.

IN GRANT COUNTY RACE Zimes Special

MARION, Ind, Feb. 23.—Burr Sheron has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Grant County Treasurer.

Maybe I's Ice

‘Hot Mikado’s’ Collision With Doorway Proves That He’s Indestructible.

By JAMES THRASHER

It may be that Bill Robinson has found the Fountain of Youth at the bottom of an ice cream carton. If it were true, then most of us would begin taking Bill's fabulous daily ration of ‘the cold confection. For at 61, Bill Robinson is the answer to Ponce de Leon's prayer.

Nothing in his leoks, action or ideas betrays the fact that he has reached the age where an easy chair looks better than a ringside table in a night club. Work, play and even accidents, he takes in his stride and comes up smiling. For instance, a few minutes before the matinee performance of “The Hot Mikado” at English’s, Bill thought of something he wanted to tell the orchestra’s pianists. So he went running downstairs toward the pit. Crashes Into Doorway

No one told him about the low

tom of the stairs and he crashed into it. For a few minutes he was literally and completely knocked out. But it wasn’t long before he was back in his dressing room, proceeding under his own power and wearing a wide grin. . “The way my neck cracked, I thought it was broke,” he confided.

“I wouldn't want those folks out

there to know it, but I've really got a sore neck. It'll be all right, though, as soon as I start dancing and loosening it up.” Bill Robinson, besides being indefatigable and indestructible, is probably one of the best liked men in show business. The walls of his dressing room are lined with inscribed photographs—most of them from Shirley Temple, to be sure. But there is one from Eleanor Powell, another of his prize pupils, and a letter from the late Col. Jacob Ruppert. from the “Hot Mikado” company on the occasion of his 61st birthday last May. And beside his mirror is hung a crucifix.

Has Key to Chicago

Reaching into one of his trunks, Bill produced three cases. One contained a large silver key to the City of ‘Chicago. The others held gold keys from the Mayors of Pittsburgh and Cambridge, Mass. “You know, you don’t buy them,” Bill said proudly. His friends aren’t limited to famous names, either. They're scattered all over the country, and in all walks of life. “Do I know anybody in Indianapolis?”- he repeated scornfully. “Why I know as many people here as anywhere else. I've been playin’ here oft and on for 40 years.” Bill's manager likes te tell the incredible story of the Negro star's 61st birthday celebration. It seems that, to start the day, he danced from 61st St. in New York to 44th St. and the Broadhurst Theater, where “The Hot Mikado” was play-

ing. Arriving there, he went through a dance routine for newsreel photographers, then went to do a benefit show at a home for blind children. Next in order was a matinee performance. After playing an early show at the Cotton Club he came back for the evening performance at the Broadhurst. Following that the cast gave him a backstage party. But the day had scarcely begun.

The party was followed by two more

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HEALTH SERVICE

Program Available to All ‘Public Schools; Was Started in 1914.

Health services in the Indianapolis public school system, which ‘| have not been closed because of epidemics in the last 25 years, now are the most extensive in the City’s history, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City health officer, reported today. In addition to the public health services operated in 85 public and 24 parochial schools, and 23 free kindergartens, new service has been added to three nursery and play schools, one fresh-air school and several open-window schools. : Started in 1914, the school health program covers every public and most private elementary and secondary schools in the City. Because of the extent of the service, the health of school children has been materially improved year by year, Dr. Morgan said.

Program Is Extended

The school health program also was extended to children of preschool days through the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society. This enabled health officials to exert some measure of health control over the ‘pre-school child, Dr. Morgan said. bd i ai As an example of the service en lengs Save Ba ine his rendered, the 1939 report of school nanager calls “a real party. health operations lists 15,440 visits started about 4 a. m. and wound up |to schools for daily routine inspecsome five hours later. tion ef pupils by nurses; 35983 “He came around to the theater | Vision tests; 30,482 hearing tests. A

foal : _jtotal of 40,317 weights and measnext night the most chipper mem- |, ..o oq 58482. temperatures were

ber of the company,” the manager!iaken, | 10,129 Vaccinated

added. : : Bill doesn’t try to explain this] a gota] of 244 diphtheria cultures amazing fund of energy. He gives|were made, 10,129 smallpox vaccinaFive hours of|tions were given and 2733 pupils re-

Bill Robinson . . . “I know as many people in Indianapolis as anywhere else.”

no health rules. J sleep a night will do him nicely, he | ceived immunization from diphsays, and as long as he feels good |theria. Dental care was given 2466 .he sees no reason why he should not | pupils. keep going. ! The health service was particularBill is credited with having played i1y active in investigating transmissmore benefit shows than any other |jple diseases and isolating cone actor. He's done as many as fOur|iagion according to the report a day, and his record goes back more | the service also held a number of than 30 vears. parent-teacher health meetings at

For relaxation his preference is : for card games and pool. He's oie) Tien the Droblents of child health

of the country’s best pool players,| "np. “noroan said that wherever

has met almost all the famous pro- : 4 ] pupils who were found to have phyfessionals and always given them a sical defects or to be ill were re-

stout tussle.

shows at the Cotton Club, after

cole \ »' ferred to private physicians. In hen, and if “The, Hot Mikado) lien oe Ind detects. ers November after a season on Broad-|cCrrected by the health service way and at the Fair—broke all which also treated pupils for illhouse records at a St. Loui the-|DESSes. ater recently) Bill is going to work; - v for the Playwright’s Co. y \, Might Have Been a Cop M GUF F EYITES “PLAN Authors of his new vehicle are no less personages than Maxwell An- AN UET TONIGHT derson (words) and Kurt A Weill ; (music). They're the team that did : ; “Knickerbocker Holiday.” The 15th anniversary dinner of The new show is called Achilles the Indianapolis McGuffey Club will Africanus,” and is based on thelbe held at 6:30 o'clock tonight at book, Aeneas Africanus.” the Y. W. C. A. and plans for a After that Bill doesn't know.| McGuffey memorial will be disVagos by then Shirley Temple will | cussed. e old enough to do a show in the| The proposed : theater with him. That, thinks Bill, |5 andl on sed mematial Nou be would be something. ~~ Guffey Readers, William Holmes And incidentally. if Bill hadn't McGuffev It will be erected in gone into show business he'd like to | Ohio, probably at Oxford, accordin have been a policeman ; ? 8 po. . to club members, : A letter. from| Irvin S. Cobb in GRAND COULEE IN MOVIE answer to a question from R. T. GRAND COULEE, Wash., Feb. 23| Burrell of the local club will be read. (U. P.)—Columbia Pictures of Hol- Mr. Cobb humorously debunked lywood have contracted to produce | McGuffeyism” and was called to a full length picture with Grand |task by Mr. Burrell. Coulee dam, “the world’s largest| Prof. Albert Mock of r Uni-man-made structure,” as the back- | versity will be the princip eaker. ground, the Reclamation Burtau has |Prof. H, C. Minnick, Miami Uniannounced. versity dean and secretary-treasurer of the National Federation of McGuffey Societies, will be a guest. A. E. Retttig, club president, will preside.

The Indiana section, American Society of Civil Engineers, will have a business meeting and elect officers at 11 a. m. tomorrow in the Hotel Lincoln. The section is meeting here

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WRIST WATCH 1 fre : : i Present officers of the section are in Yellow Gold Color 1 |Fred Kellam, State Highway Deit , partment, president; E. Emmett Is Bly guaranties) Hall, Hall Construction Co. vice os a Suan Io 2 president and Denzil Doggett, State ul tra ov odern desigh Densetvation department, secretarywith, 2 genuine dia- Walter E. Jessup, New York, monds. . American Society of Civil Engineers field secretary, will speak at the section’s luncheon, on “Professional Objectives and Other Matters Related to the Welfare of Civil Engineers.”

TWO FROM BUTLER

Profs. George A. Schumacher and Gray Burdin will conduct a half hour radio program over Station WOWO, Ft. Wayne, at 1 p. m. tomorrow for Butler alumni in the Ft. Wayne area. | : Prof. Burdin of the speech and radio division of Butler's English Department will announce while Prof. Schumacher, alumni secretary, will greet alumni. Music will be furnished by the Butler philharmonic choir and students of "the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music.

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