Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1940 — Page 2
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HIGHWAY SIGN PROVES WORTH IN LIVES SAVED
Inexpensive Reflector Tells Speed for Taking Curve Safely.
An inexpensive white sign with black - reflectorized numerals which designates the rate of speed at which the motorist may safely take & curve has given the Highway Commission hope of solution of at least a part of the ever-increasing traffic problem Three hundred and eight of these figns were used for the first time during the past vear on a 935-mile gtretch on Road 37 from Indianapolis to Paoli with such startling refults that the commissioners virtuallv “can’t believe their own eves. During the test period, from April 1, 19390 to April 1, 1940. only four persons were killed on this roadway fs compared with 14 during the Same period a year before
Property Damage Less
And despite a 15 per cent increase In traffic on the test section during the year, there were 12 fewer perfons injured, 36 less accidents on curves, 33 fewer persons injured on, curves, and approximately $9000 less property damage reported in accidents than during the previous 12 months, Hallie Myers, director of traffic, said In’ installing the sighs on the 95Mile stretch, the Indiana Commission followed the lead of Missouri and Illinois which are already using the signs on nearly all their roads The suggested speeds were de termined by mounting an airplane bank indicator in an automobile which was driven over the test section at varving speeds |
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Only ‘Advisory Signs’ | Mr. Myers said that motorists thould remember that these are not ep2ed limit signs, but merely advisory signs to show the driver a comfortable rate of speed at which to take the curve.” He said that even these speeds might be too high in bad weather. The signs cost an average of $3 apitce, and approximately four were] installed on every mile of the road,| much of it winding. Other signs
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“Puppy’s awight now,” is what 2-year-old Don Brownfield seems to be telling the photographer. at 3101 Phipps St, and which
the puppy which fell down a six
-inch sewer pipe
were moved and placed to better rescue with a wire noose attached to a bamboo fishing pole,
advantage, Mr. Myers said, with the total cost of the entire test section approximately $3000 The Commission had decided to continue the use of the signs on the road for at least another year to further study their results and that other test sections might be selected : Mr. Myers said that in his opinfon the sig 1s probably cost too much to be used to mark every cure on all roads, but that they probably can be used to advantage by marking sharp curves on all State roads He explained, however, that any decision on their future use was up to the Commission members
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Farm Bureau Turns Eye On
Youngsters With Pet Club
“I now have 26 hird nests in my collection. My uncle brought me a Baltimore Oriole's nest last week.” ‘My calf, Jenny, will come to me now whenever 1 call.” Monthly, Indiana farm “tots” under 10 vears of age are meeting in 150 various townships throughout the state to make such reports to friends and neighbors They are members of the Indiana Farm Bureau's Pet and Hobby Clubs
"an organization which is attracting
national attention farm leaders The Pet and Hobby Clubs were up only last January by Farm Bureau officials to develop a sense of organization and community interest among the “little folks"—1too young to join the 4-H clubs, Today the organization has members and farm leaders other states are writing here details so that they may set similar organizations in their spective states, Edmond C. Foust, editor of the Hoosier Farmer and director of the clubs, predicts that 10,000 farm children will be the end of the vear,
among
2000 {rom for up re-
enrolied by
The children are enrolled in the
clubs upon application and without charge. They meet once a month, at the same time their parents attend meetings At these meetings, the children,
65 CRIMES SOLVED, HAPPY POLICE CLAIM
The happiest thing that can hap-
pen in a police department was occupying members of the Indianapolis force today. They were scratching off the word “unsolved” from scores of recent crimes and substituting the word “solved.” Statements of six men, signed todav, accounted for 27 burglaries and a forgery during April and May, police announced Yesteraay, the statements of two men held with a 17-vear-old youth accounted for 38 more burglaries in the last few months, With their
that, police crossed
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the Farm Bureau township
under the guidance of a member of the Farm Bureau's Rural Youth, discuss their hobbies and pets. The ieader often reads children's stories, and picnics are held at intervals, Chief hobbies of the youngsters are pencil, button, rock, and bird nest collections and serapbooks, One of the boys listed his hobby “liking to oil things” and one little
girl said her hobby was "to wash
dishes.” Dogs lead the pet list, with ponies, chickens, geese, cats,
the respective order of popularity. Hobby shows and pet parades are to be held at the county Farm Bureau meetings during the latter part of this month and in August, and the best in each division will be brought to Indianapolis in September for the Indiana State Fair. The Pet and Hobby Clubs aided general attendance at various township Farm Bureau meetings too, officials said
Now on meeting night, little John- |
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canaries, |
calves, pigs and lambs following inj
have | the
Out of Trouble, Safe and Sound
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Photo It's the police had to
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rie or Mary says to Dad, :‘tonight’s| pederal Aren't we going?” $766,857. | | Total cost of the projects is apI proximately $4,236 468. |
meeting night.
And the family usually goes
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
U, S. BUSINESS Cleric Who Won Converts Through Advertising Dies
_Inings,
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940
GAINS 8 POINTS
[Federal Reserve Board June | Index 114; Earlier | Losses Recovered.
BIGGEST U.S, NICKEL DEPOSIT REPORTED
WASHINGTON, July 18 (U. P.).—
NEW YORK, July 18 (U. P.).—Fu- most ambitious project, a skyscraper| col. Charles H. Rutherford, Phoenix,
neral for Christian F. Reisner, the Broadway
services the Rev.
Temple
Dr. temple. 68, founder of 1910
{jazz mothers and “hootch fathers.
: . | Ariz . 4 to Reisner came to New York in | Ariz. attorney and civilian aid
and soon thereafter began to|the Secretary of War, said today he
Methodist appear regularly in the newspapers. has been informed that “the largest Church, will be held at 8 p. m. to- He criticized petting, morrow. | The Rev. Dr. Francis J. McCon-| He
the flapper. | nickel deposit in the United States”
| has been found in northwestern
championed prohibition and
WASHINGTON. July 18 (U. p,). nell, Methodist bishop for the New made widely publicized tours of Arizona.
—Business spurted to a new high in June and July as production in iron, steel and textile industries recovered | losses suffered earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Board reported to-| day. The Board's index of industrial production jumped from 106 in May to 114 in June, spurred mainly by increased steel ingot production from 60 to 87 per cent of capacity, sharp rises in the volume of coke and pig iron output, and substantially greater activity of woolen mills. The increase reflected to some extent new Government defense orders, but the bulk of the contracts intended to expand industrial capacity and give United States armed forces modern fighting equipment have not reached industry and do not show in the latest business] | figures. Department stores sales, usually a good index of mass purchasing power, continued at high levels during June, resisting the usual summer decline, Automobile production fell off seasonally during the month but retail sales continued in large volume, cutting into dealers’ stocks of used and new cars which earlier had reached high levels. Coal production continued large although output of crude petroleum declined in the latter part of June and private residential building de-
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creased more than seasonally after |
an unusually sharp rise in May. Public construction increase, under the impetus caused by construction of Army and Navy bases.
17 WPA PROJECTS
" PROPOSED FOR STATE
Seventeen proposed WPA projects for Indiana have been forwarded to Washington for final approval. The most extensive of the projects will be one costing $1,063,236 for road improvement in Sullivan
| County. According to John K. JenState Administrator, the (county will provide $296,479 and the Government will spend
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York area, will officiate. The body | speakeasies. He is survived by a son.
will be taken to Atchison, Kas., Dr. Reisner’'s birthplace.
He died last night at French $26.000 IN DAMAGES
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ASKED AFTER CRASH
LA PORTE, Ind., July 18 (U, P.). 10,000 persons| Damage suits totaling $26,000 were | secretary of the ! se of newspapers, | filed in La Porte Circuit Court yes- : handbills, electric signs and other terday by Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Nickel is a strategic defense material for which the United States is dependent on foreign supplies, chieflly Canadian. Col. Rutherford said that he received a letter from W. J. Graham, Arizona Mineral | Resources Board,® saying that the
advertising media, for he felt that Laing of La Porte against Joseph | nickel deposit was found near Little it was necessary to “swallow reserve Ackerman of Detroit, Mich., as re-| Field, Ariz., about 10 miles from the
and native modesty” in across the message of religion.
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getting sult of an automobile accident at | Utah and Nevada lines. | East Chicago, Ind., July 4. ‘His insight into finance as well as| .- The Laings alleged that Acker-|ada and his fervor as a cleric helped him| man's negligence caused his car to | he said, have experts on the ground raise more than $4,000,000 for his' crash into their machine.
International Nickel Co. of Can-
“a large steel company,”
| examining the deposit.
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