Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1940 — Page 8

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With an Idea, $1500 and Work The Work They Convert Old School Into Community House; It’s Workshop for Adults, Playhouse for Children.

By 'RICHARD LEWIS : .

The people’ in the City

have had the idea, but the folks on the South Side made it

live.

That’s the theory of the new South Side Community Center which opened for business at 1233 Shelby St. a month ago and is doing very nicely, thank you.

Rev. William C. Nelson... helps steer program.

129 CCC CAMPS OPEN IN STATE

5800 Enrollees to Work on Improvement, Forest and Soil Projects.

Twenty-nine CCC camps will be operated in Indiana between now and April 1, 1940, according to a report received from James J. McEntee, CCC director at Washington. The camps will have an enrollment of 5800 on work projects. Approximately 200 enrollees will be assigned to each of the 29 camps. Of the total, 400 will be assigned to improvement, protection and development of national forest areas; 1000 on state forest lands; 2800 on erosion control. 200 on the Versaille Recreational Demonstration Area and 1400 on park development. ent pete CONVICTS LISTEN IN

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. 30 (U. P.).—California’s new state prison board has decided on the immediate installation of earphone radio connections in all cells of its two prisons—San Quentin and Folsom. Also a cafeteria system! for hot food will take the place of te former\ service at table.

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What happened was somewhat of a phenomenon at first,” but as people got used to it, the whole thing became rather commonplace. First there was the idea of the Community Center, then there was a group of South Side businessmen who got $1500 together. Abandoned School 61 had been there all the time, a stone hulk of a building which the School Board had let lie idle for more than a year. It was a simple matter of mixing the businessmen and their $1500 up with the community center idea and putting the whole thing

That's all there was to it. The City and the Marion County . WPA Recreation. Department supplied the personnel; the School Board supplied the building and the citizens made it hum like a dynamo. Costs Public Little

The result has been something social service people day-dream about—a full-fledged Community Center which costs the taxpayers next to nothing and which operates on orange crates, bottle tops, empty cereal boxes and a rebuilt piano. The old school house didn’t have a‘gym, but they made one out of a classroom, some bull rope, mats, a second hand punching bag and voluniary labor. Right now, some future Golden Gloves champs are getting into form and they look plenty good. The WPA had machinery—lathes, mechanical saws and drill presses, 50 the Recreation Center got thém. Men, women and children stand in line waiting for instruction in woodworking and carpentry, Yes, women, 40 of them, and they're eager. The wood-working proves handy around the house, where it is a simple matter for those who/ know how to repair a broken table leg or replace the foot of a sofa. The more ambitious craftsman -learn to make furniture under the tutelage of WPA instructors.

60 In Kindergarten

Upstairs, there is a kindergarten for 60 children. Mrs. Maude Criswell, who has had years of kindergarien experience, is in charge. First thing she shows you is the chairs. The wood-working department made all of them out of crates. There: is a grocery. The children play grocery with oatmeal boxes, tins and crates. ‘Some of the little ones have even mastered the technique of piling boxes against the wall to the ceiling, just like grown-[} up grocery. clerks. The craft department keeps hundreds busy. One of the things they do there is to make nameplates out of stale, alphabet soup noodles. The noodles are shellacked to last indefinitely, Everybody has a name plate of “noodle-work.” It’s All Home Made The ping-pong tables and paddles, the shuffle boards and the smaller game boards are all home made. They've got some ping-pong players down there who can curl

like a collar, The other night, they ‘had a dance. The WPA sent some musicians ‘down early. But the crowd was there ahead of them, waiting outside. And ahead of the crowd outside was the crowd inside, so thick the folks outside couldn’t get in. It worried Mrs. Robert Madigan, the center director. The Center is a

date all the people for a dance. Maybe they will have to hire a hall. But the next immediate thing on the agenda is the construction of racks to hold literally hundreds of bicycles in the school yard. . The people behind this rapidly swelling center, the South Side counterpart of the big Northeast Community Center, are the businessmen, the Parent-Teachers Association greups, the clergymen and the mothers. The youngsters seem to go for it, too, which makes it Proachically unanimous. The guiding hand, however. is the sponsoring committee. Dr, A. C. Harvey, South’ Side dentist, is the chairman. He had to be talked into it at first, he admits. But now, he says, you couldn't talk him out of it. Mrs. Carl J. Manthei, School Board member and one of Mayor Sullivan’s Recreation Advisory Committee members, is vice chairman. Dr. Frank C. Otte is treasurer and Mrs. William E. O'Connor, secretary. Other committee members are A. B. Good, schools business manager; the Rev, William C. Nelson, pastor of the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church and Arthur Paetz of the South Side Civic Club,

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Mr. and Mrs. Samuel, Mahan... their golden wedding: anniversary,

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mahan, who were married in’ ‘Indianapolis 50 years ago, celebrated . their golden wedding anniversary Sunday in Anderson where they have -

lived since their wedding. Open. house was held. They were as-' sisted in receiving guests by their three sons, Loral R. of ‘Indianap-: olis, Claude _H. of Néw ‘York, and Earl of Toledo. Guests included Mrs. Dell Decker, sister of Mrs. Mahan and Mrs. Vern Hoyt, Mrs. Mahan’s niece, of Indianapolis.

RAISES TURKEYS FOR WHITE HOUSE

YORK, Pa., Oct. 30 (. P.).—8. Forrey Laucks, York turkey grower, is fattening two prizewinning birds for Pgesident Roosevelts ‘Thanksgiving Days. Mr. Laucks said - turkey - growers approve the “two Thanksgivings” plan. It stimulates sales,” he. said.

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Enthusiasts From 5 States :

To Urge" Building of Walking Paths.

A ‘hike, as "distinguished from a walk, soon: will be the object of a regional conference: in Indiana—a conference which - presumably will be held on the hoof. . &- It-is to. be held Nov..9' and 10: at Spring Mill: State Park, and is to be attended: by persons from five The object is’ to do some-

“Thus, there ‘will. be. photbgraphic Hikes, bird hikes, nature hikes and, there. is . every “reason ; ito suppose, hikes’ in which’the hikers ‘want to get somewhere from ‘where: they. are. ‘On Sunday, there will be ‘an endurance hike, staged ‘by a: Cincinnati club,which. claims it can walk faster than any other club can walk. In: order that the whole undertaking doesn’t: get out “of . hand, they walk “in circles, ‘like. a club lost in the .forest. j One ‘of the things the conference will: set up .as-a- project is the re: quest that Park: Boards all over the mid-West create. special facilities for hiking’ similar to bridal paths for horses. The i PCRS will last two days and one night, during which there probably will be several sleep-hiking enterprises.

CONTEST ‘BUT NO BEAUTIES ,

CUT 'BANK,. ‘Mont., :Oct.. 30 (U. P,).—The local Lions Club suspects there must “be: something in the name. ' It organized:and publicized a beauty contest. The day came; so did most ‘of ‘the population as an audience.’ :But : -not a-. single as-

pirant showed .up. The title : of “Miss Cut “Bank”: is stil open.

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- Petticoat Rule Provicles Laughs By FRANK WIDNER —

HERE'S THE LATEST about

Hoosier: firemen:

A blacksmith shop caught fire in New Palestine the other night and the fire fighting crew. was called. In the course of bringing the fire under control, the firemen noticed the ‘water supply dwindling. They started to change the hose ‘into

another cistern for more water. They were arranging the hose when—Plop!—one of the firemen tumbled into the cistern. Another, seeing his comrade’s . plight, went to his aid. Again, plop! He, too, dunked himself. By the time the firemen were through rescuing each other it was too late to rescue the blacksmith shop. It burned to the ground. » » »

THREE YEARS AGO, one bright Sunday morning in Huntington, the Robert Bucher family.started to church. “Dude” a 13-year-old, 13-pound pet Angora cat, didn’t like the idea of staying home and followed. “Dude” kept on op right into -the church and settled down for a snooze. All went well until

someone spied the animal and decided that church wasn’t exactly

the place for a cat, “Dude” was “bounced.” ‘Instead of going home, the cat wandered off. Last week it came “home” despite the fact that the family had changed its place of residence during the three-year span. : ” ” 2 -. “Petticoat rule” was a howling success in many Hoosier towns over the week-end as Women of the Moose left their kitchens to -take-over the duties of city offi-

cials. - " * In Muncie, the police chief was

put in jail by’ Mrs, Mae Cheesman, charged with “siealing” ' $1.12 from a city councilman. He was released after proving to the court that the councilman “never had $1.12 all at once.” And in Hammond, citizens rolled with laughter when: they | sighted female traffic cops garbed in uniforms two and ‘three sizes too big for them. ” ” ”

Warsaw apparenily ha§ one youth who is worriec/ a-plenty for fear his number wil! come up first in the draft lottery fcday. Members of the Kosciusko County draft boarc reported an “attempt was made to enter the

members were; at luiach. Officials believe j3cmeone was trying to enter the office in an effort to remove his card, hoping -in this way to avoid being drafted.

TIN IS RECOVERED ‘FROM LAVA FLOW

BURNS, Ore., Oct. 0 (U.P.).—Tin Tin in commercial quantities is being recovered by a new process from a lava flow from an’‘oid volgane 35 miles west of here. ° The tin deposit of 12000 acres was discovered 11 years #go by 'O.. F. Selle, Baker, Ore., mining. engineer. It was.ina form in’possible to re-

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AGED COMPOSERS HEAR OWN HYMNS

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 30 (U. P.).—When 12,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints filled the great Salt Lake tabernacle recently for the semiannual conference, they sang several hymns written by two of America’s oldest living composers,

The composers are Mrs. Lula Greene Richards and Joseph L. Townsend, each born in 1849. Mrs. Richards and Townsend were present. at the conference. They joined in the’ singing and made appearances at several meetings despite their - combined age of 182 years. Townsend has written 33 hymns

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FEWER SEE CANYON GRAND CANYON, Oct. 30 (U.P.). —The 371,613 persons who visited the Grand Canyon during the 1940 travel season ending Sept. 30, Superintendent PF. A. Kittredge announced, were 6.14 per cent less than the number of Park visitors during 1939.

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