Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1940 — Page 11

18, 1940 —- — Santa Rides the Trolleys

At the State Hotton ; SPEEDWAY CITY 70 BE ANOTHER

“SHRLESTONN? i

Town Water Supply Proves|

Inadequate and Officials Seek Bond Issue. By EARL RICHERT

Speedway City is experiencing |

“boom town” pains quite similar, but not as grave, as those now giving Charlestown city officials sleepless nights, - Speedway City, its officials say, does not have an adequate water supply to meet the present needs and the system must be expanded. Accordingly, a petition was filed with the Public Service Commission yesterday by the Speedway City Council, asking authorization of a $112,000 water works revenue bond

issue to permit the refunding of the |:

present indebtedness on the water works plant and the expansion of the system.

Fifty - thousand dollars: of: the funds to be raised by the bond’ is-|. sue would be spent to build a new |

storage tank and tower, to install

larger feeder mains and ‘to dig a new well.

The. remainder ‘would be. used to} refinance the $62,000 worth of water ; works revenue bonds now outstand-

These bonds are left from $85,000 ih

ing.

worth of ‘bonds issued in 1929 when the town: purchased the system from & private-company. - Since then the growth of several industries’ inthe town, chiefly the

Allison: Engineering Corp., has been |

so. great that the system is “wholly inadequate,” according to town officials. The plan ‘before the Public Service ‘Commission provides that the new bonds ‘bear interest of 4 and 6 per cent and be callable at regular intervals up.to Jan. 15, 1961, yhen the entire issue is scheduled to. have been paid off. Revenue from the water works sydtem is sufficient to retire the bonds, officials say.

Inspect Charlestown

Three carloads of state officials went to Charlestown today to inspect the $50,000,000 powder plant there and to study the town’s problems. : The! officials were to visit the plant? during the forenoon and to have:lunch with Henry S. Steeg, state - defense co-ordinator, and plant: ‘officials. During the afternoon ‘they were to talk with members of the Town Board concerning the municipality’s need for state gid. In the party are Governor Townsend;.. Governor-Elect Henry F. Schricker, Attorney General Samuel Ix Jackson, Rep. James M. Knapp, speaker of the House; Rep. Frank" T. Millis, Republican House floor leader; State Senator William. E. Jefiner, president pro tem. of the Senate, and Charles Dawson, Lieutenant Governor-elect. Governor Townsend, Mr. Schricker and: Mr. Jackson will go on to Louisville, Ky., tonight, and tomorrow the three will go to Frankfort, " where they will djscuss Kentucky border problems Governor Keen Johnson,

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AIR SCIENTISTS BAFFLED BY FOC

Still Major Handicap to

Aviation, Doctor’s Report Says.

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—On the 37th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first aerial flight at Kitty Hawk, member's of the Institute of theAeronautical Sciences heard here last night of the scientific principles of fog which still forms a major handicap to aviation. Before a meeting held at Columbia University, Dr. Sverre Petterssen, professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave the fourth annual Wright Brothers Lecture, on “Recent Fog Investigations.” Fog may be removed, he said, in two ways. One is by actual physical removal of the fine drops from the air; the other by evaporating them. The latter may be done if enough heat is supplied, not only to evaporate the drops themselves, but also to raise the temperature of the surrounding air. Its relative humidity is lowered, and it can accommodate the extra water vapor produced from the drops. However, heating, over a large area, such as

“la harbor or airport, is impracticable,

Indianapolis children now can “talk things over” with Santa Claus on their way downtown to the various Toylands.

Santa Claus rides

the trolleys and busses of the Indianapolis Railways. He has no schedule, but “pops up” here and there over the city. The “trolley and bus Santa Claus” will make the rounds daily from 9 a. m. to 4 p.m. until

Chfistmas.

Hoosier Goings On

ANOTHER FLOOD

Water Main Brak, Fills Basements; Gift of Oysters Includes a Pearl By FRANK WIDNER FIREMEN WHO ANSWERED AN ALARM on Parrett St. in Evans-

ville recently halted in front of the house.

They were unable to see

any fire, but several excited persons beckoned frantically for them to

hurry inside.

it?” The fire laddies cocked an attentive ear toward the concrete floor and heard a rumbling as of a minor earthquake. Other neighbors said the same thing was happening in their basements. It wasn’t until water began to seep through the asphalt street that firemen learned a large water main had broken.

® 8 8 W. F. Pemberton, of 707 Colescott St., in Shelbyville, is glad that he has a friend like Charles

Clark Jr. in Biloxi, Miss.

Mr. Clark sent the Pembertons a gallon of oysters and when the family opened some of them up, they found a pearl imbedded in ine. The pearl is about the size of a pea but as yet its value is unknown, 50h 2 8» SHELBYVILLE POLICE are a bit puzzled by this one. A well-dressed man walked info

In the basement the folks pointed to the floor and asked: “Hear

that their organization may soon: become inactive. Until recently, Lieut. Paul Dreiman was president, but he was ordered into active duty at Camp Benning, Ga. Then Capt. Wayne Donaldson was elected president. He, too, has been forced to leave and remaining members of the organization don’t know who will “be next, since all are subject to call. ” 2 8 A MUNCIE man found out how to keep from listening to a radio program his wife likes to hear. It is extremely simple, but it brought police. He smashed it with a hammer.

DRAFT CARD LOST. TO HUNGRY PORKER

ELDORA, Iowa, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—

he said, because the heat must be supplied uniformly over the entire region. Another method which,.he stated, has worked successfully has been to spray calcium chloride solution into the fog. This takes moisture out of the air, and reduces the humidity, so that the fog drops may evaporate at the prevailing temperature. Among possible means for the physical removal of the drops, he cited the use of an intense sound, the waves of which would cause the drops to coalesce into* larger drops, that would fall .to the ground. However, he declared, “computations indicate that it would not be practicable in natural fog.” It has been used on a laboratory scale to precipitate smoke. Hopes that infra-red rays, that is, light waves too long to be visible, could be used effectively to penetrate fog, were dashed. Belief that this was possible, he said, was due to the wrong use of a formula for light transmission through suspended particles.

TEXAS VITAMIN TEST TO EXTEND 3 YEARS

AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 18 (U. P.).— Tests for-the—presence and effect of various vitamins on living tissue, both human and animal, will be made over a three-year period with specially designed equipment to be installed by the University of Texas.

Tex. Texas bio-chemist, acid,

production of pantothenic

min,

The research will be financed by the Clayton Foundation of ‘Houston, It will be under direction of Dr. Roger Williams, University of who achieved distinction last year by artificial

popularly known as the 10th vita-

When Dr. Williams succeeded in the synthesis of pantothenic acid, he became the first scientist to be credited successively with discovery, isolation and synthesis of a vitamin. The Clayton Foundation was es-

(This is the third of a series of articles on. the new bread fof defense.) a

By JANE STAFFORD Copyright 1940 by Science Service - Revolutionizing = bread . has ‘an ominous sound. Many people, remembering the dark, soggy breads of World War days. in 1917-1918, may fear that the new bread, made from flour restored to its primitive nutritional . state,. will be unpalatable. Others, aware of the benefits to be had from the new bread, may be fearing that such benefits cannot be added without a considerable increase in the price of bread. Such fears can safely be banished. Bread and flour are going back to their ancient estate but they will not be the coarse, dark, heavy stuff our ancestors ate. Instead of being white as the virgin snow, the new bread and flour may be slightly creamy in color. This means, actually, an improvement in quality, due to the presence in the flour or bread of vitamins and minerals which our present snowy white bread ‘and flour lack—to the detriment of our health. If the vitamins are added in the form. of synthetic chemicals, they may -not cause any change in color of the bread at all. If they are added by using a part of the wheat kernel, as some millers are already doing, they will tinge the white with a faint cream color.

New Defense Bread Will Be Tasty, Easy on Pocketbook

Flavor, 4 ‘changed at all, will probably be -improved. Reports on

the new enriched flours already be~|

ing produced by some mills state that the flour and bread from it acquires a pleasant, slightly nutty flavor. - a ~The most important quality of the new bread, of course, is the improvement in health and strength which will come from the vitamins and minerals. the new bread .and flour will contain. People who eat this bread will feel stronger and more like working. They will feel brighter and more alert. Their appet will improve. Their digestion will be

better. They won't ‘be so nerveus|

and timid and apprehensive. ’

‘These benefits will, of course, take a little time to be felt. The first slice of the new bread is not going to ‘make a new man or woman of you. People who will feel the beue-

fits most will ‘be those who need|

them most. These are the: people whose food: budget is so small that they must eat lots of bread, which is one of the cheap foods, in order to get filled up. .

The bread revolution, finally, will |*

be‘easy on the pocketbook. It would do no good to put vitamins and minerals in flour-if they made the flour taste or look disagreeable, because people would not use it. It would not help the ones who most need taese vitamins and minerals in bread if it made bread expensive. The

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cost will depend somewhat on the method used to put vitamins and minerals into the bread. Present estimates are that the job | can be satisfactorily done at an additional cost of about 75 cents a barrel of flour, although some authorities claim this. would’ oly cover the cost of the extra ingred ents, not the cost of putting rea into flour. Another’ estimate is that the new bread can be made to sell for about one cént more per loaf of bread. This will be in the beginning. Later, ‘as the price of vitamin chemicals continues to drop and methods - for ‘adding ‘them to flour improve, the cost st may decrease.

(NEXT: Leaders in In Bread Revolution.)

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GERMANY, SWEDE

SIGN TRADE TRE

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18 (u. P). — Conclusion of a new Swedish-Ger-man trade agreement for next year was announced yesterday. It pro=vides for Swedish importation - of 5,700,000 tons of German coal and coke and manufactured steel prod ucts, chemicals and cellulose. In turn Sweden will export: iron ore, wood and paper pulp to Germany. It was expected that under the new agreement German-Swed-ish commercial exchanges would be approximately doubled. .

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Doors From Power & Light Os:

Frank Steinfeldt, a farmer, claims he has an $8 interest in one of ‘his neighbor's hogs. Mr. Steinfeldt discovered he’ lost his billfold. He returned home to find it chewed to pieces in the hog

one of the downtown department stores there and stepped up to one of the counters. Then, when he thought no one ‘was looking, he reached for a book laying on the counter, stuffed it in his pocket and fled. It was a Bible.

tablished by the Texas family of that name which became wealthy in cotton marketing, Benjamin Clayton is president. The same foundation also is backing an extended study of Malta fever being carried on in a special laboratory built by the university for the purpose.

Lad Christened For a Mountain

GLACIER NATIONAL . PARK, Mont.; Dec. 18 (U. P.).—If Altyn Grinnell Stevens isn’t a mountain climber when he grows up, it won’t be his fault. He was christened for a mountain and a glacier. ~ Altyn’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. - Cullen A. Stevens, of Tampa, Fla., his grandmother, and his two brothers were touring Glazier Park when he was born. What to name the: youngster was something of a problem. The parents and grandmother con- _ sulted park rangers. Mrs. Stevens recalled she had hiked to Grinnell glacier the day before the boy was born. She suggested his middle name be Grinnell. Everyone agreed, Ranger Walter Nitzel gazed at Altyn peak which towers above the Many Glacier camp ground. ‘He said the first name should be Altyn. That idea also was adopted.

Named Rate Official

Cloyd A. Ruff, Evansville, was named Tate ‘supervisor of the ‘State Insurarice “Department today by Frank Viehmann, Insurance Commissioner. Mr. Ruff succeeds Leroy Hines, who resigned to accept a position with an insurance company. - -

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lot. The billifold had contained: eight one-dollar bills, also Steinfeldt’s draft registration card, drivers license and other papers. \

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