Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1943 — Page 9

Hoosier Vagabond

ON THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERT.—While the of the men were working on the planes, I spent 1 day wandering around |She desert talking to ‘nomadic Arab shepherds. « Td walk up to one, say SBon jour,” ‘and shake

"hands. The French and the Arabs

are great handshakers. The first

one I’ hit was a young fellow, handsome in a way but badly pockmarked. 1 was looking for a long-bladed ‘Arabian knife for one of: the officers back at our airdrome. So after shaking hands and giving friend a cigaret, I started

: ‘and with a , Sharp on bo handle.

I may as well have saved the

description, for he never even got it through his head I was asking for a knife. ~ “He didn’t speak, French, which left us no common

ground, particularly since I don’t speak it either.

But

I got my own pocket knife, and-then went through all the motions which, in most any other -country, . Would have conveyed to him that I was engaged in . . Some sort of general discussion about a cutting implement. But not this baby. .

Friendly, but Conversation’s Out

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" ARABS AREN'T dumb, but somehow they just don’t seem to understand our brand of sign language.

.. ‘This Arab boy and I would talk our heads off, not ,. understand a word, and then he'd giggle and shake his head as if to say, “This is silly but it’s fun, isn’t it?” The Arabs are all very friendly and they smile

easily.

It makes you feel nice and kindly toward

* them, even if you ‘can’t talk to them. . i This fellow was herding ‘about 50 camels, grazing ‘on little clumps of sagebrush and stuff just like cattle. I made signs that I wanted to see his camels ‘close up, so we walked over. On the way over I did find that the Arab word for camel is something

like “Zu-mel.”

He had his eye on a certain one he wanted to show

“Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

GEORGE MADDEN, advertising director

of

Block’s, enjoys kidding his friends by showing them 8s draft classification card listing him as 1A. Most * folks don’t notice that it's dated July 9, 1918—back in the other war. George served six months in the

army at that time, but now he’s a P-38 (past 38). The old: card is very similar to his current draft classification card (3A) which, incidentally, is dated almost exactly 24 years later than the other card. This one is dated: July 8, 1942. .. . Thurman A. Gottschalk, state welfare director, is recuperating at Robert Long hospital from a se-

. rious. operation—=kidney stones. .

Oral Teter, ‘the barber; was in his shop at 28: Kentucky ave. Satur-

"day evening when .the gas explo-

2 dion. blew out his front window and all the. windows in ‘the parking garage across. the street: He adds to the general confusion over what caused the blast

by reporting that

for ‘about 30 seconds before the

explosion, the lights in his ‘shop dimmed. Just what that signified we haven't figured out for sure.

Xs Hels or Is He Isn't? .

« THERE over foring

to be :quite a bit:of confusion - “the citys new post-war planning.

committee. Mayor Tyndall thought he had the chair: manship of the committee definitely settled when he named Henry Ostrom. However, Mr. Ostrom says his acceptance was ‘tentative, that it won’t be permanent 4 until he learns who else will be on the committee. A " eity hall spokesman (there’s that guy again!) says. the comniittee ‘members can’t be named until the

ch

ip is settled. And there you are. .

+-Her=

bert S. King; head of the Adnov Co. (advertising spegialties), is down at Sanibel, Fla., Jolling on the beach in swimming trunks “all day every day. * That's what he ‘writes back to his envious friends, The lucky

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 2¢—You can find an exeellent formula for your own thinking in Prime

Minister Churchill’s latest speech. He gives needed emphasis to the point that we must not: allow talk

~ @bout peace

alms to mislead us into thinking that

the war is about -over. Yet he makes a place for necessary plan-

‘ning about the future.

. Totalitarian people can run on

a one-track mind because they are

posed to do any thinking for themselves... Democratic people, however, must work on a

..double-track system. = Democratic people must be fighting the war,

while at the same time planning ‘the moves that ‘will ‘come after. "That is not an easy thing to do.. But democracy is the most

difficult form: of government and is tolerated not because it is the easy method but because under it human beings can stay free. : Hitler Far. From Beaten . EVERYTHING THAT Churchill’ says about the

tin | son

still ahead is underscored by the news of Gerrlan: advances in ‘Russia. ‘ It is under<

¥ scored by. the delay in knocking the axis out. of | Tunisia, by the heavy sinkings in the Atlantic, and by the fact that we have vast quantities of tanks and” abroad hit us. The: big ones eventually involve us. other equipment piled up here far in excess of our. ‘Any major war is a threat to our security.’ ‘ability to ship it across. ey Nevertheless, Mr. Churchill, while recognizing thats must be solved before we can hope to have stable . Hitler is far from beaten, talks ahout war aims and con peace ‘aims. In fact, he made the longest speech of his career as prime. minister about them. Mr. ‘Churchill discusses his hopes for regional councils of the nations, for a four-year internal transition plan for ‘England. and. for yet ‘another plan ‘after that.

My Day

HARTFORD, Conn. ‘Tiesday.—After my press

' ‘conference yesterday morning, I

spent an hour with

the small conference group which gathered in Washington over the week-end under the. auspices of the tiles. Sues Students’ Assembly: committee. They

have learned a great deal from

the various speakers to whom they ‘have listened. “All ‘of ‘them felt

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me. It was very old and shaggy, and was hobbled by having its right legs tied together with rags. I asked ‘why, and the best I could make out was that it was a bad camel. As we came near, the camel rolled its tongue out one side of its mouth and gave forth a -series of the most repulsive belching noises I've ever heard. At this the Arab looked at me and laughed and then started imitating the camel. This went on and on. Every time the camel would belch the Arab would mimic him and laugh derisively at the silly old camel. Finally he had to go round up some of the herd that was getting too far away, so we shook hands and off he went across the desert. 3

Dogs and Missonrt Mules :

LATE THAT afternoon I was sitting on the sand near one of the planes when an Arab boy and his little sister, on a donkey, came past. Their white dog was running ahead of them, and we called to the dog. One of the soldiers had the dog coaxed up almost to him when the Arab boy got there and started throwing rocks at the dog to drive it away. We all frowned and said “No, no, no,” and indicated to ‘the boy that we wanted him to call the dog back so we could pet it. He nodded his understanding, then picked up another rock and threw it at the dog. I tell you, they don’t understand sign language. The boy himself was perfectly . friendly. He sai down beside me and I gave him a cigaret. From the way he choked I guess he wasn't a smoker, and was smoking just to be polite. . He sat around about 15 minutes watching us and smiling. After a while I tried the dog business again, pointing at the dog and making motions for him to call the dog over. He smiled and nodded, then got up and threw another rock at the dog. The desert is literally alive with shepherds. You] can see their tents in the distance—dark brown with wide dark stripes. The average Arab has camels, goats, sheep, horses, burros and dogs. And it seems a little -incongrouous somehow, but we saw lots of

: plain old Missouri mules on the desert.

devil. . . . Albert E. Wei en writes to ask if all snakes lay eggs. We checked /the state entomologist’s office for him. There we lean that some do and some don’t. Some snakes, including the garter snake, give birth to living young. Ah, These ndpdrents A CERTAIN 7-year-old living near 22d and N. New Jersey sometimes gets lonesome because his only brother is much older and won't play with him. One of the youngster’s favorite toys is one of those large toy airplanes made of cardboard. The other day the boy's father returned home and found him busy piloting the plane. And in the rear seat was the lad’s 88-year-old grandmother, equally busy “mowing down” Nazis. He had impressed her into service as tail gunner. . . . Benjamin D. Hitz was in a friend's office the other day and, looking out the window, saw Red Oross flags flying from various buildings. He recalled that back in April, 1917 (there was another -war just .getting under way then) ‘he thought up the idea of publicizing the Red Cross by having its flag flown from downtown buildings. It was a popular idea.

Not Enough Nurses

MISS HELEN TEAL, executive secretary of the - Indiana State Nurses association, read our item Monday about Indiana falling. behind its quota for enlistment of nurses inthe armed forces. There are several reasons, she says. First of all, she says, the quota was too high, since it was based on a survey which included nurses in the veterans hospitals here and at Marion, and the Ft. Harrison hospital. And then, several hundred nurses have gone into industrial nursing, others are being used as “assistants” by badly overworked doctors, while group hospitalization insurance has ‘helped to fill the hospitals to overflowing. Just what the government is going to do about the nurse situation no one seems to know for sure.

By Raymond Clapper

The prime minister talks about the necessity of improving the health and vigor of the people of Britain, of providing milk for babies, of increasing the birth rate. Snobbery must disappear and the advantages of education must be opened to everyone. Opportunities in public service must be available to everyone, regardless of what school tie he wears.” England, says Mr. Churchill, must take. advantage of talent and ability wherever ‘it may be found,

People Want a Better World

WE CAN WELL BELIVE that the reason Mr. Churchill is making that kind of an internal political speech is that his people demand some assurance that. a better England will rise out of the death and destruction of this war. He recognizes the public longings which have given such popularity to the Beveridge plan. In the United States I think we all feel thst, given a peaceful world and reasonably intelligent gov- . ernment at Washington, the American people have the resources and the industrial ability to produce reasonably prosperous times. , In America our real ‘anxiety is whether there will be peace so that we .can go ahead with our own lives.. ‘Throughout this century our internal life has been violently affected by’ foreign wars. All wars

So that is our “first: problem, and the one that

conditions inside the country for any length of time. That is why the resolution of the four senators, for ‘instance, which Secretary Cordell Hull has just indorsed, becomes such an’ important event in our apans. It is a Specific’ attempt to get something s :

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I By Ernie | Pyle

VAST PONER IN

2 HONOR SOCIE ADDS!

COUNTY SETUP.

Holds Purse Strir Strings Under New Laws; Politicians —

Are ‘Worried.

By NOBLE REED The county council, for many years regarded as being on the outer fringe of politics, has suddenly become the most powerful group in local government.

Some new laws passed. by the 1943 |

legislature coupled with a whole new set .of councilmanic policies since Jan. 1, has ‘placed the council in a position of high command over all phases of county government, unequalled heretofore. ; In the last few days, councilmen have been besieged by politicians

men who are holding the purse strings with a vengeance. - In fact, the council-now has politicians jumping through the hoop, even the party leaders who always have regarded the council as little to be reckoned with.

Hold Power Over Pay

A close look at some of the new laws revealed this week that the legislature (probably unwittingly) gave the county council full powers over many salaries, even to the extent of cutting them down to a mere 50 cents a day 'if councilmen wanted to do it. It was discovered that the new law on township assessors’ salaries failed to place a minimum on them, leaving the rate of pay up to the “discretion of the council.”

sors running to councilmen this week, asking if there were any plans to cut their pay instead ‘of raises as they had hoped to insure by the new laws. James F. Cunningham, center township assessor, the only Democrat re-elected in the assessor group, was especially nervous since the council is controlled entirely by Republicans.

Rule Over Blue Fands

Also the council was given complete power over any additional appropriations sought by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue in a series of bills he nursed through the legislature. The prosecutor's additional pay law merely said that the prosecutor could have $10,000 extra for hiring investigators if he could talk the council into appropriating it. . . Most a were” f at a specific amount, leaving the council no. power’ to change them. Patronage, the most potent of political power in local government, is rapidly coming under the wings of the county fathers. All of the council members are responsible for the ' transition of the council from its firmer rubber stamp category to one of powerful command : over the destiny of government and its workers. Addison J. Parry is council president, and Sherlie Deming is vice president.

‘No Rubber Stamping

“We decided vhen we first took office that we would not be a rubber stamp appropriating hody, permitting money to be spent without knowing exactly where every dollar of it was going,” Mr. Parry said. Evidence of this came early when councilmen refused to appropriate a single dollar to commissioners: without first personally investigating the need for spending the money. Councilmen, divided up into committees of two ‘and three, were as-

the scene of operations and interview employees amd check work being done and report back their findings before any council action was taken on even small appropriations. The word of a department head or a statement by the commissioners were not accepted as Prost of need for expenditures. :

Purse Strings Tighter

The ‘purse strings were being drawn tighter and tighter and the executives were swea ~and cursing under their breaths. The days of free reign on spending ‘had vanished. Recently the council ordered an investigation into the. ‘entire wage schedules of all county departments with a view to making readjustments. :

unimportant ' jobs and give in|creases to those who are carrying the heavy load ‘in government,” {Mr. Parry said. 5 “This served an advanced notice on department heads that come

{undgst-makie | time next fall, the

ax will fall with a resounding thud

seeking to curry favor with the|*

This brought the jumpy asses-|

previous laws. on salaries}

other

signed by Mr. Parry to go out to

"“We must eliminate some of the]

17 AT BROAD RIPPLE LE :

By MICHAEL SAYERS and _ ALBERT E. KAHN

FIRES, EXPLOSIONS, poisons and machine wreck-

ing are not the only devices ‘of axis sabotage. The fascist powers have developed another and even more

deadly method of crippling

their enemies. This is psychological sabotage. Psychological sabotage is the systematic undermining of morale, the warping of public opinion, the fomenting of doubt and indecision, the storing up of a dissension and disunity. It seeks to take advantage of legitimate differences of opinion, to intensify those differneces, and thus frequently to make sincere and unsuspecting persons the unconscious instruments of psychological sabotage. It is a secret war directed against the mind and spirit of the people.

‘Attack in Weak Spots’

HERE is how Dr. Ewald Banse, the foremost Nazi “strategist of - terror,” has defined this unique form of axis sabotage: pi “Applied psychology as a weapon of war means propaganda intended to influence the mental attitudes of nations toward war. It is essential to attack the enemy nation in its weak spots, to undermine and break down its resistance, and to convince it that it is being deceived, misled and brought to destruction by its own government. Thus the people will lose confidence in the justice of its cause so that the political opposition in those nations will raise its head and become a more powerful trouble-maker.”

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- Five Major Objectives

IN THE UNITED STATES, the psychological saboteurs had five major objectives at the outset: 1. To disrupt and disunite the American people by the stirring up of race hatred and by similar divisive techniques; 2. To undermine the confidence of the American people in their own form of government and in the administration of President Roosevelt; 3. To isolate the United States and prevent it from join‘ing any anti-axis alliance and from aiding those ‘nations attacked by the axis aggressors; 4. To prevent the United States from being adequately prepared for war; 5. To build an American fascist party which would act as a fifth column ally to the axis attack from without. The summit of the career. of Adolf Hitler was reached in the

year 1940. From the bleak Nor-

wegian north to the, warm sands of southern France, his power straddled the European continent. Within an incredibly short time, one nation after another had crumpled before the Nazi assault.

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They Cried ‘Peace!

IN EACH COUNTRY that he attacked, Hitler had ‘previously organized his fifth ‘column psychological saboteurs. While Hitler prepared for war, his agents in Holland, Norway, Poland and France were crying “Peace!” While Nazi industry produced immense quantities of arms, der fuehrer’s agents in countries campaigned against rearmament. Hitler involved all sorts of people in his campaign of psychological sabotage. Premiers and diplomats, professors and businessmen, journalists, labor leaders and ‘politicians—some wittingly and some unwiftingly-—spread Hitler’s poison in their own lands. In many instances those who were innocently involved were just .as useful to the axis as the Quislings, for they were sincere in their own motives and were therefore more easily able to convince others. American eyes were on Europe

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Paychologicar Sabotage

Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels . . . “Nothing will be easier than to produce a revolution in North America.”

in 1940, watching with horror the havoc being wrought by Hitler's panzer divisions and fifth col-

umns. It seemed impossible that -

these things could ever happen over here. pening over here, Hitler's psychologieal saboteurs were busy here,

» n os Unser Amerika . AS SOON AS he took power in Germany, Hitler launched his secret war against the United States. At first der fuehrer was obsessed with the idea of “Germanizing” America. The government was to be overthrown and a GermanAmerican Gauleiter appointed. According to Dr, Colin Ross, the Nazi ideologist of the “Germanization” program, and author of the book, Unser Amerika (Our America), there were 30,000,000 persons in the United States with German blood in their veins. . These millions constituted a vast reservoir of “Aryan manpower,” ready to be mobilized by the Nazis and welded into a German army on American soil. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels supported Ross’ theory, publicly declaring, “Nothing - will be easier than ‘to produce a revolution in North America. . . No other country has so many social and racial tensions.” The practical Nazi experts in the field of psychological sabotage —Rudolf Hess, Col. Nicolai and others — recognized from the start that these over-enthusiastic dreams of a German revolution in America were not to be taken too

- seriously. Hess and Nicolai fore--

saw the inevitable shortcomings of a purely German fifth: column in the Tuited States. £0 : 1 OR 3 Uy = NPA

Agreed With Pelley

THEY WERE in complete agree-

ment with William Dudley Pelley,-

the U. S. Silver Shirt chief, who as early, as June 22, 1933, wrote in a letter to a Nazi agent in New York: “The adroit thing to’ do is to let a - spontaneous American movement be born here that has exactly similar principles * and precepts fo Hitler's, that shall ‘be American in character and personnel, and that shall work shoulder to shoulder with German aims and purposes.” . Nevertheless, Hess and Nicolai did not overlook the possibilities of a Nazified German-American bloc. Consequently, they utilized scores of agents to act as missionaries to the German-Americans. Within a year after the destruction of German democracy, every section of the United States had its quota of Nazi-dominated Ger-man-American rifie clubs, “cultural and “fraternal” organizations. The job of supervising these organizations was turned over to Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, a young Nazi who was made head of the Auslands - Organization

He was also appointed to the posi‘tion of Gauleiter of the Gau ‘Ausland (district of Germans abroad). :

. Operating from his headquar-

ters in Berlin, Bohle vigorously

* applied himself to the task of | Nagzifying ‘perfons of German

HOLD EVERYTHING

Yet they were hap--

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(foreign division of the Nazi party) in 1934,

{ [have been appointed 12-week war bond and stamp cam-|

t who lived outside the ‘reich. ‘Under his guidance,

* veritable armies of Nazi provoca-

teurs fomented dissension throughout Europe, South America and the United States.

2 3 8 : ‘Trouble Center” ASSISTING BOHLE was an‘other agency of the third reich —the Psychological Laboratory. This conducted exhaustive researches into “American national psychology.” ‘The laboratory was primarily interested in locating’ America’s Stoerungskern (trouble center), which by means of skillful propaganda might be further aggravated . for subversive ends. As a result of its investigations, the Laboratory decided that this nucleus of irritation .in America was antagonism to the New Deal. The Nazi psychologists hoped to foster and intensify this opposition, and thus to utilize it as an axis ‘weapon. ‘against the United States. In 1935, Bohle and ‘Hess issued orders to Nazi agents in the United States that they were to concentrate on fomenting antagonism to the Roosevelt administration and to spread the propaganda that the government had fallen into the hands of “Jews” and: “Communists.” An “American citizens’ group” was to carry out these orders and to give leadership to: the: Nazi fifth column. It was called the German American Bund. = =

Fritz Kuhn’s Failure

IN MARCH, 1936, Fritz Kuhn, then a chemist at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit, was chosen to head the new organization, Kuhn announced that the. German American Bund was to be a “100 per cent American and Christian organization.” The American public was unimpressed. While the Bund recruited ‘ several thousand pro-Nazi German-Americans, it failed to build a mass fifth column, It ‘became increasingly clear to the Nazi psychologists that the only way to foment real trouble in America was through an organization of truly American aspect. The Nazis were constantly on the lookout for a native fifth

. column that might rally: large

numbers of Americans to its

"ranks,

During the years 1933-39, scores of American fascist organizations mushroomed in‘the United States. Calling themselves Crusaders for Americanism, ‘American Guards, Silver Shirters, Christian Fronters, these, ‘hative fascists spread all social and economic evils’ on “the Jews” and asserted that the New Deal was a “Jewish-Communist” plot to rob Americans of their independence. The extent of the Nazi effort in this field is indicated by the fact . that, whereas: in 1932 there was a mere handful of anti-demo-cratic organizations active in the United States, by 1939 more than 750 had been formed. |,

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"5th Column Weakness

. KEEPING THE American psychological saboteurs constantly . supplied with propaganda were two Welt-Dienst (World-Service and official German organizations —Deutscher Fichte-Bund (German Fighters Society). ‘This propaganda reached the United States: public . through, such . homespun ' publications as Fr. Charles ‘E Coughlin’s Social Justice, William Dudley Pelley’s = Liberator, Rev. Gerald Winrod's Defender and many other" pro-axis, anti-Semitic

« newspapers, magazines and news-

letters. Considerable progress had been ‘made by the Nagzi psychological saboteurs, but the American. fifth column still lacked -two vital factors. One was a really popular American ‘leader.. The other essential element still missing was a. “spontaneous American move- - ment” of mass proportions,

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‘NAMED AT SCHOOL"

. Twenty-four Warren Central high school studen d teachers assist in a

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Closing of f WPA Schools Poses Serious Problem For Mothers.

By DAN GORDON :

Indianapolis virtually has no piace’ to take care of the children of the:

city’s women war workers.

Confusion and red tape in Washington plus the reluctance of the school board to be “regimented” by

1the federal government have made

Indianapolis one of the few cities in the United States unable to take care of these pre-school children. There are only two agencies that approach the problem in any way-—

fund with its two centers, the InFlanner House Nursery.

only 14 children now and has ulti= mate facilities for only 51. The facilities ‘of the other two are being taxed to capacity. WPA Schools Close Here is what has happened: The closing last week of the four WPA-operated nursery schools only aggravated the problem for many women war workers who are now faced with finding adequate facil=

ities for taking care of their chil= dren during working hours.

of 98 children between the ‘ages of

tion. The mothers of these young-

But the former is taking care of

the OCD day care service in the vs Claypool hotel and the community

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dianapolis Day Nursery and the

two and five the last week of operas

sters are now looking for a place to

put them so that they may continue

of the childrén was made by any of the Indianapolis social agencies when the WPA schools closed. ,

working. No provision for the care

The federal agency was to have

disbanded the operation of all

projects Feb. 15, but continued to

operate the schools for a month

longer in the expectation that the city school board would sign an ap= plication for federal funds offered it | to continue the operations of the centers. Legislature Acts

(Governor Schricker recently

board to receive such funds from the federal government for the pure pose of establishing and mainisinng nursery schools) .

‘School board officials, Willis Johne :

son of "the ‘Council of ‘Social Agene cies and Mrs. John Messick, chair=

man of the Indianapolis day care committee, said they thought that {perhaps Indianapolis would be able

to solve the problem of providing adequate facilities for the children of women war workers without the help of federal funds, and thus avoid what some termed “regimens tation.” It. was originally understood by the committee and the board t all of the cost of operation would borne. by the federal governmen Later Washington decided that Ine dianapolis would have to bear 50 Per cent of the operating expenses, as well as the cost of the mains tenance of the buildings.

Cost. Over $7500

cost of operating one of the nursery schools is between $7500 and $10,000 a year, Three of the schools’ Teach nad the services of four trained teachs ers, a cook and an attendant. The

. | fourth, the J. T. B. Hill Community

‘Center, 1806 Columbia ave, for Negro children, utilized the services of five ‘teachers, $Wo'cooks and two attendants. The others were the Rhodius Park Center, 1000 S.: Belmont ave.; the Northeast Community Center, 3306 E. 30th st. and the Lockefield Gar

| dens House Project, 636 Locke Sty ~| for Negro children. : : Only two nurseries equipped to

handle the children of war dustry mothers, are stint operating n

present taking care of between 1. and 150 children," some of who as old as 10. : )

Negro Children, 802 N, West st. now: caring for about 100 child A survey . conducted by the

‘This committee, composed of two 70

student representatives and ‘ two teachers for each grade, wis announced by .Ed’ Huber and James

Garinger, co-chairmen, at a recent] *

meeting. x : : x - ‘Student representatives are Loren

| |Cannaday, Irma: Piel, seniors; Dick Hamilton, Dawn Steele, . juniors; w W Jungs Semper, May Lou Spun

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It has been estimated that the

signed a bill passed by the 1943 leg islature which permits the school :

The Flanner House Nursery for