Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1946 — Page 13
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BECAUSE. MRS. MAURICE COLLINS talked
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~ By Ed Sovola
turkey with her husband six months after she was §&
married, February, 1945—she will celebrate the bigt Thanksgiving of her life Thursday. As good ands et do, Mr. Collins listened. The turkey talk worked out pretty well Today, Mrs. Collins is delivering the last of this year's Thanksglving birds from her Turkey Terrace fi and feeling mighty proud of herself. Beginni with an idea to do something with her time and the five and-a-third acre farm on Five Points rd, Mrs. Col= lins got the inspiration from friends. Right after Mr. Collins’ nod of approval, she wrote the department of agriculture, University of Minnesota and Purdue university for all the dope they had about turkeys, There was plenty. Her conception of the business changed but her determination to go ahead didn't waver an inch. In the autumn of 1945, Mr, and Mrs. Collins visited turkey farms in Minnesota and Kentucky. In the blue grass country, Mrs. Col ling saw how she wanted to raise her turkeys above the ground—six feet up where the birds would be less subject to disease and beasts of prey. Beginning with the book, entirely inexperienced, Mrs, Collins ‘was impressed with one thing—that turkeys are difficult to raise.
Follow Magazine to Letter : THE TURKEY FARM was her baby. Mr. Collins, traffic manager of E. ©. Atkins Co, didn't have time to help with the construction of the wire terrace {and shelter or the brooder house. “I don't know what I would have done without Mr. and Mrs. Glen McIntosh at that point,” Mrs. Collins said. Mr, McIntosh, a former supply sergeant in the army, also was looking for something to do. Again Mrs. Collins talked turkey and sold the idea. The former sergeant and his wife moved into the three-room cottage behind the Collins’ home and went to work, By June of 1946, Mr. McIntosh had built a 50x50foot terrace and a brooder. The trio followed the magazine Turkey World to the letter. It was a | bible for the turkey converts. Mrs. Collins ordered 500 day-old poults from Michigan. When they arrived they had to be taught to eat. Each poult had to have his bill dipped first in water, then in food. Bright marbles were placed in the water troughs to attract the .attention of the delicate poults. During the critical first 10 days, approximately 50 died. After that it was clear sailing at the Turkey Terrace farm. In eight weeks the poults were strong enough to be put into the terrace pen. Fresh alfalfa was cut for them every day from the adjacent field. Range birds find their own greens but range birds {also are more susceptible to disease and the weather. i “Books and magazines are informative but you can't | beat experience when it comes to learning about tur- | keys,” Mrs. Collins said. “We did things we never | dreamed of doing... She told how Mr. McIntosh had | put a splint on a broken tom turkey’s leg. The leg | mended and come Thursday someone will cast hungry | eyes on a drumstick that might have been lost other- | wise. “It was fun to watch them eat and grow fat.
Laughing Boy
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—In the long, long ago | the portly George E. Allen, pal of Presidents, was | nick-named Laughing Boy. He hung around the White House, holding a succession of fair-to-piddling jobs and functioning as the jester of Pennsylvania ave. + os Or so the stories said. The jovial George neve ‘denied them. President Truman eventually appointed him a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. |Now, so help me, he looks more like a banker than ian actor looks trying to look like a banker, Acts that way, too, And if anybody sets his paws {on federal cash to build houses of porcelain enameled stéel (like bath tubs, but in all colors, including gray trimmed with pink), it will be over the ex-laughing boy’s dead body. That's final. The senate war investigating committee called Mr. | Allen to learn why he hadn't loaned $50,000,000 to | the Lmstron Corp. of Chicago for the manufactire fof these termite-proof cottages, as demanded by I housing expediter Wilson W. Wyatt. Mr, Wyatt was there and he was sore. Sitting next to him, in easy poking distance, was Mr. Allen in his dark blue banker's sult, his banker's eyeglasses, and his banker’s soul. He talked about bad business risks. Engineering reports. About keeping an eye on the taxpayers’ dollars. He sounded like a Republican. He agreed with everything said by Senator Homer Ferguson, the |} Detroit Republican.
1 t's a Sensational House
THE INTENSELY serious Mr. Wyatt (a good look'ing guy with half a head of curly hair and half of bare scalp) said the Lustron people had such a house as America never saw before. He said it was a good thouse. He said it was a sensational house. “The parent company isn’t willing to go as far in
Aviation
AVIATION to date has acquired nelther the habits nor the marks of a business, and probably will not for another 10 or 15 years. But a showdown in this dynamic industry is near at hand. Aviation has come through the stages of experimental engineering and has proved itself a dominant {military arm. It is now entering another experi- | mental phase in which it is attempting to prove its { over-all capacity to serve as a real public utility, and Ie become an essential fixture in modern life, | The very rapidity with which its machinery and | its operating techniques change are proof of its | experimental status in this field. New types of planes embodying riew flight characteristics, plus new cockpit = aids to airmanship, are appearing every day. The huge sums of money invested in aviation accelerates these revolutionary innovations rather than stabilizes the industry's development along specific lines.
Greatest Handicap Same
WITH ONLY a few notable exceptions, aviation’s greatest curse and handicap today is exactly the same as it was years ago—inexperienced leadership ignorant of this industry's practical phases. After all, competence to direct and to command any business must be based upon a knowledge of that business from the ground up. And that is just what we haven't got, Aviation has grown, but by and large its leaders
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We, the Women
MRS. JANICE POLLOCK, 24-year-old mother of four who recently won the “Mrs. America of 1046” title, gave up the title and the $2500 prize money
"because she didn’t feel she could take her four chil-
dren on a 20-week tour of the country. It appears that when the beautiful Mrs, Pollock stepped aside the sponsors of the Mrs. America contest missed a good bet, . Despite the obvious difficulties involved, it's too bad Mrs. Pollock didn't decide to make the trip.
Might Have Been Wonderful
|| IT MIGHT have been a wonderful thing for the
| country had she taken her four kids along, introduced them to audiences all over the U. S, and given & little talk on how a woman can have four children, look after them, keep & husband happy and still find time to keep her beauty and glamour undimmed.
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Thanksgiving prelude . . . Mrs. Maurice Collins and Glen McIntosh help a couple of turkeys on their way to the dinner table.
Course they made us hop around—carrying feed
and corn.”
2300-Pound Order
WHILE THE UNWARY birds. basked in the sunlight and ate, an electric feather picker, an electric _scalder, ice bins, and cold water drums were being readied. By the time T-day neared Mr. and Mrs.
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SECOND SECTION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1946
TURKEY MORE THAN BIG MEAL FOR A HOLIDAY
Feather Merchant Explains How Thanksgiving Bird Fills Many Roles.
By EDWARD ELLIS United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Nov. 26.—There's more to a turkey than meets the mouth, Harvey Perlman said today. Mr, Perlman, a feather merchant, pointed out that besides eating their Thanksgiving turkey, mother sleeps on it, wears it and dusts with it, For turkey feathers, he said, are used to stuff pillows, decorate wom=en's hats and make feather dusters. And Junior may flaunt turkey
McIntosh had a system for oven-dressing the turkeys. feathers on his Indian suit as he Mr. McIntosh was up on the latest methods for you- | shoots arrows tipped with tuzkey
know-what, and it wasn't the chopping block and There's a way to kill turkeys so the feathers will be easy to pluck. The biggest order Mrs. Collins has filled up to date is 2300 pounds of dressed turkeys to an Indianapolis consumer. She makes most of the deliveries. Of the initial 500 But come Christmas time— bingo—they, too, will go the way of all good turkeys.
the long-handled ax.
birds there are 125 left.
The work on Turkey Terrace farm does not end
then by any means. Everything has to be scrubbed and sterilized. Mrs. Collins frankly admits she .sees dollar signs on her turkeys’ backs. She intends to expand and build another terrace identical in size to
the present one and another brooder house. “I've
learned a lot—we all have—but the day I'm waiting
for is Thursday when I can sit down to a drumstick. That's for me. My husband likes the white meat. You see we get along nicely,” Mrs. Collins laughed.
By Frederick C. Othman
financing it as Mr. Wyatt,” Mr. Allen growled.
“Have you seen this house yourself, George?” Mr.
Wyatt demanded.
Mr. Allen said he hadn't. He said he thought it was peculiar that the people who owned the patents
wouldn't put more than $36,000 in it.
Houses Most Important “AND FURTHERMORE,” said Senator Ferguson
“this house calls for the use of a lot of sheet steel. Your report shows that half of the entire sheet steel production would go into houses. It would ruin other basic industries. Like automobiles and refrigerators.” Mr. Wyatt said this was not so. He said there was enough steel for everything, but that even if there weren't, houses were more important than sedans, or
automatic ice boxes. “Humpf,” snorted Mr. Allen.
“Yes,” said Senator Ferguson, “and what about the thousands of houses all over the country, stand-
ing balf finished because there aren't enough doors or sewer pipe, or whatever?”
Mr. Wyatt said he was doing his best to get the stuff. Mr. Allen said the R. F. C. had lent money to
nearly 1200 different concerns making building materials. He said the R. F. C. in a couple of weeks probably would make loans to all the prefabrication factories, too. All, that is, except the Lustron Corp. “He's already made up his mind on that one,” interjected Mr, Wyatt. Mr. Allen said he had not, either. would put roofs over the heads of veterans, he'd make the loan, no matter how great the risk. “And even if I was run out of town for doing it,” he added.
Right or wrong, he proved one thing at least: He
is no laughing boy. Not now, he isn’t. changer (and a crusty one at that). Porcelain houses
with pink shutters, I fear, do not appeal to. banker Allen. ‘
haven't. Right there I have put my finger on the
real source of the current troubles in commercial
aviation. . On top of this, toss in the irresponsible
promoters and you have the weird broth before us at
the moment.
He said if he believed enameled steel houses
feathers into mother’s corsage of artificial flowers that are made of turkey feathers. While in the next room dad cleans his tuba with a turkey feather— which Mr, Perlman said, ~is better for this job than anything science can devise.
A Seasonable Business
Mr. Perlman is vice president of a feather firm that buys feathers
sells them to manufacturers of archery equipment, bedding, ladies’ hats and the like. “We handle carloads of turkey feathers every year,” he said.
now — just bef we're busiest of .
long ago the chief of a tribe of Winnebago Indians — from around the Wisconsin Dells, I believe—well, he came in here to buy some white turkey feathers. “He only wanted a few pounds. Needed them to decorate the ceremonial headdress the Indians wear for their tribal dances and ritual.
Chicago to buy feathers!” Poultry dressing houses remove turkey feathers with machinery, he said. Then they are curled artificially by bathing them in steam. Goose and duck feathers naturally are curly. ‘ For use in bedding, Mr. Perlman said, curling is mecessary because curled feathers are warmer than straight feathers.
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is about 6'% cents per pound.
pends greatly upon clothing styles
000 in three months. Mr. Perlman has a fashion idea all’ his own: : “Why don’t men wear feathers in|
He's a money | kerchiefs?”
from poultry dressing houses and|
“It's a seasonal business, of course. Right the holidays—
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Map compares time it would take a fast commercial transport, the British jet plane which holds official speed mark of 606 mph and the rocket-propelled XS-1 to span the approximate 500 miles between Indianapolis and Washington. However, present range of XS-1 is a little over 100 miles.
Fastest plane in the world is the army air forces’ first rocket-propelled ship, the Bell Afrcraft XS-1. Designed to travel at the astounding speed of 1700 miles per hour, it has never been flown under power. In tests, it has been taken aloft by & B-29, released, and handled by the pilot as a glider, as shown in top photo. Initial power flights will be made at Muroc field, Cal, in December. Under full power, the XS-1 can operate for only 4.2 minutes, with a range of little over 100 miles. Not a military plane, it is a flying research laboratory, designed to obtain data on faster-than-sound flight. First powered flights will be at average speeds—Iless than 500 miles per hour. Supersonic flights will not be attempted for many
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Picto-diagram shaws construction characteristics of rocket-propelled X8-1, pictured during test flight as a glider, It carries 526 pounds of test equipment, 8177 pounds of fuel
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U. S. HIGHWAYS
40% of Cars on Roads Are Seen as Safety Hazard, Should be Scrapped.
By CLAIRE COX United Press Siaft Correspondent co; CHICAGO, Nov. 26-—Forty per cent of the cars chugging down the nation's highways are nothing but “junk on wheels,” Lou Delson said today. Mr. Delson, as executive secretary of the National Auto Wreckers association, knows a jalopy when he sees: one. And these days, he said,
‘|he sees too many of them on the
Tail-view shows rocket engine exhaust and knifc-sharp lines of the 1700-miles an-hour rocket plane. Note the thinness of the wings. : -
highways. “They are a safety hazard,” he said. “There ought to be a law against them. Serious Situation
“It's really a serious situation when you consider that 40 per cent of the nation’s cities rely solely on motor vehicles for transportation and shipment of the necessities of life.” Mr, Delson, sald wreckers were being forced out of business because cars are worn out completely before drivers will give them up. An estimated 2,000,000 auto mobiles will have collapsed this year. That's almost equal to the number of new cars that will have been produced, he said. An addi. tional 100,000 will be abandoned until the battery scarcity is ree lieved, he added. 500,000 Scrapped “In a normal year, only about 500,000 cars are scrapped,” Mr, Delson said. “But the number will increase for at least the next year and a half, and most of the owners probably won't be able to get new
ones. “That's why they are driving cars down to the last spark plug. They won't be good for anything but a blast furnace when we get our hands on them.” The wreckers association is meet ing in Chicago to decide what the wreckers should do while the nae tion's junk pile continues to roll on wheels. The members used to buy old cars, break them down, and ree
Task Force Frigid Told Liquor WARNS ON WINTER
Feathers are sold by the pound. A 20-pound turkey yields about two pounds of feathers, Mr. Perlman estimated. The current retail price
The feather business, he said, deWhen the feather-tipped Empress
Eugenie hats were popular in 1935, one feather merchant made $100,-|
By FRANK ANGELO mes Foreign Correspondent
weather.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 26.— Among other things with which whisky does not mix is below-zero
That's one answer the army did have when it brought task’ force frigid here for winter tests, and medicos with the outfit have tried
length of time. Liquor, particularly if taken in quantity, reduces a
be fatal in extreme cold, particu- (FOAds. larly if a person loses sensibility.
this cold.”
It can't be said that the doctors’ | 1° film.
Col. Austin R. Killian, state police “We have been trying to con- superintendent, said 69 per cent of vince the men of that by advising|®ll accidents in a three-month them to stay away from liquor in|Period last winter occurred when streets were covered with snow or
hard to impress it on the men. “It’s all right to have a short one if you're coming out of the cold f it,” extheir coat pockets instead of hand- 4 tana ® Sa oo Galveston, Tex., boss of the frigid “That may help to kill the
ADVISES AUSTRALIAN chin.
GIRLS TO FORGET GI'S
Welfare {some girls who dated American troops during the war were now unwilling to “walk out” with Australian youths. The girls were said to be “clinging pathetically” to
There is a vast job to be ddne in proving com- | POPES BStXnS U. 5 mv woud
mercial aviation as a fixture of modern life. job can be done only under the leadership of competent men who know from experience exactly what they are talking about and can support their decisions by first-hand knowledge.
Publicity No Substitute
PUBLICITY is no substitute for experienced judgment in aviation or any other business. roms Here they are blatting about what the jet engin may mean in greater speeds in air transportation, while the public is howling its protests against crashes. It is likely that the jet engine plane will
remain a purely military development for some years
to come.
tive.
This mania for headlines testifies to the imma- |
turity not only of its leadership, but of the whole enterprise, and keeps alive that deadly sensationalism in the flying business which was exploited to the sickening point by Hollywood 10 or 15 years ago.
By Ruth Millett
Four children is an out-sized family in these
modern times, because somehow young wives today have got it into their heads that two children are
about all a woman can handle if she wants to be anything besides a household drudge.
Inspiration to Women 3
80 GETTING a look at glamorous Mrs. America
and her four beautiful and healthy kids might have
proved a real inspiration to women all over the!
country.
The next time there's a Mrs. America contest.
maybe the sponsors will provide special inducements to make it a family affair, so that a queen won't have
to abdicate just because she 1s Mama as well as
Mrs. America. In these times it was a real triumph for a mother of four to win a beauty contest.
“Nebraska Wheat Growers Set Double Record in 1946
LINCOLN, Neb, (U. P). Ne-|but also ranks tops for miling and | milling and baking characteristics.
: Samples from all sections of the
J. ©. Swinbank, secretary of the |state also showed that 45.3 per cent Nebraska Grain Improvement as-|was suitable for seed and that only | sociation, said 98 per cent of the |2.1 per cent contained
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return in December, and that the army planned to establish a permanent training base in New South Wales. Col. Roy L. Schuyler, last American commanding officer in Sydney, said he knew of no such plans. On the eve of his departure for Okinawa, Col. Schuyler said: “Such girls are hypnotized by the glamour of uniforms and a glimpse of a different way of life. The smart thing for them.-to do is to forget us.”
SYDNEY, Nov. 26 (U. P.).—Aus- . v | tralia Is h be By Maj. Al Williams tort sou. american Juvsea so,
workers reported that
made them wary. Besides, as the learned,
door in Ladd field.
“But it's dangerous to drink, then
go out into zero weather for any |CoPYriEh
The Chicago Daily News,
Denver Schools Turn to Radio
—Students of Denver's 76 public schools attended classes only long enough to get their assignments today, and then recessed to their own homes to receive instructions and lectures by radio. Classrooms of the 56,000 students have been closed down by a shortage of coal. The schools will use their meager supplies to keep valuable equipment from freezing. Denver's five radio stations are contributing one hour apiece each day, with each hour divided into 15-minute programs.
DENVER, Colo, Nov. 26 (U. P.).
| the national assembly.
considered. Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek
they might freely express opinions in the assembly on the
government sponsored, TURKEYS GROWING TOO BIG FOR OVEN
CHICAGO, Nov. 26 (U. P:3.—The
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traditional tom ‘turkey is getting too big for the nation’s Thanksgiving table, a poultry expert reported today. Under scientific rearing the tom has put on 25 per cent more weight in the last 10 years, reported W. L. Ramsey, of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. he average housewife, he said, wil’buy only half a turkey because she “does not have a stove large enough to accommodate these ‘super birds’ which sometimes weigh as much aé 35 pounds.”
COMMUNITY CENTER DEDICATION TONIGHT
Col. and Mrs. Hérbert Pugmire, state commanders of the Salvation Army will lead dedication services at 7:30 p. m. tonight for the new community center at Alabama and Michigan sts. . - The new center, adjacent to the ground where the Salvation Army plans its new headquarters, will serve families and youths of the area. City corps members will attend the dedication. Fred Schortemeier, | president of the advisory board, will speak.
| TUBERCULOSIS EXPERT DEAD RALEIGH, N. C, Nov. 26 (U, P)). —Dr., Paul P» McCain, 62, nationally - recognized authority on | tuberculosis and respiratory diseases, was killed yesterday when his | automobile skidded into a bus on a rain-soaked highway. .
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warnings have made teetotalers of the frigid soldiers, but it may have
fellows have it's not very far from equipped with synthetic tires mov-
Fairbanks’ plentiful and warm bars to the bus that takes them to their
t, 1946, by The Indianapolis Times ne
The assembly also voted that no other contsitutional plan will be
their
draft but that they must vote for the government on any question the
Near-freezing temperatures are more dangerous than lower temperatures, the report said. aticnal safety council tests showed a car
ing at 20 m. p. h. on ice can stop in 122 feet at 10 degrees above zero, but requires 225 feet to stop at 321 degrees. Drivers were advised to pump | their brakes instead of locking
[BAN OPPOSITION TO [them Other points advocated for CHIANG CONSTITUTION
NANKING, Nov, 26 (U, P.).—The Nationalist government today won other vehicles at a safe distance, the right to introduce the draft of and signal intention of turning or the new Chinese constitution before stopping.
safe winter driving were: Adjust speed to conditions; slow down well in advance of intersections; follow
PARK FORBIDS AUTOS
WASHINGTON—The only Inited States national park in which automobiles are forbidden is the
who earlier had told Kuomintang newly dedicated park on Isle Roy(government) party delegates that|ale, Lake Superior's largest island.
usable parts. “Now nothing in the cars is any good,” Mr, Delson said. “Some of
: . ? the country's 15,000 Wreckers are And Sub-Zero Cold Don't Mix DRIVING HAZARDS uses pur, when sey ue —
man's inner body heat. That may accompany cold weather and icy
The rest probably will join them before very long.” No Parts to Sell
Mr. Delson said that for the first time in automobile history wreckers had an opportunity to make a fortune selling parts—“and they don't have any to sell.” “In ordinary times, the automobile manufacturers supply 75 per cent of the parts sold, and we supply the rest,” he sald. “But strikes, new production and the destruction of parts dies has reduced the manue facturers’ share in the business to only 25 per cent. “That leaves 75 per cent of the ‘market for us, but we don't have anything to sell and car owners are having a hard time to find something to drive.” WESTFIELD HIGH TO GIVE PLAY TONIGHT “Gypsy Rose,” an operetta written by Miss Delores Myers, junior at Westfield high school, will be pre sented by the junior and - senior choruses in the high school auditos rium at 8 p. m. today. Costumes for the operetta were made by mothers of the junior
chorus and members of the home economics classes.
Urges Girls Be
Measles to
By Science Service NEW YORK, Nov.
girls may some day in the future be deliberately exposed to German measles in order to protect any children they have when they grow up from being born with cataracts, heart trouble or other defects. This “wholly justifiable procedure” was suggested by Dr. Herbert C. Miller of the University of Kan-
sas school of medicine at the meeting here yesterday of the national society for the prevention of blindness. There is about a 25 per cent chance at present that an expectant mother who gets German measles during the first three months of pregnancy will give birth to a baby with some defect. There is no serum or vaccine that gives protection against German measles, or rubella as doctors call it. But one attack of the disease gives protection against further attacks. Disease Is Mild
most never has any serious complications. That is why Dr. Millér thinks it would be justifiable to give girls an attack of the disease before they are old enough to be having babies. ; The discovery . that German measles in the mother may lead to defects of eyes, ears, heart, teeth
The disease is very mild and al-|;
Given German Protect Babies
born with some physicaier mental
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Other things besides the virus of German measles may damage the baby before it is born. The Gere man measles discovery gives added impetus to scientists to uncover more of these other damaging agents and find ways to prevent or overcome them.
Finding Made in 1941
Exactly how many children have congenital defects because their mothers had German measles dure ing the first three months of prege nancy is not definitely known. The figure of a 25 per cent chance is based on very few cases. The Massachusetts state board of health jis now surveying all cases of German measles in pregnancy in that state in one year and this will give additional facts on the situme tion. z The effect of German measles in
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