Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1947 — Page 11
is Champs eature
| basketball will ports carnival at 1 the boys' gymhigh school. )e sponsored by b and the girls n department, and Miss Theo
John Moffat, lon of his own *t the winner of ler-Phyllis Miecontest, Phillip holds the city will meet Richside champion. vill feature the ascoe-Goldsmith “who boasts he in’ Indiana over oy at Manual--
je of Miss Elena ay “Reds” will \y “Blues,” suur, in the girls
th Brown, MarKathlyn Mann, Shirley Moren, Viola * Reirels, lores Schwicko, ebe Burks and
in Cruse, Lillian larrington, Bar. irginia Hilarichner, . Phyllis utterrow, Jane Wilkins, Joyce y K. Taylor.
ndlesticks” and
will be presented
matinee by the § b of Manual in § um Feb. 12 at §
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national presi-
58 and Profes- §
ubs, will speak rls’ auditortum “Children of ss Butler's sub-
Tipton arranged }
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* bergasted as
THREE THOUSAND satilmeterg under the Riviera
club swimming pool, I wrote “I'm silly for ever trying
this" 18 times with my new’ underwater fountain pen, True, I satisfied a curiosity about my belated
| Christmas present at that great death (10 feet), but
frankly ft wasn't worth it. ' Operation Penmanship or Foolish, take your Shale, began with everything secure. I tested the diving mask in shallow water while Jack Edwin fender, maintenance man, watched the compressor. Perfect. I could breath with éase snd the diving
. mask was waterproof,
I was to proceed under forced draft from the shallow end of-the pool to the deepest, which is directly under the diving boards. - Final adjustments were made, a 50-pound purelead jacket was fitted on my back and I was ready, With my writing pad in my left hand and the fountain pen in.my right I started walking towards the depths, The lead pack on my back made my knees buckle, As the water came up to my armpits and then to my neck I began walking on my toes. I held the writing pad and pen above my head. (I don't know why I did that except unconsciously I didn't want the paper and pen to get wet.)
Forward—But Slowly
WHEN THE WATER came up to the glass piece on the mask I turned all the motors off, There's no use rushing things I thought. I edged forward slowly and the water soon was over my head. The lead
UNDERWATER PENMANSHIP — There are
easier ways.
1 was better than a bubble, had more guts than a
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Pack didn’t feel heavy anymore, but it sure kept ny SECOND ‘SECTION feet on the pool floor. { At this point .I pulled the pad 20d fountain pen
into writing position. Visibility was good. The water was pale blue, a ew The pool slanfed down sharply, I slipped possibly
an inch and it felt like a mile, Beads of perspiration |
papped out on my forehead. Rattled, I -thought.! Calm down: Get hold of yourself, Something long and silvery flashed in front of me. SHARKS, When 1
It was nothing but the pen, slipped my right hand flew out in front of me. The idea—sharks in the Riviera club pool. My feet began to get cold. Maybe I should say | I' was getting cold feet. Sounds more honest. There seemed to be an awful lot of water above! me, awful lot. The bubbles from the helmet bounced gaily up to the surface. I would have liked to join them. But
BOOGIE HAVEN
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bubble and had more sense than a bubble. The 50pound lead jacket together with my courage kept me at 3000 millimeters.
I. was ready to write, but what? The first thing that popped into my mind was “I'm silly for ever trying this.” After writing it 10 times I thought it would be more impressive if :I:- wrote it 50. The pen wrote beautifully.
Something Wrong JUST AS I started the 16th “I'm silly . , ,” something went wrong with the air. Awful wrong, because there wasn't any more coming in. I yelled “MAN OVERBOARD" but I realized that wasn't right. I tried “MAN UNDERBOARD.” Who could hear me? No one. The air was going fast and the water was coming % in through the.air escape vent. What had happened y f | upstairs? I didn't waste too much time on+ that : iy downstairs. There was a terrific urge to get out. 1 threw away the pen and pad. When the water filled my ‘mask ‘I tore it off. Instead of a quart I had 33,000 gallons around my head. Trying to shed the lead jacket wasn't easy, especially when youre past life is flashing before your eyes. Just as I used up the last molecule of oxygen I got the jacket off. My lungs were popping when! I surfaced. Good clean air, Ah, life can be beautiful. What happened? Nothing except that in reeling out the air hose, Mr, Fender had given me too much and pulled it off the compressor. That's all After I got my breath back, and I was in no hurry, 1 dove sans jacket, sans diving mask and retrieved the pad and pen. Going down and coming right up! is much better than going down and staying down. Operation Foolish was completed. There's a lot | to the old saying “Curiosity once killed a cat.” Take my word for it. An underwater pen will write underwater.
Candis Driver Carl Anderson Janet Lowe
“CORNEGIE
John Burge
DRAMATEEN EAGLE CREEK
Delores Thom
JIVE HIVE
Miss Skowronck Dick Berry HORIZON CLUB
Dick Parrotte Pearl Domi Bob Froderman
KEYSTONE. KANTEEN
Miss Fredenburg Fred Dicts SHAG SHANTY
Joye Pauley RHYTHM INN
Tom Beverly Mary Jordan
RHYTHM ROCKERS
Irving Thomas
Functional Finance
By Frederick C. Othman
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WASHINGTON, Feb, 3—Hold everything eon: gress. Don’t bother about firing one million federal job holders. Quit worrying about taxes. Forget the national debt. It’s only money, Isn't it, that we Ain't got? Hand me down my checkbook. I'm nearly as flab lady in Great Barrington, Mass, who asks me to keep her.-name out of this. + «1 am writing you {fogs my heart,” she says. “1 have just had a letter from one of my childrensa veteran of world war II—who is taking a college course in Chicago. He is being taught not to worry about dhe gublie debt and he g0cs.0n ta 58Y: “<Mother, 1 am sending you an article on functional finance which will explain why we don’t consider the public debt of paramount importance.”
Her Reply Sizzled
THERE YOU ARE, Messrs. Taft, Knutson, Taber, et all. Quit bothering your pink noggins about being $259,891,161,200.13 in the red. My correspondent admits she's old- fashioned. She sent her son a sizzier. “It amazes me that anyone should take valuable time to teach people not to worry about the public “debt,” she wrote. “So far as I can see, an. increasing number of people ‘just nacherly’ don't worry about it. That is understandable, for people never worry about debts unless faced with the immediate necessity of paying them. “Your father and 1 would be ‘glad to pay more ‘taxes (and we've certainly sent the federal government a sizable chunk of our income this year), but
_ ters of high finance. Sh® admits it, She is one of
i — — st— we'd lik¢ to have confidence that any contribution we make isebuilding character, rather than demoralizing it. Of course, this attitude may simply prove that | our edubdtion is very remiss.”
She § ‘nope too hopeful of results. One of her. Audrey Chadwick Bill Easterday Sue Jolly Patty Russell Charles Cooper problenis concerns the fact that her son's education : ;
is beingsfinanced in part by the G.I. bill of rights. : TEENART TEEN CHORUS - TRUK ON INN The pation is going still further into debt, the’ _ = fh as : : way she figures it, teaching her bay not to worry iii : <3 : Ee about it.” She added in her note -to me: “f want my children to depend upon themselves first’ _ the government afterwards. I want them’ fo rea “that they are the government. "
She Never Asked a'Farvor
THAT DOES IT, ober of the budget. This lady opyiously does not know what is what in mat-|
“Fuzzy” Miller
those peculiar people who pays her bills when they,
come due. She's never asked her congressmen, not even in| the old days, for a free package of flower seed. She | has looked aghast at the skyrocketing cost of gov-| ernment, but she has foregone the coat she has ad- | mired in the store window, and paid her taxes with-| out a whimper. You can make her happy, gentlemen, up a little on the debt, firing a few useless govern-| ment workers, and going easy on the appropriations. { There's only one rub to that.
Charlene Call .- Jim Herndon Delores Shumm Bob Highfield
Remaining 50 Candidates Will Be Seated With Royal Pair at Annual Spectacle, Feb. 20
* By ART WRIGHT
In Lake County. THE KING AND QUEEN of The Times Ice-O-Rama will be| HIGAG by pai] ehaen tonight, | CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—The
The selection will be made by the “royal court” representing 26, bureau of ‘labor statistics of * the |U, 8, department of labor an-
| teen canteens and other youth groups. The 52 candidates—a boy and a : . . ; . nounced today that construction was Do it, and you.make her son's professor in Chi- "girl from each group—will meet in The Times offices, 214 W. Maryland started on Mave titan Boreas in cago so sore he probably won't pay any taxes at all.'st, at 7:30 o'clock, * Sey 11 vote between themselves to select the pair ; : Or so she fears. — to have the place of honor during] Lake county, Ind, during 1046, Homes started in Lake county
Trade Pacts Face =. oils 5.
| ‘Build 2000 Homes
Fairgrounds
Betty Bounces Back
‘and queen in. all the splendor of five counties in Illinois, theif position as representative of parrish, regional director of the!
John B.
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3.—Bouncing Betty Hutton, Miss Vitality of this or any year, is bouncing again after becoming a mama. Only she has a good deal more to bounce with now.
“Okay,” say it,” she said. “So I look like a femi-
nine Oliver Hardy.”
. Actually, Betty looked as good as ever to us, but you know how these gals are after having a baby. Betty's weight skyrocketed to 170 pounds just before the birth of Lindsay Dians, now two months old and nicknamed “Buttercup.” : “I ate everything in sight except my Paramount stock,” Betty said. “Lindsay was smiling and talking before we even brought her home from the hospital. It was because of all that good "stuff I ate.” But you can't keep a Hutton down—or round. Betty's knocking the weight off so fast she has only 10 more pounds to go “before Paramount will let ‘me on the lot again.”
“A Home Girl
THE BABY, she confessed, had slowed her down, * though. “Every night, I used to say, "Well, what do we do * now?’ and then go rushing all over town. Now I go “home and make faces at Buttercup and listen to * her’ yell, ' “Ted (Briskin) says she's just like me. ‘ hear her all over the house,” Husband Briskin has moved h s Ciicago~ camera * gompany to Hollywood, and Betty’ \s vice president.
You can
an interesting sidelight
comprised 10.9 per cent of all dwellColiseum.. The other By Erskine Johnson Heavy ‘No’ Vote
ing unit construction in the Chicago Committees Packed With Opponents denges and meetings held in recent privately financed units started in| | weeks the area during the year.
By NED BROOKS | The royal court .is an annual in a scene for “Perils of Pauline,” which she completed Scripps-Howard Staft Writer :spectacle of the Ice-O-Rama. ho a el the not too long before having Buttercup. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The tW0 | The largest crowd ever to witness parrish said. Five - room hc “I was supposed to just miss him—but- make it congressional committees which will the amateur ice show was forecast| costing from $6500 to $9250 were the look like I hit him. They took about 20 takes and shape the future of the reciprocal|as a result of the heavy advance | moss popular, he said. said it didn’t look real [trade program are stacked with|gaje of tickets. Only two prices are “So I said, ‘To h— with this, I'm getting tired’ | members who voted to discontinue |peing charged—$1 for box and par- : and let him have it. The director said, ‘Fine. Print| lit in- 1945, examination of their quet seats and 50 cents .for mezza- Dancing Lessons it'—and there was poor Frank cold on the floor, records revealed today. nine seats. Prices include tax. “When they work with me they gotta get insurance| The shift to Republican control | More than 400 local amateur skat- | policies. TI get nervous and hurt people.” |Save / foes of the Roosevelt-Hull! ors will be in the show which will | Pe held at the Y. W. C. A. each treaties predominant majorities | hrovide two hours of fast- moving | Tuesday at 11 a. m. starting tomor~ Versatile Olivia |both in the house ways and means |e, srtainment. |row under the sponsorship of recTHERE'S no ‘doubt iti our mind that Olivia jon and the senate finance! proceeds will go to the Infantile reation groups in the Council of SoHavilland will win an Oscar in March for her per-| Both chairmen — Rep.
Harol 4 | Paralysis fund. t= cial agencies: “ Knutson: (R. Minn.) and Senator | formance in “To Each His Own.” Which brings up, Foren. Millia R. Colo)! SILLY NOTIONS: voted against extending the proOlivia played five different roles in the two pic- gram in 1945. . The three-year eX~ tures in which she appeared in 1946. In “To Each” | tension approved at that time exshe started out as a starry-eyed teen-ager, became pires in June, 1948. The opposition | j an efficient young business woman, and then played | ploc is seeking to have negotiations | { a grumpy, middle-aged woman. In “The Dark Mir-| lon new agreements suspended until | ror” she was good and bad twins. leffects of the whole program can be Luis Van Rooten, baldish, mustached character reviewed. actor, came out of a Van Johnson movie with a | G* 0. P. Members friend who said,""I'll see you at the studio tomorrow,| phe shift of control gave the ReVan.” “Van????” muttered a bobbysoxer standing pyplicans 15 members of the ways nearby. “My: goodness, they certainly look different and means committee to 10 Demo-, off the screen!” lerats. All five new committee seats and a sixth resulting from a resignation
{ Indianapolis youth. | bureau said. The candidates were chosen in| Mr. Parrish said it: would : cost]
she didn't know anything about | their own organization at special $143,676,560 to complete the 18,766
Until she -met Ted, photography. It was no press-agent yarn, Betty said. about her |
. knocking out Frank Faylen with a right to the jaw |
By Palumbe
TT |were filled with Republiéans who! |voted against extension in 1945. Of By Ruth Millet the 15 Republicans on the commit- |
tee, only one—Rep. Robert W. Kean,
‘We, the Women
. | “THERE exists for every woman the possibility of being & creative artist in terms of her own person. {76 whatever degree women at any age dress to suit men, the older woman if she has retained her desire
to be pleasing in men's eyes will do the same.” That comment didn’t come from a fashion or beauty authority but from psychologist George Lawton, " who probably knows as much about. the problems involved in “Aging Successfully”—the title of his latest
' book—as any man in the country.
All Women Make Effort :
MOST young wonien (bobby soxers exéluded) approach the job of making themselves as pttragtive . as possible in the manner of the creative artist. But all too often when a woman gets along
toward middle-age she begins to lose her “artist! s eye”
in pea to her own person.
‘just as important at 40, 50, or 60 as they were when [of these Republicans voted against \
| (N. J.)—voted for the extension. Of the 10 Democrats, seven voted | (for extension, two were absent but ‘favorable to the program and one,| | Rep. Milton H. West (Tex. voted] ‘against the administration, | rather In addition, both Speaker Joseph | |W. Martin (R. Mass.) and Majority | | Leader Charles A. Halleck (R. dnd), voted against extension.
Then she settles down to drabness. Or she goes | in for fashion without any regard as to whether | or not the fashions she follows really help her to present her most attractive self to others. Such women wear crazy hats that startle, than please. They wear clothes that, instead of concealing figure-faults, make them more glaring. In the senate finapce condition
Never Stop Trying iseven of the present members voted BUT at that, they're doing better than their | against extension f@ four supporting
sisters who settle for drabness. ji = ai kd e committee was reduced from It should be a challenging and at the same 21 $0 13 members under this year's time a comforting thought to the woman who is 10 reorganization, with the Republicans, longer. young: that her looks and her clothes are holding the majority of seven. Six
*|T's THE BEST BUY. ON THE LOT
che was 20 or 30. And that as long as she lives extension and the seventh, Senator
Connie Pfisterer Harold Buchanan
houses |
A course in square dancing will |
cALS AND PALS
Joan Horton Danny Stuart MELODY MANOR
Pat Marsh SOUTH SIDE SMOOTHIES
Bill Sargeant
TUK-A-PACKE
Pat Brockway Chet McDowell
| Operation ‘Frigid'—
Army Testing
miles an hour,
Joan Schlefbaum Ponald Johnson Patricia Rutén Roy MeHargue “Joan 1
Ruth Baumeister Joe Spencer RADIO WORKSHOP
Nomi Owens Dan Davis TEEN-AGE BOWLING
Marilyn Moriéal Tommy Connell P
: . ! $ 5 h
7 git,
Equi
In "Worst Place on Ee ;
GI's Sit for Hours in Muddy Foxholes Seeking Reaction to Aleutian Weather
By DOUGLAS SMITH Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
Sg le ADAK, Alaska, Feb, 3—The wind ‘blows so hard up here 50 candidates will sit with the King jnhqustrial area, which also includes | Aleutian islands that it rains sidewise.
Army men here say this is the worst place on. earth,
‘in the * Sometimes the wind: hits 100
But these are some of the reasons why the army ground forces : |chose Adak as the location for Task Force Williwaw in which various ‘units are testing men and squipment in the bone: SRAIIRG. wet od)
| climate. | The Aleutians, as compared with | Alaska itself, are not so cold—in temperature.
{ Williwaw, ‘a fierce wind that comes {up without warning and sometimes {blows small buildings into the sea.|
Muddy Foxholes
‘in’ ‘the Aleutians because this is | Where the weather is made. The storms -for which the islands are
notorious may come up: within half an hour on a sunny day.
_ ftaskdoree, sit in muddy foxholes for hours with instruments attached to their bodies to record the effect of the chill on their, hearts, lungs kidneys and body temperature.
tanks maneuver with difficulty over the mushy tundra. Weasel Isn't Effective - Because the ground niiver Quite
| | freezes and yet Tegeives snow and
rain. almobts daily . it is mushy. Vehicléy bog “down and sofrld. tanks cannot’ move at all. Not even the weasel, the most useful of ‘alf army vehicles in the Arctic “can ‘be operated successfully, Most officers feel that new de-
{signs may be, necessary it the army
to move rapidly on temain of this type. They tried’ to move heavy
ful only or:devel This is one .of the three : which the ground forces are making this ‘winter. ‘In ‘northern ' Alaska,
Weather predictions mean little
These days on. the fog-shrouded!,
slopes of Mt. Moffett soldiers of the
“On the other side ofthe. island |
IY ou Sleds hut it Was supe) £,
It rarely gets Coast: fo:
20. But this is the home of the!
Televison
"May Be’ Rely ~ Before 1950
‘NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (U. Pos Coast-to-coast television broadcasts may be a reality by 1950, or. evens sboner. 4
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Task Force Frigid is making tests in the typical“ extreme cold conditions.
typical winter weather in the x States
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GAS SAVER x
there is for her “the possibility of being a creative | Edward Martin (R. Pa) was hot a member in 1945. i
artist in terms of her own perso.”
le Task Fos Po iy with }¥