Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1947 — Page 11
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“WHAT--NO shotguns?” ) “Nope. Just wire cages and walnuts,” answered Phillip (Phil) ‘Ward, state conservation department
~ officer, “Besides, you don't use shotguns for squirrels
hunting.”
“What are we going to do? Bring 'em back alive?”
“No, we're not going to bring ‘em back alive,
If we catch any of the pesky critters, well take
them where they belong—out in the woods," 1 was briefed. Nuts, Squirrel-hunting with wale nuts. Slingshots and walnuts wouldn'} be bad, I thought. Nothing doing. It would be wire cages and wale nuts—take it or leave it. TFine—let’s go. “I have to set three traps this morning, check A couple more, and tall a woman who's been pestered to death by a squirrel, If we're lucky, we should get him y,” Phil sald as we drove west from the state library building where the conservation department's offices are located. I asked for a little explanation on “pestered to death.” My idea of squirrels is that all they do is run around and look cute.
An Awful Nuisance
SQUIRRELS ARE cute all right, but they also can be an awful nuisance. The squirrel in question chewed a hole in the roof, fore up’ a stored mattress In the attic, and proceeded to make himself at home. On top of all this he brought his meals home and ate them in bed. A bad situation. Next, he'll probably bring a hot plate. The first trap we checked on a porch roof was empty. The lady of the house said she saw the squirrel one day scampering on the roof but he didn't take the fatal step. In a tree, however, he scolded and raised a rumpus, Maybe tomorrow.
‘The next trap, set by a kitchen door, also was _-
empty, As ‘we drove to the address where a new” rap. was to be placed I spied a squirrel running across a lawn. “There's one—there's one,” I yelled “polnting to the little beast. ~ “We can't trap squirrels - “finless we get a complaint from someone that damage is being done or & squirrel is making himself obnoxious.” “Well, let’s just catch him for fun,” I countered as my hunting blood ran hot. “We have rules in the department and I have to follow them,” Phil said. 0. K.—0O. K.—complaints, wire cages'and walnuts, We set a trap on a window sill. The lady thanked us and off we went in search of a phone to call about the squirrel who, was sure to get caught—today.
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NUTS TO YOU~Phillip Ward reaches for a pesky squirrel who is going for a ride.
Through the door of the phone booth I saw Phil shake his head excitedly. Could it be? It was. “Let's go,” Phil said busting out of the phone Boo “The. squirrel got himself caught.” The woman led u$ up to the attic. Up on a alter
in the cage was the culprit,” He didn’ seem t00 Interested in the walnuts that boun around in the cage when he scampered from one end to the other,
Have Excellent Tseth
WE ALSO SAW thé small hole in the roof and the squirrel’s home from which he was going to be evicted. It didn’t séem possible that a tiny, grey squirrel could chew his way through a roof. Mr, Ward assured me that it was possible. Squirrels are supposed to have excellent incisors. We drove out to the picnic aréd of the Oaklandon reservoir] All this time the squirrel behaved himself. Even when the trap door was opened and the cage was set on a picnic table he didn't do why. thing but run around the cage. But when he dashed out of the cage and up into a tree, that's when he let: go with the language. High up on a branch Mr, Squirrel looked down at us and “scolded” like a fish wife. Even if his language were translatable, I doubt if it would be printable. Let it suffice that he scolded. It's cold around the reservoir and I asked Phil if the squirrel would be all right. “Would you care to pitch in and buy him a little outdoor stove?” Phil asked. I'm not pitching in on any outdoor stove for a squirrel. » “¢“C'mon, he'll take care of himself.”
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By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P.).—My doc doesn’t exactly blame congress for my plight today, but he’s got his suspicions, Listening to the lawmakers long enough, he says, is likely to ‘give anybody a case of bilateral sciatica. . Or ‘maybe I merely strained my spine. Both my legs hurt, I am stretched out on a board, and every two hours I have got to shut my eyes and gulp a pill’ made of desiccter dynamite, caflein, codeine,
* aspirin and, for all T know, opium.
Dreams and Visions
THE IDEA is to relax the sciatic nerve, which is a telegraph system running to all toes, with way stops. But these pills do something else, too. They are causing me to see things on the ceiling. Ken MecKellar is up there now, waltzing with Dave Lilienthal, while 40 native Communists in war bonnets beat time with silver mounted senatorial gavels. John Taber is pitching $20 gold pieces out the window to the Democrats. The ambassador from Great Britain is’ banging on the white House door, wondering whether we'd like to borrow a little money. And Joe Stalin has opened a tourist bureau. Wants more Americans to visit Russia, vacation-land beautiful.
They are potent pills; the scene keeps changing.
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Hank Wallace is writing an advertisement for Bob Taft. Moneybags John Snyder is announcing his decision to skip income taxes this year; says he feels sorry for the taxpayers. John Lewis is organizing the United Atomic Power Workers and demanding a 43-minute working day, with portal-to-portal pay or boom. Greta Garbo is running from city room to city room, pleading for a newspaper reporter to interview her. Pork chops are 15 cents a pound, and 19 automobile salesmen are so anxious to deliver me new cars they're threatening to jump down from the ceiling. Easy fellows; remember my sciatica.
Quick, Another Pill THE. GATES of Leavenworth are swinging open to receive the tenors on the singing commercials, and there's a haberdasher trying to sell me a white shirt of good quality for $1.95. Vito Marcantonio is riding an elephant. Bride, give me another pill, Whisky is 10 cents a shot at every bar on my ceiling. Fives rigars are 5 cents. “The Star led Banner” is whipping briskly in the breeze, but it's getting hazy, and if you will pardon me now, I'll join my sciatica in some sleep and wi hope that by morrow my ceiling will be plain white,
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Off-Screen Notes
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Marth 4.—Constance Bennett has been very co-operative on the set of “The Unsuspected,” which Michael Curtiz is filming as an independent movie, So much so, in fact, that someone asked Mr. Cuftiz what had happened to her temperament. Mr. Curtiz laughed and said: “I think perhaps Connie is like me. She's learned to control her temperament a little bit better since she went into independent production. It costs too much money to blow up.” Ronald Reagan's vest buttons have been popping ever since Jane Wyman's nomination for the best acting performance of the year in “The Yearling.” Day after the announcement Mr, Reagan was 10° minutes late on the set, explaining: “Don’t talk to me boys, I.don’'t have to work any more.’ He's also thinking about changing the name on his dressing-room door to “Mr. Jane Wyman.”
Duplicate Dups ARMAND DEUTSCH will produce the film version of “This Side of Innocence,” Meanwhile, his wife, Benay Venuta, is working in the Eagle-Lion film, “Repeat Performance.” One day Mr. Deutsch visited the set, and Benay was wearing the $75,000 mink coat ‘which he gave her on their seventh wedding’ anniversary. er That's 8 beautiful coat,” sighed Josn Leslie. TT MeYes, sald Mr. Detitsen; “otie tfiore present like that and I'm ‘going to retitle my film, ‘This Side of Bankruptcy.” Joan Blondell and her sister, Gloria, are practically carbon copies. Gloria visited Joan on the set of “The
We, the Women
“HIS frst song Hit in England was “I'm Goiitg Back to Old Nebraska.”
Corpse Came C. O. D.” and then they went to lunch together. As Gloria entered the restaurant, one tourist said to another: “There's a girl who looks like Joan | Blondell.” Then the fellow spotted Joan. “Gosh,” he said, “everybody in Hollywood looks | like Joan Blondell.”
Parrot's Wolf Call
DOLORES DEL RIO swears it's true. It was.a warm sleepless night on location in Mexico for “The Pugitive.” The hotel swimming pool, unused in the darkness outside her bungalow, was very inviting. But she didn't have a bathing suit. Daring won out. She slipped on a robe and tiptoed toward the water, intending to take a quick, soli-
“SECOND SECTION
Balloting Tabulated. On Typical Issues
By LOUIS asimov
The affable Marion county delegation in the 85th general assembly casts its vote “for” most legislation. To show how the 18 members of the group are -representing their constituents, The Times has tabulated the vote of each member on three dozen issues seleceted as a cross section: of bills introduced. Prom this tabulation it is apparent that the delegates nearly always vote alike. And with only four exceptions they have shown a united opinion to vote “yes.” The group of six members in the senate has cast a total of only three negative votes-in the 18 rol calls tabulated for that body, The house delegation displayed its most decided objection to a bill concerning the cities’ ‘and counties’ share in cost of construction of rail-road-highway + ‘grade separations. The group was unanimously against the bill and it was defeated. Split on Portal Pay Another bill which brought nearly universal objection from Marion county house members was the direct primary issue for nomination of state officers. It was defeated. The lone instance of-a split of
the house delegation came on the]
bill imposing a two-year limitation on portalsto-portal pay suits. Five members voted for the bill, six against and one did not vote. Out of the 12 members of the house, only five, Reps. Adams, Haerle, Huff, Powell and Wyatt, have chosen to take lone “up stream” stand against the will of the other delegates. : Of the issues tabulated in the senate, only Senator Moore has breasted the stream of delegation opinion to take an opposing stand alone. The senate delegation has split only once and that time on a bill which “requires selection of a fire chief from within the ranks, Two members voted against, one voted for and three did not vote, Good Attendance The attendance records in general have been good. Senator John W. Atherton has been under a physicians care and has been excused by the senate. v : An odd twist developed on one bill in The Times tabulation, Senate Bill 240, That bill regards the hours women may work in industrial jobs. The senate members of the Marion county delegation voted on the bill when it provided permission for women over 18 to work ‘a six-day, 48-hour week, but forbade them to be employed during the hours between 1 a. m. and 6 a. m. In the house, a legislative maneuver switched bills, leaving only the number the same. The house members of the delegation voted, not on the original bill, but on an entirely different measure extending for two more years a moratorium on the
work-hour restriction.
Members of the delegation are: Senators Atherton, Mrs.. Arcada |S. Balz, Robert Lee Brokenburr, Paul G. Moffett, Hoyt Moore and
Roger. G. Wolcott, and Rep. Wayne |.
O. Adams, Kenneth Blackwell, Mrs. Nellle B. Downey, William L. Fortune, Wilbur H. Grant, Edwin Haerle, George B. Huff, Bert C.
McCammon, Rae W. Powell, John
G. Tinder, J. Russell Townsend and
Mrs. Margaret Wyatt. Mr. Blackwell
represents Johnson and Marion counties jointly.
tary dip in the nude. Suddenly, there was a long, low wolf whistle. Dolores screamed and fled back to her | room. Next morning she met the wolf whistle in person. “Errol Flynn?" we wondered. “No,” she giggled, “a parrot.” There's no argument about it. Songwriter Harry Revel is the only walking geographical puzzle in. Hollywood. He was born in England. He entered show business in Paris in a Hawaiian orchestra. His first song, “Oriental Eyes,” was published in Italy. Before ever seeing the South, he wrote * ‘Fast and Furious” for a musical comedy. ’
He: still "hasn't seen Nebraska. Last year critics applauded his “authentic - carnival p music” for the Broadway show, “Are You With It.” He has never seen a carnival,
By Ruth Millett
“WHEN I GET a letter from somebody it makes me want to be with him,” said a 5-year-old after having had a letter written just to her read through for the second time, Now there's as simple a definition of a good letter as you'll ever find. And yet how many grown-ups don't understand that that is what a personal letter is supposed to do, make the one who receives it wish that he could be with the person who wrote it?
Recount Illness
AND 80 THEY put the wrong part of ‘themselves and of their doings into their letters. They recount every illness that has occurred in the family since the last lettér, instead of telling only the part that needs to be told.
few hours or a day: Then read it over and dsk your-
They enumerate their troubles. They talk about | their fears and worries. In short, they write the kind of letters that make | those who receive them feel vaguely troubled and
heavy-hearted.
‘Put Letter Aside
NOT THAT anyone wants to receive letters of faked cheerfulness from a friend or relative. But it
A Trip To The Moon and Back — No. 2: Outs ide Gravity
Airline Radios
Missing $600 -
To Passenger
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 (U. P.).—Mrs. Olive Mike was two hours over the Pacific ocean aboard a Pan-American clipper . bound for
isn't fake cheerfulness to make a letter sound as geva when she discovered $600
happy as possiblg by a careful editing of what goes in it, Next time you write a letter, put it aside for a -self this question: “Will this letter make the one to
whom I am writing wish he could be with me?” If the shswer is “No,” tear it up, and-start over. 2
Seek Simpler Plane Instrument Panel
The Job. of the paychologiats is to find the ‘easiest and quickest way to tell- the pilot the information he
By Science Service URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 1,
March 4, —Psychologisfs | here are seeking to develop more simple in-
strument, panels for airplanes. ‘They seek to give the pilot all the
information he needs with fewer, ‘less confusing dials to read. ' The University of Illinois depart-
needs to know,
“with [with glow
blank panel, the scientists will ate tempt to design a new.system for keeping the pilot informed while he is flying his plane. New instruments or combinations of present instruments may result, and present dials may be replaced Hghts, charts, or even
"Prof. Alexander Ci! ‘Williams Jr, who served as a lieutenant commander in the navy during the war and is now research assistant professor of psychology here, will head the psychological work on the new
panel. by He says | modern plane panels have |- some <dials which are dificult , to
Starting with .a
as missing from her purse. She told the hostess, who told the pilot who told the radio operator, who wirelessed, back to San Francisco, where Pan-American telephoned Mrs. Mike's hotel. money had been found and was radioed to Honoluhu. When Mrs Mike deplaned last night,~she was handed her $600. A cotton. planter from Blytheville, 1Ark., she was en Toute to Honolulu to visit a friend.
Teen-Age Scientists Get Scholarships Tonight
+ “WASHINGTON, March 4 (U: P). —Westinghouse science scholarships worth $11,000 will be awarded tonight to winners of the sixth annual science ‘talent search, Competing
information, and some dials which do not 14 the. pick enough. Frid ps
read, some dials which give super-| Shien
are 40 teen-age scientists—31 boys’ and nine girls—from pets of |
“TUESDAY, MARCH Son
dlvarion County's Yegislats Vote ‘Yes’ On Most Proposals
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: 4 Voted for.
VOTING RECORD OF MARION COUNTY DELEGATION IN LEGISLATURE ON MAJOR BILLS
—Voted Against, I GOVERNMENT
H. B. 22—Unified state department of revenue.
SENATE
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H. B. 81—Metropolitan aviation board for Marion County.
H. B. 96—Transfer appointment juvenile court to circuit court.
of welfare board from
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HB. 98—Permits county commissioners my fill grand and petit jury venires monthly instead of annually.
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H. B. 146—Cities and counties to divide equally the taxpayers’ share of grade separation projects.
for new state building.
Hi, B. 153—$80,000 for purchase of Deaconess Hospital as site
HW. B. 21i—Permits longer trucks on highways.
H. B. 301—~Gives Mation County an additional-criminat court. bese to relieve congested criminal court docket.
two boards, one for works and one
H. B. 303—Breaks city board of works and sanitation is
for sanitation.
H. B. 403—Creates nine-member
H. R. 355—Reassessment of all Indiana property in 1949,
dianapolis personnel problems. Object, merit system,
commission to study Ine
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son hall.
8. B. 9—Clears city’s title, to moarket square, site of ‘Tomlin-
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8. B. 10—Authorizes Marlon county and Indianapolis to act together to finance and build joint governmental building.
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torneys and sets maximum salary
8. B. 12—Require circuit and criminal court clerks to be at-
at $6500.
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ranks.
H. B. 17—Additional care for aged,
8. B. 283—Requires selection of fire chief from department | 11. SOCIAL LEGISLATION
three regional welfare directorships.
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blind, etc., and eliminates
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rehabilitation for blind.
H. B. 147—Creates new board of industrial ald and vocational
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8. B. 59—Outlaws hate-propagating organizations such as
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H. B. 140—Provides that minority race member on city ir health board need not be a physician.
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one-half mile of church or school.
H. B. 169—Prohibits unloading or feeding garbage within
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judges.
’ 1V. SALARIES H. B. 27—Salary increases for certain county officers and
of third class cities.
H, B. 135—Increases salaries for mayors and other officials
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judges in Maron County.
officers.
8. B. 91—MakKes possible salary increase to mT Tor | !
V. ELECTIONS H. B. 47—Direct ¢ primary elections for ‘nomination of fate
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8. B. 25—Reforms SolitiGaT convention system of Gong
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8. B. 99—Places municipal election county boards.
years,
arrangements = hands of
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result.
H. B: 189—1Local option—referendum to decide whether legislature shall act and how it may replace lost revenues which
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H, B. 203—Administration bil to “remove liquor from
of Rqpuor on human body.
H. B. 246—Requires Instruction in public schools on effects
H. B. 107—Two year limitation on
VII. LABOR
portal-to-portal pay suits.
conciliation and arbitration panels
H. B. 392—Outlaws strikes in public utilities, sets up state =
to settle disputes.
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gencies.
S. B. 40—Puts policemen on 48-hour week except in emer-
between midnight and 6 a. m.
8. B. 240—Permits women to work around the clock in industry by suspending for two years present ban on work
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into one county school unit.
VIII. EDUCATION H. B. 241—Authorizes consolidation of township school units
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H. B. 333—Prohibits firing of teachers or refusal to hire them because of marital status or participation in politics.
ers’ salaries.
S. B. 151—Increased tuition payments by state toward teach-
The.
S.'B. 157—Increase minimum pay
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NOW THE rocket ship bound for the moon is ready to cast off from
her carrier plane.
A height of 55 miles above earth has been reached.
The carrier releases the rocket ship, which now begins her ascent to 100 miles at a horizontal speed of 4.8 miles per second and a vertical speed
of .82 miles per second.
During the 200 seconds of ascent to 55 miles the pilot and navigator |
experienced .a weight of about four times their normal weight. Now, upon release from the carrier, they experience no weight, ” » » THE SHIP rises automatically until the 100-mile level is reached and, after corrections, begins to move automatically’ in ‘a “circular orbit about the earth. The pilot and navigator are now living. under the neutralized gravity conditid, one of the hkhiown factors of the journey. One bof the men pushes himself upward and finds he rises. to the ceiling. He pushes against the ceiling and returns to his seat. He raises himself above the seat and remains suspended in air. No moving of arms or legs will help. = / A swimming action gives a small movement. He throws his shoe upward; the shoe goes to the ceiling, and he returns to the seat. He is 0 2.0»
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floor.” But walking: is no effort, All liquids have been placed in compressible tubes, When the water container is compressed the water | collects into a transparent sphere at the tube.- The tube is jerked away and the water sphere floats in air. By means of a straw it can be sucked into the mouth, The, problems posed by gravity—or the lack of - it—have been anticipated. Magnets are attached to all movable objects, which are placed on iron shelves. Pr Ta eR WHEN THE navigators turn on power jet the sensation of weight returns, in order-to minimize mass, no ) cots have been provided. Now ‘the men do not need any. 1t is fully as comfortable to sleep standing up. 'It is of interest here to note tha ~ [there seem to be no 1 fictions
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"This is the second of six sketch-stories ticle in the American Journal and Back,” by Henry A. Erickson, emeritus at the rms thority Wha with § Jf ney out of the realm of fantasy and into scientific literature, describing in semi-technical language the problems of mechanics : and navigation and the surprising roastions of the rocket Ship's passengers. :
basic processes arg intermolecular and involve surface tension, osmosis, | chemical action and electrical ef-| fects, all of which are independent : of gravity. Within the ship ‘the gravitational forces between bodies and particles are normal. Air pressure is, of course, vital, but.it can be produced by means other than gravity. ae
LACKING THE benefit of pre- ; pilot :