Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1947 — Page 15
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! AL PRE-SEASON dream of breaking a Pn a golf course is truly gone this year. 1 know 1) oy before I start. And on top of everything a dufter clings to from
year to year, I'll be self-conscious of the greens and
you know what that means—four putts a hole. Why? I just got through talking to Karl Bretzlaff, greenskeeper at the Meridian Hills Country club, He told me things about the greens that make me almost want to quit golf. The thought of plowing on a green with spiked shoes at this moment is overwhelming. After finding out how much loving kindness goes into greens-keeping it makes a normal person stop and think. Especially of the times two-foot putts were muffed and four over pars were recorded. I'm talking about greens-whacking with a putter, The first thing Mr. Bretzlaff asked me as we entered a big barn on the club grounds was: “Do you see that pile of dirt two of the men arg turning over?” I nodded in the affirmative, “That is food for No. 1 tee. We've been preparing it for six years—." “SIX YEARS?” “That's right,” Mr. Bretzlaff answered, “and its a mixture of nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, soll, sand and peat.” There wasn't a caddy around handy so I just tractor and go the questions in my mind unscrambled,
Duffer Level Explanation
“WHAT'S THIS food talk—why does it take six years and why a high-falutin’ formula for grass?” I asked. I must have sounded very stupld to 3 a man who has cultivated golf course greens for 24. years, but even 80, Mr. Bretalaff is a gentleman so he brought the explanation down to the duffer level and this is the way I understand it. ¢ The chemically treated “good earth” makes like vitamins to the green. It peps it up and makes it grow green, fast and strong and everything else a greens needs when it's dusted on top. It takes years and plenty of forethought to get this food properly loaded with energy and sifted and resifted so it pours like. talcum powder. The “high falutin'” formula is really not hightoned at all. Any “informed” gardener knows about
' nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and peat. So, there it
is, and I hope at least gardeners know what I'm talking about. ; Orville Brown and Russell Hause finished turning over the food soil for No. 1 green. They moved over to another pilé and started turning it over with shovels like concrete mixers mix cement and sand. “That's a special formula designed for No. 2 green. The creeping bent there is different and requires a different mixture,” the greenskeeper explained. He took me over to a workbench and showed me a large box with jars in numbered slots running from 1 to 20. The jars come into play during the critical period—from June to September.
Cutting the Greens
“WHEN temperatures go up or down fast, the greens sometimes develop what we call dollar patches
‘and must be treated chemically,” Mr. Bretzlaff said,
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CUTTING PRECIOUS STUFF—Eugene Hause prepares Nou | green for the birdie, par, and (What-do-you-shoot) golfers?
“to prevent those ugly brown patches you see occasionally. The reason we have so many bottles is that each green presents a different problem.” How well I know each green presents a different problem. John Hause and his son Eugene wheeled greens cutters out of the barn which interested me. I know all about lawn mowers. “We've just started cutting the greens. For the past couple of weeks all we were doing around here was picking up broken branches the wind clipped off for us."Come on,” said the chief grass man, “and I'll show you how we mow the greens.” While Eugene mowed No. 1 green, we watched. A steel brush straightens the grass before the cutter clips it and a close cut is the net result. “If you let the grass lay down,” I was told, “the green is fast one way and slow the other.” Now I'll know how to putt but what to do on a “brush haircut green”? Poke away, I guess. . Then I was shown an experimental green where Mr. Bretzlaff raises 12 different kinds of bent green from various parts of the country and Canada to see which "holds up best in this climate. I wasn’t surprised when I got excited about a patch of bright green bent to have Mr. Bretzlaff tell me that in two months it would be yellow and no good. In Philadelphia, yes; in Hoosierland, no. Now this dark, Wikiealihy stuff here is really the bent for greens. Just give me a club, a golf ball and a good pasture and I'll take over from there.
Bachelor's Choice
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SHOW STOPPERS—As eye-catching as Paris after dark is night-life in post-war Oslo, Norway, where these girls are shown getting ready for a cabaret floor show. clubs in Oslo are within reach of average Norwegian's pocketbook.
OSLO, April 2.—Whtile the snow lasts, Oslo takes on a serni-deserted look these Sundays. Since Sunday is a holiday of sorts, nearly a fourth of the people in the city jam trolley cars leading to nearby ski trails and spend the day in the open. Fare is only 20 cents and. even in inflation-pinched Norway, there are very few who cannot afford to go skiing. Actually, Norway is far better off than such countries as England, France, Germany and Italy. A Norwegian businessman who has had a chance to study much of post-war #8 nN Europe at first hand rates national
Norway Back On Post- a In Better Shape Than Neig
Economic Recovery Fifth in Europe; Industry Produces at Peacetime Pace
y. NEA Staff Writer
economic recovery in this order: Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Ireland, Norway ahd Denmark.
FOOD AND CLOTHING here still are rationed, but you can get your ration allowance. Costs are up 60 to 70 per cent on the average over pre-war figures, but wages are up 45 per cent and rents were. cut 10 per cent in 1940 and since have been held to that level. The government recently reduced its sales tax to maintain the pricewage ratio. Even night life is within reach of the average Norwegian. An evening out, including a floor show, dinner and drinks, runs about $8. Eight or nine legitimate theaters are running with capacity audiences.
» » » AS ELSEWHERE, housing is a major current problem. The situation is worse in the northern provinces like Finnmark and Troms where the war hit hardest and whole towns were leveled. In Oslo, a local ruling allows each family one room for each member and a kitchen for the group. Any rooms they may have beyond that must be rented. . Norwegians volunteered to work overtime to help build homes and other necessities of life desperately needed in the north, and conditions are easing.
Unlike Paris, the night-
Another ma jor problem this winter has been coal. Many homes were without any hot water and had very little heat despite the intense cold, the worst in years.
” » » THE FEW HOMES with oil heat were comparatively well off. In spite of the normal abundance of electricity from water-power, it was
wiped out by war.
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the one at left, Norwegians have volunteered to work overtime [co-operative projects. .’ This construction was photographed. a
"northern fishing town,
closed until after Easter.
necessary to cut use of electricity for home heating and lighting.
SCARS OF WAR—Gsod reason for or Norway's lem is show in this photo of the northern city of amma Ever snow doesn't erase the scars of homes and. buildings thet ware
HOMES GOING UP—To. put touses Back “info
Coal-heated schools closed more goods from France, Portugal | than a month ago and will’ remain Other countries
Industrial production is back upselling fish, pulp, to pre-war level, but it has. a longabroad and had
way to go before it begins to’ fillcredits for something if it was to
Te To a This is because Norway has been | "ahd the ike
By Frederick C. Othman
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WASHINGTON, April 2—The moral of this dispatch, if any, is don’t get married. Stay a bachelor, like the ancient gentleman from Tennessee, and retain your pep. Senator Kenneth McKellar doesn't like David E. Lilienthal. Never has liked him and never will. Monday Senator McKellar began his speech against Mr. Lilienthal's nomination as head of the atomic energy commission. Tuesday the senator spent denouncing Mr. Lilienthal. Today he may finish the job; he may not. And it doesn’t matter whether you agree with Senator McKellar; the important thing here is that he's 78 years old, still shouting down husbands, half his age. The gentleman from Tennessee, who hates to admit his age and never mentions it in any official biography, was born (according to the little black book) in Richmond, Ala., on Jan, 20, 1869. I wouldn't be surprised if he denied this—after all, a bachelor of his age deserves some little privacy. But I must report I never saw a more remarkable demonstration of physical stamina than his. Senator McKellar, who once said that he had proposed marriage .to 100 different women, spread out his documents, reports and books on three different desks,
He Talks—But Loud
THEN HE STRODE up and down the center aisle of the senate, talking an hour about Mr. Lilienthal. His opinion is not good. His hair soon was hanging
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damply in gray bangs over his forehead and getting under his gold- -rimmed eyeglasses. He blew it away, without missing a word about the man he hates. He said Mr. Lilienthal was a Communist and 80 | were all his friends.
Along about the middle of the afternoon, barely half a dozen senators were in the chamber, ‘The rest were downstairs at lunch. Senator Ralph Flanders of Vermont wondered if he could get in a word. Senator Kenneth S. Wherry of Nebraska asked if Senator McKellar would yield fora quorum call.
Holding the Floor
THE ELDERLY gentleman from Tennessee held al
he turned to the senator from Vermont and asked: “Will you hold the floor for me long enough to get al quick cup of coffee?”
|Gardening—
Time Spent Planning Your Garden emis to Wie ih. Bat evar Nekoi Will Eliminat e Head aches Later _
Vegetable Plot Will
Save Money,
Improve Health and Soothe Nerves
By MARGUERITE ‘SMITH A VEGETABLE garden is one hobby that will save you money, im-’
| prove your health, and soothe your “nerves.”
With ‘the high cost of living a well managed plot can whittle as whispered conversation with Senator Wherry. Then much as $100 off your food bill for this coming year. You'll have better
tasting meals, too. Corn, peas and asparagus, picked at peak flavor and (cooked before all thier natural sugar has changed to flat-tasting starch
“Yes,” replied Senator Flanders, “I will* |are a treat. Fresh carrots and to-| The gentleman from Tennessee rushed back (he matoes retain their vitamins in-| plant carrots, beets or more tohad gulped that coffee in a hurry), but Senator| ct: Vitamin content of wilted mato plants. Bg WP ato n Yh vegetables is notably low. one
Flanders talked long enough for the senate’s oldest bachelor to have had the stuffed veal ah ciiérry pudding on the special 65-cent lunch. Senator McKellar resumed his oration. left hours later he still was going strong,
Don’t forget old Mother Nature’ s|
GOOD management also includes
way of soothing the jangled nerves the use of space above your small When 1|°f her children who work in the garden.
1 doubt earth. When you do away with consumers, produce just as well
Cucumbers, notable space
if there was a married man in the place who could|Veéeds you often do away with a when trained on a support. Climb.
have lasted so long, so loud.
Shun Fan Clubs
its rightful penny-sized
headache, too. And many a moun- ing beans are perfect on a fence. taihous problem taken to the garden One variety, the scarlet runner, resumes
{has flowers pretty enough to use
- proportions when considered at the at your dining room window.
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, April 2.—Presidents of 500 motion picture fan clubs will hold their first annual national convention here in June. But the studios, according to the trade paper, Hollywood Reporter, will greet them only with a cold shoulder. Reports the Reporter: “Both the major and independent producer associations have decided to .refuse co-6peration to the visitors. An industry spokesman was quoted as saying: ‘We cannot afford to accept the moral and legal responsibility of sponsoring or participating in -such a gathering.'” «The econyentinn_ according to. the, fan _cluhbers. is
screen enthusiasts and not of star-mobbing bobby soxers.” I hate to be the little termite who burrows into such things, but I'm just wondiring how. many
tickets those fan club members boukht at movie box
offices last year? ’ Maybe some of these fan club members are on the childish side, but the way Hollywood studios yell about the importance of fans, fan clubs, and fan mail, it seems like there's something Hollywood could do for them. _. ‘Even {if it’s only a plate of cold chicken a la king and a couple of “hurtahs.”
Lana Turner to Dye Hair
EXCLUSIVELY YOURS: Van Johnson has shelved 20 pounds, but M- G- M: is holding out for 10 more. Dick Haymes and Jodnna Dru have a date with the stork for September. Hedy Lamarr's post-baby wardrobe will $10,000. James Mason is thinking about producing an in-
We, the Women
NOT LONG ago I wrote an article questioning whether or not we are doing right in pushing teenagers off into little worlds of their own, giving them canteens, and saying “Now run along, children, and don't bother us grown-ups.” Their letters written in reply to the column ‘were indignant, | “After all” sald the teen-agers, “the canteens give us a place where we can get off by ourselves, away ftom grown-ups who aren't interested in the
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“BESIDES,” almost ‘evéry letter added wt eously, “the canteens
dependent movie in England in association with Roy| Kellino. first husband of Mason's wife. Lana Turner will dye her hair jet black for her role in “Cass” Timberlane."” Richard Ney has a heart throb, a Belgian countess in New York. | Helen Hayes and her 16-year-old daughter, Mary,
right end of a hoe.
2 n ” PLANNING is important. 1 you
Let) A 50-foot row,
A big point in time spent plan |
ning is that it's easier to eliminate | joys giving advice.
If you're a beginner gardener, {read government bulletins. They are free, simply written and de-
want to sketch a plan the easiest | pendable. The county agent’s office (way is with ready ruled paper.
It’s an eyebrow lifter because Kellino is the €ach square represent one Square lof garden space. then. becomes 50 small squares—a | distance of three feet between rows’ year after year. is 3 squares, etc.
| gives information on varieties best suited to Marion county. Talk to your-seedsman. And above all, get |acqauinted with a gardener on your {street who produces a good garden
4 » 5 THE TRULY good gardener enBut beware of
are plotting .a radio program to discuss the prob- | three hills of summer squash with |the self-styled “I've gardened all
Jems of teenagers.
|an arager than: after you're stuck
Michael O'Shea’s wife finally is suing him vor, with them in space you'd prefer to
| oe
“Dehorah Kerr was ‘being XHdot on “The~ Hiueks | sters” ‘set about saying “an hotel” rather, than ‘al hotel,” as it’s said here. “How do you say it, Mr. Gable?” she asked. “Honey,” replied Clark, America, mostly, it's a MOtel.”
“in |
Use Oxygen for Hangover
INTRIGUING ad in a Hollywood trade paper: “For that hangover, Oxygen treatment used by AAFP. Ten-minute inhalation in your home fixes you up. Medically safe. Prompt 24-hour service. Confidential, of course.” Of course! Carole Landis just received a $100,000 present from husband Horace Schmidlapp—a home in Pa-
. dixgree. and... Yirginis. Mag. is. s, Abe. baoniest. girl in {leg tomatoes. One. Rill of Sree Mk ss bugs and «coke. Hoi: Re RS
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ductive vegetable to start with: -
Six hours of-mid-day sun is con-
sidered the minimum for a success-
ful vegetable plot. Tree roots, stealing plant food and moisture, are as bad as their shade. Good rule— run rows only up to outermost tips of tree branches. ” ” ” IF YOUR ground slopes, run your rows perpendicular to the slope, not up and down. This prevents washing away in heavy rains.
Spacing rows is important. The
my life” type who blames his too frequent failures on the weather,
id ways do something” about ‘bigs ar A OL Last of all, observe your own and others’ results. ‘Then trust our own common sense. Now garden and have fun, . The accompanying chart will help you to plan how much seed you need, how many plants you can get into what space you have.
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Native Rushes. King George's Car
BENONTI, South Africa, April 2 (U. P.).—Queen Elizabeth pushed back from the royal automobile with her umbrella today an over-jubilant native who rushed at the car crying: “1 want to see my King.”
the scheduled day's activity of the tour of South Africa, v The car was moving slowly, and
cloth covered with weird designs. Police Commissioner R. J. Palmer said he had a 10-shiling note in his hand, and apparently intended to give it to King George. As the native came to the side of the car ih which Queen Elizabeth was riding, she thrust her
umbrella at him, : He “clutched it
8Re-22 miter{romeJohancushurg. and - fell back: Rabe. Barts he The royal-family was. motoring =in!police.
‘The umbrella was retrieved by police and returned to the queen. The native was held for questioning. ¢
i pw Seeds, Space Required for Vegetables i Lae A # i pDIos. Seeds or plants Approx. Seeds or plants { eeded for distance ~~ odd for in inches ip ft. in inches TOR. $F between between 10 5. Cro of row b of row : p rows—plants Crop rows—plants Gods »” Beans, bush lima 28 % % Ib. Lettuce, leaf 16 6 1 packet. Beans, pole lima, hills 36 24 32 1b, Mustard 16 6 1 packet Beans, bush snap 28 3 %lIb Okra 3 18 1 ounce Beets 16 3 1 ounce Onions, seed 16 3 3 ounce i Broccoli 30 18 1 packet Onions, sets + 16 3 1 qt, 400 plants Brussels sprouts 30 18 1 packet Parsnips 16 3 12 ounce Cabbage : + 30 18 70 plants Peas, bush 18 1 1 pound Chinese cabbage 24 10 1 packet Peppers 30 18 70 plants Carrots 16 1% % ounce Potatoes 30 12 ° 7 pounds Cauliflower 30 18 70 plants Radishes 13, 1 .lounce Celery 24 6 200 plants Salsify 20 2 1 oun - Chard 24 6 1 ounce Spinach : 12 4 Apr Collards ; 30 18 1 packet Spinach, New Zealand 30 12 1 ounce Corn, sweet 36 12 % Ib Squash, bush 48 48 % ounce Cucumbers (hills) 72 . 72 % ounce Squash, trailing 96 48 3% ounce Eggplant 3 30 40 plants Sweet potatoes 38 12 100 plants Kale 24 10 1 packet Tomatoes, not staked 48 48 26 plants Kohlrabi 16 4 14 ounce Tomatoes, staked 38 24 51 plants hte Lettuce, head °* 16 12 100 plants Turnips 16 3 % oun y did not stop. The native wore sack- dis !
to a bus stop at Illinois st. and
Carnival —By Dick Turner .
cific Palisades. The reason:
film work for a year to get their marriage off to a
good start. ; Tip to would-be actors: March still takes dramatic lessons two times a week.
They're. still talking, down in Acapulco, about the appearance of Ty Power and Lana Turner in a local They were dressed identically—white and red sashes around their
‘night .club. slacks, waists.
green: shirts,
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By Ruth Millett
Yes, they're ofthe streets. We did such a fine
Job of selling them that idea they feel very virtuous. about spending all their spare time in loafing lounges
dancing and eating sundaes.
‘Should Expect More
, IN THESE canteens, we thought we had the answer to juvenile delinquency. But “it certainly
can't be the whole answer.
The boys aren't doing some practical work in off‘school hours. Girls aren't learning how to fun a
home, Neither is contributing to family life.
Yes, they are off the streets when they're. in’ their
canteens. GE 8 Tak A we A
Oscar winner Fredric
Because she gave up richer the soil the more plants it
can support but crowded plants compete with each other just as weeds do for plant food and mojsture. Vigorous growers such ‘as squash and tomatoes if put too close to small crops like carrots and onions will cover them up, shut: ting off too much sunlight, Keep perennials (asparagus, chicory, tree onions) at the outer edge where they'll not interfere - with ploughing. - Keep ear: as peas, radishes, and gether at one end. This! more advantage in replanting after these early crops are out. 5 n n A REALLY tiny area can yleld a lot of food if it's well managed. Good management of a small plot ‘means -companion ~ cropping—the planting of quick maturing cro ‘between plants or rows of slow ma> turing vegetables. For example, head ' lettuce" alternates well with slower growing cabbage. Succession cropping doubles or triples .your garden’s-yield. A typical example is to follow up early ground if you pull the vines and green beans with a ve,
Way of Cross Workers Named
Ten ‘committees have been named for the 10th annual outdoor Way of the Cross to be held Good Friday afternoon in the World War Memorial plaza. William V. O'Neil, general chairman, named the following: Maurice Fitzgerald, Louis O'Connor, Ozzie Litzelman and William Flanary, grounds; Joseph Niehaus, Joseph Colbert, John O'Connor and Jasper Camella, honorary guard; Paul Just, Joseph Dezelan and, William Greener, pamphlet distribu tion; John Blackwell, Robert Carrico and William Drew, transporta-
Rucker and Leo Shea, music; Ed-
. {ward Kiefer, William Bradley, Ber-
nard Waters and Humbert Pagani, choir, and John Daly, Bernard
Beidleman, radio. Others are Earl Owens, Matthew Ehrmentrout, John Fisher and Ben-
jamin Bieter, Joseph Zimmerman and Sexton,
“have La
Kentucky ave. because several tave erns are located nearby.
tion; Carl Kiefer, Carl Lauber, Al
Kelly, James Lynch and Clarence | ;
Peake, Boy Scouts; My
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