Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1947 — Page 13

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———— pC G, CLANG, CLANG here comes ip Ws rarin’ to get behind the controls of a car yes: ferday when I first hit the Ww. car ba

soon, By ti. Gonstab

1 time the instruction e, Student Roland

Boulevar¢ J Pl. and wants to MRtry it?

Cemet gery Convenient I GUL)

Fresh in n #1y mind were al the safety rules and oper= ating inst ctions which Mr, Constable had given us since he eft the car

downtown /J¥area. :

In my %

Arsty- look... I also had the

stor’s seat.

two feet.” Mr. Wernke

trolley and we 1I°% of the block Mr. his foot "over to clanged the, trol: fey bell and brought the car to easy stop at the intersection. So far, so good, Giving the b Wernke took off Constable pointed

sections.

We crossed 38tIh st. in fine style except for a e trolley riders who didn’t see the in the front window, Mr. Constable told them the P car was not carrying passengers. Had I been vers, $d in lip reading, I'm sure I could have read a nasty | word on one of the impatient To definitely wasn’t happy to see

couple of prospectiy instruction car sign

men's lips. This che an empty streetcar r The closer we ca

roll by.

the trolley. Washington st. OE But as I found out later, I was rarin’ too

2 car with instructor Rex Wernke and I rolled to

where ither one of us neophytes could safely try our hands w ith the trolley—I got jittery, : Mr. ¢ Eonstable stopped the car in the 3400 block on

ask, “Which one of you gentlemen

PED. To my left was Crown Hill cemetery,

barn and drove through the

and I held the booklets Chief Instructor John DeNc §0n gave me when I climbed aboard the

Mr. ConsY@table was waiting for an answer to his question, I IRlooked at Mr. Wernke with that Mr... Waernks, being a compatible: fellow, “you-first” look, Since ¥ wasn't on the company pay9¥roll, I won, Mr, Wernke took the oper-

“Now ren. Semper,” cautioned Mr. Constable, “you have 24 tons Mf equipment and it's controlled by your

L confidently nodded his head, pressed down on the riffght pedal which shot the juice to the gan moving slowly, About the middle Wernke eased up on the pedal, swung the brake, pushed the button which

11 another couple of clangs, Mr, again, smoothly and slowly, Mr, put various traffic conditions which an operator should '{ watch, such as automobiles streaking out of side str eets, stop signals and blind inter-

e to Butler university the less

street-

“

“Have you=-

hang on,”

Before and the

an Toll.

‘stable asked. ; ee BUre—sure, I'm loaded. Just

I stepped on the 1 the result.

atmosphere to the opera I stopped it befo

iis

ese cpniics.

Instruction car. The mimeographed examination FUTURE C ' sheet on Indianapolis Railways rule book had 127 Roland Wernke gives the trolley the juice under « questions. If The examination sheet on safety asked the watchful eye of instructor Rex. Constable. 35 questiondi®s. Then the personal reaction test for tar emp gloves asked 50 questiqns. I also had two rh oases for Qesersed Haughey ave, I told application Qf blanks which asked humerous questions Sco able I was ready. Mr. Wernke and two sheets for a repoxt on the interview and I to a stop and I slipped into the operator examination. Any wonder I was nervous? Sea

you

I told him,

That was the

," instructed Mr. Constable.

I did another thing, 1 pushed the button | adding a great amount of tion. Then the car began to re it rolled too fast with a!

bell clanged,

terrifi¢ lurch. I didn’t look at any of my passengers.

Expert

tion I ¢

ave. By al Suddenly 1

WITH ANOTHER Pressed the right pedal and we rolled on,

the loop on the Butler

the brake and took the curve rather well, I thought. JI was at the controls

a calm that made me feel funny. But I don't know why it should.” After all, he’s the one who is going to be hauling passengers after more days of instruction which include six days

at Clanging '

push on the bell button, I deAt an interagain. When we rounded university campus, I applied

langed my bell

all the way back on Haughey 1 the way back I mean until I saw a car. had enough. Mr, Wernke took over with

Sex Appeal

HOLLYWOOD, April (22.—Tailored suits on glamor gals pack more sex appeal than a strapless evening

By Ed Sovola :

LANG.CLANG ARTIST—Student

brought the|an’s Department clubhouse.

Bot everything straight?” Mr, Con- | grabs strap and

eft pedal and a loud whoosh was first time anything like that happened. Mr. Wernke looked at me’ didn’t move, “You're all right. too slow, that’s all, right pedal down slow

The car

You just depressed that pedal Now hold it down and push the

SECOND SECTION

Show Ho

Club Part of W-D.C.| mmm Welfare Department

By LOUISE FLETCHER Times Woman's Editor . ‘ONCE A MONTH, from October through April, the local newspapers Carry an announcement that the Monday guild will meet at the Wom-

8| The program: may be Christmas or Easter music, a book review or a talk, and-—the announcenient says —a social hour will follow. = I! founds pretty much like a routine women’s club item . . . the kind that scores of clubs use to publicize their meetings. What the announcement does not explain, though, is that the guild is a unique organization. | Each of its more than 40 members |

lis sightless. The Monday guild, part of the |W. D.'C. community welfare department, was started Oct. 14, 1920. An annual luncheon next’ Monday will mark the end of its 27th season as a going concern. The members—a self-sufficient lot — help keep it going.

8 " » THEY ASSIST with the group's plans and activities. They even fill some of the guild offices and serve

handicap of being sightless keep them from leading lives as full and well-rounded as those of unhandi-

In Blind Membe wTo

COOKING BY "BRAILLE'—Sightless Mrs. Bernard on committees. They .do not let the! not only keeps a five-

too. One of her aids in this dep notches filed out at various tempe

girls are taught to cane chairs.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 25,

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Quercome Ha

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ARERR Li

A. Wagner in order—she does the cooking, artment is an oven control with rature points. :

room home

Esther Williams, another shapely Finer customer, wouldn't dream of ordering a suit with less than two

By Erskine Johnson

Honor Day Is Set At Butler May 8

Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, president

speaker for Butler university’s annual honor day program May 8 gt the fieldhouse,

DePauw university, will be guest

through May 1.

Local Foundrymen

To Attend Convention

C. F. Lauenstein, chief metallurgist at the Link-Belt Co., will head the Hoosier delegation to the American Foundrymen’s association convention’ at - Detroit April 28

practice with an instructor, four days classroom work [Capped persons, Es. oi the 2 rth Until the war years he traveled ing I ee 5s ago vas tected traffic was on the st reets. I was rarin’ to go again. and four days with a regular man before, “Your| The guild meetings, on t Ourst |seven-state area, going as far as Just about the only Operating a streetcar r looked easy by now. My con- operator trained in courtesy and safety is Roland oe oun, Muda part West Virginia, in connection with Mrs. Wagner and the other yo . his work. 's Teg: Adence came back in: reat gusts, Wernks'™—vot me easily be lost to those who cannot 2 ain members require ®. } see. Rtlsts his, Botnad A. MRS. WAGNER even does the bo nd I is on IIS - Sightless 8. TNar . age k = iin ner, the'guild secretary, puts it this|“0~.0& 00. One of the cooking women, members of the 1 ‘ way, “The guild means a whole lot, |€IPs she has figured out is on the welfare ‘department, Poor U ncle By Frederick C. Othman [especially to women who have lee; loven heat control of her kitchen ON MEETING “dave. ! their sight later in life and for range. At the temperature points up the guild members at : whom the problem of adjustment ison the dial, she’s had little notches ! y rt to ho greater.” filed” to guide her in ‘setting the or me ot hein ri WASHINGTON, Apldril 22—Looks like our Uncle minus wheels, would cost $4109 each. The housing The desire to help others is one |indicator. : programs and drive Samuel, himself, is on} a buyers’ strike against the experts appealed to congress for another $50 million of the marked characteristics of | Just the other day she finished 5 home after Ward. i h cost of housing to do the job. ; guild members. The group contrib- (knitting her 75th sweater for the Colts hs group : high cos . The house of representatives did a little SNO0D- | ute to. loeal tharity and joins in|Red Cross. And -during the war A ; record The story is a weird one. Uncle found himself a ing and discovered that 3700 of these apartments," 8 3 y jects as ‘Red she gave four pints'of pod 0 .{Service. She has ee couple of years ago with thousands of empty bar- hadn't even been started. ' The congressmen thought Se . SO: y pr d drives. It|Red Cross blood bank {Per for 23 ye She racks left over from the war—and hundreds of thou- it was silly to go ahead with ‘em at today’s ‘ prices Sen on Tic — ceed that When shé takes over the secre. served as guild \ lL 8 sands of homeless exQsoldiers: Why not do the and they out th appropriation to $35 million. This nin. th bers’ [fary’s job at a guild meeting she | held how by Mrs. Hess obvious? would be enough to finish the converted barracks|C2ITies over ® RR [rae a 8 su 5 Be 8 Like ail the members of Move the barracks to the cities, remodel 'em a already under the hammer. private ves. Sh 103 vie re ol a munity welfare me: . little and at least give fhe G. L's and their brides a The federal house builders cried out in anguish.| ypppes MISS Mary Cain, for|the open squares that mark off W. D. C, Mrs. Hitch roof over their heads. §The federal housing expedi- Raymond Mf. Foley, administrator of the national ® the Spates for the characters |sdmiration for the si | ters flicked heir slide frules and came up with the pausing agency, any Dillon S. Myer, the commissioner |€Xample. As a field worker for the At the next meeting, she reads| | |en’s independence of ; | figures: They could buRild 200,000 temporary hous- of the public housing authority, appealed to the sen-|Board of Industrial Aid for the the minutes from her Braille notes h “They don’t ask it, ev in | ing unit” {fOm the’ old Fharracks at a-cost of $1900 aug § committee to put back the missing $15(Blind, she goes out to homes cf the and then later she types the mate- io] a She says. “When each. million. newly blind to teach them to read rig) for permanent records. [the doorbell, they're all Congress appropriate@l $445627,000 to do the Job. Both were grayish gentlemen in gray suits and it | Braille, guiding their fingertips over Her reading isn't limited to {and coats on — and fT | Numerous cities and gniversities contributed side-- jg my considered -opinion that they made a grayish| the raised dots and telling them |grqiie however. She has at home - [Once in a while, though, walks and sewers, and Ball over America carpenters {impression on the senators. Mr. foley read a state- what the symbols mean. a record player which brings her |. answer a question: ‘Do I began tearing dpwn acks and rebuilding them ment; Mr. Myer tried to read one. Several of the guild members “talking books”—the complete texts rouge on straight?’ ” ; ! into what Uncle called agpartments. : ’ have reared families. One “brought (of pooks put upon phonograph rec- This admiration for the ed f R m Know Costs Are Up up” four children; another six, ords by skilled readers. guild is the reason the Cramp oF: Ke “MR. MYER, we know that costs have gone up,”| Typical of the group and its 2 = = special op Friday ent THEY WERE HOT iff summer and cold in win- exploded Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas. “We [determination to carry on under its| IN EARLY guild years, there was was a luncheonter. They were cramped§f for room. The walls were know about the shortages of soil pipe. Why tell us|OWn Steam is Mrs. Wagner, the, committee in the W. D, C. com- W. D. C. clubhouse thin, and sometimes it to@k months to get the kitchen this all over again?” secretary. munity welfare department which | " . ceeds will be used ed sink. Still and all, theyffwere better than nothing. The commissioner flushed. He never did get to| She does all the housework re- ON WAY TO GUILD MEET! IN6—Monday quild members : Every day, seemed fre, the costs Kept going up. finish: his speech, Os ace tice p senate will quired to keep the five-room bunga- |Went to the homes of the sightless token fo'and { es by Tha Y Quid me os, Uncle's bookkeepers difficovered to their amazement join the house in its strike against the high cost of|10W at 434 N. Chester st. in spotless |and read to them. are aken to ana from meetings by the motor corps: which is part ~ Toing th Friday's event we; a year ago that each¥f so-called apartment actually turning tar paper and second-hand wall ‘panels into|Order. She's been doing that ever| This function has been replaced | of the Woman's Department club community welfare division. Mere City Hospital and Haent blic Health © had cost $2877. Withjthe money almos: gone, they apartments. The 3700 units probably will not be built, | Since 1035 when she and Mr. Wag- to some extent by the “talking | Mrs, Wagner's “chauffeur” is Mrs. Othniel Hitch who has been a Nursing’ committees Helis had finished only 126,00 units and had 25,000 more The others eventually must be torn down. That |ner had the house built. books.” The record players sre| ' di for 23 ! headed Mrs Which Or. > either under construction or under contract. Quickly will leave Uncle with an investment of nearly half a| (Mr. Wagner, also sightless, is|provided by the federal govern.| Motor corps driver for years. . um, JMvert; J. Hu er they built about 13,000f of these. , billion. dollars and nothing much to show for it but{With the Board of Industrial Aid for ment so long as the sightless per- [and Buggy Doctor.” belongs. She is a members of the| Mrs. Wi Moorhead. SIE This left 12.000 ufits to go and- still the costs the unhappy faces of the tenants he’s already got.|the Blind. -There he is in charge of [sons need them. Recently, Mrs.| The Monday guild is not the only [Teans-orcan chapter of the Inter- (foo. a » he ip : Wepe Se ln, i uy: There Tove ou tomorrow if they could. the. caning room Where sightless Wagner has been reading “Horse |organization to which Mrs. Wagner [national Travel-Study club—and [a table .. , and we played cardsi®

The Heart of America—

Doc Reed's Store in Dyersburg, Tenn,

Is Downtown Meeting Place for Men Make Deals, Argue Politics There;

' Mr, Lauenstein will lead a mal- Ns arma had 2 mig | gown or a bare midriff, They bring out the unex- skirts. Before she married Ben Gage, Mr. Finer re. al leable iron round-table luncheon ; . pills, tinge i. pected curves. . »| calls, Esther's skirts were of a different color than b ae A program, SHaneoted discussion at the convention. One Coup le Had Wedding Performed he 4 ad emulsions. Nowadays Our authority today is a lucky fellow in Hollywood her jacket to cut own Lo height. y oe WY ang ner ne : By ELDON ROARK near those things are tured named Harry ines he sees os that Ava Gar ders “But as soon as Esther got her man,” Mr. Finer Sieotion 08 Pht Raye pol Sano Car Afire, Actor Burned Scripps-Howard Staff Writer is ne to the stores : rt and the skirts of a g many ‘other movie “ i i ioht » ’ | ' 3 pris thelr waists snugly. lnughs, Lape Sopped being patos i het height honor and give special recogni-| HOLLYWOOD, April 22 (U.P) ~ | DYERSBURG, Tenn, April 22.—Last night’ for two hours I visited already prepared. oo q Naturally, Harry hal to hang around his fitting "i ‘work p T reason why Mr. Finer loves, = to Butler students who have |Actor Steve Brody was recovering [O0€ Of Dyersburg’s best-known Institutions, Reed's drug store, and a... w a) room when Ava or Lana Turner or Janet Blair are “Ida” says Mr. Piner “is built like a pedigree |2chieved scholastic honors. Cash today from hand burns suffered ((hatted with genial John H. (Doc) Reed and some of his customers.|: ABOUT all the druggist has te trying on his creations. He usually holds a dozen cat. Lithe, you know what I mean?” Th has a Scholarships, memberships in honor When his automobile satght; pre a ay 8, som Doc oe Tide —- A wise, Woune S(10 1s, read the Prescription and | : . ’ s y n r husbands, or to inquire ‘ ped § ins in his Mout and tries to look unconcerned about. superb gre end or. id thinks it is a erying|yi i (rOPhies and certificates as he and his wife, Actress Lois what's the matter with the bus. And they leave their packages. at|T®Cl UP On a shelf and get the : it all. shame that she sometimes has to cover it with period |“. De: awarded during the |Andrews, drove to Las Vegas, Nov) Roeds Wale por oh MOvies. | ——Frore, Wiel? Packages ‘abl oper bottle or' box. He counts | “The pins,” he said, “keep me from Whistling. I'm costumes. : program. The car was damaged. . : 3 > 5 : Te afraid ¥ I tried to whistle, I'd swallow the pins.” ; : 0s at the sas And Argue Pol-| ranging from indigestion in man|OF Measures’ out the small quan. . Grandma, says Mr. Fingr, wasn't much to ogle Most Talkative . | ! . k itics at the soda fountain, to colic in horses. He has been tity of the medicine 1m | when she wore a suit, but'that wasn't grandma's THESE ARE some of the things, apart from their Carniva —By Dic Turner Hg pons a a Reeds pi Selling Reads Eoli:Cide since Tu he Jusanigtion las a ahem | : , > ' 4 with never a change in price. The ere are. oy fault. The fault was because Harry Finer wasn't personal architecture, that Mr. Finer remembers about the place where they wanted to be| label warns: Totnes Not for| The hardest part about filling a around to pyt mantrap lines fa the tailoring of the his customers, » married. They had a big wedding, | Human Use - v {ption Doe : skirt and the drape of the jacket, Jodn Blondell likes all her suits belted and always with flowers and music right there When doc started - in the busi- {18 the’ deci of the doctors’ He “Suits” the Stars \ orders a matching pair of slacks. Alice Faye’ likes in the store. - hieroglyphics. ‘Doctors haven’ . : Dolman sleeves and talks incessantly, She is Mr. nu, | » learned to write any plainer in the MR. FINER has been “sulting” Ava and Lana Finer's most talkative customer, and sometimes her DOC STARTED out as an ap- Past 50 years. As a matter of fact, through more marriages and courtships than he can language is bluer than the bolts of material on the prentice . pharmacist at Helena, | ip e 0 Nn HC It has been the other way. Years remember. It's his tough luck, he confesses, that shelves ad 'T : 280 80 om : A ‘Ava and Lana have comething mors in common than There are times when Mr. Finer, surrounded by Ark, in 1803, and got his license in| oy chitin © phasized pesmi, marriage to Artie Shaw. Both wear size 12, and both divine female forms, just can’t take it. For instance, 1808. He went into ‘business. for Honor Members bly. ’ i are always in a hurry. me h six movie queens about to embark for South America, himself at Marianna, Ark., in 1906, ; * x» SoA “They don’t always give me the pleasure of meas- crowded into his fitting room and began to disrobe, and moved here in 1910. : “AFTER YOU ‘dogs | uring and fitting them,” Mr. Finer complains. “Most “It was just too much for me,” Harry Finer said. As we sat in the rear of the store] NeW members of the honor so- tor's writing a a of the time they take the sample modals that are “I turned them over to the regular fitter, got my and talked we were interrupted|ciety of Broad Ripple high school isn't so bad” doe said. vg already made up.” , hat, and went out for a beer,” every minute or two by customers.| will be inducted at a ceremony | some new doctor moves in, Some wanted aspirin and laxatives Friday night in the auditorium. someone comes in with a and playing cards, and some whis- Those to be honored are: tion given by a doctor } pered. One . excited man came Virginia Adams, Eugene Akers, Alice Dear to we 1 rushing in and asked if he could France, Jnors Hanns, (Marilyn Miller, We, the Women By Ruth Millett | | Oe ehple pareari witout a ih AE ul Bn 9 : y Rut ett | | prescription. His wife needed it.|Msriim Cook: hos Copeland, Betay Cun ' : of They were stopping at Hotel Cor- Ee ¥, Dagy, I re : ; dell Hull just back of the store. Gone pereendortl, Jing ari uta HER 14-YEAR-OLD daughter wand to have a The line of the protesting parent is always the p— Sure,” said Doc. “I can let you Harvey, John loihister, Tom Ki nl party for her crowd in the basement Jympus room. same: “What can Ido when other parents fet, them ) have ‘half an ounce without a pre-| Janet Lew Arp. Don iborn, . Jack So. she checked to see that there were plnty of dance . get away with these parties?” scription. All I need is your PAE ettin aan, Lassett, | Virgl) JHocler, Alive} records, outdid herself on refreshments, knd prepared The first thing to do is quit worrying about stand- and address. | ‘| Mary Peacock, Paul ng June . Uphaus for a noisy, jitter-bugging party in the Pasement. ing in good with the teenage crowd and being a good When the man gave him the in- and Marthe Wisol. : But soon after all the guests arrived they turned sport in their. eyes. Isn't {t better to ha . formation, Doc beamed. He was arrangements re But 0 have teenagers ’ “Bel M out the lights and settled down for a evening of think you are strict than-to have them size you up as from Doc's old home town. “Be Ma . Eleatior : necking, > an easy mark? ; : . [sure to bring your wife by in the A Long, lL Holliday, of. 9 . J , ” morning,” said Doc. Baim, Smheth. Smit. : Didn't Turn on Lights ‘ Some Standards Needed yo. ol Ta era ae per he MOTHER did, not turn on the its because yo NEXT ‘ting is 0 set th : PEOPLE constantly pre Mad : she was afraid she would embarrass hf daughter 8 18 to get the parents of the 35 ecommen and be regarded as

are being reported to me by mothers who jrofess not

old fuddy-duddy byher ‘daugh-. ter's friends, nr |

This isn't an isolated case, .

Enough su ‘incidents

Whole teenage crowd together and agree on a few| Standards for home parties, = =

After all, it's nch of

teenagers can outsmart mixed

pretty ridiculous to think that a elders and

their

3p In thew

for their miseries. He does. if he thinks he can help them. If they| Men apparently have some serious trou- : he suggests b