Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1947 — Page 25

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“truck. “The parking k “in the rear of the Morris st. plant was ra clearing of line crews and their trucks. I. was obviously holding up the parade.

Finally I hoisted myself aboard, “Climb up and a slight exaggeration. With one hand on the s of wire, one foot next to an iron mast arm, and the

other against seven pairs of pole-climbing spurs I sald’

I was ready. Rb The truck ed Torward and TI felt a shovel in the middle of my ba “Make room for, We guy,” Paul Apple, apprentice lineman, yelled. - Destination—Meos! Secret ~

SEVEN FORMER SERVICEMEN moved their

positions a few inches. There was no place to go. I ‘occupied all the space I “would get. But the crew of 81 did make an attempt. “Where are we going?” I asked. . The men were not sure but they thought it would be Cumberland. “You don’t expect a bunch of spur grunts to know

_ the decisions of the divisions, do you?” countered Leo

Klinger. “What's a spur grunt?”

Paul Apple explained between bumps,.shouts, quips :

and interruptions that a spur grunt is a learning lineman like “us guys. All except Eddie Russell and Ed Young there.” The two men out of the spur grunt class just smiled and called “Beaver,” whatever that meant, The truck stopped in Cumberland.’ The digging crew had left its calling card. Two 6-foot holes were sunk neatly in the ground. Clifty informed the men that two street lights were to be put up and that No. 6 wire was to be strung to the transformer about a half mile away. The men swung into action. A tripod was rigged up on the back of the truck and steel cables were run out. Just then a huge pole trutk rolled up and uns loaded two telephone poles. The linemen began to strap on their spurs and equipment belts which included a screwdriver, pliers, skinning knife, rule, wrench, rubber gloves, hammer, tape, bag of bolts, bag of connectors and a safety belt. I asked Jack Atherton to.let me hold his lineman'’s belt to “see how much it weighs.” I know I could have lifted it had I been set for it, Four men with the tripod and cable swung the telephone pole in place just as if ‘it were a toothpick. Clifty sighted. it for that straight-up-and-down. look. The earth was tamped into place around the pole, “Clifty, what should we do with this excess dirt?’ asked Dave Cook. +A good tamping job would have used up all that dirt,” answered the foreman laughingly, “but just pile it around the pole.” One minute, there were linemen all around truck 81 and the next they seemed to disappear into thin air. “Where did they all go to?” Clifty pointed out Eddie Russell as he emerged on top of a telephone pole smack in the center of a large

of the truck, the other on a bale

"PLENTY OF ROOM" —Overhead linemen ®f Truck 31 are ready fo ride to their pole-climbing destination. - weeping willow tree across the street. Bob Reemsnyder was poking his head through the leaves of a maple, three poles away. ‘ “There goes Ed Young with a coil of wire way up the street,” sald Clifty. “They only look as if they disappeared.”

Takes Fuel to Work On TWO MEN SWUNG the othér pole in place and tamped it solid. The operation, as far as I was concerned, seemed to disintegrate. I couldn't keep track of the men in that tree-lined section, When Reemsnyder called for a handline I ran over under the maple. Klinger passed the line up and asked what he was doing. “Patting butterflies,” was the answer, I rah around trying to locate the men on top of poles and trees. For a school=crew, the men weren't wasting any time stringing.the half-mile of wire and rigging up the lights. Clifty was a hard man to keep up with and if he hadn't tired me out in the early stages,:I was set to ask for a set of spurs and try my hand at a little pole-climbing. Jack Atherton came puffing up and asked. Clifty for the time. “11:20, Jack. Don’t tell me you're hungry already?” Jack said he was a little hungry. A voice from above (Leo Klinger's) yelled down that Jack was always hungry. “Why, Jack will eat two plate lunches and then order two cheeseburgers. But that isn't enough. He thinks he should eat a piece of pie with each lunch.” Jack was Starting for Klinger's telephone pole when Clifty sidetracked him. I'm not surprised at Jack's appetite. Just watching the linemen made me hungry. (Not two plate lunches

and pie.) ’

‘Who Knows?

WASHINGTON, June 6—Nearly two years have passed since Harold Ickes hailed the Anglo-American oil treaty as a milestone in world progress. The greatest deliberative body in the world still is deliberating Honest Harold's document. It would put the United States and Great Britain in partnership, kind of, in the oil business around the world. I cannot be more specific; some of the oil moguls, diplomats and politicians in the senate caucus room probably will ¢ gone too far already in my explanation of ‘the treaty. ; Trouble with these babies is that every one of ‘em

. has s different idea of what it means. Its language

is so vague, said Chairman Arthur Vandenberg of the foreign relations committee, that only a lawyer can translate it. “That's one of the vices of our civilization,” agreed Col. George A. Hill Jr, a Houston, Tex., oil man and lawyer. “You mean lawyers are one of our vices?” demanded Senator Vandenberg: “Yes, I believe so,” drawled Lawyer Hill.

Pity the Official Treaty Adviser WASTE NOT all your sympathy on lawyers, ‘gentle reader; save some for the next 3 witness, Joseph E, Pogue, vice-president of the Chase National of New

' York. He was in London a couple of years ago as an

official adviser on the writing of the treaty. “Glittering generalities,” muttered Senator Tom Connally of Texas. But not the fault of the treaty’s authors, insisted Mr. Pogue. “Then whose fault was it?” demanded Senator Connally. “Ulp,” went Banker Pogue.

By Frederick C. Othman

“Why didn't you tell 'em it was a bad job when you were over there advising ‘em?” the senators insisted. “1 felt early in the game that clarifications could be developed,” Mr. Pogue began again. “I... “Then why didn’t you develop ‘'em?” interrupted Senator Connally. “You said the draftmanship was rotten.” “Oh no,” exclaimed Mr. Pogue, with bald dome flushing pink. “Well, you said it was bad,” the senator amended. “And I'm sorry I did,” retorted Mr. Pogue,

Shed a Tear for This Man, Too NEXT WITNESS: J. E. McDonald, the Texas state commissioner of agriculture. And maybe we'd better shed a tear for him, tdo. The elderly Mr, McDonald said the citizens of Texas wanted no foreigners running their oil business. Adopt the treaty, he said, and you get another government bureau in charge of oil. “In the last election the voters said they were tired of useless federal bureaus,” he said. “This is no place for a political speech;” snapped Senator Connally. “I disagree with you,” Mr. McDonald insisted. “The people don't want these government bureaus.” “Including your Texas agriculture bureau?” asked his fellow Texan, “Mine is not a bureau,” retorted Mr. McDonald. “It is a department.” The senator said he had no right to inject last year's election into the oil treaty. Mr. McDonald said that was a matter of opinion.’ “Whose opinion?” the senator demanded. This went on. No telling how much longer it will| continue to go on. You sure you meant “milestone,” | Honest Harold? Not millstone?

By Erskine Johnson

Musical Ghosts

HOLLYWOOD, June 6. — There will be more musical ghosting in M-G-M’s “A Love Story,” with Arthur Rubenstein playing the plano for both Katie Hepburn-and Paul Henreid. When this thing reaches its logical climax, Music Czar Petrillo probably will have the piano ghosts organized. When Mr. R stein plays Rubenstein, as in “Carnegie Hall’ Petrillo will insist on a stand-by ghost on the set. It's only a humor, but Hollywood rymors have a habit of usually coming true. This time it's that Pat Dane, wife of Tommy Dorsey, will soon get a quick divorce, probably in Mexico. Linda Darnell’s studio finally cracked down on her interviews about the lack of sex in “Forever Amber.” Linda, in ®aris on vacation, received orders not to discuss the censorship angle. During lip Dorn’s recent convalescence from pneumonia, he wrote a story based on a tiger hunt which will run serially in a national magazine this fall. It will be signed Philip Van Dongen, his real name,

His Rigor Mortised PRODUCER-DIRECTOR Fritz Lang,adds fuel to the fire in our campaign against double features by quoting a fan who told him: “I thought your last picture was fine. But I came in at the wrong time and sat through a double bill until my Tigor was nearly mortised.” The California real estate boom is nothing new. Back: in 1913, Donald Crisp 15 acres where paramount and RKO studios now stand. The purchase price was $3200, which included a thriving apricot orchard, a furnished house. and two cows.

_ Two years laler he sold the land for $5000, well

We, the Women

AT LAST I CAN stop asking why parents don’t get together on some standards for the social life of their teen-agers. ! Reason: In Dubuque, Towa, they are trying out parental co-operation.

Parents Pass Judgment PARENTS of students in one of the junior high schools have gbtten together and decided on such matters as when their youngsters’ parties should start and what “time the kids should be in. They have agreed that either one or both parents should chaperone home parties instead of running off to the movies so as not to be in the young folks’ waw The parents have even ruled upon their children's allowances, ; That 1s 8 small start on the problem of Juvenile

REIN. satisfied with the tidy profit. Today the land is worth millions. Jimmy Stewart can’t get Indiana, Pa., off his find and is thinking of paying his home town a visit this summer. The annual convention of the Brotherhood of Magicians in Pittsburgh from June 16 to 19 may also be the lure. He was an active member before Uncle Sam got him manipulating a bomber instead of a magic wand.

Continental Commuter : GLENDA FARRELL will call Brewster, N, Y., her home town from now on. She and her husband, Dr. Henry Ros8, just bought a 46-acre farm there. She'll live in Hollywood only when appearing before the ‘cameras. “The Double Take” is her first move in two years, The prince and princess of Baria, one of the major Indian states, took the tour of the Max Factor make-up studio the other day. The prince is checking Hollywood production methods with the thought of going into film production on his own in Mdia. The princess didn't give agdarn about make-up procedures as they affected the film industry, She was just a woman intent on learning how to look like a Holly wood glamor doll. ’ : Johannesburg, South - Africa, wants Kathryn Grayson to give a concert thefe—and they'll pay oft in diamonds, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are thinking of adopting a baby, This is Hollywood: Jean Dean, a calendar girl famous for her red hair and figure, was assigned a role in “The Pirate.” She'll wear a black wig and a 30-pound costume which covers her from heall to toe.

By Ruth Millett

delinquency. But it-is the right kind of start. It's simple and practical. And there is no reason in the world why patents all over the countiy can’t follow suit. Parents like to blame “the {imes” for the fact that, junior high and high school students so often go in for unchaperoned parties, don't get in from their dances until 2 or 3 in the morning, and start drinking liquor:

If They Care Enough . BUT THE REAL TRUTH 9 that. parents can have the say as to what “the times” are like7so far as their children are concerned, if they care enoughs : With’ the kind of co-operation between parents

Youths Respond "To, New Approach

This is the second inside report on the UMT: experiment written by a 16-year-old high schoel boy after a visit to the Universal Mili-

at Ft. Knox.

By DAVID D. LEWIS .. Written for NEA Service PT. KNOX, Ky. June 6.—While the boys dismantled their M-1 riffes and cleaned them, I walked around the barracks and talked to them about UMT, Knowing Red Barhyte, an exschool mate from home, helped get me on the ide track. The boys told me what they felt. “The officers who treat us human —a8 most of them do—get a heck of a lot more co-operation from us and get a heck of a better job done,” one of the fellows said. mostly appreciate what you do.” Another said: “Yeah, but even when they say ‘please’ you still know you've gotta do it, or else.”

stead of dopes. They thought “polite orders” were easier to take after high school than “rough stuff.”

UMT but they admitted it was the: best way to train a large, disciplined | reserve for any possible future war. |

they'd be better citizens for this | training even if they never had to| fight a war. A boy with an Oklahoma drawl sald: “I was one of those guys

& now that I know what it's about. I sure wouldn't want to fight anyhow without this training.” A tall lance sergeant, who had|

a heck of a lot more out of this army waning Juan tat. "

they learn to take care of themselves with guys who have been around,” said one husky Pfc. “It toughens them up and they learn to get a little more serious about life.” Fellows who have wanted to go to “college s#ll intended to go and many said ‘they'd found out in the handicrafts and classes the kind of job they wanted. Some of them said they had learned better living habits and that theg® had “g¥own up” by mixing with the different kinds of fellows. ‘The army has helped toughen them up for whatever is ahead, war or peace.

LJ » » SURE, THEY HAVE their gripes about KP and guard duty, but as one put it, “I don’t like doing it

about the other guys when they're!

doing it.”

Another said: “I don't laugh at

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» » ” THE FELLOWS apprecidted being | treated’ like intelligent people in-|

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WINDOW CURTAINS——AND MUDDY BOOTS "Wher | | saw those guys: curtains in the dining hall ... . weren't the keynote

you that you've got to do a lot of things in your life that you don't | want to do.” The barracks in which this bull (session was taking place is set in tree-shaded walks. Each barracks is painted cream color and has two

floors, each sleeping about 16 boys jon cots with sheets, top and bottom. who couldn't wait to.get into the There's plenty of room around each war but I sure don't want to fight bunk and some of the boys have

lradios. The old-style two decker bunks are gone. ~At one end of the first floor is a |large wash room with showers and

had three years of college said: |the kind of plumbing you're used to “Sure, I joined only for the bene- at home. fits of the G. I. bill, but I've gotten a comfortable reading room, with

Upstairs, at one end is

lounge chairs and good lighting. t s » AFTER DINNER (iwo helpings), Harold Garoutte, my trainee-guide, and I went to the UMT recreation center. This has an ice cream bar, juke hoxes, dance floors, ping pong tables and a Hbrary with 1500 books.

| Fresh newspapers from the 48 states {arrive in the reading room daily.

There is also a soundproofed room equipped with an excellent phonograph and a good stock of recordings.

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most, popular places. It is furnished everyone put on raincoats and train-

with comfortable chairs and rugs.

| ing: went on, mud or no mud. When

Red Cross workers arrived With | saw those guys throwing out the 20 girls from Louisville. Records Bailey bridge in the mud and wet

were put in the juke box and We 1 realized that curtains in the din-

had a square dance. The girls were ing halls and “please” orders weren't:

teen-agers and looked to me like the keynote of UMT.

good kids, ® 0»

CAMP LIGHTS go out at 10 p. m. and we had a bed check at 10:30.

'easy and when recorded reveille comes ‘over the loud speaker at 6:30, it seems much foo early.

Species Are Numbered in Hundreds; Horsefly Is the Biggest You'll Encounter

NK THONE

(Copyright, 1943, by Science Service) FLIES AREN'T “just flies.” There are several species of flies besides the housefly that get into houses.

A brief glimpse at the marks! worth while, if for no other reason!

than that it always pays to know yeur enemies.

The housefly, all too common, hardly needs description—although it

go to museums to see dead specimens.

gray stripings. Males can be distinguished from females (if you're that curious) by two characters. Their large compound eyes come |

is to be hoped that it may soon become-so rare that you will have to

distinct dividing zone between the

Its body, about a quarter-inch eyes. Also, abdomens of males have They are, incidentally, fairly close long, is dull grayish with darker brownish sides, in comtrast to the relatives of the tsetse fly of Africa, luniform gray of the females.

» » » HOUSEFLIES often get the {blame for one piece of villiainy of

very close together, or even actually |which they are physically incapable. | touch, "while the females have a {They are accused of biting. They

Carnival— By Dick Turner

that is'being tried out in Dubuque, Iowa, parents don’t have to be bullied by the argument; “All the other ids get to do 80-and-50." a

hi s the fi rst dollar | ever mods in the place—ninus taxes,

~~ of course!"

R DDT. and

Naturally, the experiment isn’t all roses. A lot of fellows from replacement training centers have been thrown in with the “guinea

myself but it sure is fun to laugh | After a day in the open, sleep comes | pig” group and there is some fric-

| tions » . |" FELLOWS Whe enlisted for 13

the other "guys, but it does show | Morging brought more rain’ but months beiieve they won't get over-

Pests of Many Varieties—

Here Is Who's Who of Fly Family; = All Are Fair Targets hag Death

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have weak, “sponging” mouth parts and cannot bite.

There is, however, a fly that looks a lot like a housefly and does bite. | Besides this species there arz ocicasional visitors from the domestic animals’ quarters—either stable flies or horn flies.

Both are shorter-bodied thah the | housefly, and darker in color, They (are real blood-suckers, and their {bites really hurt.

notorius as the carrier of sleeping sickness, ~ » » MORE canspicous than these are! |the blue-bottle flies, insects with a {bright metallic sheen.

Three commonest species have blue, green and bronze colors, respectively, but all are know as bluebottles. They .are primarily car-rion-eaters, but are able to breed in other kinds of Rith, Never as | numerous indoors as housefiies, {they are just as objectionable and {should receive equally short shrift. | Insects that look a little like: | houseflies, but are somewhat smaller and have whiter markings, are {often seen gathered in groups on the ceilings. These are known as |cluster-flies,. ‘The residual DDT

| spray that gets the houseflies will(

also «dispose of these. » ” . BIGGEST fly ordinarily seen in houses is -an occasional invading horsefly. It gets to be almost as big as a bumblebee, but is not gaudily - striped like that insect.

Its huge eyes, that almost entirely cover its head, shine with brilliant bands of ruby, purple and green. Horseflies are capable of inflicting severe bites, but as a rule the ones that blunder ‘into the house are so nervous, swooping in endless curves around the room, that ‘hey take little time for biting. A whiff of aerosol spray will bring

{the horsefly down in short order. ho - .

» » IN CONTRAST, the smallest fly

~ UMT BULL-SESSION—Visiting teen

selves have to say about teen-age military training. Airing their views here are Jack H. Willis ol Deer Park,

{causing some alarm when they do

seen in homes is the little fruit-Ay.| | This creature, not much bigger than

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ght), Springfield, Mo. seas because of the six months taken out for UMT, Some of them tall UMT- the “serifor boy scouts.” "A-large group of boys who rated low in the intelligence tests have been segregated into a battalion known as the Pioneer Battalion. Their morale suffers from being segregated but officers believe not so much as if the dull boys were in individual competition with the | opurned er others, scattered throughout ' the nei units. If UMT passes congress, this to: will become a big problem. But all in all, I'll gladly take UMT if congress says the yord.

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little: aerosol spray will get rid of them for several days.

Since they come in the groceries, |’ however, you will need to deal with them every few days.

Fortunately, fruit-flies are not as! foul in their habits as almost all other commonly encountered flies: ust 2 hen Chips on Line They lay their eggs wherever they! . 8 when the Patti reumed can find a little fruit.pulp that is|jaw: and order beginning to ferment; hence their came out of names, vinegar-flies and pomace- astically laid it flies. flier in post-war Because they are easy to. keep, |. Times" still look and beeause they show sharply the colony marked hereditary characters, fruit- British ‘wish flies have become the standard ex« perimental material of geneticists. » » » LESS FREQUENT visitors, but appear because they look like giant mosquitoes, are the slini-bodied, long-legged craneflies or gallinip~ pers. tinue. They are: quite. harmless, since they neither carry filth to food nor bite human beings. It is just their hard luck that|—A new wage s in their efforts to escape they will strice threat at. U pick up some reidual DDT on the and Chicago | window-screens. Pp These are the commonest files |= and fiv-relatives found in and

cance one way or the other, some even allies of man, for wasp-like robber-flies ‘pounce other insects like hawks, | But all these are flies of the of-doors, and not or imporiance tof this summer's war y

(Next: Fighting ¥ Flies In Ooms mercial Districts.) A

Time Check on Work | WASHINGTO, June 6 (U. P For the first time in 35 years, a may make stopwatch checks ¢ employees to increase

a. nat, swarms over fruit that 18! iain the

not refrigerated, and will algo.

tronize the garbage can.

Fruit-flies are especially pyrethrum;