Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1947 — Page 21
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©! NATIONAL SWIM POR HEALTH
B 10 38. Ber-rer-r-r! Even though my swim suit is still tucked away in mothballs (I'm going to be unhealthy. until the sun comes out), I thought the least that could be done during the aquatic week was to rub elbows with some of the atmosphere. Betey Maxwell, instructor and lifeguard, presented @ serene picture on the edge of the Riviera club pool. Between paragraphs of John Gunther's “Inside U, 8. A.” Miss Maxwell would scan the pool and its more than 30 splashing occupants. : “Members of the Polar Bear club?” I asked, nodding my head toward the swimmers, “I should say not. The water is fine and if you don't believe me, why don’t you try it?” Miss Maxwell answered. :
Even the Young Recall Sun
GOOSE PIMPLES began rearing their ugly little Leads. I mentioned that celestial object called the sun, Miss Maxwell sald she remembered that there was such a thing and added that: “People who love to swim will do so with or without the sun.” Lifeguard Mildred Marshall, attired in sweat shirt and blue jeans, stopped by to ask ¥ anyone wanted some ice cream. “Millie,” ‘sald Miss Maxwell. “Here's a man who thinks he has to have sunshine to swim.” Miss Marshall pooh-poohed that ancient custom. “We're going to have to get accustomed to this weather,” the lifeguard sald. “The gang here is in agreement that we'll have another Ice Age in 1000 years." Two exhuberant. boys jumped into the pool, The young ladies pointed out that that was the way to do it. “Go right in. Don't stand around and shiver.”
JUST JESTING—It's really not as cold as lifequards {left to right) Sherry McDowell, Mildred Marshall, Larry Stuart, Dian Schifflin and Betty Maxwell try to make it appear.
Vision Paid Off
WASHINGTON, June 27—The two engineers at the government-owned St. John's ‘river shipbuilding plant in Florida had a great, big, beautiful dream. Let us not be starry-eyed about it, fellow taxpayers, One of these dreamers died with more cash than he'd ever seen at. one time before; the other currently is drawing down $25,000 a year and—I wouldn't fool you—is trying to borrow $1,500,000 more of our money from the reconstruction finance corp. But we'd better begin this dream at the beginning: We spent our millions on the yard to build oil tankers during the war, Engineer Fred Weber worked for the shipbuilding company that operated the yard. Engineer David R. Knapp labored for the maritime commission, eharged with protecting our money. Fred and Dave were cronies. They said wouldn't it be wonderful if they could get hold of the yard and turn it into one of the biggest steel mills in the south? They shook hands on it. 80 the war ended, the maritime commission declared the yard surplus for sale to the highest bidder, and here was*Fred—still on the payroll of the shipyard, but working also for the Florida Pipe and Supply Co., which wanted to buy the yard.
Fred ‘Got an Idec’
AND THERE was good old Dave, still employed by us—the taxpayers—but keeping Fred informed on the inventories inside the mighty plant. So last winter, about the time Dave had his first stroke, Fred gave him $12,500 in cash as down payment on his share in the visionary steel company. Dave died soon thereafter and faithful Fred paid another $12,500 to his estate. “But what did you get for this $25,000?” demanded Rep. Ross Rizley of Oklahoma, chairman of a house investigating committee.
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weather, that's why she dresses so lightly.” “Hello, People. Baby-pool lifeguard Jo Armme Diederich joined the party. Bhe said her pool wag empty. (Miss Diederich wore a long corduroy jacket.) Small talk began to get kicked around. Subjects like lightning, bridge and “rainy days off” took care of a fraction of thy afternoon. Swimmers began to thin out. More and more beelines were being made for the shower rooms. Guard Herb Havens came over and asked what was cooking, As he sat down heltried to pull his baggy gym trousers up over his shoulders. They were large but not large enough for that maneuver, “How about a little music, Herb?” asked Miss Maxwell, “Aw, 1 can't,” protested Mr. Havens. The girls wouldn't take “no” for an answer. He was provided with another guard's whistle. Something new in the musical world. Softly, Mr. Havens gave out with “Heartaches® or a reasonable facsimile thereof. The applause stirred Guard Betty Lytle to life on the far side of the pbol. Our pool-side party grew in numbers, (Miss Lytle wore a blue terry cloth robe.) ! Severa] rugged high-divers continued slicing into the water, Larry Stuart, sporting a white T-shirt, stuck to his post. On the whole, National Swim for
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Health Week was splashing to a slow-motion crawl.|.
One of the guards blew her whistle sharply and Sherry McDowell put her sociology book aside. “Come on over, Sherry,” urged Miss Schifflin,
“Come on over and be sociable.”
Divers Dive for Cover MISS McDOWELL gave her side of the pool a check. The water was smooth as glass. If anyone was in the pool they were under water. But that couldn't Be because the water was as clear as glass. Finally ‘the divers ealled it a day. Larry Stustt became the latest addition. 4 Scanning the sky, Mr. Stuart said: “Looks lke it will be a fine day tomorrow.” Sundry remarks were made as to the probability
of the forecast. But, hope springs<&férnal in the human breast.
SHINE, LITTLE GLOW WORM — The Junior City Slickers of Columbus give with their all. Ed ‘Shumway, in- feminine garb, like ‘a bird while Tom Thompson points a gun at his temple in desperation. The two teen-agers are co-founders of the juvenile edition of Spike Jones’ famous Hoosier cor-fed outfit. The nine high. school students can put on a two-hour performance and have given" I8 shows
since their first in March. At a recent public "musical depreciation benefit" they packed the'house at 40 cents a head and turned “away at the door. » : Ld : : CURT Rd
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“How many lighters do we have among us?” asked} *
Miss McDowell. There were two. “Let's light them and get warm,” she suggested.
“Since this is Swim Week,” Miss Maxwell said,|
“I'm going in for a swim. But first let me warm my hands.” :
The sun is bound to come out:before the Ice Age really sets in,
Frederick C, Othman
“Why, uh, 1 got an idea; a promotional scheme,’ replied the half-bald Pred. “And where'd you the money?” insisted the congressman. :
Fred said he got it from his arrangement with{
the pipe company, which had put him under contract at $25,000 a year, as a maker of deals. Rep. Rizley sald he'd insist that the FBI get to the bottom of their beautifil dream.
Beautifuler and Beautifuler
THIS LEFT Fred aghast. Goodness! The gentleman from Oklahoma calmed down a little then and Fred went on with his account of the dream. It got beautifuler and beautifuler.
Fred helped the pipe company get control of the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., which then bought the St. Johns yard (original cost, $20 million), from the maritime commission for $1,926,000. The new owners found a gigantic pile of steel and machinery which wasn’t included in the sale. Fred and his pals gave the government an extra $2000 for the stuff; it had cost us (we can't dry our tears yet, taxpayers) a cool $200,000. The proprietors began at once to sell the. yard’s equipment as junk; so far they have taken in more than they paid the government for the entire property. About three months ago Fred and his friends, including one Louis E. Wolfson of Jacksonville, organized the Peninsula Steel Co. to operate in the shipyard. Then they applied to the RFC for the $1,500,000 loan. Fred, said he didn’t put any actual money into the firm. Nobody did, he added. Assets? Fred-looked hurt. He said the corporation hasn't any, yet. That's it, taxpayers.
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Dream Home Tips
By Erskine Johnson
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HOLLYWOOD, June 27.—So you'll soon be building and then decorating that post-war dream home. Well, you'll probably do something wrong and spoil everything. People always do, according to Hollywood’s art directors. So today we're going to let some of Hollywood's top art directors give you some tips to really make it the home beautiful, and not a mess. Homes, says Stanley Rogers of M-G-M, haven't kept up with the scientific progress of the world. “Homes,” he says, “are too drab—we need more imaginative use of color, We need to let our imaginations create house plans which are adapted to our particular needs and interests, not in accordance with the house of neighbor Jones or neighbor Smith.” Mr, Rogers’ advice: “A feeling of spaciousness can be achieved by building a house of one or two large rooms instead of five, six or seven tiny ones.” Commpn errors of home decoration, says Jerry Pycha, are “the improper use of figured patterns in draperies, wallpapers and carpeting, which unbalance the size of the room. All figures and patterns should be more or less in proportion to the size of the room. “Lamps are over-elaborate, there is usually too much furniture, which is also too large.”
Opposes Too Much Color
ART DIRECTOR RUDI FELD is opposed to too much color in a room, in furniture or in wallpaper. He says: “11 the room is too cluttered the individual pieces of furniture lose their individuality and their silhouettes. RN “Furniture should be left in its natural color so that the personalities and clothes of the people who enter the room do not clash with the color scheme of the decor.”
We, the Women
A FATHER of nine whose pretty dark-haired wife recently gave birth to her fourth set of twins. told a New York World-Telegram reporter: “iy wife and I think we're happier now than when we were first married, and that's saying a lot. Love grows stronger in a home like ours with all these nice children to look after.” Now there's a couple will qualified to write a book on marriage. : How do they manage to stretch a mail carrier's salary so that it will feed and clothe 11 persons and housé them in New York City?
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Don’t overemphasize curtains, drapes and venetian blinds, warns Stanley Fleisher of Warner Bros.: “The average person,” he says, “strives for a formal and symmetrical arrangement of furniture which is not suited to rooms today.” He adds: “Oil paint with a shiny surface should never be used on walls.”
Color and Sunlight Related
THE ROOM COLOR; advises Rudolph Sternad of Columbia, should be planned in relation to the amount of sunlight. “He says:
“Rooms with full sunlight can use strong color, light or dark. Rooms with reflected sunlight should use sunlight illusion colors such as yellow. The rooms should be planned to harmonize in color to the adJoining rooms, so that views from one room to another will not clash.” Perry Ferguson of the Goldwyn story gives a simple trick to make a small room look longer: “Just
paint the ceiling a dark color and paint the walls an oe
off-white. “A mistake that often is made,” he adds, “is the mis-use of venetian blinds. Many people err, for instance, in using venetian blinds when their homes or apartments are done in Early American motif.” One should always remember that walls are a back~ ground only for the finished room, warns George Van Marter. f “When a room has a large amount of.architectural detail, wood paneling, bay windows, shelves, etc., there are enough light and shade movements to the eye, so that the walls should be painted a neutral color and should not have great contrasts or busy patterns in wallpaper.” On the other hand, when a room ‘is simple, then the walls should have an interest created in color to warm it.” ‘
By Ruth Millett
It mus be a good theory if it makes them speak of “looking. after that many ‘children as though it were a privilege, not a burden. . How do they build self-reliance into their children? The older ones must. be self-reliant or the mother could never manage to care for them all.
Might Stump ‘Experts’ HOW DO husband and wife divide the work of making a home for nine children so wisely they can say “Love grows stronger in a home: like ours”? If Charles Cummo and the wife he describes as “a little brunet who doesn't look like the mother of a houseful of kids” would give the mothers of America their answers to such questions maybe the so-called experts could stop writing books with such
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% Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer. ANYONE SEEN CHLOE? — The more bizarre the costumes and ‘props the better the show. Fancy "mugging" is all part: of being real troopers. Heard but never seen backstage are Soundmen Bill Hawes and Jack Baker.. On stage are (left to right) Tom Thompson, Ed Shumway and Lewie Essex. Most of their clothes are rigged up from pawing through home closets.
DUST IT OFF — Trumpeter Bill Meyer and Charles Snyder, pianist, will bounce with the band when they play the state conventions of both the Lions club ih Ft. Wayne and the Kiwanis in Indianapolis. The group first was organized to play one program at a schoo} assembly. Now the”Slickers hope to make a road tour next summer. :
Wheat Country to Harvest Biggest Crop in History
GEORGE THIEM Thousand-acré wheat fields waist{leave a fat reserve in the bank. 000 bushel Wallace County, 0 a ‘Special Writer high are commonplace. Heavy rains| Caravans of grain combines are |Co. eiayator here, o ; ut deashl SHAEFER SPRINGS, Kas. June|have tangled: some of the standing |moving south of the wheat fields. _ ready to handle af P 91. Fortune is smiling on the big|grain and low areas were flattened Harvest hands are swerraing oe x of. = wheat country. by the floods, from everywhere to get a ited the ig ye This land is as green and prom-| But Be 5 whew TO lied os Ml a ising of bumper crops as the corpjylelds are expec on. land near raw Ho aay board jof ground belt looked bedraggled a few days|the Kansas-Colorado border that lodging, , ago. The great plains will yield thejcould be bought for $5 to $10 an hie Hasta, grain Judes, largest bread-grain crop in history |acre as late as four years ago. d scoop ‘Wheat. with the harvest here only two|® This year's crop at $1.80 fo $2 a are.
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