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That's all it takes. And I don't mean using your head as a cushion when a slick sidewalk suddenly sends you with arms r for the sky and legs kicking mile a minute. Paul Jones, director of Public Information and National Safety Council, Inc, says “Pedestrians are the ‘craziest people you ever run into." That statement might also include those people who fall ard break their legs during the current siege of ice and snow, Take it easy. Don’t go looking for an ambulance like the woman shopper 1 saw crossing an icy section of a downtown walk. Both arms full of packages, no overshoes, this woman was making a clumsy

slowpoke out of Liza in “Uncle Tom's Cabin” Not on purpose; understand. Apparently Ignorant of Risks SHE HAD BEEN in a warm store. Her shoes

melted the ice on cofftact, Medium-high heels didn't help her equilibrium any and neither did her bundles. Maybe it was because I held my breath that she didn't do a bumpsy-daisy. Maybe it was the

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Milk vs. Mud

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—I1 don't ot really believe the federal government wants American mothers to , take milk away from their children and feed em ‘mud. No matter what its proven medical merits. The idea just slipped out, kind of, when the ladies and gentlemen of the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped up to Capitol Hill to deliver their carefully computed average household budget for a family of four. This called for around $3000 a year, as of these inflated times, to keep a father, mother, son, and daughter decently housed, clothed, fed and washed. Such a family drinks 12 quarts of milk a ‘week and squeezes 10 tubes of tooth paste on its molars a year and still its teeth aren't as good as they could be.

All Depends on the Calcium SEN. RALPH FLANDERS OF Vermont wondered if perhaps that was because the family didn't get enough milk. ‘ “Not at all,” replied Mrs. Dorothy 8. Brady, the handsome young chief (with excellent teeth) of the cost of living division, “The principal reason for drinking milk is its calcium content.” Mrs. Brady, who held a lead pencil in her right hand and a cigaret in her left and gestured with both, said the lawmakers undoubtedly were familiar with the beautiful teeth of Mexicans. All the milk they drink you can put in a tequila glass. “But they soak the corn for their tortillas in lime water and thus get all the calcium they need,” she continued. “Who,” that?” Mrs. Brady said she didn’t know. Suddenly she thought of something else; namely, mud. “Certain tribes in Africa used to eat certain va-

demanded Sen. Flanners, “told 'em to do

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By Ed Sovold

stars that nothing more: than a erovked hat was the | "SECOND SECTION result. Why is it that an arm or a leg a so valuable after it's broken? Actually, it isn't ‘worth much then, is it? Stepping off and on curbs is a tricky Bg too. Get a firm, flat footing before you atte %gither. And when you get on that glassy area i traffic keeps it polished, be extra careful, .The slow shuffle you have become accustomed to on & rougher surface may not be worth a tinker’s darn. It's worth a lot less if you're crossing in front of moving traffic. One slip (yours) plus another (the motorist's) and at best you have an admittance slip to the emergency ward at General Hospital. . With my own eyes I watched a Danny Dumbhead. risk his neck for one full square on a Deaten, smooth, | slick-path in the snow. Danny had leather soles and heels. In his right hand he held a heavy briefcase. In the other a large box. The smart thing would! have been to walk in the 2-inch hardened snow, Not Danny. He might have gotten some in his shoes. | . Bo, onward on the treacherous sliver of bumpy ice. | This candidate for the statistic columns moved fo, safety ‘only after his third soft-shoe routine with! off-balance in the main part of the act. | Let us take up the little matter of walking down snow-and-ice-covered stairs. I'm an expert in this department. My first attempt to do. the wrong thing, | stepping too close to the outer ‘edge, proved more than successful, It was a symphony of motion, A brass band should have been playing —- “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease.” The first; few bars and then a big. thump on the bass drum.’ The end. Go down slippery steps as if your life depended upon them. Doesn't make any difference if there are 50 or two steps.

Play Safe, Grab Rail Early

IF THERE'S a railing around, grab it as you go| up of down. Don't make a wild grab after it's too late. Also make sure all the steps are free of snow and | ice. Don't look at the top step and then take off. If you have to, make your way down on your hands | and knees. This stuff can't last forever. By next spring you'll never notice ‘it. Let’s not overlook getting off and on streetcars and busses. The spot you may want to tromp on may have been polished all afternoon, especially for you. . Hold on to the bar in the doorway, lay your dogs firmly on the street and let go easy . If all is still vertical, proceed to the curb. The best way to walk on icy sidewalks is to have your hands free, wear a pair of overshoes with rough soles and use a slightly-shorter-than-usual gait. |

BEST-OF-THE-WEEK—The first time he entered a photo contest, George M. BingEE Te 0 tn uc at] of: local advertising’man, won first prize in The Times Amateur Photo Contest, with Don't lce-skate without skates. Youre inviting this picture of a retired craftsman "at ease. " The picture of Thomas Miehlke, a neightrouble. This advice comes to you direct from the| bor, was snapped with a 4x5 Speed Graphic. Exposure was 4 seconds. Lighting was bruise-and-slips department which is greatly coni A A provided by a 75-watt bulb in a regular hanging fixture and one floodlight five feet Let's kinda take it easy for a few days and be to the rear. careful. What do you say?

By Frederick C. Othman

TS ” | rieties of mud, which had a high lime content, and] they also had” excellent teeth,” she said. “But then| came the missionaries and . , .” “Who?” asked the senator, . * | “The missionaries,” Mrs. Brady replied. “They watched these natives eating mud and told them it was an insanitary habit. They made them quit it.” “Yes?” prompted the senator. “And their teeth deteriorated,” Mrs. Brady added. | “Later, when the missionaries. went away, sumed eating mud and their teeth improved.” | Mrs. B. noticed out of the corner of her eye a! reporter 1 shall not name furiously scribbling notes. | She was quick to add that, she had nothing against milk, even at 21 cents a quart; she just wanted the] senators to know that people don't have to buy their| calcium from a dairy, no matter what the milkmen say.

Now, Take Vermont Pigs

- “AND MAY 1 add to this fund of di. ry knowl-| edge” asked Sen. Flanders. Mrs. Brady said, by all means. “Well sir,” the senator said, “we used to keep | pigs up in Vermont and they ate mud, too. But only| certain Kinds. They turned up their noses at some | mud puddles and delighted in others. They knew, as| did your Africans, what it takes the laboratory today! to find out.” | Mrs. Brady said he undoubtedly was correct. ‘She said also that she wouldn't be surprised if Americans kept on sneering at mud—they being such antiseptic neople—and began chewing calcium tablets, like they do vitamins. 3 That'll fix those cows. Their milk won't be good for anvthing much (correct me if I'm wrong, milk men) except boiling down into imitation pear! but-| tons. |

Penciled In

By Erskine Johnson |

—— HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 17—Exelusively Yours: Bob Mitchum is penciled in for the co-starring role opposite. Jennifer Jones in the film version of “The Glass Menageries.,” It's definite now that Roy Rogers will leave Re- . public-+followed by Trigger, the Sons of the Pioneers and Dale Evans. ; Speaking of Dale, the story of her 20-year-old son almost broke two years ago when he checked into the service. The studio, and Uncle Sam, helped keep her secret, Peter Lawford just won star rating at M-G-M— result of his work in “Good News.” Una Merkel and sports announcer Fred Ferries are a new twosome. Bing Crosby is off tobacco and onto gum for six months, Doctor's orders. There was many a raised eyebrow over Cecil B. DeMille's election as a member of the board of directors of the Screen Directors Guild. Fred Astaire would like to have you know that when he inherited Gene Kelly's role in “Easter Parade,” he didn't inherit-Gene Kelley's dance routines for the film. Astaire dreamed up his own, including a drum routine that should be sensational. Fred's race horse, Triplicate, which he bought for $6000, already has earned $240,000 in purses. The horse is now at Santa Anita.

Sinatra's Juke Box Popularity Slips HAVE YOU NOTICED the absence of Frank Sinatra's recordings in the juke boxes? Bing still leads the way, Billie Burke has just about completed her autobiography, with Columbia Set té have first chance at the film rights. Billie has a great story. Her father was a circus clown, her husband Flo Ziegfeld. Larry Parks wins the hod as the year's joutstand-

Reynolds to Hunt

for an air expedition into western pilot. China $0 search for an unmapped

airp yanufacturer. Mr. Reynolds said the expedition, discover: to be conducted jointly by his company and the Boston Museum of Lo Science, would seek solutions to some scientific mysteries. Ten scientists * and technicians will leave Chicago before. Jan. Mr. Reynolds said. The flight will

River.

[J Tour-engine C-87, capable of ¢ruis- / ing at 35,000 feet. ~ . Mr. Reynolds has dponsored’ two and record-breaking round- the-world

— HONORABLE MENTION—R. H. Pelham, 516 N, ing newcomer in the annual poll of the Showman's] Central Court, a member of the Indianapolis Camera

Trade Review. : : : : : with th Pci Taylor and Barbus Stanivyck's: design for! Club, wen honorable mention with this picture taken at

living will soon include a Texas cattle ranch, Bob| the entrance of the Arts building of Ball State Teachers is anxious to invest in a real working ranch with sev-| College, Muncie. ’

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Uncharted Peaks

CHICAGO, Dec. 17 (UP)~Plans bal flights, will be the expedition

_ Besides looking for the uncharted mountain range were announced mountain range reported by wartoday by Milton Reynolds, million- time “hump” pilots, Mr. Reynolds said the expedition would try to

ONE: Whether the Yellow River orge is the greatest in the world.

TWO: The source of the Yellow

THREE: The geological origin of 1. the unmapped mountain range. FOUR: Whether the region was be made in a specially-constructed covered by ice during the ice age. FIVE: The altitudes of the major peaks in the unexplored area,

“BIX: — Whether the mysterious flights. He said William P~Odom, Lake Knkonor could be photoWho Pioled the yidties 96 Cub Slo raphed S19 ihe Wi ,

eral thousand head of cattle, Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw still see only‘ By ART WRIGHT each other, | A former public relations officer y . {in the Indiana State Guard today You Can f Eat Six Languages had become the 19th first - prize LATEST STORY FROM ENGLAND, relayed by winner in the Times' Amateur David Niven: A man went into a bird store to buy a Photo contest which started last parrot and was offered a bird that came from Africa August. and spoke six languages, The price was 45 pounds He is George M. Binger, 3320 Park sterling.. “That's pretty ‘steep for a parrot,” said Ave, who eperates the Binger Adthe man. “Well, replied the storekeeper, “it's a very vertising Agéncy in the State Life special bird—speaks six lantgages.” “I'm not ihter- Building, ested in that,” countered the purchaser, “all I want' It was the first time he ever ento know—is it tender?” tered a photo contest. Margaret O'Brien, who won't be 11 until Jan. 15, The picture, “The Craftsman,”

has 20,000 flying miles to her credit, She and mama are flying to South America after Margaret completes J : 2 mo ospital to Give John Lindsay, the Hollywood architect supposedly engaged to starlet Jane Nigh, is carrying the biggest torch in town for a lovely blond ex-model. Staff Yule Pai Greg McClure will legally adopt that name—his real one is Dale Easton—after he completes “Lulu Belle.” There's quite a yarn behind the McClure; A Christmas party for employees moniker, Writer John Grant dreamed it up as Clark of Methodist Hospital and their| Gable’s character name in the film, “Boomtown,” but it wasn't used. When he wrote “The Great John famifles, Wil) be Bed ai. 8 p.m | L.” the studio wanted a new name for Dale Easton, '0morrow in the White Cross Baty | who was signed for the title role. Grant suggested ice Center, Greg McClure, and Easton took it. Music will be presented by the |

Lauritg, Melchior is excited about getting his f0ot- Choral Club.and. Christian Fellow | They'll ship group of the school of nursing. | A pageant, “Nativity,” will be given. ~|Mrs, Carmen Pickering and David |

prints in the cement at Grauman'’s Chinese, be the biggest ones in the place—size 13%.

ks 28 Chapters of OES | {Christmas.”

To Hold Yule Party Mrs. Norman“ Baumann is chair-

Thé associate matrons of 48 OUS man of the committee which inchapters of the 11th district will cludes Miss Carmen Sharp, have their annual Christmas party Ruth Madsen, Mrs. Wiugfia Ballentomorrow following a dinner at tyne, Miss Thelma Hawthorne, Dr.| 6p m H. C. Ochsner, Special guests will be Mrs. 8o- Delbert Price, Chester Warman and noma Woodruff, associate giand Richard M. Loughery, matron, Ft. Wayne, and Ray E.

Walters, associate grand: patron, Borbed Wire Club Nappanee. $ To Fete 3 Children

{Price will enact “The Night Before

will be the guests of the Indianapo-| 2 Years, on Way Home lis Barbed Wire Club at a pitch-in

Lt. Col. Charles T. Flots and Mrs. dinner at 8 p. m. Dec. 29 in the Flots are returning to the United YMCA auditorium. States in time for the holidays after two years in Nuernberg and Weis- fashioned movies. “baden, Germany ¥ “ Lt. Col. Flots is the brother of sociation of former servicemen who |

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Mr. Binger's neighbor, work on a rifle stock.

Mr. Binger

next-door eral subjeéts in the weekly Times’ the Times’ Thomas Meihlke, 74, at contest until Wednesday, Dec, 31. Next Wednesday's pictures will be said he became an the best received in the special $75

The Indianapolis Times

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1947

‘The Craftsman’ Captures Ei Prize In 19th Photo Contest

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WINNER REPEATS—John G. Hale, 634 N. Riley Ave., a former first place winner, earned honorable menHe used the Zeiss camera which made his previous top winner and Super Pan press film, Shutter speed was 1/100 second and the diaphragm opening was f. :16, A red filter was used.

tion with this outdoors scene,

Amateur Photo contest will provide a $5 first prize each week for the best photo on any sub-

amateur photographer “out of nec- prize contest for photos of the Ject.

essity.” While a major in Guard during World War II, Mr. tions. Binger started to take pictures of troop maneuvers-for his public re- tures is midnight Friday. lations assignment, cause no other photographer was that day will be ‘eligible available. Today's best-of -the-week pictures third, $10, are the last to be published on gen-|

Carnival—By Dick Turner

the Circle monument Christmas decora-

Pictures on general subjects received until midnight Priday, Dec.

The deadline for the Circle pic- 26, will be held for judging for the

Entries Dec. 31 winners.

He did it be- received or postmarked by midnight The best Christmas | photo will earn $50, second, $15 and rules:

0OPR. 1947 BY WEA SRAVICEL. WC. 1.9 ARO. U. 8. PAT Op

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“I understand today is your birthday, Perkins, and_as a little token Woodruff, secretary, and Mrs ==

of esteem, I'm returning your lawnmower!"

Por the weekly contests and the special, here are the

Any size prints and any number

Following, the Christmas special of them may be submitted, Prints

Lynhurst Masons Will Install Officers

| Lynhurst Lodge No. 723, F&AM, {will Install officers in ceremonies |at 7:30 p. m., Dec. 26, in the Ma{sonic Temple, 1239 8. Lynhurst | | Drive, Those to be installed are: Harry | D. Smith, worshipful master; Carl | Cross, Senior warden; Hugh W. | Craig Sr. junior warden; John L. Carrington, treasurer; John L. Dean, secretary; Clifton Dennis, senior Deacon; Wilbur Gates, junior deacon; Cecil C, Barker, chaplain; Winfield E. Davis, senior steward, Marvin W, Wells, junior steward, {8am H. Bennett, tyler, and Edwin C. J. Ristow, trustee. Herschel E, Ginn and Jesse B, May, both Past Masters, will econduct the ceremonies,

White Shrine Patrol Holds Party Friday Mis. Harry FP, Hergt will be hostess for the meeting of the Patrol of Indianapolis Shrine 6, Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Friday | evening. The meeting will be folwed by the annual Christmas fed | Patrol officers are Mrs. Gladys Clarks president; — Mrs. Esther

icille Bweét, treasurer.

RUNNERUP—Sharing runnerup honors was John R. Field with "The Falls,” filmed at Spring Mill Park. This relaxing scene was snapped with an Argoflex twin-lense camExposure was 1/50 second at f. :18. No filters were It is Mr. Field's first honors in Thre Times contest.

must be in black and white. On the back of each picture should be written the photographer's name,

address, telephone number, type film and camera used, shutter speed, diaphragm opening, type lighting. All prints become the property of The Indianapolis Times and the deciston of the judges is final. Mail or bring all entries to: Amateur Photo Contest, Indiahape« olis Times, 214 W. Maryland St, Indianapolis 9

OES Chapter to Meet Corinthian Chapter 456, OES, will

meet at 8 p. m. today at 2215 W, Washington 8t. for a Christmas

party. Mrs. Sarah Hollon is worthy matron and Maurice Hollon, worthy patron,

WORD-A-DAY

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