Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1948 — Page 13

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pillow covers that r opening for easy

95% Cotton

ith cotton sateen.

Veigh 314 pounds!

"Agreed the Navy was making a nice pr

PE me th ——— ing to take us two days to take. it down.” “Think We, soul Go. the Job in a day Al 1 piiched in. and helped?” Art Lindberg, -park department

“superintendent of the division of planning, took off Then he looked -

his hat and scratched behind his ear. at ‘thé rapidly” disappearing Christmas decorations on the Circle Monument. “We can't get it all down today,” Mr. Lindberg said cautiously. “The fire department people can't be here before tomorrow and we're not going after The nigh stuff Just then Ross Brown. head of the lightirg sales division of Indianapolis Power'& Light, joined us. Mr. Brown, a member of the elect.ical sub-committee for the decorations, said he was ready to take down the four white stars on top of the Monument. I threw a look in the direction of Mr. Lindberg. That was all he needed. He explained that by “high stuff” he meant the exterior decorations like the wreath and the sign on. the north side of the Monu« ment and the lights,

Washing Windows Would Help

OKAY, so the park department is doing all it can. I believed it.

. “Let's get the stars,” I said to Mr. Brown.

-LEV'S GET GOIN'—Two. Paster sheep are hustled by (left to right] Okle Shoemaker and - John Champlin from under a rapidly disappear- . ing. manger on the Circle Monument,

part about hauling is that after every trip there's |

“1 what o see you when you get back down here” - sald Mr. Lindberg. . Wilson C. Oren; superintendent of the Moncent. met us at the door find made it known that he will be glad to have the stars out of the observation tower. : “I wht. to have the, windows washed as soon 4: possible,” said Mr. Oren.

When we got up to the top, both Mr. Brown and] : agreed thit washing the windows wouldn't help the AS |

visibility much. The smog was so thick that the

State House ‘was barely visible:

Al we needed on the stars was a small | screwbage pail might have come in handy, each square box was an assortment half-eaten candy suckers and taffy garbage was not our worry. stars down the narrow stairways was the primary worry One slip and we would have had Not the kind you could store for!

too. or

By the time the styrs were safély put away in the basement of the Monument and we were once again in the midst of the tear-down operation, the rE department crews had made quite a dent. The Nativity scene was all but torn down, Josephs. Schultz, high on a ladder, was giving a section of the

roof a rough time, Otto Smith, Douglas Warren, Ray

Sacks, Ed McKean, Orville Millis and Leonard Kar-

mack all had their hands on some section of the dis-

play. v T "sqing in the Sheep - OKLE SHOEMAKER and. John Champlin had to hurry to get a couple of plaster sheep out from under the quivering manger. ‘Everything was to be packed and stored at the South Grove Golf Course. -Everything except the evergreens... The evergreens were not going to be saved but the stuff wasn't going to be wasted. Which brings us to the reason why Mr. Lindberg wanted to see me again: g Chris Miller, foreman of all the crews on the forestry detail, was rapidly dispatching trucks loaded with greens. Ed Lower’s truck was ready to roll to the Riverside Nursery. Prank Myers, hip deep in pine boughs, was tying the load down. I was handed a pair of snippers. Mr. Miller pointed to the boughs that stuck out over the side of the truck. streets slapping taxpayers in the mouth with evergreen branches. I trimmed ‘er up. Almost cut the hemp rope Mr. Myers: had -tied around the pile. Missed it by one pine needle. Mr. Lindberg said the trees would be used for decorations where they could and the rest would be used for mulching. Who says our fair city doesn’t economize? Riding “the truck to Riverside was a pretty good] deal. Beats tramping around the basins, getting bumped. with timbers and falling trees. The best

more work done at the Monument, “Step on it, men, we're ready for another toad.” That's what it takes to get a“job done—teamwork. |

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YIPPY New Year

MIAMI, Jan. 6—1I have just finished a long loafing session, which might account for an unusual attack of benignity on .my part, but I'm commencing to feel real good about 1948. It looks like a fine, rousing year, full of unsuspected boons and all kinds of action. I have just seen advertised, for instance, a handy little gadget, cost only $2.95, to enable you to snap off_the radio for the precise length of the commercial.

Soén as ‘the announcer finishes saying *. «50 buy Repulsive Face Cream, ladies, or drop dead , " click, the radio comes back on, automatically. It that

hasn't sounded the knell of the abrasively repetitive plug, it’s at least a start in the right direction. It won't culminate. in 48, but if Petrillo makes the recording .ban stick, there will be an eventual end to juke boxes. The Society for the Suppression. of Canned Crooning in Family Saloons, of which 1 have the honor. to be head axeman, feels that this is a ‘signal step. toward civilization in our time. My secret -service-depariment informs me that

one of the big mobs has just bought up 1,800,000

empty scotch bottles, of proven brand names, ‘with the intent of filling said bottles with the mob’s own urique brand of ‘pizen.

New High for Decibels

THIS SHOU LD make for an interesting year, combining all the cblorful gymnastics of the prohibition era with a full coffer for the government. The Citizen sees the two-headed sea serpents, but it's all right. Uncle Sam still gets his tax cut, Henry Wallace's self-nomination for the Joh of leading us out of whatever we're in should keep the presidential campaign clicking right along. It

Will be a nice, noisy vear around Washington and

vicinity, “full of whetted epithets, of the soiled variety, hurled: brickbats and pounded Raves. Mr. Truman's old stable or friends, Mr. Wallace's indorzers. and Congress’ stuffed quiver of .

geandais ought “16 firnish 1948 with & new high in political-decibel

On the sports front,

flapping laundry

we have the. ——

“you-but tome it- looks great.

‘By Robert C. Ruark

prospect of semi-silence from the Brooklyn Dodger | dugout, “as the chastened Durocher, under ban of | silence, is allowed to return to the vineyards at Ebbets Field. A silent Durocher is a natural marve 3 like the Grand Canyon, and should receive are) atiention. i

This is the year, too, when a bright and beamish | young man is invited to step up*and finish off the | ancient Joseph Louls. But I think that particular | deed of derring-do, like eventual silence: from the | Jukeboxes, is still afew" years away. Mr, Louis} infrequent spasms of incompetence, such as his show | against Walcott, happen only in odd years.

It Looks Great, Mates

- THEY CLAIM to have cured the common cold, or pretty close to it, and Shirley Temple is to have a | baby. There is no relation between these facts, except, that they make me cheertul. So does the news from Sweden. in which a noted brain specialist says that all the Communists need to act like nice normal} folks is a-hole in the head. He wants to strap ‘em | all down and relieve nervous pressure with a knife. We have finglly. got Princess Liz married off. which | gives us. a welcome surcease from that subject. | Young Mike of Romania has scrapped the scepter | to rush to the arms of his beloved, and if ‘we can Just scrabble up some personable young buck for Margaret Rose and Margaret Truman, the international boy-meets-girl situation is pretty well in hand. New Yorkers, for at least six more months, have an. unquenchable conversation topic-in the big snow. Whether Miss Truman can sing is-a little ol as a subject, but still suitable for Washington

11_right. cocktail. parties. h agricultural town are doing a parties. - The -atom-and- the Marshail- Plan condition central Indiana farmers find themselves in today.

are still nice steady fillers, and if we talk about the plan enough, we might even find out what's in it. We start the year with peak employment, peck

lousy weather, peak. taxes, peak income. .peak--outgo..

the usual labor troubles and the prospect of constant fireworks on all fronts. I don't know how it strikes

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Oil for Omaha

} WASTING Ta Jan: 6— Omaha Neb. O

It was a cold night in ne_-householder after another phoned

ed be er for a load of furnace oil. He was fresh Mat 19 do? He phoned his Senator, of course. He got Sen.

Kenneth 8. Wherry, “the terriblebod: Tt wa afer from Pawnee City, Neb. out of ficulty findi bere. 00. The Senator had somes dif= en Hone his house slippers in the dark. He long die 11s toes, but he listened patiently to the IStance tale of icy floors in Omaha;,-and-eventi-&11y crawled back between the sheets. . I guess it was fate. Because-there was Senator W--rthe job a few hours later as chairman of a Senate

tempered lawm

8ma| es Business Subcommittee investigating - the _pil tn 5 ue How come, he asked, is so much: fuel going

al RS when folks in Omaha, say, can't get any

| The big-wigs from the Afmy, the Navy and the

more Department gOt a thorough going-over: the, Wherry v €Xplained, the unhappier became Sen. ne They claimed they were buying only a few ‘ons-of oil for the Greeks. °

The Sepiatoy translated that into barrels and it turned out the

Us A U. 8. diplomats are buying from the are ea BVY 7000 barrels of oil a day for Greece. There "Ms to a barrel. The Senator did a little plying. The Navy is supplying oil to the S. the way he figured it. at the rate of 105 mil: ! #allons a year. Just a little ofl, hey¥

‘A Litt!~ ~il Profit for the Navy

YES, BUT—began the numerous witnesses, like G. H. Vogel of the Army-Navy Petroleum Board: .“ Ralph E. Wilson, his Naval deputy, and C, er Wood. deputy assistant Secretary of State. They : t on the deal. De !_buys oil wholesale and sells if to the State partment. at. Greek..retail prices. This-profit- goes 0 one pocket of the U. 8. “Treasury, which bought the

Cal.’ Capt,

A Role for Crawford By Erskine Johnson | a —— EE ee ———

HOLLYWOOD, Jan 6-—Joan Crawford and Sam. Wanamaker may be starred in “Dream Street.” Linda Darnell and Pev Marley will adopt a baby. _ from the Cradle. Comic Allan Young will apply for U. 8. citizenship. He Va born in Canaga. Hollywood after dark: Martha Raye singing m-

Promptu at the Mocambo to half-empty house at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Howard Hughes Romance Blossoms & FRIENDS are saying that the Howard Hughes-Cyd hatica romance may wind up at the altar, Warner Brothers and Paramount are are trying to sign Phil Phil Poster, the new comic at Sipy Maxie's.

By Frederick C. Othman

oil cheap out of Pocket No. 2. ard paid for it dear! from Pocket No."3. Sen, Wherry saw no net gain there.

another big military order. For national defense. “And then some of this military oil goes to the civilians in Greece at the rate of better than a million gallons a year.” he continued. “And what happens? The small businessman in Greece gets a priority over the small businessman here. Let's be brutally frank about it. Is that right?”

The Senator Had Him Stuttering |

COL. VOGEL was an enormous, haired Army. officer—he towered over everybody in the caucus ropm--but the Senator had him stuttering. | “Y--y--yes,” he replied. The colonel said don't blame him. He did what he was told. Well, insisted Sen. Wherry, what did

ness. - There is a backlog of srdersicash in reserve. He's not touching pi : , “on tractors; ombites gma vrher it Por-big purchases they -mre- take —+p5 seta tind theres more-work to do-atter-the bt mds-are—dra Deposits have hit-an | equipment. ing loans or giving notes against all Yime hi ah of $1 500. 000. Totalll ling rec eipts are (left to Co ght) Kenneth Rybolt,

“he think? The colonel indicated he'd prefer to do his

thinking in private. Senator said.

" What about the 86 oil tankers the U. 8. Maritime | Commission sold those Europeans so they could haul their own oil? And not dip into America’s supplies? Seven of those tankers went to the Greeks. Why weren't they using 'em? = They're still Jaid up for repairs, the State Department man said. And we're still sending U. 8 Navy | oil to Athens aboard U. 8. tankers, Sen. Wherry added. While Americans go cold, he muttered. | What happens next I do not know. I can report | only that Sen. Wherry now was warm. He was, to! be truthful, hot. His face was rosy and his forehead | damp. One more phgne call from Omaha and he

Still another thing, then-the

Won't even-need -a--furnace-at-—-his- house; he'll turn

It in on a refrigerating machine, {

Ex-Marine Bob Crosby will be guest of honor at a

big celebration Jan, 11 in Philadelphia, National Marine Reserve Week. Composer Dean Elliott is burning over reports that|

launching

IS Conte is courting Marilyn Maxwell in New York. |

Love Blooms for Australians HOLLYWOOD'S TWO Australian stars, Ron Randall and Ann Richards, have discovered each other. It's official now that Joan Crawford will sing in “Until. Proven Guilty"—two choruses. of “I've Been! Working: on the Railroad.”

+ Janis Paige's wedding gown, for her wedding to] Frank Margot J I was a sift trom her oa Jack

Warner, !

bo al ; pia ~

It would never do to travel on .city -

paint rotting barns and to mend sagging fences. when the old Model T served as a family CAr and A general farm haul- -all

over washboards and “Wood cook ie's: Beauty Shop. stoves.

; ents burned and most firsts are rememn- in. for ‘appointments, brances of lean years,

seat Grant County

to know how the farmer fares. For i nl And another thing, he roared. When an oil dealer more than 20 years he has kept Sales as farmers buy the latest (arm In Omaha tries to buy some fuel for his customers, track of their. bank books in the “quipment, the big oil company says it's sorry, biit it's Just filled town’s only bank. farm and runs an insurance agency

MERCHANTS. trons those seiling-Mr, Rybolt said. — The farmer 2 farm equipment to operating beauty around Swdyzee has an average oj / f - " » : 1pariors,-are doing -a-beoming busi- $3000 cash in the - bank, That's THE DAY'S BUSINESS—Fm ployees of the Granl Coun ' State Bank A Swayzee -

| Mrs. Robert Pence, owner of red-faced, gray-|—

ie | e Indianapolis Time

SAREE FAY

F armers Enjoy Comforts |

SWAYZEE, IND., 1948—A deserted look belies the financial prosperity this central Indiana town feels today as farmers prosper after long lean years when fences went unmended.

poiity has lightened Pren Simpson of near

FARMER S WIFE OF 48 A the load of housework of Mrg Swayzee. The RE is qd

Spa

= 5 . vt ; ha Sot 4 > : ? THE LATEST MODELS—Better tools for better work is the belief of Mr. Simpson. ‘Here he backs a new wagon ihto the barn with a new truck. He also has purchased a combine and 4 family car.

mi US LIKE THE CITY—The Simpsons, typical of Hoosier farmers, are spending their money wisely for a better life. This is the family's remodeled and modern kitchen with built-in cabinets, .

Washboards, Long Hours, Mortgages. Disappear as Boom Hits Soil

Indiana is one of the nation's top agricultural states, Farm com: munities dot Hoosierland. As farmers prosper, so in part does the state. The farmer has known lean years. Today the picture has changed. To record this “new look,” The Times assigned a staff writer to select a typical community in central Indiana and explore it. Swayzee, a community of 1000, some 60 miles north of Indianapolis, was chosen, By VIC TOR "PETERSON, “Times Star ‘Writer a SWAYZEE, Ind, Jan. 6—The tarmfolk in and around this smail They pretty well typify the

Gone are the days when they didn’t have the cash to repair and to Jone, too, are the days CAlso “gone are the Tong hours “The farm woms= en are taking advantage of modern América.” Most of them who some do 50 weekly The sale averages $1.50 each time. They usually get two permancnts a year and, preter the. upper ices around $10.” The 43 business ‘establishments, 15 of them new, are humming with |

Second mortgages “have been .

“The today,”

farmer—is—in—bhe driver's said" Kenneth Ryb#it State Bank casnier. Mr. Rybolt is in a good position

redecorate and remodel their homes and build new and tool buildings. “They are playing it NORTE:

He also owns a SWCK

“Business couldn't be better,” said the next crop.

301d-| “The farmer is going to keep | nis. cashier; Miss Bessie Mowrer, bookkeeper, and Mrs. Alice Md “ assistant cashier,

enviable position, too, as long as the burdened. Ta&day about 75 per cent a tic hot water heater and a Carnival—By Dick Turner world is hungry. He deserves it. of the farms are owned outright.” |b t shower. . For too long he has eaten the neck nn MN, | » of the hational turkey,” Mr. Ryooit THE LOREN SIMPSONS of rear Ch said Swayzee are falrly typical of tne bi FINE | ” ) general run, of farm folk who nave hau Wagon, FURS | THE HISTORY of the bank ve- 0 4 y the farmer is in the driver's flects the farmers’ ups. and downs

There 18 no throwing of money away, they can't afford to. . There]

t he is driving carefully, skids, he wants a cushion

| Roy

tn ‘the past 25 years

| In the years before the crash . 0 tour young sons for whom they! to on. ‘That cushion will be there ‘were some 750 accounts sith provide. book. the bank." Deposits ran $500900. "gue it certainly ik a lot different! The farmers average was About today from when we were married | $500. Then came the lean dys of jo 00 0 ago,” Mr. Simpson said, | depression and recession and de- “we started farming with norses! posits fell to alow of ‘$275,000 With ng hot enough money to buy new the farm average about $300, harness, The harness was wired|

The world began to look better in together*

1941, and since then the farmer nas Farming 151 acres, the Simona)

worked his way out of the finan- noted an upward trend in’ their cial swamp. There are 1000 accounts finances in 1940

today with deposits of $1,500,000

The garmer's average is $3000. | THE FIRST THOUGHT was to, The farmer isn't spending his put their business in better shape. imoney foolishly, He is preparing a As money became; available they yecushion against hard days which paired buildings and fences and

might come again, - Pirst con>in bought some new equipment. was to secure his farm. Around In the past few years they. have Swayzee today there isn't a farm modernized the home with built«in B : with a second mortgage, although kitchen cabinets, a bathroom, a [4 : | ANOTHER TENOR in 1935 at least 75 per cent were so washing machine and _mangle, an JUST TURNED

Bass’ J Father Asks Bandit Sons. to Surrender | |

OROVILLE, Cal, Jan. 8. (UP)— The two heavily armed youths, * The father of two young bandits. trapped by police in an olive e1-| /| who fought off pdlice in a 24-hour chard hére after a three- ~day roo-| gun battle “and escaped into the bery spree, battled 40 policemen snd, Z, y J mountains tonight begged his sons deputies during the night opefore' Xa ! to surrender before they are killed, [sneaking away under cover of darkavg Rg > Wp vin Hyatt, Oroville carpenter, ness, COPR 1948 BY WEA SERVICE WNC. TM. REG U. 8. PAT. OFF. ; ed his boys, Henry, 21,-and| The pair was cornered Saturday’ “ Ee J, 19, that they “have no chance night in an orchard after robbin For a quick sale | can let you have. this gorgeous number'at a big now” and should “give your: grin East ridley, Cal, market of $00.

reduction—my wile $ got ‘her eye on nik - up wherever you are." :

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