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1T'S WONDERFUL what one simple question will fead to sometimes. A question such as “What you n*2" iy dol wera. #.buple. Bundred men: T could have queried in the P. R. Mallory press: room. Maybe Maurice Garrison, machine operator, would have been happier if I had. But he looked. like a pretty ‘good Joe and I picked on him. “Do you have a couple hours listening time?” asked Mr. Garrison with a big grin. “And are you sure you're interested?” ; Of course I was interested. Here was a guy tending a contraption that gobbled up a shiny ribbon of steel on one end and coughed up tiny trinkets that could be mistaken for miniature sulkies. As a matter of fact. I was going to suggest right off the bat to Mr. Mallory that he pick up a little extra pin money by sidetracking some of the thing-a-ma-jigs to charm bracelets. \ : “What are those things?”
Auto Contact Arms? Pray Tell
MR. GARRISON promptly said ghey were contact arms for automobile distributors. Oh, ho? And what are contact arms for automobile distributors, pray tell? 1 thought for a minute Mr. Garrison was going to wipe his face with the grease rag. He didn't. He
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“I'm not a mechanic, Maurice. In fact, I don't even ‘own wheels. How would I know about a contact arm?” . : :
~ CONTACT? — Mairice Garrison had a peaceful day with his multi-slide_machine until "Nosey'' came around.
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“You see,” said Mr, Garrison, picking one up from the catch tray, “a piece of fibre goes in here, a contact here, another there and the contact arm rides on the rotary on your engine.” No, he didn’t have a picture pamphlet which would illustrate the whole works. r Noth-
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“T's Welling YOU'S cAF wan't 4b without It™ | ah : (Last of a Series of Two Picture Stories) ing like making sure of a complicated piece of ‘equip-! SR Da : Nu ment. Mr, Garrison said there was nothing complicated about a contact arm. OK. | We turned our attention to the multi-slide machine. We watched in silence for quite awhile, By silence I mean no one talked. The machine makes a lot of racket which sounds exactly like an old steam’ engine whooshing along on square wheels. You know, whoosh—clank. whoosh—clank. After each whoosh
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“Yes it is. It's so interesting that I often dream about it at night.” smiled Mr. Garrison. | After so long a time you can't help but ask how the thing works. There's just no figuring it nut. At least this mechanical engineer couldn't figure it out.’ The third time around with the explanation and here is what I had: One die punches two pilot holes. another makes a side cutoff. then the stock gets two identification stamps on it. Prom there (keen in mind the machine is punching away to “beat the band)
another rib form and another and the left side gets clipned off, then the right, then you get the contact | table. then the anele form, then the cutoff and fold.| Then—well, that's it. Mr. Garrison let me stand on a box so I could look rieht down inside of the clanking dies. | “Richt here the V is made.” Mr. Garrison pointed out. He also cantioned me not to get my nose down ton far. “One thing we never do and that is stick our noses in the business part of this machine.” “Does this thing ever go haywire?” The former Marine hitched his trousers un a little and said it does get fouled up on occasion. “Why?”
Oh. nothing, except, it might be. interesting to see........ WHIRLING. DIAMONDS — Godin the.development of the-sarth; gave Hoosier: a land the basis. on. which the. Indiana. Limestone-Coi-could-become-the-world's-larqest producer of building stone. This limestone, fashioned to form, has become famous in’ building history. Patterns from the drafting room follow the job throughout the mill, Here a 72-inch blade, set with from two to six black commercial diamonds. in each of the 114 teeth, slips through stone for the Times Mirror building in Los Angeles. Leo Johnson watches progress of the cut. The diamonds last about six months.
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“AT THIS HO of the day?” asked Mr. Gar-, rison with a swift glance at the time, clock. “Do you! have a hole in your.head or something?” My face drooped. But I said he was - good Joe, didn’t I? Mr, Garrison took a wire and touched ‘a copper guide. In a flash the multi-slide conked out.’ “Just as if the stock got messed up,” explained Mr. Garrison, “only I don’t have to work for two hours getting it straightened out.” ‘ | So we watched. Mr. Garrison, contact arms and I, sulky charms. After all, it's the way you look at things, isn’t it? : |
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NEW YORK, Jan. 20—The Ruark National Sutvey, was charged with kidnapping her agent. snd then"
beginning to fret a little about trends already, though the year is still unweaned. Carefulness is mixed with irresponsibility; reaction with progress. During the recent big snow, men answered a cry of distress and went to pull a St. Bernard ‘dog out of a snowdrift in which the historic savior of frosthipped humans had managed to mire himself, This Is al] wrong, even for New Jersey. Something perverse is getting into that state's animal kingdom. It was in Jersey, last year, that & dog chased a rabbit into a bush and the rabbit kicked the stuffings out of him. It was in Jersey the other day that a normal lady-dog gave birth to a six-legged puppy. Perfectly ordinary puppy, otherwise. Jersey is also home of & cat which brushes its teeth. All of the perversity isn't confined to animals, either. A couple of Jersey internal revenue clerks got bored with shuffling withiolding tax. returns. They took huge clumps of records to the ladies’ lounge and flushed them. The deed fouled up 800,000 income tax records. ¥ EE
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Utah Angered at Nevada
WE ARE ALREADY beginning to experience some practical pangs from scientific tampering with nature. The state of Utah lis sore as a boil at the state of Nevada. Utah accuses Nevada of stealing Utah's snow. It seems the Nevadans are pummeling the Utahbound clouds with ice pellets, and by the time they
hit the “Utaly- lie they're milked dry." Utah's going
10-sue: onthe grotind of illegal diversion-of water. Texas is still doing things bigger and better than iny other state, though. A truck driver become madly enamored of "an Amarillo waitress, who spurned 'his love. : He wrote a note ‘saying that he didn't want to live if he couldn't have her. He tied the note to 8. stout rock, . Then the sorrowing suitor sat down on a nitro-glycerin bomb, and touched off the detonator. The town rocked under the explosion. One of the lover's shoes floated down, and that was all. - Violence of assorted ‘shapes has been occurring all around. Out in California, a beautiful film actress
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flailing the tar out of him. This. thought has often’ as a lovely eventuality to most people with { agents, but Miss Madge Meredith, 26, is the first to /seq it through. : | Down in Tampa there was a man. who hated pigeons. “The cops grabbed him for carefully bait- | ing the park birds with bread-crumbs, and then ' trying to beat them to death with a club. This | is thought to be ‘on a par with light-hunting deer! at night, or setting rat traps in granny’s desk drawer. §
Sight Sea Serpent OF U. S. Coast
THE FIRST SEA SERPENT for 1948 is already | on record, having been sighted and sworn to by the crew of the 88 Santa Clara, off the North Carolina coast. There were vehement denials that the vision was inspired by either sunspots or alcohol. It was Just there; all 35 feet of it. \ i It is improbable that this could have happened; elsewhere, but out in Los Angeles. the paternity | : of a child was established .by matching the baby's!
The unwilling pa shucked off his shoes the judge took one look, ¥nd_shortly thereafter the man was the legal father. There is some sort of moral here, but it slips me for the moment. or) A fine, solid note of economy, perhaps marking | the end of our spending splurge, has been initiated. by the airlines. - cohen American: -Alrlines christened a new flags Ship, they .used..a. bottle .of . beer . instead. of -champagne. The note of economy might have been inspired by the unfortunate plight of Colonial Atr-| lines, which has been stuck up three times lately | by the same bandit, who is as yet uncaught. | In Pennsylvania, a horseplayer picketed His | bookie, after losing a wad of dough. In New York;| a test tube baby was declared legitimate. In" Ohio, | a 13-year-old boy took off in his pappy’s plane] and. skipped school for two hours. He had never In Texas, they have begun to put pretty hostesses on the busses and streetcars. { Looks as if it's going to be a full year.
THE MASTER'S TOUCH — Such intricate carvings as this are every day work for skilled:carvers. The hands who evolved this work of art belong ‘to’ Roy Lancaster, who has followed his trade 30 years. Virtually every major limestone building in the United States was- supplied stone
three million surface feet of stone cut inio about 450,000 pieces. Each piece 0} stone is numbered before leaving the mill. Construction workers then fit consecutively numbered pieces fogether like a mammoth puzzle to ert a building.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—There have been a number of inquiries whether the contracting firm of Othman and Othman ever got a bathtub, The answer is, no
We're still bathless. But it went be long now, thanks to the wonders of this post-war world. The trouble was it took us a while to catch up’with ‘em. You remember when we bought the beaten-up Bouse in the country to rémodel, how we had to become our own contractors (my bride does the worying), and how we were stymied because one big Outfit wanted $1350 to tile our two (count ‘em) bathrooms,
Well, sir, we got letters of sympathy and denunciation from all over, A Pittsburgher reported that his Wife, his two children and himself had been taking Sponge baths for a year and were beginning to like Some tile: manufacturers, particularly one in Cincinnati, thought we'd landed in the hands of a highbinder. Others said I ought to quit yapping.
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THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TILE MAKERS phoned to say it couldn't let. this happen to 8 good friend like me. It said if Mrs. O. would drop to the showroom and choose her tile, it: would tee that we got same Installed ht a sensible price. She was a happy gal that night when we got home. For her bathroom she'd chosen peach-colored tile ith baby blue trimmings: for mine tan, with a choeSlate brown edge. The contractor came out a couple Of days later with his measuring tape. And noting Ppened. For two weeks nothing happened. I needled the association: ft needled the tile in-. Haller and a couple of days ago arrived his estimate: for the tile, $50 extra for the built-in soap . Othman and Othiman went out of busi-
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Then came .a couple of firms, each headed by, anxious young men; who wondered whether we'd consider aliminum tile? They said it was better than the old-fashioned kind and they could prove it. The trouble seemed to be that nobody much would believe 'em. It was too new and it didn’t weigh enough and, said they with a sigh, they could start work tomorrow if we'd let ‘em. Aluminum tile looked good to Othman and Othman. It comes in pretty colors, it goes on the wall with glue in a hurry, it is waterproof, and it is too® light to cause a sag in even an old house like ours. | So the aluminum boys did a little figuring.. Both said our bathrooms were whoppers, but that they could do the job complete for around $700. We shook hands on a deal witlr the one whose price was $30 lower, ; Guinea pigs or not for the aluminum industry, we : 4 ordered up -orchid tile (with burgundy ruching) for i: jo hs
my bride's bath; yellow for mine., And hile 1 } ; 3 was about it; I told the man to make my floor of A STATUE IS BORN — Alex Tramontana works on delicate le. wipe 4 be Jit 1a bare lest on ooid man. scroll as co-worker Pat Deckard puts his air chisel to ‘a block of stone pi : which will emerge as a figure of Christ for the Sacred Heart Hospital A Dip in the Jiichen bv the wad orl Spokane, Wash. In the background is a plaster cast of another in religious figure. Models often are sent the company in miniature. It is up to the artisan to duplicate it on a much enlarged scale.
’ Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Staff. Photographer HANDLED LIKE EGGS — At long last an order of stone is ready for shipment. Fragile, though heavy, the finished stone caretully is loaded with excelsior. The ‘cost for packing lumber and excelsior runs about $4000 a month. Shipments average about 30 cars a.day. Handling this consignment ‘of limestone are (left to right) other people, to wash ourselves. Some of our tle Clovis Fender, packing excelsior, and John Bullock and Ed Southern. comes from the Aluminum Company of America and pe ht - - “ -
some, I believe, from the crucibles of Henry Kaiser. P { ill ied T Pp { 'Bl k ’ Oo Di J k ba * 2 k If ever it springs a leak, or the orchid color rubs § © NN 11O opes Oo ru OCKS nN VISC JOC ey ar fin Lo ] of oft.3 Buty She avant Industry; wy bride VII vike By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON, United Press Staff Correspondent | records—stacked from floor to ceil. private studio—a nifty little $10,000: buries—foF free. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20~The No. 1 guy on James C. Petrillo’s ing. | set-up right next door to his din-| “Why not?" he asks. “I give ‘em
One sure thing: When.1 left for Work this morn. |, opm yt 1 a dise Jockey: named’ Martin: Bidck-the Ind Whoi = Thess. aré-all 1 have out here,”
ing the kitchen wasflooded. Undérneath the electric 1 : - |ing room. There's an outside ‘en-'a million dollars worth of free pubdish her de luxe was a drip, drip, arp, dripping. Started all these platter-spinning radio shows, he sald. “But back in New York
boons drying| He—and the thousands of disc jockeys. who latched on to a good I have 65,000. And there's some UWanCe for his secretaries and en- icity every day” He 1 nae to irk bo ren Ee y Yo dn believe | thing he started-15 years ago—are the boys the music czar ‘had in darned good records there, too. I gineer. = ff = | “He lounges behind & custom-m that a careless Plumber forgot o tighten the joints,| Mind when he slapped down his no-recording ban three weeks ago.can go on almost indefinitely.” | But the disc jockey himself can;desk 4n an imported leath ; They play ‘juke .box tunes from’ mdi ios om Mr, Block has the kind of set- sleep late, dawdle over brunch, walk flips a platter now and th ~|dawn till dawn: while the “live” ¥Orking three hours & day, making, y;., yest of the lads only dream| three feet, And still be on time for chats with any visitors who | musicians logk for jobs. Mr Pe-'$1,000,000 a year, and beaming at about as they toil over their hot his 11:30 a. m. “make believe ball- while he's on the alr.
this week we ought to be sitting down in style, like |
| OKLAHOMA CITY (UP)~Robert trillo is out ta make ‘em extinct. the world—Mr. “Petrillo included. |turn-tables*all night. ©” . - {room” show. o ~~ | “A cineh," he -chorties; Af of - the “domestic livestock Schisbert, 21. . county jail trusty, S50 We looked up Mr Block to-| “Shucks, he won't begin tobother He doesn't have to step out’of Mutual beams his program’ for an hour on this show-then killed, but there veh sarbage, 307: We halfway expected to find me for twé or three years,” Mr. his hilllop “mansion, to broadcast him, but ‘all the expensive gadgats of hours ; . + told guards HQ was leaving gar him muttering disgruatedly into his: Block chuckled, LT ennskstaeconst. have to in his super sound-proof studiggbe- the New ¥ el on the liand lo. Sel 0 80 BSH (8 Pack-mike | He flipped another brand, ne + fois hs god i work. He long 10 Mr. Biock—from the $1000 For il this effort he
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