Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1948 — Page 11

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survey, thinks th are overpopulated. In short, the fishermen haven't been lucky. My contention has always been that fish aren’t half as lucky as rod wielders. Now, the poor fish were going to have no time off at all if the pro-

pted. Mr. Nigh began the proceedings by reading the proposal. Then. he asked for expressions of

opinion. . Had ‘Awful Luck’ Last Year

THE prosecution got off to a slow start. They fet John A. Albertson, owner of Golden Beach Resort, Monticello, speak. To my surprise, Mr. Albertson was against lifting the closed season. He went on to say that he had “awful luck” last year on Schafer Lake and in his honest opin-

"THEREFORE, GENTLEMEN"—Dr. William E. Ricker closes his arguments for an open season on pan fish. “Supporter Byron Kennedy (left) listens “intently. John A. Albertson (right) isn't interested. ;

I'm Bowlegged

HOUSTON, Tex., Mar. 9—The impact of a broad White sombrero on the personality of an effete easterner is apt to be a strange thing to watch. I have been given such a headpiece, and

this 50-dolar lid is going to get me in trouble before I am done. I had noticed a couple of peculiar things after putting on’ the hat. I n, for instance, to walk bowlegged, to talk with a pronounced drawl, fo speak of gentlemen as “hombres” and to call strangers “podner”’ I began to refer to cattle as “cow-brutes” and “critters” and to yearn, aloud, for life on the range. r There is a man around here named Vernon Frost, who has something to do with oil. He said he had a ranch. He sail he would be pleased to have me come out and play cowboy on it, He said he would even put on his cowboy suit and help me play, It turns out Mr. Frost is an imposter. He is no rancher at all. He owns a cow-factory, and has ‘2500 pecan trees on the side. I never saw a single cowpoke or heard anybody. holler “Yippee.” Mr. Frost's pappy was the first man to bring Brahma bulls to Texas. A Brahma bull is a hecow with a hump on his back and a nasty temper. All his life Mr. Frost wanted to raise Brahmas, but was prevented on account of being unrich, until one day he dug a hole in the ground and got all greased up with oil and money. So he now raises a cow to an acre and sells them annually for a price which makes me shiver every time I cut into a steak. Vernon had an idea that he could raise cattle on $150-an-acre ground as a paying crop. He must have been right, for at his last 3 in the middle of the commodity slump and a-hard blizzard, he unloaded 51 beasts for $40,000.

Flicks a Page, Knows "Em All BROTHER FROST, who wears high-heeled boots and a painted shirt, is a scientific rancher. He keeps a filing system which is more involved than a government card-punch machine, and by flicking a page he can tell the middle name of the Neifer in the southeast corner ‘of ‘the north 40, and also who was her papa, mama, grandpa and grandma. He can tell you her tastes in green salad and whether she is a candidate for matrimony or the butcher-block. I asked Rancher Frost to introduce me to his foreman, or head wrangler, or whatever, and he

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16 and they're trying to make it an open season. “Gentlemen, don’t you think a sunfish has a yearning to indulge in a little of timeless ‘moon and June stuff’ without worrying about fancy hooks and fishermen?” I asked. “Don’t you have any romance in your souls?” I concentrated on the “little things” that mean so much in a fish’s life. Every man except Mr. Albertson broke out in smiles, Mr. Kennedy said I was a sentimentalist. Mr. Albertson called| me a true sportsman. I started to call ,... well, anyway, Mr. Nigh called for order and said maybe we better hear from Dr. Ricker.

quoted the percentage of fish that die of old age. It was his firm belief that if more fish were taken out there would be more food for the survivors, which would grow up to fill a pan nicely. Otherwise, all we would have on our lines would be peewees. ' Donald R. Hughes, chief of the division of Fish and Game, stood up and said he was for abolishing the closed season. He admitted that no one knew. all there is-to-kngw about fish and their habitats but experience in the past convinces him to give Dr. Ricker's proposal a try. Something has to be done, was the crux of his closing argument. I had a feeling my argument didn’t hold much

water or fish with the majority. Mr. Nigh said]

he'd have a decision in a couple of days. I'm not too hopeful. But, at least I tried to give the bluegills, crappies, red-eared sunfish, rock bass and yellow perch a vacation. i know how they feel in June.

By Robert C. Ruark

came up with a Texas A. and M graduate named Otto Schulte, who looks more like a young physi. cist than a cow chaperone. I asked Vernon to show me the empty saddles in the old corral, and got a sneer. Mr. Frost, this spurious rancher, has a corral constructed “entirely of steel and concrete. It looks like a ratmaze. Vernon can drive a critter —pardon, bovine—into one end, and by the time it comes out it is dipped, drenched, branded, milked, tattooed on the ear, dehorned, tested for disease and engaged to be married. -

And Brother That's Rich

HIS GROUND is so rich—richer by test than Nile Valley topsoil—that if a cow. stands too long in one place it is apt to grow leaves on its ears. He raises his own feed. His pecan trees, on a good year, yield 50,000 pounds at 45 cents a pound. "Vernon's barns are outsize steel quonset huts. His fences are steel and concrete. His maids, in the ranch house, wear red-and-white checkered uniforms. His porcH screens are made out Of nylon. Only his horses and cattle have remained anywhere close to type. He shoved me aboard something he called a quarter-horse, which had a gait like a riveting gun, and my friend Ralph Johnston later said that I resembled a monkey fighting a football. All I know is that today my bowlegged walk is no longer an affectation. How else can you walk? My host had kept telling me how kittenishly gentle his Brahma bulls were. I was inside the old corral at the time, ignoring the bull, which obviously had indigestion. There was a sudden whoosh, a yelp from the onlookers, and 2000 pounds of enraged Indian expatriate came roarigg down. I caromed off the fence, making what the bull-fighters call a Veronica with my coat tails, and getting myself thoroughly daubed in the process, since they had just painted the fence. Mr. Frost gaid that there was po danger, and the bull was just being chummy-—at which moment the bull chose to be chummy again and this time Mr. Frost got paint on his pants, I having left by means of an escape hatch. ® This modern cow-farming is all right, I guess, but they still haven't been able to breed disrespect for humans out of the bulls. Give me the old-fashioned way where a man in a big hat knows where he stands.

Big Wampum

WASHINGTON, Mar. 9—In a small, oldfashioned chamber with four fat cupids on. the ceiling, faded green drapes at the windows and a loudly ticking clock on the wall, a couple of elderly Senators are doing an age-old chore. They're going over the books of a myriad of federal agencies, many of which the average citizen never even heard of, and nearly all of which want bigger appropriations this year than last. Re-

. porters seldom stick their noses in on such small-

time proceedings as these, but I guess I am a peculiar fellow. With no further introduction, here's a dispatch about the Indians who have their tomahawks out for the Treasury Department and every dollar it has in the vaults: Asking the Senator for more money, about $82,000 more, was a white-haired citizen, who Identified himself as Louis J. O’Marr, one of the Indian claims commissioners. _ The commission’s been on the job now for two years, but it hasn't settled any claims yet. O’'Marr and Co. have heard their first case, involving the Osage Indians of Kansas, however, and expect to hand down a ruling shortly. The Senators observed that it was about time. This particular claim has been pending for exactly 140 years. “Yes sir,” said Mr. O'Marr, “this particular case goes back to 1808, when the government took over a strip of Osage land in Kansas. The tribe moved to Oklahoma, but the case has been under consideration ever since.” :

Want $800,000 Plus Interest

“HOW MUCH do these Indians want?” asked Sen. Clyde Reed of Kansas. Mr. 'O'Marr said that the litigation has been brought up to 1865, when the Osage tribe decided to settle for $800,000. They still want it, plus interest, at five per cent. Compound five per cent interest on $800,000

The Quiz Master

‘In writing A.D. and B.C., what is thé correct was taken to England “his Tamil hen he Position of these abbreviations, before or after by a

the date? : In dates, A.D. precedes the year and B.C. follows the year, as AD, 26 and 82 B.C. ®* ©

Was Elihu Yale, for whom the university was American? } :

Bamed, an J ? Wi Yale was born in Massachusetts, but

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for 83 years and you get a figure so astronomical

there isn’t enough money in the Treasury to cover|

it (or so said my expert, who refused flatly to monkey with such a calculation). - “But isn’t there any statute of limitations?” demanded Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee. “Can they go all the way back to the year one?” “Yes sir; they can,” replied Mr. O’Marr. “The statute of limitations has been waivéd by the act.”

Congress Did It, All Right

: “WHO PASSED that act?” asked Sen. McKelar. “Congress,” replied Mr. O’Marr. “Well, it looks like a scheme to defraud the government,” Sen. McKellar said. “I just can't understand how Congress ever passed it.” In case those Indians win, the tax collector's going to be a busy fellow and that makes, apropos, the next witness, His Honor, O. D. Turner, presiding Judge of the U. 8. Tax Court. Since 1924, the young-looking judge said, he and his 15 associate jurists have taken nearly $4 billion from the pockets of reluctant taxpayers. “Of course,” said the judge, “the Collector of Internal Revenue tried to get a good deal more than that.” . Judge Turner. said his court functioned only when a citizen thought the collector was too greedy; it hears about 5000 such cases a year. Sen. Reed said he never had any trouble with the collector. He makes out his own returns and when he makes mistakes in the government's favor, he’s always delighted when he gets a refund. “I made a mistake, myself, a few years ago,” confided Judge Turner. “A mistake in simple arithmetic. It was very embarrassing to me. Very.” It must have been. Let us pray now’ that there are no mistakes involving the Indians who want to cart off the U. 8. Treasury.

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was 4 years qld and never returned to this country. 4 So & @ Does his place of residence affect the normal body temperature of a man? The normal temperature is 98.6 degrees F. whether the man lives the tropics or the

SECOND SECTION

‘EASY THERE—Biggest publ

is that the trash collectors tear

lessened complaints.

to catch up with a growing city.

issues mean more taxes.

the improvements necessary in the department are vital to the growth of the city. The department “began this year with a bonded indebtedness of nearly $3° million. During

bonds with interest amounting to $246,307. At the same time sewer lines need extending, enlarging or replacing all over the city. The sanitation plant is not large enough to handle present flow and an incinerator must be built to provide a means of disposing of combustible waste materials. = s ” COUPLE THESE problems with the fact that the sanitation’ department’s legal status is not entirely clear to any one and you begin to get a dim picture of

scene. At the department helm is the board of sanitary comissioners: James Cunningham, president, 48 N. Dearborn St.; Warren C. Bevington, 3101 N. Meridian St., and Louis C. Brandt, 1616 Pleasant St. Mr. Bevington is the lone Republican. : The department’s public services include the collection of refuse, treatment. of sewage produced by domestic and industrial sources and the reduction of garbage collected. To perform these services there are approximately 350 employees whose salaries range from the top of $6300 a year for Ferdinand J. Ludzack, sanitation plant superintendent, to $1 an hour for garbage and trash collectors. ~ » ” . THE DEPARTMENT'S closest contact with the public is through

At times these .relations have reached the point of open warfare. Collectors find “contraband” in the eontainers and refuse to pick up the materials. The taxpayer counters with the charge that his garbage can is being battered and dented tO destruction. . Last year the de 60 new

polar regions.

Only Bond Issues Will Permit Department To Catch Up With Growth of Population

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG INDIANAPOLIS Sanitation Department has a long way to go

Facing the department today is a series of problems which only bond issues involving millions of dollars will solve. Bond

Whether or not the Indianapolis taxpayer likes the prospect

1947 it retired only $137.800 injcollector moving beside the ve-

its garbage and trash collections.|

e- Indianapolis City Runs Far Behind In “=m Of Garbage And Trash Disposal

(Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr., Times Staff Photographer)

system is to be brought up to date. The officials are (left : lection superintendent; Louis C. Brandt, board member; James Cunningham, Lottie Resener, board secretary; Richard Wetter, sanitation plant office: manager, and’ Ferdinand J. Ludzack, san

ic gripe against the department up the householders’ containers.

New collection trucks, one of which is being loaded here, have

which have eliminated a lot of the so called rough stuff connected with emptying garbage cans. Under the old system the horsedrawn trucks never stopped. The

hicles jerked off the can lid, threw| it to the ground and ran with the can to the truck. When he had emptied it he threw it to the ground several yards beyond the lid and then made a dash for the next container. ” os » THE NEW TRUCKS stop at each residence and-the containers are emptied and the lids replaced before the truck moves on. As a consequence «complaints are beginning to drop off. nd ‘The collection department must make about 37,000 pickups each day to provide once-weekly ash and garbage collection for Indianapolis residents. An average of

each day. The cost of this service, according to department figures, is $5.58 per family per year for 117 ecollections or about 43 cents per collection. Garbage collected on Indianapolis streets is hauled to the reduction plant on 8S. Belmont Ave. It is one of the few reduction plants in the United States and receipts from the sale of grease and fertilizer by-products amounted to $297,432 last year. The garbage hauled to the plant

sultant dark brown granular tankage is washed with naphtha to remove grease. The grease is sold to soap manufacturers. ” - o DURING THE first two months of 1948, 2850 tons of garbage were processed by the plant and the resulting salable products netted the city more than $30,000 over the

and maintenance required. .

550 tons of this refuse is collected |-

is cooked and dried and the re-|.

cost of the materials, labor, power

MONEY MAKER—By-products from reduction of garbage:collected over the in 4 large yearly revenue to the department, In: these tanks grease is which finds a ready market among soap. manufacturers, Residue is sold

city being extracte for fertilizer.

tation district's tax rate is 21 cents, 17 cents for maintenance and four cents to retire bonds. The sanitation district is not limited to the corporation limits of the city and therein lies the question of how much control the Mayor and City Council shall have over the board. Last year they had none. The board acted independently. But Mayor Feeney has said the board shall be answerable to the City Council. His, board . appointees have not seen fit to disagree with him.

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plant also located near White

The too-small sewage treatment

River on 8. Belmont Ave., receives

MUCH TO BE DONE~—These officials of the Indianapolis Sanitation Department face a number of big problems if the city's sanitation to right) D. O. Bender, assistant sanitation superintendent; Thomas E. Bell, colboard president; Warren C. Bevington, board member; Mrs. itation plant superintendent.

about 65 million gallons of sewage per day. The plant is-only large enough to give about 60 per cent purification’ to the constantly increasing flow.

” ” # . SLUDGE disposal is an immediate problem at the plant and new “lagoons” where the material is dumped are to be constructed. The plant is expected to operate during 1948 dt a cost of about $3.20 per family or about 85 cents per person served. During the war years the city administration saw need of future expansion of the sewer system and hired the firm of Moore & Owen to draw plans to meet future construction needs. The firm outlined a 10-year

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plan estimated to: cost approximately $35 million. How much of this pian is ever used remains to be seen. Today the present. administration {8 investigating the. city’s oontract with Moore & Owen and is withholding payment on the engingering firm's fees. Regardless of this the Moore & Owen plan is the only thing the city has as any kind of a solution to its sewer problems. The engineering firm’s plans for 1947-48 include $1% million expansion. of the sewage treatment plant and the construction of a

number of interceptor and storm relief sewers throughout the city, [Sa JUST ONE of these projects located in the Forest Manor area along E. 38th 8t. would run into millions. Part of this would be at the expense of the sanitary district, part at city expense and part at the expense of property owners, Another project being considered is located ‘in the Broad Ripple-Warfley area. Additional

there. Broad ‘Ripple residents have already had three general sewer assessments and the city feels it cannot; be asked to pay more. The Forest Manor Civic League is making a ‘strong bid for its project. Needed are extension’ of a large interceptor line up Fall Creek and the installation of a storm- relief sewer along 37th St. . - and a combination storm and sanitary ‘sewer along Minnie Creek north of 30th St. wR - » THE LATTER would provide drainage for an entire section now without any type of sewer system. The 37th St. line would allow streets in Forest Manor: to be paved and curbs and gutters constructed. The project would also extend ; service toward ‘the growing section along 38th St., which is outs side the city limits. The new board is moving cau-

In the meantime, if you have a complaint to make ‘about garbage or trash collections or if

ent purtrucks

created out of the Board of Works| .- u want a as and Sanitation by an act of the| ‘| ain't answering any more questions! : m your street oF pre call 1947 general assembly. The sani- ih ike re questions! If the rest of the kids wanna, | the Saljection department, MA-

arks, let ‘em do their own studying!" »