Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1948 — Page 11
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THE BOARD OF CONTROL of the Soldiers 4nd Sailors Monument are going to have to order souvenir cards printed. I have a new
This new fact about the Monument, gathered gt great personal risk to my person, can be included without any charge in the new cards. Civic pride prompts me to do this. with this new dimension, belidve me, I'm not trying to detract from the information it already es. It’s pretty complete. For instance: (If you want to know the actual s buy a card) There's the diameter of the plaza surrounding the Monument; diameter of terrace; height of terrace; the foundation; depth of foundation; height of Monument including foundation; height of ‘Monument from street level to top of statue; shaft at top; balcony and height of Miss Indiana.
Not Even for Befty Grable
NO, MY NEW dimension isn’t of Miss Indiana. As much as I would like to measure the young jady, 1 couldn’t. I wouldn't go up 314 feet, 6 inches to measure Betty Grable if she were in the same Spot Miss Indiana is. What has intrigued me for some time, discounting Miss Indiana, is. the outside measurement of the curbing around the Monument. I've walked it many times. How far jis it around? Friends and visitors have asked me. Something
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MATHEMATICIAN—"Mr, Inside gathers statistics for a new dimension which could be
included on the: Monument Circle souvenir cards,
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D-Day Tremors
EL PASO, Tex., Mar. 22—We were just driving slong, through the flat cattle country. George Kirksey, a reformed sports writer and more lately a reformed lieutenant colonel, hooked a finger at a passing car. It had some sort of machinery on it, a portion of which was two arms pointing’ to the sky, “What's that look like?” George asked.
“Looks like a halftrack with two anti-aircraft guns on it”. I said, “That's what I thought,” Mr, Kirksey answered. “Eve g I see now looks like something out of the war. All the sal estate looks like North. America again.
We were driving behind a truck. In the back of it were two big cylinders, with rods pointing out the front. Two men were sitting crouched behind the cylinders.
“What's that” I said. “Easy. Two GI's sitting behind two 50-caliber machine guns. If an Arab stepped out on the road with a couple of eggs to sell,. I'd swear I was back in Tunisia. “You going back in, George?" I dunno, I expect I'm too old. How about you? “Not if I can help it. Rather be a war correspondent. You get home once in a while in that business, you know, check up on what the people on the home front are doing. The pay’s better, too.”
Everybody's Talking War
THIS conversation happened a couple of Weeks ago, on the day that Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey first shoved his head out of the ground with a statement on the draft. Since then, and especially since the ‘Truman speech, nearly all the small talk I've heard has treated a Third World War asia fact. J have heard women talking about moving to smaller quarters—and plans all seem qualified by the phrase—"if, of course, there isn’t war in the next few months.” The Mexican taxidrivers in El Paso ask you questions, you think we will be at war about how soon. The date ‘of the Italian elections— April 18—is as well known as April Fool's day.
Cheaper to Wed
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22—It was a gloomy day ~utside and—I suppose—at the White House. But in the Senate chamber all was cheerful and almost gay. The lawmakers were cutting taxes, ho matter what President Truman thinks, and I seldom have seen ’em so happy. “After all,” shouted the white-maned Sen. Tom Connally of Texas, “a man only dies once.”
So why, he demanded, should he be taxed for It twice? And that's a fair example, I should say, of the speechmaking about the bill which would slash income taxes by about $4.8 billion. And also make it mighty profitable for prosperous bachelors this leap year to take unto themselves rides, ?
Nearly all the Senators, Democrats and RePublicans alike, seemed to be all for the bill Whacking the take of the tax collector. A number of ‘em felt only that it didn’t go far enough. That's where Sen. Connally’s amendment on estate taxes came in. He wanted to make it as theap to die everywhere as in the 10 community Property states. There were Senators, like the gentleman from Texas, with 18 amendments, which would have cut taxes on things ranging from railroad tickets to seats in what Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada, talled “cabarets, roof gardens and so forth.”
Cut "Em, but Not Right Now
ALL THE SCHEMES to give a further break to us taxpayers put Sen. Eugene Millikin in something of a spot. He admitted that taxes on electric light bulbs and telephone calls, for inStance, were unfair.” He thought they ought to be cut; a1) right, but not now. In So the Senators voted. down the amendments Quick succession so they could hurry up and Cut income taxes, go into ‘conference with the
The Quiz Master
o When did the Stanley Cup become the property Professionals?
In 1907. It‘ has since been emblematic of the Professional hockey championship of-the world.
; eo citer hich state in the US has the smallest capital
Nevada. © of about arson City, Nev., has a population
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matics to get along. How to get the measurement of the perimeter (mathematical term for the outside of a circle) wasn't much of a problem after I had tossed out the hypotenuse which I didn’t have. A five-foot tape measure would do the trick. It would even
conform to the curve of the circle which would &
add to the accuracy of my final report.
Statistics—Bit by Bif
SIXTY INCHES of tape on the curbing made
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the going rather difficult at first. That was solved |: §
by tearing the tape at the 36-inch mark. Bit by|f
bit the statistics began to pour in. With my nose to the curbstone, I proceeded at a rapid rate until—beep—a fender deposited some
dust on my hat. Another inch and I would have|™
not know that in spots the curbing is going to pot. He can take it for what it's worth. I re-
placed a chunk of curbing but I doubt whether it will stay there. Chewing gum isn’t the right g
adhesive. ? But, back to the grind. About a. quarter of the way around the Circle and I was sorry I hadn't paid more attention in school. My back was paying for it. Bending and stooping every 36 inches soon begins to tell on the back muscles. Even my brawn was giving out. Motorists kept me on my toes.
friendly cop making friendly conversation. I told him I was a freshman in college and this was a “Hell Week” project. He didn’t offer to help.
Enough Concrete for 10 Years
JUST AS a side statistic, the squares in the|¥
walk around the Circle measure 64 inches. I measured one at the halfway mark just for fun, Also for a pause that was needed. I looked at enough concrete at close range to last me for 10 years, At the three-quarter mark I figured out that if I had tacked the tape to two sticks, my program would have been much simpler. My back would have been in better shape, too. I wound up with 13,096 inches. Dividing by 12 brought the distance around the Circle to 1091 feet and 4 inches. That, my friend is a lot of feet to cover doing knee bends every 36 inches. There it is. A The next time you walk around the Circle you will know you have walked 1091 feet. Don’t bother with the inches since you'll probably| wobble away that much. So, Board of Control, send me a new card when you get them printed.
By Robert C. Ruark
The broad back country seems to have accepted that date as another D-Day.
A sample conversation, from nearly everyone o
you meet, runs thus: “If the Communists knock off Italy in the next elections, do you think we'll have guts enough to drop that apple, or will we just flub around making some threats we can’t enforce?” Then, always: “Do you think the Russians really have the atom licked? And if they have, won’t both sides probably outlaw it?"
“This next war,” is as common a figure of ¥
speech as “when the war's over” was back in 1944, ‘There'is a sort of desperately calm acceptwhich is almost unbelievable, in view of the short three years since V-J Day. ;
‘Have to Come and Get Me’
AMONG ex-GI's there are two main approaches to the topic. One is the bravado approach of “They’ll have to come and get me this time.” The other is weary: “Nobody's fooling us with this talk about exempting the ex-soldiers from a new draft. If things get tough we are the guys they'll have to use because we aren't much older and we got the know-how.” In the South and in the West, just a few weeks back, there was little talk of war, and one womzn told me she just. couldn’t believe all she heard about the East being so worried about attack by atom bombs and guided missiles. The attitude has been shed as suddenly as a snake sloughs off his hide. The South’s rebellion against the Truman Civil Liberty Program, which was the hottest conversational topic I hit, has curled up and died in face of World War IIL Men with reserve commissions are now making plans on what they'll do when they're called back. The college kids I've met—non-veterans—are conceding a stint in the Army or Navy, and wondering whether they ought to volunteer now. And as I was saying earlier, the U. 8, has stopped looking like the U. 8. to me. Those ragged hills outside of El Paso look ‘as if they had been transplanted from Tunisia, and it seems to me I,can smell Arab cooking mixéd up in the dust.
| By Frederick C. Othman
House, which wants to slash ’em still further, reach a compromise, and send the bill over to the White House for the veto President Truman has promised. All indications were that this time the boys would pass the bill over his veto and what I'm getting at, bachelors, is that the time has come to ‘think seriously about the financial benefits of a marriage ceremony. Sen. Millikin, a happily married man, himself, produced the figures. And startling they are. Say you are a bachelor earning $25,000 a year; you're the fellow who should prove beyond all doubt that two soon can live cheaper than one.
It's Worth $3485.13 a Year
AS. OF NOW such a misguided male pays $9362.25 a year in income taxes. If he persists in remaining in a state of single bliss, Sen. Millikin and Co., grudgingly knock $661.77 off his bill.
A policeman } came over and asked what was going on. Just a
farm to dramatize the comi
farm of James Pierson, R. R. old son, John, makes friends ' he cares for them.
DOWN ON THE FARM—There's no place like the
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1948
New Animal Life On Hoosier Farm Dramatizes Birth Of Spring
Captions by Victor Peterson, Times Photographer-Reporter)
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blossoms out all over as Spring livestock is born. These chicks arrived just in time for the Easter season at the-
|, Bridgeport. His |2-year-with some of the young as
the rain wasn’t helping visibility, Mass., felt confident.
had told him.
mobile to the left. “Bumpy, isn’t it?” asked. “Look,” she said a little later, “a hitchhiker. Don’t you dare pick him up; Otto.” ‘Terribly Excited’ Mr. Thebner continued to hum. He wasn't picking up any hitchhikers on lonely back roads, he thought. “Oh, you'd better stop,” his wife
Sells Manhole Lids;
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‘So What?" Driver Swings Left Into Plenty of Bumps
Luckily for Him, His Wife Exercises
Her Feminine Right to Change Her Mind NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Mar. 22 (UP)—It was very dark and
but Otto Thebner of Middleboro,
Take your next left to get back on Kings Highway, the man
Finally he saw an opening in the trees and swung his auto-
said. “That man seems terribly excited. Something must have gone wrong.” Mr. Thebner stopped. The “hitchhiker,” rain dripping from his hat brim, stuck his head in the car window. “In two minutes,” he said, “the Boston to New Bedford train goes by here.” 50 Shaken Up “Really?” Mr. Thebner asked. “So what?” “So you're driving along the railroad tracks, that's what,” the
City to Be Repaid
Indianapolis is to receive $1228.42 from the American Foundry Co. in payment for a number of manhole covers it purchased from a City employee who is charged with having stolen them from the municipality. William Earl Sharber, 41, former City asphalt plant truck
But let him come to his senses, accept the
and he comes under the benefits of the community property provision. This is a little complicated to exnlain, but the results are simple enough. Me. ly by saying, “I do,” before a preacher our new groom saves himself a cool $3485.13 a vear. Enough to buy himself a limousine deluxe, take his bride on a honeymoon around the world, or make a down payment on a house. This deal works more or less the same way for all bachelors, but for reasons best understood by the little men with the adding machines in the basement of the Senate office building, the schedule works out best for the man who earns $25,000 a year. Getting married saves him a whopping 41 per cent. I can only hope that my own bride remains as broad-minded as she is beautiful; it would cost a pretty penny if she left me.
22? Test Your Skill 77?
How much does Canada contribute toward the support of the British Royal Family? The Canadian Government makes no financial contribution toward the British Government or toward the i, ge of He Crown. *
What part of a wheel is a felly?- ; It is the wooden rim to which the spokes and outer iron rim are attached.
ibetween July and December.
driver, admitted selling the cov-| ers to the foundry, police’ said. proposal of the beauty who's been after him, The covers were stolen last year)
man said.
{out of the car in time. |demolished and dragged 35 feet by an Old: Colony Railroad train. One woman passenger received minor cuts from shattered glass as the engine.and two cars were |derailed and 50 passengers were ishaken.
Mayor Al Feeney signed a re{lease of the company Saturday
{absolving it from any responsibil-'
ity after payment. Sharber is out on $1000 bond awaiting action of the Grand Jury on a charge of grand larceny.
Funeral Tomorrow ‘For Charles A. Jones
| Services will be held at 1:30 Pp. m. tomorrow for Charles A. Jones, 2457 Bradbury Ave. in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill. He was 66. .
died yesterday in St. Francis Hospital. He was a carpenter and had lived here 32 years. ~e was
Church and the Carpenters Union, Local 60. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Margaret. Jones: a son, W. Robert Jones, Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Paul Jones, Cleveland; a
and one grandson.
A native of Milroy, Mr. Jones
re of the Milroy Meth- |;
brother, Henry Jones, New Castle,
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MOTHER LOVE—This Jersey cow, owned by Mr. Pierson, is doubly proud of her young. She had twins, the first ever to be born on the Pierson farm. When not concerned with strictly maternal duties, she frolics clumsily with her offspring.
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THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD—On. shaky legs this newborn lamb cocks an inquisitive eye at nature as he pokes his head from the shelter of the barn.
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NURSERY RHYME DREAMLAND — Mary could have plenty of little lambs to follow her to school if she visited a farm such as that of Mr. and Mrs. James Jay, R. R. 7, Indianapolis. Well-fed sheep are "BAAAAAING" orders to their young right now and nudging them along none too softly with their. noses. While most farm stock is born with the coming of Spring, much of it could be born at various times during the year. The young, however, seem to thrive best during warm summer months.
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NO COLTS THIS YEAR—It's getting harder and harder to find a mare and her colt on Hoosier farms. The mechanized age has taken over the chores of the horse. On the Pierson farm, this giant tractor sired the garden tractor nuzzling at nis side. Mr. Pierson and his son keep the "beasts" in hand.
Cathedral to Give Wells to Attenc ‘ ather’s Funeral . ation fn a limited downtown Band Fanfare
Herman B Wells, president of Indiana University, was due to area today. ; | “1048 Band Fanfare” will be arrive in Indianapolis this sfterThe new exchange, Imperial presented by Cathedral High noon following a trans-Atiantio will affect 2000 phones Tuesday School at 8:15 p. m. on Apr. 9, flight from Germany for the ho. in the central part of the city now|10 and 11 in the school audito- Neral of his father, Gransville served by Cherry and Belmont.rium. {Wells, who died in Lebanon These will be transferred to the| .The two-act program will fea- Saturday. dial system. {ture nine band numbers and a| The university president, on ° Imperial is the 19th city office medley of Jerome Kern songs by leave to direct educational work and has been completed as part/the school glee club of 80 voices. in Germany, left Berlin yesterday Brother Etienne will direct the/and was due in New York by {plane at noon today. was solely a He will be met at the airport {here by F. T. Reed, his assistant
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pansion program of the Indiana chorus. Bell Telephone Co. here. The “Fanfare” band concert in past years, the
; . chorus of 40 boys and 40 giris|at the university. Funeral arWoman Overcome; making their initial appearance rangements will be completed ! Police Give First Aid [this year. after Mr. Wells’ arrival here. “
“Concertino,” a clarinet-saxo-| phone solo by Frank Radez, sen- y ¥ for band president, and “Tramp, Hurt in Scooter Crash (Tramp, Tramp!” a baritone solo; James Schmidt, 19, R. R. 18, covered by police in a semi-cons- py Jerry Theising, will be fea- received a fractured elbow when cious condition, [tured - in the first act. The sec- his motor scooter collided with Her son, Harold Pringle, told ond act will include a piano-band car driven by Kenneth Jon
police the gas heater had been novelty, “Etude in Boogie,” with|of La Porte, at 49th tral Ave. He was General * Hospital for
Mrs. Ella Pringle, 1245 Union
on for more than 10 hours and Thomas Murphy at the piano. had been forgotten. Mrs. le! Classical ‘and popular music| Ge e. will be included in the program. |and released.