Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1948 — Page 21
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tion about hatching - eggs even .& ‘mother hen doesn't know. ! ? For instance, the temperature of the incubator Fred Wasden, assistant foreman of production, and 1 were looking into stood at 99 degrees. The humidity, 90. . Harold Ryan and Exell “Baughman awfully warm as they lifted chicks out of trays. Mr. Wasden said they probably were warm. «Step inside and test it yourself,” urged Mr. Wasden. : It doesn’t take much urging to get me to try something. Besides, the chick business was new to this boy from the Windy City area in the northern part of the state. ’
The air was almost oppressive. The fuzz from
the chicks was flying around everywhere. Blowers, set at small hurricane velocity, made speaking in a conversational tone impossible. A man with
THE CHICK AND |—What Exell Baughman is handling were eggs 21 days ago. Hot air does the trick in changing an egg to a White Rock.
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tor. Trays Rocked 18 Days I NOTICED the men worked only on trays near the floor. Above the sliding trays was a piece of |
canvas that stretched from one end of the incu-|
bator to the other. It was the same on the other) side. The whole business froni the outside looked | like a refrigerator in a meat market. |
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I'm sure Mr. Baughman and Mr. Ryan thought T was a big dope wnen I asked what all the tilting was for. Anyway, they scooted around on their little four-wheel stools when I popped the question. * “Well, you know a mother hen turns the eggs in a nest to prevent the yolk from sticking to the bottom of the egg, don’t you?” began Mr. Wasden.
Hint to Egg Haicher
THE BLANK LOOK on my face must have been enough to persuade him to go on. He explained further and more slowly about the technique’ of jostling the eggs every so often sO the yolk stays free inside the egg for 18 days. Very important in hatching eggs. Remember shat. Mr. Baughman ulled a tray of brand new Bi A tu get a good look ‘st them. Funny little things. Looked too. Wobbly, furry, noisy creatures that didn’t know which end was up. There were a couple that had just come out of the shell. The fuzz was still plastered on their bodies and they looked as if they had fallen into few minutes,” “They'll be dry and fluffy in a few Mr. Te ined, “Then they'll look like they're supposed to.” I watched one chick peck away at the top of the shell and you should have seen the look on his face when he first saw the light of day. If I looked as silly to him as he did to me, well, we both had laugh. 3 The way the men picked up the chicks and tossed them into the crates rather surprised me. Mr. Wesden said the little toss a chick gets was good for him. “It sort of wakes him up.” Maybe so. The hatching business, like everything else these days, relies heavily on numbers and classifications. The eggs have a number and letter which tells the men which flock they came from. From this the Co-Op can tell the whole history of the strain. There's no guessing being done by the hatchery or the flock owners, : The only guessing that goes on is about the original question of what comes first, the chicken or the egg. Too much for me. “The chicks the men were packing, 100 to a crate, would be leaving the hatchery in another er: out the wobbly ones, but other than that, the chicks were ready to start out on the world. And do you know, a chick doesn't have to be watered or fed for 72 hours after hatching? That's right. Mr. Wasden said they pack their own lunch, Most educational stuff, :
Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Apr. 2—We have finally run full cycle on the psychiatric approach to parenthood. It says here the baby knows more about his care and feeding than his ma does, and the old lady had better watch her step or else, A Dr. Benjamin Spock, writing for the American Medical Association’s Journal, warns us direly that too rigid a diet and toilet schedule can do all sort of things to the tot’s emotional development. He says that after the first year mother better start adjusting her maternal approach to junior’s personality, and that over all, baby is a better judge than either mama or medico of how much he needs to eat. This is news to me. Fve spent the last 30 years or so under the impression that mothers were created for the purpose of keeping an eye on buster-boy until he got big ‘enough to smoke cornsilk and pull pigtails. I remember I had some definite ideas about diet at three, which that heartiess, cruel monster, mama, rudely trampled down, making me thereby a hopeless neurotic. I used to think that you could swallow and receive nutriment from nails, sewing scissors, screws, nuts, bolts, coins, cigaret butts and lipsticks. I was especially fond of chewing lipsticks, because they were colored so nice and went down so easily.. But that fiend In skirts wouldn't pamper me. She was in there holding out for milk and spinach.
Ice Cream Six Times a Day
WE WENT to the mat again, later, when I was an elderly statesman of six. I had found, after some tedious research, the perfect diet for little boys. This ,was simple fare, consisting of ice cream three times a day, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On Sundays it was to be served six times a day, as payment for my sacrifice in going to Sunday School. For a variant, there were other staples, such as ple, cake, cookies, candy, unripe Peaches, pears ind apples. That benighted relic of the dark ages, mother, xept on practicing her medieval tortures on me. very time I turned up with the bellyache, due to scientific miscalculations in the laboratory, she got out a bottle of castor oil as big as a fire extinguisher. She poured out a neat half-tumbler, »
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WASHINGTON, Apr. 2—At long last, all ye sufferers in the pocketbook; I can tell you exactly Why your new cook stoves eost too much. It's because too many fellows are getting $10,000 fees for single telephone calls and too Many others are peddling $40 radios for $10, Somebody's got to pay for these things. It might as well be you, Boy. What I'm driving at As the investigating comIi tees of Rep. W. Kingsland Macy of N. Y. (The 2 Congressman. still wearing Herbert Hoover Choker-type collars) finally has dug out a steel Sray-market deal complete. So many gents made Te many wild-eyed profits on the steel that went nto your new stove that it cost more than triple What it should have. You paid. Here's the ‘tale: Russell Feldmann, president of the Interna-
* tional Detrola Corp, had 30,000 table-model radios
vorth $875,000 that he couldn't sell because they ere out of date. He also had a steel mill at NewPorts Ky. producing sheet steel in such demand wat he almost had to use a club to keep the ould-be buyers away. ;
Still at Regular Price
% SO A FELLOW named L. D. Roberts in Housvi Tex., made a deal to pay Mr. Feldmann the 1 price for the elderly radios, if he could buy Fy tons of steel at the regular market price of a ton. Then Mr. Roberts had to find a buyer. = He talked to C. P. Porter of Dallas, Tex., who as boss of an oil company owned by a Boston 2uto dealer named Forrest A. Clark. Mr. Porter talled his boss long distance to tell him about the adio-steel deal and for that he got $10,000. Did ® think he deserved it? ;
“Well, “ got ttn he testified, “I was awfully glad to
80 Mr. Clark formed a special corporation in Boston to buy the radios and the steel. Then he
and sat there—just like Mussolini—until I tossed it off. No chaser, either. It was along about this time that I began to bust out with complexes. I began to associate cause with effect. For instance, I learned that if I didn’t eat the spinach and the peas and the chicken and the potatoes, I didn’t get to eat the ice cream either. I learned that if I consumed a mess of green plums, I was dead sure to have a slug of castor oil as a demi-tasse. Oh, I was a psychic wreck, I can tell you. I sensed, automatically, that if I brought the billygoat into the parlor when the preacher came to call, a certain little boy was a cinch to have his pants peeled, and a long, lean, lithe lady’s haircomb applied to his bare bottom. This was a frightful indignity to practice on a mature dietician-and-tree climber, but that horrid woman was heartless. I still have fine-tooth marks on my caboose.
Cauldron of Complexes BY THE TIME I was 10 I was a seething cauldron of complexes, a mass of tangled emotions, a phenomenon of frustration. If T told a lie I knew it meant two afternoons in bed, while the other kids played baseball. Shy, tortured as I was, I said “Sir” and “Ma’am” to my elders. I learned that kicking school teachers was taboo; playing hookey was frowned on; that little boys who made bad grades often were not allowed to go hunting on Saturdays.
By that time my diet was so completely hedged by discipline and wicked regimentation that I had
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excellent eeth, stood close to six feet tall, weighed
150 pounds and could lick any kid in the class. I forgot to mention that I enjoyed fighting, because of ma’s cruelty. She caught me running away from a kid smaller than I was, once, and laid a lath on my fanny until I went back and whipped him in a sheer panicky effort to avoid a worse licking from Mrs. Demon. You can see how mother’s callous, sadistic influence has wrecked my life. I have never been in jail for anything serious and have never consulted a psychiatrist. I eat everything except eggplant, hold my liquor reasonably well, pay most of my bills and have been married 10 years to the same woman. I'm a psychic scarecrow, and I blame it all on mama,
By Frederick C. Othman
hired Mr. Roberts to sell same, and the latter estimated, as casually as you please, that he expected to earn $65,000. The $875,000 worth of radios he peddled to the Allied Stores Co. of New York for $275,000, and that was a bargain if ever there was one. Then he got in touch with some more citizens in Chicago to see if they’d like to buy a few thousand tons of steel. Would they? Quickly they put up $10,000 to form the Hanna Steel Corp. and, with $100,000 more in the bank which they never had to touch, they bought 6000 tons of steel.
$1:4 Extra to Boston
THE PLAN, said Martin C. Chesler, secretarytreasurer of Hanna, called for him to pay the Newport Mill the usual $93 per ton—and to forward to Boston $114 extra for each ton. So far so good. Then he resold the same steel—which still was in Newport awaiting shipment—to an assortment of desperate manufacturers (including the stove company) at prices ranging from $250 to $350 per ton. : So everybody was happy. Mr. Feldman got rid of his radios at full price. The Allied Stores got em at a price so 16w they staged a bargain sale, Mr. Porter pocketed his $10,000. Mr. Roberts expects to get his $65,000 when the last few tons of steel are delivered. Mr. Clark, the Boston auto man, twisted his long legs around the witness chair and figured he stood to make a profit of
Mr. Chesler said his firm had netted another $218,000 on the same steel. . “And on an investment of $10,000,” suggested John T. M. Reddan, the committee coungel. . The price of stoves, refrigerators afd furnaces went up to take care of the cost of the steel that went into them, and nobody-—absolutely nobody—
Mr, Wasden said. Of course, they would be|.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1948
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Teen-Agers Swing To Rhythm In Third Year At Melody Manor
THERE'S MELODY IN THE MANOR—The wail of Manor is’ not the only music rgest of the city s teen canteens. Founded three years ago with but 24 members, the canteen today numbers 600 teen-agers. Co-sponsor Mrs. Thelma Merritt plays with the mascot as members look on. They are (left to right) Judith Chance, James Delaney, Marian Myers and Robert Garwood. :
the mascot cat of Melod that sounds forth in this hn
VEW 1680 to Seat
‘New Officers
Meeting to Be Held At Edgewood School
Perry Township Memorial Post 1686, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will install officers at 8 p. m. Tuesday in the Edgewood Grade School gymnasium, Post officers will be seated by Carl Carey, state commander and
auxiliary officers will be {pstalled
by Mrs. Nellie Carey, stiace auxiliary presidént, Post ofticers will be Arville Baker, commander; Norman Baker, senior vice commander; Alvin Roehling, junior vice commander; Herman Johnson, quartermaster; Howard Mitchell, chaplain; Earl Passwaiter, post advocate; Ralph Baker, two-year. trustee; Thomas Bressler, three-year trustee; Martin Guedelhoefer, adjutant; James Eades, officer of the day, and Hubert Scott, service officer. Auxiliary officers will be Mary Bressler, president; Lorean Baker, senior vice president; Virginia Mitchell, junior vice president; Mary Alice Pickard, treasurer; Margie Baker, chaplain; Velma
Mae Hinshaw, conductress; Nor-| °
ma Surenkamp, guard; Patricia Youman, two-year trustee; Kathleen Youman, three-year trustee, and Virginia Dougherty, secretary.
VFW Posts Here Hold
Joint Installation
A joint installation of officers by the Lavelle Gossett Post and Auxiliary 908, VFW, was held last night in the post clubroom, 701 N. King Ave. The post officers “are: commander, William Littlejohn Sr.; senior vice commander, Rufus Cline; junior vice commander, James Groff; chaplain, Elwood Paul; quartermaster, Ernest L. Hahn, and trustee, George Weaver. The new officers of the auxiliary are: president, Helen Shipley; senior vice president, Marie Reed; junior vice president, Frances Wade; treasurer, Mary Martha Hahn; chaplain, Mary Gentry; guard, Mary Ragan; trustees, Bess Logan, Bea Weber and Olive Morton.. Past President Lillle Kelley installed the officers.
Kealing Is in Contest For Representative
Edward Ray Kealing, former,
member of the City Council two terms, has entered the race for GOP nomination for state representative. . Mr. Kealing also was the GOP nominee for sheriff in 1938 and has been a party precinct committeeman for the last 16 years. A lifelong resident qf Indianapolis, he lives with his family at 4924 E. 10th St. and is a member of the Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge, Sahara Grotto and the Second Ward Republican Club.
Attorneys to Hear Dr. Hubert L. Collins
The Indianapolis Bar Association will meet Wednesday at the Athenaeum for a dinner meeting. Speaker will be Dr. Hubert L. Collins, Indianapolis physician, who will speak on “The Truth About Hypnotism.” He Riso will give a demonstration on hypnosm. :
Byron P. Hollett, chairman of the admissions committee, will]
report. Members of the efitertainment committee are V., M. Armstrorig, John R. Barney, Louis R. Lowe and Charles D. Babcock,
lost a dime. Except maybe you. And me.
chairman.
(Photos by Lloyd B. Walton, Captions
by Victor Peterson)
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and spins a yarn for all to enjoy. Laughing with him are
Donald Reynolds, Connie Fairfield and Ronald Doak.
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THE JITTERBUG SPECIAL—This is a typical scene at a Frid
night dance of Melody Manor. There
TALL TALES OF TEENS—It's not all just a frolic at Melody Manor although ' there is an orchestra dance every Friday from 8 p. m. to |1 p. m. Beside the fire« place in the Brookside Community Center, canteen héadquarters, Don Coghill sits
Betty Wilson, Charlotte L.
Penn, Phyllis Baumgart, Karl Siegman, Frances Winter, David Thomas, Kenny Slack, Midge Martin, Dean Francis, Jenny Lee, Ruth Gish, Carol Cecil, Marilee Seaborg,
are ine
formal drop-in sessions every afternoon and gn executive committees meeting each Tuesday. The canteen is: selfs governing and all events are planned by the youths. They must adhere to but three rules: No liquor, no gambling
and that an adult must be present at all gatherings. All city canteens must follow these
rules. Last Sunday the cane
teen sponsored an Easter Egg Roll for all the children in the neighborhood of the community center,
LUCKY DAY—Jenny Harris receives a radio from George McCreary for being the 50,000th teen-ager to buy an admission ticket to a Friday dance. Others are (left to right) Betty Bradley, Dwight Worley, Pat Clouse, Russell Duke, Robert Kash and Janet Gormley. The canteen currently is organizing a choir and several’athletic teams. Members also help swell campaign drives of various city welfare organizations.
idev: SPONSOR CARD PARTY Shirley. Barth Elected | A card party will be given by Rev. Dern to Speak
Miss Shirley Barth of 4357 N.ithe softball team of the SamariPennsylvania 8t., has been elected tan Lodge, I00F, at 8 p. m.|pal clergyman, will speak to meémtreasurer of Theta Sigma Phi, Wednesday in the lodge hall at bers of Indianapolis Rotary Club
The Rev. William Dern, Episco-}
Dr. Daniel Bower Files for Office
Dr. Daniel L. Bower, 2305 H, 58th 8t., retired physician, has ane nounced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for state senator from, this county.
Dr. Bower formerly was a state representative in 1939 and was the author of 13 bills which bee came laws. He is principally ine terested in public health and soe cial legislation.
From 1941 to 1943 he was prese ident of the State Board of Beau ty Culturist Examiners. He prace ticed medicine here for 20 years. Dr. Bower now is president and general manager of the Indiane apolis office of the Peat Moss Co., & member of the Shrine, Kiwanis Club, American Legion and a graduate of the Indiana Univere sity School of Medicine.
Raper Commandery Sponsors Dance Raper Commandery 1, and Frederick E. Manker, commands er, will sponsor the annual spring party beginning with a 6:30 p. m, dinner Saturday in the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts.
Entertainment will follow in the auditorium under supervision
of Auburn Ross, chairman, The
national journalism honorary for Howard and Blaine Sts. James at noon Tuesday in Cla 1 H women, at DePauw University, | Ferguson is committee chairman. tel, rp € s