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of Car 9-18 and on a routine patrol of the southwest area of Marion County, said we were headed for Sunshine Gardens. Before I could make a crack about “sunshine” the radio crackled and ordered Car 9-18 to check flood conditions at Harding St. and Troy Ave. «Last night the intersection was barricaded,” Trooper Lusk said. “I wonder if we can get through.” Both of us were wearing short rubber boots put I made it known that I had no qualms about wading in water if it wasn’t too cold. My “partner” didn’t think we'd be wading. I wasn’t so sure. It didn’t take long to get to the intersection in “question. The barricades Trooper Lusk said were up the night before were gone. The car stopped on the edge of a small, dirty lake, Would pave made an excellent water hole on a golf

course. ~ “Think we can make it?”

‘Hold It’

I DON'T KNOW WHY he asked me except to make conversation. From the looks of the water we stood a good chance of making the middle. That was my candid opinion. “This water you see is half Lick Creek and White River,” commented Trooper Lusk. “Right

HOPEFUL SIGNS—State Trooper Harry Lusk shows his "flood.partner” where Eagle creek was, is, where it should go and stay.

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Nice thought. I had visions of the “boys” evacuating us if we went ahead. . es let’s go,” Trooper Luck snapped. it” And I wasnt yell from fear, either. A biue sedan had just turned on Harding from Troy. “Let's see if he makes it” The automobile plowed through without splutter. Lou fact that it had an “MD” on the pi t have hi Hoanse Sg, e had something to do

“If a doctor can make it, we certainly can. Try to drive in the same lane he did, will you?” My suggestion rolled off the trooper’s helmet like flood waters off a duck’s back. .

He called into headquarters, giving the approximate depth of the water and reported the ar section was passable.

It Wasn't a Houseboat

ALL ALONG Harding St. you could see the effects of water on the rampage. Chickens were huddled close to homes which were built on higher ground. A rowboat was tied to the front porch of-one home. I say home because I'm pretty sure it wasn’t a houseboat. | Before we reached the levee via Thompson Rd., one of the many concerned residents of Sunshine Gardens, Lindsay Hughett, waved us down with a big smile and reported the river was dropping. Mr. Hughett had been checking the rise and fall half the night and morning. Mr. Hughett wasn't stingy with his news. He told everyone who was headed toward the levee. To the residents of the lowlands, he carried mighty good news, Trooper Lusk heaved a sigh of relief. He had worked floods before and said flatly that .hey were things he could do very well without. On the levee itself, Hubért Jordan of the County Highway Department told us the water had gone down 20 inches and showed us the water marks. There was nothing to do but wait and hope there wouldn't be any. more rain. Trooper Lusk thought he had better pay Charlie Russell a visit on the way back. Mr. Russell had 1003 acres of land behind the levee.

We found Mr. Russell, still wet to the skin from plugging 71 fox and groundhog holes in the levee. Even though he admitted he was dead tired, Mr. Russell, nevertheless, was in high spirits. The water was going down. That was the main thing.

The high spirits of the people directly concerned made us have a brighter outlook on the flood. Trooper Lusk was all sunshine when he showed me where the water cf Eagle Creek had risen under the bridge on N. Lyndhurst Dr. “Look how much it went down. Look where it was. It's whipped for the time being.” Offhand, I would say he didn't like floods. “OI Man River,

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NEW YORK, Apr. 8-1 am humbled in the presence of modern womankind and I wish to make obeisance to‘'a project which, formerly. unbeknownst to me, is bigger than Boulder Dam. This I say in seriousness, after a visit with Miss Frances Kaye, at the International Beauty Shop Owners convention. °

Threading my way through a sea of half-clad young ladies who were gently bouncihg on agitated mattresses; young ladies who were having their hair waved, shampooed, dyed, undyed, bleached, unbleached and generally -tortured, I found Miss Kaye in & small booth on the second floor of Grand Central Palace. She was gazing morosely into a typewriter. She seemed to be in charge. “You are looking at a girl who needs to get gyrolated,” said Miss Kaye. “The body is beat.” The best I could muster on that one was “Huh?” “Gyrolated, gyrolated,” said Miss Kaye, impatiently. “Exercise, like, laying down. You don't have to take off your clothes to lose weight. Like those girls out there, on the mattresses. They are getting gyrolated.” “But they don’t have many clothes on,” I ventured. “Window dressing,” Miss Kaye snapped. “Take a load off your feet.” A man stuck his head through the curtain. Miss Kaye told him to come back later. I asked her who he was. “He is in charge of the lovable girl of the month,” she replied. “Are they sending them like books?” “It's a brassiere,” said Miss Kaye. “We are tied up with brassieres now. All kinds of characters come in here.” “Go away,” said Miss Kaye. “Bring me some lipsticks. What was it you wanted?” I said I just wanted to know how many steps It takes to be beautiful and how much it cost.

Picked the Best Hairdo

“SHAME YOU didn't get here earlier, You could have judged a contest, she answered. “Had a men jury. Picking the best hairdo. None of

out that way now,

R-r-remarkable . . . By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Apr. 8—You can lead a Senator to a speech, but you can’t make him listen. It was a beautiful spring day. Sen. John H. Overton of La. was quoting - Shakespeare, the Bible, himself, and a 93-year-old lady in an jmPassioned denunciation of daylight savings time for the District of Columbia. He was kicking the verbal stuffings out of that poor little hour that Would be skipped. And nobody much was listening except me and Sen. Kenneth 8. Wherry of Neb. Sen. Overton fondled the golden turnip in his vest pocket (which no law on earth will force him

to move up an hour) and he said the lack of inter-.

est in his remarks was astounding. And also a pity.

The clerk called the roll in an effort to get the Senator an audience, but nobody much showed up. Then he read the list of senatorial names a second lime and still hardly anybody showed any desire to hear the gentleman from Louisiana. This was a crisis. There was only one thing left to do and Sen. Wherry did it. He moved (and this seldom happens) that Sergeant-at-Arms Edward F. McGinnis round up the hookey-playing Senators,

Answered Roll and Beat It

THE POOR OLD SARGE flat-footed it out of the chamber, reluctantly. It is no fun collaring Senators-and booting 'em back to the job. Sometimes they get sore. Not too many years ago a ser-8eant-at-arms got fined for nabbing Senators too enthusiastically. Mr. McGinnis ‘was careful. He asked the Senators outside, pretty please, wouldn't they drop in? These tactics worked and soon the Sarge was brining in platoons of senatorial prisoners, most. of whom answered to their names and beat it outside again. :

Officially there was a quorum present, but by

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the guys even looked at the hairdo. What do yout suppose the winner won on? Hair? Are you kiddin’? : .

“But say I am going into a beauty shop for.

a wash job. It starts a chain reaction. It's a buck-fifty—but if I get expert advice on a new do, it's a cold $25. Then I suppose I might as well get a facial, from $2 to $5. While I'm there, I figure my moustache needs bleaching— $1.50. Might as well get my eyebrows plucked while I'm at it, and a manicure. If my fingers need it, my toes need it. Add it up . . . comes to three dollars. “So, long as I'm here, might as well loses a pound or two. Gyroducing. You sit in a chair, the chair wiggles, and you lose a few pounds off the hips. Switch to another chair, lose a few Say maybe five bucks. “Look at your hair, and it’s kind of loose. So I go back for a one-hour permanent. With an hour to kill, I might as well get the hair taken off the legs. Cost? Five for the head hair and maybe $7.50 for the legs—below the knee, that is. All the way, $10. That hurts, that leg treatment. It's wax. When they rip it off, it’s like tearing off adhesive.

Perhaps a Turkish Bath

“I WENT IN to rest and by this time I'm beat, again. So I take the massago-matic couch. Just lie down and rest and lose some more weight, If I'm still dead when I leave, I wind up in a turkish bath for massage.” “Is that all?” : . “Oh,” said Miss Kaye. “I forgel the bleach, and the touch up, and the strip. The strip is when you want your hair another color and you have it stripped of all the pigment. “After it’s all over, I got a new hairdo so I just have to have a new hat. A new set of accessories—you know, shoes, bag, gloves and stuff —goes with the hat, Might gs well buy a new dress to go with that, too. Gets expensive.” “Who pays?” I asked. “Papa,” said Miss Kaye, blithely, turning to somebody -who had just poked a head through the curtains. “I'm busy, now. See you later.”

the time Sen. Overton resumed his remarks, there were seven Senators listening to him out of a total of 95. And I think perhaps I'd better quote the gentleman from Louisiana, the greatest roller of “R's” in Congress, to give you some idea of what his fellow lawmakers missed. “The r-r-r-r-referendum of last year on this

"THE PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY "—The Indianapolis Public Library today. marks its 75th anniversary. The first library was located at Michigan and Pennsylvania Sts. and opened with 12,000 books and 500 borrowers. Today, besides Central Library where these pictures were taken, there are 21 branches. The library boasts 715,401 volumes and 112,651 borrowers. Daily patrons at Central number about 1000.

Lost deep in thought is one of them, Lowell Goshert, 822 E. |5th St. An Army Air Corps veteran, he attended Purdue University but now is employed as an instructor at the Shirley Corporation. He spends his spare moments reading technical books so he can keep abreast the latest develdpments in engineering.

of cities in residents.

STUDY IN CONCENTRATION — A cross-section of the people who use the library facilities is a. cross-section of Indianapolis. The old and the young and the in-between find answers to their problems and enjoyment through good books. Charles McLaughlin, Southport, wrinkles his brow as he works out a problem for a term paper. He is a sophomore in the Butler University College of Pharmacy. A staff of 145 persons, including 90 professional librarians, keep the various libraries

subject would freeze the very blood in your veins and the marrow in your bones,” he cried, explain-| ing that only*the nouveau riche and the socialites | (his terms) wanted daylight saving.

The Poor Laboring Man

“BUT THINK of the poor laboring man, who must rest in an ill-ventilated abode, while the heat waves come dashing over the city like molten lava until human life is almost unbearable,” he shouted. \ Only place for them to sleep, he continued, is the public parks where a policeman, named Capt. Raspberry, has ordered his bluecoats to massage the soles of their feet at 5:30 a. m., daylight saving time. “A fine raspberry for our people,” boomed Sen. Overton. And what of the socialites in their air-condi-tioned apartments? He said they push a button, an electric button, which brings them their breakfast in bed. Then they ride downtown to their offices in their limousines. “And they want that extra hour to spend in the cocktail bars in order that they may a-r-r-r-rouse an appetite for dinner,” he added. He went on from there, quoting the Bible to prove that daylight savings was ungodly and mentioning thus Sen. J. Howard McGrath of R. 1., who wrote the bill: “McGrath doth murder-r-r-r-r-r sleep. And I am quoting Shakespeare.” 80 much for the gentleman’s speech, that nobody wanted to hear. Personally I thought it was fine, R-r-r-r-r-remarkable.

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72? Test Your Skill ?2??

How many Army generals have lived t6 beSome Presidents of the United States? Washington, Jackson, William Henry Harson, Taylor, Grant and Garfield all were genorals and later were Presidents. . ® % rom st are Panama hats made? o palm which grows in Central and South Aer. :

Who was known as Bir Veto? President Andrew Jackson, because of his unusual number of congressional bill vetoes. : oo 4 What is the principal food of the world? Rice is more extensively grown and more widely used than any other foodstuff.

in smooth-functioning order. Miss Marian McFadden is head librarian.

Students to Aid | JE a Economics Day

The Butler University home economics department has announced appointment of student committees to assist with arrangements for the Home Economics Field Day Apr. 24.

Prof. Harriet Lundgren, department head, said Miss Margaret Rennoe, Indianapolis junior, is general chairman of the stu-|} dent committee and will be as-|# sisted by members of Welwyn Club, home economics honorary.| |

Committee chairmen include:

Miss Peggy Edwards, Indianapolis, registration; Miss Gunhilde Dudziak, Indianapolis, exhibits; Miss Peggy Rathert, Indianapolis, program; Miss Clarissa Hollander and Miss Carol Ann Kroft, both of Indianapolis, coffee hour.

Miss Helen Jane Avery, Gary, luncheon, and Mrs. John Black, Indianapolis, hostesses. ] Miss Phyllis Burck, Indianapolis, president of the Welwyn Club, will assist Miss Rennoe with general arrangements. . High school senior women from many schools of the state will attend the field day.

FASCINATED SMALL FRY—Indianapolis children make the greatest use of the library. They read an average of 231/, books each a year. Jane Meyer, 7, of 1654 Park Ave., comes to the library every two weeks with her sister, Sandra, 9, and her mother, Mrs, Byron B. Meyer. Jane's current favorites are cowboy stories, her sister's, pioneer, tales.

Joins Brokerage Firm

Paul Brachle of New York, for the past 28 years an employee of the Continental Can Co., has become affiliated with the Searle Brokerage Co. in Indignapolis.

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1948

Public Library Marks 75th Year

NAPS OVER NOVEL -—Miss Laura B. Jones, 225 W. 9th St., is one of the library's. most avid patrons. A retired music teacher, * she spends part of nearly every day poring over favorite volumes. Now 65, she has been a card holder since she was 6. Many people virtually become residents of the various libraries and are well known to members of the staff. The Diamond Anniversa tonight at 8 p.m. in Central Library with a talk b Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. The meeting will be opened by Clarence L. Farrington, Board of School Commissioners president, Last year the library had the second largest circulation

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KNOTTY PROBLEM—People are like books. From the cover, you can't guess the contents, Miss Ruth Medias, 4470 Marcy Lane, is absorbed here with’ the story of Richard Strauss’ opera, ‘Der Rosenkavalier," A student of the piano, voice and ballet, she sought the information so she will appreciate the dpera better whe it is presented at Indiana University soon. :

Nr Crull Named [County Soybean Or. Crull Named Crop Over Million

Butler Director | The 1947 soybean crop in Mar-

{lon County amounted to more

| Dr. Harry E. Crull, head of the than .$1 million according to a {Butler University department of survey made by the National

{mathematics since last Septem-|Soybean Crop Improveme - |ber, has been named director of lor pmpy mt Coun {the university college. . {He will assume his new duties — An estimated 354,000 bushels of {July 1. He will continue to hold soybeans were harvested by Marjine: malhematios past, ny {lon County farmers. during the { « Crull will succee r.P. M.| | Bail, who resigned recently to be- YoRI At what the Sounel] calls |come president of the University & “conservative value” of §3.40 a of Omaha. bushel, the marketing value of the The director has charge of ac-icrop was $1,204,000.

{tivities and studies of all fresh-| Indiana growers harvested 28 men and sophomore students. | million bushels of soybeans durDr. Crull was dean of Parking the year College when he joined the But- Font ler faculty. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, recetv-|

ing his doctorate in 1933. He is a member of Phi Betta Kappa,

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To Meet Here Monday |

Alumni of Indiana State Teach-. ers’ College will meet at #:30 p. m.' Monday in the Hotel Claypool: President Ralph N. Tirey will {outline recent developments at [the college and expansion plans. | Entertainment will be 1d the Singing Statesme

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