Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1948 — Page 13
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A 35-Minute Job MR. MURPHY instructed the judges what to do. Estel Callahan, vocational agricultural teacher at Pike Township High School, was the official timer. “You will have 25 minutes to place the ewes and give your reasons” announced Mr, Callahan,
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held the ewes for the judges shoulders, heart girth, measure of leg of mutton and quality of wool,
tried to catch one of the baby lambs. Just thought
it would be fun to easily. By the way,
Clark, was the only one to place the ewes in the correct order for a perfect score. Patricia Cunningham was a surprised young lady. Next four sheep (I hope I'm right in saying that) to be judged were Shropshire breeding ewes. My first choice again was Buster. So much simp that way. Sheep are sheep to me and how anyone can tell the difference is beyond me. It was, however, a darn nice thing to see so many youngstrs taking such an interest in what they were doing. Several boys sat on the fence and wrote their reasons for picking a certain ewe. Others wrote against the barn. That's my idea of a healthy examination. I was in the barn smelling a variety of sweet weeds the lambs were nuts about when the ewe judging ended. We all piled into cars again and headed for the Adams farm. George Adams had four black Angus cows ready for the group. The same rigamarole again. Mr. Adams informed me the cows were not quadruplets.
“Each one is different. No, it’s easy to tell them a) Look at that one with the large brisket.” He was talking about a large brisket when I didn’t even know which end the brisket was on. For all I knew it was on the side.
My ignorance didn’t detract any from the fun, though. I get a big kick out of the country. I'm happy to report two of our Tech boys judged the cows correctly. William Cull and D. Beverly Scott were the experts. Bob Book came through for Tech in the heifer (little cows to you city folk) judging. The day’s work of “learning by doing” doesn’t end there. Two high teams will meet 20 other teams from 10, counties for a district contest. More days off from school. The country boys have it made. They're really the slickers, believe me,
Boy, I'm Confused
NEW YORK, Apr. 19—It occurs that I must be a pretty poor type of fellow, in this age of the personalized advertisement, the goldfish-bowl school of human behavior, and the casual cure-all. I have never switched to Calvert's, for instance, which probably ‘makes me one with the CroMagnon man. It may be milder, lighter and crammed full of health-giving vitamins, but somehow I just never changed over. This makes me outcast in a land where every poster shrieks: “Henry Smithers Has Switched, etc.” .., But I don't care. Let them run with the pack. Iam a Seagram’s man, staunch and true to the last.
If I have begun to twitch and stammer, it may be because Dr. Kinsey has not crowded me into a quiet corner to pry libidinous secrets from me. You work on the blabbermouths, Doc. Where I was raised it was considered caddish to kiss and tell. Look what happened to Benny Meyers.
I carry my political secrets with me to the pillow, because neither Dr. Gallup nor Mr. Elmo Roper ever comes ‘round to call. I have not indorsed Gen. MacArthur, even though inspired by the ghosts of Edwin Booth and Rudolph Valentino, who undoubtedly will be plumping for the general any minute now. Here I am, loaded with political opinion, and nobody asks me, at all.
Only Creditors and Relatives
DAY AFTER weary day, I plod the streets of New York, hoping that I'll bump into an inquiring photographer who will snap my picture and ask me if I think people are here to stay and which woud I rather own, an economy-sized atom bomb or a big red apple. Never see a single photographer. Only creditors and relatives. And I got some snazzy answers, too. Why shucks, Ma, I've never, ever indorsed a beer or publicly attested that Pepsi-Cola hits the spot. All the fellows are beginning to point at me in the schoolyard, because even Skinny Smith —the one with the pointed head and four arms— has been elected a man of distinction. He looks real cute, with a sarsaparilla glass in three hands and a corn-shuck cigaret in the other. Frustrated? I went on Information Please
By Robert C. Ruark
once. "I didn’t know any of the answers, and now I can’t even get a bid to People Are Stupid. I am.the only guy alive who never won a Lincoln
Continental, a refrigerator, a nine-bedroom man-|
sion, a television set, a gold watch, a square-cut diamond and ‘a $15,000-a-year job on a quiz program. I thought the Walking Man was Harry nan and I nominated Nancy Astor for Miss Hus In all my life, I never was engaged to Lana Turner. I was never married to Arline Judge, even. I have had pink toothbrush for 15 years, and my athlete's foot gets steadily worse. My wife won't use Duz in the kitchen. She says she doesn’t want to work herself out of a job.
‘My “Mutt Has Ulcers
I HAVE DRENCHED myself in hair tonic, but one day the hair is gigolo-slick and the next it’s dry and frowzy. But mostly, it just ain’t there. The mutt has mange, and he just hates Pink Dart dog food. It irritates his ulcers. Lately I have been smoking all the doctorindorsed cigarets. But I still have an awful cough. I have tried various weight-losing formulae, and gained 10 pounds. I have striven to master correct English in 15 minutes a day, and I still say “ain't.” . My pants sag at the seat and bag at the knee. My collars curl heavenward. There is tattle-tale gray in my shirts, which keep shrinking. I have indigestion all the time, and the cook quits weekly, because I won't let her make cream gravy with Jergens lotion. Ford is out front and Buick is the ride that’s wrapped in velvet'and only Dodge gives so much vision, comfort and ease of handling, but, then on the other hand only Plymouth gives you this new safety, comfort and advancement and every ride is a glide in the lap of luxury in a Studebaker, but I don't seem to be able to buy any of them in the open market, during this century. I am steeped in Ovaltine, but I still wake up tired. The only thing I can figure is: I'm just not with it. Why, I guess I'm the only man alive who can’t even tell you whether the Russians have the bomb, or whether Ike will really run.
Museum Feet
WASHINGTON, Apr. 19—As an art lover, I've got tender feet. I can take those German masterpieces the Army found in a salt mine, or I can leave em. I mean I'm neutral in perhaps the politest little battle in which our government ever tangled. You remember the 202 Old Masters the Army Brought over here rom Germany for safe keeping in 1945. The Army promised to send ’em back about day after tomorrow. The State Department agreed this was the honest thing to do. President Truman said fine. Give the Germans back their pictures. So along came art patrons, politicians and others claiming we ought to keep these great masterpieces on tour in America a while longer so everybody could have a look at ‘em, Sen. J. William Fulbright of Ark., introduced a bill to do just that. And wow. Before the Senate Armed Services Committee it developed the politest, knock-down-and-drag-out argument since Alphonse and Gaston in the comic sheets, -
What About Our Word?
THE LADY lovers of art applauded (gently) when Sen. Fulbright said the Germans ought to appreciate eur taking care of their pictures. They
sat with tight lips when the Army man and the.
State Department diplomat said yes, but we gave Those Germans our word and how about keepit? The director of the National Museum, where the pictures have been attracting record-break! crowds for the last three weeks, said he'd do his best to help take care of 'em if Congress decided to hold ’em, but he wanted no responsibility if they got burned, or lost in a train wreck. And then came a precise-speaking young man,
By Frederick C. Othman
name of John Walker, the curator of the museum, to. tell the lawmakers about the practical side of art. “Pictures are more like people than. perhaps you realize,” said he. “At certain stages of their lives they require medical attention. When they get too old we just have to embalm them.”’ The German pictures, he said, are fragile and ancient invalids.
‘The Salt Mine Didn't Help
“THE LESS travel they are forced to take,” he continued, “the better. The sojourn they spent in the salt mine did them no good. Particularly those painted on wooden panels. But they have
had a good convalescence in our air-conditioned
galleries. They have dried out slowly.” Sen. Edward V. Robertson, the patron of the arts from Cody, Wyo., said he knew about that He brought some furniture to Cody, 6100 feet above sea level, and it cracked and split and shrunk. Ruined. : Sen. Fulbright wondered how old was the oldest picture in the German collection? Mr. Walker said it was painted in the year 1250. “Six hundred and fifty years old,” the Senator mused. “Your comparison of pictures to humans can’t hold true. These pictures seem to have done pretty well.” “Well,” said Curator Walker, “husman beings often can benefit by taking a trip. That is not true of pictures.” The art lovers still were battling it out when
Meridian St. and Speedway lines.
ance being paid up.
Finnegan, 3312 Central Ave, and Mrs. Wilma Lair, 2139 Central Ave. , They were the first of 37 women hired by the Indianapolis Street Railways to replace men called to service, Since the end of the war in
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NO LONGER are they objects of curiousity. Those still employed are part of a system. Today many men claim the feminine bus jockeys are their favorite drivers. Nine of the women still wear the livery of ISR. The others have gone back to housekeeping and rearing families. One of the nine, however, continues to drive and rear a family at the same time. She is Mrs. Fredrick Bruner of Oaklandon. Her husband also drives for the company. Currently Mrs. Bruner is on her second leave of absence. She took one when Gary was born two and a half years ago. Right now she is
1945, what has happened to them? 4" heen born.
MONDAY, APRIL 19,.1948
Feminine Bus Jockeys
Make Good
-Over Jobs From War Days
ONLY A FEW REMAIN—Mrs. Jeanne Finnegan is but one of nine of the original 37 women bus and streetcar operators employed by the Indianapolis Street Railways during the war.
DAY WORK—Mrs. Wilma Lair flipped a coin with Mrs. Finnegan to determine seniority and lost. She, too, has a night run over the Speeday line so she can care for such jobs as spring housecleaning. One Rears Family, Drives on Night Shift; All Have Earned Public Appreciation
ON JAN. 23, 1943, stout-hearted males awaited busses on the i
All along the routes they jauntily swung aboard. Then they |] paled. Some got off. Others mumbled something about their insur-
The causes of the confusion were two new drivers, Mrs. Jeanne
» » - ALMOST IMMEDIATELY she gave passengers a laugh. The bus she was driving at that time ran in front of her house. One morning, when she left for work, Patty was giving birth to puppies, including Ginger. Seven She wanted to know if there were others during the day.
On one trip past her home there was a huge sign on the porch with the number 8. The rest of the run she regaled the passengers with the story on the family increase. The other women drivers still employed include Miss Frances Barker, 2848 MacPherson Ave.; Mrs. Grace King, 234 E. St. Joseph St.; Miss Harriet Powell, 1728 N. Meridian St.; Miss Ruth Black, 520 E. McCarty 8t.; Mrs. Anna Taylor, 327 N. Colorado Ave. and Miss Ella Qualls, 401 Haugh St.
getting Cheryl Kay started in life.
THE ORIGINAL PAIR, who flipped a coin to determine seni-
the Meridian St. and Speedway route. “A little bit of everything happens to us,” said Mrs. Lair. One day a lady boarded her bus and showed her a picture of a
“I named her Wilma Jean for you two drivers,” the lady said. To this day, they are not sure if that is the child's name or if it is a joke. Mrs. Lair started driving when she was 10 and never has stopped. She and her father were riding in the family Model T. It stuck
she drove.
I left. I'd hate to predict what happens to the Germans’ pictures; all I know is that I've got museum feet from looking at ’em. Or what art galleries need more seats and not 50 many paintings. :
The Quiz Master
??? Test Your Skill ???
Who was Duncan Phyfe? He was a famous American cabinetmaker of the éarly Federal period. He lived from 1768 to 1854. To him we owe the “Duncan Phyfe style” of
gis * & ¢ why is Lake Merritt in Oakland, Cal, out-
ng? Because it is only tidal lake of Amer ican eity, he omy
What is radiant heat? Radiant heat is the term applied when heat is supplied by steam or hot water pipes built into walls or floors. $ : . ® & How old is the art of modeling with clay? The first known objects to be modeled in clay are the statuettes of bison found on the floor of the Tucd Audoubert cave in southern France and made by the Cro-Magnons 25,000 year ago.
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MRS. FINNEGAN has hair as red as that of her two Irish Sét-
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by. baby | Crispus Attucks Auditorium.
Players Guild Sets
air met on ois oe Cast for Mystery |
Alpha Nu Omega Players Guild of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will present “The Scarecrow Creeps” at 8:15 p. m. Friday in
Cast -of the mystery-comedy includs Elizabeth Carter, Ruth Phillips, Delores Hummons, Aletha Lawrence and Eura Sargent. Male supporting members are: Franklin Holland, Louis Hackney, Raymond Patterson, Elba Cole, Johnny Landrum and Frank e.
in the mud. Her father pushed, Hodg:
Other members include: Lillian Grubbs, chairman; Henderson, co-chairman; Victoria Porter, Claireass Anthony, Kath-
ters, Patty and Ginger. “That's why I got Patty to start with—we match,” she said. Mrs. Finnegan is a milliner turned truck driver turned bus driver. “And T like this work best of] all,” she said. i Mrs. Finnegan operate@ her dress shop in Chicago from 1931 to 1939. Then she and her hus-
ryn Barton, Lois Baird, Emily Garrett, Lois Prince, Flora De Frantz, Betty Powell and Ula Carpenter. Franklin Holland will direct the play. 4
Recital to Be Given
A dramatic art recital by Lu
pand moved to Lansing, Mich. to run a fruit store. Every other! day she drove a truck to Detroit for produce. | In 1941 they sold out and moved | to Indianapolis. Two years later; she became a bus jockey.
Ellen Dearinger, 12, and Joan!
|Hilderbrand, 8, will be given at
3 p. m. Bunday in Cropsey Auditorium of the Central Library. They are pupils of Mrs. W. G. Patterson, president of the InmdiSue polis Plano Teachers Associa-
[Photos and Story by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer)
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keep up with all of her duties as a housewife. A former milliner, she designed the cap which American Airline stewardesses still wear. She also is one of the first two women hired to jockey a bus in Indianapolis.
leave in five years. A son,
society was announced today. Senjor students elected are:
Hazel|Helen Barber, Carmel Cecile, Wil-| elected president of the Butler
liam ‘Fuller, Ruthanne Gossom, Vera Groh, Clara Holmes, Henry Hill, Wilbur McCarter, Mildred Marshall, Richard Mehne, Betty Morrison, Elizabeth Ott, Imogene Piper, Georgia Pitcher and Mrs. Jean Reynolds, all of Indianapolis. Out-of-town seniors are: Mrs. Pauline Banks, New Palestine; Janet Cottingham, Greenfield; Phyllis Maish, Frankfort; Henry Morell, Evansville; Mrs. Maxine
Palmer, Knox; William Richmond, Seymour, and William Tracey, Ironton, O.
Graduate students are: Harold Négley, Indianapolis, and William Richardson, Eugene, Faculty members
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MOTHER AND BUS DRIVER—Mrs. Frederick Bruner, Oaklandon, is on leave of absence until June |. The reason is Cheryl Kay, whom she holds. This is her second
Name 30 Butler Students, Instructors to Honorary
Election of 30 Butler Univer- Dr, Gordon Clark, Miss Frances sity seniors, graduate students| Holliday, Miss Hattie Lundgren, and faculty members to Phi Kap-| Nathan Michener, Dean Edward pa Phi, national scholastic honor|Niles and Dean O. L. Shelton.
NIGHT WORK—After checking out her + warms up the motor of her bus and flips the destination sign to Speeds way. She has had this run for five years and wants to keep it.
RS by J ; equipment, Mrs. Lair
Schwenzer Urges State Clinics
Outlines Planks In Campaign Drive
Carl W. Schwenzer, Marion
: {County Republican candidate’ nomination for state senator, is advocating state sponsorship of clinics and hospitals for diabetics, Declaring adequate diabetic treat.
ment is too costly for many, he
has made this his principal came
paign issue. Other planks in his campaign include a property tax ceiling, laws to protect highways from overloaded trucks, highway safety measures, soil conservation iaws and an improved Federal program Io assist war veterans in building omes. v
Mr. Schwenzer, who has oper.
# (ated drug stores in the city for31 § years,
pas long been active in Re-
{ publican politics. He recently re-
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Gary, is 2!/; years old.
Margaret Ann Rennoe has been
Welwyn Club, home economics
signed as chief clerk and finance
i |officer for the City Street Depart. : ment.
Mr. Schwenzer is married and ives with his family at 635 Weat Drive, Woodruff Place.
Haas Has Lead Role On NU Radio Play
Werner 8. Haas, son of Alexander Haas, 3302 N, New Jersey St. will play a lead role in the North western University Radio Playshop production “Appointment m Paris,” over Radio Station WIND, Chicago, at 8:30 Pp. m, Sunday. Beforé entering Northwestern University, Mr. Haas did proféssional summer theater work in
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honor society.
Miss Rennoe, a junior, is a member of Delta Delta Delta and is a graduate of Howe High School, Other officers elected include Ruth Carney, vice president; Mary Dillinger, secretary; Ann Henshaw, treasurer, and Margaret Rathert, publicity chairmen.
Promoted by Army
Charles L. Reid, who is serving! with the 75th Signal Service Battalion at Ft. Clayton, C. Z., has
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