Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1948 — Page 13
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"WHEN A MAN 1 attends a luncheon. Mieting } and leaves two hours later without ‘the words “That's the last one for me” on his lips—somiething * interesting happened. RRM RR AY iG wa the Mercator Club. luncheon, but everyone ate heartily. Very important item (almost .as im-
making a gathering successful. -However; it takes only 4 few minutes after arriving to take it for granted a bang-up meeting is going tp take place. The Mercators really don't need a couple of men on the program who intend to play with fire. ‘‘Better business through closer fellowship” seems to be more ‘than just a motto _on club stationery. Since today opens Fire Prevention Week ‘and the main part of the program was a demonstration of how foolish we can be in our own homes, I'm not going to dwell on how miich trouble James Taylor had in collecting coins for the kitty; how much noise Harold Bogan, treasurer, made in discharging his duties; how hard Dr. George M. King, president, pounded the table with his gavel and how much commotion Jess Pritchett caused when he floated in late. No, I won't say much. There were 33 healthy business men with healthy appetites and voices. Get the idea? Nothing more than “Better business through closer fellowship.”
Two Men With Bag of Fire Tricks
CHARLES FLEETWOOD and Charles Clifford, representatives of the Grain Dealers National
Bu gentlemen know what they're re doing. Charles Clifford (left) and "Charles: Fleetwood demonstrate to a luncheon club how well celluloid toys burn. Yes, sir, the kind your kids are probably playing with,
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Mutual Fire Insurance Co. were the two gentle men with the bag of fire tricks. .They ate as -heartily: as the Mercators, incidentally, Well, so did I.
acted as loaded wires and put the torch to a model home When he got:the signal. from Mr. Fleetwood,
~This-wesk--the two are.going.to. hit their peak.
n talks and demonstrations aithough they're busy the year around. Insurance companies, you know, are very interested in keeping fires away from your homestead. The first bit of information Mr. Fleetwood passed on to the group was: “Chaperone your cigarets, don't let them go out alone.” Rather cute, eh? J To illustrate further, Mr. Fleetwood dropped a lighted stub into a miniature ‘wastepaper basket. The bottom of the basket was covered with debris as wastepaper baskets usually are. For several seconds nothing happened. Then without warning the basket burst into flames.
“There are 800,000 destructive fires a year in| ]
the United States,” said Mr. Fleetwood. Good timing. “These fires destroyed half a billion dollars worth of property and even Worse than that— 12,000 lives were lost.” Statistics have a way of punching a man in the rosé. Too bad most of us don't feel the punch. The fire expert explained he was not teaching fire prevention. He wasn't scolding. . merely trying to“ show how silly people are with familiar, household articles. The familiarity often makes the average citizen forget his vigilance, ” "We always think fires only happen to the next man,” went on Mr. Fleetwood as a toy iron burned through an ironing board. “It completely left my mind and could leave me homeless,” he added as Mr, Clifford used the fire extinguisher. He followed up with a demonstration of what overloading the wiring system can do. Do you want to know? It'will burn your house down, that's all.
Get Rid of Celluloid Playthings
I WISH THE next paragraph or two could be
printed, in. red, I hope a lot of parents clean their
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and full. of Mercators who had a new slant on”
homes of celluloid playthings. You know the Kind
that float, the kind the kfis Jove and THE KIND| THAT BURN LIKE SK INCENDIARY BOMB...
If you must have that type of toy for your youngsters; ask for the kind that don’t burn. There are plastic toys that are safe.
Mr. Fleetwood showed us how the celhiloid
Most of the Mercators looked in
toys burn. There were
amazement at the demonstration.
2 several choice comments which indicated action]. # would be taken later in the day. Probably the most dramatic thing Mr. Fleet-}
wood did was to show how gasoline fumes react.
L Let me say they react with a bang. One gallon of |. gas, friend, Is equivalent to 18 pounds-of dynamite.
And I suggest you on try to prove Mr. Fleet-
wood wrong. two insurance men had the
keeping the home fires burning where they ‘belong. “Remember,” Mr. Fleetwood said, “don’t play with fire.” ; That was a hot one. with fire for 30 minutes.
Especially after playing
Practical Guff
By Robert C. Ruark
NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 4—It looks a little silly to see a colonel playing in a child's sandbox, and playing seriously. It looks even sillier to see a
= Group..of graying. brass gravely winding a toy
windlass, which dumps a toy truck into" a oy LST (landing ship, tank). : I suppose the sight of a bunch of grown men steering little ships up and down a harrow table might ‘amuse you. And I am certain you would find a group of officers staging a rehearsed play for the benefit of a classroom full of students, just a touch ridiculous. Yes, sir, when a man is drawing pay from Urnicle ‘Sam to soldier. or sailor, it is incongruous that he earn said pay by going to technicolor movies, or listening to the radio, or watching big instrument boards whose tiny ships light up like pin-ball machines. ] All this seeming frivolity appears a mite peculiar until you are suddenly smacked with a fact: That colonel in the sandbox might win you a war, or save a few thousand young lives. And the boy who is loading the LST might be responsible for the success or failure of an operation, a campaign, or a total war.
Thin Slices of the Real Thing
AS FOR the juvenile leads in the drama department of the naval base at Little Creek, Va.— those amateur actors might spell the difference between an easy invasion or a bloody mess like Tarawa. The scenes I've just described are a minute portion of one -of the most important deals in current American military operation. They take place daily at the amphibious training command at Little Creek, hard by the vast naval base at Norfolk. They comprise a thin slice of the preparation of men for immediate military employment—and more important, the training of men who will, in turn, be able to train hundreds of thousands of other men for any emergency. Comphibtralant, as the Navy calls the base,
meaning amphibious training base for the Atlantic, is unique for several reasons. Its chief. distinction is that it is eminently practical. - It specializes in the preparation of
wc I00N.0f -all.services. for. War-—not. atomic war, not BE
germ war, fet Buck Rogers war, but
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the near future. The toys of which I speak are as practical. as bullets for a gun, and as free of foolishness as a bayonet thrust. The colonel in the sandbox has not blown his roof.
No High School Histrionics - HE 18 learning, by tinkering with specified
terrains, how he may best dispose first-aid forces} on an alien beach. He is learning. Where to]
place his ammunition dumps, and where gas, food and general supply must be located for
prime ‘availability and safety.
The officers who are gravely stowing toys into a ship are loading toys of exact scale into
a ship of exact scale, because in overseas war-|.
fare, the meticulous loading of a supply ship is as important as pre-invasion shelling and bombing. And the officers who are play- acting are not indulging .in high school histrionics. They are impressing, In graphic fashion, the details of air and artillery support on a. rapt audience which otherwise might be nodding at a lecture. All over the base, men are loading full-size L8T's, stripping actual engines, building pontoon barges, clambering down the sides of mock transports, eagerly scanning pictures, moving) and still, of real operation. Electronic display boards show them. the ac-| tual progress of ship to shore communication! and operation, gunnery support and air bom-| bardment liaison.
Then, after gruelling: ddys of theory, they|
go out and do the real thing in tough actuality — |
real ships, real guns, real planes, real surf and] sand.
Cocktaileroos
i ii iii appear to be an enviable job, but take it from these judges it's about the toughest
WASHINGTON, Oct..4—I'm not accusing our government big-wigs of getting to work blearyeyed, sandpaper-tongued and hangoverish. I'm just warning em that the cocktail season nqw is upon us, well ahead of schedule. They also will be aghast to learn that whisky (it says here on the label) has gone on sale retail at $1.99 per fifth quart; less by the case. I have attended a few cocktaileroos lately and it is my considered opinion that this is the stuff, well watered, which trickled down the gullets of the hotshot federals. Why the cocktail party seems to be a necessary part of government I never shall understand. But embassies all over the town have been tossing these shindigs nightly this week in honor of their financiers here for the world bank meeting. Other cocktailings have jammed the private dinisg rooms of hotels and clubs, while the ladies of Georgetown, Spring Valley and other fashion. ‘able environs have been calling in the caterers to hold “the officials age martinis between their reluctant lips.
Zinc-Lined Stomach Needed
IT TAKES A MAN with a strong will and, or, a zine-lined stomach to withstand this treatment
and what this town needs is a sure-cure hangover |
preventative. I know one Senator who eats a large meal before attending one of these highball and sausage-on-tooth-pick deals; claims this has a tendency to> absorb the alcohol before he does. Another Senator, braver than most, demands orange juice when the drinking liquor is passed, while a cabinet officer has a special system,
He hits so many receptions and cocktail rassles Bie SSoupte three noms) duties that a pros and four on his itinerary in a single evening.
His method a ta scoopt 8 glass of schnapps,
inst: the -wall...and ...force,
“tical ‘approach -to the -hangover problem:
By Frederick C. Othman
sip it briefly, place it on the piano, make his way toward the men’s room, grab his hat en route and disappear into the night, * But’ what of the other guests? The unsuspectIng ones? At the hotel whooplas in particular they | can't put down a glass without having a fresh one thrust in their hands. This séems to be because the more Hoge ig sumed, the bigger is the bill to the host. that the waiters hustle drinks like peanut ot. in the ball park. . I'm not thinking up fancy phrases, either; that's the way it is. This leads me to believe that the outfit in Portland, Ore., which manufactures medicated soda water, should establish a branch in our nation’s capital
Contains Slug of Vitamin B-1
THIS CARBONATED liquid as bottled in the far West contains a healthy slug of vitamin B-1, which some physiologists claim is the only prac.
Their theory. is that alcohol irritates the nerve ends, thereby producing the well-known all-gone feeling. The vitamin soothes the nerves and presumably makes life worth living again. The enterprising Portlander; by combining the whisky and the vitamin in the same highball, claims he has ved the problem. Even as the nerves ‘are being ‘excited, they also are being calmed, and the net result is nil 1 don’t know how his business is in Oregon, but in Washington his fortune should be made. Until he sets up shop here, I shalluse a new and, I believe, unique system of combating the cocktail evil, I'm not going to any more of these brawls. My prospective hosts can scratch me off their lists and send my engraved invitations to somebody else. I'm a beer man, anyhow, find I like to sit down when I drink it. With my shoes off,
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- THE WINNER STRUTS—Miss Fay Suter, 18-year- WAITING FOR VERDICT—The contestants take time out from the beauty pas
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Comphibtralant is, as you wil] see, an ert ly practical deal. I”
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TOUGH ON THE JUDGES—Picking a winner from a line of 13 pretty girls may
HOOSIER BEAUTY WINNER—Miss Fay Suter, 18-year-old freshman at Indiana University, won the first annual: Junior Miss Indiana beauty contest sponsored by the Bluffton Street Fair Ass.
assignment there is. - "Sweating it out’ to find a winner, the-judges are (left fo right] sociation. Miss Suter, whose home is in Ft. Wayne, competed with" Gifford Loomer, of Ball State Teashers College; Mrs. Mary Jane Musgat, sor iety edi- 12 cthar Indians or Mi sref Ama he dike in Phisburgh in Doe I 1) I Ica I tor of the Ft. Wayne Journal- Gazette, and M Noble Reed of The Indianapol s Times. comber, (Vr mat." P_ 9
7000 Damage Caused in 2 Fires
Charred remains of two build |{ings here, leveled over the week« end by fires which caused an $75,000 loss, ; {the 8 beginuing of Fire Prevention
i Construction Co. offi clals estimated that $50,000 dame age was caused by a fire that broke out in the firm's cement i
The sudges this year were Gif-|
ABC Suspends | Bluffton May Become Hub Of Queens y NOBLE REED, Times Staff Writer ‘Miss Carolyn. Rudy, 16, of BluflCommission today announced Sus-| o o0i4i0n”" this year may well have their granddaughters com-| Other entrants were Bonnle| Included among the suspensions start Saturday night under tHe sponsorship of the Bluffton Free, bara Gass, Bluffton; Patty Lou yw both of Ft. [Festivals since 1898, every section of Indiana. Black, Uniondale; Arlene Buel, seven days for aliowing mINors|staged fn leas tHAR Three Weeks." BHR roi m ‘Loonier of Ball State Teach- stots Boor oF Tiocith
i Fair Association Hopes to Make 1949 Contest [at Terre Haute several weeks Ligior Permits The Major Festival Show of Indiana Two alternate ‘winners were The Indiana Alcoholic Beverage BLUFFTON. Oct. 4-45f the Junior Miss Indiana beauty contest ton, and Miss Joyce Lillibridge (lasts as long as its sponsoting organization, the entrants in the first of Muncie, pension of nine liquor permits nosing long before the year 2600. |Trullender, Bluffton; Carla Rene eqtimated for violation of ABC Rules. | The first annual Junior Miss Indiana contest got off to a flying Perry, Indianapolis model; Bar-| were: treet Fair Assn, which has =~ (Miller, Bluffton; Phoebe Ann Wella Heyn and Barténder established a Hoosier tradition of doubled and they will represent Buel, Bluffton; Carrol Deane It was a whirlwind project, con»| ~The entrants are “confined ex-|gyfrton; Darlene Morrow, Plympermit suspended [OF etved, organized and actually; clusively to teen-agers from 16 10 outh, .and. Joyce Werling of. Os-} to loiter. . | Signs Franchise. Phil Redd, Terre Haute; ‘seven| Less than & month ago the
afternoon, Washington’ and {ren Township volunteer. | fought the fire. ? Destroyed by the other Na which: was discovered at 1 a. m,. yesterday, was the Old : dance. ‘hall and tavern Bellefontaine St, in Beech Members of the Beech 4 oa Department who fought Are. f eight hours, “i
having bartender without per- by Frank Thompson, former state gat, society editor of the Ft. mit. {auditor, decided to sign a fran-\yw. oo yournal Gazette and No-| Three members of the Indiana Anna Mueller, Columbia City,|chise with the national contest!’ V0 State Board of Health will be seven days for letting minors sponsor, the Junior Chamber of le Reed of. The Indianapolis) among 300 public health authloiter. - |Commerce of Pittsburgh, to pro-| Times, |ities to present papers before the William M. Brown, Gary; seven vide the Indiana entrant. The judging points under the zgiy annual meeting of the Amerdays for. Sunday sales. A committee headed by Craven Contest: rules in addition 10.05 Public Health Association. in Lloyd Broshears, Sullivan; 30 Emswiller rounded up the en- beauty include poise, grage .of (Boston, Nov. 8-12. days for sales to minors, letting] trants, arranged - parades, ban- figure and talent. Paul Fugazzotto, chiet ser« minors loiter. |quets and a judging panel in| On these points the judges ologist: Dr." Martha A. A. Malle}, Carl 8mith, Richmond; 80 days about two ‘weeks. selected as the winner Miss Fay director of Hospital and for sales to minors, “Next year we hope to have tite Suter, 18-year-old Indiana Uni-|tionial Services, and Blucher " C. J. Colvin and ‘waitress Junior Miss Indiana contest as versity freshman who lives in|Poole, chief engineer, in theirthe Maude Russell, both of Washing-|the major festival show .of the|Ft. ‘Wayne. She placed second papers, will treat various as ; ton; seven days for Torti tuors state,” declared Mr. Emswiller. [in the Indiana Junior Chamber of [of public health loiter, | The number of entrants. will be Miss Indidha contest disease
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