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matter to be up to one’s ears in bowling balls and pins.
Start From Beginning
THE MAN WHO drills the holes in the bowling balls spoke just loud enough for Tom Maher, galesman, to hear. Tom insisted we start from the beginning, which meant to him that I get measured for a ball of my own with his Brunscometer. Since all I wanted from Brunswick was a bit of free information prior to possibly taking up the game, I resisted. Bowling alleys still have balls a man can roll for the cost of using the facilities, you know. “Your finger measurements are rather large,” Tom said. And I'm not denying they're not. I knew they were large before I stuck them into the Brunscometer. “What about the bowling ball?” I insisted, ignoring Tom’s remark that to bowl your best you should own your own ball Bob took. charge of the conversation and hastily ran over a few of the things “anyone knows but me about a bowling ball. I had to caution Bob three times for speeding. The balls weigh from 12 to 16 pounds. The sdlid black balls are more popular than the mottled green or red. There are four grips, Bob said, rattling off Collier, Ned Day, original offset and conventional. “Hmmmmmmm?”’ The Collier grip is a two-fingered grip with third added where it's preferred. Special side pitches (slant of holes) are features of the Ned Day grip. Original offset means. the thumb hole ls off center a quarter of an inch with the side pitch and also the reverse pitch. (You didn’t know that, did you?) The conventional pitch is a standard grip with a three-eights:of an inch pitch on thumb and fingers. (Regular ol’ bowling ball.) . Continuing, Bob said the bowling ball was aclually made of three separate pieces of hard rubber and the best procedure is to have a tailor-made ball. That is if you're really interested in the game. By that time I also found out a bowling ball is harder than all getout when dropped near the toes. It doesn’t break into three pieces easily. A ball is nine inches in diameter and comes from the factory with no holes and heavy on one part of its cubic area. That's the area where
men like Bob do the drilling. That's also the tricky area where a ball can easily become a
‘dodo (unbalanced) by improper excavation.
Proper drilling is a mathematical process that brings into play fractions, slide rules, multiplication, subtraction, addition and built-in scales on the special Pepco Chuck, a device which holds a bowling ball in place while the holes are being
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I's a Simple Process
THE SIMPLE PROCESS includes locking a bowling ball securely in the chuck, finding the center of balance, marking off the thumb hole first, drilling, marking off the middle finger hole, drilling and finally; if it's a three-holer, marking the ring finger hole and drilling. To give you an idea how easily it can be done, Bob can have a ball drilled, buffed, shined, initialed and in the hands of a customer 10 minutes from the time it's brought back to his drill press. + That's the simple explanation and believe me, you don’t want to get messed up with no other. The drill spins the black rubber out so fast once Bob knows where he's going to drill, it looks like black, cotton candy. For left-handed bowlers you do about the same thing except that the pitch is different. And by the pitch I mean the angle of the holes and the theory of fractions, balance and use of the slide rules. : 5 hi I said, a lot could be said about a bowling all.
i! |dustry to see in the next few
bk (week.
All shined up and sparkling, Bob Scanlon puts the finishing touch to "a bowling ball, a simple hunk of rubber if you leave it alone.
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Our Big Boat
NEW YORK, Nov. 10—Went out the other day for a trial spin on our new yacht, a dashing little craft that is 473 feet one inch long, does 20 knots with the bone in her teeth, and cost a trifle over four million fish. I say our yacht, even though her name is the Exeter, she belongs to American Export Lines, and is listed as one of the first, fancy prewar American passenger ships. She’s part my ship, because the government paid for half of her and also advances her an annual operating subsidy. And you know who pays the government every Mar. 15, since she’s your yacht, to, I thought you might be interested in what you bought. Our big boat is a quadruplet, one of four identical craft built by Bethlehem Steel, for American Export, designed for luxury travel in the Mediterranean. She might be called the ship of tomorrow, because she represents one of the first efforts to swipe some plush trade from the foreign liners, which up to now have collected most of the heart-throbs from the traveler. We bought a pretty nice scow, as a matter of fact. She has been decorated fancily by Henry Dreyfuss, who, they say, is a large wheel in drape-and-breakfront business. She has carpets up to the knee, air eonditioning pullman-type beds that a child can wind out of the walls, a capagious barroom and a dining room that locks like‘a nightclub.
Boasts Swimming Washbowl
SHE has a swimming pool which is referred to as Gehan's washbowl, in honor of Export's vice president, John Francis Gehan, and six kennels. The doghouses are up‘on the bridge deck, just abaft the skipper’s domain. Traveling pooches have little canvas cots more comfortable than the average wartime transport berths, are fed by a steward and are not allowed in passenger cabins unless the mutt’s owner is young, female and AY : Shs. tactful skipper may close his’ eyes to a rule Hifraction. ; Our new ships carry a maximum of 125 passengers, all first class, and there are 124 men
in‘the crew. The poorest-paid crew member gets $205 a month, plus overtime, plus food, plus air-| conditioned qugrters. The ship touches 10 ports| 14 times in 45 days, including Marseilles, Genoa, | Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Boston, | |
Ss. . There hE six lifeboats, which work in practice as well as theory, and the bridge is equipped with| radar, gyro compasses and steering equipment a kiddie fire-detection system and carbon dioxide fire-fighting apparatus which is controllable both from bridge and locally. There is a ship to shore telephone, which can be used from 50 miles out, and Muzak. The rugs in the lounge unzip, to provide dancing space. In addition to Muzak there i a small Knabe piano.
Oh, for the Role of a Skipper
lasting. The lowest single fare is $850, for the|
round trip, and the highest single fare for a suite the holding two people is $2240. Each blade in the double check on the electronic
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stainless steel venetian blinds cost $12 each. Her |pathway down to the runway.
master is Capt. Bernot Jacobsen, a handsome | Norwegian who looks like a movie skipper.
The job of skippering these deluxers is awarded |
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|television and electronic comput|ing machines.
By Robert C. Ruark| What are these devices for
weather-proof flying?
{providing many courses radiating {like the sp
equipment, a“ link in the omnirange aircraft with measurement of distance to stations continuously.
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: [three - point OUR ship rolls very little, due to special bal- blinding storm.
{ing to guide the final approach.
SECOND SECTION
Devices To Insure Dependable All-Weather Flying Shown Here
Exhibition Opens At Wier Cook.
By HAROLD HARTLEY SEASONED AIR travelers look at the sky. If the weather is questionable, they phone the airport. The planes may be grounded. That is true today, but in a few years it will not be. * The reason is that dependable, ¢ all-weather flying is just around the scientific corner. = = »
DEVICES to make this possible are known. In fact, they are here at the government experimental station at Wier Cook Airport where they will be displayed for the whole aviation in-
weeks. All-weather flying is expected to take most of the equipment risk out of aviation, and make as reliable as walking across lawn. . H. K. Morgan, vice chairman of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA), a voluntary group of electronic scientists, opened the exhibit at the experimental station this
This panel equipment, which registers direction and elevation, keeping the pilot unerringly on his course, is being examined by John F. Davidscn of the Air Transport Association, Washington, D.C. and (right) J. M. Hogin of Northwest Airlines at the experimental station exhibit at Wier Cook Airport,
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“WE ARE HERE,” he said, “to examine the first stages of the RTCA program to achieve in a minimum number of years an allweather system of traffic control and navigation aids adequate for the common needs of military and civil flying.” The big air lines are expected to be equipped with the new allweather devices in a few years, and by 1963 the longer range “ultimate program” is expected te be completed. One of the difficulties is that the air lanes and the radio lanes are becoming more congested as the business of transportation takes to the air. ~ " 2
THE SYSTEM will make full use of such advances as radar,
ONE: Omni-range stations,
of a wheel. TWO:. “Distance - measuring
system, which provides
REE: The and
still
stations
vice, an automatic computer which enables a plane to take a straight course past an airfield station. i FOUR: An instrument landing system to make an electronic pathway to the runway. This enables the pilot to make a smooth,
landing. duriig 2 The private flier soon will be able to buy at
a nominal price small versions of the air traffic control devices soon to be used by the big commercial air lines. This Globe Swift plane, on exhibit. at the experimental station, is equipped
FIVE: Beam radar to watch fixed beam approach, a and co-pilot.
SIX: Improved runway light-
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1948
with direction finders. Hodkin, 1249 W. 33d St., and beside the plane is J. B. Cunningham, 242 E. |2th St., technician
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The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is playing an important role in weather forecasts for commercial flying. With a facsimile map reproducer, airports may issue hourly a chart of the complete country showing good and bad weather conditions and where they are. Here L. J. Burns of A.T, &T. is holding one of
Plan Additions To Four Schools
Board Takes Note
Of Enrollment Rise
The Board of School Commissioners today planned additions to four public schools to meet increased enrollment. :
Commissioners authorized negotiations with architects for four-room additions to School 20, 1819 Pleasant Run Pkwy.; School 82, 4700 English Ave.; School 34, 1410 Wade Bt., an eight-room addition to School 56, 2353 Co“|lumbia Ave.
Installation of a folding partition in the School 82 gymnasium is also planned to ‘provide two classrooms for emergency use. Emil V. Schaad, chairman of I the buildings and grounds committee, said preliminary sketches \_. for the new Manual Training High School will be presented to i the board this month. i 3
Approves Payment In othe ction the School Board appr@yed payment of $86,042,51 to hitects and contractors for gqnstruction and improvements to five city schools. The financial statement presented to the board for the 194748 fiscal year placed the bonded debt of public schools at $6,594, 000. This compares with $9,839, 000 in 1938 and $11,540,000 in
In the cockpit is Libby
Annual Farm Conference
SEVEN: Radar devices to spot
senior skippers with a talent for mixing with pas- Planes in the air, advise therm}
sengers. Apart from the chores of safe naviga-| NOW many other planes are aloft S ¥ £ D 27 + Pp d tion, a passenger skipper must be tactful with and where they are. e or ec. a ur ue 8H
cranky old ladies, a reliable cocktail comptroller, | and skilful at fending off passes from impression- |
able young ladies come down with sea-itch, or an elevated safety factor and the]
1 He has the power of ability to fly no matter what making marriages, throwing people into the brig, {the weather.
uncontrollable romance.
or shooting them, if the occasion demands.
operating room and individual bathrooms for each|
of the 46 passenger cabins. Everything concerned Part in making installations of|,, with her operation is the responsibiiity of Vice the land equipment in all air] President Gehan, a personable Irisher who bosses fields, under government control. | all of Exports’ freight traffic, passenger traffic,| This includes all major air fields. | operations, industry relations and public relations. The remaining step requires the He is an authority on Roquefort cheese, lobster,|commercial air, lines to make the/ sirloin ‘steak and all ports in the Mediterranean. |installations .on aircfaft, ~. ".: . That is the rough rundown on 'otir new vessel. "The big air lines are anxrous I hope she plays to capacity, so she can start/to get going with their own inpaying us back.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—At long last I can give you from an authoritative source the real reason why the Republfeans lost the election. The source: Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin Jr. The reason: “We didn't get enough votes.” Speaker Martin tilted back in his swivel chair, with his blue and gray striped vest wrinkled across his middle, and with what I'd call a sad smile waited further questions. “Is it possible that your own newspaper may have helped beat Dewey?” inquired a reporter. Republican Martin, who publishes the North Attleboro (Mass.) Evening Chronicle (circulation 3500), chuckled. His black eyebrows went up and he went: Haw-haw. But I still don’t believe. he was amused. And what I'm trying to write is a piece proving that the lot of the North Attleboro newspaper publisher is not always a happy one. He's got linotype operator trouble. You may remember reading how Speaker Martin’s Chronicle published, a couple of days before the election, an editorial denouncing candidate Tom Dewey\for spouting too much wind and saying his spee¢hes seemed to have been delivered for tonal effect only.
The Whole Nation Smiled
THIS WAS especially embarrassing to the publisher because it appeared in print almost at the exact moment Mr. Dewey stepped off the® train for a visit to North Attleboro, The press associations and other newspapers picked up the editorial. By nightfall the Chronicle's boner was causing a: whole nation to smile. “If it had been printed in any other paper,” said the publisher, “or even on any other day, nobody would have paid any attention,”
The Quiz Master
Why -is the wedding ring worn on the third finger? The custom of wearing engagement and wedding rings on the third finger of the left
. North Attleboro Chronicle.
Yes, but, butted the publisher's inquisitioner, how did it happen? Well, sir, said Mr. Martin, one thing seemed to| lead to another. His staff was busy writing the] news about Gov. Dewey's impending arrival.
in came a batch of editorials from the syndicate|
Mr. Martin patronized. His linotype operator reached for one and began to set it up in-type. “It looked all right to him,” Mr. Martin continued. “It started out about Dewey and all and he just went ahead and put it in the paper.” His questioner still couldn't understand. “The operator was a new man,” Publisher Martin explained. “My regular linotype man was off that day. If he’d been working it wouldn't have happened.”
‘A ~~=4, Fair Editorial’
THE EDITORIAL, he said, was a good one, only nobody seemed to notice this, because nobody seemed to read it all. “I mean it was critical of President Truman's campaign, too,” the publisher added. “I would call it a good, fair editorial. They just reprinted the part about Dewey and I guess that’s politics. have no complaint.” ' Speaking as Speaker of the House (which he'll be until about Jan. 3), Mr. Martin said President Truman, undoubtedly, was boss. When he says frog, Congress will jump. : “I can’t believe that Mr. Truman can fail to get anything he wants—if he really wants it,” Mr. Martin said. “He's got a majority of 90 in the House and 12 in the Senate and I think he can put through any program he has in mind.” As for the*speaker, he somehow feels relieved. He will hand his gavel to a Democrat. Then he can spend a little time thinking about other things, including (presumably) the editorial page of the
??? Test Your Skill ???
. What does the statue “Christ of the Andes” commemorate? This colossal bronze statue of Christ, lo+ cated on the Chile-Argentina border, com-
|are one step in the direction to Our new ship carries a doctor, a hospital, an|obfain those ends.
stallations. crease the safety factor and re-| liability of schedules. ) a plane money.
Mr. Martin Regrets By Frederick C. Othman
__ ground is a pretty costly pigeon. | 8 and 40 to Meet
And in the home of Mrs. Miller, 634 Udell St.
{The annual auction will be held.!Dairy. Association. |
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Timent and bomb were erected by county-wide contributions totaling
hand is believed to have originated in an ancient morates.a treaty between these two countries | ; monies. ronze pl the belief that a delicate nerve runs direct! 2 Codddm. Albect.. le a are Plauen 100 | bo the: JRE ee tween them. : : ~will speak at the déMication, ~ County men who died in War II
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COMMERCIAL aviation wants I as vies !
Dec.
These instruments {rpjyersity Dec. 27-31, Dean H. J.|Rurai Life Council. (Reed, director of agricultural ac-| i d } The government has done ste HY LES, announced today.
rgely to the meetings of 28 ag-/table Growers izations. {recognition conferences. Livestock association meetings) will be as follows: Dec. 27—Indi-
|ana Livestock Breeders Associa-| Association; Ceruaé
[tion, Herefo sociation, Polled TS of Prairie r‘armer- Land. |Hereford Association, Shorthorn |Association, Polled Shorthorn As- i Then, too, sociation, Milking. Shorthorn As-| in the air is_earning/|s0ciation, Indiana Sheep Breeders
And a million - dollar | Association. bird sitting idle on the
They want. to in-
rs.
No More Steaks
{ciation, Dorset Horn Breeders As-|
Boeldt will assist the hostess. | $200.
Dec. 29—Indiana Corn Growlers Association, Rural ElectrifiThe conference will be devoted|cation Conference, Indiana Vege- | Association and ricultural associations and organ- Indiana Historical Society farm
Dec. 30—Rural Electrification Conference) Puriue As* Alumni Seed Grow-
are ase : Agus Assocla-| TS Association and Flying Farm
28—Indiana Farm Man-| LAFAYETTE, Nov. 10 — The|agement Association, Indiana)
(third annual winter agriculturaligRyra]l Youth, Indiana Farm! [conference will be held at Purdue Safety Conference and Indiana
Ad Club to Hear
Dec. 31—Certified Seed Grow-| ers Association and Flying Farm-| joe Pierson
- |will ‘do to develop their own|W. McCongell sald today.
Also Corriedale Breeders Asso-|* DULUTH, Minn., Nov. 10 (UP)| The second part of the pfogram w —The county board of commis-|will be a sound film showing the “leveling off” order which will ensociation, Hampshire Sheep Asso- sioners cracked down today on|development ciation, Oxford-Down Association, jurors with filet migon appetites. broadcast from script to screen. Rambouillet Breeders Association, Sheriff Sam Owens told the board The Indianapolis Salon, 8 and Shropshire Sheep Association, that jurors order steaks instead s {40, will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow Southdown Sheep Association; of sandwiches, Photo Contest Winner Arthur L.|Suffolk - Sheep Association, Indi-/for jurors cost the county as| i Mrs. Carl|ana Draft Horse and Mule Breed- much as $2.50 each. The board |Anderson, has been named a prize ice will be granted to enlistees ers Association and Indiana State voted to cut the food budget by
and that meals|
llocal-national snapshot contest.
1028. Interest due in fiscal 104849 is $177,219. os The statement, submitted by Talk on Television Maxwell V. Bailey, business .di- » _|rector, showed that the cost of Miia rig he radia sta educating a child in the public . isio roy and Tomor [iohoete, has doubled In the pant evision =| 8. row” at the Indianapolis Adver-| In 1938-39 the gross per captising Club meet- ita cost in elementary schools ing tomorrow in/was $82.59 as compared to $185.47 the IAC, |in 1047-48. Gross per capita cost Dividing thejin the high schools in 1938-39 program in three was $122.41, as compared to parts, ju. Fler so01.28 in 1047-48. son will first dis-|
cuss plans for [mdi : cuss anand 1! Indiana National Guard.
| + dianapolis, . the Has. Openings for 1000 accepance and 2 " : growth of televi-| A new ceiling for the, Indiana sion 18 now National Guard means there #%e x. .; ~ broadcast and openings - for 1000 additional what advertisers| Hoosier guardsmen, Lt. Col. John
shows, as well as the possibility] Colonel McConnell, assistant of network shows. |state adjutant general, said the new ceiling was included in a television able below strength units to ine crease to their full complement. errr Units now at full strength will not be permitted to enlist any new men, he said. Exemption from selective serve
of 3
Howard Clanin, 613 E. 27th St.,|
winner in Sears, Roebuck and Co. from 17 to 181% years old, Colonel
McConnell pointed out.
Greencastle To Dedicate
Unique Design Commemorates 72
Putnam County Men Who Gave Lives
Times State Service GREENCASTLE, Nov. 10.—Putnam County will unveil Indiana's unique World War II memorial tomorrow in Armistice Day ceremonies. ” It is a V-shaped monument’of Indiana limestone with a genuine German buzz-bomb (V-1) straddling the V. The monu-
$3000 under the sponsorship of the Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The VFW secured the bomb from the U. S. Navy with the help of Federal Judge Noble Johnson, former sixth district congressman. It is the type of bomb which terrorized London in the spring of 1944, and is the ancestor of modern rocket weapons.
Admiral to Speak
‘ Rear Admiral A. G. Nobel, chief of the Navy Bureau of Ordnance, Washington, will de-
liver the main address for the monumen unveiling. County high school bands, the Green-
casfle band and the DePauw University band will parade through \ downtown Greencastle. Marshall D. Abrams of Indi: anapolis will be master of cere-
War Memorial Tomorrow
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