Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1948 — Page 19

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THERE'S SOMETHING of a rebellion going on evenings at Arsenal Tech. And it's the older folks who are doing the rebelling, This rebellion, it better be explained before you reach for your phone, is simply a fine example of what you can do to fight high prices if you Have the industry in your backbone. How would you like to have a winter coat in the finest of materials and the latest style for less than a third of what you would pay in a store? Would you object to having a barrel of fun for five or six winter evenings and wind up with a luncheon set that ordinarily you might only be able to look at? Did you ever wonder what you could do with that old easy chair in the living room other than throw it out and buy a new one? Answers to the above are to be found in Tech evening classes which teach weaving, dressmaking and upholstering, In those three classes there are also a couple hundred other possibilities for learning something new, saving money, having fun and getting the charge that comes out of making useful and beautiful things with your hands. 5

/ . . Must See to Appreciate FRANKLY, you have to see the classes and the “students” to really appreciate what is going on. The enthusiasm is catching and if you have even an ounce of curiosity you'll poke around until you are itching to try. H. D. Traub, weaving instructor, was most kind in insisting that I could learn to operate

Weaving is easier than it looks, Herbert D. Traub, instructor, reminds Miss Ida Anderson who has run up against a snag in a dresser scarf she is making.

‘find out what the price was. Awful.

a loom. Have you ever known anyone who wasn’t

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The Indianapolis

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straight? The type of a guy who can spill paint] out of an airtight gan? That's me. Mr. Traub’s words sounded fine ut over the years it's oeen| proved to me that is much simpler to go to a store and buy whatever is needed.” = Most ‘people are different. They can make clever things out of practically nothing. Just: as the 15 ladies were doing in the weaving class. That's right. Spools of thread were being turned into napkins, towels, scarves, purses. Right before my eyes. Some of the pattens were simply terrific. It didn't seem possible that people could! oe so clever. Na v Mrs, Margery Palmer sak she was taking her ninth lesson. In a couplé move lessons she would be taking home a luncheon in a honeysuckle pattern which didn't make’ her exactly unhappy about going to schoél nights. Mr. Traub, who incidentally is & toel designer, photographer and wood worker besides a weaver, helped Miss Ida Anderson over a rough spot in a pattern. He says after six nights a‘person is well on the road to profitable weavisg. There are 15 ladies in Mr. Traub’s class. Almost without exception they're planning big: things for the future. Mrs. Palmer even plans on getting her own loom. . i It's possible, Mr. Traub said. to weave material for your own clothing. When you do that all you have to do is to enrolf in Mrs. Mason Hosler’s classes ‘and start being your own tailor, I'm inclined to believe a man or woman could] do just that after talking to the sewing instructor.’ Mrs. Laura Lamb, for exaniple,, modeled a winter coat she’s making. “I eXpect to wear it this winter,” said Mrs. Lamb. It loccurred to me that if more women made thelr own clothes, fewer husbands would have bags under their eyes. However, since I'm a bachelor that observation may not be worth much.p * One horrible June not toa: many years ago: when wedding dresses were of some importance) and concern to me before I Tgund out the girl's father gets stuck for the bill, ¥ took time off to

He Feels Like a Lazy Bum

MRS. JULIA BIRK holds the same view. Last] year when her daughter was getting married,’ Mrs. Birk made the entire trousseau for her at! Tech. It was the only wedding outfit ever made there and I'll take Mrs. Birk’s word for it when | she says it “was something to see.” Right now] she’s making another dress. There are more than 100 ladies in the five! classrooms which have everything ‘that is needed in the business, from steam frons to sewing machines. : By the time I wandered into the upholstering class I felt like a lazy bum. Immediately a reso-| lution formed to the effect that a person ought] to have enough gumption to get interested in a! constructive pastime. It was sheer will power that stopped me from throwing away my pair of dice right then and there. ! My easy chair may just get a new upholstering job one of these days. Those broken springs can't hold out much longer.

Wayward Mare

By Virginia MacPherson

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26 — An embarrassed movie-maker confessed today he can't go any farther with his movie about “Dan Patch” until he finds a wayward mare who did her romancing out of season. : And Producer William R. Frank, who left a chain of successful restaurants to open a film factory, is getting panicky. One of his key scenes in his epic shows the famous racer minutes after he is foaled. And neither “he, nor trainer Paul E. MacPherson, can find a lady horse who's ready to accommodate the shooting schedule. “You see,” says Mr. MacPherson, “we always breed mares in the spring =o they'll foal after Jan. 1. Race horses and pacers automatically get a year older every Jan. 1, and that way they'd be yearlings—even though they were only a few days old.” .

Wait for Regular Season

BUT FRANK can't wait for the regular foaling season. He has to finish his movie up by Dec. 28, and.every day that goes by after that costs him thousands and thousands of wasted dollars.

“I've been scouring the country,” Mr. MacPherson said. “So far, no luck.” His only chance, he figuras, is to run across a filly who got spring fever early last year. And that isn’t movie-maker Frank's only problem. Somebody told him—halfway through the picture—that there was something mighty risque in the background of thd world-famous Dan Patch. Records show Dan's mother was not standard bred and registered. Thus, according to Mr. MacPherson. she should never have gotten within muzzling distance of Joe Patchen, old Dan’s paw and top sire of the time. i

Arranged a Secret Rendezvous

BUT THE OWNER of Dan's mother arranged a secret rendezvous,” Mr. MacPherson said. “He and a stableman hitched her to a cart and drove her from Oxford, Ind., to Galesburg, Ill, by easy stages and introduced her to the stallion. “Thus—Dan Patch.” => The boys around the studio looked shocked and warned Frank he'd never get that past the censors. It took him four days to find out he was being ribbed.

Yule Prices

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-—-Would you, sir, like your best girl to give you fer Christmas golden cuff links in the shape of her feet? I know where she can get em. All she's got to do is stand barefoot in some plaster until it sets (if she loves you she won't mind a little cement between her toes) and, of course, cough up $180, including federal tax. This interesting news and more, much more, is an aftermath of my trying to get my Christmas shopping done early. Boy! I don't care who is claimjng that a depression is upon us, or what the Federal Reserve Board has to say about department stores sales slipping for three weeks running. : The ‘fellows this year with gifts for sale, including those made-to-order feet of 14-carat gold, never did have so many wild-eyed ideas, or such eve-popping price tags. Their idea is boom, boom boompety-boom.

Even a Pink Elephant

ONE OUTFIT is nationally advertising some first class highball’ glasses, with pictures of birds etched on the sides. These are priced at $600 per dozen and that is no typographical error. This works out at $50 per tumbler to hold soda and whisky and I'd be scared to sip out of one of those with a straw. Luggage also makes a nice Christmas gift. They come in all materials, including aluminum, alligator hide and snake skin, and if anybody wants a good wardrobe trunk, it can be had for $5000, including 20 per cent tax. This has satin innards and solid gold hardware and if anybody sffould give me one, I'd have no time to travel. I'd be too busy at home, guarding my trynk. Night gowns at $150 each and mink coats at $4000 are for sale all over the place. There is a miniature camera, which probably takes a pretty good picture, for $700. There is a suitcase with

built in wheels for when red caps are scarce. I didn’t’ exactly admire a large pink elephant which, when wound, walks. I've been offered a private one-arm bandit, with lemons, cherries and jackpots marked on the dials, so I can cheat myself, for $139.50. A' store would like to sell me a combination radio, phonograph and television set, which probably also fries eggs, for $4125. The television set which really impressed me, though, was one which fit on the ceiling, so that] it can be viewed from bed. This is a ‘custom| job and the price, depending on difficulties en-| countered, is around $1,500. A wrestling match,| as watched from beneath an electric blanket, ought to be excellent entertainment. If the pillow’s soft. { {

Some of ’Em Are Dangerous THE JEWELERS have soared on such flights of fancy that one of their $125 items mystifies | me; it consists of a genuine cultured pearl,

rattling around in a golden cage. What it's good | for nobody seems to know. They also have produced for $200 a lipstick holder, with a 17-| jewel watch in one end of it. When a lady runs]

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1948

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Bobby-Soxers In Bustle And Bow At Shortridge’'s Fashion Show

. Times Photos by John Spicklemire

Bobby-soxers in bustles and bows . .

practicing their best modeling stance for the PTA.sponsored fashion show, part of the annual SHS Family Frolic next Friday. Modeling dresses provided by the Kay Bradfield Shop are Rosalyn lzor, 3543 N. Pennsylvania St., and Julie Farmer, 3362 Washington Boulevard.

From Saddles to Silks . .

. It's quite

a switch from Shortridge

senior Joan Warrender's usual sweater-skirt school attire, this white moire evening gown dripping-with black lace. - Miss Warrender, of

355! Washington Boulevard; nine

will take part in the fashion show.

Big Wind Blows in Indiana

Preview on Year's Tal

Again That Fiction Is Stranger Than Truth

other models and five alternates

lest Tales Proves

By HARMAN W. NICHOLS, United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, national liars.

It's a season I created many years ago.

out of lipstick, I wonder, does she throw away| Preview of the finalists in the Bu the watch? Another watch, for $475, looks like| New Year's Eve, 0. C. Hulett, who runs the Burlington bureau of

a diamond ring. Touch a button and the diamond-' studded lid flips up. The watch i$ underneath, almost too small to see without reading glasses. A whisky bottle can be bought in the shape of a dog; the tail makes the handle, the nose the spout. There is a base for Christmas trees ($29.50) which revolves. It's got an electric motor inside and it sounds dangerous to me. But I actually did buy myself a gift. Cost 50 cents for a small bottle. Guaranteed, when rubbed in well, to take the shine off the seat of the pants.

The Quiz Master

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??? Test Your Skill ???

How many states-now tour their highways with magnetic sweepers to keep down the flattire toll?

Eight. Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma. The sweepers are trucks equipped with huge electro-magnets. An average of six pounds of tire-damaging metal per mile per Year is collected.

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Where is lead used in the greatest volume? In the electrical and chemical fields. Storage batteries and electrical cable coverings account for nearly half of the consumption in the United States. oO @ For whom was Bolling Air Force Base, Anacostia, D, C., named? The field was named Bolling Field in July, 1948, in memory of Col. Raynal C. Bolling, assistant chief of the Air Service, who was killed en Mar. 26 of that year, while engaged in an , Inspection tour of Allied air installations. 1

How does the cricket produce its ‘chirping sound? A heavy vein on the upper wings has a roughened surface which acts as a file. On the under side of the top wings is a scraper. When the cricket elevates the wings and them rubs the scraper over the file, he produces this highpitched sound. Only the males have these organs. -~dg What do wooden Indians symbolize? Tobacco was native to the New World and its use was adopted from the Indians. It followed, therefore, that the aboriginal American should be made the symbol of tobacco. Hence the wooden Indian in front of a place where cigars and tobacco are sold. eS

What was the first. livestock-market paper published? The “Drover’s. Journal,” published by Harvey L. Goodall at the Chicago Union Stock Yards, The first issue was dated January 11, 1873. 4

the Racine Journal-Times, always goes on the air to present in —

person the biggest liar of the lyear. | I'm a member of the club. I've {got a card which says that “HWN, is a full-fledged liar, entitled to every courtsey from liars everywhere.” Proud man I am! | So without any more fuss or nonsense, here are some of the finalists of .the 1948 contest -and {T scoop the world. The winner, of |course, knows he'll get a rubber imedal! Lie with Hoosler Setting Merle L. Zeller of Phoenix, | Ariz., claims this to be a true lie: “In the Newton County, Indiana, corn husking contest, I was entered against some very

Nov. 26 — This is

open Season on

rlington, Wis., big-fib contest. On

Quote: “It not only was sweating, but had B.O.” Use Oranges for Tracers Paul Walton Ledridge of radio station WKLX in Lexington, Ky., has a little dandy. He said that after Pearl Harbor he was attached to a ship that had to match charges with the Nips. His boat ran out of ammunition and the cooks came up with a hot one. They took up battle stations on

{the stern and started throwing

spuds at the Japs as the waves of planes came over. And to correct their aim, they ran in an orange

{every third shot for a tracer.

Michael A. Ahern of Dorchester, Mass., has a lot of nerve. So he says, anyhow. It was the night

stiff competition from different of the first Louis-Wolcott fight.

corn states. I would have won this contest only I had to wait’ jat the end of the row to let all {the corn I had in the air fall in [the blowing. I lost the contest by a nubbin.”

Mr. A., who told his wife he was

going out after a paper, went to a |

tavern to watch the performance on television. Halfway through

wagon—a high "wind was the fight a small row started in and our, Mr. A. H&

the gin mill { started “giving with the rights,

No comment from an'old liar./and the lefts.

Teofilio P. Estacion, of Ma-

“Both Joes—Louis and Wolcott |

Inila, the Philippines, wrote that|—stopped right there on the

IT. P. E. said “pffft!” He went lout into the vast expanse of the (Pacific, west of Mindanao.

he was fascinated by a story screen. They watched me for 10 ‘which won the 1946 liars contest/minutes: I met the champ later — {—one about a sweating fish. personal—and he said he thought

I had the best right he'd ever seen.” [| Says This One's True

On the 14th day he and his] And here's a guy from West

gang engaged in a tug of war

with “the fightingest fish known shy about presenting his lie be-| - : to man.” ‘After about six hours, cause he swears it is true. Gosh! “It all grew out of my wite winning washing machines on radio

the boys succeeded in hauling it over the side. And doggone!

{Haven, Conn., who was a little

He is Mr. Oscar H. Ginnow., He

‘got home one hot August night! I

. These Shortridge High School misses are

all sweaty and felt the neediof a bath. So he shucked his pants and overflowing. lunderthings and slid into a tub— nearly full of water.

inter- still was perspiring so much that N he had to pull the plug half altry.)

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Date Bait . . . "Luscious" pronounced these three models as they tried on the gowns they will wear in the fashion show. Benefits from the show and an accomanying vaudeville feature will go to school activities. Models are (left to right Sly Gurley, 1939 N. Pennsylvania St.; Jane Nickell, 5681 Guilford Ave., an Donna Barton, 4816 N. Pennsylvania St.

"How Do | Look?" . . . That's the question being tossed around in fashion show rehearsals as the Shortridge gals decide on their costumes. All set to go after matching their gowns with accessories furnished by Erna Shop are (left to right) Nancy Lazure, 3330 N: Meridian St; Carroll Driftmeyer, 7036 Warwick St.;: Lucinda Rohm, 5335 Boulevard Place, and Marilyn Holtman, 5363 Kenwood Ave. Chairman of the PTA committee in charge of the show is Mrs. Richard J. Boatman.

as Liar Picks Lot of Corn Probe-Girl's Fall

dozen times to keep the tub from

From Hotel Room

A 22-year-old girl who fell from the third-floor window of ‘a downtown hotel yesterday ree mained in serious condition in |General Hospital today as police linvestigated circumstances sure rounding the accident. The victim, who had been regeistered at the Stone Hotel since Nov. 20 as Mrs. P. J. Shields," Pensacola, Fla. gave the name of Joan Biggerstaff, Athens, Ala., at the hospital. She received a fractured hip, elbow and pelvis in the fall | Police questioned an Indians apolis man registered at the sams hotel who told police he struggled with the girl to prevent the jump. | | He said they had been out drinking together and had ree turned to the hotel. Shortly after midnight, he said, the girl attempted to jump from the window. He said he tried to stop her but that she broke away and leaped.

Scout Troop 83 Has Big Program

The new year will be a full one for Boy Scout Troop 83. Its seven patrols, listing a membership of 70 scouts, and the troop committee have planned monthiy activities during a round table discussion. Ten overnight camping hikes have been scheduled and trips to several state parks have been planned. Troop committee members ine ‘clude Arthur Gemmer, chairman, :Claude McLean, Howard Sutherland, Earl . Herndon, Trueman Rembusch, Thomas McCleaster, | | John Smead, W. Stanley Hague

and John Knpx. is scouts -

Don’t blame me for these tall tales. (My card number is No. 3.) You can blame Mr. Hulett, (Card No. 1--the No. 1 liar in the coun-

After an hour, he claims he

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WASHOMATIC

SELF SERVICE

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