Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1949 — Page 11
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. MAYBE YOU haven't experienced the feeling and it's hard for you to understand. Well, strange as it may seem, there are who regard a skier,
past of present, as ; special, a combina-
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an wait for next year.” The buyer didn’t recall anyone ever returning with a complaint about skis. “This isn't the place to come with complaints,” he said.
an orthopedic surgeon.
“Ever try skiing?” 1 asked. The sound of half-stified sobs was a signal to
move on. I noticed his right arm begin to shake.|
He cried.
Fishing Tackle Is Selling
IN A hardware firm which dabbles extensively
in equipment for the outdoor man, the gen in charge has already forgotten about skis. ‘He also hopes the boss will overlook the skis. s
* “Fishing tackle is beginning to move,” he said,
opening a showcase where a colony of artificial &
filles were nesting. Solong.
“Naw, skis are kaput,” ventured still another! “We sold several pairs before Christmas!
retailer. but what are you going to ski on, dry grass?” He had never outfitted anyone for Sun Valley! or Canada. And those he had sold to for “experimental purposes” he never saw again, “I don't know what happens to those people.” { 80, with a shudder and thanksgiving, I took leave, hitting the pavement with my trusty Good-| year rubber heels—happy that the elements have) conspired to take our minds off glistening slopes and powdered snow flying under waxed hickory. | It's bad enough that the newsreels show ski events, don't you think?
Wired for Sound
‘By Harman W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-—-Time was when a man could get away from it all by taking a ride in a nice quiet streetcar or bus. That time is running out. . Come the middle of next month, the first of : will be equipped a ny which is installing same swears on a stack of Gutenbergs that nothing will come out of the little loud speakers but “soft, melodic music.” : % Then the company pitches in a joker by postscripting the word “mostly.” * That leaves the gate open “mostly” for some hair who-done-its, Aunt Hester's Cook Book and John’s Gal Friend. The installing firm and the Capital Transit Co. collaborated in a stout denial. “Happy, contented customers—-that's all we want,” they said. ‘Worth Every Cent’ . ed BY THE time all of the city’s 2000 busses and trolleys are wired for radio-—some time before the end of the year—the company will have put a quarter of a million inflated dollars into the venture. : “It'll. be worth every cent of it, if folks are happy and contented as they ride to and from work.” a spokesman said. But the customers will have to put up with commercials coming at ‘em at 10-minute intervals. Which could raise some Interesting situations. " Say a music lover gets on the friendship line at Wisconsin Ave. and Western—on the Maryland
= border, He sits back and enjoys the “soft” music, Then, right in the middle of things, he is jarred by
a 25-second blurb of THAT breakfast food—the stuff you simply must have to do a good job. He
frowns and picks up his newspaper. By that time HL the street car is three-quarters of the way down| '
town. v | Then, over the radio comes Beethoven's Fifth ny! | “More like it,” the customer says to himself
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and settles back again, i No music lover worth a fiddle string would
walk out on Beethoven in the third movement, so| 80 he)
naturally our fellow rides past his stop. spends a horrible, out-of-sorts day at the office,
Tried by Others
WASHINGTON isn’t the first: city to entertain its bus and street car patrons. St. Louis, Cincinnati, Houston, Covington, Ky., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Worcester, Mass, took the lead in wired music. : ; «4 vNomprbject RE! this. though, ever 1s started without some polister feeling the public pulse. This time there were two polls. The streetcar people made a trial run with the| loud speakers blaring the other day and buttonhealed the folks as they got off. Ninety-six per-| oe company reported-—dearly loved. the ea. Later, a newspaper made its own poll among| the common people who didn’t get to make the first ride. The paper found, it said, that 75 per| cent of the surface line strap-hangers were view-| ing with alarm in advance. | One fellow put it this way: “At least at home, you can turn the radio off. In a street car you can do one of two things— lua on your hearing aid, or get off and flag a cab’ >
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By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—I have been looking over the 1949 models and I can report that I am amazed, if not always delighted. The motor-car maker who has glued canvas on the all-steel top of his sedan to make it look like a convertible, I don't’ even understand. Nor can I fathom the thinking processes of the engineers who seem to regard automobile tires as indecent, if not obscene. To me a tire, when not flat on the bottom, Is a pretty thing and need not wear iron pants. One manufacturer so thoroughly disagrees that he’s put metallic sheathing around his front wheels, too. He had to narrow the tread, so that his car also could be steered, but he managed to hide his tires almost completely. Even so, and for reasons that are beyond me, he still offers white side walls at additional cost. But enough of this carping.
Brand New Approach
ANOTHER big-time maker has decided that his front seats don't have to be wide enough to hold 16 acrobats and a collie dog. His new cars are narrower than they were last year and not quite so long. Buy one of his sedans and you probably won't have to build a lean-to on your garage. He also has produced fenders that are neat, but not gaudy and, which he advertised, make it possible for the average motorist actually to change a tire, ; This marks an entirely new mental approach in the automobile industry; never before, so far as I know, has any motor company ted publicly that the tires on its cars ever went flat. All the engineers in Detroit deserve congratulations, I think, for their discovery that mere people drive automobiles and sometimes drive ‘em into telegraph posts. So it is that every 19049 model actually has fenders that can be unboited when smashed. Last year dnd the year before,
you may remember, the fellow who nicked al mudguard frequently had to have the whole side! of his car refinished. The unveiling of each new model, I regret! to report, has been accompanied by an increase in price. Except for one. -Here an unnamed] genius looked over his own firm's catalogs of 20 years ago and said to himself why wouldn't people buy a roadster, if they could get it at a price? 8o be it. He soon will have on sale across the land plain roadsters whose cloth tops a fellow ”has to wrestle with when-he wants to let ‘em down. No| push buttons to make the glass rise automatically!
in the doors either, because of no glass. He sup-/the remaining seven counties in highways” runs rampant.
plies in a bundle under the seat for rainy days a set of isinglass curtains, { The great advantage of his roadster, aside from plenty of fresh air, is its price. He hasn't
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Lt. Elmer Hollenbach (left) and Ist Sgt. Don Phipps check the lator in the Connersville Post district of the Indiana State Police.
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Troopers Too Busy With Accident Calls to Do Any Preventive Work
By VICTOR PETERSON : . CONNERSVILLE POST, Indiana State Police, Jan. 24—A red light flashed through the darkness and a siren walled. At the wheel of the state police car was a rookie trooper. Two passenger cars pulled to the berm, the drivers caught in traffic violations. The young trooper started to leave his car when the post dispatcher’s voice came over the radio. The: voice ordered the trooper are miles. Roughly it is
to the scene of a serious accident |, ; unded north and south by US
on US 40 near Richmond. There wasn’t much he could do with the 0 and the Ohio River, east and
traffic violators. He warned them and sped to the scene of the tragedy. While en route, his dispatcher| called again. There was another serious accident, just reported on US 40. It was In the opposite, work the entire district.
direction, 2's.» | The outcome is obvious. Very ONE TROOPER—three jobs. little work of a preventive nature He could be in but one place at can be accomplished. There are a time. But this night, and for not enough yellow-striped ‘cars several preceding and several toon the highways to remind motorfollow, he was the: only man ists to obey traffic regulations
available to cover four counties. and drive at reasonable speeds, One other -trooper was working| Consequently, “murder on the
Ohio state line.
{lap. Often three men are required
It is the post area. {common in the Connersville area State police are thinly spread|for a trooper to race 45 miles to but this was an extreme case. [the side of another victim in the Nevertheless, it
The Indianapolis Times many athustast ss]. SECOND SECTION MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1040 TE sect bus. 70 Murder On The Highways . ... No. ea i
The sop highway of US 40 narrows swiftly fo single lanes as it passes under
{west by Marion County and the! |{thern portion of the post, is paid The trooper roster lists 16 men. the greatest attention. The ImSeldom are more than 10 avail- portant Bast;West artery, wholable for patrol duty and thisever, still claims the greatest toll [number only when shifts over- as speed demons whip their cars.
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An Indiana State Police trooper is only human. He can be in but one place at a time. Often his pres: ence is required in several. Such conditions aggravate the “murders on the highways” which dally occur on Hoosier roads. In this article of a series, the prob. lems peculiar to the Connersville Post are examined.
stalks its prey. On the four roads death has easy pickings. : U. 8. 40, kniting across the nor-
danger is well
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LAFAYETTE
{US 52 near Arlington has been the scene of so many fatal {erashes the area has been named| |“Death Valley." | All of 52, angling through the| |district, has long been a trooper |headache. “The volume of trafic Im complicated by heavy truck travel, Its many hills and curves {merely add to the hazard. State Rd. 29 1s a repeat of US| 52 while US 50 in the southern| section deals death to commuter
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did happen. state's tragic carnage. It is not/traMec funneling into Lawrence-
announced this yet, except to say that it is lowest-| Virtually every post in the state uncommon for him to be sent 70 burg and Cincinnati. Accidents
cost automobile in geveral years to bear his proud
was stripped of manpower at the miles,
name. time. Many were assigned to duty| . » =
Running Boards Next?
WITH A couple of notable exceptions, most of the designers also have decided that drivers of
automobiles like to see where they are going. tinted J ntlessly; So they have lowered the snouts of their machines| 27% hee enough so that the fellow in the front seat can “0%
look over them. This is a notable improvement.
The 1948 models mostly looked like low-slung, 4
dragons with their mouths open and chromium teeth bared. This year the dragons have their; . «tate
lips pressed tightly together and, to a pedestrian on the run, aren't quite so bloodthirsty. These advances are all to the good; they mark such progress that I even see hope for the one feature designed by myself and the secret service agents guarding President Truman: Running boards. On which a presidential cop can stand
and the average motorist, like me, can sit and t
whittle. ;
‘The Quiz Master
27? Test Your Skill PPP sci lr
$34 * 4 To what family of animals panda deongs "
does the glant panda resembles a bear In ap
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“and Oentral America. The Spaniards introduced plant at 1402 N. habit into Spain, whence it gradually Golo Ave.
France and the rest of the world. % * ' ;
* What is un Enoch Arden law? A law that provides for a divorce, an annul ment or an exemption from lability, on the ground of an unexplained absence of » husband or wife for a certain period a am.
What does “by inch of candle” mean?
This commonly used in England and the Engl colonies to designate a public auction at which persons were permitted to bid
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{at a strikebound industry, others! THE CONSTANT shifting of to the state fair. troopers in the region as one aft But the flow of traffic through pe B 1 oe . ae {the state did not stop. It con. #0ot er is called to an accident so did the!ls like a giant game of checkers, the Injuries and the The stakes are human beings, the nm aim to save their lives or prevent LIKE MOST of the state police Personal injury. : the Connersville district] It is a tremendous task for {sprawls over a large portion of | four roads carry a gigantic volume --11 counties, some 4000 of traffic. Along every road death
Mostly About People .
the Continental Optical Co., has nomic development in Israel. been elected president of the Op- an. 1 | Sir Alexander Maxwell, Great
Manufac- | Assocla- Britain's tourist chief just repredicted today that American tourist travel to Britain would association's anf* sald In London that Britain Thursday in’ : (should ‘earn $65 million from New York. The pared to $50 million last year, has its home of-
vy » r lens Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minis
ter of Northern Ireland, said to-
fice and
Mr. Hood |also are in Rochestér, N. Y., Phil-||s In danger” since Eire declared
Other offices
adelphia, New York, Chicago, itself a republic. (New Orleans, Kansas City, Los
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|Angeles and San Francisco, border a foreign nation” Me,
Henry Morgenthau Jr., former Brooke sald in &n election maniSecretary of the Treasury, yas festo. “It has always been their elected board o the Palestine Eco Oley bs. ane mata or aiothilé tion in New York today and an." nate our territory and to nounced the opening of a nation./force us out of the United Kingwide campaign to ralge invest-/dom.” :
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Thomas 8. Hood, president of ment capital for large-scale eco-| Capt. Kermit L. Lewis, Shelby-|
turned from the United States, i 3 increase this year. Mr. Maxwell
American tourists in 1949 as com-| "=
day In Belfast that “our country!
“We now have on our southern!
{here principally are the fault of| ’ the drivers as the road is-one of i { @ the best in the state. { nents MA!
o” | Meanwhile, traffic pours over o/| NCENNES at least nine other important highways besides the "thousands| {of miles of secondary roads. | 3 | It is little wonder that the! {number of trafic dead mounted {in the district from 71 in 1947 to) 93 last year.
"Tomorrow: Putnamville Post,
Indiana State Police.
LOUISVILLE o
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* Growing nd growing—the grinning Shull of death boas Avs j .| many Hoosier highways because “murder” rides on rubber. Wa (Visok of eld operations. in mead: the map each dey—watch the skulls grow in Aumber.
(quarters post at Stout Field, re-| served in the Pacific as a Navy and Arthur D. Cronin Jr. Des
reived his diplo- f troit, second vice presiden ma Baturday| Crmander 3 7 4
. = | Robert T. Hellrung, St. Louls, from the Trafic
. At South Bend, Francis Wal- Mo,, who was second vice press astitute of lace, author and journalist, was Ident of the association last year, slected president of the Alumni/'® Deing retained on the board as
University. | He attanded a Association of the University "di director of alumnt club,
600-hour course Notre Dame at the winter ses- 4) gate oF the Max Katz Bag } by tefl aoej./sion of the group's board of di- Co, of Indianapolis was re-slects dent prevention rectors which ended yesterday on od 10 the executive coinmittes of - on a scholarship the campus. the National Burlap Bag Associ from the Auto. Mr, Wallace, a native of Bel- ation at the 16th annual meets
motive Bafety laire, 0. succeeds Harry G. Ho- 3 ; Lewis “ling in the Stevens Hotel, Chie Foundation, gan, Ft. Wayne banker and ah . os -
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Washington, D. C.
¥ » » John N. MeCsleb, 122 W. Ma- from Notre Dame in 1023, He Is ple Rd. Indianapolis, yesterday a former newspaperman and in was. appointed “encampment recent years has written 10 nov chairman”
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" » ed | Roy T. Center Towns 'ship assessor, I' clarify som for the Wars
state Veterans els and contributed fiction articles to several
commander. Mr. & World War II Jeter and ley,
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