Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1949 — Page 17

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note of authority the committee could achieve if in Chicago. Oh.

needed, we swaggered down the aisle. Art Clay, president of the association led the way. Following him were: E. F. Andrews, vice president and and general chairman of the show; Dan Johnson, vice president; 0. H. Grant, national director of the association; -V. L. Boyer and William Bultwan, oh ) OI' members of the show committee, no The men were instructed by Mf. Andrews to watch out for three things: One-—if an exhibit

“Does it work? . . . Certainly # works, #'s exhibit at the Industrial Show, say (left to right] William Bultman, V. L. Boyer, Dan Johnson an “EF. Andrews,

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The men did not hesitate to toss bouquets fo those- who were only waiting for the doors to open at 1 p, m. A majority of the exhibitors

were ready but as in all human projects, flaws

“Trouble, trouble” groaned a representative ot a Sompany, For purposes he was. in in act, still a representative. You see, the boss Tt EE Hat itis Dua worth of exhibit fell over and got scratched up Smashed is a better word but when talking to “the "boss, scratched always ‘sounds “Dotter,” ’

Exhibit Convinces Me

FURTHER along the line of march, Mr. Andrews asked his committee, “What's he going to do?” All gazed at a table amply sprinkled with machine parts which no one recognized. The whole thing looked as if someone had dumped a box of gears and things and ran away. There

Machine Co. W. C. Brass & Co. & Associates also had a meeting coming up later with the committee. * The company’s chairs were standing helter skelter in the exhibit space. There were no desks, no men, no advertising matter or arrangement to the chairs. Hmmmm, we here in Indiana have a lot of industrial equipment. . The committee was on the verge of uncontrolled hilarity with the exhibits in spite of the few rough spots which, Mr. Andrews insisted, would ‘be cleared up by the time the doors were -open.

thrown “Will all ‘those motors and gadgets run?” was/|’

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Rassle Rouser

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 — When that new and awkward monster; television, is called to account

* for its sins, it will have to answer one hard ques-

tion: Did you'or.did you not revive professional rassling? And television will have to hang its head and say: Yes, I'm afeared so. ° A great native art comes once again into its own, to reap its just reward, and that doublebarreled cliche zlid in real easy. Already, I have drifted back to the tender green years of sportswriting, when metropolitan newspapers actually assigned reporters to cover the muscular excesses of flabby giants who grew scabrous beards and whetted their teeth nightly for peon’s pay. Some of my best friends were rasslers. They were the only people I knew as poor and overworked as I. The rassles today are neither science, sport nor skill, They are a pure artform, and a very sensitive artform, at that. They are a smudgy compromise between ballet and bullfighting, with the happy exception that in a rassle contest nobody ever gets hurt on purpose, which is more than you can say of ballet, My old friend, Mr. Toots Mondt, a lump-eared impresario of the arts, even tells me that the monopolistic control over the burpers has been bust, so that today rassling is regarded as free enterprise, unhampered by the closed shop.

Golden Age of Rasslers

THE RASSLES hit their golden age a score of years ago, when Jeemy Londos flexed his shimmering biceps for great sums. The business then wilted under a vast overload of freaks—angels of all nationalities, spurious Hindus, Lower Slobbovian monsters, lady rasslers, and rasslers who struggled in mud, herring-sauce, ice cream, raspberries, snow and smelt, AT ocasional” moth-edten bear, long ripe for the rug; once again became popular as an antidote to the thyroidal proteges of Monsieur Jacques Prefer. M. Pfefer I knew well, He was a stringy little man who called himself the Halitosis Kid,

and was boastful of his efluvium of garlic. He now operates out of Los Angeles, which serves both man and city right. As 1 say, the rassles died. Mr. Mondt, who presently serves as the booking agent for Primo Carnera and a herd of less talented behemoths, told me he once ran a survey on rassling, and less than one-half of 1 per cent of the population had observed a deathless duel of the grunters. Then came television to rectify the oversight, The merest child today is familiar with the facial distortions of the gladiators. Young mothers observe the perspiration of Gorgeous George and Signor Carnera as they knit.

love the Preem as a Son

RESULT: Fifteen million paid admissions this year, and the resuscitation of wrestling in Madison Square Garden as a major attraction. Mr, Carnera is so in demand as a striver that he practically commutes to Latin America, where they love him as a son. An average week in the U. 8. of A. will fetch him home five grand, before taxes, manager's fees and expenses, This is a brassie shot better than the actual poverty Primo experienced under the fleet hoodlums who steered him as a fist-fighter. They cut him up so thoroughly that at final accountin® Primo often owed his consultants money. Mr. Gorgeous George, who got hot out on the West Coast, now is hot all over. He is hotter fiscally than old Jeem Londos.

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The drivers walked out of this: one, but it was ‘potential “murder” on the high: way. Narrow bridges, like hazardous curves, dot Indiana and many of them ‘account for more than their share of tragedies. This trap is on state Rd, 58 about four miles wesf of Odon.

This is but one of the bad bridges on U.S. 31, north of New Albany. bridges are as wide as the old pavement but resurfacing added more than a uf on either side of the road. “The result is » funnel as the highway enters the b , v Cars thug the center. wo"

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What I wish is that Joe Turner, of Washington, D. C., was still around to enjoy the new boom | in grunt. Joe was a rassler’s rassler, over-gaudy hippo-| drome hurt him to the heart, and when, to reinvigorate the box office, nd occasionally had to ‘break "out ‘the mothbit soul shrank, Joe died before television brought the game into the home, and he wasn't rich. It was dlmost like

With monotonous regularity, men of the Lafayette Post, Indiana State Police, This is "DEATH VALLEY" ., . , Two bridges, only a few hundred feet apart, on answer calls at Wildcat bridge on stste Rd. 25. Besides being narrow and entered U.S. 52 at Arlington, have been the scene of 3a many fatal accidents that the area by a curve at.one end, it also hes a blind intersection, This view shows one of the has been given the significant name. In this cass, as in in any others, the Highway. ind spots as viewed from driver height. hes been widened until it approaches the bridge,

dying on the lip of a gold mine, while waiting for belated delivery of a 3-dollar pick. . {

Give 'Em th’ Ax

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—If Congress ever gets around to Senate Bill 526, President Truman won't

.have to kiss his bureau chiefs on both ‘cheeks. to

get ‘em to: work. --He can knock their skulls together. Or snick off their heads with a “White House carving knife. And probably should, On second thought, let's eliminate that word, probably. I've been listening to Lindsay C. Warren, the deep-voiced, blunt-spoken Comptroller General, téll what's wrong with Washington, It's epough to give a taxpayer the shudders. The main trouble with the government Is there's too much of it. That's where Bill 526 comes in; it lets Mr. Truman fire bureaucrats wholesale, if. he wants, close departments, consolidate their jobs, and get a little sense into our shambles of unnecessary federal agencies. You think those words are too strong? Haw. The late President Roosevelt called the governfant a higgledy-piggledy patchwork. He was being polite. And it's been getting higgledier ever since. “Today it is a hodgepodge and a crazy quilt of duplications, overlappings, inefficiencies, and in- " said the comptroller in urging the Benate expenditures committee - to approve the bill and give Mr. T. a chance to save a few billions,

9 Group: Boss 75 Bureaus

MR. WARREN sald he'd been doing a little checking around town and nad discovered that there were 75 different government offices all having something to do with transportation. And also nine separate committees to set up the policy on transport under which the 75 should work. His tale of Federal bigwigs stepping on each other's toes got more horrid as it went along. Even this nation’s grizzly bears would seem to be confused by the numeroys gentlemen in Shangs of them. There are 14 outfits now spend- * money, sald Mr, Warren, on the ing Saxpeve of wild life.

He mentioned, as has the commission of exPresident Herbert Hoover, the 29 government agencies in the business of lending money; the 34 that buy land; the 10 that build ‘Federal -structures; the 14 that worry“ about ‘trees, and the 28 that wrangle among themselves over welfare. It may even be that the government is respon-

Broad Ripple Senior Wins Science Award for Talent

|compete for a share of $11,000 in

Laveta Johnson Westinghouse science scholarships, She will attend the five-

Wrote About Fish day science talent institute in Miss Laveta,K Audrey Johnson, ywaghington, D. C., beginning

Couple Has Close Call at rossing

Leap From Stalled Car Ahead of Locomotive; Dicause the ux “Youth Lost Life af Same Spot Last October

blotited “with v An elderly Indianapolis couple narrowly escaped death yester- and after the day afternoon at the same railroad crossing which on Oct. 25 claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy. Fred Hendrickson, 70, and his wife, 68, failed to see the New York Central passenger train as they began to cross the tracks in the 5700 block of KE. 34th St,

Suddenly the car stalled. Bear-

between the county d officials as to who was respo for correcting the condition Since then & spillway has been buiit to care for ‘the he underpass still is

sible for the high cost of writing paper and ink. Mr. Warren's researches at least have turned up 65 different bureaus, and some are wheppers, whose sole job is the gathering of statistics. How many adding machines they wear out | per year and tons of paper they use nobody knows. |

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. Prefers the Hard-Hearted

SO MR. WARREN was cattling off the list] of Federal offices that should be axed, when Sen. | Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, wondered what ought to be done about those rival dam builders, | the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps! of Engineers. The Senator, sald Mr. Hoover's sleuths, had discovered that whenever there was a dam to built, these organizations did most of the oorhl twice and so far had managed to waste more than $1 billion. Mr. Warren said he didn’t know much about | the Reclamation fellows, but he did think the! Army Engineers were doing a good job, He also warned the Senators that soon they'd be listening to a succession of bureaucrats demand that their ovarticular department be emptied from any reorganization. Don’t let ‘em get away with it, the comptroller urged. Treat ’em all alike. And mostly rough. = Whether Congress will agree is still questionable. Experts have been trying to reorganize the government for 100 years, without accomplishing much except make it bigger. But now that the President has to kiss the

help on the cheek to get the job done, that's going I've. got hopes that the lawmakers this ’

too far. time may hand him a hurehat,

The Quiz Master

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seriously injured.

gan to brake -the- locomotive -as The yoiiths were creeping along

Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson leaped in a heavy fog. They, too, failed to safety. to see the traln. There were nolleft after the construction has The automobile spun from the | {flasher signals or bells to aid in not permitted the water to drain, tracks with the impact. No one warning them. Mr, and Mrs. Hendrickson, ng was injured. The body of young Lineberry relation to the in Last October, however, Ralph was cut in half. | were using the fatal crossing beLineberry, 3103’ N. Emerson Ave.,|- At that time the two had been cause the underpass was blocked, was killed there and -a com-|forced to use the fatal crossingiit was reported.

4315 Cold Spring Rd., has been yropon 3. named one of the 40 high school” gne was selected from among finalists in thé eighth annualioggs entrants over the nation on Westinghouse science talent, the basis of aptitude tests, search. |scholastic record’ and a 1000The search is conducted on &|worq essay on a science project. [state level by The Indianapols| “gor her project, Miss Johnson Times, Scripps-Howard Science [turned a hobby into a prize-win-[Service and the Indiana Acad, ov onture A lover of pets, |emy of Science. she has made a study of breedMiss Johnson, who is 17, Is a, 0 aoh for the past four years. senfor at Broad Ripple HIgh "ny ing nis time she kept an School, She 18 the daughter of, ‘accurate record of habits. She {Mr, and Mrs. A. G. Johnson. The {wrote her paper on the breeding (family recently moved here {rom .. yo giererent species of fish, prin-, Oak Park, Ill. Her father is as-| oy of the tropical varieties. {sistant superintendent of manu{facturing and works with Western Electric Cor Inc. Tractor Dealers Get Goes to Washington . bi As one of the finalists in the Sales Demonstration search for the outstanding po-| More than 350 tractor and farm tential scientists among high implement dealers from 80 coun|school seniors, Miss Johnson will ties yesterday had a lesson in 1049 selling in an all-day meeting In the Murat Temple. The “live show” sales ‘demonstration was presented by the Indiana Tractor Sales, Inc., 1500 Madison Ave. The “sales drama” was given by profgssional actors to bring home current sales problems. | BE. E. Carmichael, general sales manager of Indiana Trac: tor Bales, Inc, and D. A. Me Mabhill, vice president, were hosts. Dr. Lytle to Speak At WCTU Meeting Dr. Howard G. Lytle, superin{tendent of Goodwill Industries, will speak at a meeting of the {Central Women’s Christian Tem= {perance - Union at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Goodwill Memorial | Chapel. | ‘Rudolph Werring and William ‘ i [Johnson of the Goodwill staff Miss Lavetsa Audrey Johnson will give devotions ‘and provide : ++ « science honor student. & musical program. y