Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1949 — Page 9
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You see, if you're the average car owner or the average prospective car buyer, you will re- . member the lean days when salesmen were rather dificult to deal with. In some cases, and my memory is vivid, they were impossible to deal with. Now They're Leaning Backwards OF COURSE, now, the boys are beginning to and it's dificult to find the
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counters, Hands are on customers’ backs in a gesture of friendliness. That's all well and good but I can’t seem to warm up to sal (before the
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Basically simple . , . Bill Stroude talks shop and gives a prospective car buyer an idea for a new field of endeavor for the mechanic,
center of the garage.
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manuf! specialization and specialists. “The public demands an automobile which is as mechanically perfect as the industry can produce,” sald the mechanic.” “You know, it used to be something for a man to drive 50 miles without a flat or mechanical trouble and it also used
necessary but he said a man didn’t ha the extras. > te bay y He pointed to the heavy chassis department
Murder on the Streets—No. gr Death Crosses Stre When You Ignore Traffic
where Olen Burch, Joe Lowden and E. L. Garland BEE
were working; then he pointed over to the tun specialists in another part of the garage; the in men were in the rear, the dispatchers were all over the place and the new-car department was in the
Tool Kits Rarely Needed
“YOU KNOW, 99 per cent of the tool kits which come with a new car are never opened” said Mr. Stroude, “and the automatic choke has been blamed for more ¢ar trouble than it causes.” | Oh; there was a lot more Mr. Stroude .told.| For example, he showed how simple it is to take
smashed in. Slick, really. As I was saying, maybe the mechanics, without knowing it, could do a terrific selling job for awhile. Something to think about,
Theft ‘of Free Baths By Harmon W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—You wouldn't think there's a man mean enough fo steal a bath from a free bath house. 5 But that's. just what's been happening atthe Hot Springs (Ark.) National Park. It's against the law, but the law isn’t strong enough. ~The matter has Congress in a sweat. Particularly W. F. Norrell, the Arkansas Democrat. He has introduced a bill that would amend the law which established the famous park. Rep. Norrell admits privately he doesn’t know what goes on in the mind of a man who would steal a bath that is free. The Hot Springs baths are health treatments—free for the asking if you can prove under oath that you need a dunking for health’s sake. :
Some Don't Even Need Baths
THAT'S WHERE the trouble comes in. Some characters have been claiming-—under oath-—all sorts of ailments to get a free bath when, actually, they don’t need one. The Congressman took his troubles up with Newton Drury, director of the National Park Service. He's a pleasant little man who takes a shower every morning and doesn't get stirred up very easily. Well, he's stirred now-—since he has looked at what we in Washington like to refer to as “the record.” ‘ Jackson HE. Price, chief counsel for the park service, found that the record of recent date isn’t very pretty. Mainly Mr. Drury says, because the commissioner in Hot Springs has his hands tied. Most the poor fellow can do under the present law is soak a man a $100. fine. Which isn’t very much for lying about getting a bath you don’t need,
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and maybe. cheating -someone. who really needs $500. one. .
One rascal got off with a mere $25 fine. Another got five days in the jail house for five free baths he took under false pretenses. Yet another fellow went scot free when he appealed a small fine, plus a jail term. To
Under Rep. Nbrrell's bill — H.B. 2373 — the Arkansas commissioner would be given more rope; about all. the rope he needs to “hang” the scoundrels. ’ If the bill is passed, ‘the commissioner in the]. Hot Springs National Park reservation would have the power to pitch any violators of the law (like bath stealers) into jail. And while he's at it, throw the book at 'em. A man found guilty of stealing a free bath can appeal. But he has to go to all of the trouble of taking his misery to the U. 8. District Court for the Western Division of Arkansas. Might give a wise man’pause, ’
A Boon to Honest Bathers
IF THE law is passed, it probably would be the atest boon to honest bathers since the in-| vention of the tub. The extreme penalty, under Rep. Norrell's Proposed measure, is $500 fine and six months In, ail.
Mother . . . you are asking that you and you
Barely visible in the center of the sireel, even man posing as a pedestrian.
150 Pounds of Flesh Stand No Chance When Hit by 3000-Pound Motor Car a,
By VICTOR PETERSON Last year 64 people died on the streets of Our Fair City. They
That's a pretty fancy price to pay for soaking were killed—murdered in Indianapolis traffic.
the feet—even if you are sick and don't feel!
Already this year seven have given their lives for no cause at
like it. all. Four of these dead were pedestrians, Over the years the perYou can buy a few jugs of the health-giving| son on foot has accounted for 58 per cent of all trafic fatalities. mineral water for a lot less and dump it into| However, he is involved in only 10 per cent of all accidents.
your own bath tub. |
And, water being as cheap as it is, a man{the pedestrian is the greatest, DEATH. Drivers, you are mot
From the viewpoint of deaths, Pedestrians, you walk with
could keep pretty clean and healthy for life for prgblem of the police trafic di-| = ol pack of the steering
And stay out of jail besides. :
| wheel. Any person whe walks
n. trials ind ~ Police know what fo expecti', "yy, gi napolis traffic is
{when the voice in their radio} “game” for “murder on the calls them to the scene of & P| Jo ots» This second article of
._ |destrian accident. he series ts to the pedesBy Frederick C. Othman The pedestrian hasn't a ¢hance. | Ae xu inl ny the capital
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ity Carlisle IE OPERA” WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — The original FiliDannie YHA buster was a freebooter who infested the Spanish Main and slowed down the wheels of progress by re — capturing the spice ships, relieving the captains
of their gold, and then stringing ’'em to the to be ruled off | 3 |has one - fifth horsepower and simply do not hail the youths into ctory yardarms. Just as in a techni-colored ‘movie by Use of this rate tn the past nas cased many | comprises two and a quarter the instruction school. | 20th Century-Fox. a filibuster by a single Senator. The poor devil cubic feet by volume, the car| Youngsters know this. They IDE Today the filibuster isn’t a man, but an action, finally got so tired that he couldn't resist leaning thunders at 85 horsepower and openly ignore rules and then exWest Morris though it’s still a brake on progress, especially in On his desk. [bas 264 cubic feet volume. In press amazement When stopped " ban con the U. 8. Senate, ; ... But this time, with 22 deep-chested Southerners speed. the walker Ra at 3by a policeman. ron the x Sed ad Here the filibuster has reached its t Yeady to kick the gong around from one to an- TPH, The tar 35 mph: | force to make Indianapolis safety
a - flower and a filibusterer can talk for the of
i Michigan J 'hidlife, if he wants, read the telephone book sloud, 4 OBrien and thereby keep a bill he doesn’t like from beADRON™ coming law. REET KID” . wa Even as you read this the greatest filibuster of ay this century may be in progress. I say, may, bea Fontaine « cause a filibuster in its early stages is hard to A ERAS detect; like a cold: rr ——— Chairman Carl Hayden of the Senate Rules
Committee, however, is scheduled to offer his motion to tighten up the rules and thereby make 0D SAM” filibusters a little more difficult to start. '
will enforce it) that the speech-maker must stand
{There is injury or death in near-| ly all of the cases.
city. i AU —— The reasons are obvious. The|Lt. Bailey or Sgt. Wayman Herk-
up to talk, stay at his desk, and face front. average pedestrian weighs 150 less. : . If his feet get tired and he tries to get a little Pounds, the automobile | Too often the audience is but rest by sitting on the arm of his chair, he’s likely Pounds. While the ‘person on foot two. or three offenders. Police
other (all they have to do is yield to a pal), thére! seems to be’no-possible chance to end their fili-!
= THE DRIVER of the death car conscious,” Lt. Bailey said. “Half-
buster except by giving in to them. not always is to blame. In fact, hearted operating is worse than Old-timers at the Capitol are beginning to pre- 68 per cent of pedestrian fatali- none. The public doesn’t know dict that unless the leadership admits defeat and ties occur whif the pedestrian what to expect. .
decides to give President Truman's civil rights|jaywalks or crosses against a program the old go-by, there is an excellent chance | traffic light. ’ 1
of the filibuster lasting the rest of the summer.
~ » ~ LT. BAILKY is convinced the {school is a good thing. Repeat-
It is impossible tb arrest the. yo nag advocated a similar
The Boutherners are ready to fight to the death, dead. It almost is as dificult to (0° 0000 a quits who court death
and they mean literally, against the civil Tights arrest the live pedestrian.
idea. Sen. Hayden's motion is the first step. to
make that impossible, so they're fighting it, they are weak. They apply prin-|
se . J - i Dairies Face a Big Boom cipally to the downtown OF. €ON-|" yieqnwhile, the carnage.on the
|B EXPERIENCE has proven that no matter how | edestrian death happens on an
average within a block and a
well-fed a marathon speec¢hinaker is before he be-|
tri in traffic, There are pedestrian laws, but a3 pedestrians
ested areas, Tragically, “the i eets continues. The young and
gins, he gets hungry after the first eight or 10|,..1¢ of the victim's home. |for the driver. The average age
.- If he eats candy, or cookies, his mouth gets
drier still and he's in a bad way, So the expert i 1 is lax enforceat the art drinks nothing but milk. And that| hort mech arrest would be plain, Some filibusterers in the past laced their court case, an “inconvenience” to milk with boiirbon Whisky: the results invariably, in the police and the citizen.|’
Courts even have told police not|
were unfortunate. Other filibusterers have tried sipping orange juice. This gives their tonsils a momentary feel of dampiiess, but it isn’t nourishing. The experts) agree nothing is so good as milk to stimulate] the flow of words. Washington's dairies, 1 fear, are about to do an unprecedented business on Capitol Hill. 1
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Aosistedl there was nothing to his job, was in Eng- The National Spelling Bee was instituted by Offeriders are not arrested, they that Mrs, Brownsten's coat, “ “Why, Waldo. it's gorgeous! | had no idea I'd qet such & big
GOLS What. Tips on Sow-Belly, Greens : SIDE "AND 22 Senators from the South are ready to" 208 ® © talk indefinitely for what they consider their ELBY sus right to—talk indefinitely. The talk will start out n Dailey as ordinary debate. ILES AT ME" Technically it won't become a filibuster until LUNDERERS the gentlemen wander off onto lengthy discussions 19 of how to cook sow-belly and greens, the best My Tha methods of mixing mint juleps, the problems of WITH JUDY” the Eskimos in the Pribiloff Islands. : ECRET LAND® There have been so many filibusters in the 28 Eat 08 Senate that there have grown up rules, both offi2 cial and unofficial, to govern them. A ran’ Take a filibusterer with hunions. He is out of luck. The rule says (and a strict man in the chair SIDE » » at 10th « » =... | The Quiz Master ' WA. n [1588 y Where are the most promising new areas for ofl the development of ofl In the United States? . o Underneath the sea along the coastal boundhind ove aries, particularly the continental shelf along the Delaware’ Gulf Coast, which carries the oil formations which W te J, have been so productive in Texas and Louisiana. nn Sheridan This shelf extends out some 250 miles with depths JY N HT” of water ranging up to 200 feet, it O'Brien 4 RTY FACES’ What is the approximate chance of drawing a perfect hand at bridge? na Talbott . You have one chance in 600,000,000,000 of being Ne — dealt a hand of 18 spades (or any other suit) ITY” from a properly shuiied, dusk. BISSUS” Who administered the oath of office to George = & Washington at his second inauguration? a, The ceremony took place in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Chief Justice John Hay, who had — land at the time, e lash News
Have scientists an idea of the size of rain drops? } Rain drops vary in diameter from about ome seven hundred and fiftieth of an Inch to about,
a fifth of an inch, the latter-—‘ocourring with court Violators should be. given Tomorrow: The Motorist In |
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What is the largest salmon caught in Atlantic
he ood result. Of a weak |°f the dead pedestrian is 55 The
usually is in the late 80's, the youngest about 3.
the street in the wake of =a
to bring in pedestrians, that the destrian-car accident will be male.
case is a nuisance and the dockets already are heavy. { The traffic division under Capt. Audrey Jacobs knows what is needed, Lt. Harry Balley, in| charge of safety education for the schools, is equally aware of the situation. . . or “It takes money and an inter- , ested public to accomplish the| Seuvors lead to tragedy, ot desired ends. We have neither,”| ,. 4.00 the violation means
Capt. Jacobs said. suicide. Other times the inno- . = = | cent party 1s. ‘murdered in the “WE NEED a tough, enforcable pal] of metal which once was a pedestrian ordinance incorpora-!car, ting the features of the cafeteria -
on the streets” as an accident. However, 90 per cent of all traffic
lation. Most of these violations are
a sticker with fines ranging from Traffic,
$3 to $5. Repeated offenses should s——peb——r—. | be cause for a jail sentence” Police Investigate Theft
waters? {Capt. Jacobs said. | | For youths who violate simple OF Fur Coat From Hotel
Probably the largest known Atlantic salmon, which weighed 83 pounds, was taken in Great Bitain In 1331, There Is 5 record of one four feet long weighing 411; pounds caught om r snd reel in Newfoundland.
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the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal in 1928
but life-saving rules’ taught in, Theft of a $600 fur coat from school, there is a traffic instruc-|a room in the Claypool Hotel was
tion school held every Tuesday being investigated by police >
night at police headquarters. day. “ When police see a violation com=| Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brown-
sue a request order for child and room was entered by ) la responsible adult to appear. using a key, early Sunday. and
|are given a stern safety talk by pin and a muffler were taken.
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children be Lied Fortunately, the three of “oo ossed “the valley of death” safely. You also broke the law and confused your youngsters. They are cu off the new fender-bydy parts in case they're fought in pice ot to jaywalk. re law right one day and not the next? Both
This is Meridian St. north of 22d before improved street lighting was installed. visik - Fihough wearing 4 white shirt, is &
ihn pions ave taien on seat CARNIVAL } “By Dick Turner] S, Soviets Have
ithe old. are pedesirian “game” 2 N oldest, on a year’s record sheet, |
Year-in-and - year-out 78 per! 5 cent of 38 lifeless bodies left ong
The public shrugs off “murder }
mishaps involve a direct law vio-| Js
mitted, they are supposed to Is-/sten, Hammond, reported their
‘When will their fuck run out? Ten pedestrians are shown crossing Hegally _againgt py traff fight. Only one in the direct line of oncoming ir affic even bothered to i bari. The young girl fishing in her pocketbook for change is "fair game” for “murder on the streets.” :
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