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IF YOU THINK the snowfall yesterday caused you no small amount of .trouble, forget it. Consider, instead, the street department. Now, before you blow your stack, let me tell you I spent the greater part of yesterday observing the men who maintain our streets. And don't get the idea it was next to an oil stove in a garage some place. That would be most unkind to me, to the men of the shovel and broom and shoveler-at-large. . I'm not denying that by the ‘time I arrived at’ the department's Shelby St. garage, many of the men had been on the job for several hours. Street Commissioner Tony Maio had roused a number of his key sleeping beauties early,

Things Were Pretty Good

MARTY HAYES, superintendent, was in charge and explained between phone calls that “things were as good as you'd expect them to be after an unexpected snow like that.” “Sort of caught you with® your snow plow down, eh?” Mr. Hayes, a little slow with the funny stuff yesterday morning, explained that at least 25 trucks were being loaded with salt and sand which was destined for busy intersections, through streets and danger spots, (Please don't call me and say you didn’t see a truck with sand and salt all day. All IT know is what I saw and heard.) The boss took off with a fistful of paper and I followed, ending up around the corner, We were in the midst of a bunch of trucks in the rear of

Convert LA dy. sand loader turns into a snow loader. Did the snow éatch you unprepared?

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ianapolis Times

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949

i — ii Sn ow Here (We Hope)

“I'm going to check on the two graders down-| town,” answered Farrell Pollack, inspector of the

East Side. Mr. Pollack ordinarily confines his ; u efforts to that district, but during an emergency, ace a S : n n oF he goes where he's needed. -% At the inoment he seemed to be the man to ;

tag along with for awhile. We jumped into a faithful and long-lasting department automobile and headed into the snows. From Mr, Pollack I learned the trucks from the sewer, unimproved streets and improved streets divisions were all thrown into a common pool to clean up the snow, It was something of an all-out operation. Our primary purpose was to see how grader operators Charlie Koffel and George Underwood were doing. While looking for them we did notice a few rather interesting weather tid-bits. We saw a very pretty redhead crossing at Maryland and Meridian Sts. and not giving the slush one bit of attention. With her toes and heels showing, Red plowed across the street looking neither to the right, left, up or down. We looked pack, however. Both. of us agreed that a fair majority of citizens hurrying to work had left their rubber footwear at the office. Many a shoe Shine was spoiled yesterday. v The last observation was that a ‘cleanest object to venture into the street, didn't make any difference whether it was animal, ‘human, a new car or what, would get splattered with slush the quickest.

Besides It Was Cold

THE THEORY behind using the grader, on the streets was that by getting the snow in the middle of the road it would be dispersed by traffic and melt quicker: If “not; crews would shovel it in|" trucks easier, We found Mr. Koffel on Alabama St. where I climbed aboard his grader to see the operation. It’s'a great piece of machinery if you like noise, fresh, cold air and. rolling slush beneath you, Just as soon as I observed Mr. Koffel didn’t scrape fenders on parked cars, I sort of lost interest. Besides, it was awful cold. ~ Rejoining Mr. Pollack, who had word that Mr. Maio had ordered the sand loader to be converted into a snow loader, 1 was In time to ride back to! the garage. George Phillips, mechanic and a crew of men were busy converting the convertible loader. Who ordered the conversion? When was it to go into action? Were the crews going to work that night when the traffic was light? The commissioner had the answers and would inform all in plenty of time. Full speed ahead with the loader. Full speed

think the snow caused you a little trouble? Forget it.

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By Harman W. Nichols :

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11—S8cience is wonderful, but it is hoped that a couple of New York City inventors know what they're up to.

These fellows have invented a combination handbag and pillow, and- all sorts. of things are possible. The gentlemen are William Z. Norman and Julius Billig. The patent office looked over their gadget and granted Pat. No. 2,462,215, A woman could carry the thing while traveling—like a purse. Then, instead of giving the porter on the train a quarter for a pillow, all she would have to do would Be to dump the junk, make the -bag airtight by snapping a couple of snaps, take a deep breath and puff out the sides of the bag, which, of course, is made of rubber,

Have They Peeked Inside?

THE inventors apparently never looked into a lady’s purse. What's a gal going to do with her compact, lipstick, eyebrow shadow, bobby pins, tissue, gum, keys, hankies, coin purse, buttons, sewing kit, safety pins, receipts for old purchases, at least a dozen unanswered letters, ete.? She'd have to carry another handbag. The in.ventors apparently have no answer for this, but insist that the bag-pillow would be right handy on a fishing trip, which it likely would. Also on the market is something new in shoe laces. The kind you don’t ever have to tie. No

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knots ‘or bows or bending over. Good news -for us fat men. These strings are made of elastic. You just adjust 'em and hook ‘em to the top eyes on your shoes. A shoe-horn gets you into your kicks and off to work, and they give as you, walk,

Just for Pop's Workshop

AND A couple of little things for Pop and his workshop. A naii-holder and punch, invented by Neil J.! Pollock of Chicago. You fit the punch over the nail. The punch has a much bigger head than the. nail and therefore is a much better target for the hammer. The man says you save a lot of smashed fingers if you do it his Way. Finally, there is a sawdust blower for hand-|

sawdust in their eyes in a drafty basement or|

in a high wind outside. | a

J. Ben of San Jose, Cal. It consists of a saw blade to which a com-| pressible soft-rubber air chamber is attached. As you squeeze the handle of the saw you! pump air through the thing-—and naturally blow| the sawdust away from you, instead of into your eyes. Sweeping up the sawdust after your work is | done is a simple matter, but must be done in the old-fashioned way. ‘With a broom.

This little business was perfected by a

Batty Books

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Mar. 11—The time has come, according to Sen. Styles Bridges of N. H., the leading bookworm of the upper chamber, to consider bats in peoples’ belfries, how to trap cats, recipes for frying muskrats in wine, the latest - mews on the Cuban frog-leg industry, the status of North ‘America's fleas and: 83,000.other subjects equally as interesting. The literary senator, it turned out, asked all’ the agencies of the government, please, to “send him one copy of each of their current books, booklets and pamphlets. To his everlasting amazement he got more than 83,000. Never before, said He, has such an avalanche of interesting literature, mostly free, engulfed the American public. Some of it, he told his fellow. lawmakers, - was . confusing. . Take cats. The Department of Commerce is sponsoring National Cat Week, he said, while the Interior Department is telling the citizens how to trap cats. How "Bout Skinning Cats? HE READ the directions for building cat traps. “And it says,” he said, “that after it is determined the cat is not the neighbor's pet, it may be gassed, or drowned.” Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan wondered if it included any directions for skinning cats; Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine said he was more interested in dogs. Did the government print any books about them? “Well,” said the gentleman from New Hampshire, digging into a small mountain of federal literature on his desk, “I don’t know about dogs, but here's one on the status of the flea in North’ America. An allied subject, you might say.” And he quoted: “Fleas are serious pests of dogs, cats and poultry. They cause dogs to spend much time gnawing at the affected parts.” The bat book, he said, he believed was particularly appropriate, because he had met so many batty people since he came to Washington. “Now a bat” he added, “is an interesting

animal. Perhaps you'd like to know how to get! rid of bats... The ‘book says you lock the bats| up inside the house. Or rather, you lock them out.” By now Sen. Bridges was surrounded with] books. Fascinated sknators crowded close -to examine some of the free literature, which the, New Englander waved aloft, piece by piece, as| he continued:

‘and net birds when it is misty in Japan.

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(which he brandished) how many delicious ways there are to cook muskrat.” “Has the Senator. ever tried these recipes?”| asked Sen, John Bricker of Ohio.

«.» And Cook Crow, Too

smothered muskrat, muskrat with tomato sauce, stewed muskrat liver with onions. Muskrat pie, | and shredded muskrat meat a la Maryland.” | Sen. Brewster, acting as a kind of unpaid | endman, asked whether Sen. Bridges had found| any really tasty recipes for cooking crow. Sen.

Bridges said he hadn't yet, but felt that un-| L h dance and in| Chamberlin doubtedly in all-wise government had included "We are not designing chiens to mnie "an Trib specialty by Xm es 66.year-old| trie. and later be " . tor| them somewhere, - " . addox, tralla and later became direcio |equipment at Bell Telephone Lab members of Celtic Post. |horseshoer extraordinary, cele- of intelligence, general staff of| “valley” late In January was one

“And I do wish I had time to read to you at| |oratories,” he declared. length from this book entitled ‘The Cuban Frog-ithe telephone business we are| Leg Industry,’” he said. “But it does say flatly| raced : with many mathematics +» that ‘in Cuba some frogs live longer than bthers.’” a nd And all I wish, like the senator, is that I had| studying the theory of using pid more space to tell you about the wondrous books electronic computer to play chess, that spew 24 hours per day from government we expect to find solutions to ‘printing presses, some of our telephone engineering | problems.”

The Quiz Master

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on how to fry muskrat in wine. Then we have Pose in so doing. This is the conclusion of Dr. |

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the Fifth Army, will yisit Indian-|] apolis tomorrow for conferences |with Gov. Schricker, the National |’ Guard, the RegBe 'utar Army and: t (Tenth Air Force commanding of|ficers. ? A native of Spring Hill, Kas., |Gen. Chamberlin was graduated from West Point in 1912, During World War II

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OFFICIALS from Sears, Roeuting buck & Co, headquarters in Chivisited The Indianapolis

: Might Muprove Rung » Improved methods of Tro ?7? Test Your Skill ??? dial one calls might result cago, : from such a game, Dr. Shannon Times plant yesterday to learn sald. Computers might be made. Under what flag did the Mayflower set sail for automatically to turn out designs | for electrical relay circuits, filters, | The Union Jack, known also as the King’s|equalizers and other equipment| Colors, flew them the mainmast of the Mayflower | widely used in telephone systems which brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620, because of such studies, he emwhile the Cross of St. George was displayed from | phasized.

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= Puddiedumpers once was a term for the old Model T Ford. The five-inch snow people. To these two frolicking youngsters it meant a lot of fun and a face wash- of yesterday, which melted rapidly downtown, turned Indianapolis pedestrians inte ahead uncovering the gutter inlets. Man, and you| ing for havry ; Zoller, 1317 Villa Ave., «Sy Trey Totty, 1147 S. Randolph St. dle-jumpers.- Gutters were f to overflowing as snow jammed catch basins.

The snow drifted high near the-home of Paul (left) and James Harden, 1849 Churchman Ave., and they had a great time as they made their way home from “Here's one on the care of parrots. It tells| went home last night because the unwary failed to wear boots. - school. Youngsters all 0 over town 1 engaged | in spirited : snowball Il fights late yesterday, how ta cure parrots’ sore feet and get them to! —— :

refeather after they moult.” He quoted from treatises on how to feed al ine S itrus- I ar -squirrels, operate flower shops, build bathrooms |

Hard Hit | in Texas

Big Freeze Kills And Cripples Trees.

By HAL OFLAHERTY Times Special Writer

BROWNSVILLE, Tex., |—Viewed from: the air, the frozem citrus groves of the Rio Grande Valley are a somber and distress-

There i are 50 miles of orchards {containing orange, {lemon and lime trees in the area {from Brownsville to Rio Grande City and they lie brown, barren {und apparently dead. ; The big freeze that hit the

brated his 46th year as a black-|the Army, in Washington, D. C. of the worst in history. The mersmith this week at his shop, 1620 He assumed command of- the cuty dropped nearly to zero im v. Washington [Fifth Army, with headquarters in|many places. Cold winds bearing | snow. were too much for the semi-

tropical trees and plants,

Palas Feel Blast

The palm trees andthe tall pear-cactus plants also were hit hard. Wide-spreading fronds of horses, camel quree children who tried tolpaim trees have turned brown here 53 years a blow toréh were in fair|and dropped off or are drooping | the tops of the white trunks, actus plants, wilted under Henryville. Look- today, All were injured when the cold, a P AIC heaps of sai

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ition of the orange and grape fruit crop was salvaged after the fruit had dropped to the ground but the distressing fact must be fad : that the trees may die. - :