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FRIDAY, ‘MAR. 18, 1949 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

~ Boatmen And | Axmen Prepare Fulk’s Lake For Operation Flipper. ,

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“Crossroads,” depicting aid to | erippled children through fhe purchase of Easter Seals, will be pre- | sented at a television show at 13:30 p. m. Sunday in the Manufacturers’ building at the State Fairgrounds, : ' The production, written by Dick | Griffith, Butler University stu-' | dent, will- be presented by the Marion County Society for Crip{pled Children and Adults, Inc, {and the Butler radio department. The cast includes Gloria Novak, {Jim Gates, Bill Fagin, Dick Grifi fith and Wallace Waters of Butler, ‘children from Crossroads : | Kindergarten, Happy Hoboes and | Sad Sacks Clubs and adults from ¥. |the Indiana Rehabilitation League ; jand Crossroads Sheltered Shop.

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Has Feature Role

| James Coffey, son of Mrs, Doris

see ® "4 Coffey, 3508 N. Illinois St. has ( or / . . he. a ty [* a feature role in the mystery- + 1 2, T : i* 'melodrama, “The Visitor,” which 1. re : , : ; 4 . is being presented by the Gar- nN This advertisement sponsored hy members o . Operation Turtle . . . Volunteers carry boats from a truck to Fulk's Lake on the property of An Ax for Mr. Turtle . . . Volunteers chop away the inch-thick 'goyle Club of Lake Forest Acad- 3 the interest of MAKIDE : . . every occasion : : , x3 : : in ‘oda. * of th :e0 of Fulk's Lake to prepare a hole through which Woodrow Rigs- ®my Mar. 24 on the academy cam- MORE beaytiful with “lowers. . Gale Harris to serve as a platform for diving operations which were to begin today. Quest of the by could dive today in quest of the terrible terrapin of Charubus. Pus: The three-act play is dii dive is the gon ) turtle, said to weigh 500 pounds, somewhere in the muddy bottom of the lake. "co. Spectators lined the bank to watch the operations. PH slis G.. Mayer, fae-| ; rrr er rer - . : ee ————————————

Turtle Diver, Spectators | — — Await Payoff Plunge

Rigsby Poses in Suit for Photographs;

Family on Hand to Waich Descent By VICTOR PETERSON, Times Staff Writer CHURUBUSCO, Mar—18=The-only-undisturbed animal. human. or otherwise, on the Gale Harris farm today was the Beast of Churubusco, a turtle who would rather not be bothered. Turmoil prevailed above water, apparent calm below. The monstrous mossback continued to lie undisturbed ia his muddy home while feverish efforts were made to prepare Woodrow Rigsby for his dive into the icy waters ~~~ of Fulk’s Lake. OES Daylight Chapter It was strictly dress rehearsal this morning when Diver Rigsby To Install Officers donned the SROW white it bor-| Daylight Chapter, OES, will APOW rom the Navy in Chicago. ; a Some two to three-hundred curious hold installation of officers at onlookers from the surrounding'® P. m. next Friday in the ESN RTde gawiked at theunusu-'Masonic Temple, Illinois ‘and a al underwater outfit which Rigsby North Sts. The installation will i Sar nis Ser for the be followed by a reception and The giant turtle probably would dance. be thoroughly amazed at the| Officers to be installed include antics of the human animal if he Mrs. Margaret Vaser, worthy could understand the human mind. matron; William A. Vaser, worthy Diver Rigsby, who has confined patron; Mrs. Helen Stone, assohis previous ‘ efforts to finding ciate matron’; Robert T. Stone, clams in White River near No-Tassociate patron; Mrs. Clydis blesville, tried on the suit and Brown, secretary; Mrs. Adah posed for hundreds of pictures Julian, treasurer; Mrs. Ethel taken by newspaper and maga- Thompson, conductress, and Mrs. zine photographers from through- Kathryn Rice, associate conout the Midwest, ductress. | On hand to watch the descent a when it finally happens, believed . to be this afternoon, were his Named Chairman mother, Mrs. Maude A. Rigsby;, Robert V. Welch, of 4310 his wife and two children, Frank-| roadway, a senior in busi-

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lin, 8, and Barbara Lee, 4. Need Fittings : The son and daughter of Diver Rigsby appeared a bit confused by the whole operation and found it difficult to smile for the photographers who pleaded incessantly. - Last-minute preparations for the dive revolved about the search for fittings which would couple the afr hose to the air compres< sor. This was the second time that an incomplete outfit arrived for the dive. The first suit came without pants. The second is obviously worthless, the diver can’t get any air, A search party was dispatched to Churubusco and Ft. Wayne seeking the vital couplings which will make the suit functional. Meanwhile a somber note was added with the appearance of R. J. Krider, Churubusco under-

ness administration at the University of Notre Dame and vice president of the Notre Dame Indianapolis Club, has been named ticket committee chairman for the 1949 “Bengal Bouts" boxing

match to be held Mar. 28 and 29 and Apr. 1 and 2 at the university.

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with his pulmotor. A daytime employee of the International Harvester plant, Mr, Rigsby has been given time off to- assist in the ‘tfapping ceremonies which has all of Whitley County in an uproar, The fact that Diver Rigsby also fs an employee of the Ft. Wayne Journal - Gazette further complicates the procedure. The Gazette, a morning paper, is in stiff com-} petition with the afternoon Ft.| Wayne News-Sentinel. It is more than an unsubstan-| tiated rumor that the snapper will not be snatched in time for any of the News. News-Sentinel editions. :

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