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By Ed Sovola|
FROM A MAN'S viewpoint this sprihg:housecleaning business if for the birds. It's inhuman, that's fer sure, A good illustration of a bucket blitz on a grand scale was the annual Clean-Up Day the students and faculty of Indiana Central College ran off yesterday. I went to the campus ready for Horseplay. On big deals like that, with. hundred of participants, someone would do the work. I'm an ol' gooferoffer from 'way back. This goldbrick knows his business. With my white coveralls blowing in the breeze, f was readv to shoot Across the road several robust fellows were engaged in felling a tree.
Where Are Coeds Working?
“WHAT are you gentlemen: doing?’ 1 asked Jauntily, happily and carefully lest some wise guy hand me an end of a crosscut, “And where are the coeds working?” Jim Blevins, Grant Marshall, Bob Spivey and Henry Martinez stopped work momentarily. Bob Hardwick, who was carrying a long hemp rope intended to be used in pulling ‘the tree down, began making a noose. Needless to say, the boys and I didn't shoot much breeze, Tree-cutting didn’t have much appeal for me anyway. My attention turned to the entire campus which was alive with students, professors and girls engaged in a great variety of activities, It was necessary to case the joint after my Initial and somewhat disappointing encounter. Besides cutting down trees, which was out, there
was an opportunity to. do some road grading
Is this right? . . . It was Clean-Up Day at Indiana Central College yesterday. Emma Lou Craig gives "Mr, Inside" instruction in using the rake which he doesn't seem to mind a bit.
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windows, wash walls, clean out the boiler room or ,., or do a little raking. Raking? Best. idea! yet, EAE * | Emma Lou Craig, a freshman hailing from Muncie, was giving the lawn in front of the col-! lege a brisk working over with a rake. Emma had red hair and a red checked shirt and she reminded me of a Little Red Riding Hood. (Let's leave the Big Bad Wolf out of this. I only tip-toed behind two trees before I-came out in the open.) “Helloo000000."” “Hi,” Emma said making with a most enervat-| ing smile. “Why aren't you working?" Good question. 5 ' “Ive been trying to find myself,” I lied. “Nothing seems to appeal to me around here except] raking the lawn. I think if I could rake the lawn I would be happy in my work.” | “Are you a student?” With as much finesse as I could muster at the moment, I explained to Emma that in a way | 1 was sort of a post-graduate student, My fratern-| ity ring clinched the argument, Phew at] long last the ring was good for something besides cutting my finger. “If you could
teach me to use the rake I would help.” A long wait followed. What was] little Emma going to do? Hit me across the| shoulder blades with the rake? Hit me across| the shins with the rake? Just hit me with the rake? No, Emma was going to teach me how to use| the rake. Emma, who weighs 120 pounds, is 5 feet 3 inches tall and lives outside of Muncie, “al-| most in the country,” showed me the best methods in raking. It consisted of lifting the grass, not the sod,| picking up the debris with a rhythm that was] supposed to speed up the work. She illustrated. I still didn't understand how to hold a rake.
Nice Work if Available
“IS this right?” My cheek was against her cheek, my left hand was on her hand which was on the rake, my right hand was slightly touching her right hand and our feet were in such a position that we could have done a soft shoe number. Nice . Well, the lesson ended abruptly. Litjle Red Riding Hood told me to .ggt my own rake. .The warm air and sunshine hardly mattered. : In the dean's office, Betty Sands, Ruth Hagel-| § skamp and Marjorie Hooten were making things fly as a straightening up project was under way. "In the hallway, outside of the dean's office, Jean Slentz and Danny Boone were washing the doors. I had something snappy to say but decided against it. Anytime a woman has a wet rag in her hand, it's best not to pop off. So. I sat on the front steps of the college and! looked over the campus. Busy little place. The wav everyone was working and shouting and having fun vou'd think a movie was being shot. Yesterday was a lazy sort of a day. Ideal for either raking the grass or sitting on the front steps,
Classes at Indiana Central College were suspended yesterday as professors and students teamed up for the annual "Clean-Up Day." A student foursome — Danny Boone, freshman; Lucille Brown, senior; Wayne Shiplay, freshman, and Gee Yant, freshman (left to right}—renovate the campus administration building.
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Ill Take Tallulah’
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Mar. 30—Tallulah, as everyone must Know by now, is deeply enmeshed in a tear-ing-down million dollar fight with Benton and Bowles, Procter and Gamble, some sort of shampoo called Prell, radio, jingle writers, Time & Life magazines, lawyers, letter-writers, other people named Tallulah and a new water-system on her farm which cost ‘$13,000. The system, not the farm. I went to call on my old neighbor, carrving a fifth of calf's foot jelly and a sympathetic look. I said hello, baby, they're treatin’ you rough Tallulah took over from there. “Darling,” she said, “darling, you can't know what I've been through with that bloody watergystem costing $13,000 and taxes like they are and Gaylord is moulting from the strain Gaylord is the lovebird who is sitting on your neck and the reason I've got only one is the damn birds won't talk if you've got two they just sit and droll over each other and I haven't been able to sleep a wink.
Oh Dear Oh Dear Oh Dear
“I'M SO upset and confused over the whole awful thing my God today 1 called room service and when they asked me what I wanted I told them a bourbon. sautee and I couldn't be in my right mind you know very well because I love you that I never endorsed a bloody thing in my life not even an opium pipe which reminds me of the story ahout Jeanne Eagels and Fanny Brice Jeanne was on the fire because she’d endorsed some sort of cigaret or other and everybody was being very artiste about it and pulling faces at her and Fanny asked somebody how much poor dear Jeanne got for the endorsement and they said $5000 and Fanny said my God for five thousand clams I would endorse an opium pipe and-darling vou know yourself I never even endorsed a reefer and I wouldn't have ordered a bourbon sautee if I'd had a matinee on today because vou know how I feel about my work and just ask me all the questions vou have in mind but ask them loud because my hoy friend said just the other day will you please for gnssakes listen to me for just a minute—at the top of vour lungs?
R. R. Blues
WASHINGTON, Mar. 30—Things are lonking up a little on the Yukon. Flatwheel and Northern Uncle Samuel's railroad in Alaska. She only jumps the track now about three times a week. This is real progress, Two years ago the trains of this incredible railway left the rails at least thrice daily and, with pastengers screaming, skittered across the frozen tundra like choo-choos in a Walt Disney movie. The bridges then were wobbly because of the termites, the coaches sagged in the middle, and an engineer on the Alaskan railroad had to be a brave man. He never knew when he'd reach his destination, or even if. General Manager J. P. Johnson, who ran the world's worst railroad for the Interior Department, told Congress then it was so decrepit it should be junked. Either that, he said, or spend $34 million to lay 539 miles of track that wouldn't break under weight of a train, and buy some new locomotives which wouldn't explode when the engineer pulled the throttle. He got the money. Now he's back with a progress report. The job's not quite half finished and he estimates that the total cost will be £74 million. The members of the Appropriations Subcommittee were aghast How come?
Competition With Fish WELL, SIR, =aid Johnson, his experts guessed wrong back in 1946. The Army gave him a lot of business he didn’t expect and in the last two years construction costs have soared 31 per rent That isn't all. He can't keep the help working on the railroad. He hires 3000 men and while he's doing it, 2000 quit. This is because mostly they own gold
mines of ‘their own, or salmon boats, which “are
more profitable still, } “You take, for instance, during the salmon Tun,” moaned railroader Johnson, “an employee can go out and make all the way from $6000 to
“I'm so nervous I'm a wreck and “it isn't a publicity gag at all it's a kind of. pride 1 have in my work vou know darling when you lived next door and I was saddled with that stinker ‘The Eagle Has Two Heads’ you know I always turned up cold sober for every stinking performance and | ; now look at me I've come down with my spring: leprosy and I'm just a wreck and it's all because | of this awful Prell thing the man wrote a singing commercial with my name in it to sell some vile= hair-oil or something and you remember that it was Beaverbrook who once said only three people in the British Empire were automatic front page g news—George Bernard Shaw, Tallulah and the § Prince of Wales—and vou know very well that when somebody says Tallulah nobody ever ot answers ‘Tallulah who?’ and I never slept a wink last night because darling this is serious with me: and my privacy has been invaded and you know I don’t heed the money, it's a point of principle I've got my name to think of and I've got a million | letters here to prove that I don't need a last name 4 mentioned to have my privacy invaded and 1 intend . - to fight them to my last ditch. -
Come Down Come Down
“GAYLORD come down off that dash-dash mirror poor darling he’s {rightfully upset and who can blame him so am I and now ask me a question, darling.” I do my own interpreting, when I talk to Tallulah, and the gist is still that she thinks no commercial product has the right to use her name without permission, since she is the only Tallulah around who is immediately identifiable by her first name. Stealing Tallulah's purse has always been a theft of trash, because of an uncontrolled generosity, but she has invested her years in her unusual first name. which she had from her grandmother. I think-it was real unchivalrous of the hair-soap people to use it without her permission and now if she will just take Gaylord off mv neck I will sav that maybe 1 have proved a point in her favor because I never mentioned her last name at all.
Na ; a ls J Robert Banks (right) handles a whitewash brush in the best Tom
By Frederick C. Othman
$8000 in a month to six weeks of fishing. They will quit and go fishing and then come back to the railroad again.” Come springtime and the melting of snows, he said, and his hired hands take their picks and shovels to their own personal gold mines. “They will quit and go to work their property,” He said, “and thep come back and want to stay. with the railroad during the winter.” Johnson, an old Santa Fe man who operated wartime railroads in Iran. India and China, had j some little trouble explaining to the satisfaction of the Congress how he earned $18406 a year including overtime for a 48-hour week. Said he act - ally worked 70 hours a week and could prove it.
Be Kind Congress
AND FURTHERMORE, he continued, the presidents of railroads about the same size as his earn . . far more. He had ‘em listed. He said the boss of Henry Martinez (right) says it's a pushover. The clean-up was part the Delaware and Hudson got $75,000 and the vice School Day which will be observed on the campus next Monday. aresident $£35.000 # He said he'd “heen trving for a vear to hire an assistant general manager. but no good operator would take the job and the $12.000 it pays. Then there were this winter's snows, Awful Ferrell Baxter will be installed Train after train was buried. One was snowed un- 35 Master Councilor of the In der with its crew and if it hadn't had a radio in
Winston Churchill will be guarded by Rostont policemen
dianapolis Chapter, Order of De- federal agents and Scotland Yard
the caboose (bought with part of that $74 mil detectives when he arrives in lion) all -hands would have been smothered to Molay, in ceremonies at 8 p. m. pL morrow for a three-day death Friday in the d visit and an address. -~ y lr " , chapter house ‘ > One day he said 71 rails broke. This was be- 1017 Broadway Police said today that more pre-
cause they were manufactured in 1910 and had crystallized under the years of pounding. He's re- 10 De placing them as quickly as possible with new rail Other officers and every mile of it installed lessens just that include Walter much the chances of a wreck. Ruckersfeldt Jr, ‘Fact is, he said, he believed the good old flat Senior councilor; wheel was just about through killing people and Thomas Storer, strewing freight across the landscape. If Con- junior councilor; gress will give him the rest of those millions he RB o y Robbins, expects to have a ‘first-class railroad yet. |treasurer; Henry ? Davidson,
cautions will be taken for his # safety than for any other previous visitor other than a President of the United States. Mr. Churchill speaks at Boston Garden tomorrow night in the top event of the mid-century convocation sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. » " o ’ |
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. Klingstein, sen- . to 27? Test Your Skill ; 22? ior deacon; Dwight Casey, junior each other's newly set flight rec-|
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«Who is the reputed inventor of letters? Cadmus, “in Greek mythology, founder of the city of Thebes, He worked out the system of the 16 letters of the Phoenician alphabet. : : & &
Where is the most northerly group of coral
islands fa the world? The Bermuda Itlands, in the West Indies, which goisist of over 150 small coral islands. (
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— lard. : a | Mr. Mant y { Where did Roald Amundsen meet his death?| Dale Wehmier, junior Steward; par ciuoo Ton 0 2 Tew San In 1928, this famous explorer in Arctic regions Curtis Funkhauser, chaplain ¢ 49 minutes, two secords Yor while attempting to rescue his friend, Nobile, who Raymond Young, Almoner; Don- nropeller-driven planes yesterday had crashed in the dirigible Italia. : alg Lage, marshal; George while Mr. De Bona was setting a, | ‘
standard bearer; Rob- new Tox Angeles-New York mark ert Hales, orator; dames Brothers, in five hours, five seconds.
How much blood may one lose without fatal Roger Griffin, Howard Ashley, pilots flew F-51 Mustang fighter result’ + William Ferree, Jack Flack, Mor- Mr. Mantz held the old trans An average person may lose as much as one- ris Tod and Rex Davis, precep- continental record of six hours! third of his blood without fata¥ results, [tors, and Morris Ratliffysentinel. seven minutes, five seconds, and
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1949
Sawyer fashion,
Barbara Hotz (left) snaps a picture of the hard-working crew as Frank Kattan and Bobbie Bettag apply finishing touches, ditions for the work.
The mild spring day provided ideal con-
These woodmen didn't spare the tree when they found a dead elm near Hanna Ave. (left) has just finished with the ax work while Grant Marshall and Bob Spivey man the cross-cut saw.
Mostly About People in the News Today . . .
‘Senior Deacon; R¢y Robbins, Sir [Knight Junior De
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The spring clean-up, an annual project for the last 20 years, also included the campus grounds. Along Hanna Ave. bordering the picturesque campus, this trio smoothed bumps and raked debris. Harold McPherson, freshman, shovels as Roy D. Davis, professor of education, mans the rake. Jay Taylor, junior, drew the tractor assignment. Students receive no pay for their work but take pride in their spic-and-span campus.
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In this business classroom, five members of the
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polishing chairs and desks and cleaning typepriters. They are Velma Ballay, senior; reshman; Jane Thompson, freshman, and
Jean Senff, freshman; George Rosselot, James McCoy, junior.
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It's a beautiful day and we'll just have to take time out for ' refreshments, say Geraldine Chandler and Elwood McBride. Blue jeans seemed to be the uniform of the day for both coeds and men students.
Jim Blevins of the preparations for High
gaged to through a correspond= ence courtship.
The first attempt of Robert he indicated he'll try to get it ristan; Norman McKinney, Sir Gibbs, 22, 10 marry Bessie Silkback again. Knight Standard Bearer; John wood, 21, last December back-
Mr. De Bona, in tu, was ex- Caterer, Sir Knight Sentinel, and fired when he was arrested on a
exvected to go after the San Henry G. Davidson, Sir Knight complaint signed by his mother Francisco. mark, Both pilots Registrar Which accused him of taking probably will clash in this year's A dance will follow the in- $1500. The charges were dropped. Bendix trophy race to Cleveland. gtallation. Mr. Gibbs, crippled since birth, r =m = : Is staying with his girl's parents . » o » A Albert Freije Jr. will become Promotion of Air. ROTC Cadet On a farm, south of Dawn, Mo.
Illustrious Knight Commander of 1st Lt. Robert Earl Baker, Bessie was waiting for him yes the Knighthood Degree of the In- cadet squadron commander in|terday, dianapolis Priory, Order of De- Butler University, to the rank of| “I've never been happier in my Molay, at instal- |Cadet Captain was. announced life,” the bride-to-be beamed. lation ceremon- |yesterday by Lt. Jerome Tarter,, x = = ies Friday night USAF, professor of military! Dr. Donald D. Durrell of Boge in" the chapter science and tactics. + [ton University told the American
Bo Y se 1017 | Mr. Baker, a sophomore major-| Association of School Adminise roadway. ing in marketing, is the son of trators at Philadelphia today his Other ' officers (Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Baker,|idea of a perfect school teacher be. {945 8. Illinois St, was: inclued James
“She should have emotional
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“semi-honorable mayor” of ‘Palm Springs, Cal. todd y. Charles trol of her temper, a lack of self
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» " ” ail ir! At Chillicothie, Mo., a crippled “Tobacco Road” and “God's : con; Raymond Carthage, Tenn. youth today was|Little Acre,” will visit CzechosloYoung, Sir Knight Prior, {attempting to find a job so that'vakia about May 20, the news. Douglas Fordyce, Sir Knight he can marry a wheelchair invajid paper Lidove Noviny sald Seneschal, Raymond (Miller, Sac-) whom he met and became § a! Prague. SBOE
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