Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1949 — Page 21

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.. Take the little affair the Indiana Astronomical Society planned with the co-operation of the sun and the moon the other night. Early reports had me sold on the idea that it was going to be something of an old fashioned blowout. “i _What kind of clothes should a man wear t6 an eclipse party? I asked myself. How many people will Evans Field, next to Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, accommodate? Do astronomers bring their own mix? Well, and as you would expect with the weatherman we have, the sun and moon co-: operated but he didn't. At 7:28 p. m., exactly the moment when the eclipse was to start, if you had

looked east on 34th St. you would. have seen °

a fancy cloud bank covering or eclipsing the sky. That's what I did. = :

Question and Answer

EVANS FIELD was deserted except for three small boys batting a soft ball by the light of the street lamp. vig “Where are the astronomers. boys? I asked. . “Why, you a cop or somethin’?"” one of the boys flung at me. With that and the fact that it was dark, I retired to the steps of the church. Eclipse party, indeed. Lucky I didn't bring .a bag of ice cubes. J A gentleman approached slowly. Every few steps he would look over his shoulder towards the clouds. ; “Are you with the Society?” he asked. “No, are you?” I countered, hoping like everything he would say yes.

“There's the moon" . . . But not for long at the “eclipse party.” Troy 6. Thurston (left) did the talking to the assembled few.

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attend the party.

So we stood in front of the chubeh for 15 . ; -. ® » = minutes before moving to the adjoining field.’ ; : : : =reeses 2 Our Indians Drill At Victo ield the coals several times. And the raking became a! ; ® y 4 . ’ ¥ : :

little more vigorous on my part when we were in the field. : 3

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clear as a bell, the words “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,” floated towards us. "a A few minutes later, Mrs. Emsley Johnson, wife of the president of the Society, informed Mr. Breece and me that Mr, Johnson wasn't feeling! well and wouldn't put in his appearance. At 8:05 p. m. it looked like it was going to be & bad night for all appearances. Yd Troy’ G. Thurston, a member of the Society, appeared, minus his telescope, incidentally, and remarked that things didn’t look good at-all. Mrs. Thurston agreed with her husband. It never fails. You get four or five people in a field and spon you'll have six or seven. With seven you have a good chance of getting 10. Most of the talk was about the eclipse that couldn’t be seen. A couple of the ladies present! talked about house cleaning before Easter which, I imagine, was all right under the circumstances. Mr. Thurston mentioned that if Walter Wilkins and Russell Sullivan weren't there at the time, : they probably wouldn't. show at all. : | Four Boy Scouts, Gregor King, Phil Kennedy, Charles Rohm and George Bangs, who were being tutored by Mr. Thurston in hopes of getting merit] badges, asked several pertinent questions. “3 The questions started Mr. Thurston talking] and if I'm not mistaken, he gave some mighty] pertinent answers. "> The moon peeped through a break in the clouds] once for about 15 seconds and 25 people gave al half-hearted whoop. ! I found out that when the earth comes between; the sun and the moon we have an eclipse of the moon. When the moon comes between the 2;

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A Fairly Common Occurrence WILLIAM GARNATZ, treasurer of the Society, |

joined the group, minus his telescope. He ex-| pressed Lis displeasure at the clouds but said it didn’t matter much since an eclipse of the moon was a fairly common occurrence. ! Mr. Garantz kicked around some speeds of! celestial bodies and I got dizzy. He said the earth rotates 1000 miles an hour on its axis, 66,000 miles! an hour around the sun and 500,000 miles an hour] in the galaxy. That's three different directions, you know, . The meeting broke up. Mr. Garnatz thought it! was useless to stand out in the middle of the field! that night. I was one of the first to second the] motion. ” ' Now, here's the part that knocks me over. Not more than an hour aftér all on Evans Field threw! up their hands in disgust, the clouds cleared and you could see the moon and the eclipse as pretty} - as you please. | I watched until T got a cramp in my neck. I've| always said the unplanned parties are the best,

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and here you see the Tribesters indulging in a spirited infield drill on Victory Field's well manicured diamond.

First 1949 practice on the home grounds . . . The Indians took full advantage of yesterday's fine weather

The Tribe will open the season here Tuesday night against Kansas City. ee ae lL

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By Robert C. Ruark|

NEW YORK, Apr. 14 — The whole post-war trend in popular housing seems to have reversed the original concept of man's castle—namely, a place to come in out of the rain, where a man can beat his wife in blessed privacy. A close inspection of the journals devoted to modern shelter will convince vou that the current ereed espouses the open-faced goldfish bowl, with everything but the bathroom either al fresco or sheathed in glass. It is practically against modern architectural law to install anything inside that can be located in the yard. ; If they cannot get you out of the house into the yard, then they fetch the yard inside the house, so that corn now grows in what used to be the parlor, and rattlesnakes and rabbits romp happily with the hearthside kitten.

California’s Error in Judgment

WE HAVE THE STATES of Florida and California—notably the latter—to blame for the modern assumption that a house must have three glass sides and a roll-back roof to be up to date in the Wigwam League. This rather broad error in judgment was predicated on the assumption that both states enjoyed such blithesome weather that "you could spend 24 hours a day frolicking in it. This ain’t necessarily so. I admire a certain amount of communion with nature, but a steady diet of it is apt to irk. Every so often a man craves the snugness of four walls, with the curtains drawn and the roof nailed solidly to the joists, or whatever it is you nail a roof to. As for these indoor, roofless gardens, full of flowers, birds and bugs, I never saw the necessity Yor ‘em. The least you can demand of a garden is to stay outside where it belongs. Along the same lines, an occasional picnic is fun, but I have noticed that the people who live fn these transparent houses seem unable to cook on stoves. Unless the meal is burnt in a barbecue pit and served with a liberal sprinkling of ants, the hostess seems to feel that she has failed in her hospitality.

This kind of outdo6r cuisine also breeds a type! of man who is miserable unless he is wearing a, chef's hat and discoursing endlessly on his special| recipe for barbecue sauce. I don’t mind eating the| stuff occasionally, but I hate lectures on it. It| all tastes alike, anyhow, and you can buy it by| the bottleful in any store, without the sérmon. One of -these open-air pagodas. may be prac-| tical for the rich man who owns a mountain, a lake or a slice of ocean-frontage on which to feast the eyes. But they are a little too all-revealing for the proprietor of the half-acre plot in a crowded neighborhood. You feel like somebody is looking over your shoulder all the time. Strangers saunter by and stare interestedly at your television program, comment on your wife's taste in furniture; husbands and children, and provide a constant view of their own dreary domestic doings.

Amuse—and. Lose—Friends

IF YOU HAVE the kind of friends I have, entertaining them in such a wickiup is fraught with; nervousness over the ever-present threat of dam-| age suits. My acquaintances are of the type who walk through glass walls, who stumble over foun-| tains, and fall into swimming pools situated too close to the door. They crisp themselves on bar-| becues, and contract pneumonia in. the open air.

These sliding panels and removable walls are; not altogether practical for a nervous man, either. It is disconcerting to come home and find the; dining room full of migrating geese, and with the] i i y : , living room shifted to the other side of the house. | rte Eo i ¥ ri I like a house to stay put. If there's fidgeting to! Es iy be done, I'll do it.

I hope to live in a house again some day, and | when I do it'll have four walls and non-shifting| rooms in it. Flowers and animals will flourish outside, if at all. Glass will be used sparingly,| and the roof will not roll back. Way I figure, a man: wants to live out doors all the time, well | why build a house at all? Vacant lot and a! sleeping bag is all he needs. | ! |

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Tom Saffell, in batting cage, gets set to swing on a fast one. Back from the Pirates, he'll hold down his old middle garden position.

Manager Al Lopez and vice president Frank McKinney give the “eye” to the Indians at practice.

"Tain’t Fair

WASHINGTON, Apr. 14—-You'd never think that oleomargarine colored blue, or- even orange, had anything to do with the price of light bulbs, the troubles of the Western Union Telegraph Co. or the lack of pockets on ladies’ hips. The explanation is simple. Congress is stirring this broth and all these unlikely items, plus lip rouge, the comfort of babies, and rides on railroad trains are ingredients thereof. For these many weary weeks the gentlemen have been considering whether to-remove the tax on yellow margarine, including the suggestions of Sen. Edward J. Thye of Minnesota, that it be dyed blue and Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin “of Connecticut that it be colored orange, So the Senators are getting ready to vote and - best guess is that at long last they'll ‘take off that 10 per cent tax on yellow oleo. "Tain’t: fair, cries Sen: Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado. What about the 20 per cent tax on cold cream? The 25 pep cent tax on telegrams? The 15 per cent tax on railroad tickets? And a, whole slew of other taxes®besides?

Slips a Rider to Measure :

THE GENTLEMAN from Colorado consequently has slipped into the big brown box a rider to the margarine bill abolishing “or reducing drastically all the war-time excise taxes, which have been a pain in the neck and/or pocketbook to all citizens now for nearly six years. : are sore, though it seems that everyoa er pet hate in the excise-tax line, Most mothers are bitter about! the 20 cents extra they have to pay when they buy a dollar's worth of talcum for their babies. > “YWestern Union claims that the tax on telegrams is keeping people from sending Tm. Wom-

By Frederick C. Othman

en seeking revenge from last year's suggestion that they sew tax-free pockets into their skirts, have organized oné of the most powerful lobbies yet against the tax on handbags. Travelers are in there slugging against thei take on railroad tickets and suitcases. And what! hurts mé most is the 20 per cent tax on electrig| light bulbs. { I don't like the idea of laboring into the night writing these pieces so I can pay my income tax, but when honest John Snyder, the Secretary of! Treasury, slugs me for the light I use, I like it less.| Pool players are against the $20 tax on every billiard table; movie-goers and Hollywood are worked up about the 20 per cent tax on admission tickets; householders at bill-paying: time hate the tax on phone calls, and jewelers are frenzied over] the tax that makes a $100 gold watch cost $120.

And Now——Comes the Rub

THE PEOPLE, in general, are behind Sen. Frank ‘Kalin, veteran outfielder, "all in" after a day's worki The Johnson, and that is the rub. A President Truman rubber shirt is a load. . and Co. want to hold onto those excise taxes) : awhile. “8ay the country needs the money. They'd

: ] % : * 30 " - t _ Question Taxi Driver hoped they could keep Congress trom even con- "49 C oftton Maid 'L Up’ —No, 'Slaught Gramm sidering excises this year. | orion a ouses PP , 0, Sud ers ra ar About Robbery, Rape Now comes Sen. Johnson's P.S. to the mar-| with the “charming” Earl of War-| “And I sat behind the Duchess! Police questioned a taxi cab garine bill, which would cut about $600 million a Sue Howell Asks for Chocolate Bar ch in Warwick Castle, and last of Windsor at the International driver held on a vagrancy charge First Thing on Return From Europe

year in excise taxes. The Senators Wij be forced, Saturday Junched at the Savoy jumping at the Palais de Sports. today in connection with the reto vote on it and the question is this: ow many, - A /- She’ . 2it 7e ted robbery and rape of a 9 NEW YORK, Apr. 14 (UP)—Tgll, blond Sue Howell of Bakers- in London with Gertridde Law- She's so refined. I met Rita Hay-. por obbery an pe pas How many can face their own wives with the field, Cal. the 19480 Maid of Cotton, arrived by air from a three-

of them will dare hold out for a tax on baby oil?|- ‘rence, the actress. : worth and Aly Kahn, but it was senger last night. ! / Office id the wo 's jo admission they've voted to keep the tax on ladles!| week trip to Europe today and asked for a chocolate candy bar. {She was guest of honor at a Very *asial. i £0 “told oars a o of romans bills purses’ How many can look me in the eye, if It took one hour for her to clear 18 pieces of luggage through, cocktail pasty Sven bY Enasman ' She uses Jo another andy tion were in the driver's posses. Pe tain 0 on Lght bulbs? { customs. - tDouglas, daughter of t e meri: Dar 18 Jep esen a wh he Was arrest Th estions the Senators have got to an.| She said she would like hominy grits for breakfast, but would can Ambassador to Britain, and National Cotton Council who ac. Sion Wher he Fas Arfested on her Tougher still, they've also got to sign their — settle for waffles met a number of titled young companied her didn’t approve of T" ™ li, "os he ear north. SWet: Tong NY i iy nl either Id bh Pp Ii The trip, part of the prize she! ENSlishmen, including Lord David her eating candy bars, she sald... "0 "iin “said she had names. ey’re going to g ‘He y olice _ : “Westmoreland, one .of Princess “They say I'm putting on HM with the President or the voters. And you ge hi = won in the contest among girls araroaret's heaus weight. You know the food was halled the cab, and the driver &° . : i ofie guess as to which they fear the most. In Shooting Here from ¢otton-producing states, was: “I expected them to be reserved, wonderful over there,’ she sal

Spring vacation brought the small fry out to watch the Indians practice. Left to right: David Bow : man, Donald Gobrecht and Frank Claspill, . +

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|drink liquor from a bottle he had. : he ; “ “14° An 18-year-old youth was held 1306 E. Raymond St. told police yyw 1S LIST SPEAKER : . Why does /Maine elect Uongressmen in Sep-! John F. Mindach, 25, of 546%; “Please change that to “I'd lke ' | ANIS nbs A i gr . Massachusetts Ave. was shot last to return.’ Mother has been writ-|by police on vagrancy charges to- She Jas walking in the 1100 block. Fred J. Milligan, president of Election Day in Maine wus placed In Septem- night, “he said, whén one: of a ing me letters to watch my gram-qay and his 17-year-old friend, F >a) as & Severs abbed! 1 Central Ohio Council Boy during the early days of the republic whem group of men in his room lifted a mar. She.sent me clippings “while {rus Aer. gr {Scouts of America and director veling facilities were poor and when bad roads 45 caliber revolver from a table./I was away underlining sentences

tra {was in custody of juvenile aid her purse. \of commerce of the state of Ohio, ind cold weather frequen would have _ Police also held on a vagrancythat 1 had loused up—pidase authorities as suspects involved) The two suspects were appre- will speak on “Mission. Incomgad rural’ inhabi ay Fhe chiarge one of five men in the make that ‘slaughtered’ ” in- a purse grabbing. last night. 'henddd by officers searching the plete” at the Kiwanis luncheon room when the gun discharged. | Miss Howell said she had tea Mrs, Matilda McKeefer, 72, of area. ’ ss ~ itqmorrow in the Claypool Hotel.

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