Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1949 — Page 14
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By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 16—Any time now. the papers will be
carrying pictures of members of
pitting cozily around a roaring cyclotron, toasting marshmallows
the Atomic Energy Commission
and serving plutonium, old fashioneds and uranium diaquiris to assorted Congressmen and visiting scientists.
The AEC was given $5000 kitty for “official entertaining” after its general manager, Carroll wilson, told the House Appropriations Committee “a limited amount of such entertainment is unavbidable.”
- . A REPORTER dropped into the Pentagon the other day to get a news story cleared. “You'll have to come back tomorrow,” & downiy-cheeked * lleutenarit told him. “The boss is in conference.” “So what," snapped the reporter, “preak in on him like we always do.” . The lieutenant gave the reporter a look of horror. “You don’t understand, man” he gasped. “This is a RED SEAL conference-~you can't knock on the door.” And there actually was a red seal on the conference room door.
. . » Mrs. Homer Capehart and Mrs. William Jenner, wives of the Indiana Senators, gave a luncheon for the wives of other members of the Indiana delegation. One of the guests wanted
formal luncheons. Thorp, who's In charge of getting things started on President Truman's “bold new program,” says the Hoover Commission should have outlawed the toastmaster and the shrimp cock tail, ‘
» .» . ¥ There almost was a hair-pull-ing contest when two local society dames discovered somebody had sold them identical Easter suits by the high-toned Frenchman, Dior. Mayhem was averted when they decided to show their creations In separate towns—on Easter-—one in New York and one In Washington.
n u » ‘NOBODY HAD to go around bribing any saloonkeeper to find out what Senator Tom Connally of Texas would wear Easter Sunday. It's the usual, 365-days-a-year outfit-—black suit, white shirt and black string tle.
» ” . The Places to Be WITH Mrs. Perle Mesta .iInvading New York, the big shindigs oh the Easter Sunday schedule were the Mayflower Hotel's annual breakfast and a late afternoon drinkin’ bout at the home of Morris Cafritz, the real estate tycoon. Any Congressman who
"Black Gold Is
But Value Is Ruined By Mixture of Water By VICTOR PETERSON . Times Staff Writer , BROWNSTOWN, Apr. 9-—Black gold is underfoot whenever Hoosier Farmer Ora Hunsucker walks on his land. The smell of ofl has been in his nostrils for 27 years. The ° sound of hissing gas is in his ears as it escapes from an old well, : Right now Mr. Hunsucker has his fingers crossed. He may be on the verge of riches, A 395-foot {well has been sunk on his land . and ofl found. : The find is a fallure, however, because a powerful vein of water broke into the pool and mixed with the liquid gold.
RE STILL is the chance that a strike may. be made on his : property, for Wildcatter Harley Wildcatter Harley R. Burton surveys for a new site on which R. Burton of Mitchell has “oti fo drill for Hoosier oil. fever” and plans to sink several/sunk for water. An ofl film cov-| more wells in the area. . . »
WILDCATTING iIn- Jackson
RECENTLY Mr. Burton de-
ered the water, The oll was of has no value commercially and the] ed 1o work the area amd |water was not fit to drink. {leased some 3000 acres from farm-
fers in the neighborhood. Mr. BurCounty is nothing new, The lure on appetite Sor oil Was Whetted ton and his drillers worked ceaseof ofl has had farmers in its grip! Sunk im-ilessly 24 hours a day for six days. mediately on the Hunsucker farm.| Then the oil began to flow. I* for the past quarter-century. In-iprjled in a line with the first/looked like the real thing for Mr. dications of oll were found on|well, oil again was struck but |Hunsucker and Mr. Burton who the Hunsucker farm and that of (water flowed with it. previously had sunk 10 dry holes. his father-in-law, John R. Brown- For the last 27 years a heavy| The oil brought up was the best ing, 25 years ago rock has covered the well open-|quality and the well gave indica- : : ing, always there to remind Mr.|tions of being a fast-flowing one. The strikes were duds in alli Hunsucker that riches lay dor- Disappointment again was the lot
Underfoot Wherever Hoosier Farmer Wal
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Property
from a second
Charles Hunsucker dips oil a So mixed with
Ora Hunsucker pumps water for his stock A from a well drilled 27 years ago which gave well, also 27 years old. Water is
indications of oil on his farm. the black gold. ..
water broke into the undergroundito the adjoining farm of Alex foot 1.drill, but I'll be more than pool. Ferguson and set his drill tojrepaid if we ever hit a good well. = 8 biting into Hoosier earth once{I've been drilling for four years UNDAUNTED, Mr. Burtonjagain. : ~~ jand still have to make that first
doesn’t get to at least one of these respects. In both cases wells were
affairs might just as well go back
mant beneath his feet.
“It’s costing me $2.50 for every
lof the oil seekers as the vein of plans to move his rig this week|
|strike,” Mr. Burton said.
to his veterinary practice.
» . 8 - BACK IN January, when Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington failed to show for the opening of Congress everybody said it was because he was busy getting engaged to a Hollywood actress namede Toni BSix-—er, Seven. But the Senator said nope, he'd got caught in a snow storm without any St. Bernards. ™ That's okay, only Toni has been ving in town since just after Congress convened. The name on the door is June Millarde, which was Toni’s name before those| clever Hollywood people got hold} of her, - 5 Douglas MacArthur is coming home—D. McA, II, that is —and now Vice President Alben Barkley’s going to have t w o hostesses. MacArthur, nephew of the soldiering chap, is a son-in-law of Good Time Alben, and has just been trans ferred by the State Department from the Embassy in Brussels. That mean Mrs. Max Truitt, the - other Barkley daughter, will get some help entertaining. for’ Pa, whose energy wears out hostesses fast. " . » ” r ’ WHOOPS! Brazilian Ambassaday a guy left his front dor Nabuco has shed that chocoso he could enjoy the balmy|late brown waistcoat with the spring breezes while sipping a|coming of spring. He now sports long one in his stocking feet... cvign white linen job. Next thing he knew the joint we. was full of dames, oh-ing and ah-| THE BURMESE Embassy has ing over his etchings. just bought .the former residence a nn : tn te da or aman, 5,30 125 Mrs. John Lodge, wife of the Ug is estate dealers have given up try-
Connecticut Congressman, helping to fatten the family ex- ing to sell big joints like that to ; our own government officials—
chequer by running a “school of the dance” Its chief object [taxes are too high. is not to make dainty-stepping ee 8 antelopes out of the students Does Thorough Job but to help 'em lose a few | “THAT - NATIONAL Women's pounds so they'll be able to get |Party knew what it was doing into those Bikini bathing suits |ghen it picked Mrs. Emma Gufi fey. Miller, sister of the former Pennsylvania Senator, to preside
this summer, - vad LK LL , i Official Unveilings over its recent convention here. THEY'RE now staging regu- Mrs, Miller got every important lar “official” unvellings of those [leadef of both major parties to portraits the Democrats are hav-|sign on the dotted line for the ing painted of themselves. equal rights amendment. Latest ceremony was held at , ® un the studio of Alfred Jonniaux, the] THOSE foreign ministers who artist who used to do his daubing{came here to put their John Han_for the Belgian royal family. cocks on the Atlantic Pact are a When everybody had had a couple bunch of cards. At a solemn conof quick ones, somebody blew on ference when everybody was trya trumpet or something and M.\ing to look statesmanlike, Bel- _ Jonnfaux—not to be confused|gium's Paul Henri Spaak passed with Oh Johnny— drew aside aia note to the ‘bachelor of fhe curtain disclosing a portrait of gang Robert Schuman df France, Sen. Clinton P, Anderson of New| gchuman slit the envelope
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thinking his neighbor had a {couple of hot thoughts on the {atomic bomb or something, Out
’ "= fell a newspaper photograph of THE TROUBLE with govern-|& bride, identified only ‘as “Mrs. ment, according to Assistant Sec-/Schuman.” Translated, Spaak’s retary of State Willard Thorp, is|note said, “Ha, ha, so you fixed that you can't get together with|it to sign the Atlantic Treaty somebody and talk business with-|over here so's you could get marout staging one of those bigiried, eh?” :
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