Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1949 — Page 13

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ARE YOU interested in liquidating 101.0 000- - hours, depending: on’ the temperature. The warmer,

1000,000.000,000 houseflies with one swat? (You

better say yes or I'll report you to the Board of

Health.) = : OK. Now get yourself a flyswatter, folded newspaper, 2k4, anything that is capable of dothg ol’ musca domestica bodily harm, even your shoe, and wham the first one vou see. Just like that— wham —191 quintillion flies.

‘Frank Wallace, state entomologist, told me that the other day during my annual visit to his

‘office. At first I was shocked, more so even ©Arth isn’t covered with 47 feet of flies every

than last year when he told ‘me abo t bees and the flowers. a the

“That's fantastic,”

dead termites. “A lot of files eh”

Mr. Wallace whistled a little blast and said a few words which will have to be boiled down to this: “An awful lot of flies, ves.”

Rabbits Are Outclassed

NATURALLY, I had to know why one -blow will rid this town of that many flies and it wasn't long before I had my answer. The answer came after Indiana's leading insect man replaced the dead termites in the empty olive jar. I'm so clumsy.. 3 Flies, it seems, multiply so fast a rabbit does not even enter into the conversation. One female fly can lay from 120 to 180 eggs at a time. She's good for four batches before it's time to check out. Eggs can hatch in from eight hours to 24

"Hit ‘em"

. + . State’ entomologist Frank Wallace recommends extreme measures for the new season and new flies. :

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the temperature, thé faster the eggs will hatch. In season (it will open soon). flies don’t live more than a few days but during the time they're operating they really get around. k Mr, Wallace cautioned me about the figure he guoted. He said that was the number some scientists had figured out a pair of flies would theoretically multiply into if conditions were absolutely favorable, “Conditions aren't favorabie, however” Wallace added, ‘because the surface of

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year.” .

You see, figuring one-eighth of a cubic inch to

comment followed by_ another expression of surprise at the number of flies. Mr. Wallace's retort must be summarized again into “An awful lot of "2? .

flies.” ® Kicking the fly question around, we concluded swatting=a fly was about the surest way of cutting down the population. “Now is the time people should swat every fly within reach in their homes” the veteran entomologist sighed. “I wouldn't let a one get away.”

That's good advice, friends, because when you let a fly get away remember the millions of relatives that may come and stay with you. “Just the females lay eggs,” I began and never did finish. “Swat them all, female or male,” said Mr. Wallace taking care of my question expertly. We also decided swatting flies would be more satisfactory if they'd squeal when they got

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I shouted thumping the @& fly. it figures up on paper to 47 feet all over.| ; he desk and knocking over ‘a bottle containing 28 Almost as bad as in some restaurants, was my | : :

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smacked. Mr. Wallace didn’t think too much of my suggestion that flies ought to say, “Oooh, you got me.” | |

Ugly and Mean-Looking

ENLARGED pictures of flies sent chills up and down my spine. Man, they're ugly and meanlooking. Worse than that, they're deadlier than they look as far as causing trouble to us humans is concerned. ’ Flies love filth and are among the best germ “carriers; A fly has six feet, in case you didn't. know, and has two sticky pads on each foot. It was news to me, too. Not only do these pads enable a fly to walk on glass and ceilings, but it also enables it to pick up millions of germs. Flies play no favorites to germs, any germ is welcome to come along for a ride. “Flies are something of a germ bomb, am I correct?” . Mr. Wallace handed me six silver beetles.

“What's the next best thing to do besides| ©

swat flies?” k Without hesitation, Mr. Wallace said DDT!

sprayed by hand. Give the screens, inside and; g&

outside, two good spray jobs a summer, Give your| garbage can a treatment with five per cent oil| spray of DDT every 30 days and above all don't . take flies in your home lightly. Treat them:for| what they are, vile, -germ-spreading little mon-| sters, : 2 Smack ‘em. { Ah Spring. You know, Mr. Wallace is always | good for a new idea or two. Everyone should | know a man like him. |

By Robert C. Ruark

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NEW YORK, Apr. 21 -The great American habit of naming the 10 best everybody, as an has finally touched such proportion that no ordinary citizen can fall into the feathers without wondering whether dawn will greet him as one of the 10 best wifebeaters or typhoid carriers of the season. : I do not kpow whether a man-can sue for being included in one of these things but it would be an interesting case to lug before the bar. Suppose, for instance, you are dickering for a bank-loan, and some blithe press agent names you as one of the 10 biggest cafe spenders of the year? All T know, should they rouse me with the news that your correspondent has been chosen one of the 10 best baldheaded, potbellied, bag-

«kneed. practitioners of illiterate letters for 1949,

he will flush a mouthpiece out of the mandamus marshes and start making noises that rhyme with torts, ?

Lists 10 ‘Ten Best’

WE NOW HAVE the 10 best-dressed women, the 10 best-dressed men, the 10 best-dressed drinkers of canned heat, the 10 outstanding authors, the 10 highest taxpayers, the 10 funniest radio comics, and the 10 best amateur dancers, according to Mr. Arthur Murra¥y’s studio. I have a bulletin that Mark, the “famous hair stylist,” has just selected the 10 most provocative sets of eyebrows, He lists the dog actor, Lassie, as owning the most intelligent. I also notice that the Telephone Operators’ Circle has named the outstanding telephone voice of the year. To. keep up with our feverish times, a New York cafe owner also has put out a list of the 10 voices he would most like to wire-tap. This thing has to stop somewhere. - Take Mr. Murray's little promotion. I doubt if he would like it very much if_he were elected to the ranks of the 10 best baldheaded dance instructors who once used the G.I. Bill of Rights to help run the two-step into a million bucks. But he did, and I didn't consult him any. more than he consulted Mayes O'Dwyer, Joe DiMaggio, Tallulah Bankhead, Doris Duke, Gen, Mark Clark,

Milton Berle, Bing Crosby or Leon Henderson. | I doubt if any of them. with the exception of! Mr. ‘Henderson, has logged enough recent dance-| floor hours to qualify for anybody's fictitious cotillion. : : All 1 was thinking that being broadly pub-| wlicized as a lounge-lizard might fit 111 with Mr! O’Dwyer’'s political plans, or Mr. DiMaggio's athletic reputation, or Gen. Clark's military plans, or Miss Bankhead's lawsuit -against the soap people, or Miss Duke's recurring divorces.

Mr. Henderson, the late OPA chieftain. can bear up under his nomination as “supreme in’ technical perfection in the rhumba,” because Leon is a compulsive rhumba-dancer;," who cannot take his rhythm or leave it alone. Mr. Henderson will collapse some day with his dancing pumps on, while the maracas go mad and the Latins lurch to. the strains of “Mama Inez” Mr. Henderson! invests overmuch energy into his samba, too. But suppose none of these characters want a reputation as a Willie-off-the-pickle-boat? What! do you do, look up Mr. Murray's publicity man and cloj® him on the whiskers?

He's Got a Little List

MY IDEA would have to do with business of battling fire with flames. own lists.

the old I got my Say, the 10 greatest bores in the|

world. The 10 most adept hit-and-run drivers.|,

The 10 best participants in juicy divorce scandals. The 10 best barroom brawlers, the 10 best alimony grabbers, and the 10 best child movie stars most deserving of a brisk hairbrush on the fundament. I was thinking chiefly of Margaret O'Brien, here,

I got nothing but lists —the 10 sloppiest if t

dressers. most impossible table-mannered, stupidest, silliest and conceited citizens from all over. I got the 10 best fingernail gnawers, the 10 most dandruffy, the 10 most ill-tempered. ’

a 3 : : Rg This is merely fair warning that if this inno- a crash, it

; present that it would be used only tax receipts or other personal ¢..

cent bystander ever finds “his eyebrows, feet, arms, legs, possessions on anybody's “10” rogter, he will fire without warning.. One of the most potent weapons he is constructing for the future is called a shoot-list, for the 10 most likely targets.

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Ethics, Butter

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—You ever heard of an inventor who made a fortune and was sorry for it? Considered his invention a deceit and a trickery and himself a knave for thinking of it? Listen: In a piece about the oleomargarine contro versy still raging in Congress after 63 years 1 mentioned the other day the easy-squeeze: bag which turns white oleo yellow and, in the doing, earns royalties of several hundred thousand dollars a year for inventor Leo Peters of Evanston, Ill. - That story had hardly Hit print before Peters was on the long-distance phone. He was an un-. happy man. No, he said, the dispatch was accurate. The trouble was that he ever inxented the blasted bag. It flooded him with money, most of which he had to turn over to his Uncle Samuel, because it put him in the 90 per cent income-tax brackety The profits didn't matter, or the taxes either. He was so sorry he produced the trick bag that for his conscience’'s sake he was giving most of. the net profits to charity. “That bag has no more right to exist than than Stalin has to rule the world,” he said. “If I'd had any idea what I was doing, I never would have taken out a patent on it.” :

‘Pass the Butter’,

WELL, SIR, it.turned out that Peters gets onequarter of a cent for every one of the millions of bags of margarine turned out with their capsules of color included. And what happens? When the housewife gets her oleo colored to suit, she serves it on the table. : “But nobody says. pass the. oleo,” Peters added. “They say, pass the butter. That isn't fair. It is a deceit. I think my package ought to he kicked out of the market. The oleo boys should have a color of their own. And I'm just helping them and the housewife to compound a fraud on her family.” rl "That stopped me. No inventor in.all my experience ever had told me a story like that. To

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more than two-and-a-half years, economize the Fairchild Engine and Air- down speed. It could use its top plane Corp. has been working at Cruising speed at all times:

Oak Ridge, on behalf of the Air Force, on a study designed to see CATTYIng atom bombs, “could be

pessimistic. chances of success are much less py William KE. S8houpp, research bright in connection with planes girector of Westinghouse Electric than for ships or, -engineering- Corp's Atomic Power

basically with weight

Antiquated bridges dotting Marion County roads are due for scrapping if the

County Council appropriates necessary funds. The cost outlay is es _million..dollars, near Indian Lake.

A second look isn't necessary to determine this covered bridge, a page from the past, is definitely in need of rating. Alternately open and closed ter traffic, it | reaches from bank to bank of White River onthe Southport Road

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Harnessing the Atom . . . No. 4

Atom-Powered Plane Seems Far in Future

The Atom and You: A Sequel

What do we actually have a right to expect ‘from atomic i

power? How long may we have to wait for it-——and why? This is the last of four dispatches which explores those questions, in simple, non-technical language, on the basis of latest declassified information available at Argonne National Laboratory and from top nuclear scientists.

‘margin—the maximum speed for a gasoline-engined craft is between 300 and 400 miles an hour,

v : which is too slow for modern By sURTON HEATH / ey h NGA Stay: Correspondent warfare. But a nuclear-powered

ORK. : i plane would have no reason to NW ATER oy on. fuel by holding.

: Shielding Dangerous ‘Rays Is Big Problem

The nuclear - powered plane,

the dominant factor in maintain-

he atom can power airplanes. h } the Policy

It is assumed in the beginning INE world peace,”

{hat a nuclear reactor could never Board reported. be used on any hut a. very large plane.

But the obstacles here are even And because of the dan- Breater than those facing other er from radioactivity, in case of possible uses of nuclear power, i= assumed for. the y & =» FIRST -Weight is of greater war. planes. importance. The plane reactor Even on that basis, experts are mygt he smaller and lighter than They eel that the 5 gupmarine could handle. Yet

: Division wise, for commercial power, points out that shielding must be Their doubts are not concerned oven more adequate, because the

and size, ;,1ane's crew must be so close to

though those factors arevimpor- sp. vanctor. - tant. Low temperature ‘experi- mp, ‘intensity. of gamma ray prove I wasn't being spoofed, Peters put his ideas mental reactors, now in existence, 4 neutron radiation is four

down on paper, signed his name, and mailed ‘em to me. He also told me how he'd invented the

bag he now regrets. .as small

; Bi ha it was, and he was a market, ng 25 to 30 feet high. The ce-

Nine years ago, researcher for Armour & Co, in Chicago. He was thinking of how to sell more oleo; he got the big idea suddenly one morning—and the bosses laughed at him when he demonstrated with a toy balioon how it worked. “I didn't ‘appreciate the whole+cleo problem then,” Peters said. “All I saw was this one little thing of coloring the margarine eisier. When my employers didn’t want it, I had it patented.”

Ethics of the Bag

PETERS SAID ‘several margarine producers tried to buy his bag on an exclusive basis, but it was nine years later before he got Cudahy & Co. as his first licensee. Cudahy's E-Z Color Pak proved such a hit with the housewives that most of the other big margarine makers soon were standing in Peters’ line. Each plastic bag costs them two and a half cents, plus another half cent to fill it. > Peters, meantime, had- produced some other profitable inventions which did not hurt his conscience. But as the dollars from the bag-‘began to flow in, he said he started worrying ahoy the ethics of making it easier for the housewife to foel her family. He said he had nothing against margarine as a food, so long as it had a color of its own, but that he believed it oughtn’t to imitate butter. And ‘there he was, getting rich by making the imitation all the easier. I wondered why then didn't he stop licensing his bags? ] . “Can't,” moaned Peters, “The contracts run indefinitely, And ] can't cancel ‘em, so long as I get my royalties.” { Bome day I hope to meet him personally, I. want a look at the only man in America who

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weigh several hundred tons each, y,,., as’great at one foot as at and those 1 have seen are as big two: if is 50 times as great at two ! two-story houses Per- fasting at 15 feet. And there is ps 20 feel wide 45 to 50 feet ,. .., water outside or in ballast tanks, tq ast as a radiation shield for a plane, as in the case of a submarine. ® nw " ® = BUT SOME, at least, believe lt gurguy i may prove desiroF tn ear own, ADI 0 operate the plane reactor to the neighborhood of 50 tons.'At & higher temperature than And the B.36 takes off with 70 Would be necessary for® other tons of fuel for. an 8000-mile trip. types, particularly if the ram-jet If the reactor could be brought proved to be the best method of to 50 tons, a B-36 could lift that USINE nuclear power. weight, plus more atom bombs That might increase the weight thas It can. pow carry. With a of shielding required. It certainly fueling of the smallest would increas. the temperature amount of U.235 that~ will sus- that the metals, alloys, ceramics tain chain reaction, such a plane oF, other compounds Would. have could go from anywhere in this o withstand. 80 that even when

materials are found that will do country to anywhere in the world,

: for ships, or far general power drop its bombs, and come home purposes, they might not be good and make several 3

1 : more Similar ... on for use in a plane retrips- before refueling. ‘© aetor: :

The Congressional Aviation wim Policy Board, d year ago, report- THIRD the piare, like

submarine, would have tn he completely redesigned to carry the concentrated weight of such a power plant. Now gasoline is carried in the wings, engines are out front.” With a. nuclear plant almost evervthing must be in one place; in the fuselage. This® would affect the

ment radiation shield on the first reactor is around five feet thick.

threat of war, nuclear power for aircraft! “would be comparable in significance to the atomic bomb itself.” In a chapter from his book “The Science and Engineering of Nuclear Power,” adapted in the

February issue of the magazine delicate

{Nucleonics. Clark Goodman of y.1.n0e for handling the plane.

the - Massachusetts Institute of 14 woyid place enormous stresses Technology Department of Phys- on gome parts of the plane at all ics elaborates a further remark times but particularly in landing. made by the Policy Board. 1 v ai : » ” » « > FOR A RANGE of 11.000 miles —5000 out, 5000-back, 1000 safety clear fuel would be used—the

On_the- replacement list is- this covered-bridge on-Sunnyside- Road

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Long a dangerous’ bridge to negotiate, this steel traffic-trap spans Fall Creek

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It has been closed to heavy vehicles for some time. The west

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Definitely no object of beauty, the W. Vermont St. bridge over Big Eagle Creek also will feel the

cutting torch if funds are provided to eliminate the outdated structures.

It's time to sell products, services and the American Way This was the F. McK. Blough, manager of the Indianapolis sales field of Standard Oil, to 350 Btandard Oil dealers last night in the Antlers Hotel. "Competition provided the op portunity for us to be where we are, We must fight schemes

message of

"Asserts Customer ‘In Driver's Seat’

which would jeopardize this con cept,” he said : KE. M. Erskine, assistant manager of Standard’s Indiahapolls field, said Standard Oil of Indiana typifies free enterprise as jt approaches its 60th birthday on June 18 ‘Service and courtesy are awakening from a IRE #1¢6p,” he sald, and Mr. and Mrs. Customer are in the driver's seat.

plane might use a turbine looking more or less. like this giant . Curtiss-Wright "turbo-prop'’ engine called the Typhoon. But as

soon as materials are found that

are capable of withstanding the

terrific heat involved, nuclear plane power” plants would more

likely be of the ram-jet type.

plane would land as heavy as it

takes: off, except for bombs un‘loaded.

It takes years merely to get a | The_ landing - problem - would’ be convéntial new plane from con- erations that put the atomic-pow- Pocahontas, will sponsor a benefurther complicated by the fact ception into use. But the nuclear ered bomber into a future even! fit card party at 8 p. m. Saturday that virtually no weight of nu- plane would be a new craft com- more distant than other possible in the Red Men's Hall, 230815 W,

even be started until the size and weight of the power plant, at least, were known. 4 These are a few of the consid-

Hoffman to Receive IU Honorary Degree

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Apr. 21 Paul G. Hoffman, administrator of Economie Co-operation Admini. stration, will be given an honors

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County Bridges Due : ncil Acts

Particularly hazardous is the Keystone Ave. bridge over Fall Creek at Fall Creek Pkwy. Now closed, it long has been regarded as unsafe by the motoring Yery narrow, two cars found passage di

ary degree of doctor of laws at.

Indiana University's annua Foundation Day May 4 The Hoosier business executive, president of Studebaker Corp. will also give the principal ad-

dress at the ceremonies, He was drafted by President Truman to

head American economic aid abroad At the. Foundation Day ceremonies, scheduled for 10 a. m. (Centraf Standard Time) in the

university's auditorium, students who achieved scholastic honors in the past vear will be honored and their parents will be special guests

Richardson Workers Favor ‘Union Shop’ Employees of Richardsen Co. 300 E. 20th St, have voted to insert a "union shop” clause in

their contract with the company, Employees are organized under

Local 294 of United. Rubber Workers— (C10). Of the 288 #iigible voters, 253 voted for a

union shop, 14 voted against the rufiton- shop and 21-did not vote, The! election was conducted uns der the direction of the National Labor Relations Board

£ Mark ‘Baseball Day’

if atomic power takes to the air, the first nuclear-powered

Indianapolis Optimist Club members will observe Day” at their 12:15 p. m. meeting tomorrow in the Severin Hotel. Members of the Indianapolis Ifidians will be special guests. A

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dance will be held at 6 p.m. tos

day in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, rl fois SPONSORS CARD PARTY Meta Council 103. Degree of

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