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- My first comment to Findley Patton, operator of an Allis-Chalmers HD19 tractor (HDI9 is synonymous with big) was that my white shirt was turning color,
“Don’t wear it five days,” laughed Mr. Patton.
‘You know, that isn’t bad for a v.un who operates
a fulltime, his witticism, . climbed into the
+. Disregarding seat beside the man who was wearing an H.D.
Tousley Construction Co. button on his cap. A cloud of powdered clay drifted up and around me from the seat. “Did anyone give you permission to ride this tractor?” my companion asked.
First Ride Is Best
1 SCOFFED and repeated his question word for word and turned it into a simple statement: DID anyone give me permission to ride this tractor. “Do you think I'd be up here without permission?” Mr. Patton wasn't sure. “Let's go. Oh, and show me how this thing operates.” As always, the first ride is the best. Behind the 22-ton tractor was a 17-ton scoop that looked like a prehistoric monster when the scooping end was open. About 1000 times larger than Joe E. Brown’s mouth. Behind the scoop, which had tires that would probably fit a. B-50 super-bomber, was another bulldozer. Walter Waggoner pushed the scoop while our outfit pulled. Easier that way and raises more dust. Really does. The tractor tread dug deep as Mr. Patton lowered the scoop and another 28-cubic yards of ground began coming up. We were bouncing and rattling on the future site of Western Electric's parking lot. When the scoop was full and up off the ground, Mr. Waggoner kicked his machine around and proceeded to one of the other four scoops. There was one man who did a lot of pushing around on the job. Just as I suspected, we had to dump the dirt fn a low spot. Isn’t it funny the way you have to do with ground? Dig it up in one spot so you can fill another. From about two miles per hour we speeded
wave in spite of the fact that I was pretty busy.
Problem of Levers
IF IT WEREN'T that a man had to be pretty good at being able to know how to adjust the scoop to required depths of cut, handling a tractor would be easy. ? Levers make it go to the left or right and with the aid of two brake pedals you could whip a tractor around on a dime. The throttle is an iron lever as is the clutch. I lasted behind the controls until the other pieces of equipment either came to a halt or prepared to run for open country. It's possible that Mr. Sniithson didn’t believe my story about being an Allis-Chalmers salesman. He may have although he did look at me criti cally when I said the firm was going to put windshields on future models. That might have been the wrong thing to say. This I can say for sure, however, they're really shoving Mother Earth around at Western Electric, I wonder how a bulldozer would be in traffic? About § p. m.
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"Wt tickles," murmered Patricia Jo Dunham when Dr. Lewis Need checked her
during University Heights annual physical examinations for first year and beginning
9 Doctors on Holiday From Regular Duties
examination program was
Last year, when the large scale first
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“Say asaasah" ordered Dr. Charles A. Reid, and Linda undergoing examinations at University Heights school, obliged.
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Examine 200 School Pupils in Quick-Time By DAVID WATSON : First-year pupils at University Heights School, 1350 Hanna Ave., Kept their conversations alive today with talk of the big examinations held yesterday at the school. The topic was shared by many children who will enter classes there for the first time in the fall.
started, the entire school of eight grades with 700 pupils took part. Twelve physicians and six dentists were on hand for the first run then, and the children’ were checked in much thé same manner as military recruits are pro-
Today, only the first year pupils who were not present for the exams last year and the new children wgre checked. Last year's methods were repeated. School officials, the county nurse and some mothers vere on
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For Grown-Ups
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, May 12—There must have been a day, in the glory that was Greece, when the boys polished their hands briskly and announced they could fly no higher in the arts. We have just achieved that here, citizens. We now have a comic book designed strictly for the adult trade. Spurred by the suspicion that the grown-ups were sneaking fascinated peeks at that opiate of the tot, the comic, a publisher has just plunged about 100 grand into a project to give the adult his own monthly magazine of graphic gore. Mr, Leverett Gleason, the publisher, who earlier had put out quantities of kids’ comics, now seems
‘striving for a cartoonized approximation of the
racier slicks, with undertones of the Reader's Digest and a small smitch of the Atlantic Monthly. No critic, I, but I'd say it's every bit as
readable as the stirring fables contained in the , stills for cigarets and razor blades, shampoos and
toothpaste: That is high praise dndeedy, for no man lives more daringly than the ‘hero of the Gillette ads.
Vital Subjects Covered
WE HAVE, in the first issue of Tops, which is what they call this thing, a full coverage of the vital subjects. That crime is unprofitable, that unwed motherhood is frowned on in the better circles, and that people who run over children with automobiles are not nice is limned in violent pen strokes. The man who runs this book says, in a preface, that “This new means of entertainment, for which we have coined the descriptive word, ‘illustories,’ now takes its place in full maturity alongside the theater, movies, radio and television. . . . This new visual journalism is as American as hotdogs and chewing gum.” As Tiny Tim once remarked, God bless us every one! The man says it took nine years of planning and Lord only knows how many thousands of
hungry artists to fetch this literary coup d'etat to full flower. It comes upon the scene suitably embellished by the cartoonists, and hence must represent a milestone in culture. I may be inclined to scoff, since T am a fellow who takes his words straight, without a pigmented chaser, but we have been pointing in this direction for a long, long time. The fanaticism with which children feed on the gaudy doings of comic-book characters should have warned us; the potercy of | the advertising “comic” strip as a molder of opinion should have cinched the argument.
Easy-to-Swallow Form
“COMIC” {s a misnomer all the way. We get the doings of Saul of Tarsus, Tarzan of the Apes, King Arthur, Christopher Columbus and Gyp the Blood fed us now in the new literary medium, which saves the reader effort. Where he read pages once, he now reads a single paragraph—a caption. We will give him Shakespeare, ‘Kant, and even Adolf Hitler in the new, easy-to-swallow form-— six pictures with a thin ledge of explanation under it. I suppose this narcotic cannot help but catch on, and that perchance the written word will finally fall into disrepute save as a signpost to the overblown -photo or the flamboyant illustration. No Shakespeare can hope to compete with a hungry Greenwich villager who can compress all of “Hamlet” into a line-drawing with an agate cast of characters underneath. But I dread the day when the complexities of daily living are all sugar-pilled into a" catchy picture, The bold doings of our leaders are
leg” cabs yesterday, three drivers for traffic violations and later adding charges of illegal cab operation,
Yesterday was the day the program was held. As
ine, their chests were tapped,
1 ears were checked and their gen-
eral well-being was tested by nine community physicians who volunteered their services and time for the health project.
the nearly 200 children) stepped through the examination! Practices in Beech Grove, Uni-
school’s annual physical check-up
| versity Heights and the surrounding community, took a “vacation” from their regular routines today to boost the pupil health pro{gram which has long been the i
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recorded on a “tard
In separate lines, boys and girls trooped through the examination where each doctor and dentist checked only one physical point. The medical finding was carried through the line by the child, and copies were later sent to the
hand to assist with guiding the children through the lines, Directors of the program be lieve that many defects which would ordinarily go undiscovered by parents can be revealed through the annual physical examination. Bome things can be corrected during the summer, be-
School administrators ia Unie versity Heights feel that the program is a major step toward their goal of raising health standards and that it will alse
On ‘Bootleg Cabs’
Three Drivers
Face Charges Police cracked down on “bootstopping
A police squad stopped a car
driven by James Pierce, 22, of 634 W. 29th St., charging failure to stop at a preferential street at the intersection of Ninth and 10th Sts. of failure to have a taxi license, | a city cab license and a taxlirector of flight test for the Glenn meter.
They later added charges
Follows Suspect Another patrol car following a
suspected “boot,” stopped driver Samuel McKee, 2436 Paris St, at Senate Ave, and 12th St, charg-
frightening enough in ordinary 8-point print, and|ing him with failure to give a
he is the biggest test pilot in the
of flying gear.. And, when Pat took off with a total weight of 29,332 pounds, it proved to be the world's record payload for single-engine planes carried on flight.
All six feet of Pat Tibbs, di-
{L. Martin Co. at Baltimore, is solid muscle. He needs it as he roars off runway or carrier in the heavily laden “Able Mabel.” Included in the gross weight are 15153 pounds of basic afrplane and 14,179 pounds of armament, fuel and pilot.- Three huge
when the ravings of the prophets are presented hand signal. Additional chargesi,,...;,es 12 large bombs and in a four-color spread, with words like “Sock!” |of failure to have taxi and city
and ‘“Zowie!"—well, you can oversimplify any-licenses and a taxi metter were ; Another man, Floyd| was
thing. |
Toxic Nut
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, May 12—When somebody hands you a new kind of nut about the size of a golf ball, cracks the shell, and reveals the creamy white kernel inside, you're inclined to eat it. That's only human. And nobody’s more human than Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont. His teeth were about to go ca-runch on a fresh and juicy tung tree nut when the man who banded it to him cried out in alarm: “Stop.” + “Huh?” inquired the Senator, who ordinarily speaks more politely, but who couldn't say much else because of the nut in his mouth. “Don't eat it,” added Blaine Ewing, the tung nut tycoon of Carriere, Miss, “It is toxic.” “Eh?” asked the Senator.
“Poison,” replied Ewing. The gentleman from Vermont got’ rid of his nut .and nobody seemed worried about his narrow squeak with this mysterious oriental drug, except me. If he'd swallowed it, what would have happened to him?
Sneaked Em Out
IT TURNED out that the Chinese have been harvesting tung nuts these many centuries, squeez~ ing out the oil and using same in paint. -It's also good for linoleum, oil cloth, printers’ ink, which it makes waterproof. 80 we sneaked some of the nuts out of China in 1906 and planted trees, but they all died, except one in a cemetery at Tallahassee, Fla. From this one tree (which the city fathers chopped down in 1938 to make way for a new street) have grown more than 14 million trees on 275,000 acres in the South. A dozen crushing mills are in operation, 15,000 people are at work in the trade, the industry is worth $37 million and tung oil is big business ~or was until lately. That's why the tung
to Senators.
them to go into the oil business before the war, |
that during the hostilities their trees were the only |st., when he picked up a passen-| source of this valuable fluid, and that now their|ger from a home at 19th and|
Uncle Samuel is deserting them.
filed later.
Board, 120 W. 15th 8t,
{four 20-mm. cannon are included. Landed “Dead Stick” { One of the test pilot's narrowest escapes and biggest thrills
{charged with disorderly conduct! .... in 1944, near Pittsburgh, {and interfering with an officer!
after he disregarded police In-ip.on¢a) Martin Marauder (B-26)
prisoner, Police watching a
i | suspected pg; threw his people are in Washington, handing poison samples “bootleg” cab stand at 19th and|«¢pjm»
{Martindale Sts. followed a departThey claim that their own government urged ing vehicle and arrested driver]
structions not to talk to the! gieq when a carburetor froze.
Of His 228 Lbs. in Test Hop Xx Pat 4d Carries MAT Payload oP Landlords fire
For Single-Engine Planes in ‘Able Mabel’ By MAX B. COOK, Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor - NEW YORK, May 12—O. E. (Pat) Tibbs doesn’t know whether
business.
He does know that, during his last flight. in the Martin Mauler “Able Mabel,” the Navy's swiftest, largest and most deadly carrierbased dive-torpedo-bomber, he weighed 228 pounds—plus 35 more
A member of the first class to be trained at Randolph Field,
months’ active duty with the Air Force, Later he barnstormed with his own plane, instructed, tested; flew in 28 states on an aerial mapping survey and then flew the air mail routes for the Army. Born in Oklahoma, he says he got the idea of flying after his head was bumped as his dad carried him by the feet into a cyclone cellar during a storm. head above grinned.
Flies Every Day On Pearl Harbor Day in 1941,
Pat was testing a light commerclal
the clouds,”
An Army pilot was aboard and ship for a “dead-stick”
{was notified by radio to prepare
Marvin King, 29, of 135 Puryear | for the landing.
ing out the oil and storing it. Now, according toiand city cab license,
their American competitors, they are dumping it|
in the United States, forcing prices down and \sEW Aux
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causing folks like Ewing to lose about 8 cents a pound on all the oil they sell. He and others said this couldn’t go on much longer.
Major Enterprise
tial commodity and give it a parity price, they're going to turn their trees into cord wood. Ewing dreads the thought. Sawing up a tung tree and plowing out the roots is a major enterprise. Multi-
your hands. >
They seemed more interested in the Chinese, she said, than in Americans.
what horrid fate Sen. Alken had escaped. “It wouldn't have killed him,” he said. made him good and sick.” “Made him numb?” I ested. “No,” sald Mrs. Watts. “Tung oil is just like castoroil, except‘for one difference. It is at least four times as strong.” No charge, Sen. Aiken; I'm always glad to do research for a lawgiver,
“Just
The Quiz Master
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What are ultrasonic Sounds? Depending on age and other factors, one can hear air waves vibrating up to 15,000 to 20,000 times per second. Vibrations Aanter that tis are mot heard, though they are audi te dogw, other animals. Such inaudible “sounds” are “ultrasonic.”
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Did President Monroe receive astotal number) of electoral votes when he was re-elected?
Monroe received the vote of all the presidential truck and fleet managers of Dear-|
electors except that of one im New Hampshire, who gave his vote for John Quincey Adams, on the ground that no one but Washington sh receive a unanimous vote,
I bided my time. (awards. i And eventually I got her aside and asked her| Winners are Barbara Scott, |
[first; Glenn Holley, second, and
iliary Sets Anniversary Pitch-In
The auxiliary to Fairbanks er {morial Post, VFW, will celebrate] IF THE government doesn’t keep out the Its 15th anniversary with a unt Chinese competition, or declare tung oil an essen-in dinner at 6:30 p. m. Saturday! lin the post home, 6008 Park Ave. iMrs. Bertha Elliott is chairman.) During the anniversary celebra-| ’ {tion, prizes will be awarded to] ply that by 14 million and you've got a Job. on three Tech High School winners! Mrs, John Watts, the handsome associate edi-|[0f" the auxiliary-sponsored essay | tor of the Tung World Magazine of Gulfport, contest on “My Part In America’s Miss, charged various federal agencies with as- Future.” sorted skullduggeries in connection with tung ofl. |sides, Tech English department, be present for the
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Barbara Brummett, third.
By rmon-Herrington
Indianapolis, truck specialists, were entertained by the Marmon-Herrington Co, Inc., 1511 W. Washington 8t., today. Among Ford officials present were O. Fred Yando, Indianapolis Ford branch manager; J. W. Chenault and M. K. Gant, regional
born and Chicago; C. J. Boder-
and fleet manager.
Margaret Burn-|
Ford Group Enterfained
The Ford Truck Sales Club of comprised of 85
As a “crash wagon” stood by,
“dead-stick” landing of that model.
weight around to
anniversary. days
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[tin, - Two years later, he iis out flying every day.
[Caterpillar Club; has brought his ship down,
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner» the vehicle,
Tex. — in 1931 — Pat had 30
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plane at Ft. Worth, Tex.
to celebrate their sixth wedding
was [landing. The Pittsburgh airport working as a test pilot for Mar. Northwestern Ave. left highway WAS! river lost control {promoted to his present job. He 4 Ver 108 control, He has! Pat landed the Marauder safely(never become a member of the UO¢ll Bt. and George Young, 20, Bellefontaine Sts. He was charged __the first
All during the shooting the Chinese kept press-|with fafture to have a taxi meter] away
Free-for-All Session
Set Tomorrow Without paying much attention to their calendar, apartment landlords of Indianapolis will take on the Federal Rent Control staff tomorrow in a free-for-all question period. The Apartment Owners Association, without being Friday-the-13th shy, will fire their questions about how to get increased rent in two sessions in the Gold Room of Hotel. Washington. What the landlcrds want is a fair net operating income and Patrick Barton, local rent control director, John Gould, rent control attorney, and Carl Sobbe, exam-iner-inspector, will supply the answers, Paul Coen, president of the apartment’ owners, will preside and William P, Snethen, manager of the Apartment Owners Associaflon, will lead the discussion.
when the engines on an experi- His pretty wife, the former Two Local Youths Thelma Holland, an “Army Hurt in Auto Crash brat,” was waiting. They were
Two persons were slightly in{jured today when a car driven by Denver Ferguson, 19, of 2926
{31 near Glenns Valley after the
Andrew Perkins, 21, of 1122 f 502 N. California 8t., were treated for cuts and" bruises at |General Hospital following the accident. Both were passengers Another passenger, Mary Mitchell, 21, of 440
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W. 40th 8t., and the driver, escaped injury. Deputy sheriffs sald the car was later found in a small creek at the scene of the accident. Passing motorists took the victims to the hospital.
Two Reappointed To NAM Committee
Edward J. Benpett, secretarytreasurer - of the Indianapolis Stove Co. and Frank L. Binford, president of the D-A Lubricant Co., Inc, both of Indianapolis, |were reappointed to the Federal Tax Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers, Wallace ¥. Bennett, president of the NAM, announced today. The committee, composed of 100. manufacturers, will study the » of venture capital in Industry, the impact of “double taxation,” and the need for tax relief for small business, Mr. Bennett said,
FBI Agent to Speak Special Agent Lawrence | Brown of the FBI will be {speaker at a meeting of the KE. L. | Day Men's Club at 8 p. tomorrow in North Tacoma Chris tian Church, Mauri Rose, 500 Mile
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"Would you check your window sill and see if anything is missing?”
{Race driver, will also be a guest |at the meeting and a race film {will be shown.
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dream of Hugh Thompson, school |parents. for the opening ~* #s~—2-2 ~aino] provide valuable statistics on The doctors, who have regulariprincipal. Sn : Original reports became a partiterm. ed pupil heals, Police Crack Down Pilot Needs Every Ounce Rent Staff Faces Dental Group
Sets Meeting The third annual convention of the Indiana State Dental Hygien-~ ists Association will be held here next Sunday to Wednesday during the annual sessions of the Indiana State Dental . Association. Miss Evelyn Maas. director "of dental hygiene at Northwestern University dental school and president-elect of the National Dental Hygienists Association, will appear on the Monday morning program in the Claypool Hotel. : Dr. Robert E. Glilis of Indi anapolis, assistant dental surgeon with the U. 8. Public Henlth Service, will speak afternoon. Members will tour the El Lilly & Co. plants Tuesaday. Officers are Mrs. H. 8. Frum, Indianapolis, president; Miss Betty Fink, Mishawaka, vice presi. dent; Miss Sophie Heckenstaller, Gary, secretary - treasurer, - and Mrs. Constance Ulrich, Indian~ apolis, program chairman.
Arrests Youth Who ‘Doped’ Gas
A city police patrolman turned detective scored after almost five months of investigation with the arrest of a 17-year-old youth who admitted dumping a pound of sugar in the gasoline tank of a parked car last Christmas Eve. The persevering patrolman who stuck to his case was Leo Tray lor. The owner of the car which was vandalized was the same Leo Traylor, | A tip from a neighborhood girl {led to the arrest of the youth who admitted doping the gasoline and breaking windows of the car. Both {the witness and the culprit said, however, that another 19-year-old {youth had “bribed” him to vanidalize Patrolman Traylor's car. {They were turned over to Juvenile Ald Division.
‘Admiral Corp. Has
New Television Set Admiral Corp, radio and tele vision manufacturers, today an-~ nounced a full-length, 24-tube lastic console with a 10-inch screen for $249.50. Ross D. Siragusa, president, said this was $100 under comparable sets, The cabinet, weighing 35 pounds, the corporation said, is the largest single piece of plastic ever molded commercially and represents a year of research.
OES Chapter to Meet
The auxiliary to Golden Rule Chapter, O. E. 8, will meet at 12:15 p. m. Monday for a covered dish luncheon in the home of Mrs. Helen Davis, 4707 Winthrop Ave. Mrs. Mildred Millspaugh, preaident, will be in charge of the business meeting.
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Butler Dean to Speak Dr. J. Hartt Walsh, dean of the of Education at Butler