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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

. DOES THE PROSPECT of false teeth, in the near or distant future, make you squirm? It shouldn't. - . : I'm probably shaking as much as you are but. again 1 say, you shouldn't. Why? Because Dr. Carl O. Boucher, professor of dentistry, Ohio State University, says so, that's why. . He preaches that don’t-worry idea in Columbus, O., to his private patients and at clinics such as you'll find at the 92d annual session of the Indiana State Dental Association currently in full swing in the Claypool Hotel. Unfortunately I wasn’t among those present at Dr. Boucher’s clinic. His views were given to me secondhand. Even secondhand there was an appeal I couldn’t forget. “No one should be afraid of losing his natural teeth,” my informant said, flashing a set of blue ribbon choppers. “Dr. Boucher’s got a lot on the ball. You ought to see him.” ; T've seen a lot of dentists and I'll probably keep seeing them so one more wouldn't hurt, I thought, and set out for the Claypool.

Checked the Bars to Be Sure

* EVERYONE I stopped told me about the same thing: “Dr. Boucher went by here just a few minutes ago.” I even checked the bar a couple of times, to be sure not to overlook anything, understand. Finally, Dr. Boucher stood before me. “Look,” T said, opening my mouth as wide as it was possible without artificial leverage. “Oh,” was all Dr. Boucher said at first. With .

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False teeth, . . Dr. Carl O. Boucher, professor of dentistry, preaches that ''natdFal look."

% idea of having an improved version of his natural

my grunts and his “Obs” the conversation a its limitations, “~#Let's get off the balcony and away from these

you a streamlined lecture,” sighed my new friend as he opened a door on the fifth floor. ; _ “A case of slides was opened, a lamp was turned on and Dr. Boucher A “I couldn't make a statement about your teeth without a full mouth examination including X-rays of all your teeth and a full history of your teeth and health,” said Dr. Boucher. That took care of my free advice I thought I'd get. Anyway, he went on to explain with slides

what their natural teeth were like at their best. Dr. Boucher’s belief and practice is to duplicate a patient’s natural teeth in color and shape, making slight corrections where possible. “You can’t help have friends notice your mouth and comment when one month you hagg slightly stained and irregular teeth and next month blossom out with gleaming perfection in po lain,” stated Dr. Boucher. He also said portraits and snapshots help him to give a patient the most natural reproduction

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to duplicate fillings in dentures. When the patient is thoroughly sold on the

teeth, confidence in the dentist and the future use of the dentures follows. When that happens)

the road ahead is smooth. An important psycho-|

logical hurdle has been conquered. : Dr. Boucher maintains that dentures which can be recognized as being artificial are inadequate. “You mean if you were making me a set of false teeth you would have this front one a little darker than its neighbor and have the bottom front teeth a little crooked?” I asked.

Minus the Ache and Some Silver

HE SAID that was the idea. He would duplicate my present teeth. The only thing he would leave out would be the ache and about a quarter of a pound of silver. “When dentures look and feel natural, feel, as they should, a part of you, the dentist has fulfilled his role. No one need be afraid,” concluded Dr. Boucher, He may ‘have something there. I often waqndered how I would act with a mouth full of white porcelain. That's not me. : Little by little things are getting better, aren't they?

Wot a World

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 18—We have been down to visit the “Our Children’s World, ’49,” National Exposition, and have come away a trifle stunned. The gadgeteers have moved in on babyhood, and as soon as they develop an automatic baby-sitter in the labs, parenthood will have become practically passe.

It seems, since primitive times, that a “truly acceptable substitute for breast-feeding’ has been sought without success, but now they got one. Called a Shellie Nurser.

> This gimmick is supposed to be a dead ringer for the genuine article, in texture and lactation. The bottle is collapsible, and shrinks as Junior Jephetc 10s contents. Also says that the natural action nipple is as revolutionary as the bottle— excuse me, disposa-bottle, contrived of a plastic film called shellene. : Blackmail has legally moved into the business of infant feeding, too. They got a glass with a

drink his milk, halt! Merry-go-rouid won't go round. Blackmail, Psychiatrists probably will frown on it. Then we move to the spoon. Called the “Scoop Dinner Set.” Spoon so_gpnstructed baby can only use it in his right hand.” What this will do to the complexes of natural southpaws, only the Lord and psychiatrists can say. Spoon likewise designed to allow no mess and clutter when the heir paws around in the pre-shrunk spinach.

Prevents Dribbles on Bib

ALSO GOT the Teach-Ezy Cup. Cup parts the ¢hildish lips in natural manner. Prevents the milkenriched Martini, or whatever it is babies drink, from dribbling on the bib. Baby, it says, is “encouraged to drink unaided.” When baby grows up they will call this vicious, solitary guzzling, and blame it on his uninhibited ast. = In my time it was a badge of parental pride to exhibit the youngster’s crib, and to point boastfully to the fang-marks on the top rail. No more: Baby now gets a plastic cover, flavored sweet, to chaw on as he grazes the upper rung of his prison.

This is known as sparing the wood and spoiling the child. Cribs now have extra sidings for the child who grows too fast. Zip, click, and the bar rises higher, 80 Junior can’t swing over it. This, I believe, is a snide adult plot to keep the sprouts bedridden, while the parents riot in the ice cream bars and double-feature movies. First child to do a giant swing over this new trapeze wins the Ruark athletic award, which consists of one undigestible lollypop painted poison green. I suggest, also, a simpler remedy for overactive children: Either an afternoon in the park or a stout chain around the neck. I do not intend, either, to hold still for the crib with the built-in music box which plays Brahms lullabies, or the rattle that glows in the dark as a fresh substitute for lamb-counting. Grandpa used to sing me to sleep with “Ol’ Zip Coon” and “The Wreck of the Old Ninety-seven.” Who needs Brahms? Reel me out another stanza

Miss Ruth

to the most modern techniques in

“terminal sterilization” technique, in New York state.

It means the formulas are prepared and bottled under controlled conditigns of rigid cleanliness but are not sterilized until they are completed. Them bottle, nipple, contents and cover are sterilized together. The process is conducted under pressure so that the formula will not boil in the bottle. : Formerly the “aseptic” method was used with the items sterilized separately, then ‘assembled. » " "

THE NEW $11,000 laboratory,

Madsen and Miss Dorothy Yates prepare baby formula.

$11,000 Gift Makes Modern Technique Available for All ‘Nursery Residents’

NURSERY residents at Methodist Hospital can relax in their bassinets with assurance that their food is being prepared according

The newly constructed and equipped department employs the

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1949 PAGE 15.

acilities Assure Safe Milk

For Babies In Methodist Hospital

Times Photo Story by Lloyd B. Walton

Mrs. Idella Mosley cools bottles.

the new milk formula laboratory.

a procedure now required by law %

in a four-gallon dispenser. Student nurses fill the bottles from the dispenser, apply nipples and labels. Next the bottlés are racked and made ready for the autoclave. ” » » AFTER 10 minutes’ sterilization at 230 degrees, they are removed and quickly cooled. Until feeding time they are stored in a refrigerator. Then they are warmed in electric bottle warmers in the nursery. Some 400 to 600 formulas are

the gift of an anonymous benefacter, includes a clean-up area, controlled passageway (which can be completely closed off) and preparation “room. The bottles are washed in a

“Frat and Johnny,” mee ~~ Tory all

Elevator for Oookuins

WE HAVE also a new bath device for younguns which features an elevator to raise and lower Oookums Tootsums into the water, plus a thermostat to regulate the water's temperature. This makes the dinked elbow obsolescent. It also works handily with a scheme to put baby-bouncing out of business. This latest gimmick is called the Johnny JumpUp. The child is suspended from the ceiling in a self-sealing cradle, connected by a spring. Young Wilbur leaps and capers all day long, like a monkey on a string, frustrating mama's knee and father's foot. Young Wilbur will probably grow up. to be an acrobat, coming onstage just after the jugglers. The one thing that soothes me is that the diaper has largely been uncorrupted by the gadgeteers. They can describe them as sterilized, as sanitized, as anything ending in -ize. But so long as kids are. kids the diaper will remain strictly an emergency makeshift, and all the skills of the atomic world will never be able to do very much about the problem.

Bug Juice

By Frederick C. Othman

McLEAN, Va. May 18—Today am damp and, disinfected. There's a powdery white film in my mustache and blisters on my hands. Around me is the aroma of creosote. If I were a worm I'd be a goner. Maybe I am, anyhow, and you can take that any way you want. I have been spraying what Mrs. O' hopefully calls our orchard; her name probably should have been Eve. Never have I seen so much anguish expended for an apple. When we bought our beaten-up, old house in the country last year there came with it, at no extra charge at the time, 115 beaten-up old, appletrees. A greedy gleam appeared in the eye of Eve. Sen. Harry F. Byrd, the big apple man down Winchester way, she said, could watch ais step. The Othman’'s were in the apple business, too.

Came last fall. No apples, much, to speak of. My Eve got a book from the Agriculture Department, All our orchard needed was a little attention. I pruned those trees, nearly breaking my neck 115 times. I disced the earth, because the book said a plow might break the tender roots, and I planted same in rye, as per directions, When the rye came up I turned it under so the apples would be big and red.

Sprayer Cost Only $1450

THEN, said the government (and I wish it would keep its big mouth shut), my trees needed a dormant spray, while they still had no leaves. The kind of sprayer I wanted for a mighty commercial enterprise of this type came on wheels with pressure tanks and gasoline engine included. Price, $1450, for the small model. - So I bought a kind of three-handled wheelbarrow. The third handle is a pump, I work this with one hand, while I guide the nozzle with the the other. The dormant spray wasn't so bad last

winter, because I was wearing my overcoat. I didn’t notice it. With the arrival of spring about $firee weeks ago, those trees blossomed out with the prettiest pink and white flowers you ever saw. The greedy eye of my Eve became greedier still. In every blossom it saw a round and crunchy apple. Hardly had the blossoms disappeared, before hundreds of webs, as of ambitious spiders, appeared in the branches. The webs were full of worms. The spray didn’t touch 'em, because those webs functioned as raincoats. An expert said the only way to get em was to burn 'em. I doused a rag in gasoline, and put it on the end of a pole, and applied a match. That got rid of the webs; it also showered me with fuxzie-wuzzies, each with a 64 legs.

And the Book Also Says

I COULDN'T STOP. The book said that what our trees needed now was their post-blossoming spray. It came in a jug to be diluted with water; ‘the result looked like milk, but had an odor of its own. : % As I say, I have been spraying the trees and also myself. A gentle, milky mist has been enveloping me and inserting anti-bug juice in my pores. To my delight where the blossoms had been came apples, about the size and color of canned peas. .And then, for reasons unknown to everybody except maybe Sen. d, they hegan to fall off. Some of the leaves began to curl. And then they got brown spots on ‘em, Se The worms, which I thought I'd cremated, crawled up and began chewing the foliage into lace. I got out the pump, but the day was windy, and if ever an orchardist got sprayed thoroughly, I am the drippy one. & There aren't many apples left, or leaves, either. My bride (proving that all Eves are optimistic) is looking forward to better results next year, but I have a different idea. I understand that apple trees make superb firewood.

The Quiz Master

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Spain Today ... No. 3

Supply Would Slow Reds Down

By WILLIAM H. NEWTON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer MADRID, May 18—The Spanish army could hold the Pyrenees Mountains for about three weeks against a Russian attack. Capture of Spain by Stalin's troops would cut off present American supply lines through the Mediterannean to Greece, Turkey and the Middle East oil fields. It would end all possibility of an American or British stand anywhere on the European continent. This is the opinion of neutral

Franco regime. ‘Enemy Capabilities’

- If nothing were done to strengthen Spanish defenses before war broke out, there would be no time then in which to build effective resistance. Any American help at that time, regardless of its volume, would be too little and too late. Spain, and with her the Mediterranean, would be lost, according to air, ground and naval experts here. Careful weighing of “enemy capabilities” indicates that if war came today, the Russians could push aside all present forces in their path and have 50 divisions| in the foothills of the Pyrenees within three or four months, military men say. The main factor delaying the Russian effort would not be armed resistance in Germany and France so much as it would be the problem of supplying a huge invasion force capable of smashing through the great mountain barrier of the Pyrenees.

Weigh Red Tactics

Military men here believe the Soviet tactic would be to drive around the east and west

Gen. Clay Prepares

For N. Y. Homecoming WASHINGTON, May 18.(UP) —Gen. Lucius D. Clay rested up today in preparation for a second homecoming celebration in New York City tomorrow, After yesterday's wearing five-

work on a radio speech, Gen. Clay declined all invitations for

How many words does the average dog undernd?

stand? y It depends on the training he has received. A stray mongrel knows the meaning of about 10 words. Many of the so-called trick dogs or dogs that have been highly trained understand up to 8300 words. It is possible to teach a clever dog the meaning of about 350 words, but that seems to be the limit,

Is there actually such a snake as a “spitting cobra”? : The Ringhals, a spitting snake, is the shortest of the cobras, averaging about four feet in length. When disturbed, it will eject venom accompanied by expulsion of air, so that the venom is sprayed several feet in a fine shower. The black-necked

cobra, larger than the Ringhals, also sprays venom

today. He sald he wanted to catch up on his sleep. The general later will be feted by his home town of Marietta, Ga.

said to be effective up to 12 feet. .

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specially designed baby bottlejonly a protective factor but a washer in the clean-up room then/labor-saver as well. It was in stalled ' the assistance of

Most formulas are prepared tendent, and Miss Ruth Madsep, with an electric mixer, then placed! chief dietician.

Sudden Communist Attack Would Peril

military experts here, who have ;” studied the situation without regard to the “political” considera- _} tions involved in any ald to the PH

es! of the mountain range which di-|capable of “effective action. | vides Spain from France. Here, |their planes are obsolete, pre-'haven’t been repaired in 23 years.

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Gen. Clay, who retired Benita,

as U. B. military governor in| ghyttle service to the Speedway. half-hour intervals tb 2 Germany, emphasized that he will x tare will b ents

not be a “candidate for the gov-Unjon Station and the race oval|way, and the NYC reminds race-| ernor of Georgia or for any other will start at 3:15 a. m. for the goers they'll have no parking office problems.

prepared daily by the staff of {a dietician, two. student nurses and two maids. The production line was planned as carefully as that in a factory. The “complete control” is not

W. 8. McLin, assistant superin-

Miss Charlotte Smith on milk run. Miss Barbara Ketterman with baby, fed with modern technique.

U.S. ‘Lifeline’ . J. LITelne ety 77 duty, he remains in the reserves, subject to call. The Pyrenees could be defended by a well-equipped army with sufficient air superiority to prevent airborne landing behind the defense forces, most military men believe. They believe this would take at least 14 first line combat divisions, plus an air force of 18 fighter groups, or about 1500 planes, based in Spain. It would take at least a year to train and equip such a force here, if the supplies were made available today, they estimate. oo Has Large Airfield Bpain has three large airfields, at Madrid, Sevilla, and Barcelona, Another, at Bilbao, will be com= pleted within a year. In addition, there are a number of smaller fields which could handle fighter planes, In case of war, air ald would presumably come as well from U. 8, bases in North African and British fighter bases in England. There are seaports at Lisbon, Vigo, La Coruna, Bilbao, and Gibraltar through which large quantities of supplies could move in a hurry, Portugal would automatically be at war if Spain : were attacked. war German, Italian, and Rus- Spain has no modern antl-afr-, Military men here recognize sian models. Spain has about craft defenses. 800 pilots and 300 old planes. Defense of the Pyrenees by the rope’s defense against any Soviet The Spanish Army numbers Spanish Army would be like attack is the Rhine River. They could probably be blocked off by|430,000 men, or about 22 divisions. pitting a horse and buggy against/are well aware that political, as relatively small Spanish forces. They are well trained by Eu-|a streamlined deisel engine. | well as moral considerations dicAt the same time they attacked ropean standards, courageous! Lack A Subp] tate this choice, the moulitajn barrier itself, the|fighters, but equipped with ob- rms Nupply But they believe the United Soviets would be expected to drop solete weapons. Within two or|: On an all-out war basis, 8pain|gtates could take action tod ay

airborne troops in the level plains|three months, another 430,000|could put two million men into which woul behind the mountains, along -the reservists could be mobilized, but|ine field, probably within one|time d greatly shorten the

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Spain's natural line of defense—the Pyrenees mountains. This is in Catoconia, looking toward France, on the other side of the mountains.

the terrain is not so difficult as it appears on a map. There are also a few passes through the center of the range, but these

t required Yaliey of She oro Rives, rae there would not be sufficient year. Lack of arms and am- Pyrenees IE sus Ne A ges off oe Bhan An aTIns for all of them, munition would be the big draw-|of defense if war should come. fense forces in the mountains. The Army needs electronic back. If there is a war, they argue,

equipment, combat vehicles, artillery and ammunition, rockets, motor transport, and aircraft of all types. If war came the troops at the front would have to be supplied over a rallway network which is on the verge of collapse, and over mountain roads which

All Spanish men must serve in the Army. The soldier is conscripted when he is 18, for two years. He gets 125 pesetas, or about $5 a month, Qut of this he pays for his own rations, which cuts his pay down to about one peseta, or 4 cents, a day. After he completes his tour of

political objections to the France regime are apt to be quickly overlooked, just as political obJections to the Stalin regime were overlooked once the Germans attacked. : But once war comes, it will be far too late to build any effective defense forces here in Spain.

Midget Race Track To Show Hitler Car

An automobile used by Adolf Hitler will be displayed Friday through May 30th at the 16th Street Midget Race Track, The completely bulletproof car has a body covered with quarterinch steel plate and the throughout is an inch and a quarter thick, Two carburetors feed the supercharged motor which is capable of developing 400 horsepower and producing a top speed of 102 miles per hour while con-

Army Well Trained

“The territory is just made for an air drop,” one officer commented. ve The Spanish have no air ogee A

College Plans Annual Song Fest Becomes President

Times State Service |pus sing, is sponsored by sigma Of Railroad at 33 TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 18|Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha| CHICAGO, May 18 (UP)—Wil—The annual Song Fest of Indl-|8infonia, honorary music fra-liam N, Deramus III the 33ana State Teachers College will ternities. year-old son of a railroad presibe held at 8 p. m. (CBT) today| Co-chairmen of the event are dent, took command of the 1500in the Student Union building. Virginia Webster, LaGrange, and |,’ Chicago, Great Western Guest Conductor Varner Chance Bill Hendrickson, Plainfield. Railway today and. beca the Ft. Wayne will direct the Other committee members are| coy UR) a ploeaing mass number, “Onward Christian (Marilyn Irwin, Terre Haute; Don n ung H 0ad president in the Soldiers,” as the finale. |Canedy, Mt. Carmel, IIL, and Bob |p n. He was elected by the Song Fest, a competitive cam-'Wallace, Attica. ard St Jurectors YeuerdaY. ad . ¢ ’ ing In 1939 as a transportation NYC Plans Shuttle Service to 500 |apprentice on the Wabash Rail The New York Central Rall-|then at 15-minute Intervals from road. For the last 18 months, {road will run its Memorial Day|6:15 a. m. to 10:30 a. m., then he has been an executive assist{ant to the Chicago, Great WestThe fare will be 35 cents one ern. Mr. Deramus is the son of the president of the Kansas City iBouthern Railroad.

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