Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1949 — Page 11

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“A truer word was never spoken,” was my reaction to the truism. (For the benefit of those who Jump at the mention of the word racket, slot ma-

chines, etc., let me say this discussion has to do

TE oy, Saar) , Em-Roe 8 Goods Co. Tr SF i Sete Br wi establishment, was with the Ea making Don “Leavitt, a young fellow who does pracSealy = Ting in the way of small jobs, cut § a long strand of red cord and ask “which one?” : od. Tt one,” said Hal snapping his head to the “What are you guys talking about?” Soa “Rackets,” sighed Hal. “Don's got a couple he has to string right away.” ‘

The Big Exhibition Begins

PVE SEEN a lot of things done and am capable of doing one or two quite clever tasks with my hands, such as stringihg beads on a string, but never in my life had I seen a racket strung. There was a chance to learn something constructive. Can you gentlemen show me how it's done so 1 can string my own one of these days?” ‘Go ahead and show him,” Hal said, and with 2 nate of finality added, “I'm going downstairs and learn how to make golf balls.” That last remark wasn't necessary in my estimation. . The red cord turned out to be nylon string.

Stringin’ along . . . Don Leavitt connects the head ‘and throat of a racket with nylon.

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gut is still preferred by the top racket swing “If you're interested in doing a real job,” n, looking casually around the store, ®*youll

have to get 8 stringer_—we use a Stern Stringer so your racket is held in such a rigid way t 55

excited. So it was secure. So what is a stringer for? % ; : Most rackets require 19 feet of string to go up and down and 15 to 17 feety to go across. Seemed like a lot of footage. :

After Don put the proper amount of tension into a string by merely pulling a lever with a

gauge attached, he jabbed an awl ihto the hole] = where the string was and trapped it securely. The]

awl was removed, when the string was again tightened and doubled back: on the other side of the frame. It's simple to string a racket if you have the tools, awls, picks ‘and gut to practice on. Hal returned about the time I was giving a

. souped-up version of “When Théy Cut Down the

Old Pine Tree.” A tennis racket with just up and down strings in it makes an excellent musical instrument. “On the cross strings,” said Don quickly, “we tie the string in on the fourth hole from the top and go across on the third. That way we leave room for trim on top of the racket.”

$15 Gut Used in Stringing DON METHODICALLY wove the nylon back and forth, put the tension in and ‘doubled back.

You couldn’t watch a racket stringer long before|: you get bored. Unless, of course, he was stringing

your racket with $15 gut. The last real job is to tie off the strings securely. It would be most embarrassing for a racket

stringer to have his work unravel in the middle;

of a game. Hal told me a couple things I'm jotting down in my permanent notebook. He said cat gut was never used in rackets and probably never would be used. The best is sheep gut. Pig gut is cheaper but not as good. : Naturally, if it's cheaper. “Furthermore, pigskin was never used in making a football” shouted “Believe-It-or-Nat” Harris. I was astounded. “Cowhide is used in pigskins—I mean footballs.” * Say, if you're not doing anything some afternoon and feel like you just have to see a racket strung, drop in to Em-Roe’s and yell for Harris, Ask him - what he means by saying a racket was never strung with cat gut.

Tea for Britons

By Leo Turner

- NEW-YORK, May 23--A row of taxicabs stood

in front of a supermarket on the edge of a slums area today, waiting to pickup a strange cargo— tea for British teacups. Inside, a long line of crew members of a

. luxury liner docked seven blocks away wound

through the aisles, buying food for the folks back home. . “We sell more tea than any store in America,” said Gerard Keegan, the big, affable manager of the store, whe stood with hands on_his hips

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MR. KEEGAN’S success story goes like this.

He is the manager of the A. & P. supermarket at Ninth Ave. and 54th St, the dividing line of a tenement area and the swank apartments near Central Park. Suddenly his sales shot ahead of every store in the eastern division. The foreign crews of the ocean liners had discovered the American supermarket. Now Mr, Keegan has a chart on the walls of his office so he can be ready for them. The seamen aboard, the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth get $20 in American money when they reach New York. The officer class gets $30 each, “There are 1200 crew members on each Queen. We get at least 800 of them on the day before the ship sails,” Mr, Keegan sald. “Come on and meet some of the boys.” e George Butterworth of Southampton, England, and his pal, Stephen Kenny, #Barrow-in-Furness, were loading a cart, both of them were young, short, blond engineers aboard the Queen Mary. They gave this reporter some of the British names for food,

‘Salad cream” means mayonnaise. “Jelly” means powdered gelatin mix. A “tin” means a can. “We take a lot of tea. The ration in England is two ounces a week, and that lasts less than one day, said Mr. Butterworth. He had sugar (the British ration is eight ounces a week), “tinned” meat, ready-mix cake flour, cooking fat and rice, i “We: are allowed to take in 25 pounds duty

free, five pounds of it in rationed goods,” Mr.|

Butterworth said. Buys For Friends -

MR. KENNY is single, but he usually buys food for his friends. He sometimes buys stockings and underwear for his girl friends. “Gor, but do your chaps take us,” Kenny said. “YI bought a dozen pairs of nylons for $1.50 each

and paid 100 per cent duty on them. When the|{

girls took the cellophane wrappers off, the bloomin’ stockings had no feet. “And those white pennies. Gor, I've got a drawer full of them that I took for 10-cent pieces in change.” ’ -

Mr. Kenny had just finished shopping for lingerie. “Gor, I.picks out a set, and the young woman asked if I would like to have it modeled,” Mr. Kenny said. “I said I was willing, thinking she would put it on one of those plastic forms. “You should have seen the piece that modeled it. Salome had nothing on her. The sales woman asked if T wanted to take it, and I said yes, then I borrowed some money off my buddy -and bought another set.” He had it modeled, too.

Sizzling Topic

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, May 23—The microscopic (on the map) Josias River today, I guess, is America’s best-known creek. Never before has so insignificant a body of water come so close to giving #0 many U. 8. Senators apoplexy. And I'd like to tell you exactly what happened, because it wasn’t only funny, byt important. How important we'll learn when we get our next income tax bills. - There was freshman\Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, in a seersucker suit, telling his colleagues

that if they didn’t -start saving some important

money--meaning billions 'and not mere millions— this country soon was going to be in a mess. A good place to start, said he, was on the $751,440,000 civil functions bill, which calls for dams, harbors, and flood control in practically every state in the union. This bill, Sen. Douglas added, had in it about $300 million worth of fat, which ought to be fried out. Wow! The whole Senate sizzled. A dozen gentlemen jumped up and defied him to name one single project which wasn’t urgent and also necessary.

Uses Big Magnifying Glass

SEN. DOUGLAS opened an atlas of the United States, turned to the map of Maine, got out a four-inch magnifying glass, and said he would be delighted. The appropriations committee had ear-marked $33,000 to improve the Josias River in Maine and Sen. Douglas couldn't even find it. He called the Library of Congress, which got out its oversized maps, but located no Josias River. He phoned the National Geographic Society, which did ditto, and also gave up. ° “Now I have this magnifying glass and my own map,” the Senator from Illinois said, peering through the lens at the map of Maine, and I cannot find this river. If any Senator can do so, I shall be happy.” He said there might be such a river, all right,

and if there were, it was his guess the summer vacationists probably wanted it dredged, so they could park their yachts. He fiddled with his magnifying glass, while numerous Senators demanded the right to retort. He recognized Sen. Owen Brewster, of Maine, who said the Josias River flowed through the village of Ogunquit. : He added with elaborate sarcasm that Sen. Douglas probably couldn’t find it because it was overshadowed by the $12 million appropriations for rivers and harbors in Illinois. Sen. Douglas said there undoubtedly was fat in

those, too, and he'd be glad to have 40 per cent of| | it rendered at once. He talked some more along

this line, mentioned pork barrels, and said something about each Senator getting his fair slice of the cash for his own state. Tv

Called Insult to Senate

SOME OF the statesmen, notably Sen. Sheridan

Downey of Cal, took this as an insult to the entire Senate. Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tenn. the aged

chairman. of the appropriations committee, called! §

it an insult to himself, personally, and all his cohorts. He said Sen. Douglas didn’t know what he was talking about, charged him with sounding

off without studying the situation, and soon was 2

sputtering so that I couldn't understand him. But—but—but, interjected Sen. Douglas, he was. only trying to tell the gentlemen that if they didn't start cutting expenses, the nation was going in debt another $4 billien or so. And then what would they do? Sen Douglas stood alone on the subject of improving the Josias River, until 8en. Charles W, Tobey of N. H. rushed in. He said that here was one Senator who put the welfare of the nation ahead of his own pet dams “We ought to sing the doxology to him,” Sen. Tobey added. ’ Not one voice, I regret to report, was raised in song. Sadly Sen. Douglas sheathed his magnifying glass.

The Quiz Master

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=Camera Records Devastation As Tornado Ripped West Indiana

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“bors bend solicitously over the sobbing woman.

When was Donati's Comet last visible? This comet, considered the finest of the 19th Century, was visible In October, 1858; its tail reached halfway from the horizon to the zenith. Its peribd is 2000 years. : * % Who started circulating libraries in this sountry? : 2 : Benjamin Franklin organized the first circnlating library in the United States.

About how many people have access to television?

TV is now avallable in areas inhabited by; ®

roughly 60,000,000 people. In general, images can

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What is the Rush-Bagot Treaty? ' This treaty, signed in 1817, is one of the most

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Fe ; 3 A : Photo by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer. In Shelburn it curved through the west end of town, cutting down buildings like a giant scythe.

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Saturday night's tornado at Terre Haute.

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. Photo by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer, : i Mo Acme This brand new Chevrolet was carried 250 yards and deposited in a field The roof of the Curry Township school gymnasium was lifted from the builds near Clay City. its owner, James Sumner of Terre Haute, was fatally injured in ing and strewn through the streets of Shelburn. Not even brick and steel structures his summer cabin near Clay City. : could withstand the wind violence. : ie :

Charles Hancock P— "a kitten a a 14 hours under debris in Shelburn,

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Mrs. Cy Brown collapses when she sees what the tornado did to her home in Shelburn. Neighe,

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Sam Gilbert of Shelburn shows how he fook cover by kneels

; The occupants of this auto which was parked in a public garage in Shelburn ing in the milk house when the wind leveled his home and barn,

garage’s rest room and escaped injury.

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