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“DOES EXPERIENCE with mud pies help in hip deep. “students” picked this kind of work?” ~~ i Sh A obo ops ine Russe]! field for the Portland ture for a theoreticil runway capable of handling scratched his 5/50 buumbers. The Sad suginest Nude 4 pretense
niwith a trowel. His eyes were trained on the
‘ } in silence. Why didn’t he answer? 1 really wasn’t serious about mud pies. 2
James Sertell, Portland structural engineer, and Mr. Petrie’s assistant for the'concrete class, Jas Weighing oement, gravel, fucks, tin cans and water. : Every chair in the room, there must have been 65 seats, was occupied and I don't mind saying I never knew there were S50 many people interested in mixing concrete. Finally Mr. Petrie cleared his throat and in ptentorian tones said: “The mixing of mud pies bas no relation whatsoever to scientific mixing concrete, Please take your seat for “\the lecture.” '
Razzle-Dazzled :
IF MR. PETRIE hadn't burst out laughing, a delayed action laugh, I would have felt mighty bad. He had tricked me. The concrete expert had me ed with his southern accent,
that's why he was able to keep me waiting for an angwer to a silly question. “Go on, son, find yo'self a seat,” urged Mr. Petrie, “and we all will get started heah.” Right. * The class almost literally went into concrete
B-50 runway . . . It's only a sample but give Russell Petrie enough cement (Portland, if you please) and he'll do it.
Casket Crisis
does the amount of mdr rg oe gra aggregate (stones). exposing yourse
blackboard. They lost me quickly. nical stuff. |
By Too Thin for Pies SHORTLY Mr. Petrie carefully mixed the
a little thin for pies. Mr. Sertell joined Mr. Petrie in working the mix after several additions of gravel and stones. Every ‘so often they'd weigh the materials still unused. They whacked and patted the mixture gently. They put it in cans and measured the drop as the supporting can was lifted off. The mixture also was placed in a heavy container with valves on it to measure the amount of air trapped in the mess of concrete.
Mr. Petrie recited Boyle's Law while he pumped
air in the calibrated tube and read the gauges. Most of the men took notes as fast as they could/ write. = I gathered the session was over. Mr, Petrie sald, “There it is, boys,” and dipped his hands into a bucket of water, Fooling around with concrete is messy. Everyone seemed satisfied with the conbrete that had been designed. There were a few questions still on my mind but I let them go. I doubt very much that I'll be building a B-50 mn this afternoon. . f I could, though.
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, May 31—There is no way to duck
the issue, people are living longer. A government survey, according to the Wall Street Journal, shows that the national death rate is down 2 per cent over last year, and the figure threatens to go even lower as fresh advances are made in medical science. : This, ordinarily, would be a cheery item, except that it is kicking the stuffing out of economy in the casket-making business. According to the “Journal, production has declined among the casket builders, chiely because funeral directors overbought last year and are, in. consequence, overinventoried. - ; This is obviously a challenge to the government, which has in past endeavored to plug all the
chinks in the leaky dike of demand. Why should
a casket manufacturer be the forgotten man in a managed economy? Is the fellow who builds your final couch less deserving than the farmers, the shipowners, the airlines, the myriad recipients of government financial aid for maladjusted business? Agriculture Chief Brannan has some fantastic scheme to keep the wheat-grower happy. Is he not the man to administer a program shaped to aid the fellow who does direct business with the Boss Reaper?
Less Certain Than Taxes
WHEN AND if Mr. Truman's medical program is passed, at goodness knows what annual cost, the White House then must inspect the program's impact on other industry.” As people get healthier and healthier, there will be less and less demand for undertakers, casket-makers, florists, grave diggers and the other folk who earn their living from a grim but necessary line of work. No comfort here for the fellow who predicates his investment on the stark fact that every man shares a common destination, Death is now in
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process of becoming less certain than taxes. The casket-bullders are speedily entering a state where they may see an increasing lapse of time between customers. They must be protected, if our planned is to tip equally on the scales, + J recall, from the depression days, that the tremendous brain of Henry Wallace came up with a solution for excessive production of pigs. In those days we killed the little pigs to stabilize pork. We burned grain. We encouraged the farmer not to plan . : t is only my opinion, doubtless unshared by Mr. Truman’s Council of Economic Advisers, that such a scheme cannot possibly work as counterbalance to the plight of the mortuary men. Even if the victims are politically opposed to the administration, no Democrat would dare advocate the Jo ng under of people. Not if heghad his eye on the Vote.
One for the Experts .
IN MY observation of mankind I have also reached the cohclusion that you dare not admonish him to cease breeding, in order to keep the economists happy. This stubbornness of the taxpayer poses a very real problem for the administration. No economist, I. There will be no attempt to solve this problem for the paternal” government which has underwritten our existence. This one I leave squarely in the lap of Washington. With a baleful postscript. Casket-confectors have votes. They live off a mathematical certainty their business is now in process of shrinkage, even as the auto ate into the buggy-whip and harness business. Something must be done. : \ Shall we grant them a subsidy? Shall we abandon the program to make people healthier, thereby chopping demand in a specialized field? I don’t know. This is one for the experts.
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, May 31—I am not the one to charge the midshipmen of the U. 8. Naval Academy with taking bubble baths. Neither do I accuse them of smelling like violets on Monday, verbenas on Tuesday, roses on Wednesday, heliotropes on Thursday, carnations on Friday, geraniums on Saturday and lilies of the valley on Sunday. Maybe the Navy doesn’t smell sweet at all, but the evidence, gentlemen, is official. The merchants across this land, as you may know, have been bombarding Congress with complaints about the government selling our fighting men all kinds of merchandise, from diamond rings to washing machines, at wholesale rates and tax free in post exchanges. The House Armed Services Committee has been investigating.
Giftie Shoppe Owner Raises Howl
AND THERE were the storekeepers of Annapolis, Md. seat of Naval learning, howling in person about losing most of their business in luxury goods to the Navy's 11 shops there for sailors only. Among them was a wispy little gentleman, W. G. Armbruster, who runs a Giftie Shoppe on Annapolis’ main street. “I stocked a daily diary bubble bath to retail for. . . .” He began. “A what?” cried Rep. Jack Z. Anderson of California. “A daily diary bubble bath,” repeated merchant Armbruster, who seemed surprised that the gentleman from California was unfamiliar with it. “This comes in a package of seven tubes, one for each day, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and so on, with a different perfume for each day. As I was saying, the retail price was $1 per package, plus 20 per cent cosmetics tax. And a very good-selling item it was, too.” : He had sold six gross of daily diary bubble
bath in short order and had ordered another large supply, when bloole. “The bottom dropped out of our d diary bubble bath sales,” he said. Investigation revealed that the Naval Academy’s ships’ store had taken over the sale of daily diary bubble bath and was retailing same, tax free, at 65 cents per lovely smelling package. This made the proprietor of the Giftie Shoppe bitter. He protested to the manufacturer, who was inclined to sympathize, but who pointed out that the Navy was gelling 10 times—that's right, 10 times—as much daily diary bubble bath as Mr. Armbruster ever had. “I welcome competition,” he said, choosing his words precisely, “but I do not relish it from the government, when it violates our fair-trade laws, ignores its own excise taxes, and does not even collect the Maryland sales tax.”
Infantry Has a Run on Diamonds
THAT TAKES care of the perfumed sailor situation; the infantry is different. Its favorite
walked away.
purchase from post exchange stores seems to be wi
diamond engagement rings, again at wholesale and again tax free. The jewelers were incensed. Committee Counsel Robert W. Smart was reeling off the soldiers’ purchases, running mostly to gold watches, silverware and diamonds, especially diamonds, “Mostly the privates buy diamond rings” he said, “They get engagement rings for half price. Now here is one staff sergeant who bought two diamond wedding rings at the same time.” “Yon gather there was bigamy involved?” inquired Rep. Anderson. “There was romance in the air,” replied attorney Smart. And if I were any kind of reporter I'd drop over to Annapolis and sniff. This being Baturday, the place should smell like geranium.
The Quiz Master
2??? Test Your Skill 2???
How is the Canadian’American boundary marked? = The international boundary between the United States and Canada is marked with monuments of various kinds and has the distinction of being the longest monmilitarized boundary in the world between two stom, .
Is it possible to grow seedless watermelons? has produced
but ¥haa/300 seeds, the melo may have only ais ued.
What percentage of a person's weight is blood? The blood in a healthy person weighs about
1/12 of his entire weight. The amount of blood in
the average adult is 9 to 12 pints, each weighing!
around ome pound. * & 9»
How many eyes has an earthworm? An earthworm has no eyes but perceives light and dark through its sensitive skin, Ce 0 Why were the Boxers so called? applied the name Boxer to a mem-
ot least that many people were in that area alone.
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Today was the day after the "500" Race. It was the looked from where they were sitting and how close they were to the crashes and near-spills. was a day of recalling memorable sights, such as Duke wall, caught here as smoke and flames billowed out, by Bb Wallace, Times staff photographer.
Spectators held their breath when Charlie Van Acker spun on the northwest turn in his 11th lap, but the driver got out and
The 500-Mile track teemed with an estimated 175,000 persons yesterday for the 33d annual Speedway classic. To spectators jammed in the infield and stands pictured Tore
Duane Carter was in his 183d lap when his Belanger Special spun out of the race with steering link trouble. Here the driver hopefully checked his car but then
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os Stall rapher. 3 ; day the spectators talked over how 1 gs Here was a sidelight of the Nalon crash. One. of the wheel t which was torn loose sped around the track on its own power, thes lon's spectacular crash into the northeast hurtled into the infield. Here guards sxamine the remnant of one
spectator into the pits.
it seemed as if orate stands such as this one do*ted the scene.
Like other drivers in Memorial Day classics before him, George “his dreams of being carried out of Victory Lane fade when he was stead to an ambulance, " \ i
of the wheels Nalon hoped would carry him to. Victory Lane.
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Television brought all the excitement and color of the Speedway into homes in Indianapolis and out over the state for the first ime yesterday. Here a WFBM.TV camera takes the "at home”
American ingenuity came to the rescue of spectators whe wanted a box seat view for the price of an infield ticket and elab-
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‘500’ Thrills And Spills As Seen Of Camera And Video