Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1949 — Page 23
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BEE SUNDAY; AUGUST 71 1645 FRED
tesasasians ARE
Features CERI rYE een.
_ Dressed to depict the Forlville citizen of the Gay 90's, John Wilay pauses to survey Main St. which will take on a gala carnival air tomorrow when Fortville begins to celebrate its 100th anni-
Fortville’s 100th.
versary. The celebration will continue through Saturday.
Joann Gudgel (right), 16-year-old "Queen of the Centennial,” smiles her most queenly smile as Janice Cash places the crown on her head. Miss Cash was runner-up in the contest.
‘Substitute Mother’ Aids Homes In Need
Family Unit Comes fo Rescue
When Emergencies Happen "By OPAL OROCKETT
BOBBY IS one of 14 children in six “motherless” homes. that.
are being held together and “repaired” by homemakers, of the Family Service Assdciation. These “substitute” mothers serve in homes where mothers are ill or are otherwise separated from their
children.
Bobby misses his mother every day, but he drinks his milk
regularly, in the familiar sur-.
roundings of home. He knows
Mrs. Laura Dyson, homemaker, °
will look ‘out for him until his mother is well. : It looked like foster homes— even an institution—for Bobby and his brothers and sisters. Housekeepers hadn't stayed “sitters” couldn't stay with the
children every hour the father .
was away working. Bobby's father went to work with a “heavy heart, leaving five tear-
ful, forlorn: little faces pressed...
_at the front window,
«Would the clder-children look...
“oir the younger ones? Would they eat enough? Their mother, wondered as she lay in the hospital. » r LJ
BOBBY’S HOME was sound
again when Mrs. Laura Dyson, —
421 Bowman Ave. arrived to serve- as homemaker until. his mother recovered. Mrs. Dyson has four children of her own— and three grandchildren. Serving as homemakers also are: Mrs. Lydia Leaman, 401 Villa Ave.; Mrs. Sarah Morgan, 1634 N. Titnols St.; Mrs. Vera Davie, “Hugene
JMS Roberta
Johnson, 311 Bright St., and Mrs. Leola Williams, 1148 Roach St.
Homemakers are given individual training in home management and planning and in child guidance and care by Mrs. Mary Hawes, a graduate of “the Indiana - University Division of Social Service. She is assisted by the Family Serv{es Associat Association (Red F Feather
Indiana State Fair , officials. predict an oilsndence in excess of 600,000 for the 1949 éxposition which opens here Sept. | Busiest
man at the Fairgrounds during the
service) Homemaker committee of which Mrs. Jeremiah Caddick is chairman. Women between 40 and 50 years 6ld (never under 30) are sought—women who like and understand children — healthy women who are. able housekeepers. They're trained to adjust quickly to different typés of homes, and to keep from becoming too emotionally attached to one family: : » # »
HE HOMEMAKER pro-
gram costs the Family Service Association approkimately
$2500 a year, with fathers paying approximately one-third of the homemaker’s salary of $25 a week, The service began 10 years ago, but was discontinued during the war becausé of a shortage of homemakers. As a result of -recommendations made after the Child Welfare Survey in 1947, the program was resumed. Plans are underway to increase the number of homemakers next year. “The Homemaker program was designed to meet the needs of ‘a family unable to depend on relatives and friends at crucial times,” Henry M. Graham, general secretary of the Family Service Association, explained. That situation has increased in late years because families have moved about a great deal, following industry, and due to the fact that unattached women can np longer be counted on, for ‘they are on their own, he sald
State Fair Preview:
Jesse Dovau (shave, Supatimendan of buildings nd grounds,
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peak of pre-fair preparation is
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Bobby helps Mrs. Laura Dyson, Family Service Association Homemaker, ing" while his mother is away. Mrs. Mary Hawes (seated) supervises the -Homemakér program in which Mrs. Lydia Leaman (standing) has the longest period of service. Bobby is one of 14 children in six “motherless homes" that are:being repaired by. the Family Service Association. Bobby. misses |
“keep home fires burn-
his mother but has the benefits of a sociation homemakers
family home in familiar surroundings through the aid of .the as-
A State Fair Preview by Henry E. Glesing hr.
© Another beehive of activity is the Administration building where Mrs. Hilda Nowlin, entry department head (center), and a staff of 15 women are processing 6000 faii entries. With her are Mrs. Ethel Reftison (left) and Miss Jean Colliver.
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Anniversary Festival
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_| their little friend is, | wanted
“porlond.
Picture Preview of Fortville Centennial by Lloyd Walton, Times Staff Photographen
Three of the five girls who will do a “can-can™ dance as part of the entertainment program at the Centennial hold an impromptu practice. session in the middle of Main St. The girls are (left to right), Roma Sharrett, Pat Goudy and Helen Sharrett.
Drive Has Already Netted Over $60
By DONNA MIKELS
HIS BODY is imprisoned in a cast and lashed to a frame, but S-year-old Bobby Grimes: still is “leading” the march of a group of Mars Hill children who are “pickets for polio.” Bobby can’t. march in the line. He must watch it either from his bed or the yard of his home at 2601 Foltz St. But in the minds of the marchers, he's still heading the parade, be-
cause his tragic plight was the |
inspiration for their crusade for crippled children.
All the kids in the neighbor
hood know the grinning, redhaired, blue-eyed boy who's been lashed to a frame 30 months with tuberculosis of the spine. They like him and they drop into his. yard to say hello or chat, because they
know he-can't run and play as-
hey do,
” ~ ~ - TTHE DAILY STghtora” stricken playmate brought: the’ cause of crippled children very’ close to Bobby's friends. Re-
cently, when they heard talk of polio as a crippler of children, they linked it with Bobby, even
~though-the disease which struck
him down was not polio. All ‘they knew was that polio makes children crippled, as and they to do something to help. Ten, 20 and 30 strong, they formed a picket line in front of Bobby's house and up and down streets in the neighNeighbors, persons walking by, even passing motorists, already have given more than $60 to the “pickets for polio” who will, in turn, give it to help children crippled by infantile paralysis, The little boy who is the leader of the children’s crusade of Mars Hill has had more
tragedy packed in his five short -
years than most people encounter in a lifetime.
Grogd Barnes of Roachdale helps ‘prepare an exhibit in he indiana University building. The building will house an auditorium , where daily shows will be presented and the offices of the State Fair editions of the |U Daily Student.
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.on the
ppled ‘Mars Hill Boy, Lashed to Frame, Inspires 'Pickets for Polio Campaign
" Pickets for Polio” . Shiey Wilson, Doroty Fletcher, Irene Fry and Robert Myers (left to right) gather eround the bed of
Bobby Grimes.
EACH OF his first three
years of life. was marked by a
separate tragic event. In his first year his 23-year-old father; Robert Grimes, - came home from bowling ill’ and died soon afterward of a cerebral hemor-
rhage. His 22-year-old widowed
mother, Beatrice, passed from pneumonia into tuberculosis the week before Christmas of his second year; She died six months later, in March of 1946, in Flower Mission Hospital. The orphaned boy was taken into the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Grimes, of the Foltz St. address, to grow up with their three children. But, in. his third year, almost anniversary of his mother’s death, he was stricken with tuberculosis of the spine.
He spent 17 long outs.
allowed to come home, and since then he alternately spends several months in the hospital, then a short time at home. In July he was released after three months' hospitalization in which an operation was made on his spine. If the fusion of .the spine is successful, Bobhy may walk and" play again,»
= : THE HOPE of that freedom, of some day joining the children who now are marching for him, keeps Bobby happy
and grinning despite his illness,
displaying the courage that made his. young friends pick him as honorary drum major of their crusade for crippled
children.
600,000 Expected For ‘Annual Exposition
Earl Stichter.of Purdue University puts the finishing fonhian: mechanical
a dairy equipment exhibit in the Purdue buildi cow will be used to demonstrate milking processes. * Last yrs, fair attracted 548,926 persons.
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