Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1949 — Page 13
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By Ly Sovola
A VETERINARIAN may have other duties besides’ feeding down-at-the-mouth Dobbins a few
pills. The Army proved that. .
Take, for example, the group of four officers and 12 enlisted men of the Veterinary Corps stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, These 16 “horse doctors” inspect all animal food products purchased by the government in Indiana for the armed forces. Hoosier beef, inspected right here in Indianapolis packing plants by the Army vets, is likely to make the mouths of sailors, flyers, Marines and Coast Guardsmen water all over the world, Last year 27 million pounds of food products of animal origin were bought by the, armed forces here, ' Sgt. Arthur W. McKenna, one of the 12 enlisted men attached to the corps, a branch of the medical department, sald the figure he was quoting was round. “Round steak?”
He Missed the Play on Words
HE DIDN'T seem to catch the clever play on words and proceeded to juice up the rubber stamp he was going to use on the sides of beef Capitol Packing Co., a government inspected plant, offered to the Army to fill an order for 35,000 pounds of meat, “We have two main purposes,” said the sergeant, “One, protect the health of the troops; two, protect the financial interests of the government on a contract,”
On the other side of the room hung at least 50
4-H sides of beef. Looked too good to eat. Is
the Army interested? No,
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Government inspected . |. Then the Army
- inspects the meat it buys. Here Lt. Col. Neil
O. Wilson and Maj. Hugh B. Campbell check a “choice side of beef.
Postal Problem
"30,000 names are in.” John -W. Metzler? 8248 N.|
The way he explained it, the meat the Army|
buys is probably a couple of chews better han the average housewife selects at her local market, to which no investigating committee in Wash-| ington will object. ae | “It's hard telling what would happen if we, engaged in buying 4-H stuf,” laughed Sgt. Mc-| Kenna. "Besides, there is a little more waste in| such select cattle.” Must watch that waste, He looks for three basic requirements in a side of beef, They are quality, conformation and finish. The fat must be creamy white, evenly distributed, the cartilage should be white and the ribs soft. “A housewife many times sacrifices flavor and tenderness by buying a piece of real lean meat," | he said. “The choice hunk of meat is the one where you can see small lines of fat.
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The meat! has a marbled texture.” | We went in search of what he was talking about. “Here is the kind of meat you chew with your forg,” Sgt. McKenna sald, swinging out a carcass. It was among the carcasses offered the Army, too. : Herb Lewis, sales manager for Capitol Packing Co,, came up and introduced Lt. Col. Neil O.| Wilson, officer in charge of Zone 10, and Maj. Hugh B. Campbell. Col. Wilson explained that the enlisted men do the preliminary work. Final inspection and acceptance is made by one of the officers. I couldn’t resist asking Col. Wilson if he ever] bought horse meat, To my surprise he said in 1949, while he was area veterinarian in Southern California, he bought several million pounds of it. “We shipped canned horse meat for European relief. There's nothing wrong with it. Ever eat any? Not bad. Has a sweet, nutty flavor.” “I'll take beef.” | Mr. Lewis beamed as the inspection progressed; until Maj. Campbell discovered a carcass which} he thought ought to be ribbed. Col. Lewis looked at it and agreed. Shortly we were looking at meat that was dark red. No sale. ' “It isn’t that the meat is inedible or it isn't wholesome,” explained Col. Wilson. “The cutter doesn’t come up to contract specifications, that’s all. How that happens is often due to feeding.”
Rejections Run About 10 Per Cent
ALL CARCASSES are ribbed before the sale is made. Rejections over the years, the officers! said, will run about 10 per cent, Rejections don’t mean that the side of beef will be condemned. It| just doesn’t come within the range of the four) grades of beef the military has established for a| standard. Commercial packers use good and| choice products for their standard in trying to fill] a contract. The vets break those two into Grade B, high good, Grade .B, low good, Grade C, high commercial and Grade D, low commercial.
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full range of the grade,” said Col. Lewis.
Ww A taxpayer likes to hear things like that, Take
over, sergeant. . : * & 4 “I'd advise you to start your bdok now, At
the present rate vou'l be. pretty old by. the time.
Delaware St. gives the advice and ‘sends in a request for “You, Too.” I've started writing, Mr. Wetzler.. I keep hoping all thoge who mean to send in a vote for my book will do it. Only takes a minute. Total today with five additional, 1865.
By Paul R. Leach!
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—It's not the original cost but the upkeep that makes penny postcards costly for Uncle Sam. > Postmaster General Donaldson says he gets 1000 cards from the Government Printing Office for 72 cents. At 1 cent retail over the counter that looks like good business. ; . But, said Mr. Donaldson in trying to get a 2-cent rate out of Congress, on which he failed, by the time a card is sold, transported, sorted, delivered. the cost goes up to more than 2.60 cents each, or a loss of more than a cent and a half on each card. ; “Ninety-five per cent of the cost of the postal service,” said Mr. Denaldson, “is for salaries and transportation .of.-the mails. I have ho control over either.” — ? Le = =
Letter Mail Makes a Profit
MOST LETTER MAIL is carried for one 3-cent stamp. The post office makes a profit on that. Mr. Donaldson figured out that revenue on first class mail is slightly under 3.05 cents per piece while total expense is estimated to run about 2.75 cents for each piece. When it comes to stamps, which are made by the Bureau of- Engraving, if Uncle had no further obligation than buying and selling the stickers, he'd do well. For all one-color standard stamps the cost is the same, 10 cents per 1000. The bill goes up sharply when he gets into two-color jobs —the $1, $2 and $5 issues. They cost $1.20 per 1000. Total stamp sales, all kinds, ran to $2,091,850.520 last year. Of these, special commemorative issues, printed by act of Congress to celebrate somebody's birthday or a special historical event, accounted for $65,725,795 in sales. There's a lot of gravy in that for Uncle because millions of stamp collectors must have each issue —there were 30 specials in 1948.
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olidays’
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Many a man in the philatelic division has tried !{
to estimate how many of those stamps go uncan-| celed into collections, never to carry mail, but has given up in despair. Guesses range from $1 mil-| lion up, i Commemoratives come in three sizes and range in printing cost from 16; cents per 1000 to 24%!
cents. Like the new air-mailers, which now cost| ‘13'; cent. per 1000, ‘the production rate increase! #
over the normal stamp cost is in the plate pro-| duction for each. Neékt year air-mailers will cost | 10 cents per 1000. i Use of meter machines by business is increas-| ing steadily. Because these require no stamps or canceling, the cost to the government is lower. How much this saves Jas not been computed, but yin the long run. Nearly half of the revenue from first class mail in 329 large cities last year was from meters—$33 million out of $73 million in their total post office receipts.
Deficit Half-Billion a Year
IN ARGUING for increases in postcard rates, and also for second, third and fourth class mail| Postmaster General Donaldson reminded Congress’ that the department's deficit is running at about! $500 million a’ year.. | Salary increases and higher transportation, costs in the last year accounted for the decline from operating surpluses during the war years, he said. . | Air mail comes high. Against an average esti-| mated 6.72 cents per piece handled the cost per piece is over 10 cents. This comes about because! of the air mail subsidy paid to every carrier, Mr. Donaldson figured that for second class | mail, publications, the revenue is 3.91 cents per piece against 5.19 cents expense. Third class matl,! circulars, costs 2.81 cents per piece against revenue| of 2.43 cents each, and parcel post, he figured, costs 35.24 cents per piece against a 25.82-cent! revenue, . | |
= = -. — By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—0Our non-vacationing Congressmen are coming back to work Wednesday. I hope they're well rested from the month's vag¢ation they didn’t take. They'll need to be. They've got work to do . The members of the House shut up shop 30 days ago for a whirl with their rocking chairs and fishing rods. Unofficially, that is. On the record they never left town. They managed this by holding regular sessions twice a’ week, with nobody on hand but the man with the mace, the chaplain, and whatever representatives happened to be passing through town. These sessions didn't last long. They accomplished nothing. The one I attended was over two minutes after it began. But the House, insofar as history is concerned, never took time off in the troubled summer of 1949, So now the gentlemen are trooping back in person from their ghostly vacations and the little men and the big who weren't. here, except maybe in spirit, are about.to take up where they left off.
Face Key Measures
THE MAIN THINGS before them are the biggest appropriation bills of all, totaling around 20 billion dollars for Army, Navy, Air Force, foreign aid, and the Interior Department. These bills should have been passed and forgotten about last July, but what with one thing and another, including unofficial periods of rest and meditation, they never got around to completing the job. The bills were passed by both the Senate and the House, but with different figures. What these bodies must do now is go into conference to make the appropriations. jibe: The presumption is that the Representatives, being full of vigor and vitamins, will win most of
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the arguments, The poor old Senators, after all, have been laboring along by day and some times| by night since last January. They're all tired out.
The weird thing in this unique mixup is that |’
while the law-givers still haven't given out the money for fiscal year 1950,. the administration must go ahead at once getting its figures ready for 1951. |
Say there was a $10 million dam to be built in|
Moosejaw, Mont., under the 1950 budget. The dam builders still don’t know whether they're going to get the money to build it, but they're already working on the blueprints calling for another $10 million worth of machinery to make electricity at the dam in 1951. If there is a dam, that is.
Problem for Hoffman
PAUL G. HOFFMAN, the European aid boss. doesn’t know for sure how much money he'll get to help the folks across the sea this year, but he's got to worry about how much he'll need next year. And that depends on how much he gets this time. And so on, almost throughout the government. Even the school teachers here in Washington thought they'd received a raise in salary. But they haven't got it yet. And while they probably will, they can’t be sure. So one of these young ladles who is a friend of the family didn't get to take her trip to Mexico this summer, 8he couldn't take a chance on the statesmen, the ones who got their vacation, changing their minds. Anyhow, here théy are and looking fit. We can only hope that they get together in their smokefilled conference rooms and iron this one out before the wrinkles in our fiscal Affairs get too big for any legislative laundryman to smooth them down. :
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How did the. Duke of Wellington come to be
called “the Iron Duke”? : "If 1s sald that this nickname was originally
given to the Duke of Wellington, an iron steamvessel that plied between Liverpool and. Dublin. The expression, however, was so well suited to the old soldier, it was applied to him also. : * & = Who were the “Green-Mountain “Boys”? A band of Vermont settlers, organized in 1778 to protect themselves against the attempts of the overnor of New York to drive them from their Joven During the Revolutionary War, “The Green-Mountain Bays,” 300 in pumber, kept Brit4sh troops from o Vermont, ~~
Who wrote the Federalist essays which ap-| peared iM the New York Gazette, beginning in' 17877 » More than half of these éssays were written by Alexander Hamilton, and the remainder by James Madison and John Jay. They strongly influenced the adoption of the Federal Constitution. ® * 9 :
Where. did the expression “son of a gun” come from? oT ‘According to Brewster's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable the appellation denotes “a jovial tel-| low. A gun is a large flagon of ale.” “od ooh"
When did World War II start? When Hitler's troops invaded Poland, Sept. 1, ®
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100-Car Motor Caravan Marks Opening Of New Highway Link
Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer
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Legionnaires Jack Mcintyre, Herman Uland and Closis Owen of Bloomfield's Memorial Post 196 provided high jinks.
New highway link between Bloomfield and Crane opened last week. Blodmfield businessmen and civic groups celebrated with motor caravan over route 40 Crane.
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rry Beard labors for Bloomfield High School Cheering end waving youngsters, like pupils from Green County's Foster School, lined the caraven band during ceremonies.
Ive-year-ol Twelve yeersld Js route. Crowds greeted motorcade at every intersection. :
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Highway Commissioner Samuel Hadden and Lt. Gov. John Watkins ___ cut tape officially opening highway 157.-
5-State Man Hunt Seeks Desperadoes [Housing Authority Rush Nearly
said Lieb and Shelton escaped Upsets Raiders
- . | last Thursday. To Be Studied When a plainclothes raiding . | squad walked into the James
Was Serving Life Washington Smoke Shop, 711 W,
‘Lieb, serving a life term’ for murder in McComb County 8t. Clair St, early today, they
Bloomfield High School beauty queens'Marilyn Terrell, Shirley Sparks, Beverly Hunter, Marilyn Green and Sue Ellen Flater rode at head of 100-car caraven.
Kidnap Salesman in Flight From
Michigan Prison; Touch Indianapolis
State police today spearheaded a five-state search for two desperate escaped convicts, one a murderer, who kidnaped a
Tentative Hearing Michigan salesman Saturday and held him prisomer in his car .
touched off a rush for the door during -& harrewing 30-hour trip which touched Indianapolis. (Mich.) was described as dark Date Set Oct. 3 that “even the Notre Dame foot-. The convicts, Sam Leib, 39, and Henry Shelton, 42, escaped haired, being of medium height A tentative hearing date of ball squad couldn't have stopped,”
from -the Michigan State Prison, Marquette, Mich., on Sept. 15, ang weighing about 180 pounds..,\ 3 has heen set by City Capt. John Sullivan reported. according to the general police = - ——1 ’ .
alarm, and since then have ter- armed men to accompany them Shelton, selvig % long term {OF Council on a resolution which oy rapa suid “there neha rorized citizens of Indiana, Michi- on their wild ride. He said he Participating In a Kalova, Mich, woud authorize Mayor Feeney to they all tried to go out the door gan and Illinois. . was never allowed out of their bank robbery in 1933, was de- create a . five-member housing at once.” ’ : ht and was kept wedged be- 1 ' i ; Indiana state police took ad PE an ope Reon: heat scribed as being very short, ,yuthority here. . | ‘When the rush was over, the oflead in the manhunt yesterday the ' |weighing about 140 pounds and The resolution, introduced to ficers looked into a cabinet and after George F. Gennara, 25- car. has tattoos on his left handz.. [Council last night, cited the need!found 14 books of policy slips and * year-old Amasa (Mich.) sales-| State police said reports placed Both the prisoners had served|for “safe and sanitary dwellinglgo baseball tickets, Capt. Sullivan man, notified the Lafayette postithe men near Pine Village where many years, Michigan authorities accommodations” for low income said. that he had escaped from theiin,y spandoned Mr. Gennara's|said: and were described as semi-| families. Walter Bebley, 36, of 408 Doug-
desperados after a wild and ter-| ‘ trusties. They were doing yard| Councilmen said advertisement! rorized trip of hundreds of miles Sutomobile after his escape and|CuSles. They were doing yard) Councilmen Said adve precede 43 Bt. was TO on Shasges which hit the suburbs of Mil- stole another car, That car was they escaped, final adoption of a hearing date. | eeping a room for 1 se waukee, Chicago, Indianapolis abandoned at Fowler, police said, (‘The northern Michigan prison Await Final Action ling. 20d a wide area in northern|gn4 another stolen. at Marquette has been known as| Mayor Feeney will be able to ndiana. ‘
i —— ; ! Last reports of the fugitives) Little Siberia” in Michigan for Srganise She I under uswyv Club Plans Facapes at Gas SIP - lcame from Mrs. James Ahler, of gen? YOST tu SUPPosedly lution passes Council action, A|Twilight Garden Party Gennara told po when the
police ‘he near Fowler, who described the desperate criminals are confined housing authority is required of The Past Presidents Club of e fugitives men and sald they searched her | there.) Fi, any To Lalicipais Harold C. Megrew Auxiliary, stopped for gasoline’ in “Mont- house aftef demanding guns and| The police alert, which is na- contruction and ‘slum clearance ay Spanish War , Veterans, morenci. He said when he ran! food from her. tion-wide but concentrated in projects with federal ald. . wal open the season wit a ports the convicts sped away in his The terror-stricken. farm wife Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Wis-|" ciootion ‘of the housing body light garden party Saturday a said the convicts remained at her gonsin, warns that the fugitives). neen advocated by CIO and the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert automobile. ‘home more than 30 minutes be- are desperate, armed with knives|sp1, Jabior organizations, Na. HB Love, 2618 N. Gale St. The young salesman told state fore taking an automobile belong- and probably have secured other tional Association for the Adpolice he was kidnaped in Amasa, ing to-J. Byron Copas, a-:farm! weapons.
Mrs. Virginia Martin, presi Mich., near his home, Saturday hand, and. speeding away. Cluse
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‘Officers are warned to vancement of Colored People and dent, will preside and Mrs. Dora caution in . apprehending the American Veterans Commit. B. Love, hostess, will be in charge !
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