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Pioneers Prove
Productive Value By BOB BOURNE THE BLIND are taking
industry. 3 Today more and more sightless people are con-
vincing industry they can hold | profitable jobs side-by-side with
keen-eyed co-workers. For example, there are:
Neal Benner who works dan-
gerously close to a whirring saw at the Security Wood
Paul Feltz who is nélring
peak production on an air press
at P. R. Mallory Co. William Hall who is a top drill press man at StewartWarner Corp. Miss Doris Melloncamp whose deft fingers smoothly operate an RCA cross-bar welding machine. Mrs. Joanne 8. Tull who surely prepares the cloth wrappings for hams at Kingan & Co. . These blind are not alone on the Hoosler industrial front, but they are among the pioneers proving through production those who live in darkness can be valued employees. b . » . MANY ARE graduates of. the Indiana School for the Blind. Others have gained confidence and skill through the Board of Industrial Ald and Vocational Rehabilitation of the Blind, 530 W. 30th St. : In the three years the board has operated under the plan
Miss Doris Melloncamp . . . RCA cross-bar welder.
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William Hall . . . three years at Stewart-Warner Corp.
“help them that they may help F. Kohimeyer, board director. people. Bightless persons can walk in strange places simply Typical of those helped is a themselves,” 542 blind have “It makes them feel they are do almost anything they think with the aid of a cane, man at the Aid who became been placed in useful, profitable part of the cqmmunity. they can,” he said. Those who wish to make ex- blind 18 years ago. For 17 years
industrial posts,
“In a few cases we have gone 84-8 he brooded, Last year Mr. Kohlgon IN THE North Side plant the tra money money but are not meyer induced him to try the
%, OW 1% ia train petaon to great expense. We stood the 4 manufacture whisk, kitch- able to come to the training in- Aid, Today this blind man.sorts who are handicapped by the pill of having the Terre Haute on and children’s brooms. stitution are permitted to work broom straws and earns more loss of sight to hold their own phoneebook printed in braille Others are taught knitting and at home. The products are sold than $50 a week to support his in the business world,” said C. so a firm could hire one of our sewing, how to read braille and at the Aid to their profit. family.
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Neal Benner . . . a sawman at Security Wood Products Co.
Hugh McGuire, placement di- “We feel we have been at rector and assistant to Mr. least mildly successful,” Mr, Kohimeyer, has the job of sell- Kohimeyer sald. “There are ing the blind to industry. Blind some 6000 blind people in Indihimself, he often wins over a ana. Less than a third are on skeptical employer by demon- the public rolls, and we are strating his ability on machines bringing the number down typical in a plant, every day.”
Parking Meter Cheats : Slug It Out in Lebanon Russian Bear Shows Teeth Atop North Pole
Maintenance Man Has Collection of Phony
‘Coins’ Taken From Maws of Machines By VICTOR PETERSON, Times Staft Writer . LEBANON, Ind, Oct. 8—Coins tinkled from the parking Editor's note—Across the top of the world, Russia and the meter collection box into Harry McCray's palm. With a fore- | United States face each other. If war came, the Arctic might finger he spread them out, picked one from the batch and slipped | be the first battleground. To learn about the military situation
it into a side pocket.
Another “slugger” had parked free while the meter’s clock | North to see the problems first-hand. This is the first of his
clicked off a legitimate hour. “It's nothing new,” Mr. McCray said. “The meters have been slugged ever since we put them in more than two years ago. This is something Indianapolis will learn as time goes by. “There isn't a meter made that can’t be fooled or jammed. A lot of them will give you parking time with a twist of a hairpin, a slip of a knife blade, a match or a thousand and one slugs. “As long as the slug isn’t bigger around or fatter than a nickel, the machine won't jam. Almost anything smaller will give you free parking time. It's just a good thing most people are honest. The sluggers are few, but they are almost impossible to catch,” Mr. McCray said. ® - » * THAT THEY do operate, however, is a well known fact to the Lebanon maintenance man who, when he isn’t repairfng the mechanical cops, serves as fire chief. In his locker at headquarters he has ample proof. The proof is eight feet long—a chain of 84 different slugs, all coughed up by the horseless carriage ~ hitching posts. The slug he slipped into his pocket will be added to the string. It was the first appearance of a new kind: He expects a flood of them now they have proved their illegal worth. Running down the chain is an education in international finance, electrical living, fraternal organization, profit sharing, transit systems, * automotive
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The Arctic . . . Friend or Foe? . . . No. 1
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U. S.-Canadian Housekeepers Cast Eye on Soviet Far North Activity
there the Scripps-Howard Newspapers sent Jim Lucas to the Far
lore, the button industry and
games of skill. -
Brooks Pool
idge.
But that is only the begin- | lines are shifted and esti- needed.
ning. A collection of foreign coins from Belgium,
A VARIETY of fuse box
knockout slugs will
Germany, China,
parking.
And then there are . those which boldly proclaim “Good Luck Coin,” “Good For Amuse- | 4a were not built as a threat to ment Only,” “Good for 5¢ in Trade” (that’s 60 minutes on 3 the meter), “Good for 5c Pack- | true of Canada, who has no tons farther north, theré are age of Candy” (also 60 min- | “bases” in the military sense of utes), “Good for One
Game. are largely weather stations, every day. Tool room checks, metal | yi, ntaq Police posts and the “x » washers, pearl buttons and the ) round tops of old car keys will | like. THERE IS DANGER, too. give the meters a chance to 5.8 = Last winter, six men were work for the municipal govern- BUT IN THE Far North, a4ri¢t for two days when their
ments So will Red Goose Shoes’ | the Polar Concept is more than premium money and transit | a paper theory. It prevades
ge ro Sn oy 'C. | men's thinking; it could be con- " {ie ” rahe ted from theory to fact Springfield Consolidated and | ¥*© their craft bumped ashore and any old ones still lying around | speedily. There, both nations P dresser drawers from the day | have stations separated from Indianaolis Street Railways | Russian bases by only a few operated on the token basis. “It's not very effective, but | tween Russia and Alaska is, of they have worked,” Mr. McCray ficer at a station near the arctic said. “And then there are shotgun wads. But they jam up too often to be very good.”
set the | —Rusaja and the United States—face each other across
wheels of a parking meter in 1 : : : action. So will tokens issued | the top of the world where tentative defense lines already by the Fraternal Order of Elks, | have been drawn. the Loyal Order of Moose, ; A : Room, Dean’s So far, rival strategists have only traced them in Lunch, Wat's Lunch of Sheridan and a Charms Candy coin
depicting President Calvin Cool- | Moscow show erasures as
open new
Free | the word. Those which do exist year looking at the same faces
reports.
By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staft Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Two great military powers
with pencils. Planning maps in Washington, Ottawa and
goes well, they may never be
+It is a lonely life. Duty at
France, mates revised. But, if war such a station can—frequently em——— England, | came, those penciled lines could Ecuador, Brazil, Aurar Island | be inked in overnight. For that reason, a tour is —around the world even with On the Canadian-United limited, even in the rear areas. .devaluation — will vistas in the world of curb
does—take much out of a man.
No American is asked to give States side of the Pole, there is nore than a year of his life to no aggressive preparation for a it unless, of course, he takes Polar war, The few stations in his: family to one of Hicks posts 3 _ which can accommodate them. Alaska and Northwest Cana That he can do only on.the southern fringes of the arctic’ any nation. Particularly is this region. At the weather sta-
no such refinements. Those are stations where a man lives a
barge broke its moorings in a storm. They might have frozen or starved to death, but luckily
they were found. There are some men, like Capt. Reggie D. Collins of Sterhundred miles. The distance be- ling, Colo., senjor American ofcourse, negligible. ~ circle, who believe they can see In the North, where a man the big picture. To Capt. Colmay fly for a day without see- lins, his station is “one of the
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ing a tree, a house or a rec-- most important spots in the ognized landmark, you -find North.” small groups of Canadians and Not so important now while
100 somewhere else. These are and the United States if the installations and stations in might start with an atomic
When winter comes—and it is on its way—they dig in and
plane on a clear day with its world, load of fresh food, mail and Capt. Collins, his friend Capt.
Wait for the sun and the spring nadian apposites would be small
when they can come out of their the first teams. Their jobs toholes and repair the winters day—and a thankless job it
and comfort in the winter which always lies just ahead. ney Sania tthe Un ied Riaine = # J hold if ever they need 5 IT IS NOT always possible to - ey - She “know what the Russians are snp TO THE planners in
doing—only to know that they Washington and Ottawa—for are ‘over there.” But on the joint Canada-United States sta-Canadian-United States side of tions fly the Canadian and the Pole there are caretaker American flags side by side stations with nothing but ich these stations are of major im-
portance. and ice-cove betweeh : and Ol Jalanyds b a be As matters now stand, they : do not attempt to patrol all the tween them and security ' polar skies or function as milione : tary bases. But they are anThere, solemn young cap- chors in what may some day tains, lieutenants ‘and civilians pe a polar front extending from of both nations—sobered by the Aqis to Scandinavia—stations responsibility their rank must gram which Canada, the United
Some. } es the Sommandess; ‘States and their allies can deTe naan fend themselves against at- . generals will come up later from !acks across the top of the
‘Ottawa, and Washington, if this World. :
Two great military powers—the United States and Soviet Russia—face each ‘other across the North Pole. Each is gradually extend. Americans—20 here, 50 there, pe collects weather reports, per-- ing its bases. Shown here are the approximate positions of major bases for each side.
the housekeepers of the Arctic haps, but important to: Canada . On the Canadian-American side of the Pols, bases extend on a line from Attu, 180 miles from the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, to —men whose job it is to keep Jenorals weren't just kidding Greenland. On the Pacific side, headquarters is cenféred in the Alaskan Command, Anchorage; on the Atlantic, in the Newfoundland operation and repair. when they warned the next war Base Command (MATS), St. John's Newfoundland. In Canada, bases on this side of the Pole fly the Canadian and American flags. aerial attack against our two There are airfields as near to the Pole as Resolute Bay and Eureka Sound. wait. Wait for an occasional Countries across the top of the On the Russian side of the Pole, these bases are shown: (I) P etropovolosk, a Russian submarine, naval and air base largely built since the end of the’ war; (2) Komandorski Islands, site of the Nikolskoe Naval base: (3) The Russian Siberian coast, a jet fighter base movies. Wait. for a parachute Roy Fredericks at another area; (4) Wrangel Island, a jet fighter base; (5) Okhotsk Sea Coast where the Russians have a Research project; (6) Lena River, an ice to drop through” the clouds. arctic station, and their ca- pighway from Lake Baikal to Tiksi; (7) Tiksi, hub of the Russian Polar military effort, a city built in recent years; (8) The Arctic sea shipto come again, bringing with ‘potatoes then. Their tiny posts Ping route from Arkangelsk to Tiksi; (9) Arkangelsk; (10) Franz Josef Land, Russian air bases; (11) Spitsbergen, Norwegian controlled them a few pracicus months. would expand to make room for archipelago where Russ have mining interests and large concentration of ‘nationals; (12) Trans-Siberian Railroad, Russia's supply line for arctic bases; (13) Lake Baikal, terminal for supplies brought up the Trans-Siberian for shipment to arctic bases; (14) Sakhalin Island, Russ havoc, tighten their precarious can be in mid-winter—is to base seized from Japan during World War II; (15) Nikolaevsk, Amur River naval base: (16) Little Koldewey and Shannon Islands where hold, insure their own safety hold the line, to insure as best Germans established Greenlandic bases during war; (17) Bell Island, Newfoundland outpost where Russ espionage has been reported.
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