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By Ed Sovela

THIS IS a prediction about thé construction of the new J. C. Penney Co. building on the Circle, There is a rough road ahead. The prediction stems from recent talks with construction men and observations of the present excavating work. ee" To a man who holds a bonafide sidewalk superintendent’s card and is almost a charter member in the Sidewalk Superintendents Association, it's incredible that the Carl M. Geupel Construction Co. and J. C. Penney Co. would overlook us. As a matter of fact, sidewalk superintendents haven't even been given a thought. Carl Milburn, construction superintendent and an employee of the Geupel firm, came out point blank and said there would be no “boss windows” in the wooden curtain which surrounds the site of the new building.

Only 216 Knotholes THIS WAS SHOCKING news. . Especially when you consider that there are only 216 knotboles of various sizes and at various heights in the fence through which a sidéwalk superintendent might satisfy his curiosity and on occasion drop a helpful hint. Mr. Milburn was informed of the 216 knotholes. He was not impressed. For a moment or two I actually thought he was going to say that he'd have the knotholes covered up. That is why in the discussion I failed to mention another posgibility of viewing the work.

Deplorable .. . Sidewalk “superinfendent's dilemma is the construction work on the J. C. Penney building. No windows, just knotholes.

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energetic chance to see. It's better than nothing. By walking very fast and looking directly into the fence, the boards seem to fade out and you can see what is going on. The picture is not clear, important détails are lost but at least a man isn't in complete darkness, . Mr. Milburn informed me 25,000 cubic feet of dirt would call for going seven feet level. It’s going to be a through.

“Be careful you don’t hit water,” my words of caution. I've been on jobs like that before. The latest, to mention one, excavation. The advice just rolled off the blueprints Mr. Milburn held in his hand. He mumbled about going down and seeing a couple of the engineers working in the center of the excavation. “I have no orders to cut windows. Besides, the walk will be six feet wide. We can’t have you guys standing around blocking traffic,” were his final words. “I'm going over your head,” were my final words. : A crew of carpenters pounded the walk together. They were using new lumber and initial shaking on one end of the railing proved the work to be solid. “Good work, men” I said. Always make friends on a job is my motto. Two men looked up without saying a word. Two other men went on pounding. : Using the positive approach, inquiry was made as to where the viewing windows would be cut in the fence. And how many, men? ; The oldest man of the group said he knew nothing of any windows in any fencé. He suggested talking to Mr. Milburn. Little did he know how much good that would ‘do. One course remains open until the final word comes from the very top of the J. C. Penney Co. I'm writing a letter. I'm geing to mention that sidewalk superintendents were honored on construction jobs involving L. Strauss & Co., L. 8. Ayres & Co, H. P. Wasson & Co. and 8. S. Kresge Co. The course, unless plugged, is the lowly knothole.

Not Emergency Status

WITH 216 at-the disposal of sidewalk superintendents, conditions aren't at the emergency stage. Very fine locations are to be had in the] alley off Market St. There are many choice knotholes in the alley that runs alongside the School Board Building. Seventy-three peepholes are scattered from the alley by the School Board to the Circle. The big stretch on the Circle could be better, only 84 knotholes. A good drill could easily increase visibility if worse comes to worse. Superintendents, the time to act is now.

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Boy's Paradise

By Robert C. Ruark

SOUTHPORT, N. C., Oct. 13—This is a tiny sleepy little town at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, ahd if it were laid out in New England they would call it quaint. There is né ‘industry here and never has been and probably never will be. It is no town to get ahead in. What there is here is an old pomegranate bush and the gardenias grow wild in Cousin Margie’'s yard and some old gnarled oaks with gray whiskers of Spanish moss. There is a mocking bird who sings in a magnolia tree, and this would be a very personal story about a mocking bird and a magnolia tree and a mostgage. You may now refer to me as Cunnel Massa Boss, or even as Marse Robert, because today I am the proprietor of a mocking bird and a magnolia tree and a mortgage. I need all three like I need three more dentists. If you favor a moral, it might be that you can get the boy out of the country, but you can’t get the country out of the boy. Once upon a time there was a large-eared, dripnosed fugitive from multiplication and Sunday School. He spent each summer of his greener years in this little town. He lived in the victorian, led ginger-bready house of his maternal grandpa, a sea-captain with a bushy mustache.

Cap’n Hawley Was Boss

THIS MAN'S name was Edward Hall Adkins, and the colored folk called him Cap'n Hawley and the white folks called him Ned Hall. Ned Hall could shoot very fine and whittle very good and ifn his eyes a small boy was never, never very wrong—maybe just a little misguided. And he lived in this beautiful house, bnly a mashie shot away from the river. Surrounding this beautiful corny house was an oak grove in which the redheaded woodpeckers and the bluejays rioted. In the side yard was a mangy old cedar tree and the finest, biggest magnolia tree anybody ever saw. When it came into bloom you couldn't think because all you could do was smell and if you picked one of the

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great fleshy blossoms it crinkled at the edges and turned brown. In this magnolia tree dwelt a fat and sassy mocking bird who hated daylight almost as much

p. m. and when he got a full head of steam; he didn’t quit until 5—the exact time Ned Hall got up to go to the pilot house for a squint at the sea and his first cup of coffee.

Finds a Body

IN THE daytime the boy would pick the black figs from the twisted fig tree, and steal pomegranates off Uncle Walker's bush. One time he fell and busted his arm playing Tarzan down in the shrimp house and another time he got sick off cigars and another time he had to cut a fish hook out of his own foot over on Battery Island on the same day he discovered the washed-up drown-ded man in the marsh grass. Well, Cap'n Hawley comes sick with the can-| cer and he died and died breke and his beautiful house was mortgaged and the family flew every whichaway., For 17 years a bunch of strangers lived in the house and beat it up awful. The dining room chandelier with the tinkling ding-dangs fell down and the sandspurs grew in the yard and the rose bushes died. But the real estate man who owned it wouldn't sell it to anybody but a member of the family, and what family there was was! busted = flat. | Well, you come back and what do you do?! You come back and the woodpeckers chase each! other in the oaks and the mocking bird starts] playing Fritz Kreisler in the magnolia, and the back porch is falling off and the plaster’s cracked| and the old fig tree needs some help to get back! on its feet again, so what do you do? You go to the bank and say I got a mocking bird and a magnolia and now I need a mortgage, | although you really need a mortgage like you need the “gout, and furthermore, anybody who says Marse Robert is sentimental is a dirty Fas-cist-Communist Republican-Democrat-type bum,

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—I guess a big, heman engineer, who charges the government $100 per day for his good advice, ought to know whether he’s in the habit of weeping salt tears. Then again maybe he doesn’t. This case of the mournful commissioner gets more confusing by the day. Or maybe I should say by the year. For almost as long as I can remember Sen. Sheridan Downey, the veteran California Democrat, has been trying to oust the Hon, Mike Straus from his post as reclamation commissioner. The Senator claims that the Hon. Mike's background as a Chicago newspaperman and Interior Department press agent doesn’t exactly recommend him as the world’s greatest builder of bridges, dams and dikes. So Sen. Downey showed up before his fellow bentlemen of the Interior Committee and insisted upon being sworn under oath to tell the truth and nothing but. He said it was a shame the way the Hon. Mike forced Commissioner Harry W. Bashore out of office and then grabbed the job for himself,

Nice Work Any Time :

SO THE committee called in the husky Mr, Bashore, a veteran of 39 years of government engineering, until he resigned and took on the chore of giving the federal his best advice at $100 a day. This, he remarked in passing, is nice work. Sen. Joseph C.' O'Mahoney, the immaculate Democrat from Wyoming with the eyeglasses on the black silk ribbon, swore him in, What about this spilling of tears on Sen. Downey’s best chair? Mr. Bashore laughed. He'd sat in that chair, all right. And he'd talked to the Senator about floed control,

“But I don't recall crying since my mother gave me a licking one time for lying,” he said. “And I don’t recall saying to Sen. Downey that I loved my job, or that I was forced out of it.” Fact was, he continued—to the red-faced consternation of Sen. Downey—he hated his job. He didn’t want it in the first place, he took it under protest, and he was relieved when Mr, Straus said he'd be glad to take over. Yes, the Senators insisted, but didn't anybody influence him? Yes, sir, said Mr. Bashore. His wife. She wanted to get back to Wyoming, close to the sun and soil, and so did he. Sen. O'Mahoney observed that this showed good judgment on the part of Mrs. B. Sen. Downey didn’t say anything. : ’

Brings a King-Size Chart

AND THE Hon. Mike, who's been jousting

with the gentleman from California these many|

years, looked impassive like a portly and pinkfaced sphinx. No wonder. . He was prepared to prove that one more investigation meant nothing much to the most-in-vestigated bureau of all the government. With him he brought a chart 11 feet high and six feet wide, which his helpers hoisted half way to the ceiling of the two-story caucus room. ? This document, about the size of the sail on a small yacht, was covered with closely printed black type. summarizing the 1500—count ’'em— investigations made so far of the Bureau of Reclamation. He didn't say so, but I got the idea that investigation 1501, concerning the weeping commissioner, would be to him just another book to add to his unread library,

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pre-school children are among the important activities of the so-

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children themselves often attend, is particularly helpful, Miss Haw-|1930, which regularly give lunchKins believes. “Sometimes parents eons, bridge parties and movie will wait until a deaf or hard of shows, hearing child is 5 or thereabouts before starting special training,”|than $5000, the society necessarily] she says. “Then they come to us|limits its activities to helping] | and ask what they can do to pre-|those persons not reached by] pare the youngster for school the schools and larger agencies.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1949

Experts Demonstrate Right Way

Fire . . . Death . . . Destruction. As a special observance of Fire Prevention Week, Jerry A. Coghlan, chief of plant protection at the Indianapolis plant of “International Harvester Co., presented an-industrial fire prevention and protection demonstration at the plant. Here, George Birch smothers a deadly liquid fire with

a forced spray of carbon dioxide.

Helping Hard Of Hearing

People With Auditory Defects Are Shy, Says Secretary of Community Fund Unit

Here is another story in a series The Times is publishing to help you with the Community Fund Contest sponsored and financed by General Motors dealers of Marion County. ~~

By HENRY BUTLER Helping people with hearing defects is a task calling for con-| siderable tact. So says Miss Bertha Hawkins, executive secretary of the In-| dianapolis Hearing Society, Inc., a Community Fund agency. “People are shy about being hard of hearing,” Miss Hawkins, says. “That sensitivity complicates their lives even more than it does our work. When a person|™ begins losing his hearing, he 2PProaches school

{Hawkins says. seers lo,want to keep the fact) Although the Hearing Soclety,|

founded here in 1929 as a local Too many vie- chapter of the national organiza-| tims of hearing

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: eX tion, has only about 100 members, defects deprive its office yearly gives counsel to} themselves of « many hundreds of applicants. such advantages ge & > |People come there for vocational] 3s Lhe Hearing + |advice—sometimes for direct help Society provides & [In getting a job. in its offices in x *

Funds Limit Activities

They come for advice in selectWeekly classes in lip reading,|Ing hearing aids, of which the sofor beginners and advanced stu-|ciety has the American Medical dents, work in speech and voice! Association's approved list for improvement and a Saturday|distribution. morning class for the parents of] Those who become members pay $3 annual dues, of which $1 goes to the national organization. Members may attend classes or re-| celve private instruction without) fee. They also have social groups, like the Women's Club, founded in

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Parents’ Class Helpful. That parents’ class, which the

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following year.” Occasionally the society has! The child with a hearing de-{aided a painfully shy person, like|

fect needs teaching from infancy/one woman who would look up|

on, so that parents can establishand down the corridot outside be-|

communication as early as pos-|fore she dashed through the outer| sible. An early start means far|office and into the classroom for| less difficulty with behavior ‘and her private lesson in lip reading. personality problems as the child] “It was weeks and weeks before|

8 = =» -® n= Community Fund Contest The Prizes | ou may use the official entry blank] 1st, 1949 De Luxe 4-door Chevrolet{in The Times or write your entry on a sedan; 2d, television console; 3d. radio-| Separate sheet of paper. Enter as many phonograph combination console; 4th, re-|times as you wish but each entry must be frigerator; 5th, home freezer; 6th, auto-{OR & separate entry blank or sheet of matic washer; 7th, radio consolette com- Paper. | bination; 8th. radio table model combi-| Mail entries to Community Pund Con-| nation: 9th through 12th, portable radio; test, P. O. Box 1681, Indianapolis. 13th through 50th, table model radio. Entries must be postmarked not later The Rules * than midnight Oct. 24th and must be received no later than Nov. 1. The contest is open only to residents! Entries will be judged on the basis of of Marion County except paid employees originality, aptness and sincerity by thei of General Motors dealers, the Com-'Reuyben H. Donnelley Corp. Judges de-| munity Fund and its agencies and mem- cision will be final. In case of ties,| bers of their families. {duplicate prizes will be awarded. All| Complete in 25 additional words or entries, contents and ideas then become| less this statement: “I give to the Com- the property of the Indianapolis and; munity Pund because. . .." {Marion County Community Fund.

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Kurt Pantzer

“Thefcandles you have lighted on the banks of the Wabash will gleam forever,” reads the inscription on a.desk set presented to Sherman Minton, new U. 8. Supreme justice from Indiana, by Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis lawyer, on behalf of the Indiana Bar Association. The presentation followed swearing in of Justice yesterdam

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Photos By Bill Oates. Times Staff Photographer. The wrong way of battling an inflammable liquid fire is demonstrated by Claude Fisher. Ordinary fire extinguishers, water and other methods ordinarily emJardin gasoline or oil and only tend to spread the fire. A smothering dry chemical or water fog, known as “dew gas" would have quickly

eath-Dealing Fires

Bowers works manager, and R. R. Coulette, assistant works manager, fop men at the IHC truck plant, get first hand information on the plant fire-fighting equipment from Averitt has just extinguished a roaring gasoline fire with

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dry chemicals in a matter of seconds. He

she would tell even her teacher where she worked,” Miss Hawkins says. “Apparently she was desperately afraid she might lose

her hearing difficulty.”

with one’s hearing often is ex-'tions,” she says.

hearing. “They tend to waste less time Fear of losing one’s job along talking and listening to distrac-

aggerated, Miss Hawkins thinks. In work requiring intense concentration, the hard of hearing {often are prized more highly than {her job if they found out about persons with normal

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| MARION COUNTY GENERAL MOTORS DEALERS’ CONTEST

FREE ENTRY BLANK—Mail It Now to

| COMMUNITY FUND CONTEST

I P.O. Box No. 1681, Indianapolis, Ind.

(Complete ‘the following statement in 25 additional

words or less)

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($5000 Worth of Prizes Paid for by General Motors Deal-

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Group to Discuss Needed Laws

Church women of the city will get together tomorrow to talk over the economic situation of the country and pending or needed laws. They will meet from 10 a. m., to $3 p. m, in the YWCA for this economic and legislative insti. tute. In the morning, they will hear a statement of Christian principles applicable to economic life and see a film-strip with discussion on “Economics for Everybody.” They will give theif attention to legislation regarding health, week-day religious education, the Fair Employment Practice "Act and Social legislation in the afternoon. Mrs. Ralph L. Holland and Mrs. Grover Parr will serve as resource leaders on economics and Mrs. Merton Good and Mrsy Clayton Ridge, on legislation. Monthly discussion groups will hold similar sessions on the first Friday of each month at the YWCA.

ORASH VICTIM DIES CONNERSVILLE, Oct. 13 (UPY —George Cchmauss, Henderson (Rush County), died yesterday in Fayette Memorial Hospital, He

was injured Oct. 4.

Hoosiers Pay Honor To Justice Minton

Frank McHale

The new associate justice from Indiana enjoys a good joke. Here he laughs heartily with Ira Haymaker, Indiana Democratic state chairman, and Frank McHale, Indiana Democratic nae

tional committeeman, as they get together at a reception follo

Minton yesterday in Washington.

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Scores of Indiana political leaders and friends of the No. 1

Hoosier jurist attended the ceremony at the White House and later were guests at a

in Justice Minton's honor in the Willard

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