Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1949 — Page 48

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By OPAL CROCKETT i Roy T. Combs, Township as- ! { sessor, has nam a spe-! tumble-down aoe DG ou OSE cial committee which will study Raymond St. flap in the wind. business property assessments on Rain spatters in through the pane-| & nation-wide scale, it was anless windows, making the bare! pounced today by Thomas A.| ground floor muddy and slick. Byrne, president of the National, But the old barn serves as the Association of Assessing Officers. home workshop of Ralph L. Mr. Combs also has been! Miller. named by the association to conHe works in it cheerfully, making boxspring Hollywood beds though he is blind. Mr. Miller lost his sight at the age of 30. Blood poisoning spread from a fever blister on his lip, infecting his eyes. His wife has only 10 per cent vision and is unable to read except by the braile method. y Mr. Miller hopes to rent a small % building with a big window to! fg trem display the Hollywood beds he’ . makes for adults and the minia- U. S. Rubber Strikers

ture replicas he makes for dolls. ’ ; . To Meet Tomorrow Until then he'll wear an extra & % » 2 of ah I Striking union “employees : of Jacket, in bad weather, and ; { 3 meet work in the old barn to support {U. 8. Rubber Corp. here will mi ‘ ! -old his family. PR | tomorrow. to review the 11-day-o 2 Bin i 8 a walkout. AFTER SUPPER, Mr. Miller . : . : ry “| John H. O'Neil, president of the and his wife and children, Donald! Ralph L. Miller . . . "There is a life for the blind. |United Ruber, Cork, Linoleum & Lee, 8, and Joyce Carol, 4, and. .esons in the summer, and does State Board of Industrial Aid Plastic Workers of America local, the dog Nippy gather in the living 51) her own housework, year-and Voeational Rehabilitation for called for a general membership room of their little cottage for .,.,4 She and her husband bowl, the Blind, Mr. Miller worked at meeting at 10 a. m. in the locals an evening of music. Mr. Miller'yng hoth read Braille magazines the E. F. Burkle Bedding Co., 543 hall. plays the banjo and guitar, and ,,4 5 Braille Bible. N. East St. He began making] Nearly 1100 union employees for awhile played and Sang over, «rhe radio is our newspaper Hollywood beds as a sideline, walked off their jobs Oct. 6, virAnderson; Ind. radio station yu entertainment, in addition to starting with a bed for his family. tually closing the local firm WCBC. Like his father, Donald ou, ‘talking books’ ” Mr. Miller Later, he adopted the sideline as which is the world's largest inner]

{staff training at the fifteenth in-| !ternational conference on assess-| ~ ment administration at San Di-| lego, Cal, Oct. 23 to 27. | The: assessor will leave today for San Diego, taking ‘with him! a 30-page manuscript reviewing 2 the work thus far completed in Center Township's reassessment program. {

Lee is talented and plays by ear..sai9 Mysteries and novels are his trade. tube plant. on Sw accordion is his their favorites among those rec-| Mr. Miller, who 18 46, was DOPR | a | trument. | {in Linton, Ind. His wife, 38, was!" ords for the blind, {in Linton, , 38, No day is without activity for sg 8 =» born near Henryville, Ind. They, YOUR CABINETS Bui the Millers. Sundays finds the] «wg DON'T WORRY about/came to Indianapolis to attend to suit your needs

family attending the Berean our sight. The thing to do, par- blind school, and later spent nine; Baptist Church. “There is a Mifeltieularly when as oe years in Brooklyn, N. Y. There! Ae ahr pA ! for the blind,” Mr. and Mrs. after childhood, is to associate Mr. Miller earned a living with|jinets built snd inMiller agree, They're always busy with other blind persons to gain his music. They returned to this| jstalied _—y a8 ~they have plenty of friends. |perspective. Take all the training city in 1942—to find a house with| ae. we BY Mr. and Mrs, Miller are active available to make possible busy, & yard where their sop could play. | in the Fanny Crosby Foundation worthwhile living,” Mr. Miller ad-|

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for the Blind, and Mrs. Miller is vised. He attended the Indiana WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN . |i VEOS WALL TILE enrolled in Red Cross handicraft/State School for the Blind and] CROWN POINT, Ind. Oct. 15| RUBALR FLOOR3 classes for the blind. Proudly she Mrs. Miller was graduated from! (UP)—Mrs. Carolyn Hall Ridder, TILE AND displays the leather goods, woolen that institution. 40, was crushed to death today by, RAUP CABINET CO.

&nimals and jewelry she makes. After learning boxspring mak- an eastbound Pennsylvania Rail-|i 145 N. PENN. MA-2408 She takes Red Cross swimming/ing In ~lasses of the Indiana road freight train.

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