Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1949 — Page 11
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— Inside Indianapo
WAVE THOSE. banners, sing ‘the victory.
“ SONgE, Arink that ‘clder—"Tridtans’ Universty™ Wo
on the march, : Four teams’ in as many weeks have fallen before the powerhouses Coach Lewis: G. #Ferguson puts on the field. Yep, Fireball Lew, who directs
. hs “I U™ team. from a suite in. the Security
Trust Bldg. (Any resemblance-to a team in Bloomington is purely coincidental.) - What's this all about? Football and insurance, friend. When T first got wind of ah unbeaten IL U, team along with a garbled version of selling drive, . touchdowns, halfbacks and pep sessions, the information lef -me stunned. Literally gasping for more hot Enough at least so 1 wouldn't be won which end was up. Like Clyde Smith's
this year,
An Uncontrollable Ur¢ THE TRAIL led to th€ offices of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insuran 0. - Upon entering, thére's an uncontrollable Airge. to burst, forth with a
spirited “boola “boola.” Banners, flags, small headgear a footballs - litter . the office. The cream a SIihson of ol' I. U. is everywhere,
iy fighting blood raced Hough my fighting art. “Indiana, my Indiana . “Indiana, we'll: fight for you . . .” Coach Lew Ferguson, sometimes referred to as the manager of the Indianapolis office of Phoenix Mutual, had
Joined me in song. ‘The ol’ boy sings it very weli>
“for being — an alumnus of Nebraska. His team was out on the playing field. I was It was a
the University of
deadringer for the type you buy at games each
"Hit 'em again" . . . Salesman Thomas Black checks how many more yards he has to go for a touchdown,
lis 7 By Ed Sovola;
: Saturday. In Gblor, just as thé real McCoy, was a full-page Chesterneld ciguret ua; ‘showing i Crosby, Como, puffing. fags. . . The Coach turned on a phonograph and the. room was filed- with Big <9 victory songs. .The 82g had gone far enough. What's the pitch, Coach? I'm curious and I wanna know. We retired to Mr; Ferguson's cffice" nd _the .Story began to roll. The football campaign to stimulate salesmen of Phoenix all over the tountry | = bigger and better sales originated in Hartford, Every city with a branch office Is a team. ¢, it is Indiana University, Ft. Wayne is Notre ame, Détroit is Michigan. Men in the Milwaukee “office are known as the Badgers of Wisconsin.’ There are conferences. At the end of the season Bowl games are played; Phoenix Bowl, Cotton Bowl, etc. Quotas are set
up, salesmen are given
positions according to the volume of business | |
they write. A quarterback spot is given to the best salesman in an office. A salesman who isn't doing too well, plays énd. The tackle position; also goes to a slow starter, Yardage is counted as in a real football game except the danger of physical injury is not so great. Salesmen séldom are thrown on their ears for losses. “A man gains a yard for selling $1000 worth “of insurance. Letters are awarded for making 100 yards. The letters can be converted into prizes. Plaques and engraved bowls are! awarded championship teams. i All-Americans, red hot salesmen, make the! All-America teams which go toughe home office for special attention after the fireworks are over. | That will be sometime in January.
Mr. Ferguson showed me a letter of! congratulations from the corresponding secretary in Hartford, Conn. Football flavor all the way: “Congratulations for Keeping the team: in there bucking the line right along.”
Doughnuts and Cider Open Season
WHEN the season opened Oct. 10, Mr. Ferguson had a pep rally. Doughnuts ‘and cider were served. Music played, banners waved. Mrs. | Mary Miley, cashier, and Dorothy Harlan, steriographers, sold programs. Later the money! was refunded.
It was mid-afternoon when Guard Thomas Black charged into the office and checked his progress on the gridiron. The day's tabulations § had him covering yardage. He was .in there fighting. “Are you. going to give him instructions?” 1 asked: } Coach Ferguson shook his head. Short pep #= sessions are held in the morning. Monday §&
mornings mistakes are pointed cut and more steam is generated. Evidently Mr. Ferguson was preparing a pep talk for the next day. -A book by Jack McCord, “Selling Is a Game,” was open. I read a line: “You're out of the huddle now, so go—Go—GO!” I went,
Old But Ever New
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7T—When the presses were ready to roll on one of the first Old Farmer's Almanacs, a nervous printer rushed up to the bogs and said: - “What shall we put down for July 13th, sir?” The boss, who at the time was up to his hairline in proof sheets, yelled back in thoughtless haste: : “Anything, anything.” The printer, who knew how to ‘follow a command, picked “anything” out of his typebox— “rain, hail and snow. The record shows that in one town, at least, it rained, snowed ahd hailed. that year on July 13th. _ The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has jpst come out with its 158th consecutive issue, is dogThe oldtime weather prophet, which has been published these many years in Dublin, N, H., still gives you everything it did in long bygone days. It still carries poetry, sassy letters to the editor. and recipes for banana bread and pie. Plus what to do in case of snake bites. And the laws, by.states, on when to take a pot shot at what migratory bird. :
Are Your Hens Wire-Recorded?
NOT to mention the ads: “You, too, may be helped by internal baths.” How to dye your hair “foot pains.” The little homilies are interested—as they have been across the many years. On page 73, there is a paragraph about “wire recording your hens.” It mentions the ‘Nelson
‘brothers of Kirkland, Wash. They wire-recorded
their henhouse and had wonderful results. Brothér Bert even rigged up 'a contraption
" where he could tell which hens were laying. He
_ the frustration of genius.
set a trap door that jailed a hen as soon as she .climbed up to hide in a nest. If she dropped an egg he could. teil it ‘when he released her. 5 Anyhow, here's what you can expect in 1950, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac: A “wet”| winter. November and December, 1950 will be bitter cold and will give us more storms and rain than common. In this connection, Editor Robert Themas says he sends a small boy out each year, to measure the fur of the animals to tell about] winter.
Groundhog to See Night Shadder |
ON FEB. 2—Ground Hog Day— the little guy will come out of hiding and find the weather so’ nasty, he'll duck back in, But Mr. Groundhog’ will venture out again at night and will see: his; shadow by the light of the moon. Spring will be, cool and late. . And here is what you can expect for holidays in 1950: 2 New Year's Day will be cold. It's going to rain on Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12. You may expect either rain or snow on - Washington's Birthday, Feb. 22. Baster, April 9, will ‘be windy, and on Me-| morcial Day, May 30th it will be nice. Labor Day will be clear on Sept. 4th, and Thanksgiving and’ Christmas will be pleasant. : Mr. Thomas would like vou to know that the Almanac’'s headquarters have been moved in the village of Dublin. Up to now the booklet has been put out in rertted quarters on the so-called “Democratic Side” of the street. Now the publication has its own permanent building “on the Republican side of the street.’ Mr. Thomas says that won't. have anything to do with the political side of the booklet “because we don't have any to begin with.”
Beard-Busting oe
WASHINGTON, Nov. T—I nicked my chin this morning with one of those razor blades your face can't feel, I felt'it. .. While mopping up the blood and trying to staunch the flow. of gore 1 got to thinking about whiskers. They are the bane of mankind and More inventors, I guess, have worked on ‘view. ways to get rid of beards than on any other one problem, with the possible exception of brassieres. This latter, involving engineering stresses and gtrairis, is a blushful subject about which I am not too familiar. But on mowing down whiskers I am an expert. Or at least I-am in correspondence most of the time -with more inventors of razors and substitutes therefor than anybody else, except possibly Mr. Gillette.
Europe Is Buzzing
AT THE MOMENT there is a hig boom in imported razors of the electrical variety. The Dutch are peddling a little job that whirls around on the whiskers like a buzz saw. The Swiss also have a whirler, but it consists of a disc with holes in it. Our home country electric razor boys have stuck to the machines which oscillate something
Jike the sickle ‘bar on a hay-mowing machine.
Some of these have as'many as six rows of whisker slicers. I once owned an electric razor, It bad a buzz like a thousand- bumblebees, but its action on my beard was like a rat-tailed file. Eventually it ground 'em down to powder, but this took time. I traded my electric razor to a hopeful cohort with a tender skin for one-fifth of rye whisky. It was soon thereafter that I received a note and a sample from a researcher in Brooklyn, N.Y. . He said that the ideal dry shaver consisted of a shéet of emery paper. He'd been using it for years. He sent me a piece (No. 00, he said, was
“gave ofie "§ide of “itv an extra wvicious--curl
the best) to try out with a gentle circular motion. I must not have been gentle enough. Eventually my face healed and here was an: other samplé razor, this one from New York City, which took an ordinary double-edged blade .and The idea was to shave first with the regular edge and
admit. It was inclined to take off the the skin in feat little rolls and deposit them in the wash basin like apple parings.
with an electrical device which made them vibrate.
fire engines for the same effect. I tried one of
these.
- a sharp razor blade buzzing in a cold bathroom.
This One Melts as If Mows
ANOTHER INVENTOR wrote me to throw away all my razors; he -had one that heated the blade almost to the boiling point and thus melted
the whiskers even as it mowed them. The twin gG,.ip
effect, he said, was a revelation and also a pleas-
ure. He was having a little trouble getting into groped through production, however, and 1 still have not tried the yi. to fix in the mind of the com- P2nY's».investment to. a
. {mission members exactly how InAnother public benefactor in Michigan, mean- diana Bel keeps its books,
razor that works like a blaw torch
time, concluded that the best: way to shave .off ;
whiskers is with a sharp blade and lather with why it But first you've got profit. .
lots of hot water worked in. .{o wash your face and rifise it before applying the brush.” ' He thought so much of this process that he had it patented #nd then he dedicated it to man-
welfare, This is the method I am using current- .
» AS “That's abaut 53 cent tel ly. It is a little gory, and sometimes makes me éphone which oat a for Auto Death Case look as though I had been in battle with a dis- of the bill
traught tiger, but to date I have discovered no better,
The Quiz Master
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How large was Paul Bunyan supposed to be? According to the most authentic estimate the" legendary Paul Bunyan was 12<féet 11, Inches tall and weighed 888 pounds. - His beard was said to be as long s it was wide and that he combed
It with & young pine tree.
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For whom was Mt. - Rainer, Washington,
named?
Mt Rainier was after the British adSisal, Fetus Rainier, who cag heh fo ShfAmerican.
Revolution. It was once an active volcano but cost per telephone is on the way sen or C—O Pion the United Na ger in another car. Miss Inis Smith, ville” by C beco! ndependent nation has long been en A rib hich shoud allow for ad-| A mistrial was declared Sept: Church St. reread a hs Ernest acne servation Offices] with a es Mopted Dy the Ti Hive seeds and grains taken from. oid tombs oma on pS hating ihe 20 a hear Deputy . Fionetitons costed i a man. as. she walked goucheg nest of ‘the roads in people and for the people’ of i along Ray 8t, near Capitol Ave. Hamilton County.” Alaska.” : i
like the Egyptian pyramids really grown after thousands of yéars?
passed. Wheat, oats and corn generally do until the second year after they are grown,’b
not after that, th it is rare To them to germi- Mr. Bteckier contended that last statement was detiimental to the : Fed Jeu? Indiana, nell pula, gf. S005 ines soon, Las i }
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By Harman W. Nichols
By- Frederick C..Othman..
PSC Accountant Outlines then go over the face a seCond time with the trick angle side for a‘close shave: It was close, 1. must Phone Costs i in Rate Fight
“.ecounting_ pen Now there were razors that combined blades big book of Indiana Beil Co. figures in the lap of the Public There. also were razors that wound up like toy'Service Commission.
There is nothing more frighténing than Steckler was
for the final attack on Indiana 50 balance, set aside $1,336,000. taining $3, to a robber, and four Church et her rom 236 brother. Jo gi. acquemin, Bell's petition for a rate increase. The somber-faced t.e le phone other women reported attempted (;nion St. after a lon illness. sh In his first thrust, Mr. Steckler faWyers sat. by patiently awaiting gecauits police said today. was 73. SS uor8 be. he ZX requiem high mass will is drew the blood of what he called their turn. at the witnesses when Mrs. Else Geise 1 _— od rerativgs ttermd hes offered for Miss Schuh at 9 a. m. Sci tale Spurs they are expected to show that In-| Mrs. El reiger, bY, of. Sm ern ner) formed Miss Wednesday in the church: after On the stand was John Mec- ©iana Bell had no othér course Oriental St. said a man sprang at - aw, La 0 G0 roars ad vices at 8:30 a. m. in the igs senior accountant and.!Pan expansion in the post war her from an alley as she walked Pinion of more than % yeprs had neral home. Burial ‘will be in telephone expert of the PSC, who demand. The added construction. in the 1200 block of F. New York yt" “7% “ollapseq. Mise Schunist Joseph Cemetery, pages of statis: they. said, increased: the com- St. last night. The. attacker fled was dead when a physician ar. She is survived by a niece, Mrs,
advertising. the com t $246,000 . N WwW kind, royalty free, -as his contribution to DUMAD. courage” the ~ of 104 io ae Pick e Jury in
the statistics book and put his a
the pension fund which has been rt declared ' Such stories when carefully investigated have footballed po proved fakes. Seeds of many common flowers and hearing and at times proved al- dent could register at the univer: wegetables will not grow well after a year has most too big and too complicated sity.” * vell | for anyong to understand.
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. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1049 EISEN SE
A Queen Finds She Must Keep
Busy Despite Her Regal Status
Picture Story by Lloyd B. Walton
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A day in the fe of a = bowoly queen. . . . Miss Barbara Klein, 1105 N. Rural St., discovers even-a queen must arise early to fulI fill her regal duties. She was National Flower Queen last week.
The queen finds time after work to have a malt with her boy friend, Dick Brunin Butler University student. The 19-year-old girl is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy. queenship is a "wonderful honor."
R.R 7 a he thinks the
TRA 8 WA AN A
Surrounded by chrysanthemums, Miss Klein poses on an im provised throne in hier mother's flower shop; Klein's Quality Flow. - at the Interna. ers, 2213 E. 10th St. The queen also models at the Indianapolis School of Photography.
Despite her rigorous schedule of appearances dul National Flower Week, Miss Klein helps out with housework chores. She wat runnerup for the title of "Miss: County Fair". tional Dairy Exposition here.
"Call your floors, please,” says Miss Klein." During the day’ she is an elevator hostess at H. P. Wasson & Co,
4 Women Report 2 24Heldiy. Friends Die Here Few Hours Apart
Two lifelong Indianapolis resi-, Rites for Miss Jacquemin at dents, cousins and close friends 10:30 -a, m. Wednesday in the Robber Seizes - for many - years, who ‘died. last funeral home, will be followed in right lay side by side today in by a requiem high mass at 11 Purse of Another Lauck Funeral Home, a m, in the Shyren, Burial will
ned nes AUTACK Attempts ©
gulckly to” the interest figure of $204.000 almost equaling the outgoing ‘payments | But Mr. Steckler said the com-
The State unsheathed its ac- 000 in
today and laid a
hene fits
rived at her home, John Norton, and a nephew, Jo-
point with her purse, containing $3, Mrs, 8 79 jana where current ‘rated would no Geiger told. police. Re was 7 Seph Kretzer, both of Ind Pe Miss Schith was also a member olis,
longer give adequate return. - what 1 return. After alighting from a MillersMr. McGrath next is scheduled ville bus near her home early yes- of Sacred Heart Chure h. In ad-
to go into the matter of d {a+ dition, she was a’ member of its show a better ‘0 8 r of deprecia- terday: Mrs. Goldie B. Fathaer,| Third Order ‘and Altar Society. Statehcod or Secession Urged for Alaska’
tion, challenging the amount of 41, of 3960 Caroline Ave. sald oh — this write-off ih: the. company's was grabbed “by a young man s | operating figures. ‘a dark suit” She said the Attace: "Gets Early Bird, t-- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. T . "| (UP) — Syd Krause, a former Faces $500 Fine
————— er fled when she screamed. member of the territorial legislaAn Indlapa- sportsman faces & sepede from the United
Try to Grab Purse urge Alaska “Arr wWhreo walking tithe “800 block tite, says he will Al to in 8 Noble St. last night, two possible $500 fine and imprison- |..e Congress makes it a state. For the second time in two Youths attempted to grab Mrs, MD today because he couldn't Mr. Kra told ¢ Cat Rs 3 wait 10 minutes to shoot a mi- use a House Mer. . McGra umbed through months selection of a jury to hear Jessie Martin's purse. [chant Marine subcommittee Satur.
ratory goose. ; manslaughter and .- reckless: Mrg/Martin, 52, of 8 The Se Conservation Depart- 'day he would first urge that Alas-
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t does with its money, doesn’t
.and show
Cites Adv ertising Mr. Steckler put his finger on Last year, he said,
321 8. Noble
walked near their home at 1627 chase at 90 miles an hour, Arrow Ave,
The State will contend that the son Ave., of Lois Pittman, a pas- |gest to the people of Alaska
Mr. *8teckler "also pointed to Ryan said that a newspaper re- last night. Fischel said he saw Tomey|
‘Judge Rabb would" spe man. Miss h t ! . % Smith told * po- Shoot the goose and rake it from SWEET TOOTH EAS ‘ entire permit a recess so that the stu- lice, attempted to drag her into ® small lake at 11:50 hp WASHINGTON, ot {America's N
through the
a doorway but fled when she o[Wheb he. ee 4 to Tomey to stop schel sa The deputy prosecutors won a jcreamed, =_ and “drove off. rh. ne ar)
In the presentation of his case, mistrial when they charged the| Tome 10 be. TIMES BRINGS PARADE ‘ |, omey Wag arraigried in a to be MAGAZINE .... NY. 1 13 | ty i
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