Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1949 — Page 31

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“Mr. Inside” is up in the air over an fier: view with Gertrude Myers. of the Ski-Hi Club.

JUST CALL me shorty. Where can a 5-foot 20%5-inch man buy a pair of elevator shoes? "Gertrude Meyers, a lovely young lady .of 26, who worries not at all that people often stare as she moves her well-proportioned 6-foot 2-inch (in nylon socks) frame.about town, couldn't tell me. She wasn’t interested in elevators. ]

She understood my feelings and said she had

no objections if I stood on a chair and regained

my aplomb. The tallest member of the Ski-Hi Club, a tall girls’ organization, soon was turning upward her big, brown, sort of smouldering eyes. Oops. I was looking up. The altitude and the eyes were too much without dn oxygen mask.

Pleading Note in Her Voice

“DON’T TELL me you've never talked to a 6foot girl,” said Miss Meyers with a pleading note in her voice. “So many people I meet for the first time tell me that. ! Her remark caught words in my mouth. Gulp-

ing, lying in a friendly fashion, I convinced her Sama

no thought of that nature existed, although, to be truthful, I had not talked to a girl over 6 feet. “Can we talk while we walk?” asked my new friend. “I love to walk.” Cértainly. Something new was. being added to the interview. . Ever since kindergarten, Miss Meyers said; she noticed she was always taller than her classmates and friends. But she never thought much about ft. Her mother is a tall woman, her father is 6 feet 3 inches, and two brothers and. sisters aren't The brothers are each 6 feet 4 inches.

“My sisters are small, only 5 feet §% inches,” :

Miss Meyers added. Naturally, she prefers tall men. comfortable with a tall man,” was her explanation. “But I used to date a short man (5 feet 10 inches) who was a lot of fun and I didn't mind

going out with him. But he was one of those peo- a

ple who get along well with everybody.”

Walking slowly around the Circle with Miss : Why not?

Meyers did provoke many glances. She is a beautiful girl. “I was pretty self-conscious when I was in high school, but after so long a time I just made up my mind to ignore my uneasinéss.” At that point the merits of the Ski-Hi Club were brought.out. The club was the best she had ever joined. There are 80 members, the average height being about 5 feet 10 inches. To qualify, a girl must be 18 years of age, of

charitable projects. In keeping with their program of thinking of others, members forget about themselves. ed Miss Meyers admitted readily that tall girls have problems, big problems. For example, she mentioned that ever since her second year in high school, she has had to order all her shoes from New York. She wears a size 11 and they are not to be had in city stores.’ : a The: clothing problem is often acute. - Skirts

are seldom long emough. When hemlines went

down last year, Miss Meyers said members of Ski- ¥

Hi were living “in heaven.” They ‘view the cur‘rent upward trend of skirts with alarm, 5 Three nights a week Miss Meyers bowls. She wouldn't miss a night for anything. As chairman of the club's bowling league, she spearheads the drive for big turnouts where girls have ample opportunity for fun and association, ’ She Likes Swimming, Dancing SWIMMING and dancing are also favorite pastimes. Yes, she was surprised on one of the few lind- dates she has had. Her date was a mere 6 feet 5 inches tall. : An assistant laboratory technician at Eli Lilly, ‘Miss Meyers wears flat heels to work. When she goes out; high heels are a must. “A tall girl has to be a little more independent, Otherwise, she'd néver wear high heels and really dress up like she should. You know, tall girls can be yery stylish,” she said. | You're telling me, Miss Meyers. - Any tall guys who would like to meet some tall girls, give me a ring. I think I might be able to help you. A] friend of mine belongs to the Ski-Hi. Club. I'm looking up to that gal,

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measures less than 3 by 4 inches or more than 9 by 12 inches it will mentals and they apply to candy

who doesn't have a sweet tooth. ® | Therefore, he manufactures the homemade Callane’s Finer Candies in an abandoned school build ing two miles north of Lebanon on U. 8, 52. Poor logic? No, Mr. Callane has {found his true calling, and nis {background is far more fitting than first impressions would in- . dicate. ; ; . |" A year ago Mr. and Mrs. Cal{lane where he had gone to rest after exhausting years of war work in experimental metal heat treating. Settling in Lebanon, their origi-

{founding a chemical manufactur«

{owned in Indianapolis before the | war. * 2 And then he thought of his - |favorité hobby-—-making candy. * “Neither of us are condy fans, ; but when we want some, we want

Parcel post clerk Ray Trulock handles packages for Wilford Fergu-

" LJ . [Mow son and. Grace Bucy. In another month . . . the jam. lv NEWAYS vajoyes whip M - . »” A =

{ping up a batch. Used to do it {after work, and our friends said they liked it. “We ran away trying to find a business

Mailing Christmas Cards

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» | t th g New Postage Rates will Help Cut Annval {vacant out here on the highway pay rent to the township trustee,”

Loss But Will Mean More Trouble, Too And cheémistry plays an ime The price of mailing Christmas cards has gone up. } {portant part in the candy manuCongress recently decided that unsealed Christmas card en- facture.

velopes miust bear two-cent stamps instead of 1%;-cent stamps. food chemistry but chose metals. Oversize and undersize cards are excepted. If the envelope Nevertheless, I got the funda-

It fitted our purposes, so now we

only the best,” Mr. Callane sald.

“In college I-debated going into °

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{nal-home, he decided to work for ‘himself. He thought -some of "re~ iin fas ino

(ing firm such as he and his father Meg, Charles C. Callane is the "boss lady" of the :

help to .eut the annual loss SUS- 1504 arrives Dec, 15-17. tained by the U. 8. Malls, it will]

mean trouble for postmasters pe city parcel post will

require a three-cent stamp. The same goes for all sealed envelopes. maging. Me. Caliang said asking ) 8 wife to turn down the heat is i While the new postage rate will ;ontinue to increase until the peak under a bubbling, brown batch, This i “lI approach each recipe as = During the worst of the rush though it's a chemistry experi- ufacture in huge lots and retain| The Callanes are a friendly, but! ment. It is necessary to understand that goodness.” * i

the home of Callane's Finer Candies, an abandoned school near Lebanon on U.S. 52,

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modest, couple, and they ask!

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This is the way “Shorty” did it.

Kid Stuff

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 12—I swear to John, I don’t know what this younger generation's coming to, with its crutches and shortcuts to easy living. I have been plowing around in the educational pastures and so help me, now they got staff psyehiatrists to help the freshmen adjust themselves to whatever freshmen have to adjust themselves to. I was stopped, briefly, when the Denver University kids, unable to send a cheering section to

California’ for the DU" game “with St. Mary's, ~- “and temperamental umbilicus;

shipped a recorded cheering section to the coast instead. The yell leaders and the students recorded some yelps, sent the recording to Lodi Stadium, and they were beamed at struggling athletes via a loudspeaker setup. The DU’s got murdered, just the same, 41-21, despite the canned inspiration.

Psychiatry Angle :

BUT THE psychiatry angle to college education dragged me away from my precceupation with the artificially inspired gridiron gladiators. I

understand that practically every major: school -

now. has a sort of psychiatric infirmary, where the -kiddies -g0 to .cure the colds in. their souls: as routinely as they seek a ipanacea for ‘athlete's foot or hangover. > at There has been a Freud dispensary at Colorado U. for about eight years now, and they say the undergrads drop in to have their‘ psyches overhauled at regular intervals, to see if their traumas are hitting on all eight and their syndromes’ free from stain, grit and other harmful ingredients. Seems the No. 1, first-chop affliction, is based on emotional immaturity, followed by-‘‘anxiety-tension” 7Sweet creeping shade -of -John-Held Jr.! This evidently means -that.the youngster. has pimples on his subconscious as well as on his face, meaning he is not adult in his reactions to his fresh énvironment. When confronted by a tough situation, he becomes tense, jittery and prone to 1 suppose this is the way we are headed, and so my" anguished screams will g6 down as re-

By Robert C. Ruark

actionary diversion, but’ I would thank the soulprobers to keep their claws. off any young of mine, if I had any young of mine. It is presumptuous to assume that any callow colt of college age is anything but immature, confused, and subject, to insecurity, which is all part,

of being young. The purpose of -coliege, as I saw mail

‘it a couple of centurfes ago, was to try the| youngster in the fire—to teach him how to get to be an adult on his own time. It ‘was the period of the severing of the mental} the tossing the young bird out of the parental nest. { Young John, out on his own for the first time, | started some tentative motions toward manhood; | making mistakes, profiting by same, and acquiring | some toughness of fiber and singleness of purpose in the process. Young Mary, away from mummy's eagle eye and papa’s thumping shoe, was supposed | to start practicing to be a woman who must learn to look after her own welfare. !

Wailing Wall ; 1 SO NOW we are replacing mother’s soft shoul-| der and father’s iron discipline with a canned ap-| proximation: of same--a wailing wall of the mind, a crying towel and, & comfortable couch to aid the young in remaining emotionally young. You got a problem, sonny? Don't rassle with it and try to lick it. Take it to the tame skull-feeler and let him explain all your puzzlements in the terms of] an early affection for a rubber duck or a tousled teddy bear. Nuts! :

“All you reap from the process is a flock of self:

here and there when cards come angled 1 ey. Jr. C21) [through without sufficient posi- guiding at State Fair Grounds. as to know when to add each to| refused - ow calling for “s000| everyone to sign the guest book; {which is rented for that purpose the mixture. Cooking tempera- pounds of sweets. |by the postoffice, Other packages tures and length of time in cook-| single request filled was for a/from over ‘the nation. Others: and mail will be sorted and sent Ing can make or break a recipe.| thousand pounds, however, expects -that- trouble 10 out from the Illinois St. station. . | be cut to a minimum. Postmaster

Apvlications will be available in| Room 232, Federal building, from|

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day Last of all come New Year that homemade taste. That's

“Yifring of temporary post office | greetings. After they are disposed Where our candy differs from com-|salesroom presided over by Mrs, new product meets the Callane's| | mutual satisfaction. 3

workers starting around- Dec. 15.

The post office needs a small,

agés in, out, and to destinations. M:. Ress said there were 1623 persons hired last year for the holiday season. - Scattered through all "departments except finance and registry,| High school young speople will the. extras assist regular work-|load clothing given by local ers in moving mountains of let-/ churches for overseas relief on a ters and gifts. Helpers. are as-/semitrailer tomorrow on the signed to parcel post trucks and|parking lot of the Zion Evangelipostmen get one or two assistants cal and Reformed Church, North who walk the routes to deliver/and New Jersey Sts. , [Adult workers will start load‘Letters addressed to Santa'ing the trailer, loaned by the Claus by uncertain young hands Foster Freight Lines, Monday at aré just beginning to arrive this 10 a. m. Assisted by the young year; Those aduits who want their people, they. will continue. all day. cards postmarked at Santa Claus, and will accept additional gifts of Ind., must enclose card and en- clothing brought to the lot. The velope in an outer. envelope ad- young people will represent the

High School Pupils To Help in Drive

dressed to: ostmaster, Santa United Christian Youth Council Claus, Ind. |of the Church Federation and the nN a Hi-Y Clubs of Howe and Crispus

LAWRENCE L. COOK, superin-| Attucks High Schools. tendent of money orders, reports| Materials collected by the Inan increasing number of U. 8.|dlanapolis. Council of ChurchSavings Bonds bought at his win-| women at their World Community dows to be used as «Christmas Day service Friday will go into gifts. Last year, he estimagks, the truck. They called the gifts of| over 1000 bonds were sold for that materials, “Pieces for Peace” | purpose. | Fred C. Lemley is chairman of) A new wrinkle in the bond busi- the United Clothing Collection ness is the Baby Bond, an {itus- Committee. The collection. is spon-| trated savings bond for children: sored by the Ecumenicity and] Around the borders caper gally- World Service Committe of the colored _Schmoos, each one. of/Church Federation of which the which stands for a virtue such as Rev. Clarence L. Sitler is chair-Truth-Duty - Thrift - Cooperation/man, Dr. Grover L. Hartman, and others. Federation Social Service Depart-

The traffic in mail and pack- ment secretary, is in charge of

apologists who are willing: to. explain all deficien‘cles .of behavior, from flunking math to bum luck with the coeds in. the necking sector, in i preudo-scientific triple-talk.

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We rob our young of so much when we sad

away their “opportunity to make their own mistakes and cover them with their own sound scar tissue of experience. To be young is a wonderful, miserable, glorious, terrible thing, and the people who tamper with youth are themselves sorely in need of psychiatric assistance. — Ca

Gold Bugs

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Nov, 12—All the gold I own is stashed solidly in three of my back teeth. 1 have a watch but it makes & green streak which I've got to wash off my wrist nightly, so I guess it doesn’t count. President Truman is in the same ungilded boat. His gold hoard consists of 14carat frames for two pairs of eyeglasses. 80 when he says that so long as he is President he doesn’t intend to raise the price of gold above $35 per ounce, -it doesn’t mean. much to him, persenally. Or me, either. I've still got my teeth: he has his spéctacles. Some other fellows are not so fortunate,

They're the babies who have paid up to $55

an ounce fqr what is known in the trade as salt, dust, insect) powder, tin, chink, brass and dibs. Namely, freshly mined gold. This is the only kind of gold; aside\from medals (we'll get around to these in a minute), which is legal for an American citizen to buy sell.

Lorge Economy Size: $4000 SO A NUMBER of financial houses have been buying up gold dust—I prefer to call it insect

powder—-and packing 1t like bath salts, except

for the ribbon, in transparent plastic jars. These jugs, ea of insect powder adulterated with 15 per cent of copper or other dross, they have put on the market

at well over the official price. At the moment a 100-6unce canister of genuine gold, suitable for a Christmas gift or even for burying under the ‘No

each containing exactly 100 ounces

trade in insect powder futures. A fellow can buy a bottle of gold and then sell it, either at a profit or a loss, without ever seeing “it.

A witness brought a transparent package of |}'

gold dust to the Senate Banking Committee the other day to’ show the lawgivers what. the merchandise. looked like. He walked off without his jug. ‘He rushed back breathless half an hour later. He seemed surprised to find his insect powder still on the mahogany table, ; A good many citizens find 100 ounces of gold dust a little heavy to ¢art-around and, for that matter, a little costly to buy. So some firms have begun to put up insect powder in smaller packages. ‘These cost more per ounce than the large, economy size. :

The law specifically says that it also is legal for a citizen to buy and sell gold medals. And,

boy, the medal business is booming. A Los Angeles outfit has been advertising in the financial papers

golden religious medals which, the firm points out,

happen‘to weigh exactly one ounce. A New Yorker ed to be selling pocket lucky pieces of

‘is ‘rep solid gold which also weigh an ounce.

If It’s Art, It's Legal LAW

in the form of plain slugs, it would be against ‘the law. : ’

terms of}

THESE COST a good deal more than $35, on account of the fancy carving. The art is worth something. If it weren't theré, and the gold was

A fellow with.a suitcase of \nsect powder and || _ a pocket full of medals could turn a-pretty profit |{ ‘

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These are the thoroughly trained crews who do landscape work at Eogle Creek You Connot Buy Good Landscape Work on Price Alone

Good landscape work requires artiste design, good materials and von’ selentions work. It Is foolish te expect anyore to deliver any more than you pay for. In buying » Umeplecs, for «ample, you do. nol got sn aceurate, lifetime watch for the price of an alarm +16fK; the same holds true in landscape work. Your telephone Sli will bring our landscape: ~ expert. wilthout the slightest oblication on your part.

Visit Our Cash and Corry Sales Yard

Here you will find frail trees—apple, pear, peach; cherry, ote. Also evergreens and shrubs of many varieties, all of a size you ean carry In your ear and ressonsbly prised, = / :

geranium bed, sells for & shade under $4000. No “almost anywhere else In the worid. The trouble , ; Jewel RY aX. alther " 2 seid gow of iti, re ATI (he Aw 10 Carry RAMS outside the EAGLE CREEK NURSERY CO. California and Colorado insect powder into the "This f you ask me, i al very confusing, bt “82nd St. and Lafayette Road (US. 52) Arade, nobody . bout. gold body under- ; . i ‘ is canned by citizens in their own, per- It, either. -It is One subject I can discuss TEL. CO. 2361 INDIANAPOLIS

what they found in the sparkling adding and subtracting until the,

"Combine. this knowledge and turned out in small batches. i ! | | Most ‘of the ‘Caliane trade 1s/favorite candy recipes. : George Reh 3nd Ns Stat dave |slackens until Dec, 25, when even gredients released at the right! transient, the curious who stop to|Callane happily adds to his stock: n autiona a the latecomers have mani&yed to/time gith improved texture and see what kind of candy is made of more than . When ready to’ {part of their annual preparations) get their cards and gifts into cir- looks, . v ne 3 a. for the time of the big rush—the|..1ation. holiday season, : |

0 {in an old schooihouse. Repeat/try a mew concoction, he starts. But most important to us is/orders by mail today attest to/almost in the test tube

help this year will not begin until of, the postoffice staff relaxes un- mercial products. You can’t man-|Callane. after Dec. 1, with most extra ti] another year rolls around.

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