Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1949 — Page 31

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situations often by watching average citizens go about their daily business. “One of these days I'm going to throw my hat out of the window and follow it,” sighed Mr. Kuhn. “I'm throwing mine out, too,” said Mr. Bosley, | quickly. ] With Grandma appearing in 120 newspapers all country, Mr. Kuhn feels he is in a posi-| where he can work and travel. That's been! dream. The syndicate doesn't care where he his work as long as he does it.

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Kuhn took the big step two and a half years ago, when Grandma began clicking. Year and a half| ago, King Features Syndicate had Mr. Kuhn on! its books. Grandma became his fulltime baby. Mr. Bostey, a former commercial artist, was hired, said Mr. Kuhn, because he thought he could, browbeat the younger man into being a cartoonist. The thing that stumps me Is how he's going to browbeat a man who thinks Grandma is the most wonderful character ever to come out of a bottle of ink. t > i As a special token of her appreciation, “Grand-| ma” showed me how easy drawing for a living. is. Pretty easy as long as she guided the peneil. i Gad. wouldn't it be the nuts to sit and “think” all day? : :

True Sportsman

By Robert C. Ruark

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19—We lovers of justice are eagerly awaiting the trial of Mr. Henry Van Schaack Jr., who is to be tried on Nov. 23 in county court for the sin of attempting to shoot down a Piper Cub airplane with a shotgun. As I left, Mr. Van Schaack was a cause ceiebre in Denver, which is split sharply over the case, and Hank may even be known to posterity as the Dreyfus of the Lower Latham reservoir. He faces a year in jail and a fine if he is found guilty of assault with deadly weapon as charged. The Civil Aeronautics Administration was on the point of charging him with interference with air commerce, but thought better of it, since a Piper Cub is scarcely to be clarsed as a commercial carrier.

Van Schaack Is True Sportsman

AT RISK of influencing the jury, I am pro-Van

Schaack, who is a true sportsman. He is a true

sportsman befause he could as easily have shot the head off Mr. Gerald Tan vy. who piloted the plane, instead of placing charges of No. 4 shot in the belly of the craft, Mr. Van Schaack was standing by the Lower Latham reservoir, outside Denver, with the idea of slaying a wildfowl or so. He and his party were buzzed three times by the airplane, at about 25 feet, scaring the party and frightening the ducks. (The pilot, who was accompanied by a lady, is being charged by the federal government with illegally inciting the ducks to riot.) Mr. Van Schaack, who will doubtless plead self-defense, waited until the third buzz, and then he cut loose with a 12-bore pumpgun. I say he was a sportsman because he had the gun plugged, and théréby conformed to the law. “A pothunter might have fired seven shots at the swooping plane, at Lord knows what damage to the fuselage. Mr. Van Schaack also used No. 4 shot, a very sporting load for such large game as a Piper Cub. A less gallant gentleman might have sneaked buckshot into the weapon and fetched the plane down in flames, ; 3 : “However,” Mr. Van Bchaatk said later, “T be-

lieve that vou would be vindicated in using No. 2's if you were shooting at an Avion and even buékshot if the target were a twin Beechcraft.” Hank is a Tormer all-bore shooting champion! of his state. What the pilot didn't know is that Hank is a retired antiaircraft gunner. During) training, while the war was on, he once put pe mahy plastic-tipped machine gun bullets into’a target P-38 that the plane retreated in confusion to its base. In discussing his case with such distinguished exponents of aerial jurisprudence as Mr. Robert! Six of Continental Airlines, we have decided tha ‘there were extenuating circumstances to Mr. Van| Schaack’s fit of temper. Mr. Six, a duck hunter who had been up all night himself, reasoned that any boor who frightened off the fowl, after a man| has hauled himself from the hay at 3 a. m., de-| serves anything that happens. “Anyhow.” says Mr. Six, “a man who shoots as well as Hank could have gotten plenty more airplanes, but his duck-strap won't hold but three

Something Less Than Chivalrous

THERE ARE some who say that Mr. Van Schaack was Jess than chivalrous in sniping at a plane which contained a .lady. But Mr. Van Schaack alleges that no lady will be party to the] buzzing of a duck pond and that, anyhow, he had! paid for his federal duck stamp and was allowed, to fire at anything save wood duck and trumpeter] swans, if said firing conformed to the hours of! legal hunting. i When last seen, Mr. Van Schaack was bitterly contemplating his trial, and had gone into training! “for if, on a diet of water and Sanka coffee." = | “Here the duck season is nearly over,” Mr, Van Schaack said morosely, “and all I've managed to} shoot is five ducks and an airplane. We don't get! the hunting we used to out here.” It was reported, on the eve of the trial, that! Ducks, Unlimited had raised heavy funds for) Hank's defense, and also that a new lobby called! ‘Cubs for Fréedom was planning to combat same. |

Biblical Mapping

By James Daniel

Frederick C. Othman is on his way to Merida,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—A 50-year-old man who says that study of the Bible convinced him the mystical numbers there must have a scientific basis, has turned Washington scientists on their ear 'with a new system of navigation. Some experts say the system may revolutionize aerial navigation. If it proves out—and conclusive proof is still lacking—it's possible that principles involved could become of prime importance in setting up a defense against guided missiles. The inventor is William Kendrick Hale. Years ago he says he came upon a way of squaring the circle-—considered a mathematical’ impossibility in such a way that the distances and angles between any two points on the square would be the same as those between the corresponding points on the circle. . Nobody would pay any attention to him, so he took the same system and applied it to the

Survey. The chairman of. the board is Capt. P. V. H. Weems, retired naval officer, do? Mr. Lyon is the author of the standard text, “Practical Air Navigation,” which the armed

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which he gave the names of Mene, Tekel and Petes, words from the handwriting on the walll during Belshazsar's “impious feast.” ; Nevertheless they took Mr. Hale's idea to the Office of Naval Research, That office, conscious that it might be making a fool of itself but unwilling to overlook any possibility, commissioned, the Lyon-Weems firm to study the Hale system. | After three weeks of research, this has been!

done. The results do not prove Mr. Hale right,

neither do they prove him wrong. ‘It’s been established that his Mere, Tekel and! Peres represent bands of latitude and that the heart of his system consists of assigning a value of 3.15 to “pi.” the Greek symbol by which mathe! maticians express the relation between the circumference of a circle and its diameter. In math, pl is a number which could be carried

out indefinitely but is commonly chopped off after the adventures of two children in

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Dollar Receipts Have Slipped 12 Per Cent From All-Time High of Last Year |

By VICTOR

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PETERSON

THE AGRICULTURAL honeymoon may be over. Cash from another fat production year today bulges Hoosier

farmers’ bilifolds as they buckle lar receipts have slipped

down to winter chores. But they |

*| ‘wonder as they work what 1950 holds in store,

12 -per cent from last. year's all-

time high. They are off 10 per cent from 1947. For the first time

| since before the war, govern- | =

Pupils Conde Mock Election

{80 per cent—some 52,000—of the

ment supports 4 bolster most grain crops. Hogs are but a squeal away from aid. Otherwise, '49 production tops any previous year in Indiana farm history, and betters the low mark of 1932 by 500 per cent. » ¥ » THE FARMER admits no suffering and economic experts agree. “We've had a good year. Off a bit but nothing to hurt,” said Lawrence Robinson, RR 1, New Augusta. “I'd say it was another season of bumper crops.” Already swelled granaries await only a trickle of corn and

t soy beans still in the field. Mr.

Robinson and his son Harold, like other late harvesters, keep a wary eye cocked skyward, noting ever increasing sullen

clouds ready to spit snow.

Chill winds - bite through heavy jackets and fiito glovedhands as the me. of the soil set new fence posts before the freeze, tractor in hog houses from = pastures, make tight drafty windows, dismantle and repair machinery tired from a summer's labor. - °° Over the winter they'll take stock of this year's efforts and plan for spring. : “Looks like slide,” Mr. Robinson said as he straightened another tier of fencing for temporary corn storage. “But if you've plowed your money back into the farm for improvements, you can ride watever's coming. - . » “IF IT GETS BAD; the specfalists are ones to get slapped down. We figure it's best to be diversified—a little of this, a little of that and not much of anything in particular.” The Robinsons follow their

creed. Working 250 acres, they |

break. ground for corn, wheat, , oats and alfalfa. None of it leaves the farm except in fattened hogs or milk from the dairy herd.

While prices tumbled 20 per |Eoix

cent from the 1948 peik, Hoosier farmers held their income decline .to 12. per .cent mainly through greater crop yield and increased livestock marketings.

- Total cash counted out in In--

diana farm kitchens this sea-

| son amounts to $651,216,000. It

represents the sale of grain, livestock, and livestock prod-

ucts by some 140000 farmers |

scattered over the state.

R Fertile soll "yielded 249.264.-

000 bushels of corn, 39,488,000 bushels of wheat, 57.720.000 bushels of oats, 30,038,000 bushels of soy beans and 2, 402,000 tons of hay, It was a good year, a bumper year, but one which threw telling shadows of the future across barren winter fields. Farmers, however, cold weather chores secure in the knowledge they nationally rank fourth in corn production, third; in soy beans and third in hogs.

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Howe Quarterback Named Governor

Politics was the password reicently at Howe High School, the “Nationalists” defeated /the “Federalists” ih a mock elec- § = + tioh. Morand Roth, quarterback - for the Hornet football team, was swept into the governorship on

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‘held under the direction sell W. Curtis, Students

| officers. : »

AN {Wednesday in the cafeteria.

tic Press Association Conference

weekend. » ” - WILLARD NANCE Crispus Attucks student, was named to ithe high honor roll for the first grading period. Students whose grades placed ithem on -the regular henor included: ’

Helen Beverly, Campbell,

Hattie Bryant, , Bernice Ronald Da e.

Barbara Ci Essie leen

Lois Davis, erson, Mary wards,

klin, Wilma Alice William w

addie, - rence y ores G. Hayes, Patricia {Haywood, Patricia Ann Hi ‘Alfred | Clarence William {Jones, - Virginia- Belle ? | Matthews, Sammie Gene Margan, {Oldham, Doris J. Peppers, nnie | Norma Rhyne, Charlesetta {Carolyn . Ann. Ro oan Turner, {Walton and Esther Warren. | Crispus Attucks ROTC cadet

appointments to the rank of sec-

ond leutenant this fall included: Marshall Hopson, John H. J iM Our L. H. Robinson, Alex WarWitherspoon,

Moore, ‘Charles fleld and Aaron

{ n » » | JUNE Magazine for 1949, the {Tech High annual has received an All-American Honor Rating {from the National Scholastic | Press Association and first place

{rating from the Columbia Schol-

{astic Press Association.

out of a possible 1000 in C.8.P.A. rating, and exceeded 3200 points, {the minimum needed for N.S. P, A. rating, by making 3300 points. . » .

STUDENTS in English classes

at Tech High are corresponding, with high school students in other

“The Cinpamon Bear" telling countries this semester.

The letters are sent to U.S,

eight decimals—that is, 3.14150265—which means the land of make believe with a ambassadors in Australia, Swe-

that the circumference of a circle is the diameter|!!nY teddy bear, will be broad- den and Ireland, who turn them |cast over WFBM Monday through over to schools for’ distribution. The series More than 100 students are tak-| ¢ (will begin tomorrow and will end’ ing part in the project. sponsored {on Christmas Eve,

multiplied by that number. Mr. Hale just made it 315.

A NAVAL RESEARCH representative said his office was not immediately concerned that Mr. Hale's method sometimes resulted in slight inaccuracies, ’

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. . FS ORT » : Missionary to Navajos | letter, telling her the good news.

{Navajo children. It's that condi-| {tion that Irene Hoskins, lowa{born Quaker missionary, and jotilers are trying to correct.

| Hoskins has driven her truck and And, after a short while, the

the Nationalist! ® slate. With him to bring education and the church truck at the desperate hail of a

elected lieutenant gov-

Sponsored by speak no English, Morand Roth 4." Jo ial stud- the first step in teaching them to away. lies department, the election was read English is to teach them to r pe of Rus- read Navajo. She is still learning Hoskins says, ‘what would have tween scenes, they go

used a the difficult Navajo tongue, and ha {voting machine in choosing their keeps up her own lessons while |

. n i . 3 ANNUAL Thanksgiving stretch of desert, dotted with ny Dr. A. V.. Linden Tea will be presented by the settlements. ' homemaking class at Warren Making her. work: all the more {Central High School at 2:15 p. m.

Lee Pursiey, Warren Central journalism advisor, and his wife will attend the National Scholas-

in Chicago over Thanksgiving!

roll:

H. Bluiett, Eugene T. Fergu-| ones, Lee bert A. Mcintyre, Alvin L.! ooks,

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handle cold-weather chores. Hare Harold Robinson from summer pasture fo the barnyard.

3 Fiery Stas ~~ Work in Peace

The closing in of winter sends farmers scurrying to directs his father hauling a hog house

Covers 16 Million Acres

Irene Hoskins Visits Reservations, Fights, Illiteracy Among Indians BOLLIWOOD, Nov. 18 (UP)

Times Special PT. DEFIANCE, Ariz—A Navajo girl, away at a school in/are making a movie together. Phoenix, was coming home for a visit. She wrote her mother a far, there hasn't been But when she arrived home pulled or a cheek scratched. So far.

her mother wasn't there. i 3 ; {| “We get along so nicely,” one

The older woman couldn't read. She'd gone on a journey for several days, looking for someone to read the letter to her, And of them sighed, “that it's posi» because she couldn't read i . tively boring.” Per missed her daughter's visit. | | despite their poverty, a very ha Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal That story is typical of life|Pitable race. In the tinjest, €ratei, ; putn Roman are on the Navajo reservation, where St A “hogans” she an TAS Varner Bros. “The Rock" sistant will be honored guests. The arne ; of k family brings blankets to stretch tom.” a drama oe mother: love. on the floor for the visitors’ com- They clutter up the sound stages with their make-up women, hair The children fetch ears of brightly colored corn, and throw! (them on the fire. They take i best — and only — tin cups and|® For more than two years, Miss gorub them with sand and water.

Indians are illiterate. There are schools for only a third of the

i of cast trailer over some 16 million arces youngsters hand plates of Hatton leon RY pon Temale over (of desert in Arizona, New Mexico and corn and cups of hot coffee the best part. But ‘and Utah, bringing the ability t0 to the guests. [say the parts are all read to the people. Her job ‘Is Besides being a teacher, Missinortant. The only edge, (sponsored hy" the -interdenomin- Hoskins often finds hersel fing to the other two, goes ational Home Missions Council of pressed into service on the reser- parier, by virtue of the f North America. (vation doing other things for the she's a mother off-screen Before she set out’ on the road, natives. Once she stopped her .o in the picture.

'to the Navajos' bee-hive shaped Navajo grandmother. Ther was “1 Re he knows |“hogans,” she had taught in res-|a sick baby that needed help. Miss TOU nathee feels, |ervation schools. {Hoskins turned her truck into an Roman gaye. at when | Since two-thirds of the Navajos ambulance rk ea | motherly.” gm ure she feels that | The three girls have pick fights with each

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ppened if the grandmother had respective someone who knew no

rooms ‘teaching others. | Navajo.” | Her “parish” is an immense

Roads are poor

| making To Speak Here - [wh | During one “day's “classes”! Dr. Arthur V. Linden of Colum-~ Miss Hoskins and her Navajo in-/ Dia University will address the termediary and transiator, Mrs.|Columbia Alumni Association of Edna Maloney, may visit four or Indiana Saturday at the World five “hogans,” covering 12 miles. War Memorial. She finds that most of the| Dr, Linden is executive officer Navajos, who have several names, of field relations of" Columbia {want to first learn to write their Teachers College. He will speak: (English names. Some of them on “Service Trends in the T {don’t even know the. correct pro-/ing Profession.” SH nunciation of their English names, Color films of Gen. Dwight D. having had thém written out by Eisenhower's inauguration as missionaries and preserving the president of Columbia aiso will paper carefiilly for many years. be 8pm! Miss Hosking finds the Nava jos Po ye YY

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