Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1949 — Page 2

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The origin of Thanksgiving as a day for rejoicing and prayer Is attributed to William Bradturd, rg guveriae » Massachusetts Colony. He proclaimed as a which the Pligrims at Plymouth should thank God for a bountiful harvest and for their victory over great hazards In establishing new homes in the wilderness. The celebration actually lasted a week, during which Massasolt, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, and his tribe joined in the feast of gratitude. They contributed venison, cranberries and oysters, which they considered a great delicacy. It is sald that this is the origin of the traditio that there be Invited guests at every Thanksgiving table. .

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Polio Research Concert Planned

The “Missionaires Quartet” for polio research, The quartet oft fo sight Quast” wil sing for polio retsssch, The man and R. F. Gibson. will include such numbers as “The Jericho Road” and “He'll Uunderstand.” Miss Dorsly Beatty,

The “Missionaires Quartet” will give a concert for the bene fit of Riley Hospital polio research Sunday at 2:30 p. m. in "the Edgewood Methodist Church. :

The quartet will dedicate the freewill offering taken at the concert to 12-year-old Lela Rader who was Marion County's first polio victim of 1949. The Dankleman and R. F. Gibson.

Grandma in Sanday Times

less of their religious affiliations. The four singers include: D. M. Miller, H. L. Coats, F. H.

sroverty hoiaers wi be rw fj @S NlOthing On Hoosiers come repre 10 terns Early Letters Show That Our ‘Old Gals’ wil bot required tn addon w| Can Kick Up Their Heels Like Youngsters

many nominations of fun-loving grandmas being received

~ Yeorganize lected as “the life of hood oon! The letter-weiter ahd a “champion ; ures in The Times. | Harney, will be a surprise soon Vernon Ave, grandma.

early entrants are writing

n ‘to dma " writes Mrs. R. J. ashman, E. Michigan St. up behind 4 table and like a highaccompanied by very . The only differween your Grandma in Sunday Times comics and ‘they could be twin sisters. My grandma is still so young that she became piqued

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he could help carry a large box lived filled with milk bottles to the store. She replied: ‘Certainly not, wg I'm not that old yet.’ 1. “The grandma I am nominatand INE 18 no ‘relation to me. She a widow who lives by herself In an apartment on N. Gladstone. Her name is Mrs. Minnie Wilson. “She has served 25 years.in the kitchen of the Linwood Christian Church; serving meals and parties

Prisoners Get Turkey for. every occasion, She likes

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Nov. 23 nothing better than a joke on Qwr) oma 82 oe dlashie someone. She is prankish and a Thanksgiving turkey because S004 Christian woman. Sie goes Sheriff John .Osborn got a bar. t0 church and Sunday school Sabaabald oe les Se {Cu ut troops have honor 2 for *20 rine 1 TATREY er, and always expect her to join " Jocal food locker. {in their fun. She calls on the sick The 40 prisoners alse will en-/and anyone can tell you what Joy tomorrow. It was do- cheer she brings.” x Dated by a farmer, | A Lawrence grandma Is de

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years old and more full of fun jana life than a yearling colt. In

jal. out-walk and out-dance peo-

ple one-third her age. She lives

| alone. If you are sick, she is the (first one there with flowers and {an offer to help. Rosy Hockett's address is 4702 Vernon Ave, ‘Lawrence, but anyone ‘in town lcan direct you to her house.”

RESON You mist The Thnes' grands

{in Charles Kuhn's GRANDMA

{big color comic section last Sun-

when asked by a gentleman if|day. Now send us a letter de-| Memorial Hospital, will be at 11

{scribing the most fun-loving grandma in your neighborhood. Send letters—as brief as posjsible—to Grandma, Indianapolis

Times, 214 W. Maryland St. All

entries become the - property of = The Times, none will be returned

land the decision of the judges {will be final,

Milburn Copeland Dies Here at 46

| Services for Milburn H, (Mel) {Copeland, owner of the Kiddyland Park in Little America Recrea[tion Center, who died Monday in ‘his home, 730 N. Tibbs Ave. will {be at 1:30 p. m. Friday in Conkle |Speedway Funeral Home. Burial | be in Floral Park. He was 46.

| {lived In Indianapolis 36 years. He had owned and operated numerous concession at various times in downtown Indianapolis and throughout the city. Survivors include his wife, Mrs, Edith Copeland; his mother, Mrs.

two brothers, Cecil Copeland, Danville, and Kenneth Copeland, Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs, Sylvia Roach, Indianapolis.

of a daughter, Mrs. Oliver Logan, 1810 Boulevard Pl, will be held at 1 p. m, Friday in Patton Funeral Home Crystal Chapel. Burfal will be In Crown Hill. Mrs, Brack, who was 70, was

Star and Pligrim Baptist Church of Midway, Ky. Born in Wallace Station, Ky., she had lived here about six weeks. :

lage Station, and a granddaughter.

b | ih Fageive ii worth of building projects. Work Sn

is Lawrence: . “Grandma Rosy Hockett is 77/of the Indiana area introduced

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" |include his wife, Mrs. Edna Ellis;

| -Bora in Jackson County, he

Nannie Copeland, Indianapolis; |

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Nethodists Award

Honor Earl Buchanan For Work in Church

Earl Buchanan today holds two signal honors accorded him by ithe City Council and Church Extension

Church. Mr. Buchanan last night reicelved a medal naming him the most outstanding Methodist layman of the district for the year and he also was re-elected president of the council and society for the third term, The organization held its an-

North Methodist Church. Dr. {Sumner L. Martin, district superintendent, presented the medal and commended the recipient for his 25 years of service to the West Michigan Street Methodist Church and to his denomination. Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star and News, spoke on “The Menace of Socialism.” p Plan Fund Drive Additional officers elected last night are: Ellis Bell, firit vice president; Preston Lentz, second vice president; Gerald Power, treasurer; Mrs. A. J. Spaulding, recording secretary (re-elected); Mrs, Rosemary Dunaway, assistant recording secretary, and Dr. Martin, executive secretary (reelected.) The council and society announced that plans are in the making for a drive to raise funds {for a new Methodist home for the aged here. Dr. Martin estimated {that by-Dec. 1, -district- Methodists. will be sponsoring $1.5 million

{is scheduled to go forward on 17) churches and six parsonages, he sald. Bishop Richard C. Raines

Mr. Pulliam.

| Charles H. Ellis Rites at Muncie Retired Banker Dies in Hospital

Charles H. Fllis, retired Muncie | banker, who died Tuesday in Ball

{a m. Friday in Meeks Mortuary here. Burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery. ’ A native of Muncie, he ret tix years ago after serving as

boygan, Mich. He was cashier and treasurer of the former Peoples Trust Co. here. He left the bank to become a receiver in 1934. He once was manager of the Ellis Feed Store here, Survivors

a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Baumann, Piqua, O,, and three grand- | sons,

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Services Today For Twin, 95

| Roderick Irrgang, the second of | the two oldest twins in the United | States, who died here Sunday, was {to be buried in Memorial Park | this afternoon. ‘ | He and his i sister, Mrs. Ann Bohem, who died two weeks ago,

i acclaimed ithe oldest living twins in the nation at the convention of the National Twins Association here in 1948.

Mr. Irrgang {lived in the home

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iway, R, R. 3, Box 522, the past {25 years, He was to have celebrated his 95th birthday Saturday. Rites at 2 p. m. today in the Usher Mortuary were to be conducted by the Rev. Clifford R. Lanman, pastor of the West Park Christian Church.

John Strietelmeier

Services will be held at 3 p. m. {tomorrow in Emmaus Evangelijcal Lutheran Church for John H. Strietelmeier, - former construction company employee who died yesterday in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Charles Smiley, 1027 Willow Drive. Mr, Strietelmeler, who was 81, was born in Cincinnati. He had lived here 25 years and was a former resident of Columbus. He was a member of Emmaus church. Surviving are the daughter; four sons, Elmer and Clarence Strietelmeier, Columbus and Paul and Francis —Strietelmeter, In dianapolis; four sisters, Mrs. Carrie Kiel, Mrs. Anna Poffenberger, Mrs. Sophia Behrman and Mrs, Clara Behrman, all of Columbus; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren,

Mrs. Leo: Smith

Services for Mrs. Grace Black-

‘burn Smith, part owner of Inter-

national Metal Polish Co. who died Monday in her home, 354 8. Arlington Ave. were to be at 3 p. m, today in Bhirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Born in Odon, she lived in In-

Christin Church, : Survivors include the husband,

and John H. Blackburn, Indianapolis; a daughter, Mrs. Pauline Farnam, Glen Ellyn: Ill; a sister, . Mrs. Robert McGaughey Cumberland; a brother, Claude

seven grandchildren, . ; 4 oy Miss Anna Gilgour Sérvices for Miss Anna Gilgour, who died yesterday in her home, 2040 Ruckle 8t., will be held at 2 p. m. Friday in the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill, Miss Gllgour, who was 82, was born at Columbus and had lived here 59 years. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Columbus.

Mrs. Paulina Weber

Services for Mrs. Paulina M.! | Weber, 1647 Arrow Ave., who died {yesterday in her home, will be at (2 p. m. Friday in Jordan Funeral . Burial will be in Crown {Hill She was 80. i { A life-long Indianapolis resi{dent, she was a member of the Harmonia Club, Survivors include a daughter, Miss Clara Weber, and a sister, | Mrs. Rosa Roessler, both of In-| {dianapolis,

‘Miner Fatally Hurt | SULLIVAN, Nov, 23 (UP)— Sam Wilson, 58, Linton, died yesterday in a hospital here a short while after he was injured at

Pine Ridge Mine near Pleasant-

cable snapped and a string of loaded coal cars rolled down an

Surviving are three sisters, Miss Jennie Gilgour, Mrs, Jeffie Hudson and Mrs, Bess Pontius; a brother, John Gilgour, and two nieces, Miss Clara Pontius and Mis Mary Giigour, all of Indianapolls.

Mrs. Ernest Trabandt

Services for Mrs. Marian Trabandt, 1618 E. Vermont St., who died yesterday in her home, will be held there at 10 a. m. Friday. Burial will be in Crown Hill. She! was 47. A lifelong Indianapolis resident, she was graduated from Technical High School. The husband, Ernest C. Trabandt, survives,

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Jobless Benefits

Court Rules ‘Against - 16 Whiting Women Women can’t stand on .their wedding vows in Indiana if they lose their jobs because they mar-

ried.

The Appellate Court held today that they should not receive state unemployment benefits if exchanging marital vows cost them

{their jobs.

The was given in the case of 16 women who sought job benefits after the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana fired them from their jobs at a Whiting refinery. The State Employment Security Division's review board granted benefits to the women. But the company appealed and the court reversed the board's decision. Says They Knew Rule Justice Floyd 8. Draper, who wrote the decision, said the women knew the company had a rule against employing married women. A clause stated women could not work beyond 30 days after |their m y | The Security Division gallantly held the rule was “contrary to public policy.” But the court said jit was not.

{FOG AGAIN SNARLS LONDON LONDON, Nov. 23 (UP)-—Fog |again snarjed trafic in London {and delayed planes” today. Visibility at London airport was

| Barkley and his bride said today kept visitors at a distance except

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Days were variously dated. Sarah Hale plugged at her magazine. Her letters bombarded Presidents Filmore, Plerce and Buchanan. “No.” Then—Lincoln and the War,

x a. Ib tall nnday Nov. 26, 1868. y NOV. C Presidents named the “last Thursday.” In vo the. 38 at Thurs a dy proclamation.

In 1861, she begged for » “Thanksgiving Day of peace.” The 1939,

in ~ as Thanksgiving, » legal holiday that needs no Barkleys fo Honeymoon |t®um to New York 5 oak at {a Jackson-Jefferson : The Veep and the former Mrs, eck tn. Gu. er Chen nL (UP)—Vice President Alben|they were wed :

|they would honeymoon here un-|for & brief period yesterday when til Dec. 2, when Mr. Barkley must .the couple received callers,

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at the State Fair Grounds Friday,

November 25, of 10:00 A. M.]

Come yourself + « « bring the children!

Santa will land in front of the grandstand. Take any seat to watch him step out of his Helicopter on his way fo Ayres’ Toyland. Hear the Indianapolis Newsboy’

Band play. There will be a clown and other entertainment, too.

Santa will arrive at Ayres’ Toyland, Downstairs Store, South Building, around 11:00

he will be ready fo talk to all the boys and girks.

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