Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1949 — Page 31

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His Honor the Mayor Arrives MAYOR AL FEENEY in a blue business suit

« + «thank you, . .excuse me. , .isn't this it?....

oh, higher? . . . where's the oxygen station?, . . just kidding, Buster. . . hmmmm, only 58 steps to the top. ..take it easy, lady, you'll be all right... getting old. J DePauw student, eh?. . .David C. Fenimore « « + Sophomore . . . liberal arts. . . well, well, you

have seat. 1, row R. , . heck, this isn't high...’

Soldiers Monument is higher. . .like music that well. . .good for you, . .there’s a man with the right idea, sport shirt. . . that's the way to hear a symphony . ., . be comfortable. . . ushers mostly girls up here. . . Dorothy Figel, plano and violin student, Leanine Byfield, piano student at Jordan, show people to their seats and get to hear the sympheny free. . .man, music lovers up here seem friendly. . .only one gal in a formal dress. «+ + Qute . . , should have brought a date. What's that?. . . music sounds better in the upper balcony?. , .Charlie Kennett, 3140 N, Meridian St., should know if he's studied music for 15 years and been coming to the Murat for six years. . .yes, OK, the balance of the orchestra is batter... (check what that means) . . . the seats in row R should have been raised. . . Physics Instructor Richard Hammond says the real music jovers are in the balcony. . sound comes up better. . . his friend Eileen Hoover agrees. . .if she thinks so it must be true, . .orchestra tuning up... Sevitzky should be out shortly. . . there he is. . .is the timepiece wrong or the Maestro

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Ject if a hot temperature must stage... whatever good. . .gum would t sierland that man asleep already or is he listening with rahe his eyes closed? . . , better keep an eve on him... Wegehoft, IX & paper airplane would sail beautifully from the apolis greenhouse empire, - Poin top of the upper balcony. . . everyone's holding carved success from the rich and | dt id au on to the programs. . .a good throw would hit!fertile Indiana soil. Cn eR SM ] the stage. . . during intérmission, of course It is the story of a young fag } Maybe He Was Just a Good Actor [men immigrant he first wn THE MAN wasn't asleep . . . or else he's a 800d | pag more than actor, . . smiling to his wife on the left and either wi hed the an his mother or mother-in-law on the right. . . PIP: wilderness pip, it was brilliant, don't you know, . « Bevitzky | of greenhouses now ope: 1 ho all righ : Sue .coug hi... five sons. ++ «that's t, you can always get an- the story amily man other shoe shine. , .let's get this thing over with A en ary oh family of ++ «What is the song the orchestra is working on? five sons and four daughters to- + + « Freddy Martin plays it well. . [thank you.../gether and wa them all the

wholesome-looking family up ahead. . . young build homes of their own on daughter must go for the heavy music. . .lucky land on which they were born. kid to have her folks bring her and enjoy it’ with ‘I Worked Hard’ doi EE her. . .58 steps down. . lucky to have the old] “I worked. I worked hard all of = suit on. . .go on, lady, the concert's over and my life," Mr. Wegehoft says as he t everyone, just everyone, dear, saw you. . . heh sits in semiretirement at his home . + better stop for a nightcap someplace where on Bluff Road, RR 19, Box 845, “Don’t Cry Joe” is on the jukebox. {Indianapolis. “I bought this land 3 ’ about 50 years ago on recom- FHS mendation of friends. It was all § pe ve a R - {stumps and wooded then. I started & : Ls Sloaring. techn the boys came Fred William Wegehoft and two of his grandchildren in one of the huge greenhouses he founded There are row after row of neat 50 yours ago. glass green houses on the Wege-i “I have watched it grow,” the

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acres that M¥. Wegehoft remem- house and truck garden here says it must be awfully nice to days when the children were al

are six substantial apd well-kept Ways been the same, truck gar-'Yes, it is awfully nice, awfully from the soil.

Wegehoft and his sons. There any flowers, just truck gardening,|they are all here.” are four other homes nearby, the veegtables. The boys raise a few| He likes to tell of sitting in the

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“You worked, didn't youlcoliple of men” had helped while hoft-acres now. Almost as far as T5-year-gid patriarch says proud-| Papa? " they all answered. “We'll the boys were younger. He rethe eye can see are the leveled ly. “I started my first green-|work, too.” Everybody always members best, however, the early i

bers as a wooded sectoF. There about 50 years ago. It has al-lhave all of my children with me. small and he was carving a future brick homes, the houses of Mr, dening,” he explains. “No, never|nice—and it makes me happy that| “It was hard, some of it, and I

worked awfully hard,” Mr. Wegethoft smiles. “But life has been

homes of his daughters and sons- flowers now.” Pleasant Run Boulevard Reform ~law, ' | Children Prefer Farm Church with his family, Besides! cared 3 ora farm near West-| Mr. Wegehoft smiles happily as his sons, daughters and sons-in- | h rmany, Mr. Wegehoft he tells how all of his children/ law he had 14 grandchildren, Like came to America when he was 18 have remained close by through-| Longfellow's village blacksmith, Juars of age. He went to a farm out thel radult lives. “he goes to church on:Sunday and n Illinois first, but within a year “I always tpld them they didn't!sits among his boys.” {

together.”

Rare Bird

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 26—1I have just been

talking to a rather pathetic man, albeit brave as a tiger and honest as all get-out. This fellow has very little future at his trade, because every man's hand is agin him. : Says he: “I may get ridden out of Utah on a rail, but if I do I'll ride that rail because I do what I think is right.” This is the Hon. Bracken Lee speaking, governor of Utah. He is that rare political bird, a Republican who is still in office—one of two Republican governors elected, I believe, in the Truman landslide of last fall, It is not inconceivable that Brack Lee, a wiry, well-scrubbed, close-clipped little fellow, will get thé tar-and-feather treatment, because in some instances even his own henchmen are sore at him, “A pugnacious idealist, Mr. Lee has offended, opposed or trampled on the tender sensibilities of nearly every voting group in his state, with no consideration as to politics. If he gets a reward for his refusal to compromise with expediency, the odds are 100 to 1 the reward will be in heaven.

He's Tangled With Them All AMONG OTHER THINGS, Mr. Lee has tangled with labor, the veterans’ bloc, the farmers, the education board, the liquor lobbies, the fedegal welfare giveaway program, and nearly all

‘practical politicians on both sides. He even cut

old-age pensions, on the ground that pension is not a matter of vested right, but a question of administered charity according to the ability of the state to dispense it. When Mr. Lee came into office this year he inherited a smelly mess in the liquor business, where the job of whisky agent, in a state-con-trolled booze busineds, had drifted into political patronage. Mr. Lee pointed out that when the state itself was .in the liquor trade, it hardly needed paid agents to sell booze to itself, so he fired 'em all. He also sent some liquor firms a bill for overcharging the state and recovered $37,000. Firing the agents made the Democrats furious, and his

‘brutally, and he speaks his mind loud and clear.

Was a gardener in Indianapolis. have to stay, ditin’ He bought the first portion of the farmers” he by : a ae Mrs, Wegshoft died 4 few Years present Wegehoft acres short! . ®Y ago and a daughter now presides shortly got old enough I told them how! after he married Mrs. Louise hard I had worked, how hard the|°." o" is household. The home Pattman of Cincinnati. {work 1s.” : faces the highway and heads a es : : row of homes occupied by his Music lover. + in the bal . David C. In the Service— % sons, Indeed, from names of the Fenimore studies his at Murat Theater. | oi Bigs glen Rh his program urat Theater. Seven Local Seame Wi minded of a village rather than i ’ n in a farm. | » ’ Still On the Job : By Robert C. Ruark Ad I's C eleght | y : . mira S ommen a on Dressed in the blue overalls of | a farmer and smoking a big cigar,’ own Republicans scarcely less so, since they had! Seven Indianapolis seamen with| Nunzie J. Catania: chief ma- Mr. Wegehoft sat . tig tiving hen counting on the jobs to supply their own the Sixth Task Fleet recently re-|chinist’s mate, USN, husband of He still works some in the patronage. {ceived a “well done” in a fare-|Mrs. Thelma June Ca uses and “looks after Mr. Lee is strongly against federal aid to states well mes. from Admi uf if sania, £39 things” but the major part of the : ssage ral For-|S. Tremont St, and Richard E ‘208 p and in a recent western governors’ conference was rest P. Sh U | business is contlucted by his sons. instrumental in killing two resolutions seeking - Sherman, USN, newly ap-Shores, fireman apprentice, .USN,| “notails of the business, operat- | more federal money, and knocked the teeth out of Pointed Chief of Naval Opera- of 3351 W, 10th St, both aboard/ing as Wegehoft Brothers, are| another, He has cost his state several millions of tions and former fleet com-the destroyer USS Wallace L./considered personal by Mr, Wege-| federal defines An Watching junds, Because of a mander. | Lind. = hoft and his boys. They say, at set against government handouts, : th rth ts He stalked into the recent coal strike with a L|°Y are: dackson L. Beaman, fireman, pbb Le arrion. handful of state cops and raised merry hell with Earl Doubner, technician 3-¢c,/ USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross gold wholesale in Indianapolis. | both sides—possibly averting a serious riot, since USN, of 2361 N. Pennsylvania Beaman, 423 W, 31st St, aboard, “I don't think our business is| some 5000 pickets and 5000 nonpickets were cir-'st, and Allan Smith, seaman, the destroyer USS Charles ‘p./of much’ public interest,” a son | cling each other ominously, like angry dogs. He USN, of 1321 Bellefontai gt. [Cecil ‘{said flatly. came out of that one with everybody mad at him. non’ aboard the destroyer USS| william The sons are Fred, Elmer, WalOpposes a Bonus for Veterans Newman K. Perry. ran EN of huseh Seumanjier.. Richard snd Arthur. The RE |recruit, USN, of 1168 W. 27th St..|daughters are Mrs. William Autdead set against a bonus for veter-| Raymond B. Burkert, fireman, is unde derheide, Mrs. William Raasch ans, and he vetoed a bill to grant veterans certain USN, husband of Mrs, Cleda E. Fgoing recruit training at rs. Fred Behrens and Mrs,

tax exemptions. . x | Berkert, 955 N. Bellevieu Place, | Great Lakes, IIL Mrs. J “Able-bodied men don't need special considera- aboard the cruiser USS Wor. | Charles Andrew Passwater, en 0% ge Hilin =“ She Sons lst ln pon” sai Ms. June STUY. thereby NOendesring| chester, |man apprentice, USN, of 6117 W. but reside in the Wegehoft comvoters. Aa re ery Sheperd, R ha 85: Washington BN. is 5 Mativer of gy hoft lains that he . : » ’ » = uadron 5, engaged in the r. Wege explains ie Joa, ig 2 ho ge Are Seiiinglapolls, aboard the destroyer USS Second Fleet Exercises off New-/never had much outside help on any other state. You guys want every extra tax|- . {foundland, the farm. He be a

dollar we got, and I'm not a-gonna wreck my! economy for anybody.” He poured ice water on the farmers’ pleas for| extra support. He has dug up scandals and graft! in the state contracting systems. He has fired

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—I can’t help it if the management did think I was drunk and disorderly last week in Mexico, I was just hysterical, was all. You may remember the piece I wrote about being en route to the jungles of Yucatan. And then for four days running, no items for the paper. The boss in New York bombarded me with cablegrams. He got no answers. He got in touch with his man in Mexico City, who phoned long distance to Merida to see whether I was dead.

I heard him fine, but all he got out of me was a

mimble. Too much tequila, obviously.

Why Reporters Get Gray NOW THAT I'm home after a fast ride in a flying machine it seems funny. For a while it wasn’t, and if you're interested in why newspaper reporters .grow old before their day, read on: I'd hardly landed in Yucatan before I was asking where was the cable office. There wasn't any. Communication in Mexico is a federal monopoly. Only way to send a wire north is via the government telegraph, by way of Mexico City and no telling where else. So I filed my message with the ‘senorita at the desk, hurried out to Chichen Itza to see some more things to write about, and didn’t get back for a couple of days. The telegraph senorita remembered me. 8i, Senor, she'd sent my telegram. And how long, I asked, did it take this message to gét where it was going? The government's lady said she was’ sorry 1 asked that question. She sald it hadn't been delivered at all. In another couple or three days, maybe, she said, I demanded the manager. He said the trouble, as best as he could discover, was an Indian somewhere along thé line who needed a piece of copper wire. He shinnied up a telegraph pole and cut himself a piece. Happened ml the time, Of course, said the senor, it might have been a snake; they're always coiling around the wires and causing short circuits, B-b-b-b-but, I butted. This dispatch of mine was urgent. The manager produced the broad-

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est smile I ever saw that wasn't a horse laugh, He had read that paper and, as he remembered, it concerned the fact that everybody in Yucatan] sleeps in a hammock. Everyone, he said, knows | that. “So,” he demanded, “where's the urgency?” | Now I had one piece eaten up by a snake and | two more in my pocket ready to file. The gov-| ernment might get its wire patched—manana. Or the day after. Provided, of course, that the! linesmen hadn't gone to a fiesta. ! So I took my trade to the post office on the theory that Pan-American Airlines could make! better time with my dispatches. I bought some stamps, licked same, and tried to stick them to “Stupido,” muttered the postal! clerk. He said in Spanish too fluent for me to| quote that what did I think? Stickum on the| postage stamps? A foolish American custom. | And also insanitary. | He advised me to get some glue. So I mailed] my letter and five days later it arrived in New| York. By that time the telegraph wire was| ; J ' half fixed. It worked south, but not north. Only he a I didn't know that. “5 4 Every couple of hours I'd get another message | from New York, saying was I sick? In jail? Or| merely pouting? And I'd dash off a reply, which never got there. The management may have been biting its fingernails; I was tearing my hair.

Othman Buzzes Back THEN CAME that call from Mexico City. Was I all right? I heard that perfectly, but the man at the other end said all he got from me was a

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