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r gotten mixed up with Al Underwood-at the Mills lant of mat tp wn apolis Power & Light Co: Not t Al isn't a fine Setiow. Bea that. He also knows job, his kiloa e story of Benjamin Franklin hey wtaches to the kite. : 304 the t's what Al doesn't do that throws a w “didn’t have the least idea as to who Ai be Juret lights on and off, where this is done and w With the neon tubes on my press pass burnin . brightly,. the watchman allowed me to scale the 20- foot gate unmolested,
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FAY (C OTTON) SHANKS, superintendent of the plant, was the “Tint {6 ‘examine my credentials Inside the generating plant. Since everything except the word PRESS was written in Turkish and signed by Dean Acheson (this one lives in Beanblossom), the boss called on Carl Unversaw, chief electrician, to lead the way. We found Al preparing to turn on the lights. That's what he said he was going to do shortly although he held no torch, flint and steel or match. “You are just in time,” said Al, glancing -furtively at a clock and turning a handle. Maybe it was a switch. I'm not sure, You see, Mr, Unversaw, at the time, was reachIng for his cigarets, which happened to be the kind I like and smoke if they are as handy as Mr. Unversaw’s. Naturally, my eyes were on his fags. Then Al calmly sald, “Here goes,” pulled a small switch (sure about that one) upward and concluded with a flat, “That's it.”. Had 18 volts gone through my frame, I couldn't have been more stunned, All over? The lights in the city are on? People are no longer groping their
Contact Ta Lamplightér Al Underwood throws a switch ‘and Tights a city. Beffér than the good ol' days.
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in the streets or not, but. the city ts Aun oS be = on. With his effort, if .you can Jghis effort” Al threw 48 circuits into action at exactly 4:31 p. m. il Immediately 3165 street lights went on. (The fig ure might be off by one or two, Recks and chil- ’ y Ti Imes Mile-O-Dimes.
dren, you know.)
Also at exactly 4:31 p. m,, Harold Dietz, lamphter at the English Ave. plant; Don Murray, Perry West plant and Ralph Brothers, Pear! St.
Automatic switches conocka put 54 circuits into operation at f 13,500 street lights in the system
Trying to verify to a window to see. ( plant area. “You did it, Al, you dit it I cried, forgetting in the excitement that he didn't re the winning basket. He merely turned on 3165 stree “You can’t see the ones I turned on, Al "The lights you see around here are ray's babies at the Perry West plant.” ING A long explanation followed about how intr cate and over-lapping a power system was, In fact, all power companies are hooked together. I! forgot to ask but we might as well assume they are hooked up. by wires, | “During the water shortage last summer,” All sald, “we fed power to TVA all the way down in! Tenneskee.” “Did you send them a light bill?" Al thought some arrangement had been made but if I liked he would try and find out. Talking the matter over further, we decided to drop it. The Morris St. plant is the dispatching center! for all orders from upstairs. Stations keep in touch! with the nerve center of IPALCO by a system of telephones, teletypes and radios, And it's a humorous sight to see Al working all three. | Most of the time he is kept busy taking read« ings of the 122 meters in the station, If he isn't doing that he's writing peak loads in the switche box. That's where he keeps his personal records. With chalk.
Whew, 253 Million Watts
1 READ a record dated Dec. 12, 1936. That day the peak load was 93,700,000 watts. Lot? Well, last Nov, 17, peak load was 253 ‘million watts. I Beginning Dec. 16, the ol’ lamplighters will] Eo throw switches at 4:33 p. m., Dee, 21 lights go on| i at 4:35 and so on until June 26 when 7:44 p. m. Is Through the years with the Wild triplets. . . . Each ‘the ‘hour. After-that the contract with the city] ear since 1946 calls for an &arlier time as the days grow shorter. Y the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Everything is cut and dried; éfficient, cold. You get that impression at first. Then Al tells. about Christmas, stormy nights and all the warmth, and trust an electric light can produce. He showed me the circuits leading to Veterans’! Hospital, General Hospital and St. Vincent's, en all else fails during a tornado or other emergency, we let everything go but try to keep them on.’ 1 guess everything has changed, even Tamp-| lighters.
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pann Ave., have The Times is was the scene when
A Twisted Mind
SAN: FRANCISCO, Pec. 2—We have had a sweeping scrutiny of the inner turmoils and frustrations that led a Los Angeles man named Fred Stroble to criminally attack and finally to kill little Linda Joyce Glucoft, and all but possibly the parents of the dead girl ‘weep for Mf. Stroble’s twisted souk: Psychiatrist Marcus Crahan, the psyche-feeler who serves as special consultant to the D. A.'s office, says that fear, not sexual madness, drove the man to the ‘murder and that “he loved Linda Joyce more than anything in the world.” “That is the key to the man’s personality,” said Dr. Crahan. “A twisted sort of jove-that Ted to the death of the lpved one. He misses her now,” the Doc added wistfully, . The psychiatrist went on to say that poor Mr, Stroble’s whims of the libido were aggravated by a senility which weakened his inhibitions. He also appears to have been an exhibitionist too timid to be aggressive with adult women. His latent tendencies reared when his marriage broke up and “he had too much ei on his hands.”
An Interesting Angle ~ THIS IS ALL very reasonable and even interesting, except, again, to the parents of the little dead girl and the little dead girl herself, Unfortunately, it does not alter the fact that none of Mr. Stroble's bizarre psychfe. conflicts were she fault of Linda Joyce Glucoft, age 6. NAEE Mua Strobisis desirete hatk-the child to Pleces because of loneliness apt to be of much vomfort to the parents. You might even say that the slain baby i§ just as dead because of being killed because Stroble loved her as, she would be if he had killed her because he disliked her. The sad fact is that from the day BStroble touched his first child he was a mortal cinch to succumb to panic and kill some waif: The sadder fact is that he was a fugitive on jum bail from a morals arrest and the law didn’t care enough about it to make the effort to retrieve him. These are the interesting revelations of Strobie's piteous plight that most interest the parents
, soul symptoms.
By Robert C. Ruark
of: the dead girk=that and whether this nanty olf; man is either confined permanently t6 his well of | loneliness by the law or executed as summarily as a gunman who scrags the teller in a bank
There are innumerable bumps and stone bruises on the souls of all eriminals; since that is what i leads them to rob or shoot or set fire to old ladies, for fun, and if even an amateur paychciugist. talks long enough he can find enough excuses to dampen every eye in the house. Most crooks heing appalling hams, anyhow, once caught they are not averse to helping out the investigation with a few extra:-frills in the way oli:
Criminals ‘Only Sick’ THAT THIS society is so knotty some people can't conform to it is lamentable, indeed. I alsq 2 have heard that there are no bad children, only] Sr. had parents, and that the sins of the man rest Ss firmly on the foundation of his unhappy childhood. There is. also.a saying that criminals are not bad; they are only sick. I am prepared to go along with this as a theory! and to moan d commiserate with the collared; crook until my eves are puffy, but in actual prac-! tice I am not inclined to feel as sorry for the killer | as the killed, the robber as the robbed. . I may have said once before that the modern tendency is to ignore the corpse and weep for the soul dviinguent wii sped” hint on hi Wey ET The idea is to forget that the corpse didn't ask] for it and probably was not even indirectly responsible for the Taméntakhle state of the slayer’s soul’
or digestion. P li Fi \A Child Trusts lord's Nrcree "rth case of the wanuon atackers of snares OHCEMIAN FINES Thousands Join Prayers
“In THAT The Wild “triplets i “ort he" “Mile "They ere “almost two years old here. oT line in 1948.
a" e 3-Vehicle that underlje the deed: It seems more ey! to make second offénses In sex crimes punishable At Cash br 1 by life imprisonment, because it will just save you To Save Little Girl's Hand | Injuring 8
the trouble of electrocuting the guy later on, when {i he blows his top and stuffs some kiddie in a) Man, Woman Toke $50 Child Issues Ap | After Doctors Say Truck K Info. ** Malignant Grodth h' May Force Amputation Path of Automobile
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And it would be so much easier on the kids. {| A man and a woman grabbed | “three
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- o| Taith tod gave {place By Frederick C. Othman tron early today and dodged tw , * wi theif answer to a ‘sick Tittle girl who wrote) lear crash yesterday in which t police bullets to escape in a car, ? pleadingly to a newspaper here Asking, “don’t you think praying persons were injured, one -.
Standing outside the Tavern will save my hand?” Lally,
culvert, | From Tavern Patron | MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 2 (UP)—Thousands of people of all! State police foday sought to for &
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—~1 want to meet the Chicago milk wagon driver who earns $30,000 a year waking up the populace banging his bottles on back porches. So does Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D. Iowa), who can’t understand, either, how any milkman, no matter how neatly pressed his white pants, can be worth so much. The Senator and I also wish the Department of Agriculture would keep its big, bumbling foot out of this one and quit trying to confuse us about milkmen. The situation’s hard enough to understand as it is.
- What started this inquiry into plutocratic- milk-
men was the fact that here in Washington the Senator had to pay 20 cents a quart for milk, while back at his farm in Cherokee, Iowa, he was lucky if he got 8 cents for it. Sen. Gillette had to pay more. than twice as much for milk as Farmer
Gillette got, Bo he checked the Agriculture Department. Farmér Gets About Half
_ IT PUBLISHED one document last October which sald the average housewife pays 19 cents a quart for milk, while the average farmer gets 12 cents. Another section of the same Agriculture Department printed another pamphlet which said that the same lady pays 193; cents a quart, while the same farmer gets 10 cents. The Senator said there was something screwy about this, because he knew for a fact that many farmers get less than 8 cents a quart, A mixup in figures like this is enough to give a Senator a headache. Or maybe even cause him to quit drinking cow juice, Bo Sen. G:-asked his counsel, Paul Hadllek, to gee What he could learn about the price of milk. The big dairies from ull over: reported that they barely were gettirig by, even when they doubled the price of milk, on account of the wages they had to pay. Mr. Hadlick asked how come?
The Quiz Master
Cafe, 358 E. Washington St., Pa-| All over Memph i It turned out that the bottle crashers in most trolman Clarence Sparks ob- his Aud Tor miles around, churches And Indi. Te iran ne
American big cities are the gold-plated. smerald- serve a commotion ‘Juside. Ad waa mutters om a neonate Ar-0ld Betty Lou Marbury, er” smashed Into. tas. tome of milkmen, of course, who earn only. around $50 a went to investigate. N |bone disease which threatens to ton “to remember Betty Lou in| : pickup truck in the 7700 block week, but the great majority of them in big towns 1 n¢ patron, Ralph War d, 19, of | take, her right hand and perhaps their individual prayers.” W. Washington St. aad take in $100 a week and up. | 646 hase) Ave. guid he was her life. The Rev. Fr. Leo H. Ringwald, Knocked # into She Jat of an counting Ss money at a rear, The Memphis Commercial-Ap- Pastor of the Roman Catholic -bound automobile act ontly at . siary Sud commision booth when the man and woman peal, a Secripps-Howard a Church of the Blessed Sacrament| J. W. Wills, 65, of Mooresville, about him can and frequently does build Yibrushed past. The man grabbed paper, published a letter from the here, asked his: parishioners to driver of the pickup truck, su 'Lynhurst Baptist Church. business that nets him around $10, 000 el. nd 10 $5 bills and the couple fled. frail little blond girl yesterday. include her in their prayers at fered 2 Dron botk. He wy Wallace Maile is chairman of he doesn't even have to furnish his Vey Borse.] Trips on Cable She wrote that doctors had told ‘church and at home” and said she feportad in a’critical condition %» | evangelism départment ding 4 her they would probably have to WOuld be Included in prayers at Methodist Hospital. His wie, ® The dairy association moguls all indicated that| Patrolman Sparks ram to a amoutate ‘her hand to stop: th mas, Laura, was in fair condition with, ve McGuire, host Paster; y Chicago was where this splendid situation—from parking lot at the rear of the .oread of the infection. op” tp W. Ettelson, rabbi of | cuts and abrasions. ) Fg Jewish Temple Israel, said his/ One Driver U nhurt
the viewpoint of the milkman—had reached its building and saw thé couple enter Pe | | D ol Asks for Prayers congregation would be “No eXCéP-| gix passengers in the auto- ° itica inner :
zenith, There the milkmen ride in Cadillacs, eat @ car. He fired twice as they “I want those who may read tion” and. added that “all reli- mobile: en route from rfl 18 . : gious, prayerful people will’ * Bt: fa “Friendly” Affair’ ’
caviar only, and sleep on silken sheets. drove away. Some of these nocturnal gentlemen are fortu-| AS he fired, thé patrolman rethis Jetter, if ‘you publish it, t eto Van Dyke, Mich., were less senate enough to have on their routes restaurants, {ripped over a cable, injuring his ‘ you ‘pd + 0 member Betty Lou in their private ' impliéa. cafeterias, and hotels. Some of these take a thou-| left leg and right hand. He was pray that I may not have to lose gevotions.” y ’ [rioaaty i any ers: Sos Sof ht alitioat sand quarts a day, or more. Under the rules the treated at General Hospital, {my hand, and that I may soon - Other churchmen offered simi-, Mrs. August Wurray, <2 he fujuet: tana surrounding # iid 1 believe the !Ar response, Mrs. Eva Hoback, 22, and her given for Marion Colni
happy milkman gets the same commission on each! Mr. Ward, a Kingan & Co. em-| pn 1etely recover. quart, whether he delivers one bottle at a time, Ployee, told police the money yirq will answer their prayers” The brown-eyed girl with a shy, husband, Paul, 24: and Mr. Mur. CTatic leaders by State Adjutant
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k son hoock or’ 1500. [represented Ha pay check which Betty Lou wrote in her childish crinkie-nosed smile suffers from a ray's children, Shirley, 12, Eugene, General. Robin Hite at Shake Hands th $30, scrawl. malignant bone sarcoma on the 17 and Christine, 1. the Armory last night, disap$s Wi 000 ob———— Clergymen of all Tod were Middle finger of her right hand. Roy Vicar, 31, operator of the peared today.
SO IT 18, sald the milk moguls, that some of Heads Butler !
their drivers earn more money than they do. Twenty thousand a year for a milkman is not Journalism Club unusual. Several'take in $25,000. And one super- pn salesman, who smiles all the time (including while William Robinson, Homer, Ind,
unanimous in their response and The condition might eventually It rely {said they were sure that thou- Prove fatal, doctors feared. oT dtor trailer. was wy ured. Rew a ar oe Adjutant sands would pray for Betty Lou. Since she first felt the dull... 0" sionajed for a on a General Hitchéock's friends b ia
: throbbing pain in her finger about | All Faiths Aid 10 weeks ago, Betty Lay bas un- and then apparently changed his men. Democeatie ward
Dr. Robert L. Qrr, pastor of the dergone eight or 10 radiological poschas he sleeps), 44rns. 530.000 4 year. has pen Heckel Jresident of he First, Baptist Church of Browns-! Serum Sh o | Mr. Murray said his side of the|* There were 700 { That's the baby the Senator and I want to _— Club. ville, Tenn, Betty Lou's home, She is through now until after road was clear until the pickup any political nature and- ov, : but on New Years ruck was suddenly hurled in Sphricker. who originally wha
shake by the hand. That is, if he'll take time out! to talk to ordinary mortals like us.. Counsel Hadlick has promised to discover who he is and order: iin. to Washington for a little testifying under oa From now on I tip my hat and bow respectfully| | to the milkman. He probably holds the mortgage on my house,
town, planned “special prayers” Christmas, for the little girl at his Sunday|Day she returns for almost cer- front of his car. listed as. the . guest . of honor
services and asked his congrega-. tain surgery, A pedestrian, James V. John- didn’t get therd due to some. laste son, 32, of 1116 N, Capital Ave; minute hmergeny engagement,
was slightly Injured last “nightithey said. *. Von oem when he walked Into the side of About 30 Foes were present, ~ a trackless trolley at Senate and including Prosecutor George Indiana Aves., police said. Dailey, Mr. Hitchcock's pérsohal He was in fair condition today friend, and about 10 2 of the Re 35 or .jat General Hospital. more Democratic Wh, Democrati¢ Chairman
D is i thodiat: Plan 1 Trip to Hawi folowing an operation, Ce | Hoosier farmers, who have ks
Howard Caldwell, Indianapo-| His, was named secretary.
Both men will Tot Takes Christmas Preview
fill vacancies| created this se-| PEORTA, Ill, Dec. 2 {UP)—A tiny-mitten left behind » mester by grad-| . by a child. pr Sg tig seniors. ’ A “toy shop window opened so that only a little tot Kare ay ros could squeeze through. y Toys in the shop unpacked and scattered throughout the room. Springs on the wind-up gadgets all run down. &
? 1 ?2? Test Your Skill ??7? Cochran, Ander-| “Really elementary,” said Detective Sgt. Joseph Lipke
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ly Mr. Robinson son, vice preat-| - ent and Miss Marilyn Hotz, in-| What is the oldest form of insurance? |aianapolis, treasurer. | when called to the scene of the break-in Tn one form or another trices of insurance , A checkup of the Bouthwick toy shop warehouse revealed have been found among the records of the an.| GOP NEEDS $2 MILLION | not one single item was missing. entar Marine Jpvurance seems to have hee, NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (UP)—Re- ttle en: only was a few hours of enjoyment by some ceded ther forms. There are traces o publican congression ders Jn the a aulations of ancient Greece and timated today. they would need $3, dete i ° . must have had more fun than at Christmas” the Home and in the code of Justinian. million for ‘the 1960. campaign. | active sald. :