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skate of the Gay Blades. Welcome, she said, sprinkling my face with ice scrapings. : : : With that major and most spectacular portion :

IT TAKES more than rented blades to Deggme & Gay Blade on ice in fact rather than in e only. ad Of course, Gay Blades Who meet weekly, I'm of the ceremony over, we talked about the purpose convinced, for the express purpose of inviting = of the club. A club has to have a purpose to exist, friends with weak ankles in order that those you Know. ankles be rendered useless forever, will tell you you're doing fine. Fine whether you're on the ice, in the air above the ice or flat. Ice skating looks so easy. And if memories of the Sonja Henle show still are fresh, an opportunity to glide over slick ice to lilting organ music at the Coliseum soon builds itself up to a strong urge which cannot be ignored when there isn't anything else going on.

ing my shimmying ankles, “We put all into our scholarship fund.”

had a patty. Money for the doughnuts and coffee was taken out of the treasury. Such extravagance.

Wobbly Ankles Gray-haired ladies buzzing around the rink, Indiana Is 8 - i and whi ; : ¢ SKATING, as other pleasures of life, is better Dogan ho Join Lin my Seneral Giredtion long sper. Center of Industry i =

anticipated than realized. When wobbly skates are laced on wobbly ankles you have a most uncertain foundation with which to venture on ice. You realize, I'm sure, the above applies to the inexperienced skater who is afraid to go boom and fracture a priceless tibia. Bo, instead of pushing off on the ice with a merry passage of the “Skater's Waltz” on one's ips, you find conversation desirable. . Mr, and Mrs, Arthur Northrup, experts in noticing petrifying fright, turned off the ice and of all things engaged me in conversation. ' Luck had dealt another kindness. Mrs, Northrup just happened to be on the committee of the Vassar Alumni Club which sponsors the weekly

there was one more skater on the ice. In thecenter of the ice where two girls in skating outfits twirled and cavorted. Mr. Northrup and two accomplices, Dick Riser) ome. and Charley Brown, united to send me on my| But behind his two-story brick unsuspecting way. Digging bits of clothing from office building there's more than under my fingernails, I approached ‘he objective. 0x0 000 log feet of timber waiting Nancy Carhart and Rhodna Repcheff were de-|{o he processed into face veneer lighted to see a new Gay Blade. You could tells, ‘surniture made in Virginia, that by the way they skated to the other side of North Carolina and Batesville,! the rink. Excellent skaters. Ind. Metal rang on ice. The flow of skaters 80on| mor a man who has traveled) swept me into line. One minute a gay blade pn. re than 5000 miles up and| would be holding hands and skating at the In-\ gown the Monon, Mr. Daugherty | credible rate of two strokes a minute w

ith such |i, horts mahogany and zebrawood | accomplished skaters as Margaret DePrez and from Africa, paldao and narra

Nancy Cooper. {from the Philippines, primavera A swish of a skirt and he was waltzing with| 2nd rosewood trom Central Amer-! § Donna Budd trying to emulate the graceful antics joa fir from the U. 8. Northwest | of Mr. and Mrs, Clyde Roberts, Most congenial| a nq willnut from Kokomo. } atmosphere. | All thi, timber makes up more, After a difficult turn which couldn’t be dupli-| than 40 million feet of veneer his cated anywhere. I found myself at the feet of | Hoosier Veneer Co. manufactures | Walter H. Bauchla. Mr. Bauchla was in the Pro-/jn a year for turniture makers on| cess of completing a Jackson Haynes spin, better |¢p. Atlantic Coast, South and! known as the sit spin. His version of the spin re- Indiana. |

By LARRY STILLERMAN

JAMES C. DAUGHERTY hasn't got a toothpick to his

quires three months of intense practice to perfect, Mr. Daugherty has mushroomed | he said. Surprising, too, because my version re-|phis seven-acre plant at 3321 Masquired a great deal leas time. Hardly any time at! sachusetts Ave. into a $1.25 mil-| all, as a matter of fact. ton business frem the small be=| ili i ginnings his father, Harry E. Familiar Figure Daugherty, had at Ladoga, Ind. A FAMILIAR figure caught my eye. Mrs. 48 years ago. The local plant was Thomas L. Lester, who has skated in three Times moved here in 1912. I Ice-O-Rama shows; leaped and twirled over the ice yo» ou as if she were drawing huge sums of money from - ol | the scholarship fund. Mr. Bauchla discouraged at-| ALTHOUGH Indiana's hardtempts. to duplicate any or all portions of Mrs. Wood forests are long gone, InLester's ice routines. He seemed to think it would diana is the center of one of the be impossible without letting go of the sideboards country’s-most significant indus-| around the rink. Have it your way, Mr. Bauchla. tries, Mr. Daugherty’s firm, the Rumor has it that two happy marriages re-ithird oldest in Indiana, keystones

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sions. The informant thought that was something. state. Seo did I-until-it was revealed the two couples only| From-the fetid “jungles of Cenmet on the ice. They were not married on ice. |tral America and Africa and the!

” ‘Not injured «eo just a Ga ‘Blade perfarming a difficult routine with the help of {left and right} Rhodna Repcheff and Nancy Ann Carart. -

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{schoo)é, offices and institutions. | POSItION on the saw -earriage.

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rocessing points in the U. 8. to carriage directly into a band saw |

Saturday afternoons. ut ajr| BY train and truck the timber|on rollers to a point where an veneer. ape is up| comes to the Hoosier Veneer electric traveling crane lifts the

heck of a Where a derrick operated by Burtilogs into steaming vats. rstate com- Snyder lifts the huge logs onto

in for some interesting controversy shortly on a hijacking. highly spiritual question. The question is: Who The clearer heads in a controversy owns the skies—the airlines, the separate states ownership propound the idea that if a underneath the skies or do the upper regions still in the stratosphere, said plane is remain the exclusive property of God? sight closer to heaven than to i For years our airlines have refused to serve the customers a slight snifter of alcoholic refreshment while in the heavens over the United States—not so much for moral or safety reasons as because of interstate whisky regulations. They don’t mind ladling out a hookeér of hooch when they fly you across the waters to a foreign land. It ain’t free, but it's available.

Will We Have Sky Dry Raids? NOW THE Boeing people have just stuck some new ships called Stratocruisers onto Pan American and Northwest, and in these double-decker giants they have built cocktail bars. It seems a shame to have a cocktail bar and serve nothing but flat ginger ale in it, so the Northwest people, I

\ re is any beet | HoOSler soil. |degr about what goes on on high it stem from upstairs, in the fo angel wieldin sum | oe Te da a Surnmons Sy is ha flights, with |1088 Into the sawmill where the O. Dillard Walker, plant superin-| slow planes, you could upderstand the concern of timber is cut and buffed into Tam. tendent, explained. the people on the ground for what went on over ber and fiitches. their heads, and a in proprietary interest in : a vehicle which mjght.land in your living room on a cloudy day.

9 an outraged | Yard and his helper, Exel Emer- ter the cutting room, The wood! its

; with the lofty-ceilinged jet airliners just-around the commercial corner, you can be over 4nd past a medium sized state in the time to bone up on one local ordinance. early some action must be taken to define the ership of the upper regions, because I should ate to be arrested in California and extradited to Oklahoma on suspicion of having consumed an illegal manhattan while temporarily over Tulsa. (I doubt the legality of such an operation, but it poses a pretty. point.) Also, if one airline is dispensing short beers to its customers in the arid reaches of the stratosphere, I want all the others to follow suit, because it gets awful dull up there sometimes. I suppose the WCTU will complain, together with the politicians and the bootleggers, that the serving of alcoholic beverages on high is a matter of state control, but it's a hollow argument. I

fn their domestic flights, as well as on their o foreign runs. Now we come to the burning issue: When plane is beetling along at 300 miles an hour, 19,0¢ feet in the air over a dry state, is the steward liable to sudden arrest by a pursuit plane constable if he deals out a noggin of rum to ward off airsickness? How do you raid a 300-knof airplane with a heavy tailwind to push it al The states, in past, have been pretty testy about what happened in the air 4dbove their bor-

n. The complaining normally headed its

Jked of rain by a sister state, which pelted the gfouds with dry-ice to induce

~ Journey's End

WASKINGTON, Dec. 12—I'm beginning to -that the new motto around here ought to olin Congress and see the world from a plush

have always heard that air is free, and wears no man’s collar, let alone a state’s ownership, -

By Frederick C. Othman

they met the king and queen of Greece. “The queen is one of the finest women I ever saw,” Sen. Thomas reported. “Even our ladies liked her, and when the ladies like a woman you can be pretty sure she is all right.” Only place the Senator had a bad time was Sweden. A Communist newspaper there said the visitors were a gang of imperialist no-goods. The Swedes didn’t give the Senators much house, though somebody did toss a cocktail party. Sen. Thomas never did find out who was the host, but | at least he didn’t have to pick up the tab. | The delegation of 25, including a WAC major]

t. The boys, Including the one who had his pants stolen in Spain, are filtering back from the four ends of the earth for Christmas, rested, sun tanned and, of course, well-informed about the state of the universe. I know about this because they've been holding press conferences to let their constituents know that they did not, either, spend all their time lapping up champagne under Europe's

lace chandeliers, pa . b to herd the wives around, dropped down to the! setter, eyes the He Picked Up the Tubs main dining room of the Grand Hotel in Sweden. |

AND MAYBE you'd like to join me at the big The headwaiter wouldn't. let the Treasury Demahogany table with Sen. Elmer Thomas (D. partment’s man in because he wasn’t wearing a Okla.), who led six other senators on a 14-country dinner suit.

tour to see how they were spending our relief “Inside there were two orchestras” = rexel Mothers billions. The Senator learned that there were no Thomas said, “and the champagne corks sounded like machine guns.”

cats in Berlin. In all Europe he didn’t see a Everywhere else the Senators had talks with premiers, kings, ministers, and members of parlia- p | e. 3 “ ment. In London Sen. Thomas held a cocktail ow.

chicken, He saw milk cows pulling plows and wherever he went, seemed like, he had to pick up party for 75 people, which set him back $150. This | figured out at $2 a head and he said he

the check. This cost him better than $1500, mostly It was a cheap cocktail party at that. |Christmas party for their children man; Peggy O'Hara, Winifred

for cocktail parties for diplomats, and he doesn’t know whether he'll ever get it back. Take the morning that the Senators and their tel in Brus- ’ . : y . wives registered at the Metropole Hotel in Favors Foreign Aid jat 3:30'p. m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, Matthews and Mary Harmon, The 1 . Drexel, t m. JHsT ¥0v Sather that this junket was all play” Punch, cookies and popcorn event will be from 4 to 6 p. m and no work, I hasten to add that Sen. Thomas! 4 ’ ) ’ i came home with some strong ideas about Europe, | P2118 prepared by the mothers will memorated in song and panto

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grips the carrier hook levers.

Mdrian College will have a

school yuletide observance Friday. " Mothers of children in the 3300, (Class leaders for the party inguessed piock N. Drexel Ave. wil hold a clude Virginia Nordmeyer, chair- estate

sels. Who should be on the line long distance but that Oklahoma girl, Perle Mesta, the minister to Luxembourg? So the Senator ‘invited her over. “I caught a nice check there for lunch,” he said, “put she insisted we visit Luxembourg and she wouldn't take no for an answer. 80 she gave us her first state dinner.” “Did you,” demanded a correspondent whose ears are as good as mine, “say steak dinner?” “She had everything to eat,” replied the Senator from Oklahoma. “Just everything.” The gentlemen called on the Pope in Rome. They had dinner with the king of Norway and

lieves that our foreign aid program should con- go ra will conclude beginning at 11 a. m. tinue. If , " ’ ’ y against en Ne woud renything. hed Bo Mrs. George Harmon is general part of the Virgin Mary. needed some money he'd be inclined to let her chairman. Members of the ar-, The Bel Cantp ensemble will have it.

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. " A - 4 > y yi : he mee nna FIO OSI VENeer Company Uses and send a girl to sehool,” said Mrs. Northrup, eye-| . . b . = , i" Before I could comment, Mrs. Northrup, in a ; d tone that niade you expect a terrible announce- : : : ment, murmured that at Christmas time the club : » A

= : ++ present owner and son of the founder : + +o yardman Exel Emerson to Crane = WSSU. sulted from attending weekly Gay Blades ses- this very active craft in the of the Hoosier Veneer Co. Indiana's third oldest timber processing where African mahogany

Mr. Connor-starts the log roll- planed to eliminate knots and sur-/the leather-like strips in consecu- his “straddle Buggy.” a Ross car —— Don't they ~ manufacture shoe skates with vast timberiénds of America and NB Onto a carrier where Clarence igaon. swirls hefore being hooked; tive order un : *‘onto one of three huge hydraulic the . (OF rotary tathe sHeers. - These slic- a a — ters; incidentally, are manufactured } by the Capital Machine Co. of plants in Indiana and other QLYDE SEARS: operates the Indianapolis, Mr. Walker said. The flitch slides horizontally Veneer by ‘log {receive the fancy facings that| which trims and squares the log. across a razor sharp blade which 7 2 A {mamma makes papa polish on From Here Willis Deberow, off- trims into sheets 1-28th of jan LOS. ANGELES, Dec. 12—I believe we will be an artifical fall, thereby committing an act’ of bearing operator, sends the beams|inch thick. This is the hlard of the United Veneer

Daily ‘bath . . . James Taylor operates an electric crane which dips flitches into 180 decompany mill. His partner, Douglas McGowan, gree water. The wood is soaked from 12 fo 18 ours to prevent rupture of wood strain in cutting.

Marian College to Have Ap - Christmas Party Reassessment LOUISVILLE, Ga, Dec. Annual Yule Banquet

- . Christmas party for students Dis Co. Thursday followed by an all-

reassessment,

by the Professional Men's Forum, |** will be held Wednesday at 6:30] Christ's Nativity will be com- P- mM. in the Colonnade Hotel. | Guest speakers will be Noble , ‘be served. Caroling and recita- mime at the all-school program, W. Hollar, chairman of the State Ihe thinks we've got Russia buffaloed and he be- Colleen Board of Tax Commissioners and Morin of Brookville will take the Center Township Assesor Roy T.

Following the talks the group| rangements committee include present a three-part chorus. The will hold its annual | : ) zh, . Otis group will present programs Fri- nficers, C. B, Camp, current presi-! It was a good trip, in other words, and It coat| Mrs Robert Rodabaugh, Mrs ‘ | i y 3 the taxpayers nothing much. That flying machine! Bair Mrs, Eugene Smith, Mrs. 'day on Monument Circle and at dent, will preside. Dr. A. D. Bee- Shrine will hold a card party at lege concert orchestra will present

Baltz of|ier, Butler University professor,(7:30 p, m. Wednesday in Cham- a program in Kephart Memorial Indianapolis is student director. 'is the program chairman,

The Quiz Master 77? Test Your Skill 775 THE STORY QF THE SAVIOUR

. | | Was Tannhauser, the hero of Wagner's opera, What percentage of the boundaries of New | af mythical character? Jersey are water? ! { Tannhauser was no mythical personage. There All but 48 miles of New Jersey's boundaries | lived In the 13th Century a minnesinger named are formed by natural waterways, { Tannhauser, who wrote poems. He also went to ¢ Be © |

the Holy Land as a grusader. In folk “tales he 15-4 true that some types of radio transmitting has been made into & ‘legendary knight. tubes are gold-plated? ‘

» ¢ ¢ Some types of radio transmitting tubes - are : : thei flicle: t h - EB de what country do the most primitive men a ean ane eir efficiency a Igh-| In northern Australia are to be seem the best y specimens of the aboriginal- tribes. Entirely nomadic, they are the most primitive of all peoples.

lon 2. tion rate is slower, which results in longer life * Are vision tests reqdired in all states? under relatively severe conditions. The oxidation) : Twenty-nine states have no laws requiring rate of the bolled oll is too rapid for outdoor - : ! vision tests in schools, although more than 80 posure, but it is well suited to Interior use, The! ) shepherds set out for Bethlehem, “to see this thing which per cent of a child’s school work depends on his boiled oil dries faster, and its characteristics The A 3a! ow gale AE Jo y . ability to see properly. approach those of a varnish. % { :

| > { What are the relative advantages of raw and bolled linseed oil in paints? ¢ The raw oll is for out-of-door use, as its oxida-

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After a dozen whooshes By the|cal 607, and his cohorts trim the firm. | slicer, Cutter Ralph Fausey ex-| edges of the veneer. Then Jerry The flitches are steamed in 180-| amines the veneer for worm pin|Quackenbush pushes the ee water to prevent rupture holes. If any defects are discov-/into a ‘huge drying machine ight very well] Bill Connor, chief of the log of the wood strain when they en-| ered, the flitch i removed from | which soaks up 92 Jer cent of the | .dog-ears ! his harp hand {son, direct the operations of the|is soaked from 12 to 18 hours, scrapped as com#non lumber. 4 As each veneer sheet emerges {from the slicer, Off-besarers Mac After soaking, flitches are hand-| Denton and Charles Doss keep

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Dry carefully . . . Rough veneer is shoved into a drying ma. chine by Jerry Quackenbush. Up to 92 per cent of the moisture content is tponged off. This is the final processing step in ve. neer making at the local plant.

‘Wowter Browsers Indiana Central Sets

12 (UP) — Veterinarian W. | Indiana Central College has B. Yearns was called in Scheduled its annual Christmas during the week-end to hast aor Friday night in the treat two gay old cows. The program will include solos “Come quick,” a farmer |phy Martha Mennen, Lafayette; an ald, “My two cows are accordian number by Laveta . ighty sick.” ’ {Smith, Greenfield; humorous readThe vet examined them. . |jno by Shirley Moren, Indian “Drunk as lords,” he said. {apolis, and readings by Louise He believed they found a Dragoo, Indianapolis. liquor still while grazing, | Dinner music will be presented decided to have a short one by Joanne and Patty Hilficker, and didn’t know when 0 |Indianapoliy. and Trudy Fields, stop, “Westfield. Kenneth Kybé, Falr- - mont, W. Va., will lead group singing. Following the banquet, the col-