Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1950 — Page 25
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Greenwood Woman Takes 1st Prize
For Early Version of Home Movies By ART WRIGHT
CASH PRIZE winners
in The Times “Good Old
Days” Contest were announced today by Erwin L. Hess,
creator of the popular feature which appears in The. Sunday Times color comic section.
They are:
FIRST PRIZE—Mrs. Robert E. Vander Meulen, R.
R. 2, Box 114, Greenwood + + + $10 and the original drawing of her idea by Mr. Hess, SECOND PRIZE — Lloyd Zabst, 1813 W, 1st St., Marion + » +» $5 and the original drawing of his idéa by Mr. Hess. THIRD PRIZE-—-Charles TT. Harney, 4705 Vernon Ave. Lawrence . . . $2 and the orig-
inal drawing of his idea by Mr. e
Hess. ; ‘WOURTH PRIZE Mrs. Ethel Hom, R. R. 2, Morgantown, o« \ FIFTH PRIZE—Robert Fohl, 4650 Cornelius Ave., $1. SIXTH \PRIZE — Mrs, Elizabeth La Fever, 425 N. Noble 8t., $1. \ . The accompanying cartoon by Mr. Hess depicts the ideas of the fourth, fifth and sixth prize winners. “Good Old Days” color drawings based on the letters of the first, second and third prize winners will appear In The Times and other metropglitan newspapers throughout the United States starting \in March. Credit to the prize winners will be given in the draw-, ings depicting their ideas. 7 Hundreds of letters were re-
ceived from Indianapolis and outlying areas of Indiana. While many of the letters came from
old Hoosiers who had “lived” the “good old days,” many
others were from younger residents who had
learned the stories from parents and grandparents, » » » HERE ARE the three top prize letters: MRS. VANDER MEULEN (First) “Living in the country, too far for commuting often (via Dobbin and the surrey with the fringe on top), father bought a postcard projector for our en-
Mrs. Albert
Erwin L. Hess was so Impressed by the many ideas of the “Good Old Days” in Indiana submitted to The Times contest that he wrote this message of appreciation to contestants: “It was indeed an honor to sponsor this contest and I want to thank all of you whe took part in It. “It was a happy oceasion but I have one regret . . . it was too bad there were not several hundred awards given—so many of the ideas were so good, but 1 suppose it wouldn't be a contest, then. “The judges’ decisions were final and to those of you whd did not place, let me say: ‘Every one of you was a winner.! The contest is over but your true-to-
life human - interest ideas are
not a discarded lot. To me, every one is a delightful incident and as time goes on I will draw many of them into cartoons.”
tertainment, It was run by carbide, as we had no electricity. “Friends
came with their
\ snapshots and postcards to see
their life size pictures projected oun the bed sheet hung from a screen. “While mother played the organ, father held the current baby, hrother Leo ran the projector and sister Mabel lighted or extinguished the coal oil lamp as ‘needed. We other youngsters lolled on the floor, drinking in the fun.” MR. ZABST (SECOND) ““Our old horhe town street will live forever in our memories. The old board-walk with its cracks wide enough to catch every little thing dropped, but .not wide enough to ‘slip our fingers in to salvage anything. We had to borrow atlaw-ham-
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LEANING OVER TO PICK UP THE [| TOWEL, MY BODY CAME IN CONTACT ~ WITH THE STOVE . THAT PROBABLY ¥ CAUSED THE QUICKEST EXIT FROM “A BATHTUB EVER MADE .” hi ~~ ROBERT FOWL
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US GIRLS WOULD TAKE AN OLD SHOE BOX AND CUT WINDOWS IN THE SIDE AND A HOLE IN THE TOP AND PUT A CANDLE IN AND PULL , THEM UP AND DOWN THE STREET...
ane MRS. ELIZABETH LA FEVER 425 N. NOBLE &T. INDIANAPOLIS 4 INDIANA
WE WANTA PLAY HOPSCOTCH
LIGHT THE CARBON LAMPS ,...,
; EACH NIGHT AS DUSK DREW NEAR, US KIDS WOULD BE AT THE CORNER WAITING FOR THE MAN ON THE BICYCLE TO COME
vs’ Contest 7 o £ YOU WANT THE “USED BLACK | CRAYON “ TO MARK UP THE | SIDEWALKS WITH .... SURE, YOU CAN HAVE THE BLACK CARBON STICKS T THROW AWAY, BUT DON’T GO MARKIN ? UP EVERYTHING /
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~ MRS, ETHEL HARBIN R.R. 2 MORGANTOWN , INDIANA
mer from convenient neighbor. “Its dusty streets, just fine
for digging our baré toes into
some
Fiscus, on weekly WTTV local talent show.
Bloomington Electronics Results
* . Amaze Sarkes Tarzian Himself : } By GALVY GORDON THERE'S A MAN who livés in Bloomington who has the
“Midas Touch.” Everything he touches turns
to money.
And no one is more amazed than Sarkes Tarzian, himself,
who has parlayed $40,000 in life's dolar corporation since 1944.
Armenian-born Sarkes Tarzian (pronounced Sarkis Tarzhin) at the age of 49 today owns a radio station, a “homebuilt” television station and three electronics parts plants in Bloomington. : ? ~ He credits “luck” and the choosing of a growing industry for his sudden rise to fame and fortune. But his associates consider the 12 to’ 18 hours he works daily and extensive elecMotion experience the main fac- - .
His more than 600 employees in the hometown of Indiana University had a ‘payroll in excess of $1 million in 1949. “Another Tarzian plant at Hawthorne, N.J., makes and 19-inch metal television tubes. A factory at Philadelphia turns out television tuners. ~ . » THE TWO EASTERN enterprised, with approximately 400 employees, drew'a 1949 payroll of half a million dollars. The holder of a master's ¢o-
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savings into a multi-million
gree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Tarzian was chief design engineer for Atwater Kent from 1932 to 1936, For many months he was fef engineer for RCA Victor Buenos Alres, Argentina. Later, he did similar work for various Eufopean radio manufacturing firms. His Bloomington career be- * gan.in 1940, As chief engineer of RCA there, he helped organize a new plant. Largely as a result of his “know how,” the
16 plant completed a record of 1.1
million receivers in 1941. During the war he worked . with RCA on such top secret projects as the proximity (VT) fuse. v : » » IN JUNE, 1944, he started In business for If as a consulting * engl . He and his
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. rolling our hoops down the
dusty street, making tracks and getting yelled at by the irate housewives because we were
getting dust on the parlor lace curtains.” MR. HARNEY (THIRD) “How many who ever experi-
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The home of Tarzian radio enterprises in Bloomington.
wife, Mary, a Philadelphia-edui-cated specialist in international law, rented a building and began the manufacture of electronic parts. Production figures tripled and quadrupled in the following years and the corporation of Barkes Tarzian, Inc, was formed to administer the enterprises, Mr. Tarzian is president .and his wife is secretary-treasurer of the corporation. As early as 1936, he became interested in static-free high frequency radio broadcasting. Together, with his assistants, he ‘went on the air with this new type of broadcasting, called HIFAM, in June, 1946. Thus, Bloomington, ‘with its Tarzian station WIXHZ, became the first city in nation to enjoy this nile of
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economical broadcasting on a regular schedule,
” » » THE CONVENTIONAL radio station, WTTS, B5000-watt regional broadcasting station -of Tarzian, Inc, went on the air in March, 1949. The Tarzian television station WTTV was the first commercial TV installation in the world in a community the size of Bloomington. Erie, Pa., is the next smallest city in the nation supporting one. All of the materials and equipment for the TV station, including studio and a 250-foot antenna tower, factured in the various Tarzian
plants in Bloomington. The sys-
tem required two years to assemble... \ ; WTTV wis the first station
in Indiana to apply for a tele-’
vision license, When it began its
were manu
enced it can forget the rainy days out in the barn? Climbing to the haymow and sliding in the hay sometimes we found
Hoosier ‘Midas’ Turns $40,000 Into Multi-Million Dollar Firm
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telecasts Nov. 11 of last year, it became the second operating station in Indiana, following WFBM-TV, which went into operation last May 30. Station WTTV telecasts 12 hours a week, 7 to 9 p. m. daily except Bunday. Programs include most of the athletic events at Indiana University and the two Bloomington high schools. . Just beginning is the ‘“Crusade in Europe” film series. The station also subscribes to the film services of NBC, ABC, DuMont and Columbia. » ~ - IN THE SPRING, a microrelay to Terre Haute will hook Bloomington with the national TV coaxial cable. And by midyear, Mr. Tarzian sald, WTTV will be one of the few TV stations in the nation to operate at a profit, » :
M. L. Weige, chief engineer (left), and M. J. Blazek, mechanical engineer
the roof. The horses and cows munching and stomping around below. That's my best memory of the good old days.”
where the hens had been hiding their nests, We swung on the hay rope and if it was raining, oh boy, didn’t it sound good on
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Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Stafl Photographer. Despite holdings in the East, tuner, basic patents on which Mr. Tarzian considers himself a - are held by Tarzian, Inc. firmly-rooted Bloomington man. owe An active Rotarian and mem, THE BLOOMINGTON and ber of the Bloomington Cham- Philadelphia plants are pro= ber of Commerce, he is a solid ducing 3000 tuners daily, with’ “booster” of the community on the figures expected to mount both his TV and radio station. to 5000 soon. Even new buildings can’t hold Life has changed little for the growing vitality of the Mr. Tarzian since his startling Tarzian enterprises. success. ) His selenium rectifier plant in _ Together with his wife, a son, Bloomington, which boasts one 4, and a daughter, 2, he lives in of the most modern and largest a modest bungalow, half a mile installations in the world, is from his main office, which he only beginning production. Yet, bought more than five years growing pains and the need for ago. of new space have already come Workers in the Tarzian “ems into evidence. pire” greet with a smile their When this plant reaches full soft-spoken, mild-mannered em= production it will turn out two’ ployer in all parts of ng million “Centre-Kooled” rectl- ton as he rushes from plant to fiers a year, plant, i
It is estimated that more ‘They know they're | than 65 per cent of the televi- for a man who Is * sion industry uses the places,” ee