Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1950 — Page 22

Social Security “Relieve Progrom

+ Would Wipe Out

"Present Plans

Bocial Security” No thanks. We don't want any

of it now, or in the iuture ; is 18 the comoined sentiment dianapolis’ Police and Fire

Department members Speaking for the city's '‘pavement pounders,” current and ‘re.tired, 8gt. Ward Pettijohn, secre tary of the Police Pension Fund said the local boys in blue are joining their law enforcement brethren from coast to coast, in a concerted effort to repulse in clusion of public employees under provisions of the Social Security Act. ! They Are Against It

“If we were (0 get so-cailed

Social Security penefits,” Sgt Pettijohn said wervthing we fought for down through the years regarding our present plan would go out the window #. “The men and officers in both the police and fire departments fhe officer added have beer polled on this issue. To the last man thev are against il The Fair Deal legislation passed "By the lower House of the 81st

{Congress would substitute Social

Security for the present pension benefits for police widows and re Jired public guardians Being Considered “The meas Be ix now being con “#idered by the Senate in Wash on. Equally vocal against the measMire is Lt. Carl Schmidt, depart t#héntal public relations officer. Lt "Inder our retirement and penston plan,” Lt. Schmidt said, “each ‘oMrer receives $100 per month after 2b years’ service. Those who have served a minimum of 20 tyears,” he declared, “receive a stonthly check for $85. } “In addition, we have what we s#all an ‘escalator clause. By this (elause,” the lieutenant added, “a ‘man will receive another $3 for {each year hie served over 20 years. “But-the pension rate does not top the $100 monthly mark.” Shea: Annual Budget Ly To help swell the pension fund. : officer said, each man, during "his active service, is required to contribute $5 a month. The regujar fund is augumented by tax ‘money and is included in the depaftment’'s annual budget. “i Another champion in the fight “Against the Social Security bill, is Leo F. Niemeyer, vice presisdent of the Police and Firemen's msurance Association. 2ssMr, Niemeyer, a recently resized fire fighter from Jersey! A@ity, N. J. says he is in constant touch with officers and mefiers of the association. 4 40,000 Members '* Phe association, he #aid. has nore than 40.000 members in 36 ‘Slates and the District of Cobia. ¢ | “Association members, “Mr. meyer declared, “are writing the Representatives and Senatd, urging them to defeat inudlon of public employees in Abe Social Security Act. # “we have nothing to gain and % hing to "lose if. 6ur group ds embraced by the act. _ “Thousands of police and fire ‘widows, and their orphans would

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“Be cut off without an income if

Ae ang gets the Senate's ap3 al”

Thankless Job The association on a national 4 , he said feels extension of ¢ Social Becurity Law “to in“Wide us” would be determined on S#everal points, but specifically, ‘*pecause police and Would have to Work up to age 65 jbetore being eligible to retire.” “And, he added, the pension plan any of the nation’s cities, is e¢ one thing that makes “an Wtherwise thankless job attrac-

“With minor variations, the ty's fire department pension an is jdentical with the one ring the boys in the brass iftons.

a ‘Inclusign Clause’ » But their feelings about the sproposed “inclusion clause” is the

me. Should the nation's lawgivers pass the measure in its present form, it would contain provisions

for civil service employees to ‘share the “protection” of Bocial Becurity “#4The "Inclusion clause how Myer, would not apply in a given

fate on a state-wide basis A #Mwo-thirds majority vote of the eovered employees would be mecessary for the measure to

pass. 52. “The danger is.” Mr. Niemeyer Said, “that the bill does not de

fine who is or who 18 not covered or, who can or cannot vote”

‘Board to Probe Sailor's Death

iki Mass Jan 28 (JP). wi. Navy board of inquiry will

. vene Monday to investigate , death of & Dallas, “Tex. sailor during a fight with a fellows seaman,

Authorities said Seaman Paul D. Supremant, 23, of Attleboro was being Held as “defendant™ in the death Thursday night of Electrician’'s Mate 2d Class Reginald R._SBylverson Jr. 24. © Phe brawl occirred in a barat Ft. Banks in nearby where the two sailors part of an eight-man team red by the Army repairing piers at Ft. Dawes on Harbor, ant, a Navy veteran service, was to have week.

Tip

other day made New town deputy sheriffs. This Duchess Charlotte's town. showed up But nobody got trampled because the host and hostess had it all figured owl beforehand. For the first 20 minutes, they mitted their guests in their second-floor sitting room. Then they made an end run downstairs to the drawing room for a half hour or so, and finally ended up back on the second floor for the latecomers. After quaffing genteelly of old fashioneds, Scotch, martinis and bourbon, the guests flocked to the buffet and downed about three tons of salmon, tongue in aspic, ham, vegetable salad, rolls, coffee and cake Among those donning the feed

Was a

bag were House Speaker Sam Rayburn, with Sunday polish on his pristin® pate, but Veep and Mrs. Alben Barkley were nowwhere to be found Renate Recretary Les Bifffe was there, though, looking as swank as ever, but not so swank as Mrs

Joe Davies. That's because Les wasn't wearing a hdf made out of mocha-colored oird of paradise

{feathers and horsehair like Mrs.

Davies was, Mrs, Morris (Is Perle Mesta Still in the League?) Cafritz was being charmed oy that old deep freeze fancier, Maj. Gen.

Harry Vaughan, nattily attired,

in a uniform that practically fit

him, u #

» A Real Whing-Ding THAT'S GOING to be a real whing-ding of a show our dignitaries are putting on for

folk.

Force, for instance, is going to strum his ol' guitar and sing some of his favorite songs--the refined ones. Sen, Estes Kefauver

to Police ‘Handling Traffic ~~ Luxembourg Minister, Wife Have Speedy Way to Greet Guests By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—The way Luxembourg Minister and uncharted fields.”

Mme. Hughes Le Gallais handled the traffic ‘at their reception the made the statement at a recent: level that would be dangerous.” York's police look lke a bunch of small rE —————————————————

the American Heart Association In| Constitution Hall Feb. 2. Cabinet members, Senators and Congress-| men are going to be all over the] place, a-singin’ and a-dancin’ and! | generally making lke real show

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real big affair because it was in honor of Grand 54th birthday, so practically everybody in

Prefer Women Bosses

NINE OF our ‘11 women Con-|

gressmen have male secretaries and the boys say they like the work fine. For Instance, Paul

Squires, Man Friday to Rep. Cecil Harden of Indiana, says women!

bosses are, nicer they're more Waterfield says

than men considerate. Ed Boss

sonable than the stronger sex. George Murphy, legislative coun-

sel for Rep. Katherine St. George

of New York, Mrs, St. George's biggest asset, is she does her own thinking. And Saul Corwin quit a better paying job to go to ‘work for Rep. Edna Flannery Kelly of Brooklyn. Incidentally, you ought 0 see

says

that new crew cut style hairdo’

Rep. St. George is & t days. porting these

~ ~ ~ No. 1 Drawing Card WELL, It's official now-—the Veep Barkleys are the town’s No." 1 drawing ecard. Everybody broke their necks trying to get the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to come to their parties dur-

ing the couple's two-day stay:

here, but it was no go. The o . » only shindig they attended outside of a British Embassy feed and a

lunch with the Duchess’ Aunt | Bessie Merryman was the dinner

the Doug MacArthurs gave for Mr. and Mrs. B. » ~ . For years Chairman J. Monfoe Johnson of the Interstate Commerce Commission—an old World War I buddy of Presi-

| dent Truman-—has been known

as “Steamboat” Jognson. But now he’s been promoted. Mr. T. signed a fancy parchment seroll, several feet long, which formally changes Mr. Johnsog's name to “Battleship.” ~ ” »

Honors Bride-of-Week

AT FIRST, nobody could figure it out. When President and Mrs.

Truman toss a dinner the guest)

list is always held down to 16 because Blair House is so small. But the other night there was Margaret feeding 18 at the same

table in honor of Bride-of-the-'

Week Drucie Snyder. The answer fr that Mom and Pop use the big state chairs while Margaret uses little gold ones which make room for two more free-loaders, » ". -» You know what that rascal, Gen. Omar Bradley's been up

Gen, Tooey Spaatz of the Air to? He's heen taking folk dane-

ing lessons out at Ft. Myer, . wo»

‘This Is It’

THREE WHITE HOUSE aides’

trying to find out ‘what happens | when radioactive atomic wastes | polute a running stream of water, been loaned from the health serv- | it was revealed today.

: Frances Bolton of Ohio is a lot more rea-|

firemen

of Tennessee Is going 10 WeATr , ..4 5 party the other night at his coonskin cap and SOTA (heir place in Fairfax, Va. and stand around. Hk»" and Mrs. o,,4y had any trouble finding George Maloge, wife of the Ne-|., place. Reason is the boys had vada Senator, is going to SINE In|, Log “un signs all along the a trio with Mrs. Claude Pepper. . .. roading “Turn right at the NAte.0F $hy Fiativa Senator, and & +t light,” “Not much farther” “Ma a n " | Veep and Mrs. Barkley won! ARON UNIEE A AT tell what their act is going to be, ’ ’ ‘put--Mrs. Nellie. Tayloe Ross, d\- fo * - rector of the U, 8, Mint, is going Punch-Drunk—Ha-Ha {to play the piano: Rep. Francef guy gyoATE DEPARTMENT {Bolton of Ohio will sing Brame’ must be getting punch drunk. We | “Lullaby,” and Mme. Henrl were talking to one of its press

{net. who used to run a millinery co..." ihe “other day when he

store, is going to whip up French chapeau right there on the stage.

asked us to hold the line for a minute, We held it for about 10, then a sweet young thing came on the line and asked us whom we were waiting for. We told her and she laughed heartily. “Oh,” she said. “Ha, ha. He's just gone—ha, ha— into a press conference and won't be out for--ha, ha 15 minutes or £0.” Ha. as it were, ha.

. ‘ » » » sen. Joe McCarthy of Wiscon‘sin mot only has the toughest and blackest beard in the Senate, but he'd’ also the only known big shot ever to turn down an invitation to a Perle ‘Mesta party. Ferle saw him a few days later and wanted to know how come. Oh, said Joe,

Kokomo Club Sponsors

t didn't wanna. . he Just didnt waar Indiana Photo Salon A statewide salon exhibit for Late at Own Party amateur and professional Indiana HARRY DARBY, new Repub- photographers will be held in Ko-

lican Senator from Kansas, was komo in March.

guest at a big GOP shindig tossed Sponsored by the Kokomo at the fancy Sulgrave Club by Camera Club, the 1950 Indiana GOP Chief Guy Gabrielson. But Salon of Photography will be

the guests had been gwing at judged Mar. 25. Closing date for the canapes and downing whisky submitting entries is Mar. 11. a full half-hour before Mr. Darbyy Only monochrome prints may arrived for his own party, “You be entered. Entry blanks for the

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a. A ibid oh ol |) IN FROSTED GREY OAK, was 189.95 ( In $60 on this suite; d-drawer chest, edd ond full-size bed 109.95

(2) IN BLEACHED MAHOGANY, was 249.95 189 95

Save 360 on dresser and mirror, fullsize bed and chest

(1) IN MAHOGANY VENEER, was 179.50 ik 139.50

18th Century styled chest, vanity and mirror and full-size (2) IN AVODIRE, was 249.50 199.50

Vanity, chest ond full-sire bed ot 350 savings ...v....¢covvees

Special clearance prices on odd pieces of furniture enable you to buy the fill-ins you need at savings!

(17) BEDS, were 19.95, NOW, Liss cnsivonnnsn ness JOB

Full and twin sizes. Maple, wolnut or mahogany finish.

(5) MAHOGANY FINISH BENCHES,

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WARDROBES, were 39.95 somes rarer store Choice of Walnut or Maple finishes, now... ......32.95 WALNUT FINISH CHEST, was 2495. now ........... PUR. | A 1 5.DRAWER CHESTS, were 29.95. ..................24.88

Walnut or Maple Finishes.

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(4) KITCHEN EXTENSION TABLES, were 44.95

Chrome and porcelain combination, now .

(2) 5-PC. DINETTE SETS, were 69.95

Silver limed finish, special mow eat

(1) 5-PC. DINETTE SET, was 109.95

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12x9.9-FT. WILTON, was $188

Green sculptured pattern, now only 99.50

12x15-FT. TWIST WILTON, was 199.95 1 49 95 »

49.95 39.95 69.50 69.95 79.50 19.95

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ghts go aid the Public Health Service! “Obesity

surgeon. general, said the pollu- of engineering hygiene, said that _ He threatened to turn the lights

said that no con-

Many Tremendous Reductions! Subject to Prior Sale! _ No Phone, Mail or C. 0. D. Orders Please!

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Walnut finish, specially priced now

[ 1) KNEEHOLE DESK, was 29.95

Walnut finish, specially priced now

[ 4) ODD DAVENPORTS, were 129.95

Channel-back style with damask cover in groy or red

(4) ASSORTED PLATFORM ROCKERS, were

59.95

Many in frieze, boucles or tapestry, now. ....

[4) OCCASIONAL CHAIRS, were

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Now you can buy that bedroom suite, those extra pieces for living room, bedroom . . . a dinette set . . . the desk the whole family has been wanting . . . beautiful new rugs . . . appliances . . . de luxe mattresses . . . at grand savings’ at prices that fairly shout, "NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!" We are clearing scores of items . . . before inventory . . . at give-away prices for these fine qualities! Limited groups! ALL SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE . .. so DO BE EARLY TOMORROW! NO PHONE, MAIL OR C.O.D. ORDERS, PLEASE!

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$60 on

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5.8x9-FT. WILTON, was $69

Green, half price, now only

9x4.5-FT. WILTON, was $61

Beige, half price, now only

9x3.4-FT. TEXTURED WILTON, was 44.50

Green, holt price, now only

6x4-FT. TEXTURED WILTON, was $35

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