Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1950 — Page 13

19, 1950

rE 1 Fe i 5—5p ris | ; : "Editorials ....: eafures ports’ Politics ls Radio ......cievines id Section Two 2 SPOHE iy ieee 2020 oy . / y y La % “ \ A Rebuilt Villages oo 48, '49 Tragedies | Nt 3 oN soe 1 » i nN 3 2 , a Ny : . ™ Can Never Forget Left Lasting Mark =X i = By VICTOR PETERSON clings In the trees, gaping = t TORNADO TIME is nigh x foundations collect the drench- 3 } he. = ? in i iny 4 ing rains. In a few cases taragain ‘m Indiana, ee a cover yawning holes or - . : Already the Mississippi nothing has been done to Valley, breeding ground of i straighten. a battered home : = the death-dealing twisters, ° Bite. ed} has felt the sting of na- a THE WOMEN gather in *—ture's- wrath as spring weve A co 0 0 WR backyards and talk. Seldom is : the time ‘conversation does not creeps northward. _ come back to the torfiado. The Texas, Louisiana and Tennes- men talk, too, most freely as see hamlets rocked and crum- they lean over a. drink in a bled last week under the im- tavern. pact of the season’s first wave A few of Shelburn’'s people of tornadoes. have prepared against another The homeless stood ‘amidst day of terror. There is Lawthe debris and counted their rerice Shields who stood rooted dead. The scene will be repeated on his back porch and watched again ‘and again this year as a neighbor's home disintegrate = the warm air from the South in the air. battles the cold of the North In the welter of reconstruc: fighting a delaying action tion he found time to build a te RE AHS SUT IO ER: -—storm-cellar-a few feet from the And as the fields of Indiana house. If nature strikes again - flush with green and buds he, his wife and two children swell, many a Hoosier will keep will plunge underground to a weather-eye cocked for omi- safety. nous black clouds rolling up The people of Shelburn have from the southwest. . fought the hard fight. The Red / 2 = 4m Cross poured $100,000 into the PARTICULARLY are the stricken area, passing the hat peoples of Shelburn and Coates- brought $35,000, insurance “ville conscious of storm-brewed claims. ran some $300,000, hort clouds. savings ‘were -withdrawn from pg i Out of the rain-swept dusk the bank. nci- 3 last May 21 roared a twister When the sun shines, when ime; which cut to the heart of Shel- it is cold when it should be cold, : : ’ burn. In moments the neat little Tornado-torn trees rear in stark contrast to new homes rising in Shelburn. warm when it should be warm, Lawrence Shields emerges from his storm cellar built after the Shelburn twister struck. your town of 1600 lay a shambles. the people of Shelburn are re- . : here Crawling from .the piles of Wounds from the twister which Thoughts flashed back te wan look of a person who has laxed. .A look of fear flashes: Otherwise never would have homes and the town's three destroyed hard-won signs of brick, mortar and timber which Pounded’ them .unmercifully on - Good Friday the year before, faced death but lived. There is aver faces when the wind is have been accomplished. churches have heen completed. prosperity and a loss of nearly seconds before were homes, 00d Friday, Mar. 26. 1948. Many got in their cars—and- a Raculiaz air a tenseness high, the clouds are black and Today the finishing touches-are ABOUT ao Per Ei ACR million dollars. shocked residents staggered to They knew all too well what raced for open country. Others 1 ch no amount of brave re- pelting rain slashes the city. being put on the Civic bullding, = structures were completely de- Injuries heal, property can ba the task of treating the injured, Shelburn had experienced. They uilding can hide. x now 4 Aas i . : repaired. The dead always will : i huddled in the basement of the ; a community center to house stroyed or seriously damaged bi taking away the dead. . still grieved for the 14 who had Spared trees hear a crew-cut COATESVILLE hasn't re- ; , . fn -the storm Restoration De missed. The fear knifing at The snaking, whirling spiral . been killed when Coatesville: partially rebuilt Baptist Church. 155K the school has a bandage - “covered from the fear - either. the library, town offices, audj- aki Conteuville 100 sor cent he heart never will be wiped “brought death to 11, injury to lay in the path of a similar Some gathered flashlights And’ of fresh red brick, new homes Physically there is little today ‘'°Tium and fire department. It 000 0 00 : out. 3 £3, property damage of half a for, a foe ri “Take J oe sup- ate.everyuiiors. The 50 onised to tell a visitor this is the town mands I he Dean) of Hs The cost. other than the Aer The people. of -Shelburn andAMONG the first to respond ‘Shelburn. they quaked ex ear. Coatesville was spared, Shel- again, thee ra ay which two years ago grasped snuggle a park. : JA injured, totaled some $400,- Coatenyille dont flee) nigh, with the will of kinfolk were Radio reports warned the town Purn lay prostrate. show bright the splotches of ~'1® outstretched hand of aid. A Masonic bullding soon Will Thus two tragic twisters 10 ing of spring fic longer brings the tornado veterans of Coates- of 500 that twisters were loose “. uo» paint covering repairs. The town has gone modern. yp, 14 pigs, A restored busi-- two Indiana 1 Tn am a Ti wate ville. They still were patching in the area, headed in the gen- TODAY Shelburn, 12 miles = Debris, however, -atill - litt The destruction. has. brought n 1d- ; pe . thelr buildings, licking their eral vicf , i 8, however, .ati ers ness section of modern build secutive years snuffed out the souls, » vicinity of Coatesville. south of Terre Haute, has the "many yards, metal roofing “about a face lifting which, Ings, a grain elevator, many ‘lives of 25, injured about 100, Spring brings only dread. - Indiana SPCA About To Go To Dogs Because Of Finance Crisis ne with mis- ; : : ie : : g K gy

Mortgage difficulties threaten the big SPCA shelter 79th St. and State Rd. 29.

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Rusty gets his JR. meal from el Kennelman William ALI unaware his days may be mipbered.

Lacks $3000 To Pay Mortgage

THE INDIANA SPCA is ; CTH TH RF SATERE CHIBI, rns Like the. damsel in distress cowering before a mustachetwirling villain in oldtime melodramas, the local Society for . the Prevention of Cruelty to ~~ #% Animals is having mortgage “iy “rouble.” The ISPCA faces loss of its big animal shelter at State Rd. 29 and 79th St. : i - Feb. 3 was the deadline ] . ; TP LS

for the $3000 mortgage pay- rr ERR pissedetie iy unvented, aged FRub-a-dub- Ch [E oy LF ub ETH PR Fp

ment the SPCA was to have “x CA paid on the shelter, The SPCA : eA injured are put to sleep. § to a "room" at the SPCA shelter.

didn’t have the $3000 Feb. 3. It

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’ ( i ’ . © 7 : ’ Photos by Bill Oates, . Hoes} nave it dodey. tection is- unable to keep its The answers to these ques- eral animal situation in Indi- junior SPCA-ers. They opened which it operated: housifig ani- $29 000--$4000 down’ and the citizens armed with bettere : ne change na | group head .above water in thig com- tions can be found in a frank, anapolis and Marion. County a downtown office and from it mals in members’ homes and remaining $25,000 to be paid at than-average physical facilis men ha oo" fe “about even! munity, un-glossed probe into the local rail-thin strays on downtown, directed picking up of strays; working without adequate $750 quarterly for 8 years and ties was starting on what prom= balanced by the chance that it Other cities support SPCA’s.. SPCA’s history, its activities, Streets, wholesale “dumping’’ of injured pets .and placement af quarters the SPCA flourished. $1000 the ninth year. : ised to be the most successfiil won't. . Citizens of other communities its merits and its shortcomings, i, aeage . The = charges. ; o For Tone vears ney veorked i Another $5000 went into im- year of its ex)stence, y ‘2 od : . 4 ne. - game ime -sthey on 18 Dbagig, collecting an rovements The seller, Mr, On the same. date, one _year | If the SPCA loses Its animal would consider $3000 a small THE, SPCA came into heing ties unchecked. by. any inter- "Jasinched -a- militant campaign saving donations toward, the an donated the - ambulance later. the organization ‘was EACH ONE A Ee mete $10.000 alreddy SN Sonate leh hs service here in 1945. It grew out of . ested agency. against cruelty, For the firet day they would he able fo buy and the lethal chamber. A almost penniless, pockmarked : put into the shelter will be gone z we ngers. ao City Council sessions on an - The chartering of a local time there WAS a large scale their own shelter, manager who had the unquali with dissension and about to EAL BARGAIN! down. the drain. Why can't the SPCA survive ordinance to boost the appro- chapter of the SPCA resulted. arrest and ennviction of people That day came last Fehru- fied recommendation of the loze its hard-won shelter. y ’ In Indianapolis? Does it fur- priation for food for the City Although it was primarily a who abused their pets. Ary. Their shelter fund was at American Humane Association What happened. in the 12- @ BUT MORE IMPORTANT, if nish a service the community Dog Pound. local unit it took the name PE $10.000 when one of the board's, was secured and the shelter was month period to change the = Indianapolis loses the SRCA needs? If Indianapolis does A few citizens fiterestod in Indiana SPCA . because there’ THE USE that Indianapolis own members, Otto Ray, offered ready to launch a well-inten picture”. The happenings of the and its services. it will mean lose the SPCA shelter, will it animal and civie welfare at- was no other unit in the state. immediately made of the service: to sell them the present site. tioned program. calendar year 1949 tells the : ” Be because the city let the or- tended the meetings and be- There was a sudden flurry of was proof enough that a need The Society purchased the 20 * mon story. that a nationally recognized ganization down or because came acquainted. They got activity. Members organized for such a service existed. Even acres, the big farmhouse and THUS IN FEBRUARY, 1949, (Tomorrow: How the SPCA

system of animal and civic pro- the BPCA failed Indianapolis? around to discussing the gen- 20,000 city school children into = on the makeshift basis on barns and kénnel buildings for an organization of civic-minded

‘Alcoholics Anonymous Helping 700 Local Citizens Find Peace In

(First of a a Series) |explain, almost sheepishly. “We per puts it “the same kind of who have a sincere desire to stop tales told in AA meetings. Mem-|anéther job, almost as good. Then B RRL HEN {know- that’s -the only way. for us|people you'd find at “the State |drinking. ber after member will demon-'T lost that one. I began to go ‘who wanted to stop drinking. For y 4 : 4 to go dry and stay dry, so we |Fair{”’ That means those of all] Because once an alcoholic, al- strate by relating personal ex-|/from job to job, always doing well five months 1 was sober. : Almost 00 nameless men and women in Indianapolis|do it for self-protection” occupations, religions and races| = Ci ion yds pave to Periences- that an alcoholic, oncelat firét, always getting fired be “Then one day, as I was pass. ~ —all alcoholics and problem drinkers—have found peace| The “joiner” who enters every are invited to join, and do join, in| ia tightrope for the remain] TY, Can never risk drinking cause I couldn't stay off the stuff. ing a liquor store, I stopped and in sobriety, josnle Fein OMA Bnd Aes the AA program. hg oh Jirope |again. Here is one story: { “I came to Indianapolis and got bought a fifth of whisky. en olics nymou ; a : They .are eiibers of Alcoholics fmonyous “| group, as AA's are the first to “AA does not seek to ban liquor. |" 0 J AA lost his temper when a “I was a salesman, and a worse and worse. Four times I. - Thete Was some whis y, Jett . y. ne . |Stoup,; > x On the contrary, AA members see! doctor who knew his ‘history re- darfed good one, but I was, a'was sent to the Indiana State Twoke BOLE DeXt Judy fi dy hen Each of them has undergone horrors . beside . which: 1a it says NOthiAg wrong in social drinking. marked ‘his progress by saying, Steady drinker. Farm. oS ke vp. 1 Ws ted & drife sha sightr ares seem like day dreams. Each has learned the PE ores ho thers are ne dues. Fhey have one cause—to dry up “Been dry for two years, eh? You Se I could take it or. . Attended Irom AA meet] I thd it Rivd days dat : rn found. = ial © k- b take little drink leave it along. en egan to oe hard way that drinking is ~ And each has found happiness. There's no gd because Shere rig who Sannot do oe di Li y = > get harder on the morning after least: 50 fine-looking men, all When x gat Buk ol. Shere = ; Rot for him," {Alcoholics Anonymous has solved are no_officers. There's no glory UW will vou learn that no to make. it without a drink to smiling and happy, all ‘of them tame back to-Indianapolis an : ; : {their prohlem by practical appli- because there are no names. They do not pleted their pro When vi 3 a ee ron that moraingiable to tell sori as bad'as mine AA. I've wen dry 20 AEE NOW: i BY support. from three But they know it has worked for drink?? the AA Aemanded. “He drink started a full. day’ of sous- or worse. They were all willing and I've found serenity and-go-

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