Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1950 — Page 3

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Crash Occurs Near Susan Fay Johns, 5, Dennison, nl, died of a skull fracture sustained In an accident on U. 8. 40 near the Indiana-Illinois state line yesterday. Ae The child was riding in a light truck driven by her mo*“er, Mrs. ‘Thelma Johns, which crashed into the rear of a state highway truck parked on the highway. Mrs. Johns and anather daughter, Dorothea, 3, suffered head

Two Boys Injured In Indianapolis two boys suffered broken legs In accidents while crossing streets yesterday. Francis Ackerman, 13, of 1433 Linden St, was hif by a car driven by William H. Moody, R. R. 1, at 1525 Olive St. He was taken to General Hospital in serious condition. J. D. 8mith Jr, 3, of 353 W. 15th St; was taken home after being treated at General Hospital. He was hit by a car ‘driven by Henry Tinson, 25, of 1126 W. 17th 8t,, as he ran across the street near 15th and Missouri Sts,

- Hits Safety Zone Guard Louis A. Catalano, 46, Collins, N. Y,, struck a safety zone guard af State Ave. and E. Washington St. early this morning. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital

- with internal injuries.

Arthur Umbarger, 45, Bend, suffered injury shoulder and left leg, and Velma

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and, Capitol Ave.

They were treated at Methodist Hospital and released. ’

Believe Fire Caused By Plumber's Torch

“Fire believed to have

to his

been caused by a plumber’s torch was

fought for an hour and a half by firemen at the home of B. D. Davis, 404 E. 24th St, last night.

The fire started in the basement and was prevented from spread- A "ing after firemen laid five lines

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apolis and central Indiana on the storm. minor,

Rainfall here during the last M outs totaled .70 inch in the .and-59 at Weir Cook Airport. e in the state heavier downpours brought the total for yesterday and today to between four and five inches.

Floods Unlikely | Heaviest were in the

lamaging floods are unlikely. T~infall was expected to taper off | late today with arrival of colder

Windows Blown In During Night ‘wires snapped as a severe wind and electrical storm swept Indianearly today Four Indianapolis residents were One house was hit by lightning, but damage was {and parked near her home, was

injured in accidents blamed

damaged when a tree was blown over. . Ernest. Hopewood, 29, of 3030 Carson Ave., was knocked into a gs suffering ‘a spine, as he was walking on Troy Ave. during ‘a rain storm last night.

from - the

outhern part of ‘the state, but waist down, lay in a puddle of Neather Bureau officials . sald water in the bottom of the ditch

until his shouts attracted the attention of his brother, Eddie Hopewood, 2021 8S. Randolph St. The

The mercury was expected to skid to 32-34 in Indianapolis to-

night and climb tomorrow to a

will. remajn overcast through tomMOrTrow: Tornadoes and high winds, set

warm air from the southwest, ripped across the Midwest from Oklahoma to Indiana. The wind reached a peak of 45 miles an hour, with gusts reaching 55, at Weir Cook Airport shortly after midnight. Three plateglass windows were blown out of the Fame Store, 1402-404 E. Washington 8t. A 10 by 10 foot window was blown out of the Monarch Buick Co. 1060 N, Meridian St.

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Debris blocked streetcar tracks at 16th St. and Columbia

into the street. swamped with calls of broken

nie Parrott, 168 W. Arizona St.,

EVENTS TODAY a

Murat,

and used an 800-gallon tank of state Farm insurance Agents—FPinal day.

water and a tank of chemicals. Rotary Ci Noon. There is no estimate of damage. |fo;Dperative Club-—Noon Mercator Club

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POOL. Washington, Club—Noon, Lincoln. oon, Lincoln. North Side Kiwanis Club—6:30 pp. m.,

ott, Indiana Section. American Chemical - elety—Luncheon, Warren, a). 5

| EVENTS TOMORROW Murat Shrine Cireus—Last day, Murat Indianapolis Bar Association—4 Dp. “ . world Tar Memorial and 7 p. m. AthIndianapolis Dental Seciety—Indiana Uni yorst y lool * Dentistry Clinic. Ab Lions Club—Noon_ I om, Sadler che iB luncheon, Claypool

as. rd India Noon PUCARS cans malty Athletic Ean. oma—————

MARRIAGE LICENSES

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nmen, 17, 1303 'E. St. Clair. Edward J. Madden, 15, 1139 Beilsfontaine 1 Bhiiey ak. “Tazior. (6, 2038 Alsord

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DIVORCE SUITS FILED

Bdith M. ve Prank Killian; Anns L Woodrow Williams: y E. Davis; Bessie Lvs Edith M. vs Clyde E. vs Francis A. Jenkins; Richard H. Rarten; Charlotte M. vs Ewel E. Spears ary C.

; Pra Lucille vs

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{BIRTHS .

Boys AS St. Franecis—Cletus, Clarissa Wilson Exie Thomas: Richard, Helen Powell Marshall, Helen Wise, AS Coleman—Lawrence, Lawanna Gerton. AS_‘Methodist—Phillip, Dorothy Jackson Joseph, Margaret Gormley.

. rls Ab_St. Francis—Emery,; Paul, Betty Cecil. | Af_General—Harry, Frances Duke.

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EASTER!

Eton Caps — for young

cool afternoon high of 42-44. Skies,

cold air from the north and!

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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m.: Alma |lee

vs Hulda

3 1H ‘ Jeanette: vs Charles M. Whelan; Wilma J

Estmit, Winifred Putman; Gilbert, Mary 0. . | At Gengral—Robert, Lorettta Daudy: Leslie,

Betty Anthony;

{older man ‘was on the way to his {brother's home when the acci{dent occurred. His condition is jserious in Veterans Hospital, | Two children were hurt when a |car driven by Garnet White, 241

!8. Temple Ave, skidded on a wet!

olf by a class of unseasonably Pavement and overturned at 3700!

{Southeastern Ave. Rickey Jean Cody, 6. of 531 S. | Temple Ave. was cut on the face and Barbara Stevenson, 15, of 526 8S. Butler Ave. suffered an {injured shoulder. William Giss, 70, slipped on wet steps of his home, 2049 Olive St. {and suffered a broken hip. His | condition is reported as serious in {General Hospital. Lightning early today struck

{the home of Wick Deckard, 538 | Prospect St., shattering plaster

| . Rainfall re

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vi BG ‘Bluffton 1.50, Logan

Ave., Covington 1.43, Scottsburg 1.42°on ner ” ; Ave. 43, . ll here tonight. when the front wall of a building top of 3.10 the preceding 24-hour 2 2 8 8 " which is being wrecked was blown period, and West Baden 1.19 for a| G. H. Miller, 4110 E. 10th Police were total of 4.14 in 48 hours.

A “roll cloud”

land Alton and Bethalto, HL

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| AS Coleman—Roland, Dorothy Dykema.

son; bert, oline Fox; James,

Dorothy. Waterman,

| Guilford, myocarditis Edith Ellen Dillinger, 71, at 1966 Winter cerebral hemorrhage

carcinoma Eugene Conklin, 72, at General, cirrhosis Eva Fancher Evans, )i8, at 648 coronary occlusion Raymond Thomas Lannon, 72, at Long coronary occlusion. ohn Myers, 67. at occlusion.

Floyd Earl

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Prank Grundy, 30. E.R, 1%, Box 483; Voni-

ad Bridgeport. avett a 3 « _ Lafay e; Patricia E. Henderson, 18, 1143 Spruce. |

- Psonal Independence -

vs Louis W. Reed: Florine G. vs |

‘Smash

The car failed to stop and Mr.

ports over. the statelare not in favor of

. described by|ested in streamlining the govern-| power lines. Traffic was blocked | weather observers as an intense ment and cutting expenses. by uprooted trees at several spots. windstorm traveling horizontally, tired of what we've got.” 1 A late model car owned by Min-|{swept through Valley Park, Mo.,|

DEATHS {Blanche 'D. Brown, 61, at 302 W. 47th | sclerosis. Isaac Van Dyke Davidson, 75. at 2736)

adiema? Otto, 86, at 326 Buckingham Dr.,|

coronary occ y Slifer Abraham- Yovior. 832, at 1445 Broad- , at 1526 W. Vermont. n Staudecher, 38, at General,

JUSEU- YULGT

For Registration

\again. We want a change be-

except the wrong way."

~ - 1 J - Clyde H. Cox, 1442 W. trucker, and Mrs. Cox: “National

out our own candl Victor Cardarelll, 4622 Winthrop Ave., drug clerk, and Mrs. Cardarelli: “We don't like the way inational affairs are. being run. We're spending too much and | we're going into socialism. We'll, not vote for-this administration

* |because Mr. ‘Truman has been]

|spending too much money and getting us only into socialism and communism. We're just living in| [fear. We don’t know how to plan, for the future. One day the government .says there will be wail and the next day they assure us there will he no war for 20 years. What are we to do? How are we; to plan our businesses? Tet the government set a policy and stick to it.” ‘ | | Boyd Rudicel, 3802 Cossell Rd., machinist, and Mrs. Rudicel: “We want to see a change. Taxes are| too high. The government should) be more efficient in handling money. We didn’t vote in the last

In a period of 1; hours, from and setting insulation ablaze on glection because we thought it was 12:30 to 2 a. m., police received electric wiring. The fire was out|cut and dried for the Republicans | Thornburg, 40, Parker, had knee!l1l false burglar alarms, set off by before firemen arrived. ies ‘when struck (short circuited wires during the

We were fooled. People| giving Mr. | or socialiSf Ar com) &

to win.

nis: ? RHEE oe done about it. That's why we're

St. production manager: “I'm inter-|

I'm.

Palmer Millikan, 1114 Burdsall |Pkwy., carpenter: “I don’t care who knows how I vote. Taxes are too high, everything is out of rea-| son. It is time for a change after |16 years.”

{ Rudy Cesnik, 2018 Winton St.,

Murat Shrine Ci Through’ Wednes- A$ Methodist—Haskell, Thelma Rankin; Kingan employee and Mrs. Cesnik: te. (reuse irons 8" “Fred, Mary Jones; James, Minnie Ander- “There's mpl You ul bickering, not bidding ridiculously low prices onl

Herald: Vernon, Bertha Irwin. Charles. enough action. There should be little used items.”

There. lought to be a change. We're nei-| ..ther Republicans or Democrats. {We didn’t vote last time because iwe didn’t care. But now we do!” {Ray Gill, 1330 8S. Lindley, engi-|

;more economy, less taxes.

Thomas J. Bridges. 6, at 2037 N. Iuinots, meer, and Mrs. Gill: “We're voting let but the revisions will be made |

{for a change, locally.and nation-|

W. 43d. ally. Locally, we're tired of the contracts, Mr. Nordsiek said.

.iterrible county roads. And the

Méthodist, coronary Démocrats have been in for too long a time. Our government has! se ko have a change once in awhile|far In 1950 and found that the Shrader, 31. at Methodist.|y;, maintain its equilibrium.” ® - » Edward Kuhn, 8068 N. Delaware Price and Mrs. |discrepancies also were found in Kuhn: “Too many chuckholes onigrocery items, meats and vege-| [Mary A. Wilkerson, 86, st 2023 N. Harding. ithe city streets locally and tooltables.

32 Livingston: Vera

St, oil refining sales,

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a a Te Democrats but we're dissatisfied.”

! : . |politiclan. The government just (Continued From Page One) isn't being run sensibly.”

strikes period. We're satisfied Voted in 10 years but it's high with nothing the way it's run. politics but We're not getting any place fast there is something wrong, dras-| | tically wrong. It's high time that 20th, | Ve switched around. |

affairs aren't being run to our| - satisfaction. Taxes are too high. [ S Bill to | We're independent and we'll pick : | dates.” i

County Waste

advocate,” Mr.. Nordsiek dejclared. fie ; SL i SE ATER ki ws RY ns the taxp | Oxords—range ey’'s- worth.” » A in price from

+—~Inaddition to a thorough study,

Iside for eggs during 1949 and so

Washington. We need a change.” 3 - "® ~ Mrs. Earl Ritter, 417 N. Arsenal| Kuhn's mother: “We're

STRAUSS ~ i G. O. Martz, 14" West Drive,

{Woodruff Place, contractor: “The - CustomField " Inational government isn't headed! {up by a real man. He's a machine Barrett's

SCOTCH GRAIN

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cause of the coal strike-—and Ave, service salesman: “I haven't]

* =» = ! W. E. Johnson, 44 N. Forest! 1495 First Floor. {time I start. "I'm not versed in| Mezzanine

everybody knows!

“We need a change.”

Purchasing Methods Assailed by Book (Continued From Page One) side to purchase its own supplies through a business manager. The| remainder of the county institu-| tions are bound by law to follow] the quarterly contract system. | Meanwhile, Fred W, Nordsiek,| president of the Board of County Commissioners, said he would confer with Sunnyside officials tomorrow or Thursday and study methods used there. He said he would be accompanied by County Attorney Robert! Carrico or John Linder, assistant county attorney, to see if Sunny-| side methods could be adopted immediately or whether the law| would have to be changed first. | “If it is necessary to change the law, then that is what we will

of the Sunnyside purchasing] 12.95 methods, in which the tuberculosis | to hospital is able to’ buy eggs for 15.95 37 cents a dozen compared to 67 TIN cents pala by commissioners for — other institutions, Mr. Nordsiek will study “trick bidding” aspects, he said. { He said it is possible for food contractors “in the know” to over-| charge the county on popular food and other items, yet win contracts on lower bids simply by|

“This is going to stop,” said] Mr. Nordsiek. | “We're interested in only real competitive bidding.” |. Contracts for the second quarter of 1950 ‘already have been]

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in. the thira and. final quarter) In Sunday's story, The Times tabulated prices paid by Sunny-| . . *

institutions would have spent

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" same time, it offers him a means of providing for his own later years. 7 "Today more people in America are safeguarding the financial independence of their families with life insurance than at any other time in history—or in all the other “countries on the face of the earth. :

The New York Life Insurance Company is proud to report that it has shared : pn Report to Policyholders, just published as a 36page illustrated booklet, shows. The essential facts and figures of this Report will, of course, be sent to policyholders as usual with their premium notices. The complete booklet will be sent gladly

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR . 105th ANNUAL REPORT December 31, 1949

At the close of 1949 the Company had 3,864,338 policies in force for $9,970,371,347, an increase of

consecutive year that new sales have ranged between $850,000,000 and $860,000,000. :

The Company in 1949 paid $131,802,411 to living > policyholders (an increase of $13,755,982 over 1948) ; and $88,447,839 to beneficiaries (an increase of $118,268). The total was $220,250,250 (an increase

of $13,874,250).

: For 1950 the Company is continuing the same g scale of dividends to policyholders as was in effect in 1949. New York Life has always been a mutual

company and pays dividends to policyholders only.

INDIANAPOLIS BRANCH OFFICE Orman E. Hammond, Manager

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