Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1950 — Page 15
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SUNDAY. APR. 16, 1050 ot THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Omaha to Vote Again nHoosier Loves Locomotives—But Travels by Bike
On Auditorium Bonds |
$6.5 Million Hall Indianapolis long has talked | Would Seat 12,000 |of a Municipal Auditorium. | By WILLIAM DRAKE Some see such a building as a | Times Special Writer | functional ume p i OMAHA, Apr. 15—Omaha’s new rp Ey nt $9 vei | municipal auditorium, in the erans of World War IL -Efforts blue-print stage so long that its to launch such a project, hows | § estimated cost almost doubled, ever, have met with opposition, must win approval of city voters principally on the grounds that | for the second time this summer, it would be Auanciify un-
In 1946, Omahans voted over: feasible. « whelmingly in favor of a $3,540- In the following dispatch a 000 bond issue to build the audi-! former Indianapolis newsman, torfum. But<due to a long legal ‘William _Drake, now United battle over the selected site, con-/ Press Bureau chief in Omaha, struction was delayed. And the tells what that city—with only post-war boom shot prices up. | half the population of Indian~..When..the. Nebraska. state. Susi.ynolyc gq dolig toward ~ the eme court finally settled the construction of a new auditigation and the originally Se oo rium. lected site was made available, : 4 | the planners dusted off the blue-
with the voters, They have raised prints and found that $3,540,000 wouldn't build an ‘adequate’ Pout $6000 from businessmen,
auditorium for: the city. labor leaders, organizations, ho-
So, after much delay, the audi- A, hel, to campaign. fortum issye will go back on the ,, ‘veing’ erganiged will spring" ballot in the Aug. 8 primary electon, Actunly.“citaene wil bo 1 Ube In Omana pometime SeR00 0 appove snuther mi Meanwwhile, the blue prints for added expense of the building. De Naveriam are ol knocking, of Await Adequate Funds torium seating 9000 permanently, But if the second bond issue is with “knock-down” seats for 3000! not approved, the auditorium more; a theater, seating 2200: a -won’t be built... The auditorium convention hail with 800 capacity commission has gone on record and several committee rooms with tHe ‘promise that it won't’ It will have a basement with put up a $3,540,000 building. "150,000 . square feet for exhibition “It would be the worst disserv- space, | fce to the community we could, do,” said auditorium commission
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PAGE 15 Seo Searchers Feel Tug Will Be Saved
| SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 15 A Coast Guard spokesman.said (UP)—8ix Coast Guard, Air|the tug's silence may be accounted |Force and Navy search planes/for by empty fuel tanks aboard (joined two Coast Guard cutters/the Omar, in lack of [today in an “optimistic” search power to turn the radio and elec~ for the crippled Tug Omar, adrift | tricity generators,
{for the fifth day in the Pacific] 3 with six crewmen aboard. ALASKA BLAST KILLS 3 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Apr. 15
It had; been two days since the {last feeble radio message came (UP)—Dynamite exploded on a {from the distressed 60-foot tug. construction job killed three men, ¥ But the Coast Guard expressed injured a fourth and buried-the confidence that the men were Alaska railroad mainline for a
| “riding it out” with ample provi-! distance of 200 feet today, -an ARR official said.
| sions .and water,
This picture from the “silver iphy’ era is one of the Hoosier | locomotive fan's favorites.
oy W. Legg photographed this: siging with Pifaney smokestack pr he was cycling in Florida, _
Gosport Man Pedals Through 48 States
By CLIFFORD THURMAN Times Staff Writer GOSPORT, Apr. 14—There's a man down here in Owen County who has two great passions— travel and railway locomotives. He is unique, however, in that he doesn’t care to travel by train, and in more than 100,000 miles “seeing America” he seldom used his beloved locomotives. - He travels on an ancient bicycle. Roy W. Legg, RR 1, Gosport, - got bis first touch of wanderlust . back in 1924. He had returned from service in World War I but he still had a great urge to travel
Call to Adventure | In those days the great modern
highways hadn’t- been developed
chairman Varro Rhodes. “We're Pla n Butler U. so thoroughly. Automobiles still ere largely vehicles of paved
not going to spend money for an . Journalism Day Istreets and ‘city fellers.”: Roy
inadequate auditorium.” Supporters of the auditorium) v plans say that if voters approve Mrs. Naomi A. Whitesell, But-|used to watch the great locomothe additional revenue, construc- ler University faculty member, has tives plunging down the tracks tion can start within a year, If been named general chairman of 'near his home. The whistles were
The cycling Hoosier found an odd Milwaukee Road model in Bellevue, lowa. :
shots are hundreds of pictures of ‘in tourist homes along the highthe iron horses. Photographed ways. with an inexpensive camera are “I suppose I've worn out two everything from tiny narrow- or three bicycles,” he said. “This gauge engines to the monsters one I have now is 12 years old but used for booting trains over the still in good shape.
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they don’t the commission will the 17th annual {like music to his ears and always Rockies “I just keep pushing her alo i . § 8 n continue to operate the antiquated Journalism Field |caused a longing for adventure “I'm getting the old bike oiled Whe T hit the hwy on long hills auditorium which now serves the Day to be held {in his heart. Mr. L hi k and. bik up now,” he says with a twinkle and in the mountains I push her city and keep the new blue prints on the Fairview But he was a farm lad of mea- r. Legg, his pack and Dike. in his eye. “One of these morn- up and then enjoy the coast
*on deck” for the future. campus next SatHowever, they predict the new urday. bond issue will be carried. | W.-C ; hy Indlanaps use a new auditorium. The present. olis, has been ap-barn-like structure, not. far from pointed general
{ger means and the sleek passen-',..hitecture, the adobe houses of in88 soon I'll load up my pack down.” iger trains were far beyond his {phe Southwest or the . Colonial! 2nd hit the road. This time I'm-
| —{financig) capacities. Short trips, {mansions of the Old. South with going -to<head “South ‘down .to- Sie iow Effec or ; ery Warnited to travel Tar vivid word pictures. i knows Wards Alabama but-I-may-ent Radia: dup in New England. You never Called Too Realistic e
/ijand see the country for himself. where the soil is rich and fertile,’
He :yearned for-adventure and he Where the best farms are located. on tell -when—you—are-on—th Times Foreign Service
the Missour] river, was once de- student chair- wanted" independence. road.” : SYDNEY, A ; | scribed ‘by Leopold Stokowski man. | He found both on a bicycle. B15 Knows ie Se: ne an Mr. Legg is a bachelor, {ree to —Car-crashing 5h pn) 15 16th after a concert as : ata TD of of | Butler student BA {| Roy is 57 now. His hair is iron- out of them. y travel according to his fancy. Australian road safety council * : ignorance over civilization sistants in- Mrs. Whitesell 8ray and he has the robust, gaunt ~~ : Often during his journeys he has broadcasts have put Australians 01d Hall Small clude Robert out-door look of a man who has I have been in 44 states. stopped and worked, on construc- on the warpath. The old auditorium seats about Chapman, Mary Jordan, Frank spent most of his life in the wind, Haven't been in the Dakotas, jon jobs or railroads, earning’ Members of the Civilian Maimed ’ ® : °
4000, not nearly big enough for Ward, Fred Leach, Phyllis Stultz, sun and rain. Nevada or Arizona,” he sald. “I money to continue his travels. and Limbless Association are = the city’s needs. It's stage de- James Allen, Howard Caldwell, Knows Entire U. S. expect them later, how- pyring a Southern trip he earned fighting to ban them ! ; haps part of Canada ’ LD tia "oes ; signed in part for horse displays,/Ann Montgomery, Don Shelby,! There is a richness about him rand per! enough cash wiring houses in Ten It's bad enough.” says Secfe1s too big for theatrical presenta- Betty Ann Lewis, Fred: Ferree, found only in travelers. Roy has 20 exico.’ .nessee to finance a trip to Wash- tary Richter, “that hair-raising tions now. Jess Gilson, Howard Jackson, Don been’ virtually everywhere in the Hundreds of Viinincs ington, D. C. sounds of a car skidding wildly In 1948, the new bond issue was Smith, Jean Greenburg and Ken- nation. He has a splendid mem- “I have always been interested He doesn't worry much about and then crashing fray the not put-on-the ballot in the hopes neth Smith; all of ‘Indianapolis. ‘ory=—almost a photographic mind in steam engines and all sorts of accommodations. He travels fairly nerves of listeners who've never that construction costs would go Others are George Melloan, —and can explain the beauties of locomotives,” Mr. Legg said. . “I light, although heavy for a bicycle. been in crashes. down ‘‘soon.”’ (Whiteland; Polly Cochran and the Grand Canyon, the wildness make pictures of the unusual A canvas pack is strapped on the “But” — speaking for himself This year, plans are now being Jean Bancroft, Anderson; John of the Great Spokies and the ones but I don’t travel around wide handlebars that look like and other accident victims—“it = readied to start out anew. A 25-/Otte, Seymour; Robert Pearcy, plains of the Southwest as if he the country just to see odd-look- the horns of a Texas steer. He is makes us break out in a cold ; member committee is being or- Danville, and June Bodley, East saw them yesterday. ing locomtives.” prepared to camp out in good sweat. It takes years to forget
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