Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1950 — Page 24

| up to * Flood Control Mt Speedway

Eagle Creek Valley Een Plans ~ Membership Drive

a membership drive this week in an effort to bring So flood Yeontsel to the Speedway will begin. at » —— of the association in : y American Lagion Hall on Georgetown Rd. at 8 p. m. Tuesday.

The. association hopes to bring federal action to build levees and other flood coptrel aavics on Big Kagle Creek and Little Eagle Creek, In an area on the West

districts west of the eity, Residents of the area have suffered $2 million in flood damage since 1943, according to Mrs. Edna Donaldson, one of the lead: ors in the association. 3 Projects Listed Straighten ing of Little Eagle Creek, .d and widening

Association wil ne

Pafomne Patter

IAfg hanistan E Served Dough, Drinking K Kind

Whisky Chasers Help Visitors Gulp Beverage Made of Sour Milk, Cucumbers and Mint By ANDREW TULLY, Seripps-Howsrd Staff Writer | WASHINGTON, June 3—People sure liad a swell time drinking that dough they served at the Independence Day party given by the

: Atghiantstan Embassy. The guests were kind of leery at first, but t turned a out that Afghan dough has

Just the sam the Afghans.smust be a rugged lot, because their ; Vi

| nothing to do with money or

sv Guests

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dough is mads out of sour milk, cucumbers, mint and salt. Washington’s free tried their ®ihest to act cosmopolitan by swal-

fai 1o¥108 A polite dram or two of}

uff, but they made sure to he it down with plenty of nice, character-building whisky, The grub was pretty exotic, too. Besides the usual roast beef, lamb and cold tongue, the guests

turned out to be rice dishes with chicken, veal and lamb and very good Indeed for eating purposes ‘providing you hadn't lapped up too much dough. Among those who managed not to look too shocked after thelr first gulp of dough were As-

I you count In this town, - you've already received invita tions from the British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, and Mrs. Franks, to the annual garden party June 8 in homor of King George VI's birthday. The King, of course, was born Dec, 14, but the London weather is so bad they always celebrate in June. As usual, the local menu 11 consist of strawberries and ‘and white. wine punch, and don't forget your invitation or you'll get the bum's rush. That was a real democratic drinking bout the Peruvian Ambassador Don Fernando Berckemeyer gave at the preview of paintings by one of his Sunizy.

“and levee gin ction are among the measures sought, Mrs. Donaldson said she circulated a petition for flood control two years ago and obtained 485 signatures, The petition was transmitted to the Army Engineers, and while a survey has been © authorized, no congressional 4 propriation has been made finance it, she said. . , The association was organized last gs doin Officers are Freeman Callahan, president; Ken-

Mrs. Nsom! Lucas, seer

at ceremonies in PurUnion bullding. Prot. CW, Beese, director of the technical extension aivision, will present the class.

Backing Sought For Dairy Show

“Indianapolis businessmen will be asked to back the 1950 Inter national Dairy Exposition by sub-

scription, at a Columb luncheon tomor- a Cub row. John L. Mec Caffrey, chair. man of the National Advisory Committees for gs ‘the exposition, sald pledges to date amount to

McCaffrey said. AnIndiana “Premium Fund dhaeription: play will be outlined to luncheon gusts by Courtney’ Johnson; chairman of the Indiana division and host, While the dairy show eventually will be self-sustaining, it will require backing from business interests and individuals during the initial years, according to Mr. ‘McCaffrey. The 1950 exposition, “Oct. 7-14, will be the second, following the successful 1049. show,

“IC to Graduate 26 Local Students

Indianapolis will be represented | by 26 of the 106 seniors who will “be graduated from Indiana Cen“tral College at 10 a. m. tomorrow, Dr. Julian J. Oppenheimer, dean of the College Of Liberal Arts

Mr. ‘McCaffrey

and Sciences, University of Louiscommencement speaker at the college’s 45th an-

ville, “will be

nual exercise,

The Rev. Amos L. Boren, pas-|]

tor of the Roberts Park Methodist Church, will speak at bac-

today-in the college church. Graduating seniors from Indianapolis Include: = ry Sali b

Bolin

_|showed up at the

—ealaureate-services at 11 a. m.| 4A

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and Mrs, Harold Burton, Agri culture Secretary and Mrs. Charles Brannan, Sen, and Mrs. Brien McMahon of Connectfeut, Deputy Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Stephen Early, and Undersecretary of State and Mrs. James E, Webb,

to!Remembers When

NOT ALL THE Gridiron Club members are sulking over President Truman not showing up for their last twe dinners. Harold _|Talburt, Seripps-Howard's Pulit-

ber 'way back to 1947 when Mr. Big really went to the extréme to be on hand at a Gridiron party.

President Truman would have to pass up the April dinner because his mother was seriously ill in Grandview, Mo. But Mr. Truman Saturday night dinner as scheduled--then took off by plane for Grandview at 3

a m. * But that wasn't all. Next day, Mr, Truman left Grandview at noon 80 he could attend the Sunday afternoon party for members’ wives, . ‘when weather de-|y layed his plane, he had his operator keep radioing messages that he was en route, so Tal

tomas wouldn't get nervous. The party

started an hour late but nobody minded Watting.

On the Hoof

SENATE SECRETARY LES always tossing

- pONLICOS,... drink Mrs, Biffle the other day to celebrat her birthday. Not being Presi-| ident or anything like (hat, Les’ office can only seat 12 people for eating purposes, so most of The si guests had to stand up while eatbroccolt

ing turkey, ham, and

rd Hollandaise sauce, corn bread, . strawberry mousse and ice cream.

Only males on hand were Les

: Himself and Vice President Alben

Barkley, but the Veép, as usual, was the life of the party. He led

ithe singing of “Happy Birthday

to You” as Mrs. Bifia walked in, then told a few dozen new stories to go wih the cocktalls,

Two Scholarships

If Pop’s a steelworker, his graduating son or daughter has & chance to win one of two $2000 college scholarships A contest for children of steelworkers in all of Indiana except the Calumet area, plus those in three northern Kentucky counties,

arships, provided by the United Steelworkers of . America, CIO, District 30.

district here, expects approximately 200 applications will flow into offices in the Lemcke building by next Saturddy midnight, contést deadline. Applicants “will bé judged on basis of complete kigh school records as shown in transcripts of grades and précords of aptitude and intelligence tests. The scholarships will be awarded later this month,

scholarship foundation

Optometrists to Hear Quincy, lll, Doctor Times State FRENCH LICK, - | Walter D. Stevenson, Quincy, Ili, { ophthalmologist and president of { Illinois State Medical Association,

| will address Indiana Optometric Association here June 11-12,

tion in French Lick Springs Ho-| tel. Dr. Robert Ledig of Indisnapolis is convention « chairman.

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zer Prize cartoonist, can Femme

Tal was president of the club|. {that year and it looked as ifi -

CIO Unit Provides

will get a crack at the two schol-|

James Robb, director of the

Service June -J—Pr

‘Dr, Stevenson will speak at the | association's 53d annual conven-|

men, Reynaldo Luza. Halfway] through the party, held at the Pan American Union, members of the Symphony Section of the Afr Force Band put down their instruments and joined the guests in sampling the assorted booze. Then, their whistles wet, they went back to work. Biggest hit of the party were Pisco Sours, made of the Peruvian national drink, Pisco, and

¥ pineapple juice. Notiody | dares to drink... Pisco. straight, of course,

on account of it tastes like sulphurie acid fortified with nitro-

glycerin

THE TOP

This lovely; genvine PEARL-WICK HAMPER GIVEN with every ABC washer sold

~1ters; They stayed and

Lover. the. fact that he'd. already.

i CRO Vaughan needs 1s a few _ | more medals and he can start na;

Night Out PRESIDENT and Mrs, Truman practically made & night of it at thé annual shindig given by the White House military aides at Anderson House, Uncle Bam's’ official party-throwing headquar-

Mr. Truman not only took a few sips of bourbon but even! nibbled on the hors d’ouvres, | The President said don’t pay any attention to. all that talk about Margaret getting married. | Sald If she was he figured he'd know about it. He also gloated

a-whols hour SIRI EIA

lost the four pounds he gained during that . cross-country trip, but he had to give his dentist an! assist for fixing up his teeth ad he couldn't eat, The -ajdes almost got ttt | physically, that fs—before the. President arrived. Seems they

o'clock and the presidential party didn’t arrive until 15 minutes later.

» WHOOPS, Guess "who just got! another medal? Yep, Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, President Tru-| man's fun-loving military aide. | This time: the bauble came from the Italian government and it's] called the Star of Solidarity, All

own private army. David McGrath, 12-year-old son of Atty. Gen, J. Howard McGrath, ‘has discovered crooks don’t care | whose son you are. His bicycle was stolen the other day while Dave was serving mass at a Chevy Chase church . . . Lt. Col. Earl L. Mickelson, who runs all] the parades and receptions for big shots here, has just been named a full colonel, A couple named Mr. and Mrs. Constantine de Stackelberg gave

were called to attention at 6:25 §

a Hawaiian party for Veep and Mrs. Barkley the other night and made the honor guests wear leis around their necks. The Veep's was of white carnations, Mrs, Veep's of pink. Back in the old days, Washington’s party hours were from 4 to 6. Then, when whisky became legal again, they were advanced t0..5-t0--7,- and. - World War FI changed ‘em from 6 to 8. One more crisis and nobody'll get any

rr between Artnks, ‘some of the

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