Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1950 — Page 2

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fense plans wi

25, bu el

estimated

have been called up affsctin about 4000 men, An waARnOUnceq number of Reserves are being called on an individual basis. The Navy has a total of 1.2 million

less than division size have been

serves of 932,000, of which about

reserves National Guard divisions have

in the National Guard. All told, there are about 400,000 Air Force Reserves,

already have begun balling up

Alr Force said it may make ‘an announcement Monday abou calling up its reservists, Indications are that present deould put at least men in uniform by the = That would be more than the 1,450,000 Americans under arms when the Korean war broke out June 25. The additional men will come from the ‘National Guard units, and volunteers.

the year

draft and

13 Million Eligible

The first draft call is going to provide 20,000 men. The draft now affects only men 19 through t more than 1.5 million are

e. . Considerably more than 50,000 { the nation's 2,555,000 Reserves

~~including some small National Guard units—already have been called. For security reasons the Defense Department Is not identifying units or disclosing the numbers affected by its reserve calls.

Here is the Reserve picture: MARINE CORPS—All of an

NAVY-—At least 12 squadrons

8. Some ground units of

The Army is calling individual on a “selective” basis,

y calling up In-

47000 organized] i ground Reserve units have been called and probably will be get-| £; ting into uniform starting a week from Monday. There has been no call yet for! the Marine Corps Air’ Reserves, | although 21 squadrons will finish two weeks of summer refresher training at Cherry Point, N. C., | tomorrow. { Summer training for 20 other _ squadrons—ascheduled to start at El Toro, Cal. Aug. 5—woyld be © “canceled If the Air Reserve were salieq to active duty, an official

as needed, ordered its alr National intact-as far as can be called as

y half are

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In robin talk, Nixnoots said, "It's a corny pose, and you'll be sorry about the way you look, but I'll do it for you," By HENRY BUTLER ; It's against the law to keep a robin in a cage. I'll go quietly, Officer, but first let me explain about Nixnoots. :

When you twice rescue a cheerful little

ehirper from hungry rushes by a neighbor's cat,

you decide 'vou have to protect the feathered critter against a world he never made. That's why Nixnoots spends much of his time in a cage in our kitchen, where fang and claw can't reach him. We've decided Nixnoots must be a he because the last few days at 6 a. m. he's been practicing phrases from the standard male robin aria, * ¢ HIS BACKYARD outings for practice in flying, worm-catching, bug-eating and general natiire study are always carefully superviced. He's preparing himself for the D-Day of departure when he'll finally take off and leave us all kind of lonely. I'd better explain his name before I tell what I know of his story. “Nixnoots” is phonetic spelling for a Pennsylvania Dutch word meaning “good for nothing.” My colleague and fellowPennsylvanian Jim Smith, Times makeup editor, who hails from Allentown and knows the lingo, could tell you better than I what ‘“nixnoots” implies. ; : Sometimes it's a term of endearment. In connection with this bird, it certainly is, * & @

NIXNOOTS came to us over three weeks ago. He'd fallen out of his nest, been mauled by a cat and too ardently fondled by two families of neighbor children. He was a sad sack, an almost spherical little fluffy job, with tail feathers no longer than a movie queen's phony lashes. All he knew was how to eat, and he hadn't been doing too much of that, : My mother recalled her own experience years ago in rearing another orphan robin. You dig worms, cut ‘em up and gently drop 'em into the little one’s open beak. * + + THE PROBLEM was finding worms Parts of our backyard look like abahidoned gold fields.

H. P. WASSON and COMPANY F4 Starting Tomorrow at 9:30 A. M.

ANNUAL HALF-PRICE Sale of 3.000 Misses’ and Women's

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His comment on this one: “For a big enough hunk of juicy vitamins, I'll even perch on your typewriter." We even bought night-crawlers that smelled like carbolic and would have given any bird bu Nixnoots a fatal case of ulcers. .

Moistened gobs of bread and hard-boiled egg yolk helped. But the big deal turned out to be cherries—the sweet, black ones from California.

_ mssowwosms Orphaned Robin Is ‘Nixnoots’ but He Endears Himself to Protectors

of war tomorrow. Gov. Schricker last night said; he would confer with the state's!

and civil defense units.

were

exercises.

State Guard, pected to follow shortly.

38th Infantry Division.

|

Nixnoots never tires of them. He even willingly |

- goes back into his cage after a bug-chasing romp

in the yard, if 1 promise him cherries.

» That's something you wouldn't believe if you

haven't talked with a bird. You do it by whistling through your front teeth, if you have the whistling kind of teeth, which I have, Up in piccolo register, you go TSEE-00,"” or sometimes Rinso-quail fashion. Nixnoots imitates and adds comments of his own. He's taught me a large vocabulary, but

I have only a general notion of what it all

means. * © 9

NIXNOOTS can chirp and eat at the same

time. That's a feat comparable to Lily Pons | singing a roulade while consuming shrimp remoulade,

But what really gets me about Nixnoots—and also sums up a lot of things that are wrong with the world —is that he’s never learned anti-human prejudice. We're pals, T've cuddled and warmed him in my hands when he slipped and went too deep in the cake-pan bath tub and got soaked and shivering. * + 9

HE'S NOT afraid, unlike the injured adult robin I tried to save last summer, but couldn't

do anything with, What that fearlessness will |

do to his future, I wouldn't know. If you've got to be a robin, it's probably better to have all the fears robins teach their young from generation to generation.

But getting acquainted with Nixnoots has given me some notion of what St. Francis of |

Assisi must have experienced in his legendary

friendship with birds. ‘This momentary insight | into the possibility of kindness and trust where |

there's usually fear and hatred is upsetting.

I'm going to miss Nixnoots when he decides

it's time to leave,

Retires From Bell After 34 Years

2207 N. St.

LaSalle

native of Salt Lake City, he began his {telephone work as A clerk for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. here in 1916. In 1926, he was transfered to Indiana Bell as an accountant.

Mr.

Waldo

phone Pioneers of America,

To Press Button On the A-Bomb

atom bomb and

ton, I will,”

fight.” But, added

Korea, “and we'se going to ; them out rough.” - A The red-haired

{ A career of 34 years serive to {the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. will end Aug. 1 with the retirement of Ralph Emerson Waldo,

| Mr, Waldo advanced through {the post of supérvising clerk in 1930 to payroll payment supervisor and methods accountant in 1947. He is a life member of Tele-

Sgt. York Set

“ | WOLF RIVER, Tenn. July 22 | (UP)—World War I Hero Alvin { York said today that if we fight | Russia we should do it with the! “if they can’t find anyone else to push the but-

Back in fighting trim after a | slege of pneumonia, the graying giant of the Argonne said American forces must win in Korea lor “we'll have the Russians to

the 83-year-old mountaineer who captured 132 Germans by himself two wars ago, if we knock the Russians out of South Korea he doesn't think the war will spread further. |

» ! HE PREDICTED that the: Reds ;would be put out of South put,

hero, whose mustache and sideburns are now’ touched with gray, also believes

director, Ready for Action

National Guard and Reserve peared. The price of a new bridge in Sherman Drive north units.

Will Study Activation Gov. Schricker said he would

al Loans for Oper

Temporary Funds for Expenses Pose much as $10.00 a year pnd) have

istrati have climbed to $2.8 mil Difficult Problem for Administration ures have climbed to | First of Two Articles were listed at $809,000. ~~ By DAVID WATSON Moves by City Controller Phil

Indianapolis taxpayers have lost 25 miles of paved !P Bayt to win tats Spprave for

Top imilitary .and_cfvil defense streets. {piace loans failed during the last authorities about “military pre- ; : : 3 e tive n. ? ness” ‘af Ahe alerted | _The cost of a complete new swimming pool has disap- isla

i : contended ate ‘of 16th St. has vanished. Enough money to pave the Objector contend adequate

it Govemer AEA on thoroughfare from 16th to 21st St. has disolved in the vapor Sfe8uards “or te rps ost state of Indiana's military, naval of deficit spending.

ts charge that a large

month income. Its funds are re-\paiance would become a “spends

§ : . ) In Indiana, two National Guard) These are jobs Jaich Sy plenished at each tax collection! ing temptation” for city officials, units--the 915th Ambulance Co.of tax money spent on M-~|neriod. Duri collection interIndianapolis and the 365th Ordi- y pe ng nance Co. of Camp Atterbury— issued standby orders for| 22¥¢ Snanced. immediate activation. Both units/, ng Sngers of deficit financing are not part of the 38th National lifted tely $230,426 Guard Division but intend to ac- have lifted approximately $230,

sion t week : ro arn Atterbury for summer Tesidents here. Since 1914, nearly |is credited with money in the

Surpluses which now accumuporary loan interest rates could vals loans are made until cash late by the end of each year are is available insufficient to . Suisgenty . eeds. of operatMoney in Bank operation needs pe:

Within the last 20 years the Y ing the “city general” is about Ironically, the loans are author-

$600,000 a month. About $425,000 {from “the wallets and purses of ized during periods when the city of that goes for payrolls, KFund Blocked {half a million dollars have been bank. But this can’t be drawn for heen spent on interest payments, general fund emergencies. It is| Another attempt to start a fund Twice a year Indianapolis stag- consigned to specific uses. for off-setting loans by increasSometimes the amount in the IN8 taxes until enough cash was

{gers on weak financial legs await-|

Pldiscuss plans te activate the, (ii .ment of county tax col- banks is equal to .'s loan needed. available went down before tax Actual orders to reactive the State Guard are ex-|

{The city actually borrows its commissioners. Most of the rela{own money and pays interest on tively small balances revealed on lit. Indianapolis cannot draw de-| City books at the end of each year

(Editorial, Page 18.)

State Adj. Gen, Robinson Hiteh-| jo tions, Twice each year the loans vository interest on the banked result from “padding” the anticicock, state draft director and ad-|,,, made to meet payrolls from funds, however, The money is Pated ministrative head of the state’s|;;, ceneral fund and keep depart-/credited to - checking accounts budget proposals. military and naval units, will re-' nts running. ; port on his recent trip to Wash-| | ington, D. C. where he conferred! { with top-ranking Army officers|

on the status of the all-Hoosler | pay 115 city employees for one have never been successful here.With a 12-month budget.

expenditure figures in

Carl Dortch, Indianapolis

; Attempts to create a working Chamber of Commerce statisti 113 City Workers {balance in the general fund budg- cian, analyzed the problem as fie The 20-year interest alone would et to eliminate the need for loans nancing a 17-month operation

{which pay no interest.

|year at their average rate of When balances grow to respect-| The Indianapolis budget year

A review of the state's civil $2000 annually: If collected in ajable proportions the money is runs from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. defense set-up will be presented jump sum it would make a sub- used to finance departments and! Although city expenses are effects by State Police Supt. Arthur stantial down payment on offi- projects. Thurston, Indiana's civil defense cialdom's dream of a a new police|

{ive from the first day of the year, The balance often is wiped out/income- from tax collections is station. It is only a few thousand when tax review boards use .t|not available until after May 30, short of the cost of the Uni-lay’s asi for passing een] Part of the May-April alloca-

Mr. Thurston said recently the| versity Heights sewer line now on money requests listed in pro-|tion is used to pay off first-of=

‘civil defense organization is ready; Upder construction. to swing into action “as soon as! the Air Force links up the air-| craft warning stations and Hoo-|

sier cities.” The Governor,

m ORD" on the Box Adds Much To The Ring gut Nothing To The Cost!

who has ex- { pressed some concern for the in- able, City financial transactions tions have been able to make {ternal security of industries in! | the state, is expected to seek] imeasures to guard plants, fae[tories and vital rail and road links. “TSEE-00, | gm

{posed budgets. If the yearly sur- year obligations. This depletes City councilmen who authorize plus is high, as shown by the the tax reserve. More loans and the loans denounce the financingicity controller's cash balance, advances are then needed to keep system as “deplorable—a waste of budget cuts usually folow, BY | things moving until the November {the taxpayers’ moey.” But there absorbing the balance in new! tax distribution.

is no immediate remedy avail- budgets, some city administra-| With the city living months

{ahead of its income, municipal are governed by state law, Heart temporary tax reductions. {money handlers are running pa

of the trouble is the tax collec-| Meanwhil:, more loans arelan endless treadmill in their tion system. {made and more money for inter-'gearch for a financial remedy. Unlike private business, Indian- est is appropriated by council. iapolis has no sizable month-by- Total interest fees oft'n run as : sflomesbatineiiudmnilvl dia, ha at at Sa

Tomorrow: Possible solution.

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