Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1950 — Page 10

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“have “aut : It has tisen from | Trumah ~sHouR" " price| tiny bugs, or beetles, carry germs

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Where one teacher was required to

~. explained, “we now hav

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room for them schools now ha

Flood of Pupils

1000 Enrollment

Jump Expected

For Term Opening Next Month

0 vertaxed County Schools Face New

Disease Is Spread - By Tiny Beetle By CLIFFORD THURMAN . There is no reprieve in sight for Indiana's thousands of elm trees.

They're still doomed, and that Includes the great elms that line many Indianapolis boule h

First of Four Articles

. By BOB. BOURNE _ Marion County schools are bursting at the seams.

Of the 40 school buildings under the direct supervision of the county board of education, 27 were overcrowded last term, nine were operating at capacity. Only four could have taken more pupils, That was during the last school year. Officials estimate another 1000 pupils will have to be squeezed into county educational

State Entomologist Fra lace says there 18 no hope for mil= lions of elm trees throughout the THdwest.

It is: scolytus multistriatus, The ordinary word for the deadly plague is Dutch elm. disease fungus. Tree lovers who are seeing their

institutions next month. How ...

“ain wey meen rgeS ‘Selective’ * . Price Lid Plan

Marion County population -outside Indianapolis has come the great migration of pupils to the rural schools, Many of the county schools made additions last year or the year before, | Classroom space has not been added. fast-enough- 10. keep pace. with the number of pupils, “In the last six years, enrollment in

nearly 4000

- little more than 14,000 in 1946 to/to put immediate “selective controls on meat and other sky-!/in. a way like

(rocketing items on the market typhoid fever to human beings.

nearly. 18,000 last term, ’ Expect 19,000

~~ y je Estimated enrollment for the

Senator Cites

Meot, Lumber Hikes

“WASHINGTON, “Ag “5 (UPy —Sen., increased|Ala.), said today that President|the disease which is

John J. Sparkman,

ounter.

Mr. Sparkman

Superintendent of Public Instruc-| trol legislation.

tion, Fred Green, estimated that

gain another. 15,000 pupils this year,

In spite of 2 he added pile hose overelauded should have authority for - both.

conditions, . Education, last month, passed a regulation lowering the teaching unit for grade schools from 35 to 30 pupils,

be given authority to controls on selective items right down’ to the retail level,” Mr. millions and multiplies by mil-

Putting price curbs on specific) the schools of the state would items that get out of line might help avert the need for general | controls, Mr. Sparkman sald. But|plague, says the state entomoloPresident gist. Mr. Wallace explains that

that the

told reporters indianapolis, coming school term is more than he will ask the Senate Bankingipjtter.right against the spreading 19,000. In the entire state last/Committee to approve the pro- ,iagus which threatens all elm year the enroliment of the schools posal Monday when It meets toi qa, , rose; 14,000 pupils. Assistant State continue action on L2Conomic con- npn ond sther. powerful. insect.

elms wither and die in their front yards are blaming the European elm bark beetle, tiny insect that

of tree. That is not strictly correct, says Mr. Wallace. ~ The tiny beetles, about the size of a pin point, do not themselves cause the death of stately Hoosier elm trees.

«Beetles Carry Fungus They are carriers, however, of

he elm-trees-of the. STs

mosquitoes carry

Many communities, including have organized a

They are spraying with

killers, pruning diseased limbs land removing dying trees,

This helps, but will not stop the

tests have proved that each and

“The President certainly should|every insect and egg must be con-

This - means that in the past Sparkman sald.

teach groups of 35 pupils, the class is now out.to 30. ~ At the same time the board raised the teaching nit for high

schools from 25 to 3 Need Primary ates

College and school officials have that there is a shortage of ele-

Principle A pproved

He said the worst prices are (perhaps in lumber. He mentioned} meat and rubber as other items? on which ceilings might be imposed at once if Congress gives the president power to do so. The Senate Committee yesterday approved the principle of giving. Mr. Truman authority to inbeen lamenting the factivoke overall price and wage controls and rationing’ when he

mentary teachers and an excess/thinks they are needed.

of high school instructors, al:

subjects, , County Superintendent Schools Robert F. Gladden esti-

units are adhered to in Marion would be created.

But the teachers are not available, They make less money

Gladden said,

‘we have no an ou

in hallways, auditoriums, and cafeterias.” i Mr. Gladderi pointed out that| a: Decatur al in Valley Mins!

has two annexes, and it is possible that another one will have. to be constructed to accommo-: date Increased enrollment in he fall, As an example of what the| State Board's resolution will do) to Marion County, Mr. Gladden pointed to the situation in Pike Township School.

New Ballding Inadequate

The schools in Pike have been combined into a beautiful, new building, Tist 8t. and Zionsville Rd. The elementary part .of the building has 11 teaching units now, Under the new plan, it would have 13, requiring two new teach-| ers, But there is already a short-| age of rooms. An addition 1s be-| ing planned now. “The new part of the building! will have six rooms,” Mr. GladIve a

3 fis APL i” the situation for t : years.” i The superintendent emphasized |

that Pike is the smallest town-|

ship in the county and that the! |

crwding will be proportionately greater in the other townships. “In Washington Township, of the larger ones,” Mr. Gladd 4 teac resolu-|

one

ing units, under the new tion we would have 63.” “Of course,” Mr, Gladden stated, “these téaching units are not

hard and fast rales. We can only!

do the best we can with what we have.”

" TOMORROW: The

Best They Can Do. - | Spiritualist Editor Will Give Lecture | Times Sfate Service { CHESTERFIELD, Aug. 5A lecture will bé given at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow at the Chester- L field Spiritualist camp by Mrs. Juliette Pressing, editor of the

Psychic Observer, A special event will be offered at 2:15 p. m. as part of the Etta Bledsoe day, which is celebrated annually at the camp. Mrs. Bledsoe, a camp medium, died eight

years ago. The Rev. James Laughton of Detroit, who was the youngest

test medium in the nation when] he served the camp 22 years ago, will “be the trumpet through whom the tion” of Mrs. Bledsoe's “message “THe TeV. "Mrs. Blédsoe annual-| ly spent the month of August at the camp. She continued. to speak from the puipit until she was «more - than 2 80.

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The Senators also approved in though there are shortages in principle authority for the Presi the high school brackets in some|dent to put “selective” controls on certain items but only down of through the wholesale level. ° Mr. Sparkman said this ‘would “mated that if the new teaching] pot g0 far enough. Lumber and’ meat, for example, would have to| County jobs for 75 new teachers be followed

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“all the way down to the consumer” for controls to! be effective, he said. After a week of little progress, teaching the lower grades than Poth House and Senate Banking when teaching high school classes, ID Committees will meet Mon-|

ken if we had: the teachers, niday to try again for decisions on the control program,

OWN- FEED LONDON, Aug. 5 (UP)—F unced today he was getpug married Monday because he anted a woman's ecompanion-p-and was fed up with eoo! ig cleaning, He ‘is 81. His brides): to-be Is 80.

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Juvoks, tacted by the spray. The Euro-

{pean elm bark beetle comes in

oe ig —_ ark of en a jos of the fatal fungus are ly, _in_these

taminate the

Fematging. "Seetios

prefers elm bark to any other sort §

destroying 4

Mons, A favorite breeding spot is tree and from. there the. insects lin the crotch of a tiny twig on a spread.

spray all these points,” lace said. “It would take a paint brush and a sponge over every inch of eim tree to kill all the insects. Spraying helps, yes, it does not kill all the bugs.”

apolis residential districts, property owners are clearing out dead trees. The City of Indianapolis is removing dead elm trees in some areas while spraying others ini, parks and playgrounds in a frantic effort to save them.

limbs and twigs while not guaran-. teeing that the trees will live.

regrets, for years,” says the state expert.

reduced to ruin by the Dutch elm disease.” i

that there isn't anything known yet that will wipe out the plague and that very “little about Its spread. 0 For instance, six trees in one Sas block may wither and die while

‘Elm bark beetle ( {rently en-

larged) . . . principal carrier of Dutch elm disease fungus.

“It is just about impossible to Mr. Wal-

but

Meanwhile, throughout Indian-

Tree experts are prunning dead

Mr. Wallace says they will not.

Dying im on the shatehoute grounds es symbolical of what | | is happening to elm trees throughout Hoosierland,

a seventh growth. On the other hand, one tree in a yard may wilt while! two or three others remain uns {touched. Some of the more h trees have been known to die within 30 or 60 days, Mr. Wal-| lace said, while others flounder! along for years with one dying at a time. Mr. Wallace believes the plague! eventually ‘will wipe out all the! elms in Indiana and the midwest. Indianapolis Parks and Recreation Department spokesmen do not claim to be experts. They say elm trees are being sprayed with the most powerful available and withered limbs andj branches are being removed. 4

logist. “Moreover there is no way of telling whether they are carrying the disease which destroys | the tree.” The Dutch elm disease encircles the tree beneath with bark Inface tion .and Gg death. The beetles which carry it may “I have seen it coming, with be found in every elm tree in Indiana and they can fly for miles. “I have been advising/If they happen to ‘property owners and friends against planting elm trees. I have seen beautiful blocks of property

healthy tree after leaving an infected tree, the healthy tree Is| doomed, .

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. | SUNDAY, AUG. 6, 1950 ‘Buster’ Provides Police Problem : Indiana Woman Held

Police yesterday morning saw Across the street sitting on 3 In Husband's Death a man sleeping on the pavement window ag—when po-| LA PORTE, Aug. 5 (UP)—

lin the 400 block on Indiana Ave.lice retirned a second time was Mrs. Eva Clark, 54, was held toThey awakened him with a “go “Buster.” ._ |day pending a grand jury in4 home, Buster.” : . Last aight “Buster” ~ wa sieep- vestigation into the death of her

,/A short time later the officers ing in the jail after having, been husband, who ued yesterday returned and the man was lean- booked as Luther Whitfield, 29, from shotgun wou

a bullding— Before he died, Charles Clark, | ing against ng—sleeping’ of 516 Agnes St. He will ap a. sald ‘his wife shot Him.’ But “Go home, Buster” they

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