Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1950 — Page 23
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By ED SOVOLA I A PUSHOVER for little kids, more the merrier.
Forty-one second-graders of School 2, 700 N. Delaware St., have my number. But let's start from the beginning.
A couple of weeks ago,
Teacher Ruth Milhous took
her class to the Central Library where the youngsters received their first library cards. It was a great event
for them. For me, too. Five boys and girls were in the picture that accompanied my “Inside Indianapolis” column. I wrote about. the “big,. wonderful new world” that was at their fingertips. And I hoped they would begin “a long and pleasant journey” with books,
= ” ” ABOUT a week later a package arrived. Inside were 41 Jetters, The most wonderful letters ever to cross my desk. They were to the point, most
of the time as clear and fresh as a raindrop in spring. “Dear Mr. Sovola: I wished you would put my picture in the paper, Hershel Lawrence.” “Dear Mr. Sovola: I thank
eo You. How are you? I am fine, Lonnie Cox.”
“Dear Mr. Sovola: We liked
the picture and story very much. I was the first one to bring it to school. I thank you, Cathern Noakes.” “Dear Mr. Sovola: I went to the library. I saw you. The man
Dorris Wayne Tyree went to the International Dairy Exposi-
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tion and drew "Elsie", the Borden cow.
took Edward Neel.”
“Dear Mr. Sovola: I liked the
our picrures,
way you took George's picture. ,
When are you coming again? Kenneth Irwin.”
“Dear Mr. Sovola: That was fine of you to put a story about us in the paper. I like the story. Did you like us? Jerry Thomas Gasper.” ; # » »
COULD anyone resist going back to School 27 I called Miss Milhous and told her some morning I'd pop in with a photographer, She said the children anticipated this and had something special to show me, The class went to the International - Dairy Exposition at the Fairgrounds. The next day everyone drew a cow or a reasonable facsimile. Anyway, when Photographer Henry Glesing and I walked into the classroom, the kids were so excited they couldn't repress squeals. The big, black
camera that flashed was like a magnet. i “Take my picture, take my
. picture,” was the general cry.
Despite the efforts of Miss Milhous and Butler Uniyersity Practice Teacher Marilyn Ken-
der, everyone talked and laughed and a few took off on
gyrations ghat made no sense to me. I guess they work off energy that way. # » u
HERSHEL LAWRENCE, the bby who “wished” his picture was in the paper almost choked on the apple he was eating while Henry focused his camera. He tried hard to look unconcerned. Andrejes Ozolins, the boy from Latvia, was photographed next. He wrote in his letter: “Thank you for writing about me, I like America. Your friend, Andrejes.” Hi, buddy, I'm glad you like the best there is. Jeanetta Lechion and Betty Gross love to feed the two white rats in their-room. The rats are used to demonstrate to the children the importance of diet. One rat is fed candy and soft
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«. . first row (left to right) Jean Prince, George Higgins, Sharon Wi
lkerson, David Calvin, Mary Irwin,
Shirley Dickerson, Betty Asher, Lonnie Cox, David Vastine, Geraldine Raymer, Donald McKinzie and Willard Bush. Second row (left to right): Paul Ford, Gloria Smith, Joyce Noe, Patsy Bundren, Howard Wilkerson, Kenneth Irwin, Elaine Sheppherd, Norma Barnett, Norman Everett, Julie Sampson, Hershel Lawrence and Patsy Lou Foster. Third row (left to right): Mona Ramine, Willie D. Smith, Jerry Gasper, Dale Patterson, Kenneth Brown, Edward Neel, Norma Piatt, Andrejes Ozolins, Parker McCurry, Vernon Reynolds and Jeffrey Peters. Fourth row (left to right) Alexandria Krest, Jeanetta Lechion, Betty Gross, Cathern Noakes, Dorris Wayne Tyree and
William Apple. drinks. The other is given milk and cheese and other vitamin foods. I don't know whether the girls or the rats were more excited when the picture was being taken. o = » THE BIG operation was the class picture, No one would be left out.. My hat again comes off to the stamina and patience of our school teachers, What is it about children that prompts a person to say, “God love them’ when you feel as if a hurricane had just passed through the room? I think Miss Milhous’ students shouldn't feel neglected. They won't until a new: student appears and shoots a letter: “Dear Mr. Sovola: You took pictures. I wasn't here, Now I'm here,
Come out and take my picture, :
Johnny.”
Thriving Speedway Remains a Town
Community Looks
To 10,000 Population
By CARL HENN PEEDWAY, Ind. — One. of the richest towns in the state — advances while - gtanding still. Population in this quiet, well-kept community is on the rise. Money flows into its homes and business coffers with satisfying regularity. Prospects are better today than they have ever been. But stubborn, conservative Speedway is a town, not a city; And it has growing pains. Bituated at the left hand of “central Indianapolis, Speedway gazes with cool disinterest upon the big city's crowded streets, its slums, its politics and its cost. The good burghers of 'W. 16th St. have none of these problems. Their worries concern, chiefly, the size of the Town Board, the sewers, the question of a disposal plant and the amount of money a new fire truck will cost next year. » » n SPEEDWAY is governd by three men. There is no mayor. No city council. Just a Town Board of three men, ‘elected every four years, to carry the burden of " decisions for more than 5400 residents. Town status has been deliberately retained by Speedway. The. coramunity has ignored its opportunity to become ‘a firth class city, an opportunity _grantsd by the state to every town in which the -population exceeds 2000 and is less than . 10,000. : There are other, similarlysituated towns in Indiana. West Terre Haute, East Gary and North Manchester have well
ever 2000 population. Munster, fn Lake County, and Greendale,
goross the street from Law-
renceburg, are equally rich or more so. So Speedway is not alone in {ts determination pot to become & city for some time, at least. But - opinion Is divided on
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Speedway's schools are in excellent sha
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School, brand-new and modern, is a source of civic pride.
show little concern over th problem. % : = “After all,” they say, “we have good men running the town. honest. 1 guess we'll. probably get a larger Town Board at the election next year if we need one.” w " » THE DISPOSAL plant problem seems to be of major concern, if any problem is of major concern today In placid Speedway. : Raw sewage—more than a million gallons a day—flows out of Speedway homes, business places and industries—especially the industries—into Big Eagle Creek on ths west. a Planned and ready to build is a trickling filter disposal plant with a capacity of 2 million ‘gallons a day.
But its erection has been
blocked by a temporary injunction obtained by a number of people living near the Speedway
T5-acre dumping and disposal
tract on Big Eagle Creek. i The plant will produce unho ‘that area. something less
2 Ain't so, according to Mpeed-
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way town fathers.- Modern plants produce no steneh. Besides, the disposal Installation has been in the works for years, before most of those people settled in the area, they maintain. : The case is pending before the Indiana Supreme Court. Meanwhile, raw sewage continues to flow into Big Eagle Creek. » . rn THOSE INDUSTRIES within the Speedway area are In a large part responsible for the alr of financial security Imparted by shining new automobiles and freshly-painted homes
St. Christopher's Catholic School also
Speedway business establishments are concentrated on Main St. between W. 10th St. and W. 16th St. The bank, the department e, the movie . . . all do well in one of Indiana's richest towns. ;
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is new, Like Speedway
homes and- business ‘houses, it will stay neat and clean.
as personal property in Speedway. or Speedway is neighborly and solid. x
” - » " PRESIDENT of the Town Board this year is Gus H. Schoenewey, construction foreman for Wm. P. Jungclaus Co. contractors. His two associates on the board are Raymond H. Stewart, chemist and -metallur-
gist at Linde Air Products, and .
Floyd Bilbee, who works at Esterline-Angus. Active in civic affairs and interested in Speedway's future are such men as Willlam F. Rosner, president of Speedway State Bank, and Floyd Farley, owner ahd operator of Farley Plumbing and Heating Supply Co. Clerk-treasurer of Speedway is J. Wayne Baxter, who keeps the finances and engineer, or, more town maintenance
of Town Hall. They are assisted, when the need arises, by 18 volunteer firemen who might be classed as semi-pro fire fighters, since they are paid $2 for
each run. * ~ » n
MAGISTRATE George Ober wields the court gavel in Speedway. School board members, are Robert Kryter, Robert Thomas and Winfield Wood. The -20n-
‘ing board apd planning com-
mission can recommend action to the Town Board, but have rio authority. Planning and zoning ocontinue to be important in Speedway, however, because growth is still continuing. . ~The population has more than doubled in the 10 years from 1940 to 1950. Where will it be in 19607 Depends on business, on annexation of areas to the west and northwest, depends on a lot of things, residents say. But
they are willing to guess that
Speedway will include 10,000 residents by 1960. That's doubling again. Not
Andrejes Ozolihs wants to be a friend.
Million Dollar Display Opens Today By HENRY BUTLER THE “Holbein and His Contemporaries” show, ich opened to the public at Herron Art Museum tqday, is, among other things, a wonderful chapter in cultural history, This fabulous exhibit of North European Renaissance paintings, open free to the public, i8 much more than just a $1 million art show. It’s a lesson in the complex relationship between art and life. As such, it may remind us of a lot we've lost out of our own lives. We may like to think things were simpler in the 15th and 16th Centuries, when the Holbeins, Elder and Younger, Pieter Breughel the Elder, Quentin Massys; Lucas Cranach, Hieronymus Bosch and their fellows were painting. Actually, things were far less simple than they are for us. We may have a grasp of more literal, scientific truth, which warms our houses and deepfreezes our strawberries and even brings Arthur Godfrey into our living room. But we've Jost a great deal of poetic truth, a wealth of symbolism that inspired the Renaissance artista and was woven Into the texture
of their work,
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DESPITE the historic effects
-of gunpowder and world-round -
voyages, the Renaissance still clung to Medieval lore. You gee it in these magnificent paintings—the loving attention to birds, beasts, harbs and trases that meant so much to the Medieval mind as symbols of religious belief. When everything in nature had poetic significance -— the meekness of the lamb, the purity of the lily—everytaing was, In the st sense, a “natural” for @ artist. He didn’t have to strain for effects, large part of the work in this show is symbolic and decorative In a religious sensa. Some of the fine items are remnants of altar pieces and triptychs on Scriptural subjects. ” . »
BUT SOME artists represented don’t fit easily into categories. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), in a small painting of “The Garden of Paradise,”
lent by the Ban Diego Fine Arts Gallery, and “Christ Presented to the People,” from the collection of Dr. G. H. A. Clowes, Bosch goes deeper than most, of his contemporaries into the portrayal of human cruelty figures of the perseoutops, with of deformity and
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Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr., Times 8taff Photographer. Hershel Lawrence . . . his wish comes true.
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"Charlotte of France.” by Clouet.
disease, become dreadful symbols of evil. , Holbein the Younger (149771543) was an ancestor of what we currently might term a “pix-mag” photographer. He probably came as close as any great portraitist has come to being a potential journalist. In his years in England, he did a series of portraits of great and near-great personages that still provide a living, fascinating record of the troubled era of Henry VIII. * Among the seven Holbein the Younger items in the Herron show are grim-looking Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex; sen: sible-looking Erasmus, the great Humanist, in a tiny por-
trait loaned by Mrs, E. Arthur
Ball of Muncie, and e self-por-trait, showing Holbela as 8 vigorous,
Rich Symbolism of Renaissance Exemplified in Holbein Art Exhibit
“Self Portrait," by Holbein.
ELSEWHERE in the show you'll see things like idealized pictures of noblemen, flatter.
ingly represented as mytho= logical heroes on horseback, You'll see clerics as saints, wealthy burghers as connoisseurs, And In the background of most of the larger, and many of the smaller, paintings, you'll see the clear, luminous sky and limitless, fascinating landscape and fanciful architecture Renaissance painters lovéd to experiment with, The show is amazingly alive, When I saw it the other day, before the hanging was complete, some examples wera = standing against gallery walis under some modern pain As the eye traveled upward, the contrast was a bit of & shock. It the reflects
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