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Spent $1 Million On Streets In '50

Over $500,000 Expended for Widening, Resurfacing Alone, Engineer Reveals The best advertising stunts here

By DAVID WATSON Indianapolis motorists will close the year 1850 by rolling ter years rng he same ones used 25 wheels on more than $1 million. { he biggest block to developThat is how much the city spent this year on paving jobs- and | a of a high-pressure,” freethe servicing of unimproved streets. {spending advertising world modMost of the work has been completed but some contracts let by 'eled on the U. 8. style, however,

the Works Board will not be completed until construction crews get! [18 ihe fast What newsapen, 25: A break in the freezing weather. , } any publicity stunt. no matter William R. Hunt, city engineer, from accumulating and causing, t wi 2 capt he said approximately $583,795 was further damage. Full width pav- he n "Dag: BA ith bY 2 Sbomsors drawn from city funds to resur-ing approached this year's length. |, gp y 2 spon; face and widen streets since! Permanent roadways which * jan. 1. This is enough to finish brought another 12 miles to the Six girls showing their legs In about 13 miles at current costs. |city were financed through assess-|& Store window to advertise stockAbout seven miles have been ment of property owners and (ings brought court trouble. Dare# completed, with the remaindericlimbed to a total of $552,713, devil stunts bring recriminations under -contract and awaiting the These are to: be paid for under|from outraged citizens. Mam“go ahead” from Old Man Winter. Barrett Law, the legal “easy pay-| {moth posters only make better Most of these projects included ment” plan for such improves backgrounds for political handinstallation of street drainage ments. ibills ines. ; Road graders cut into the Even U. 8. firms in Italy have Curbs and Sidewalks humps of some 160 miles of un- Sliven up and changed their style Curbs and sidewalks drained improved roadways, Street Com-/to suit Italian tastes. their share of costs from the missioner Tony Malo reported. Girls To Pretty udget allocations to the tune of They also received oil-treatment. | Coca-Cola introduced its famed 209.506. Reduced to tangible re-| Mr. Malo said he is outlining a|gories of lovely poster girls all! ults, this means 2618 lineal feet Program designed to bring grad-\,ver 1taly, Today the only fig-| Jf curb construction went under (Ing or treatment to the complete as well as 9377 feet of 350 miles under his Jurisdiction) sidewalks. next year, Four additional miles of walk-, Allocation of more money will|

le, he said. vay were put in by city crews play a vital role, {women just brought nothing but| ho placed one and a half miles| The 1950 task of covering 160 trouble, even if there wasn’ \f curb and resurfaced four miles miles of streets cost the city ap-| \thing indecent about them. The

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Reactions Not Same As in America

ROME, Dec. 16 (UP)-—Enthu-siastic advertising men who hoped to clean up in post-war Italy with American techniques have been almost whipped by the curious reactions of the Italian ‘public.

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Pioneers Mixed

Play With Work : By CARL HENN “THE AMUSEMENTS of Indiana pioneers were peculiar to themselves.” Taken from a “History of Bartholomeéw County, Indiana,” by Brant and Fuller, the above sentence was an accyrate description of recreation in the state's early days. Its settlers, born amid rude sur-| { roundings, raised in aharsh land,| fed the simplest of foods and ‘simply educated, were seldom ,inclined to sophisticated pleasures. Hoosier social life of more than ‘a century ago revolved about spelling-bees, revival meetings, singing - schools, sugar - boilings, sewing-bees and weddings. Occasionally, a torchlight parade was held 1by a Political § party

This is one of a series of articles on early days in Indiana, appearing in the Sunday Times.

or lodge group, exciting small

A "hoe-down" followed the husking bee.

part of the evening's’ entertain-| the length of the bed, and a corn-

boys almost to distraction. ment, Sepesially | it was winter shuck mattress provided padding. land sleighs n use.” Because everyone had to work “Home,” for nearly all except] When guests came, they were

{hard and constantly to survive, th given the bed, in a universal gese most prosperous, was a log g neighbors banded together and cabin chinked with clay, one story| ture of hospitality, while the

j1ound pleasure in HE iment: high and with one or two rooms|family bedded down in another

(tasks. a and a loft, .| corner of the room or in the loft. | Popular, therefore, were log-| Over the large fireplace which| “Sometimes,” said the history, $i WEEKLY {rollings, corn-huskings, beap-/warmed the cabin hung iron|“when there were several guests o |PICKings, apple-parings and quilt- kettles, and at one side was the|at once, the women spread one

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BUT Saturday afternoon was haps a Dutch skillet for baking./The men were requested to step now . . . and

a time for rest and, if there was| Corn bread, hominy and pork|outside while the women put

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Figures for 1949 indicate that declared.

ome 43 miles of streets were

vorked, but engineers said only! CANADA IN BLACK

, portion of that total represents ictual resurfacing.

put the long-limbed girls in stock- Saturday afternoon, fun com- kins. and OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 16 (UP)—|P on Saturday pumpkins, I'he Canadian federal treasury IDES stopped traffic. Twenty min-imenced,” according to the county honey.

{big complaint was that they were {reason to go, a trip to the nearest or game furnished the usual diet./ themselves to bed. just too attractive.” {town, {It was supplemented by a few| “Then the signal was given and A Milan deparfment store which] “When the town was reached vegetables, such as beans or|the men came in. Each husband sweetened. by took his place beside his own

{utes later the manager was an-|pjstory. Wheat bread, tea, coffee and| yond them on the outside.

wife, and the single men lay be- :

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1 Ste process, designed to all | nance Minister D. C. "Abbott an- A Rome pastry shop opened racks and prevent water seepage ‘nounced yesterday. {with the announcement that an A SRA RA RA NE A lk Mt SA artist was going to paint a mural

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Borate special cake boxes. CHRISTMAS DRUM 1

The store sold one box in two NOVELTY center piece Cash and Carry

yf passersby who protested that “the |young man is being treated like 8 a slave.” Sandwich men have been hooted off the streets by pedestrians claiming that “national dignity is being offended.”

fl days and had to fight off angry. with attractive single

growing poinsettia.

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Planned at Manual

# Christmas music will be feaif turned Tuesday in the Manual High School auditorium, with the choir, the girls’ glee clubs and ithe orchestra presenting the pro-

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“Whisky was almost as free as fruit were luxuries seldom seen| “They were generally so water; 12%; cents would buy a except when visitors were present.| crowded that they had to lie quart and 35 or 40 cents a gallon, ‘spoon fashion.’ When anyone and at such prices enormous THE FAMILY bed was set in wished to turn over he would say quantities were consumed. a corner, where supports ran to|‘Spoon,’ and the whole company “Go to any town in Bartholo-{each wall from a post set in the|of sleepers would turn over at mew County and ask the first old floor. Clapboards were laid along the same time.” pioneer you meet (the history was published in 1888) and he will tell you of notable Satur-day-afternoon fights, any of which today would fill a column of police news, with elaborate engravings besides.”

” & » ~ AS THE HISTORY recounts, “in early times, all amusement was preceded by work—every good time was earned.” When the crops were gathered, for instance, the corn was put in a long pile and neighbors were invited in to husk it, after which a ‘“hoe-down” ‘dance would be heid to the music of a fiddler.

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“In the huskings both sexes took part, the huskers being divided into parties, each with a When a lady found a red| ear of corn, she was entitled to a kiss from every gentleman: present; when a gentleman found! | lone, he was allowed to kiss every| : {lady Present.” " |

” ® | SPELLING-SCHOOLS were

_|celebrated for memorable encount{ers between champion spellers in| |

{When they could not be stumped {by ordinary words, jones were introduced.

We Have It Direct From Santa . ..

[the history continued, “the next) thing was to go home, very often

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the community. Two young persons were!’ {selected as captains. They picked |! |others, in turn, until two teams [had been chosen. Battle lines/§ were drawn , . . the spelling book was opened . . . the pronouncer| § gave the first word . . . and the contest was on. It sometimes lasted throughout! ; lan evening, especially if there {were good spellers on both sides.

outlandish The pronouncer might give out]? Indian words, such as “Ompom-| panoosuc,’ or ‘“Baugh-naugh-claugh- -ber,” or a French term, like “chevaux-de-frise.”

But if the words had been heard in the neighborhood before, the)!

once ended in a draw.

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by -a roundabout way, which was| with many the most interesting

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