Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1950 — Page 18
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worth of entertainment. They never had it so good even during World War II
, | when big business went brought. . . . The Treasury's Bu
spendthrift tossing parties for million government checks in people with government contracts 1950, |
in their pockets.
Luckily for the poor taxpayer, most of this dough was spent by gen, Wild Bill Langer of North private capitalists and thus didn't Dakota is passing out cigars in come out of the public treasury. honor of an 8-pound grandson. Biggest official party of the year Charles Bohlen, minister at. the —Secretary of State Dean Ache- American Embassy in Paris, and | son's reception for heads of for- Mrs. Bohlen have a new daughter, eign missions—cost a mere §1600. their third child, and Assistant
Yeah, mere is the word— when you compare that tab to the folding money spent by people like the Joe (Mission to Moscow) Davies. An ‘average, fairly big dinner at the Davies’ sets Joe back a good $3500$4000, including lobster and champagne and a 20-piece orchestra. Mrs. Morris Cafritz, the -capital’s No. 1 party-giver, isn’t quite 80 lavish but it's a tough night for the grub and booze industry
when a party of hers doesn’t run’ ____
up a bill of $1000. Even the simple tea party runs to dough in this town. If you serve just tea and cakes-—no al-cohol--the tab will come to around $100 for 50 people. Biggest party of the year from an official standpoint is the an-
nual celebration of Pan-American|
Day when the Latin-Americay countries get together and shell
out just under $10,000 to feed food § L/S
and. whisky to 3000 guests. President Truman's been lucky. He's still living in Blair House while the White House is being repaired, and so he has to keep his parties small.
State dinners, like those given
for the Shah of Iran and Prime
Minister Attlee of Great Britain, % usually are limited to about 20 to|
30 guests, and even including the
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Entertainment Bill Hits All-Time Peak During '50
By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—Maybe everybody else is glad to see the last of 1950, but Washington s entertainment industry is hoping for a New Year just like the old one. For 1950 was the year when the town’s hotel keepers, caterers and whisky sellers sold capital fun-lovers $5 million
$5 Million
{see is still tired after Christmas. + His four kids all got up'at 5 a. m. ,/to check up on what Santa had!
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VITAL STATISTICS DEPT.:
Secretary of State and Mrs. George McGhee have a new
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man in the Senate when he takes over his seat Jan. 3. He's only 5 feet 5 fussiest man you ever saw with] neckties. Sometimes it takes him |
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Red Cross Put On War Footing
, Civil Defense Program Revised in '50
Service to men in the armed forces and emphasis upon civil |defénge featured the Red Cross
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best of wines, Mr. Big usually gets 10 minutes to get tho thing tied program.in 1950, Harlan J. Had-
out of-it for around $1000. The taxpayer foots the bill, of course. | It's a good thing we didn’t have | to inaugurate a Presidént in 1950, |
though. The year before 5000 peo-
in the morning. (ley, chairman of the Indianapolis Gov. Pastore also is the first Red Cross chapter, said today. citizen of 1talian descent ever to| . Outbreak of fighting in Korea sit in the Senate and one of thé and subsequent mobilization re-
ibest spaghetti cooks in New Eng- vived the wartime services of the
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Rhode HOT LASIORE, Old Lithographic Stones nas ui ou oe FOFM Border of Driveway
* Brought From Germany, Relics Are
Landmarks of 19th Century Business Era
A collection of Bavarian stones, landmarks of the prosperous {he near future. Officials say at| | 19th Century business world, lle crumbling in a North Side yard. I Obsolete now in the lithographic process, the printed bank checks, bonds and stock certificates for financial! 1 institutions throughout the country, and i The stones border the driveway of the former Glossbrenner stroy
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/Other wheat producing states hit * lin varying degrees were Colorado, | . Illinois, Towa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, :/Ohlo, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania! . Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. : Loss Was H : ‘| The duram wheat crop was hardest hit with losses estimated iat more than 10,000,000 bushels—| {about 20 per cent of the crop. {Some badly damaged fields had to, . be plowed or burned. { wi | A dual control program, worked
out at a recent meeting of wheat {breeders, pathologists, and bar-
ONE: Eradication of barberry, '* « bushes on which wheat stem rust “4 spores propagate. | TWO: Development of “race! {15b” rust-resistant wheat varie-| |ties, | Most varieties of wheat are! {now resistant to all the old races lof stem rust, but all are highly [susceptible to the new type. | The Department of Agriculture {holds little hope for the develop-| iment of rust-resistant wheat in!
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best it will take several years. | | Meanwhile, they advise wheat Stones Once r,rmers not to change varieties, plant good seed, use phosphate potash fertilizers—and de-!
any barberry plants found home, 3202 N. Meridian St. One on the farm. {
of Indianapolis’ oldest families,| The department said a recur-| the Glossbrenners have been rence of the 1950 outbreak de-! prominent in business and social/pends on weather conditions, | affairs. suscepti Doss, and the ahupd. The late Mrs. A. M. Gloss-/ance o ent spores which are brenner obtained the stones, to farried from field to field by the protect her flower beds, from the Wind. vaults of the former Levy Print-
ing Co., with which her husband was identified, i Jliage OWS Son Heads Firm | ; . The Levy company was sup-| planted in 1940 by Shield Press| y ! or S and moved from. north of the : State House to 2020 Montcalm St. ‘ : Some Additions
son, George . Glossbrenner, heads the new firm. May Be Temporary NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UP)—|
The historic stones span decades and thousands of miles.
i ple attended the Presidents’ co./1and. He was born on St. Pat- Red Cross, including the Home Several date back to 1870, when Funk & Wagnall¥ new supple-|
ception at the National Gallery of Art, No liquor was served be-| cause it's against regulations, but| the bill for sandwiches, sweets, coffee, tea and fruit punch came to $14,000.
» u ». It’s not clear whether this Is | considered a break for the gal- « lery or not, but they've installed
Providence he always helps the and Production departments. Irish to celebrate “his” birthday.| Major Red Cross activities in * = 8 jclvil defense have been. ADM. RICHARD E. BYRD'S | ONE: Training of approximate-
Emily Saltonstall, daughter of the classes a week since July. Massachusetts Senator, is running| TWO: Training in home nursa television store in Boston. ing care of sick and injured. An
There now are nine women in average of eight classes have been transferred to bond paper.
the wiring for a microphone |Congress—an all-time high. Sen. in session each week since July.
system in the Semate chamber. {Margaret Chase Smith heads the
If the Senators decidé they want
list as the only Upper House mem- A-Attack Training
irick's Day and back home in Service, Canteen, Motor Service|they were imported from Sonth- ment lists about 150 new words
{offen, Germany, a lithographic that are in current use but whose stone mining center, future is doubtful. In the printing process, the Among them are: {surface ofthe stones was care-| -Atomshik— advocate of atomic
(son, Richard II, who's married to|ly 2000 persons in first aid, 50 fully prepared by lthograpic en-/ Warfare, applied by the Soviet
|gravers working .with very fine NéWSpaper Pravda to certain needles. Then ink was worked into Ames: ican statesmen and military the tiny crevices and the design Men. ¥y ign Alayag—swet potato seocktail snack developed by the U. S. AgriVanishing Craftsmen jculture Dept.
Even the lithographic engravers Beef-cake — display of manly
.| THREE: Fmergency feeding are vanishin ft. . . pulchritude, like a barrel chest. the system, there'd be one mike {ber, Representatives include Fran gency Bg ing craftsmen. Few re
to every two Senators, plus ond { for the Vice President. |
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Lucrative Law
A GOOD example of how rich you can get practicing law in
Washington was that wedding of ly
Margery Clifford, daughter of Clark Clifford, the former counsel to President Truman. Five hundred guests showed up|
wedding supper, w included all
dhe usual elegant eatables and And She Dies
bwoze by the tank car load. The, ents and drinks were served in a tent only slightly smaller than Ringling’s which was equipped with central heating. And Papa Clifford has been in| private practice here less than a! year. | » Incidentally, Marvin Braver- | man, Margaret Truman's boy friend, was one of the ushers at the wedding, He says he's been one so often he told the man he | rented his cutaway from that he ought to get a yearly rate. 8 8 = { A LOT of big shots in this town are nervous as cats these days.! Seems they've signed up to sing]
. or dance or otherwise cavort in an mourning her,
Amateur Hour to be staged by the Women’s National Press Club Jan. 25.
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for th d last! §. : Of TheEONY and Svery me Judy's Bell Fails
ithe Jacobs farm, where she had I {been. raised, {dreds of children who came to see Her and to pose for many photographers,
ces Bolton of Ohio, Fdith Nourse and shelter facilities planned in Rogers of Massachusetts, Eva case of atomic attack. Volunteer Beck Bosone of Utah, Edna F.|8roups organized to feed an estiKelly and Katherine St. George mated 200,000 persons and tem-
Indiana, Marguerite E. Church of worked out to protect 300,000 perIllinois and Ruth Thompson. {sons. Emergency clothing plans | There wasn't a single Repub-|also developed. : can on hand at that dinner Phil-}] FOUR: Decentralization of disippine Ambassador Mike Elizalde aster relief organization by sepa{gave for Foreign Minister Gen. rate committees in each town and {Carlos Romulo. {township of Marion County. Other 1950 activities of the Red {Cross included recruiting of {nurses for polio duty in local {hospitals and continued services {to patients at the veterans hospiFRANKLIN, Pa. Dec. 30 (U.P.) tals, including the Gray Lady and —Judy was no ordinary doe and blood donor programs. James Jacobs wanted to be sure rr ee that no hunter thought she was. 3 : That's why he hung a bell PTA will Discuss . around her neck when she took Teen-Age Dating
her frequent jaunts into the Teen-age “dating” will be the
woods. She always returned to iat of the Manual Training
Nu {igh School PTA meeting at 7: p. m. Wednesday in the school library. The subject will be discussed
. by Dr. and Mrs. Frank M. Liddle. Everybody in Venango county py, ‘io’ 1ngiana se ad
knew Judy and they soon came YMCA. N to recognize the tinkling of her A. Mr. and Mrs. John Ryan bell as she loped through the
to greet the
woods near her adopted home, | ton Meeting. | Women should include more/| 201 Traction Terminal Bldg. Now her many friends are pARY THINGS PREFERRED hash snd stew in their husbands 110 N. illinois St.
NEWPORT, R. 1, Dec. 30 (UP) —Maybe he was .an expectant father. The burglar who broka in-
Judy tramped off in the subfreezing weather. A man from a neighboring farm was out, too,
y to Jane's dress shop ignored the Naturally, Veep Alben Barkley nhynting. He detected a deer mov- : will be one of the stars of the ing quietly through the woods. He firm's cash and stole only five
show but he won't tell anybody fired. Judy fell dead. The clapper Maternity garmeats.
what he's going to do. Others signed up include House Bpeaker Sam Raybufn and Stuart the National Security Resources Board, besides a covey of admirals, generals, and socialites. 8 a -
MARGARET TRUMAN ge tsias worshipful master of Hosbrook $1500 for a concert and $3000 for Masonic Lodge 473 Tuesday night . Mrs. Joe!in public ceremonies in the lodge Davies, wife of the former Am- hall in New Augusta.
a radio appearance ,
bassador to Moscow, brought one!
of those big towel-like bathrobes are Clell Taylor, senior warden; into a furrier the other day and Raymond Starkey, junior wartold him to “Duplicate this—in den; Joseph Needler, treasurer; mink” . . . Rep.-Elect Fred Bus- Paul R. Young, secretary; Denbey of Illinois is no stranger here. ze] Waltman, senior steward; He was elected in 1942, defeated Forrest W. Sewell, chaplain, and In 1944, elected in 1946 and licked (Wayne Mendell, tyler.
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again in 1948, Standard Oil Heiress Mrs. Anne| Archbold has a new hobby-the|
rassling shows at Turner's “=A steeplejack used a helicopter sev A Ee: Ee hvana, to hitch his bo’suns chair to the| out a lady to a friend at a party |toP of a 150-foot factory chimney the other day. “That's U. 8, 80 he could paint it. 3
Treasurer Georgia Neese Clark--| she autographed a dollar bill for me the other day,” he boasted. The lady turned to to be Mrs. Veep,
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Installation Planned By Masonic Lodge
| Roy Gammons will be installed
Others officers to be installed
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DR. GOSMAN Features ONE DAY SERVICE ON NEW DENTAL PLATES
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main in the United States, where! Brink—one million, in humor{printing processes are now on Ous allusion to the Brink robbery jan assembly line basis. in Boston. 7 | The Glossbrenner stones bear DButterlegger—one who tries to
{of New York, Cecil M. Harden of porary shelters in 300 buildings/such names as Monroe, O. Na- Palm off oleomargarine as butter.
tional Bank, Milroy Ind. Bank, , Far-owner—a prospect for raWilliam Schumacher Bank, Elgin, 110 advertising. Ill, and Union Parish School! Grabbit—a-hoarder. Board, Farmerville, La. Selevator—automatic self-sery- | Mr. Glossbrenner said the ola /c® elevator. lHthographic process is pratc- = i tically obsolete. Only companies Has Eye for Trade : making decalcomanias use it com- a : { mercially now, Even in Korea Decalcomanias, used to printi NORMAN, Okla. Dec. 30 (UP) labels on furniture, are similar —Herbert L. Hough, operator of to stamps schoolboys moisten to Herb’s cafe here, has learned ad-| transfer designs to their arms, |Vertising pays even at'long dis-| lato sesioa enn kom | tance. i
y. : 0 hi , Advises Meat Buyers ne of 8 newest customers
Against Costly Taste Sabhishment m 8 Jot
| CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 30 (UP) The officer's letter said “Eat at —If you ha ‘e a champagne taste Herh's cafe in Norman, Oklayou'll pay champagne prices, Louis homa." was scrawled in chalk on | Kahn of Cincinnati said. here. walls all over Youngbyon, Korea. | Mr. Kahn was speaking of meat, ppp. Hough figures his son, Pte. and he compared the sparkling Melvin Hough, is doing the adver-
wine to the finest cuts of steak, “Homemakers should remember Using. elvin plans to take over
there are plenty of other good cuts the cafe when he TEturns.
of meat and plenty of appetizing _— ways to serve them,” Kahn said. New Loan Office Opens
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ed less expensive cuts. When the man of the house goes near the {meat counter, he's likely to buy {steaks, roasts and chops, he said.
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Courthouse Workers fo Change . very shales ecais o 5. ATE 8 Years Issuing Permits to Wed
Biggest Year Was 1946, But Gathering
War Clouds Is Booming Business Again # By BOB BOURNE In the last eight years, two workers in the county clerk's office have issued marriage licenses to enough persons to match the population of Ft. Wayne. When you figure 58,393 licenses_issued and the resulting off-
spring from these mafriages you get an idea of the part these!
two women played in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Indianapolis.
Mrs. Violette Payne (left) and Mrs. Georgia Conrad . . . a lot of people got married.
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“That was our biggest year, probably the biggest year in the history of the courthouse. We sold {9249 licenses, and nearly 500 of them were issued after hours at my home. “Servicemen were just coming home, and couples who had been separated for long periods of time were getting back together.
Mrs. Violette Payne, 813 Tecumseh Pl, and Mrs. Georgia there was this reporter, and even Conrad, 5855 E. 18th St. have the daughter of Enzio Pinza, fafilled more than a dozen large MOUS opera singer. books with the records of the! And many actors have chosen licenses they have issued. | Indianapolis in which to buy their Now they are leaving the mar-| = Conses. riage license business. Mrs. Son Carly VERY. YOUF hin She Payne will begin a new job Tues-| 18 get at Teast two piem:. day in the auditor's office, and|y . "oud get at ‘eas men
Mrs. Conrad will assume new bers of the staff,” Mrs; Payne
duties in the county treasurer's Some of those who hold senti-
office. ments attachments for the an-
But the 58,000 couples who have, obtained their license to wed from | cient Marion County Court House
| because they bought their wedhe Jair. UI remember them | ding licenses there, have stopped Among the ali will remem. to let Mrs, Payne know about it. ber is the former Governor of| Many Invitations Ohio, Thomas J. Herbert and his| T get Sans ahd invitations 21 bride. They called at the desk in the time.” Mrs. Payiy Bal January of 1948 to obtain their Ma coup 1 Retr Chl license. helt homes, and some e chilSon Got License There “A great many of the letters There are many, many others come from ex-servicemen and ineluding Mrs. Payne's son, Jack, their wives who bought their liwho got his license from his |censes to wed at my home during mother in December, 1947. Then 1946.
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They couldn't wait for their licenses, and I didn’t try to make them. Sells Many at Home
“I have sold a lot more of them at home these days, with the Ko-
rean situation looking so bad,” Mrs. Payne said. Largest daily sale of licenses the clerks remember came the day Mrs. Conrad was married, Dec. 22, 1945. She had obtained her own license, of course from Mrs. Payne. “That was the busiest day we ever had,” Mrs. Payne remembered. “I sold 108 certificates that day, and had to have three helpers to take Mrs. Conrad's place.”
A graph on the sale of mariage licenses looks like a mountain, The peak comes in 1946 and the valleys are represented by 1944 and 1949. Now a peak is building lagain, The sale of licenses this year compares with the sale in 1942,
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