Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1951 — Page 8

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Early Log Buildings Had Greased Paper . -

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William O. Norris . ..

Some Drivers

Autoists Even Whittle

, ‘Trying fo Save 5 Cents

Broomsticks in Effort to Fool Meters

By DAVID

How much is a penny worth To some Indianapolis citizens

hours of labor spent in making objects designed to “beat the park-

ing meters.” “And they

Since the first meters. were in-| stalled here in September, 1949,

maintenance crews havé collected

a medium sjzed candy box full of material designed to jam the timers or get free parking space for the driver. i Few of the attempts have been

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successful. Some drivers have,

collected traffic court stickers for) their work. They were also sub-| ject to heavy fines and a jail 8en-| tence for tampering with the meters. . All for a Jitney Mr. Norris said most meter la

violations are made by persons STeat com attempting to escape payment of| tion of organ compositions,

the one-cent and nickel fees.

In slightly more than one year's include the English Suite in F, operation he has collected tiddly- the C minor Partita and Preludes tooth picks,/and Fugues Nos. 5 to 7 of the second book of “The Well-Tem-

candy and gum from meter slots pered Clavichord.”

winks, washers, matches, circuit breakers, slugs,

and coin boxes.

| —— Some violators have apparently Principals to Meet, Study School Needs

spent hours whittling - wooden “coins” from broom handles to beat the machines. They also) failed.

{nite parking time,

These officers mark auto tires); ..4 hv a meeting at 7:15 p. m and check them at the end of the i» Room 307 of Jordan Hall at {which J. Hartt Walsh, dean of] Other attempts to avold the... puijer College of Education, !

prescribed parking limit.

time limit include organization of a “Pal” club. A “member” places) additional coins in a cup on his car after parking, with a notice! asking any passer-by to place; them in the meter when time has expired. Limit Is One Period

This violates the ordinance prohibiting consecutive parking periods. i Still other motorists place coins| in a neat stack on top of the meter, heads with the hope that collec-| tion &rews or policemen will insert | them when needed. The $64 trouble maker appeared | last year when an out-of-town]

man reported he accidentally in-|

serted a $10 gold piece in a park-| ing meter. He later disappeared | and his report was proved false by “police and collectors who examined dozens of timer boxes. | Coins are often found-jammed | in meter sight glasses, indicating disgust on the part of motorists who couldn't locate the money slot. Also from the meter boxes has come the nucleus of a coin collection in the city controller's office, The money, useless on city books, has come from nine countries and dates from 1861. °* Among the 29 pieces are coins from China, Mexico, Austria, Ger- | many, India, England, The Neth-| erlands, Italy and France.

Shibler to Talk

Rotarians will hear Indianap- | olis Public School Superintendent Dr. Herman L. Shibler Tuesday noon in the Claypool Hotel. He| will speak on “Strategic Areas of | Present Day Education.” }

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beat themselves, too,” said William Norris, the city's meter maintenance supervisor. “The citizens bought the meters.”

series of all-Bach recitals at 8:30 ip. m. next Thursday.

{campus, {Bach series is coverifig virtually| wall the keyboard works of the

{ty high school principals will Police with blue-tipped staffs meet at Butler University tomorare the nemises of the driver who row night to consider emerinserts his coin and then attempts gency needs in the to jam the meter and gain indef- schools.

{will speak on “School Functions |

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! The business of school-going 100 years ago. | Recently released by the Indiana Historical Bureau, the 1951 {Indiana Almanac points out that: { »Copybooks were made by sewing a few sheets of foolscap together. School buildings (made of logs. Windows were

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Bodfors to Give All-Bach Recital

Times State Service GREENCASTLE, Feb. 3 —| Franz-Bodfors, professor of piano in DePauw _University's School of! usic, will give another in a

Held in Harrison Hall on the| Prof. Bodfors’ current|

poser, with the excep-

Next Thursday's program will|

Indianapolis and Marion Coun-

secondary

A 6 p. m. dinner will be fol-

Stainless ste® vores up 0 23.2 ot extreme tem

Abs. of for the Emergency. . peratures.

Robinson Hitchcock, Indiana | adjutant general, will discuss “Selective Service for the Emergency.” The meeting is sponsored | by the principals and the Butler! College of Education.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _.

r Indiana Children Of One Hundred Years Ago

| Pens were made from goose Hampshire settled in Indiana inwhen - the

quills and ink from maple bar, For ink stands children used a

1833. -He was Caleb Mills, For the next decade and a half he

{section of a cow’s horn, sawed off | gohool system.

and fitted with a wooden water-| | H | There were only 4 few text!

In 1848 the legislature provided for a referendum (to be held on the question of public taxation

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made by cutting out part of two logs and covering the opening with greased paper. Goose Quill Pens furnishings there

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'texthook usually being Webster's | Bpeller, It was also used as a reader, Lindley Murray's English! 'Reader . and English Grammar were widely used, McGuffey’s| (readers came into use in the late!

were splint bottom chairs for teacher 1830's,

year an. act was passed, providing

for a minimum school term of three months. The schools were to be supported by restricted taxation by local governmental units. Big Step in 1853 But the really big development

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General Assembly ers came better than Mrs. Julia ‘passed an act providing for tax- L. Dumont. She arrived in Vevay ation by local units to pay for with hér husband about 1812, She

faroused opinion for a free public'y rection’ of buildings, equipment, taught boys and girls of the com-

land for supplementing for tuition munity for . many years in a purposes the other state funds gchoolroom which she had added provided for education. to her home. Contracts for schoolhouses were let. Cities and incorporated gleston, said Mrs. Dumont detowns were separated from the served immortality. He wrote of civil townships in which they her “she gave her pupils unstinted ‘were located and made independ- praise, not hypocritically, but belent units, This marked the. be- cause she lovingly saw the ‘best ginning of city school systems as in everyone . . . she was full of separate from the township all sorts of knack and tact, a schools, person of infinite resource for

| A go-getter educator from New|in free education came in 1853! Few of, Indiana's earlier teach- calling out the human spirit.”

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