Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1951 — Page 11

29, 1951 SUNDAY, APR. 29, 1951 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | __ PAGE 11

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* Program Here ive : Spencer Man ‘Vaccinates' Trees at Purdue; 2 g Genuine, 2x2, A ’ } . ood heavye! x “ Entomologists Hopeful but Skeptical Children to Wear | gn Monks : . An arboreal messiah has apepared in. Spencer, Ind. ready to A cloth In natural y S IX : save our dying elm trees. 2 pecia ays color to blend Forty-five-year-old Floyd W. Stroud in a slow and eas: Ten- More than 75.000 diamond - With Your fur Yd. 95 * Besste drawl, ut with tie Sonvietion of a dedicated man as he'says: shaped tags have been distributed | CORNER WASHINGTON AND DELAWARE STS. nishings! : : re any diseased tree that's still alive.” for C » . If correct, Mr. Stroud will be unable to avoid making a half or Child Health Days, beginning * thililon dollars or so in the next ———— - — . Jomarow. ese lags will be Ask Yourself % five years as desperate elm tree do the job in less time for less worn by grade school children to " : gwners besiege him with orders. money. ! remind adults to get a free chest This I 4 + * 4 If mistanen, he wil 1248 nia The Btroud Tree Life Co., re- X-ray. mpor an place among thousands of other cently incorporated, lists Mr. : LI-0527 3 gen who thought they had the Stroud as president; Joseph H. As past of this projec; of the Question! Appointment world by the tail and found . . . Farley, Spencer, vice “president, Marion County Tuberculosis . x you know. and William T. O'Neal, Spencer, Association, a poster is beng til » . Applies for Patent |secretary-treasurer. Prices set by shown in every classroom in the, or on x “ A sometime farmer-carpenter- the company range from -about city and county, on trolleys and Porn ma | 3 Qectrictian - 0dd jobber, Mr, $15 a treatment down to $2.50, busses, ang on television... yy Musak. * Stroud has developed a process, depending on the number, con- § Locations Listed TH : for which patent has been ap- dition and location of trees. One X-ray unit will be in the » plied, in which he injects his own! Word of the “vaccination” pasement ol Christ Church on| onument rcle tomorrow!

SERRA RY EAH mixture of fluids into a tree. lprocess has got around. , py He generally bores a small hole! Last summer, Mr. Stroud treatin the trunk, inserts about an ed several trees standing around ounce of fluid and plugd the hole Marion County Courthouse on a again. Dependifig on the tree's gratis basis. He later treated condition, he may peel back a some maples and elms near the strip of bark and inject, or bore World War I Memorial, and a « into the ground and inject under- tree or two in Crown Hill Cemneath the trunk. letery. Not only can he cure tree dis-| The trees were disease and dyeases and drive away insects, he ing, scheduled to be cut down. claims, but will “vaccinate” Nothing was lost by allowing the # healthy trees and guarantee them gray-haired, weathered farmer to ; ggainst harm for three years on inject the “ellums” with the “poi- §

through Friday, and will be in the offices of the City School Board, Ohio at Meridian Sts. Saturday. | Another unit will move throughout Marion County, serving 12 different locations as follows: Monday, Apr. 30-—Edgewood B8chool, 1406) renin uM y 1—Bpeedway City Town

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& money-back basis. son” which he boils down from 3 ) / «Like messiahs before him, Mr. FIANLS Jo collects in the woods. © | "School, 901 N. Post R Stroud has failed so far to con- Perhaps nothing will be gained, PEEL BACK—Floyd W. {Wednesday May O9—Lawrence Township ince » number of skeptics, either. mo JACK—Foyd W. Stroud: Spencer. drops home-mixed |, Crude Sipe ILE, MER one man | © USE OUR HEAVY DRILL ON METAL FRAMES! Scientific men, mainly entomo-| But the VanBuren County, ecy info inner “ayer, seals bar k up with beeswax. : |p, 3th and Main Bts = LAYAWAY!

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arise with a “cure-all” process doubt. , based on chemo-therapy. | “Ah've treated hundreds of 3 ; A io Idea Tried Before {trees,” he says. “If theah’s any | NO) A ) N — life left in it, Ah can bring it Nh Injection has been tried many yo ck. It's the truth.” times before. It ought to work. . rin Jo = 9 But it — | 3 \: VN : :

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t sounds reasonable. ’ eo 3 has worked, at least to the British Officials Probe | satisfaction of tree experts and ) men who know bugs best. Arms Ship Blast | | — Frank Wallace, state entomo-' GIBRALTAR, Apr. 28 (UP)— $ 00 ° | GREEN logist, and Paul Ulman, assistant British military intelligence and Req. 25 Matching Mahogan | Ju entomologist, have known about naval armaments experts flew J . | m Mr. Stroud’s claims for some here from England today to deter- | imine whether saboteurs blew up STRIPE

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They were willing to concede the navy ammunition ship Beder- : that his process might have some ham yesterday. i INC value. But they preferred results| A terrific explosion sank the, ® established through scientific| Bedenham while it was unloading!

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tests, a procedure in Wien MY Fo fons a Aiialtion onto| pu——— RIPE : : ad willing to take pa arges in raltar bor. OffiTractors re me aptliog tor patent jSial Fp put the death ton at o . . MULTICOLOR i 42-INCH AWNINGS sasguan Each $3.79 bood, ¥ - Now that a patent is in the six, but unofficial reports said 10 cA { UNGAL ” orks, Mr. Stroud has begun a persons were killed and th iven i | B i | ry dame ak urease or a STILE AWKINGS | 48-INOH AWNINGS....... Each '3.99 of Purdue University entomolo-| e blast reca explosions rr. gists, headed by Dr. John Davis. aboard eight barges loading muni-! FOR SHORT WINDOW AWNING STRIPE MATERIAL PRT © On Tuesday, Mr. Stroud went tons in Portsmouth Harbor, Eng-| a ~~ ¢ A + n $2.59 s VaR wl comfopeprOst=SataVEN Deiat etna 103 NAR Sos thshen Ki ics T UMN ss ig eo yu I ainsi SIN pe - S J EIY. a 9.30-INOR . « Yond, Al I ey y= ull vol fife elm; at the" direction—of “Dr. found-saboteurs used Thermite Ania g i 5 8 “o 36-INGH j A OT stakes. Nr Lr Acothematie oo en ALL RECORDS avis. Some of them were badly time-bombs to set fire to the! : S ; 4 “$3.19 ~~potor-— combinations. Spectal* : : ; ; iseased. Some were lightly af- barges, | ON " " a - n ® 42-INCH get . Price! £ . yd. [| a TOMATICALLY jected. Some—perhaps—were not dP. 4 4 NCH . $3.39 ° : Sa : Greased at all Percentages Make | / ‘ [* 48-1 'o : 18-In, Scalloped Valance—VYd., 69¢ So 3S . ay | ote a sheduidiByitish: Look Good yy do 24-In, Scalloped Valance—Yd,, 89¢ soon for Purdue apple trees in nn LEADER AWNINGS—SECOND FLOOR

an experimental orchard near CHICAGO, Apr. 28 (UP)— Mitchell. Still later, Mr. Stroud/Gen. William Morgan, Field {= due to treat some elms in In- Marshal Bernard Montgomery's dianapolis known to be suffering former chief of staff, says the from Dutch elm disease, British are making greater de-| ’ Results may not be known for fense efforts than the United fwo years or longer. : States on the basis of percent- : Dr. Davis was reluctant to ages of manpower and wealth. | gneak for newspaper publicity on| The retired officer said 7 per the tests. He was afraid, he said, cent of British men between 18 that those who read of the tests and 44 years old were in active | peing started might jump to the military services in October, | | ¢onclusion that the university al-/1950, and that the percentage ready fmdorses Mr. Stroud's Will rise to 9 per cent in a year. BIG n" TUBE ¢laimas. | Gen. Morgan said Britain's * Dr. Davis finally made a short 1850 defense spending equaled 7.7 statement, saying: {per cent of the national income, . “Because of inquiries and ques-| while the United States spent 6.9 " 0 tions regarding tree injection for Per cent. The United States has No-Glare pest control, Purdue is undertak- 8.2 per cent of its young maning tests to determine whether in-| hood in military service, he said.

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