Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1951 — Page 20

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each other, : * One stopped suddenly, slapped the other on the back, and the other said, ‘Oh, hello!” \ Then they shook hands.

They made no effort to conceal the han e from my friend. But one of the young ne deposited in the palm of the other a small package. which the other stuffed quickly and covertly his pocket. . 9 “How much?” asked the recipient. A And then some money changed hands. It was probably marijuana, which I argue is narcotics, although some people anxious to defend the reefer-using musicians say it isn't. ¢e ¢ o ~ HOW COULD these lads be so care WS less—on Because they thought Greenwich Vill wasn’t watched by the cops who are too ay scouring Broadway since the school’ kid dope scandal. And they're right. Some of the filthy, scummy little sidestreets just off of Times Square #re peddling their junk just the same as usual, wali. kaw ogles a few B'way spots. ~ Take that big “pusher” called Bobby—to give him another name. , He's still around the joint, where rhumba music drowns out the talk that goes on about

tics. He's not as careless as his crowd was a month ago. In a B'way spot, friends of mine—strangers «were asked outright by a bar hanger-on, “How d’you like to get some kicks?” * He then offered marijuana for sale. The club washroms reeked with it. In a little mearby hotel it was common knowledge the eleYates Opetator 2a the stuff. A drugstore reporte a a terrific sal bln e in home-made Why? The reefer-bu wanted th papers to roll their to . Misare: It will go on and on, and you can’t blame the Police or the federals, for the thing is too big. : Tre U. 8. Narcotics Bureau has only 180 gents. ink oo 180 agents to police the nation. we really care abou .should act like it. y 3 stopping 1, we

> © o THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Elizabeth Bentley, who informed on Hiss and Remington, is being guarded against death threats . . . President Truman will'call his next “nonpolitical” tour an Inspection of military and civilian defenses , , .

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June'23—And so, as the sun drops dead over the nearest traffic tieup, we leave beautiful, scenic New York City for a short vacation, which could stretch into years if I have my way. © Unfortunately, it may be only a matter of weeks, but when I come home with the lion I strangled with my bare hands you can just call me Bwana M’Kumba. That means Tarzan tig). : We head for Africa, this frip, because once in a while & guy gets to do what he always wanted to do, and this is what I have hdd my face fixed for since I was knee-high to a Small salamander.

A I am going to rassle me a “bull buffalo if it kills me, and it probably will, but here and — “mow I wish to say that a safari is too much “trouble for anybody but a guy who is a little jon the screwy side for a start. Just for a momentary puzzler, there. is the matter of white hunters and general retinue. ~ A white hunter is a fellow who runs your Show and stands behind you with the bull-gun 80's the elephants don’t eat you. They largely are booked 99 years in advance, and most of them are as old as sin apd as ugly as an income-tax blank. “ But not my boy. Mine is somewhere in his late 20's and looks like Gregory Peck. I saw a movie, once, in ch the adventurer's mamma shot her 9ld man. In the néck, out of love for the hunter, and, strangely, my nape tingles all the time. Oddly enough, the hunter was played by Gregory Peck. I ask you: Is it fair to start a safari when the hunter is typecast as the Filan already? * ‘WE HAVE made great preparations. The Messrs. Winchester and Remington have supplied me with enough weapons to slay all the beasts between here and Tanganyika, and merely in the trying out IT am wounded sorely. There is a thing ealled a .375 Magnum, which elephants use to shoot humans, that has scared me almost into a Bermuda’ vaeation. I won't say she kicks, but she makes an awful noise, and she sort of moves you back a touch. It only took me three hours and an equal

About People—

Beauty Hopes to

Kentucky politics was a thing of beauty today. Mrs. Joseph Murphy Jr. better known &¢ Venus Ramey, a viwaclous, red-haired dancer who won the Atlantic City ‘Miss “America” contest in 1944, filed yesterday as one of four candidates for the Democratic nomjnation for representative to the State Legislature. The 26-year-old beauty hoped, however, that the glamour which ‘won the title for her won't influance voters in her’ campaign. “parading around in a bathing suit doesn’t prove a thing about a person's intelligence,” she said. “I don’t want any unfair advantage, but I hope people won't swallow that old story that at‘tractive women can't be intelligent, too.” The mother of two small boys, ‘Mrs. Murphy was page-girl in the Kentucky House of Representa‘tives when she was 11. Both her father and grandfather served in the General Assembly.

TV Defended

. ‘Television didn’t "violate "any ‘witness’ right of privacy, according to the Kefauver Crime Inves- . tigating Committee's former chief counsel. Rudolph Hal ley sald Yyesterday that television sessions of the hearings showed the committee members at their best and focused atten~ tion on the witnesses,

Mr. Halley

* “discomfort at the “mittee hearing was greatly over“emphasized, he told the annual *meeting of the Wisconsin State

» Lake, [removed $60 and a watch. #Bar Association In Elkhart ] Mr. Hanson decided to run the Welfare League of America.

stoplight to test the alertness of Shisagy police—and his “crime” |tion’s drug problem are luring a Chicago|paid off when two officers stopped [teen-agers to try narcotics, said the cab and shot the bandit in the the professor of social servicel

“Wis; or “Wages of Sin f Crime did pay for , cab driver yesterday.

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through a stoplight—on purpo! The witnesses’ —and counted it one of the their noses”

televised com- smartest things he’s ever done. He'd picked up a fare who pres-

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Arm of the Law Not Long Enough you that one of the best-known TV ‘is expecting.

ALL OVER: Greta Garbo, no TVer she, is buying a new

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is F Dark” book just a few weeks ago, Paris prices leaped 10 per cent .. . Donald Richards takes over B'way Open » - » GOOD RUMOR MAN: Mayor Impellitteri is naming David Malvin, one of" his Brooklyn helpers, a magistrate . , . Joan Crawford, a San Antonio girl, had bagels and lox at Lindy’s before going Californiaward .. wife, Virginia Gilmore, may reconcile, any day . Sharon Dumont is the Chateau Madrid’'s answer to Dagmar . . . Barrister Abe Mason tells of a woman who's on a very strict diet; eats nothing but food.

» ~ » B'WAY BULLETIN George Ross hopes to re Arline Judge . . . Council Prez Sharkey’s secret political weaSharon Dumont pon is an anticipated indorsement by a very famous woman . . . Joe Louls bought 56 seats for Duke Ellington-NBC benefit at Lewisohn Stadium . . . George Schindler reports that nowadays a dollar saved is a nickel earned. * & *

WHO'S NEWS: Jane Greer's due for an appendectomy . . . Kaye Ballard withdrew from “Two On the Aisle” (which is said to be a swell show)-. . . Rita Hayworth’s brother, Eduardo Cansino, will be a father next month . . Today's Daily Double: Jane Wyman and golfer Jim Hanson. & oP THE OLD EARL: H. M. Warner's selling his 45 race horses . . . Susan Peters got the measles, will miss her TV show . . . NBC wants Jackie Gleason for an hour TV show next year besides his Dumont show . . . Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt’s sister-in-law, Liz Murray quit dating everybody except Frank Coniff. ¢ © 9 EARLS PEARLS: Lisa Kirk says some politicians can claim they're clean only because some committee whitewashed them. ¢ © 4 TAFFY TUTTLE, down at Major's Cabin, said some husbands and wives hold hands to keep from belting each other . . . That's Earl, brother.

Africa Is So Far— And Rhinos So Mean

amount of Dutch courage to touch the thing, and then Mamma strides up and looses off this cannon with what amounted to a sneer at me. I know who kills the record lion on this safari, and it will be the one who worries about ‘keeping her hair blond in the jungle. We call her the White Queen of the Ubangis, and already she answers to a diminutive of “Queenie.” What she don’t know is that I aim to sell her to the natives for her hide and tallow. ® © 9° “

IT PLEASES ME to report that my head gunbearer is a Nandi boy named Kidogo, and I already know how to say hello to him in Swahili. The only other Swahili I know is a short, sucecint command that says fetch the master a short succint scotch. Mamma speaks it better. She has mastered a phrase that conveys the idea that she does not wish to shoot a lion today. Or any other day. Mamma, I am afraid, lacks real guts. This lack is diie to friends like Tommy Shev-. lin and bride, who rap on the door in order to horrify you. Mrs. Shevlin is about the size of a bar of soap, but she has stood off a few elephant charges and once choked a leopard to death in a fit of bad humor. It only takes so many anecdotes about the maddened elephants and the roaring lions and the scorpions in the shoe to horrify an amateur. “I advise you wear sneakers,” says the dainty Mrs. Shevlin, toying with her hors d’ceuvre. “Sneakers make it so much easier to climb a tree when the rhinos charge you.” Who, me? ¢ & 0

SO WE SIT HERE, surrounded by weapons and cameras and recipes and passports and the right arm is swelled up from the practice shooting and the other one is loaded with cholera shots and all the usual antidotes. I have taken a mortgage on the dogs to finance the trip, and the dogs are mad and sulking. And, you know, I'm scared stiff, I have met so few rhinoceroses socially, and Africa is so far away, but, by golly, off we go, clutching our trusty airplane tickets in one hand and a flock of paper-bound detective stories in the other. Thank heavens, we stop for the night in Ethiopia. It just so happens Haile Selassie and I vse the same tailor, and will be nice to break a little bread with a friend.

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Like An Up-To-Date Cit 1s New Decatur County

CIVIL WAR VINT home for the aged.

home for the aged.

The attractive, fireproof brick structure is a strik-

ing contrast to most of In-

diana’s antiquated county homes. Accommodations here are similar to a modern city

Rita’s hating all this waiting, but Aly’s funny about his money. So the actress-princess is cooling her heels in Reno while attorneys wrangle over the financial settlement in her divorce from Aly Khan. There's still no agreement on the reported $3 million ravishing Rita asked from the Moslem prince for support of their 17-month-old daughter, Princess Yasmin. Rita’s six weeks’ residence at nearby Lake Tahoe ended yesterday.

Something New

Movie official Louis B. Mayer wants to produce “decent and wholesome (pictures) for Americans,” but he's looking for new studio:

next week by} Metro - Gold wyn-Mayer offi: cials who refused today to confirm Mr. Mayer's announcement that he’s quitting their studio.

Mr. Mayer

found 26 years ago about Aug. 31.”

Don't Say ‘No’

Regional Conference of the Child “Lurid accounts” of the na-

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Mr, Mayer said yesterday that he'll leave the company he helped “probably

A firm believer in not telling ge Children “not to stuff beans up is University of Chicago Prof. Frank Flynf:— Negative psychology is leading American youth astray, he mainently stuck a gun in his back and tained yesterday at the Midwest

hotel. Visitors find none of the deplorable conditions such as were reported in The Indianapolis Times last fall after an ‘“unofficial” tour of Julietta, Marion County's Home for the Aged. Since then, the Indianapolis institution hag made needed changes. But living cenditions still can’t compare with those found here. ” n o ROOMS ARE uncrowded and spotless, meals are appetizing, beds are restful and clean, residents live in a family group. The I-shaped one-story building, completed last fall at a cost of $67,000, hugs the peak of a hill overlooking Greensburg. It has two wings for residents and center quarters for caretakers. Its population now numbers eight men and two women, But since the home was built for a 30-inmate capacity, it has an abundance of living space.

YOU NAME IT, and chances are the new Indianapolis City Directory has it. In those 920 plges of

names collected by R. L. Polk & Co., and just distributed, there’s everything from High to Low, and Top(e) to Bottom. : § There are Brownies, Alleys, Arms, Bonnets, Lips, Miles, Hills, Dales, Castles and Brickhouses. :

er(s) and a number of Bills. There's a Drinkwater and Drinkwine, along i a Batider.

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Decatur County's institution, the most modern in the state, offers an inviting haven for men and women who must live their remaining years in a county home.

The home was first occupied last October, when residents moved from the former building erected just after the Civil

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THE ONLY caretakers are Supt. Luke L. Gookins, a former Decatur County farmer, and his wife, Corinne, who doubles as matron and cook. They have held their positions since 1939. Mr. Gookins, an affable, rud-dy-faced man, operates the home on an annual budget of $12,000. Of interest to taxpayers is the fact he has never spent the full budget. “Last year, in fact, I turned

‘back to the county over $1000,”

he explained. In the home, the men and women occupy separate wings but eat together in a large, airy dining room. Linoleum tile covers the floors throughout the building. At present, the men sleep two to a room in single metal beds Each wing has two bathrooms. Walls are a restful light green plaster. ” » » THE MOST attractive room in the home is the kitchen, where Mrs. Gookins prepares

IN THE ANIMAL kingdom, there are Fox, Badger, Bear, Beaver, Bull, Hen, Lions, Stork, Duck, Deer and Bee, Nearly every specie of trees found in Hoosierland is represented. There is a Garden, Trees, Bush and Hedges. You can find Lake(s), Stream(s), Brooks and Bridges. If you want to go into the fruit, vegetable and grocery business, you'll find -Dates, Orange(s), Bean(s), Beets, Bacon, Apple(s), Dye, Berry, Cof« fee, Chestnut, Honey, Cabbage, Bran, Lime, Lemmon, Peppers, Cherry, Corn and Cotton. ~ As for occupations, you'll find

Actor, Barber, Baker, Barman,

Canner, Goldsmith, Lawyer, Judge, Mariner, Driver, Artist,

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APPETIZING MEALS—Supt. Luke L. Gookins brings peas grown in the home's garden for his wife, Corinne, to shell. The modern kitchen has all of the newest equipment.

By JOHN V. WILSON Times Staff Writer

GREENSBURG, June 23—Down in the rolling farmlands of Decatur County stands Indiana's ideal county

garden. Produce goes into the

three meals a day for her 12member “family.”

Equipment includes built-in cabinets with formica tops, garbage disposal unit, electric disk washer, gas range and fluorescent lighting, The home has radiant heating throughout, using propane gas. Since the home was built

Printer, Bailer, Fisher, Officer, Broker, Butcher, Butler, Carpenter, Packer, Groom, Mason, Jester, Mayor, Banker, Bailiff; Archer, Cobler, Farmer, Gardener, Miller, Cook, Taylor, Sexton, Shepherd, Shoemaker, Steward, Porter, Piper, Weaver and Trucker. : . o " » THERE ARE TWO Sunday(s), one Friday” and 23 Monday(s). As for months, there is at least one January, March and May. In the holiday line, you'll find a Christmas, Valentine and an Easter. There may not be a Banta Claus, but there i8 an 8. Nicholas, Holly

and Noel. All the directions, North,

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A LIFE OF EASE—The home's eldest resident, Rooms are attractively furnished.

LENDING A HAND—Ben Weisbach, 72, works in the home's

throughout the building

TIME ON HER HANDS—Mers. Frances Hurst, 63, one of | persons in the home, mends to while away the hours.

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deep freeze until needed.

. for coal heating, a large room for the fuel supply stands idle. The basement also includes a large workroom with space for canning jars. But it isn't used either, since the home has a large, new deep freeze unit. Those are the physical conditions of the home of which Decatur County residents are just-

Can Take Your Pick

resented. In addition, there are Day, Noon, Early and Late, Fall, Spring, Summeps and Winters. Moon, Sun and Stars aré represented, too. There are Dukes, Barrons, a half-column of Prince(s), Kings, Lords, Knights and a Lady or two.

AMONG the famous people,

are Edgar A. Poe, James Adams, John W. Booth, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, James Buchanan, Benjamin Franklin, John B. Hancock, Andrew Jack-

son and William H. Taft.

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1y proud. And its inmates ha only favorable comment » » » “PVE BEEN in other in other states,” said 91old Elmore Monfort, “but never seen an like It's cleaner than ft a hotel.” Mr. Monfort, a retired lege librarian, is the oldest the residents, The average is near 70. Three of the 10 residents able to pay part of the $7 week = maintenance Township trustees provide the others. : Although living conditions are above par, time still heavy on the inmates—just in any other county home, :

” ” w MOSTLY, they sit and or listen to the radio. Two the men help Mr. Gookins the garden, which supplies home with much of its One woman receives $10 month for housekeeping “I don’t tell them to do thing,” the superintendent “I just try to set an and the first thing you they're out there helping Religious services are ducted at the home at in by members 3 the Association. c groups programs during holiday" ses~ sons. i Residents here are living their lives in surroundings haps gh thal they have : known. ve a : but modern — world of thelr

own. ‘ “We're just one big family” Mrs, Gookins sald. h

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