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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola i
- CLARENCE JONES, RR 1, Plainfield, picked an egg from under one of his blushing pullets and staggered backward from surprise. *The egR tipped the scale at eight ounces. * By devious routes the egg, measuring 91; inches around the equator, wound up in my shaky hands all in one massive piece. As remarkable an achievement as the original laying of the egg although I wouldn’t want to argue the point with Mr. Jones’ pullet. The monster egg felt like a hot potato in m hand. Above all else, I wanted hg man to my the egg. His name is Marvin (Eddie) Edmondson, manager of the Indianapolis Poultry and Egg Department of the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative Assogiation.
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EDDIE HAS seen a lot of eggs during his
lifetime, Even so, when the egg was hoisted to his eye level, Eddie's eyes bulged. He was of the opinion that Mr. Jones’ pullet didn’t fee! too good after the event. He ‘also admitted that he hadn't geen anything so hig in his life, "Quit grinning," lay the egg.”
- The egg man had a theory. He said unusual
eggs happen only with pullets. The youngsters, new in the egg-laying game, don't have their
Eddie snapped, “vou didn't
machinery adjusted to heavy duty production. When something frightens them or they get excited, freak eggs are the result. “You'll find many eggs laid by pullets that have two yolks, four in them.”
I've seen eggs with as many as
INFLATED EGG—A Plainfield pullet's
effort is shown beside a normal egg. Only the hens know whether it's to be a trend of the times.
ft Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Nov. 7-1 guess I'd better explain how my son Slugger got greeted by Co-
median Jerry Lewis before all those millions of TV viewers . I took Slug to see Jerry a week-ago. Jerry voluntarily said he'd say hello to Slug. Jerry
remembered Jerrv said Fox Military DiMaggio Jr
so did Slug! his own son Gary clashed at Black Academy in Los Angeles with Joe over whose dad's funnier
Funny!" snorted DiMaggio Jr. You dad's jerky! 80 Jerry's son gave Joe's son “a shot in the head.” Jerry scolded him. He replied Rut Daddy. he =aid vou're jerky!” “I can't lie to my son-—nor can I tell him I'm jerky.” said Jerry. He finally explained that ft
was a mistake-—-that it's his partner Dean Martin who's jerky.
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PHIL. SILVERS—due to “Top Banana" now a big-B'way star, sure of $4500 plus a week, and lucrative TV guest star offers Because he affectionately burlesques his old friend Milton Berle in the show, Berle just told actor Eddie Hanley. “My next show will be ‘The Life of Phil Silvers.” Ya'e Football Cbach Herman Hickman Silvers in Toots 8hor's he'll visit him backstage “You'll make me a very big man." said Phil “I'll be the biggest man who ever visited you
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sald Hickman. “Weight. 310.” THE MIDNIGHT EARL. . . . Fred Allen who's had a famous kidding feud with Jack
Benny for years, wasn't allowed to mention Jack
on TV--because Jack works for a rival cigaret company. Carl Brisson, the he-man singer at the Plaza Persian Room, has a woman ‘dresser’ (Juiet has been with him 25 years! . Eddie Foy Jr. recovered from his operation, leaves the hospital this week oo oe oo GOOD RUMOR MAN: Chicago appears to be having a hoodlum's convention Serge BEubinstein fled the Pierre bar when a drunk wanted to fight,
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Nov I am listening to a lady worrying about her miserable little dog the other ight, how she buys him boots to keep his feet warm and how she frets when he is not attackin the horse meat with his usual vicious vigor Then I am hearing another dame taking « ibout how she is fretted sore to death because she believes her small child is tormatic in the airdromes. or some such psychological phrase, due to the fact that he will not. eat his spinach and persists in aetting fire to the cook.
And 1 hereavements about state of the world, and the plight of the Annamese, and how we should all turn to and do =omething to alleviate the ache ere all is lost. And so forth, no mental stone has not been flipped upon its back.
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THE ONLY THING the dames are not worrying about, or threatening to do something for, is the forgotten man of the era--the American husband. As one, I wish to point out that the American husband is a very vital piece of the
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economy, ahd for all the attention he gets he might as well be a stick of hand-me-down furniture.
Unless it develops as part of an advertising scheme to sell the old lady a gadget on one of the saints’ days of commerce, the dear man is almost entirely ignored. Modern advertising pitches the entire issue at the lady. About the only time Pop becomes important is when somebody is pleading for him to buy another slicesof insurance to protect the family. ride
THE MALE has turned out almost to be a villain on all grounds. He does not score because he does not shave. He does not see his dentist often enough. He does not pay the proper attens tions around the lodge, and his idyll is a cinch to end in divorce. But mostly he is regarded as a necessary organism, with no face, no feelings, and a built-in guilt complex. The old boy is an inveluntary buffoon, to be maneuvered like a monkey on a stick. Insofar as Mama {is concerned, he is not supposed to own sufficient sense to drive him from snow to fireside. Volumes are written on the care and control of husbands, and his shortcomings have become stock- humor. His intellect is shaped as somewhere between Jo-Jo, the dogfaced boy, and a blundersome monster who will ‘bust the furniture If not tied carefully to the andirons, SB 2
The idea that Pa needs tender considerstion, 8 pretty present once in a while, and a little ‘subtle oiling of the ego seldom appears. His
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Likens Giant Egg To ‘Hot Potailo’®
Mr, Jones’ pullet must have been frightened by something horrible when Jumbo came along, Maybe the new tax law did it. : > * & EDDIE DIDN'T «discount the tax law. He did say that the pullet wouldn't feel like laying another egg that size soon, if ever. He intimated
-that the pullet’s cycle was disrupted by such an
effort. The cycle angle: was new to me, It seems that chickens, when they begin egg production, usually lay one egg a day for three days and then skip a day. The first egg is laid early in the morning and is the largest. The second egg makes its appearance at a later hour the fext day’ and will be slightly smaller. The third egg, smallest and latest, ends the cycle and a hen is ready for a day off. The day off for chickens isnit anything new and wasn't brought about by this trend for better relations between employer and employee. It's natural with chickens. Eddie was full of information. He said the average output for a laying hen is 160 eggs although high-powered flocks will average as high 28 250 eggs “Of course an egg like you brought in throws A monkey wrench into a hen's average. A hen who puts her all in one egg sometimes ‘doesn’t have a basket to put any others in,” laughed Eddie. I laughed politely. . & oo > : WE WENT to the candling department and showed the egg to Mrs. Sudie Faulk, who has been candling eggs for 16 years. At the sight of the egg. all work on the line stopped. Mrs. Faulk said she saw an egg once that was “almost” the size of Jumbo. She put it against the light but couldn't tell how many yolks were inside. There was just too much egg for the light to penetrate. Curiosity finally spelled doom for Jumbo. We » had to see what was inside. Mrs. Faulk hoped there wouldn't be a chicken. Expertly she cracked the shell and dumped the contents on a cardboard egg holder. We gazed at a perfectly shaped egg, which later ‘weighed two ounces, and another yolk with a mass of white. The urge for further research was great. The little egg was cracked open after it was candled. Perfect.
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MR. JONES’ pullet would have been happy to hear the kind remarks made about her eR. My immediate reaction was that in this inflation-ary-period.-al-eggs-—should-be-that big: Eddie objected strenuously. Four sizes, jumbe: large, medium and small, are all he wants at the present time. Eggs the size under discussion and destruction, would necessitate new cartons. cases. more powerful candling machines and packaging machines. “I doubt whether you could get chickens to go along with you on that. Ever lay an egg?” asked Eddie.
A Couple of Hams Meet on Television
AMERICA LAUGHS! “It's so crowded at N.Y. cocktail parties.” said singing star Johnny Johnston. at a Bob Taplinger party, “that I always fmoke 1 very short pipe.”
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ON THE ANNIVERSARY of the death of a famous B-Bopper (reports Robert Q. Lewis) friends will observe one minute of noise.
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SEEING A TRUCK screech to a stop and some uniformed men rush into the Gold Key Club. I rushed in with them. thinking it was a police raid.
“I'm from the press--where you fellows from?" I breathlessly asked, flashing my police card. “New York Steam Corp." one said. “We're here about the heat" oo oo <> HOT DASHES Influential friends of Averell Harriman are campaigning for him for Vice President—Ava and Frankie’ll have only a’ twoday honeymoon due to his TV. They'll be wed by a judge-—Shelley Winters, c¢o-star of Frank in Meet Danny Wilson,” is due back from Israel--Ann Jeffreys iz hoping to get an annulment to hurry her marriage to Bob Sterling—The next basketball scandal may involve a big pro (one initial, D). GB bh says Fred Allen, “there was the honest bookmakér who claims he got contaminated mingling with bad associates policemen.” » » ~ EARL'S PEARLS . . . Janis Paige figured out that Pat and Mike must have been female only two women could have said all the things credited to them.
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turn into a tune —Snag Werris. oe > « “BACHELOR APARTMENTS aren't very noisy? contends Fred Fassier. They're rela-
tively quieter.”-—That's Earl, brother.
Husbands. Unite— That's Rallying Cry
function is to provide, beget, and become forgotten unless he steps out of line. . Thén, whambo—hit the bum with the book. I am a touch weary of the constant superiority nplication that is vested in the commercial aproach to matrimony, and the calm assumption hat the female is an involuntary angel while the old man is a cinch to be sporting the wrong lond hairs on the lapel of his personality.
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WE HUSBANDS are sensitive chaps, quick to weep at injustice, and lonely in our parish status in a woman's world. We need recognition-—-some sort lobby to get off the awful hook of responsibility of economics and to earn us esteem as'a functional part of the community. It is not generally admifted. but husbands are easily as important as French poodles.
of us
The American husband today has dishpan hands of the personality, and acute lordosis in the self-esteem department He is told he is a
bum, at the start, unworthy of the tender morsel who has condescended to become his bride. Each subsequent day drives another nail in his respect for himself as a human being. It is not so much that we are persecuted as
that we are ignored: except on rent.day and grocery-bill reckoning. We are shushed unmercifully, tut-tutted at, sneered at, and gen-
erally treated by wives, mothers and friends as dull cousins who cannot be turned out into the rain, but who must stand quietly in the corner
in the presence of wiser elders. I think the time has come to stamp the foot and shake the uxorious finger. Husbands, unite! We have nothing to loge but our wives,
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q-—~We have a home in a new addition and we have had to put out our own shade trees so far. Please advise some quick shade trees. We still need about six more. 8S. Surface. (If this reader will send address, he will receive the extra information he asked for.) A-—Quick growing shade trees include the Chinese elm, soft (silver maple), various kinds of poplars and willows. The silver maple is the best of the quick-growing trees. Be warned before you Plant too many of the quick shade trees that in general the quicker a tree grows the softer jts wood and the shorter its life. Some of the very rapid growing trees lose large branches in a most discouraging fashion once you think you've got them big enough for shade. ‘In theory it's ideal to plant some quick growing trees alternated with slower, sturdier kinds. Once these have reached sizable shade, you harden your heart and dispose of your other quick-growing friends. In practice this doesn't always work. You might comipromise, plant some of the choicer kinds like honey locust, and tulip tree for moderately fast shade,
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7; 1951
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Opens Sunday—
Herron PI
ans Mexican Art Exhibit
RELIGIOUS NOTE—"The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine” is the title of this early Mexican painting by Luis Juarez, who flourished as an artist 1600-1635, lent by the Academia Nacional, San Carlo, to the coming exhibition of the Art of Colonial Mexico at Herron Art Museum next Sunday through Dec. 9,
SPANISH INFLUENCE—The impact of the great Renaissance masters of old world Spain is seen in this oil of St. Francis of Paula by Juan Rodriguez Juarez (1675-1728).
PRIMITIVE—A kind of primitive, folk-art quality is evident in this missionary cross in stone, work of an anonymous Mexican sculptor, prob-
ably around 1700.
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"SOCIAL REGISTER" —A society woman of colonial Mexico some 150 years ago is the subject of this painting by Jose Maria Vasquez, who was active 17901826. Also lent by the Academia Nacional, San Carlo, the canvas is one of 72 in the first show of this period of Mexican art ever assembled for exhibit in the U. S
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Turks Expect ‘Iron Curtaining’ Of Iran
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By CLYDE FARNSWORTH
; Seripps-Heoward Staff Writer JL RZURUM, Turkey, Nov 7—Traveling Turkey's eastwest highway axis from the Russian-Iranian frontier region and talking wherever English or adequate translation is possible, one gets the impression that Turks never
counted on Iran to carry her weight in defense against the USSR.
The Turkish press has generally conditioned literate Turks to a conviction that Iran sooner or later will be iron-curtained. The argument is not without substantial grounds. The feeling is that Iran will lose her freedom, probably to internal’ forces of foreign inspiration, in the economic morass into which §he has been plunged, by an excess of nationalism and a sterile na-
tionalization of her greatest as-
set, oil. ~ ~ » TALKING with informed Americans and Turks, I got the
idea that Turkey is no more concerned than she was before as to the possibility of being outflanked by a Russian penetration of Iran. The trend of opinion, however, is that it will be a long time before Russian armed forces actually march into Iran, if ever. And that long be-
fore a flank or rear threat
be developed = through Iran and Iraq to strike
could actually
at Turkey's soft underbelly the whole world will be at war. In that case the fate of. Turkey would depend on a complexity of other circumstances more pressing than a Russian end run through Iran and
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Iraq. For instance, Turkev's own counter-action into the Caucasus and the Baku-Cas-pian oil and industrial region of the USSR. Turkish officials see nothing far-fetched in the idea of a defensive thrust into Russia to prevent or: offset either a Russian envelopment of the Middle East or a westward offensive
into Europe. Americans’ with Turkish armed forces hear such confident estimates of
Turkish prowess almost daily. The Russians and Turks are old enemies. ~ » »
AMERICAN - EXPERTS are
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showdown came Turkish forces new in eastern Anatolia’ would not retreat, It is indeed a Turkshortcoming that these troops will perish rather than yield ground to save a military situation. : The American advisor$t mis-
sions seem to be getting along
well with the Turkish commands to which they are attached.
The sense of American-Turk-ish partnership has taken deep hold. : From the Turkish border onward, I've been treated to a bit of sign language common amo, the Turks which symbojfies this relationship. It is arf extension of the forefingers, side - by - side — one represents Turkey and the other America. The America n military teams, from corporal to colonel, have been generally good ambassadors. ‘American team chiefs seem to be men who have learned how to get things done in .an American way without wheedling or bellowing.
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distingushed service to the United Nations by Turkish troops has worked two ways in Tur-
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key. The rotation of Turkish officers and men back home has spread word of practical advantages gained by American methods and tactics and at the same time has given a tremendous lift to the Turkish national face. Returning Turkish of Korea are a new self-confi-dent aristocracy in the Turkish forces. Here at the American team headquarters in Erzurum, I met Col. H. B. Frederick of Hugo, Okla., commanding, Capt. Ernest F. Lyublanovits of Roches: ter, N. Y., who put me up in the Avrupa Hotel for the night, and Capt. John F. Redmond af San FS igeo westward for the continuation of my journey, Teh- | ran to B ; ; Sa
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