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“DON'T you be ene in a million.” The National Safety Council has predicted that® one day during the latter part of this month, around Christmas; could be on Christmas, the millionth person will die as a result of a traffic accident, a 4 This news is frightening to a great many motorists and pedestrians. It isn't frighteni enough. Traffic fatality Fecords keep edging relentlessly to the million mark. There is a physical limit to what any person can do to stop the carnage. Worst of all, only a limited number of persons will listen. With this in mind, I approached prominent public. men for a statement with the hope that their words would bring an added punch to “Don't you be one in a million.” The quick response illustrated the gravity of the situation. Gov. Henry F, Schricker has this to say to us:

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THE CHRISTMAS-New Year's season always is the peak period of the year for traffic accidents and this year the millionth traffic death probably will occur during December unless we work together to postpone it. “This millionth death will mark a tragic and disgraceful milestone in the nation's traffic history and I know we all hope the eyes of the nation will not be turned on Indiana as a state which contributed heavily to this tragic total. ‘The nrillionth death is approaching a climax, and I urge every citizen of Indiana to drive and walk with utmost care. Let's make every possible effort to keep accidents from marring our happiness this Christmas.” Supt, Arthur M, Thurston of the state police: “I'm deeply cdncerned to report that Indiana traffic deaths already have pasged the total fatalities for 1950. “Last year 1124 persons were killed needlessly

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec. 8—Taffy Tuttle— whose “men-oirs” I have agreed to write—said to me, “I want to put down a few things for prosperity.” “I guess you mean ‘posterity’ ?% 1 said. “No! Prosperity! My prosperity. I'm going to make a million dollars out of my story,” said the beautiful blond Broadway showgirl. “For one thing, when a girl makes a mistake, she should be sure to make the right one,” Taffy added. “That sounds like Goldwyn ... or is something very evil.” T said. “I don't like it.” “Oh, hush!” said Taffy. “A girl ought to have a husband, and it's so much nicer if it’s her own. Now when I first came to New York .,.”

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TAFFY MET HAL at a party about four years ago. Taffy was pretty green then. They got to talking politics at the party, Somebody mentioned Taft running for President. “Hasn't he got enough trouble running his hotel?” Taffy asked. 2 Hal fell right in love with her. On the way home in the cab, he tried to kiss her. As Taffy fold it later, “I whispered sweet nothing doings in his ear.” : .You see, shé was a good girl. Maybe you remember the story going around about a girl whose new boy friend said, “Do you smoke?” “No,” she said. “Do you drink?” ... “No.” ... “Do you neck?” ess “No.” ... “What DO you do?” ... “I tell lies.”

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TAFFY WAS like that except that she didn't tell lies. Then she got a little cynical. The other showgirls were always talking about minks and diamonds . . . and Taffy listened. Pretty soon she posed as an expert on diamonds and wanted one from Hal. One night another girl diamond real?” “If she drops it, she'll have seven years bad luek,” said Taffy. : Taffy also developed a fast line for the wolves, There was one suitor who weighed 300 pounds.

Battle of Pelicans By William McGaffin

. “LONDON, Dec. 8 (CDN)-—A parade of pelicans is on wing from empire joints, bound for London, but it's too late to dim the triumph of Texas in the “Battle of the Pelicans.” When Peter and Paul, two white pelicans of St. James’ Park, died in October, American correspondents cabled home appeals for replacements. Texas rushed into the breach and shipped four birds airwise, It got the jump on its sister state of Louisiana, which fact didn’t concern Britons much. But that the Texas pelicans—and brown ones at that— should win out over empire rivals was too much for British patriots. LORD BEAVERBROOK'’S Daily Express, chief empire booster of them all, exploded. “Why can't we have empire pelicans in St. James’ Park instead of those brown ones from America?’ It went on to explain that “for 200 years we have had pelicans in St. James’ Park” and when they died, “without warning, without a single question being asked in the house, a pair of American brown pelicans” were flown across

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the Atlantic. “Next thing, we'll be having GIs on guard at Buckingham Palace.” It’s not that empire pelicans weren't offered, as the Express admitted. What really happened is that Texas got in first with its offer to replace the deceased birds. i It stepped on the toes not only of mere Louisiana, but worse, on those of the Amir of Pakistan's princely state of Bahawalpur, a aa PASSIONS rose/to the point that officialdom intervened. A ministry of works official solemnly explained “it's a tradition that we have pelicans on the lake in St. James’ Park. We've had them there continuously ever since 1665, during the reign of Charles II.” When’ the two pelicans perished and the American newsmen cabled back for new ones, he explained, “we heard from the British consul in Louisiana that the game warden there was arranging for four Louisiana pelicans to be caught and sent over. But when Texas got wind of this, they decided to beat Louisiana to the draw, “The editor of a paper in Galveston chased up to the governor of Texas who ordered his game warden to collect four Texas pelicans, And while Louisiana was still talking about it, Texas put her four birds on a Pan American plane and flew them to London, *

“THE FIRST we knew about it was when Pan American's London office called up one Sat-

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on Hoosier “streets and highways, and through °

Dec. 4. of ‘this year, 1151 deaths have been reported. f : “More: and “more motor vehicles “are being operated by more drivers with no correspanding increases in roads and traffic contrel tools which contributes. to the spiraling: death rate. “But in the final analysis, the responsibility for safe driving and walking falls on each individual driver and pedestrian. “I urge each fnd every one of you, who walks or drives; to use extra caution and common sense to offset the tragic loss ‘of lives and property in motor vehicle crashes.” HS > POLICE CHIEF JOHN O'NEAL advises he citizens of Indianapolis to “hope and pray and work that the millionth, traffic death doesn't happen in our city. Each of us has the power to make our streets the safest in the country if

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always happen to the other fellow.”

William H. Meckling, general chairman In.

dianapolis Safety Council of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, said: : “With Hoosiers being killed in traffic accidents at an almost unprecedented rate, there is a better-than-average possibility that the millionth traffic victim may die in Indiana, perhaps in Indianapolis. “What a deplorable distinction that would be for our state or our community. It is bad enough to be running up higher traffic death tolls this year over last--it would hold up our state or city to national ridicule and scorn if the millionth fatality should occur here.” I'll add my two cents. If the millionth person dies in a traffic accident in Indiana, who is it going to he? You? Me? < Drive carefully, you have a precious cargo in your car,

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Taffy punched him in the breadbasket and said, “Are you a man or a house?” . G“ Bb TAFFY by now knew all the showgirl philosophy such as ‘Intelligent girls go places, but dumb girls go to nicer ones.” And she knew that some girls make a home for a man, but most of them make a man for a home. So Taffy had trouble when Hal, saved money to buy a modest ring, After Taffy said yes, Hal said: “Tomorrow I'll buy the ring. you wear?” “About 10 carats,” Taffy said. Well, Taffy never saw him after that. Re telling you later about the next time she got bride ideas.

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o oN THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Sen. Kefauver looks certain to take over part of Randolph Halle¥'s chore on the “Crime Syndicate” TV show (splitting it with Sen. O'Conor of Md.). Keéfauver's expected to narrate the Christmas and New Year shows as a starter. Igor Cassini, the society ed, i and pretty wife Darrah Waters have separated. He was at El Morocco with Mary, Sinclair (lovely ex-wife of Geo. Abbott) the other night, while Darrah was there with a group. They danced together just to show ¢ it's amicable, > Sb HENRY MORGAN'S becomIng a B'way actor. He plays a gag writer In the new Otto Preminger show. . . . The Paramount Hotel's trying to reopen the Diamond Horseshoe with Billy Rose cut in for half just to run it. (Unlike Eleanor, the Paramount isn’t asking him for any money!) . .. Last week we wrote we hoped the resignation rumors about Matt Connelly, the President's secretary, weren't true. Now Joe Short, HST's press sec'y, wires us that the rumors ain't so. Connelly, now vacationing in Palm Springs, rejoins the Prez Dec. 18... . Brooklyn's S8andy Reynolds, tap-dances at the “Open Door.” . .. That's Earl, brother.

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English Not Happy Over Texas Victory

urday to say that four pelicans were flying In for us from Texas and what were we going to do about it.” : “On Monday we got another gift pelican— this time a white one~from an Englishman living in Nairobi, Kenya, who also had heard of the deaths of Peter and Paul. “We have put all five pelicans in the London Zoo, in Regent's Park, to get them acclimatized before putting them into St. James’ Park. “Meantime. we are awaiting the four pelicans from Louisiana, which are coming by sea. We don’t want to get involved in any interstate trouble. > BS “AND WE'VE accepted the kind offer of the Amir of Bahawalpur to supply us with some more white pelicans to replace Peter and Paul, who came from there. 5 “Soon we'll have 11 pelicans in St. James’ Park more than ever before. I expect they'll settle down into a happy little United Nations. An MP concerned asked Minister of Works Eccles in Commons if he would insure that the new pelicans would include both sexes. “Im Informed the only sure guide to the sex of a pelican Is another pelican,” he replied. “I'm awalting developments.”

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—How can I make my really gorgeous poinsettia bloom in time for Christmas? I followed directions and put it away after Christmas last year, watered it with Vigoro solution regularly this summer and it looks beautiful now. But I do want it to bloom for Christmas. Mrs. G. R. Medlicott, 711 E. 40th St. A--If your plant is doing so well, far be it from me to suggest that you change its treat-ment-—even though it does not bloom until March. For one thing, it takes a real green thumber to get it this far along in a healthy, flower-promising state under average household conditions. If you insist now on trying to force bloom before it's ready to, the plant may turn balky. But you can do this—shorten its hours of daylight and be sure it gets no artificial light in the evening. Poinsettias are short-day (midwinter bloomers. So try feoling it into thinking the shortest day has arrived by placing it in a dark closet an hour or so hefore dark each day. (Send questions on gardening to Marguerite Smith, Dishing the Dirt, THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES, Indianapolis 9, Ind.)

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BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 8—A new era of hope and opportunity dawns atop Pigeon Hill on Bloomington’s

west side.

It is made possible by an ultra-modern, concrete ;

block and glass building known as Austin Hall, hub of a Christian Center “experimental station” long the dream of women from 10 Protestant churches on the other side of town.

The new structure is near the crest of a high hill in a rolling neighborhood generally known as “Pigeon Hill,” which is covered with threadbare oneand two-room houses.

Austin Hall-to be opened to public inspection Sunday-—is intended to expand and ime prove a 10-year-old nursery and recreation program for the west side children of this bustling universty city of 28,163. The unusually-designed building, 108 by 60 feet with no exposed supporting beams, would well suit the purposes of any large community group. Fraternities and private clubs have eyed its uses enviously. THE CENTER'S purpose, however, according to Willlam Kouns, director, is to provide a workshop in community living and leadership for the children and adults on the west side. At the Center pre-school children are enrolled in the nursery school on the basis of ability-to-pay (from $1.25 to $5 a week) while their mothers work to augment the family income.

Full enrollment is 25.

Here a boy may come after school to mend a broken piece of furniture or his baby brother's toy in the workshop set up in the boys’ craft room. He may belong to the Boy 8couts—ordinarily not within the means of the lower income group—and be encouraged and assisted to earn money to pay his way on a troop-sponsored trip to Chicago or the Smokies. Kiwanis Club, which co-sponsors the Center troop, sends the boys to camp

in the summers.

A girl may be taught by volunteer workers to make over an old garment into a useful school dress. She learns to prepare a balanced dinner and acquires

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younger brother and gister, Sometimes there are as many as 13 in one family,

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» » " MOST residents of Pigeon Hill came to Bloomington from Kentucky several years ago to work in a local factory. At first not many adults came to the Center, but an adult weaving class was started two years ago at the Center's original location.

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As soon as possible, Mr, Kouns said, the Christian Centéer Board, which manages the Center for the Council of Church Women, hopes to turn over much of the operation and planning to the people served. A youth council probably will be a frst step in that direction. “It Isn't a simple matter to erase a feeling that we're just a bunch of ‘do-gooders’ invading the hill,” one of the board members pointed out.

Church leaders have dubbed the experiment a demonstration of united Christian effort that goes far beyond traditional union services on Thanksgiving. . \ ~ ” » IT HAS BEEN estimated at least 200 church women in the city have worked actively for the Center during its existence ~-canning food, isolating sick transporting youngsters to the Center after school and to Scout camps, raising money for maintenance, etc. An open house Is planned Sunday afternoon to show off the new building and spur its financial drive for $12,000 needed for 1952 operations. The Center is not affiliated with the Community Fund, aiming its fund campaign mainly at church members every December. ; y In addition to two eraft rooms, a nursery and modern kitchen, the building is ecomposed of Austin Hall, a recreation hall, shower room, office, bathrooms, and inside and outside storage. A 15-foot porch extending the length of the building les in the rear for skating, shuffieboard, and. picnics at the outside fireplace,

8 Douglas Rae in front of new modern Christian Center

Austin Hall was named after Dr. F. H. Austin, a Bloomington physician more than 50 years who has treated many a west side patient and has con‘tributed to the building fund on a large scale, . 0 A modern feature in the building's design is the cantilever. constructed roof which is not supported ‘by exposed beams. Mrs. William Cleveland, building chairman; described the perimeter fuel oll heating system used to force hot alr through concrete tunnels. The building was designed by a New York architect, a relative of Rev. W. Douglas Rae, ministerial member of the Board, A 300-foot-square area surrounds the Center for playground and outdoor equipment. It is planned that a concrete tower base near by, once an old silo, be converted into a playhouse. The Board also hopes to erect a 40-foot timber cross on top as a symbol of the Center to be seen from two highways, » » J THE OHRISTIAN Center project was started in January, 1941, by a group of citizens led by Mrs. John R. Moore who had studied the need for some type

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recreation program on the west side for two years. The group succeeded in getting the Coun¢il of Church Women to take on the project, incorporate, and buy a small house on the edge of the neighborhood with $200 and a mortgage. It was decided to tackle only the nursery school at first, Within a few months, programs were underway for older boys and girls. By ‘1945 a full-time director, Mrs. Gaile Baltozer, was hired. : Mrs. Baltozer brought formals to the Center for the girls to borrow for high school functions. She helped two or three Center students go through IU. Selling of the 416 W. 11th St, location and Mrs. Baltozer's death in 1950 curbed most activities while the new building was going up. Up to this time more than 250 families engaged in Center activities. The Center . overcame its growing pains by selling Bloomington on the new building campaign with a Children’s Crusade in which children from the 10 churches and from the Center raised the initial $5000 in one week.

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along the line. Mrs. Cleveland sald contracts were sliced and work contributions of painting, scrubbing, ete, from various* service and church organizations saved countless dollars. IU fraternities, which had in#roduced their “Help Week" idea to replace “Hell Week,” by painting the original Christian Center, pitched in again, Builders believe the Center to be worth at least $65,000, had it been constructed without ald. “We'll probably have a $6000 or $7000 mortgage when we have paid our expenses,” according to the building chair. man. . A severe winter last year set construction: back several months. Board members like to recall how contractors feared

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borhood that could put all of it to good use. ; ai = Not a thing was molested. In another section of town the contractor might have lost hia shirt . . . one example, they heleve, to indicate the Center is destined to be an integral part of the west side, ’