Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1951 — Page 5

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By ED WILSON HIS NAME IS LARRY... Larry Shuchman, 9 years old, 5886 Washington Blvd. . . . burn victim. _.

On Sept. 14th his uncle, to the hospital, St. Vincent's.

. to live.

He walked from the car into the hospital . . . burned“from the neck down to the waist, fromthe shoulders down to the elbows. He didn’t whimper or cry. He was in deep shock ang couldn’t feel the pain. The fire had burned away most of the nerves in his skin. Nobody there expected him to Hve because he had third degree burns, a 25% skin loss , . . be: cause he was just a little boy, William Naper, 5606 Washington Blvd, another uncle, saw Larry in the receiving ward at St. Vincent's, He said it was the most pathetic thing he had ever seeq in his life. » ¥ . HE COULDN'T look at the boy for long. It made him sick. How did it happen, how did he get burned? Larry came home from school

at the usual time, in his usual high spirits. Me's a fourth grader at Schabl 84. He “messed around the house for a while” and during his play, struck’ /a match. He doesn’t know why he did it now. The match set fire to the bottom of his T-shirt. Larry couldn't beat it out with his hands. He ran intd the living. room, called for Lois Porter, the Schuchman’s Maid. Lois was upstairs,|

Mr. Harriman’s Fifi (Dachshund)

Found in Paris

PARIS,. Dec. 22 (UP)—W. Averell Harriman'’s little dachshund, Fifi, which went astray as Mr. Harriman left for the United States early this week, was found today and the reward of 20,000 francs ($57) will help to brighten Christmas for a Paris family. Fifi, woebegone and hungry, ‘was sitting on the doorstep of

Mme. Paulette Fouque, wife of a gery, and more blood transfusions.| Addison, 66, was found in the!

furniture mover, this: morning. Unaware of the dog's identity, Mme. Fouque took it inside. She

got it a bowl of warm milk and| spread a newspaper under the u

bowl. She glanced at the print, saw an advertisement for Fifi, and telephoned the American embassy. Mr, Harriman is United States Mutual Security Administrator.

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Dr. Abe Shuchman, took him \

Nobody there expected him

getting Berry, 4, up from his nap. When she saw him, Larry was standing in the middle of the liv{ing room, moving his head back and forth, trying to keep the flames away from his face.

w - » LOIS RAN downstairs, tried to beat the flames out with her hands, picked Larry up, ran to the kitchen and put the flaems out with water. The damage was already done. The upper part of Larry's body was covered with blisters. Burned skin hung in shreads from his back and chest. Lois lead Larry next door to his grandmother's house, ' Mrs. Celia Schuchman, Dr. Schuchman, was in the house at the time. He rushed Larry to the hospital. : Larry's mother, Mrs. Lorraine Shuchman was already ‘at the hospital with her mother, Mrs. Carry Wormser. Mrs. Wormser died a few weeks after he arrived. She didnt’ know he was there. They told Larry's mother an accident had happened. She hurried to the receiving ward where they were giving him a blood transfusion. From that moment

..{on she prayed, prayed until he

was out of danger , .. prayed un-

{her he would hive,

AND THEN began the endless weeks of blood transfusions, dressing changes, penicillin, ACTH, sedation, vitamins, skin grafts, plastic surgery and a hundred other drugs and treatments. Larry's home no «for a little - while. Home after 11% weeks in the hospital. He’s going to have the biggest Christmas he ever had in his life. It'll probably be his happiest. But he’s not through with the hospital. He goes twice a week for dressing changes. Sometime in Janu-

til the quiet men in white told

LARRY SHUCHMAN—A for 111/; weeks.

match sent him to the hospital

Carthage Man Dies in Blaze

ary or February, another skin graft, plastic sur-;

this time. Doctors think he can go back | to school next September and take up where he left off. . About all this, Larry has one| thing to say: “Kids, when you strike a match, | be careful. You may burn yourself up.”

He's not kidding. He knows.

he's -due--fort

Buy them at the Cashier's Window— 2nd Floor

i—The charred body of Walter C.

They want to remake his neck pasement of his fire-ruined gro- Ness district.

jcery today after firemen from’ three towns battled flames on the {town square for two hours. Officials said Mr. Addison may {have suffocated, burned to death, |or suffered a heart seizure in the| excitement of discovering the blaze.

Firemen from Carthage were

joined by

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22 Chickens Stolen

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THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES

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Penny Post Card Due To Bow Out Soon

By DAVID WATSON The penny postcard is starting to--turn handsprings. It's climb-| ing up in the world. When it stops its gymnastics! at 12:01 a. m. Jan. 1, the “poor man’s letter” is going to cost its! user twice as much as it does to-| day. . The price will be 2 cents.

And .it won't be a painless transition. There is a gimmick in the postal lay which has thrown private business into a dither,

The more cards they buy in a single transaction, the more they will have to pay. This the businessman can understand. But things aren’t that simple.

Make Sense?

He can’t multiply the number] of cards he wants by two and come up with total cost. le

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at once he will be charged an extra 10 per cent for each unit of 50 cards. This applies to every-| body, but only the businessman buys n quantities large enough, to make the regulation serious. | The firm which now pays $100 for a stock of 10,000 cards will pay $200 starting Jan. 1. To that price will be added $20, the 10 per| cent penalty for buying oh than 49 cards. There has been some posi talk among businessmen of sending out all their employees: to buy| 49 cards ‘each, thus defeating the penalty assessment. But other problems have been knit by the law which increases postcard prices.

Into the Red

Some major firms operate cus-| tomer service post offices which| sell small quantities of postal supplies. If the stores must pay the

penalty for volume purchases, and then sell single cards to coon

at the flat two-cent rate, they will

lose money. They might have to

_.Other firms. will be caught Jan. !

Here's Your Times Carrier

Ross Meyer, 576 S. Trow-

steps of his brothers, Chester and Robert. Several years ago they carried The Times, too. Ross is only 13, but he has been

500 block of Rural, Leeds, Temple and Trowbridge Sts. for 15

months. He puts part of his | 5 earnings in the bank to save for § 5 x his on education and part | This ® of it in a Christmas savings | - gq fund. This still leaves him spend. | hristmas q ing money. He's in the 8B at : Give q Sd 2 and Snes to the Sears : Purchase ig ~ Coupon if Books : g I iy iy iy Ba 1 di 2 : 8 i ’ 4) ai i i

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1 with large stocks of penny cards fon hand. They will be required to add a 1-cent stamp to the cards or turn them in to the postoffice for credit {jon the: 2-cent card, adding the penalty rate, of course. One businessman said it would | {be cheaper to turn the cards in, | and stand the loss, than have a full-time employee spend the time pasting on additional stamps, Even the Postoffice Department

goes on the hook when prices go|-

up, There will. be more bookkeeping to do and more regulations to follow, When the Postoffice here orders more cards,‘ its account will be charged in Washington at the rate of 2 cents a card plus the penalty, But many of the cards sold here will be in quantities less than

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