Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1951 — Page 8
i Won't Be Gon Living Costs to Blow Tops New Year's Eve
par By United Press : CHICAGO,. Dec. 29—The high
"| eost of REALLY living will hit a
18100 top on New Year's Eve—
without drinks. A look at the price lists of the
10 most expensive cabarets in
'lthe nation today showed these ' [charges, most of them providing ‘|dinner only when seeing out the
old and ringing in the new year: Lord Tarleton Hotel, Miami $100 a couple for buffet dinner. Drinks extra. Copa. City, Miami—8$30 a person. Ciro’s, Hollywood—$31.98. Mocambo, Hollywood—Ditto, Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles— $31.85. Persian Room, New York--$20. Empire Room, New York—$§24.
—$20.40. | Roosévelt Hotel, New Orleans— |
Pump Room, Chicago—$15.56. Swanky Spot
BIG CHIEF" AND HIS HAT—Retiring Fire Chief Roscoe A.
Mekinhay sakes a look at his "five horn" hat, symbol of the big
Fire Department.
| The most . expensive spot, the {Lord Tarleton, is one of the many |ultsa-swank beach hotels” at Milami. » The Lord Tarleton will admit its hotel ‘guests free to its celebration, but the cost for others will be $100 a couple, and the hotel said it is booked solid with 200 outsiders at this price. The $100 will buy a buffet dinner with 40 to 50 different kinds of food in two serving lines, orchids for the ladies, boutonnieres for the men and entertainment |and dancing. But drinks will be extra at $1 or more a throw. A conservative estimate of a “tab” for a couple at the Tarleton for the night probably would list: $100 admission, champagne $30; tips to waiter and captain $20. at least; hat chéck tip $1 (in that kind of a crowd) for a total of
$151—and that includes only ONE bottle of champagne: Get Filet Mignon
Miami's exclusive night club, Copa City, is providing for its
$30 a person admission a seven-|
course filet mignon dinner and entertainment by two dance
| bands, movie actress Jane Powell {and other stars.
Copa City plans te nick the cus-
{ported drowned while handling a| r fifth hose at a box company fire on The) LEE 335 oF More for a
Two swank night clubs on Hol-
He had just entered the building lywood’s Sunset Strip, Ciro’s and]
Mocambo, have identical prices for the night—$31.98 a person, including federal tax. Ciro’s will put out a seven-course dinner of anything on the menu, all drinks, favors, gifts of perfume and lipstick for the ladies and breakfast. The entertainers are singer Lita Barton and dancer Billy Daniel. Mocambo is offering about the same thing, with singer Billy Daniels the big attraction. The Cocoanut Grove of Los Angeles’
stuffed squab for a seven-course
for two and a half days without relief.’
boss in ¢ Twice Thought Dead ice Thought Deagq, Chief Retires Tomorrow A man twice reported dead in fires will round out more than 38 years of smoke eating tomorrow when he yields controls of the fire department and “takes off the harness.” Chief Roscoe A. McKinney, who has carried the “Chief” title longer than any man in the| history of the local department, companies out of an alley threatis just a few months short of the ened by a wall. The men got out mandatory retirement age of 70.|28 the wall started to fall. Rather than step down to as-| Chief McKinney was too late gistant chief, his permanent|to escape. rank. which would mean down-| Calling on his early training, | the-line demotions, he will re- he hurled himself toward the tire. building foundation and covered | But he'll still be a fireman, [Dis head with his arms, | “Once a fireman, always a fire-| Men of two companies played| man,” he says. ' hoses on the spot where he was| : {trapped while a third company | Two Escapes { Yi Twice cheating death are only IUE him from the debris. He was two highlights of a career that|P hres rope than .10 minutes has carried him through nearly" er the flaming wall every job in the department and | Thirty years ago he was rethrough every rank. “Big Chief,” as men of the force Ea him. once was reported | Southeast Side, dead while directing the fight against a two-alarm blaze at 307 (when the floor collapsed, pitching W. Wilkins St. {him into the flooded basement. He had just ordered three fire He went under and came up sput(tering to grab the subflooring and eT : ' {keep his head above water. Hints Agreement 5 Again he was rescued by fellow . remen. In Gable Divorce Tougher Fires SANTA MONICA, Cal, Dec. 29 Top spot in his four year ) 8 as (UP)—Lady Sylvia Ashley's at-\chief of the 700-man ete torney said today “there still iS\came Aug. 24, 1950, when tanks of possibility” ef an agreementiithe Crystal Flash Petroleum Co. whereby her divorce suit against went up on the near Northwest movié hero Clark Gable “mayigide. : not be contested.” “That was one of the most Although Lady Sylvia was re- dangerous fires I've ever seen,” he ported demanding $200,000 cash/said. ® and $100,000 a year from Mr. The toughest, he adds, was the Gable; her fourth husband whom Industrial Building blaze which she married only two years ago, started Jan. 13, 1918. It was a attorney Henry Low said therejthree alarm-plus fire and was batwas a possibility of an agree-/tled eight days before being dement between the interested par-|/clared “out.” ties. Chief McKinney then was a driver on a horse-drawn hose U. S. Seen Wetter wagon and stayed on the scene In Local Elections et Pie - en he joine e department, WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UP) —The nation is getting wetter, (yt oh Aor 24-hour days the Distilled Spirits Institute said . today. | BY sick, the other men worked for!
When a fellow fireman was
The institute reported that pro-\.." <0 ne” would not lose pay [cluding pheasant under glass, a,
hibition was abandoned in 1951/7, 4) o in local option elections in areas| gu proc. gate he HR 28 With, with a population of 302,311. “One time 1 worked At the same time, areas which months y changet Tra wet fo legally dry|os, s straight without a day status had a population of 39,760.),,weq to go home for meals. I got “Thereby,” said the institute, home then, but my boy thought I “making a net wet increase of was a boarder,” he says. 262,551.” The turn-over occurred in 20 pe just a spectato ’ states, the institute said. It of- be. Ju fire h ling Ivo. fered no explanation. | But a very interested spectator.
FBI Blocks Extortion Of $500 From Bob Hope
TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 29 (UP)—-| FBI agents foiled an attempt to! extort $500 ‘from .Bob Hope when they arrested an ex-comvict with| a record of three previous convictions for extortion as he en-| tered the Tucson post office today. | The man was identified as Lawrence Galloway Thompson, 49, who also used the alias of Fred Tramel. The+FBI said he wrote Mr. Hope ,on,a penny postcard demanding $500, saying his life
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One Lizard Down And Six to Go
DURBAN, South’ Africa, Dec. | 29 (UP)—Col. Marion Kellett | was richer by $560 today and will get that much more richer each time one of his wife's lizards die. Mrs. Kellett died last July leaving a bequest of $4000 to | maintain in comfort her seven pet reptiles—rare species of the _agamid family of lizards. { The first of these, Timmy, | died and 200 pounds was deducted from the amount for the colonel’ The other six pets are still alive and in the" care of SPCA officials.
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dinner. At 2 a. m. breakfast will {be ‘served while John Carroll sings. Most places refused to reveal their list of prominent guests for the evening, but few movie stars were booked at Hollywood. They usually prefer private parties. Marlene’s Going
The head waiter at New York’s| Persian Room, however, said that!
Marlene Dietrich, Brenda Prager
and Magda and Eva Gabor have
reservations for its celebration, {which will cost $20 a head. This| lincludes a four-course dinner, in-|
{paper hat for the ladies and a {horn for gentlemen. The Empire Room of the Wal-
four qorf Astoria Hotel in New York|
is charging $24 a person, including dinner, hats and noisemakers. Drinks will be extra, with Scotch | selling for $16 to $17 a bottle. Champagne at the Persian Room
From now on, “Big Chief” willl will be tabbed at $30 a bottle,
{with prices elsewhere for the im-
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price down to about $10.
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Chicago prices appeared .modest, by comparison, but at most
trimmings will be extra. Chicago's super-swank Pump Room is providing a dinner of squab stuffed with pate de foie gras and wild rice for $15.56 a person. _ The Pump Room is planning’an elaborate midnight ceremony based on its “flaming sword” tratlition. At the witching hour, 18 walters dressed in red will parade through-the room with
New Year, 1952.” Celebrants also may add to the bill anywhere from 25 cents to $5 for tomato juice, headache pills and other assorted hangover
places all drinks and some other| :
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NEW YORK, Dec. 29—A subsway cop was wounded in the Eline of duty-bitten on the seat of his pants by a pugnacious pickpocket. “a “Transit Patrolman George | Beyer, 42, reported he was riding a train when he came upon two men picking “the pockets of’ a snoozing passenger. Mr. Beyer collared the pick-
pockets and yanked them off the train at a station while’the passenger presumably resumed his nap. One of the prisoners, Juan Garcia, 27, put up a struggle, in the course of which Mr. Beyer was bitten. Subway attendants called for reinforcements. Two radio cops rushed to the rescue, broke up the
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Boys Fix. ‘Collect Toll
By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec. 29 —Two boys whq tackled a road {repair job which their community ailed to get approved hired a third youngster today to Rollect money. from passing motorists to finance the project. When the Bayview community near here lost its appeal for a repair job on their road leading to a paved highway, James Naylor Sessions, 17, and Billy Jack Bryant, 13, armed themselves with
the road. A “slow, men working" sign was salvaged from a junk pile land set up at the sceme of their | project. | The boys held out a “collection
Road and !
shovels and begin to fill holes in
.8t. Francis Hotel, Ban Francisco! ures the morning after.
battle and hauled Garcia and his/can” to passing drivers for concompanion, George Carrington, |tributions to pay for their work. 51, to the station on charges of But this slowed up the shoveling, jostling. Garcia also was booked so they hired Jimmy Walker, 12,
od No Snafu
Ambassador Hotel,
charging $31.85 a person with tax, is cooking up such delicacies as after midnight.
In Traffic To Classic
Basketball fans reached the Hoosier Classic at Butler Fieldhouse on time last night because: ONE—Only half as many fans turned out. TWO—Traffic police were ready for them. A police jeep pushed stuck autos over icy spots.
for felonious assault. Mr, Beyer was treated for his injuries.
IT FINALLY HAPPENED—A machine gun that shoots around | corners has been perfected at the Detroit Arsenal. Sgt. Donald | Rector, Muskegon, Mich., is shown operating the gun. The unit is a standard M-3 submachine gun, fitted with a special curved barrel that deflects bullets 90 degrees. oe
Use of Gas Boat With Yule Gifts
. Finally Arrives in Korea Increases in 1951 ne. Korea, Dec. 29 (UP)— |
NEW YORK—The increase in| The SS Greeley Victory arrived |
Sgt. Marion Osterrhyer, - who |was in charge of the traffic de-| |tail, said: “We got everybody in| on time. If we're lucky, we'll get| them out the same way.” He| called the situation “normal.” | Unlike Friday night's snafu, ample advance preparations were| made to handle the flow of traffic bringing 12,000 fans to the Field-| house. A force of 20 policemen, | 11 city and nine auxiliary, were] assigned to handle the traffic situ-| lation. | The main streets were sanded {for five blocks on each side of the| Fieldhouse. Side streets were| sanded for 100. feet on each side! of the intersections. |
| Parking Lot Icy
According to Maj Harry Houghetlan, director of the auxili-| ary police at Butler University, the jam on Friday night could not have been prevented even if he| “had 500 men working.” It was the icy condition of the parking| lot which slowed trafic and caused the tie-up rather than al lack of patrolmen at the intersections, he contended. There were six auxiliary policemen working the parking lot and three of them working at the intersec-| tions nearest the lot.
at about 7:45. They worked until
Capt. Audry Jacobs, head of the police trafic division, said the normal number of men assigned to-the Butler detail was 10. How-| ever his office formed of the games and no pro-|
{per cent above the 1946-1949 aver- that this country must now rearm
| o -— " The city police dispatcher sent : i five men to help with the tradi
had not been in-|%
|off Pusan today with thousands residential gas users to an all-time|,r pejated Christmas gifts for
high of 29,662,000 during 1951 combat GIs from the people of| holds the promise of fair selling|Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Chamber of weather for gas appliances in the| ~ mmerce, sponsors of the drive| new year.
for presents for fighting men in| . Other favorable factors: are Korea, even ‘sent the packages further extension of the natural{through the rival port of San| gas pipeline system and the grow- Francisco in hopes they would) ing popularity of bottled propane reach Korea in time for Christ-| and butane gas in rural and sub-|mas distribution. urban areas not served by utility] The Greeley Victory had been gas mains, Louis Ruthenburg, Scheduled to reach Pusan Dec. 21, president of the Gas Appliance but unexplained delays held her Manufacturers Association, said UPin a year-end forecast.
While sales of gas appliances No Immedia fell off in 1951 from the record le War, ; highs of 1950, Mr. Ruthenburg Fechteler Advises
pointed out that sales in all cate- CAMDEN, N. J. Dec.29 (UP)—. gories were far above pre-war Adm, William M. Fechteler, chief peaks and ranged from six to 31 of Naval operations, said today
age. | “with a feeling of urgency,” but The GAMA head revealed that|added that he does not anticipate range sales dropped from 3 mil- “an immediate all-out war.” lion to 2.4 million, gas home-heat-| Adm. Fechteler’s speech marked | ing installations from 1 million to the launching of the Navy's first 610,000; automatic gas hot water 6000-ton ‘destroyer leader,” the heaters from 2.3 million to 2 mil- U. 8. 8. Norfolk at the New York lion. ‘Shipbuilding Corp. yards here. {
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