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Inside Indianapolis * By Ed Sevola

BUILD 2 better television set and mice will

beat a path to your living room.

The brilliance of your TV get depends on how,

, brilliant you are in. most cases. Sounds a little

like ol’ Confuscius, doesn’t it? Been chewing the coaxial with television repairmen and they're funny, Told one guy he ought to be on television. He ‘told . the story about the woman who called to say that her set was getting blurred and she want-

mind, it was her dog. He has sharp eyes and pictures have to be just so-so or else. That's only half of the story about this unusual dog which the repairman swears is true. Shep will watch most programs ‘with interest, even Milton Berle. Commercials he doesn’t like, they come on, he leaves the room. .

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ALL REPAIRMEN are famijliar with the havoc a mouse can cause in a television set. In older models there used to be an opening through which a mouse could crawl to get next to high voltage wires. Only a mouse knows what is tasty about the wires, A few simple bites and the little feller would be all lit up for a moment. After the electrocution the set owner would have a choice of getting. his screw driver out or calling a repairman, That's one time when you can correctly say TV stinks. The boys are somewhat touchy about being identified especially when they tell you that their biggest headache is when someone calls by telephone to ask how to fix a set. “I'm all right except what to do with the little gimmick that goes on . “I fixed an amateur TV expert's set after he took it apart,” said one man. “He learned a-good deal, He found out, for example, it would cost him 60 bucks to get it back in shape. He wouldn't take his new car apart, beats me why he'd fool with a television set.” A housewife told a repairman who came to fix the sound on her set about calling a friend who provided the dialogue by- phone. Cute? Yes, but he had a better one. He found a housewife who called to have the

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 29—Long, long ago—but not so long ago, at that—young Mr. Russell Nype wanted to become a minister, He lived in the quaint town of Zion, Ill. A man named Voliva also lived there. Mr. Voliva used to reveal from time to time that the earth was flat. Folks in Zioh, HL; did not all agree with Mr. Voliva that the earth was flat. But

ty religious people. Russell Nype's parents were religious. ‘“You couldn't smoke a cigaret on the public highways in Zion on Sunday,” Russell Nype remembers. “The police would stop my sister and me when we were playing tag on the front lawn on Sunday.” HG WHEN RUSSELL was 5 or 6, he toddled up onto the altar in one of the churches and undertook to sing a little religious song. And that ruined his life, In the opinion of

i some of his kinfolk.

Fot it taught him he could sing. And it started him on the sinful road to Broadway. Nowadays, the pubic hears him singing with Fthel Merman in “Call Me Madam,” it hears him on records, and each midnight he also sings at the St. Regis’ Maisonette. The crowd at the St. Regis is chichi. It does not believe the earth is flat. It comes in to have supper, to gossip, to dance. And, 1 can't lie to you-—it even comes in to drink. Sometimes, here and there, Russell runs into his two most famous fans. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Duchess calls him “Harvey.” It is her name for him, Don’t ask me why. RUSSELL is about 28. He would appear by show business standards to be quite a success. His weekly pay is in four figures. But to some of those relatives who knew him back in Zion, he is a flop in life. He has gone to the bad. He should have become a preacher. “It is too bad about Russell.” they say. They shake their long faces gloomily “Teck, tck, tek,” they added, clicking their tongues. “I,ast year,” Russell says, “I stopped off in Minnesota on the way to Hollywood to visit some of my mother’s relatives. “They gave me a cold reception. They took the

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 29—1It strikes of a sudden that you do not see many fat ladies around any more, and that, in the cities at least, the comfortable types who are generally described as ‘motherly” are fast fading from view, 1 have not yet made up my mind whether this

but I think it is bad from a personal standpoint. I love fat

ladies. They look like ladies, and they are generally jolly and they were 'most always

magnificent cooks. They never ate much at the table, maybe, but they were always tasting things in the kitchen, and tasters do not generally feed out of cans. A lot of the around are pinched in the face and severe around the lips, due to not having eaten a square meal in years in a misguided effort to stay lean and actively competitive with the upstarts. I arh not a little girl, but if I were a little girl, it seems to me I would resent a mother who was all the time wearing my clothes and shining up to the boy friends in one of those semifalse efforts at pretending to be 16, too. oe oo Ex AS MY OWN SHADOWS lengthen, I keep running across a woeful amount of coy grandmothers with poodle haircuts and the generally restive air of a grass widow making the final desperate stab at the obdurate bachelor. Miss Gloria Swanson and Miss Marlene Dietrich are mighty cute, but IT will net wish to own either as a grandmother. They would make vou nervous over the long haul, always diéting and doing up the hair different and working on the makeup. When I see the word ‘grandma’ it c¢onnotes something along the lines of white hair, ample bosom, honest wrinkles and a generally satisfied expression born of unleashing the whalebone and spreading comfortably. I do not see shoulderless gowns and uplift brassieres and flashy legs and a girdle so tight grandma .daren’t set and rock. I would not like any grandma of mine out flashing wicked eyes at all the old goats in the neighborhood, kicking up the heels and doing the Charleston. It would make me insecure.

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IT USED TO BE regarded as one of the hoons of living to grow comfortanry old. #hd allow things to slide a bit. After the old man began to shine high on the head and the kids were coming

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gion, the lady of the house was supposed to quit counting calories and playing Theda Bara Toles around the Saturday party. An overblown femme fatale is a nerve- racking thing to have around the house, especially if she

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picture tube repaired sitting by a window looking at a neighbor's TV set with a pair of field glasses while listening to the audio. TV or not TV. : Another man reported a call from a woman “who, wanted the reel changed in her set. She “saw the movie before.” I know, it's hard to believe. The man said it was the truth and he had no reason for making up such a story, .* Coe a “> =

“YOU ASKED ME for goofy TV stuff and I'm telling you,” he said. Sorry. The peculiar thing about all the stories is that women ask most of the foolish.questions. Men

crop up in the pliers-and-screw-driver department.

A woman called for a repairman to fix the wiggle in the picture during cowboy movies, She said every time horses galloped or when the good guys were shooting it out with the bad boys, the screen blurred.e : x We have a man calling for help. During one of the more educational cloak-and-dagger presentations, the villain slammed a door and blew the picture tube out, the man reported. C'mon over and fix, please, ; My informant said it was highely improbable that slamming a door in a studio would blow a tube. Just a coincidence that will worry other TV owners who hear about the mishap. “One of the, most irritating situations to be in is where all a television set needs is to be plugged in,” moaned still another Cyclops man. “Somebody kicks a plug loose and immediately the owner asumes the set is on the blink.” Then there is the woman who turned her TV set on at 7 a. m, and fumed because she didn't get rise-and-shine-whistle-while-you-work Happy Harry. Naturally, she called for a repairman. She should have tried at 9 a. m. The best advice all the TV men could give, and it comes to you free, is don't fiddle with the dials too much and above all, don’t turn your set on and off. Keep the kiddies away. Turning a set on and off decreases its life, We have to get Hopalong Cassidy in here. A young buckaroo appeared at a television repair house and asked if he could see the “black box" (high voltage) where “Hoppy comes from.” His daddy told him that's where he stays but wouldn't show him. T'1l stick to my crystal set. The cat whisker is good for another couple of years.

Sinful’ Road To Broadway

attitude that my mother was to be pitied for having a son like me.’ Did they congratulate Russell upon being a success on Broadway? They did not. “They seemed to think it was something I should be ashamed of. Something better not to mention.” There was: quite a flurry ‘in the papers last year about Russell being seen escorting the Duchess of Windsor when the Duke was home nights winding up his memoirs. That upset his mother. “She would cry over the phone,” says Russell. “She said, ‘I can't face my prayer meeting.’” Dd oe ow HIS MOTHER feels differently now. We hear she even peeks into Broadway columns to see what they're saying about her boy. When he sings at the St. Regis, Russell says: “What I like most is looking over my specs At another human being of the opposite sex.” He also sings “You're Not Sick, You're in Love. “I guess I've sung it with every girl singer bit Margaret Truman,” he says. “And I may sing it with her down in Washington with Harry Truman at the piano.” That refers to his appearance in the capital soon with “Call Me Madam.” Not very long after that, Russell may be getting married. He has been most secretive about the young woman's name. “I do not blame any of my relatives. for their attitude about me going to the dogs,” Russell gays. “They feel that life is just a proving ground, a stepping stone, for the after life. And that any accomplishment on earth is not worth while.’ “My mother told me she so wanted me to make an album of hymns for her before I went into the St. Regis. “You know,” he says, “I might become a minister yet. It wouldn't be such a bad idea.”

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH . . . Comic Jackie Gleason took over on the late shift at Toots Shor's and kiddingly threatened Johnny Broderick, the famous fighting ex-cop. “I'm not afraid of you,” sald Gleason. “Why, pretty soon my face will hit you squarely in the fist.”

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TODAY'S WORST PUN: Taffy Tuttle told Danny Thomas she used to date a chiropractor— but got tired of all his back talk.

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TODAY'S BEST DAFFYNITION: “An ugly girl,” says Billy Reed, “is one who can scare up something for dinner.” . . . That's Earl, brother.

Motherly Grandmas F ast Disappearing

keeps playing filly when he starts nudging on the fifties. It is undignified for parents to stay kittenish too long. It shames the young, because no matter how sharp the old folks try to be, they can never quite handle that new slang, and you can still hear the old bones creak when the band plays too long. The gents are still a little less’ apt to fret about figures and multiple chins than the ladies, but it seems to me the males are off on this extended kittenish kick, too. They are, in many cases, trying to pretend that they are still devils if left unwatched, and as nimble as ever on a tennis court. A lot of 'em drop dead from overexertion at both sports. ,

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THERE IS SOMETHING a touch phony and a little sad about this clutching for eternal youth, and trying to stave off the autumnal frosts forever, Nobody likes to grow old, but it does include some of the boons of moderation, relaxation and freedom from spirited competition. The voung must beat their brains out and fly off in all directions. The mellowed man er woman walks the shady side of the street and quits taking the stairs at a gallop. I blame this fanaticism for extreme and permanent thinness on a lot of the strife that afflicts the middle-aged. The addition of comfortable flesh is normal, and at all times prevents a headlong fling at disaster, since undue exertion in any direction is too much trouble, The fact that I have recently gained 15 pounds has nothing whatsoever to do with the writing of this piece.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—1I bought a dozen amaryllis bdlbs last fall, large ones, and at a very reasonable price. They are not rooting. Some have already bloomed but still no roots. My own older amaryllis bulbs potted in the same soil have good roots, bulbs also have red spots on the flower stems. And the stems are bent. N. Delaware St. A—The spots on the flower stems are the important part of your problem. The red color and bending of the stems indicates red fire disease. That's probably why you got the bulbs at such a low price. Good amaryllis are likely to be expensive. Really special kinds are $5-and up for a single bulb. But when you buy from a reputable specialist you can be sure of disease- free stock: Either cut out and burn the diseased” parts of your bulbs or, if they are badly infected. destroy the whole bulb. Otherwise you may infect vour healthy ones. Many plant diseases of this kind are so highly infectious that merely handling a healthy plant after touching a diseased one spells tragedy,

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WATER CHECK—Miss Jorry Motley (right) watches Ward

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By LLOYD B. WALTON

INDIANAPOLIS will become the science center of the state next Saturday when 61 high school scientists from all over Indiana meet at the Claypool Hotel. These junior scientists were winners in the fifth

annual Indiana Science Talent Search sponsored by The Times, The Indiana Junior Academy of Science and The Indiana Academy of Science. The students, accompanied by their sponsoring teachers, are to be special guests at a luncheon in the Riley Room. Walter Leckrone, editor of The Times, will be toastmaster, Highlights of the assembly will be an exhibit of science projects by 22 of the students and an address by H. J. Muller, Ph. D., Nobel prize winner and professor of zoology at Indiana University.

5 » ” DURING the exhibit periods the junior scientists will be interviewed by members of the scholarship committees and sicentists of Indiana colleges and universities, The projects exhibited will give a representative crosssection of the entire field of sicence. They will cover everything from an amateur television station through the electrical and chemical fields to the synthesis of some of the lesserknown organic compounds. Howe High School is the only Indianapolis school to be represented in the assembly. Three winners from Howe this year brings their total of state winners to five within the last four years.

” tJ EJ LAURENCE 0. WILLIAMS, a senior at Howe, will be the only local student exhibiting his scientific project. He will show the set-up he used while experimenting on the synthesis of organic compounds. Laurence, the son of Mrs. L. Dean Willlams, 5319 Julian

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By JOHN V. WILSON JOHNNY TOWNSEND pores over the law books but dreams of swishing.the

nets with a basketball. Harry Chamberlain looks down from the court bench and hears the click of a base hit. Bill Allison, wondering how to fix county roads, reflects wistfully how his race might have won the “500.” Johnny, Harry and Bill are hest known now as deputy prosecutor, . judge and county commissioner. But a few years agn, they were noted as sports figures. There are nine others like them in Marion County's Courthouse, They keep their minds on business, but like all athletic greats, they daydream occasfonally of past glory. - » n

LAWYER Townsend, one of the all-time stars at Technical High School, was twice AllAmerican at the University of Michigan. Then he joined the professional ranks with the Kaufsky's here.

Although his playing days , are over, Johnny still lends his voice to sports. You heard him and his brother, Earl, broadcasting the state high school

~ cage finals last week,

Mr. Townsend helped. carry Tech to the state finals in 1934. At Michigan, Johnny made the All-Big Ten team three vears, 1936-38, and won AllAmerican laurels the last two years. Judge Chamberlin maintains a healthy interest in sports, although he hung up his baseball spikes in the 1920's.

u ” ~ AS A FIRST baseman for the Manassas, Va., nine, the Criminal Court 1 judge got his big chance to win a professional contract in 1890. But his parents frowned on the idea. “When the Canton, 0O., team offered me $100 a month, it

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Ave. was sponsored and directed in his work by Virgil

Heniser, head of the Science Department at Howe High School.

He has spen the last 115 years working on this project. However, most of his work had to be done while school was in progress. “My mother frowns on home experimenting-—especially since the time one of my experiments exploded and blew all the windows out of the basement,” Laurence said laughingly. The explosion occurred -while he was experimenting on the making of nitro-glycerin. Previous experiments had been quite successful, and the high explosive was used in the manufeature or rocket fuel which Laurence had been studying. He will graduate in June and hopes to enter Purdue University. Eventually he wants to be a research chemist but has not as yet decided on a field for specialization. » o ” WARD - THAYER, son of Mrs. M. M. Thayer, 5130 E. St. Clair 8t.,, worked all last sum-

mer and fall on a study of.

Escherichia Coli. The highsounding term is merely the scientific name for sewage and harmful bacteria to be found in creek water. His sponsor in the project was Miss Jerry Motley, Howe High School biology teacher. The project consisted of gathering samples of water from White River, Eagle Creek, Pleasant Run and Fall Creek at various times of the day and different places along the streams, These samples were

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looked like all the money in the world,” he recalls. Among his teammates were Harry (Doc) White, who later pitched for the Chicago White Sox, and Arthur Devlin, later known as a third baseman for the New York Giants. Judge Chamberlin continued his diamond activities here, playing with the Marion Club team up to 1905. In 1902, he coached baseball at Shortridge High School. ” ” o COMMISSIONER Alllson fared less well in the sports field, but his enthusiasm for auto racing remains undimmed He lost $7000 on a race car from 1947 to 1949. His driver, Norm Houser, failed to qualify it in the 1947 Speedway classic. “It just wasn't fast enough,” Mr. Allison moans. The commissioner also raced the base paths .from 1916 to 1935. As an infielder and pitcher, he performed with a Frankfort traveling team and the Brightwood Rural Red Sox The courthouse array of athletes also includes two whist]etooting referees—Judge Harry

R. Champ, Municipal Court 2, and Commissioner Golden P Silver. «x.

Judge Champ still serves as timer at top swirnming events At Indiana University, the judge played hoth varsity baskethall and baseball. Later he coached at Tech and Owens-

ville, ’ » ” o DR. SILVER, a forme? Frankfort High 8chool cdcage star, retired as an official, in 1949 after calling 1509 games during 27 years. Now he mixes golf with

score-keeping fbr the Indianapolis Olympians. . The leading ‘fish out of water” at the Courthoysze is Judge Paul B. Clark, who presides over Superior Court 5. A three-letter swimmer at IU, Judge Clark specialized in the Australian crawl and’ re-

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YOUNG CHEMIST—Laurence. o. Williams (right) Serierme'a an » experiment in fractional distillas tion under the watchful eye of Virgil Heniser.

taken home, submitted to chemical tests and examined to detect the presence of the bac-

teria. Ward expects to enter Indiana

University next fall and wants to study medicine. ~ ” ” CARL GANSER, son of Mrs. Jewell Ganser, 5405 E, 17th St, graduated from Howe at the end of last semester and Is entered in the School of Science at Purdue University. Sponsored by Richard Hammond, physics teacher, he spent nearly a year studying the construction of cyclotrons and building a scale model of one. According to Mr. Hammond, Carl was one of those “one-in-a-million” students who put his whole heart and soul into the study of physics, “He could stand up and address a chem-

istry class or science club for.

an hour without looking at a note,” Mr. Hammond said. “People kidded him about his cyclotron model looking more like a chicken brooder,” the sponsor said. “But Carl didn't mind it a bit.” -, ” » ~ FOLLOWING is a list of the students who will attend the Junior Scientists Assembly: William J. Asher, Hammond; Joseph R. Cox, Culver Military Academy; Mary Ann Dawson, Connersville; Dick Eykamp, Bosse High School, Evansville;

George M. Fleck, South Whitley, James Fleming, Reitz Memorial High Bchool, Evansville; Rita Rosalie Hasley, Central Catholic High 8chool, Ft.

Wayne; Charles R. Hayward, iarfleld High 8chool, Terre Haute; Mark Hopkins, Bosse

High School, Evansville; Nicholas P. Krull Jr.,, Kentland. Robert M. McCutchan; Reitz Memorial High School, Evansville; Arlene McFarlin, Central Catholic High School, Ft. Wayne; Bob Metzler, Nappanee; Russell Noyes Jr., University High S8chool, Bloomington; James E., Shields, Marion; Jacqueline Gay 8ims, University High School, Bloomington; Robert L. Spranger, Central Catholic High School, Ft. Wayne; William H. Starbuck, Culver Military Academy; Harold A. Stovall, Mechanic Arts School, Evansville; David F. Thomas, Elkhart; Laurence O, Willlams, Howe High School; Fred H, Wilt, Nappanee. Joyce Ann Amos, Tell City; Channig B. Blickenstaff, Frank-

fort; James KE. Burlage, Central Catholic High B8chool, Ft, ‘Wayne; Patricia D. Caplinger, Crawfordsville; Carl Carlson, Howe Military Academy; Curran Cotton, Bosse High School, Evansville; Richard Don Moyer, Memorial High 8chool, Evansville; Donald Ekstrom, Brook-Iroquois Twp. 8chool, Brook Project; Floyd Ferrell,

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lay events. Even now, he slips

out each lunch hour to paddle

500 yards in the Indianapolis Athletic Club pool. An up-and-coming Young bowler i8 Frances Dawson, retary to Judge Saul 1. Rabb of Criminal Court 2 After only two years as a kague performer, she won the 1952 city women's singles crown She posted a HRT series for the championship. But the next week she rolled 666. Since then she has garnered her second “600” a 638 series, ” ” ” ." THEIR touchdown dava are over. but Judge Hezzie B. Pike nf Superior Court 2, County ('lerk H. Dalé Brown and A. J. Hail, Judge Champ's bailiff, still boast of their gridiron exploits Judge Pike was a lineman. for IU in 1903 and '04. But he quit the ‘squad when he was offered

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the job of Law 8chool assistant librarian. The judge recalls vividly the 1903 train wreck which killed 19 Purdue students en route here for the annual series with 1U. Mr. Brown played halfback and end for IU in 1931. And Mr. Hall performed in DePauw University's backfield in 1948 and '49, » ” ” CHIEF DEPUTY SHERIFF Fred Fosler knows how to get the drop on lawbreakers. He served as jiu jitsu instructor for the State Police for eight vears and even wrote an instruction manual. : Once he put his knowledge tn good use in the line of duty when he went to arrest a chicken thief. The man reached for his back pocket, then found

. Mr. Fosler Railing him to the

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Tell City; Richard Ford, Craws fordsville; Carl Ganser, Howe High School; John Gibler, Hunte ington Catholic High School. Richard Gillom, Bluffton; Mile lard Habegger, Adams Central High School; Robert Hender= long, Crown Point; Phillip Jackson, Lincoln High School, Vincennes; Donald Jeest, Wadesville; Raymond Jones, Central High School, ville; Jack Keller, Reitz Mae« morial High School, Evansville; Richard Mattox, Seymour; James Meadows, Bosse High School, Evansville; John Di Mulholland, Central High School, Muncie; Robert Murs fitt, Brook-Iroquois Twp. School, Brook Project; Gerald Papenmeier, Bosse High School, Evansville; Donald Parkintotty Wadesville. Richard Patterson, Crown Point; George Peterson, Cen tral High School, Evansville;

William Robinson, University

High School, Bloomington; Joan Sabens, Linden; Ervin Schroeder, Mt, Vernon; Paul Steele, Connersville; Robert Tanksley, Brook-Iroquois Twp. School, Brook Project; Judith Telfer, Marion; Ward Thayer, Howe High School; Thomas Todd, Crawfordsville; Thomas Webb, Richmond; Robert Webster, Mt, Vernon; David Wells, Reitz Mee morial High School, Evansville; Richard White, Central High School, Muncie,

Our Courthouse Is Full Of Athletes

"Bringing up the rear heres which he didn't do at IU—in30 Charles T. Gleason. The Mus: nicipal Court 2 clerk won major- letter in track in 194 as a broadjumper, '

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