Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1952 — Page 20

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Mrs. ot Delves Into Our Past

By DAVID WATSON INDIANAPOLIS Federal Court is getting the first housecleaning in 135 years— in the records room. In a musty, dusty corner of the Federal Building basement & representative of the U, 8. Archives and General Services Administrdtion has been unearthing Indiana history as it was made nearly a century and a half ago. Lengthy handwritten documents in the scroll-like form of the age reveal troubles with Indian trade ers, early business problems and the humorous complications of getting the Federal Court into operation in 1817. ~ » . THOUGH a record cleanup is something new for the court here, it's nothing unusual for the graduate librarian who is doing the job. She is Mrs. Dorothy Hill Gersack, who has done the same thing for agencies and courts in % many parts of the country. Though most of her work has § long since become routine, delving into the musty lockers and files SE is not without its moments of ex- § citement., Rare papers are sometimes uncovered. It was in Philadelphia about two years ago that she found the records of the first direct federal tax in this country. It was dated 1780, and was crammed into the courthouse basement with junk.

a aaa A ton ageing he only 1.5 million cubel feet of rec- waging war, The records are ol oples of certain pa yo ne ords were made in the first 150! trom all agencies, the war offices| a that period. a ey. years of our national existence.| growing to huge proportions oss We are now making conflict,

wy Depattuent nal eopies, BUY amount every year. One of the major tasks of the with

In Chicago, where she also did, There has been something tel o 4 gome inventory work, Mrs. Ger-30 million cubic feet of records CHOKED 6 187 sack found the only federal rec- made all told, and about half stomach ord which survived the great Chi-/of that has been made since the cago fire. This volume wag/start of World War IL charred at the edges and the, That fs an insight into the udiguation. Wusy-t8 gteigan 35a Be otk pages singed. growth of the nation as well 88! medicines known to doctors for the relief of ny a A Agmiralty Joos fom the administrative problems of! | nesrtburn, gas and similar distress. 354. Carolinas paint a picture of the . days when the infant country was See the large advertisement on Page 5 of still under the rule of the British. ns . ” DURING her three-week task here Mrs. Gersack has tabulated volumes which include Volume 1, Record 1, including the 1817 con~ vening of the Federal Court as di-

MRS. DOROTHY GERSACK—History, space and money.

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service which employes Mrs. Gersack is finding new space for agencies by eliminating useless records. The agency lists cost of stor-| ing records in potential working| space at $3.13 per cubic foot. At] a record center, however, fhe! cost runs about $1.50 par; cubic! foot. And that means money in the! figurative pocket of the court here when about 165 cubic feet! of records are cleared out, if Mrs.

Gersack’s recommendations are

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Her mext stop is Washington,

D. C,, for a report analysis.

And Crops Still Grow

Some 3000 species of insects and twice as many disease agents attack U. 8. crops.

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rected by President James Madfson. The government had money troubles in those days too. It seems one of the court clerks inherited his office sans equipment, and the papers apparently stacked up on the floor. So he ordered through the Department of Interior a desk equipped with pidgeon holes, and outfitted the office for an outlay of $168, The Treasury got back into the act in 1843, and in a bland and benevolent mood allowed the district court $200 every three months to rent a “safe building” for the preservation of records. - Who Thomas Guthrie was in those days is probably unknown today. But he had a bit of trouble with the Indian agents and ‘ound himself standing in court before the Honorstis jamin Parke,

Mr. Guthrie was dise the a, TaN: on near Wayne, and then absconding into the wildnerness to peddle it to the Indians, a practice frowned upon by the district attorney. . » . MRS. GERSACK is no stranger | to Indianapolis. Her father, Edgar A. Hill, for many years was/ New York Central freight agent here and in Anderson. She holds bachelor’s degrees in education and library science, in addition to an MA in library science. On the basis of her studies of records here, some will be preserved in record centers or the national archives as important historical documents. Others will be destroyed as valueless. | erica Has become a record-| eeping nation. Too much so,! some authorities believe. 930 S. Meridian St. Mrs. Gersack pointed out that'

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