Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1952 — Page 19

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=~ THE, INAL director of American Youth Hostels, Inc, has an intriguing suggestion for

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Cline, who arrived in town on a train, believes a newlywed couple have an itely unusual” honeymoon if th k or two hosteling.

about, Mr. Cline has been riding bicycles and hosteling since 1936 and has Pedaled extensively in 10 Eurocountries, Canada and the nited States. « In 1936, Mr. Cline and his wife cycled up and down and firound the Rhine. Their three daughters accompany them on. § 4nany hosteling trips. Currently (that means until the weather gets good), Mr. Cline is trying to sell the bicycle as the mode of travel for the “most rewarding and least expensive kind of holiday.” sf * © 9 - mk, CLINE was coming in loud and clear. Anything that is rewarding and inexpensive inferests me. Just for the hosteling of it (synonym

* for fun), I inquired if a thrift-minded newlywed

touple could shake the rice out of their hair on bicycles. ; = After all, he had painted a mighty pretty picfure. Hosteling means a feeling of self-suffici-ency and independence, camaraderie, adventure in out-of-the-way places, healthful, out-of-doors fe. Hosteling gives one a new perspective on fe. It is not a spectacular type of thing. Every‘body pedals, everybody rides. . . A good AYH, Ine. card holder can travel from to 50 miles a day. A man would be a dope Wot to listen to Mr. Cline who knows how to see the country on $1.50 a day and a bicycle. Yes, #ir, buck and a hat} a day in food and lodging. . UNLIKE LIVING, two can't go hosteling as £heaply as one. That bit of information was disappointing. It won't be long before I'm uséd to ultiplying everything by two. Three dollars a ay for two is still dirt cheap. Tell me more.

Jt Happened Last Ni By Ear ilson :

# NEW YORK, Apr. 26—Ava Sinatra recently rmitted me the singular privilege of seeing her ome but—unlike in the old joke—she didn’t show me a picture of it. E T I saw her “at home,” and Frankie was there bodyguarding her.

= All will admit that she has quite a body:

$0 guard. = “Home is where the hat is,” 4t says somiéwhere, Their hats, It such they own, were dePosited in a suite well up in the “heights of the Hampshire House erlooking Central Park. ; kie himself swung, the Moor open when I rang. We sank back into deep cushions, dn a comfortable living room. Many new books graced the Shelves. = “Ava’ll be out in a minute,” ankie said. Ava = We talked of Frankie's TV plans. Of his radio lans. Of his trip to Honolulu with Ava. Of his ‘date to sing at the Cocoanut Grove for thé movie solony starting May 15. # “You're going to be on the air more than spot “ommercials,” I said. Tp “Yeah, it looks like I'll be on radio six times “a week and on TV nine times a month,” he said, Dot unproud of it’ + Just then there was a shout, to wit: “Hahnee.” “Yeah, dear?” Frankie answered. - She shouted something neither of us could understand. So Frank said: “What, baby?” « Bhe repeated something that evidently he ‘touldn’t understand, so he went to her. : SoA i = AS A HUSBAND myself, I kept wondering if *she had asked him to help her with a girdle. (I Dave heard tell of this happening to husbands hat I know.) Aw, she doesn't wear a girdle, I answered myself. (The wife of this husband shat I know says she doesn’t wear one either, I “said to myself). Well, then, what was she calling shim for? I wondered. To héck with it, I got ther things to worry about. # Prank came out, calling over his shoulder, ZDon’t be too long, sweetie.” : * And then Ava soon emerged, looking lean as 2 pin but not too lean, if you know what I mean. = “Hi Earl” she sang out. “Sorry to be late. “But my old man got in the bathroom first.” = Being the perfect hostess, she inquired “whether anybody wisned a drink. Nobody would. = «I won't drink alone,” she said, and curled ap on a divan beside me, and proved herself a “guiet, listening wife. S “A guy told me breathlessly that you now sign aour autographs ‘Ava Sinatra’,” I said. “I knew Jt—because you gave me one of the first right after you were married.” = wgure” Ava said. “Frankie's fans insist.. The Pther day when I forgot for a moment and signed. 4t ‘Ava Gardner,’ they yee ‘Oh, no, no, no’.” - ® © ON THE SUBJECT of their marriage, they seemed very happy—why else were they smooch-

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‘Americana By Robert C. Ruark

~ WORTH, Apr. 26—Whenever I am in torn I am sure of one thing, and that is “that I will get a free haircut. This is because Zhe barber, a Mr. James Wright, is used to getting no money from me for his service with - the <lippers. I've had him trained for 10 years. - ~The story is that in an old 3 dead war, Mr. Wright was a = ==== ‘gunner’s mate third class on a Fickety old bucket and I was “his boss. GM 3/C- Wright Jnade a pile of money on the ship Eli Whitney, cutting his Fellow hoodlums’ hair in the “off-watches, but he cut the Hoss’ locks gratis, or else the “boss was apt to become cross ‘and deny Brother Wright the Tight to help 28 other demons “rive the boss crazy. - T It was not the submarines or the airplanes hat sprinkled my sparse curls with gray, and -aged me well before my time. It was Brother Wright and the 28 assistant demons who were entrusted to Papa's tender loving care. a * ~ I WAS always very proud of my boys. If the aword passed that somebody had slugged the shore patrol or stolen a taxicab or busted up a “har or contracted some rare, odious disease or “bizarre ailment, I never had to ask which ship 4he malefactors came off of. I knew, It had to ‘be a member of the Eli Whitney, out to make ZPapa proud and happy. . ; = To say that my boys were geniuses would “be putting it very thinly. Who else, but a mem‘per of my crew would think of stealing the only adding machine in Tunisia from the French big ‘boy, LeClerc, causing international relations to fremble and the war to hang in abeyance while Sve shock down the ship? Who else but a Whitmey man would help the French. celebrate. Bastille Day by getting mixed up in-a parade with ‘$5000 Senegalese? Who but gone of mine would think to fake apart the Arab's taxicab, and dhrow the grand piano out the window, and beat 2up the MP Heatenant ’

“~ MY BOYS were the gay, athletic type who ‘always sought wholesome sport on an after‘noon in port. That is why the whole starboard watch, dressed in natty whites thickly smeared with blood, was happily engaged one day in Giby light edly throwing the British troops a steep hill. Then they : fight their up to the top, and start game all over : .

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spirit and a zest for adventure." The majority of hostels don't have provisions for married couples, explained Mr, Cline, but he t hostel “parents” would make every effort to be hospitable in every way in an excéptional cake. Good enough, ! § - * ¢ » gir IF ANY inconveniences should arise, however, a true member of the American Youth Hostel wouldn't kick up a fuss or the ‘spokes out of his bicycle. Consideration for others is practically a commandment with hostelers, Mr. Cline mentioned several converts who, at the conclusion of a trip, said they never felt better in their lives. No one can object to feeling . Hostelers go to bed early, not later than 10

9p. m. They're up by 7 a. m. and on the road by 9.

Hostelers buy and cook their own food, do their own cleaning, leave every hostel in better con-

“dition than they found it. Neither do they smoke

in hostels. Finally, Bey ont drink in hostels. <&

. AN UNKNOWN writer for an AYH pafnphlet wrote once, “A hosteler’s horizon spreads as wide as the world itself, and through his wanderings, he comes to understand a little more of his country and his world. For he sees, traveling slowly; appreciates, traveling simply; learns, traveling with an op¢n mind.” The last item discussed was cost of equipment. Mr. Cline smiled broadly as he said a good bike could be purchased for $50. The AYH pass costs $4. Sheet sleeping sacks retail at $2.98 and a bike bag, also a must, $6.95. Two people Are ready to roll for roughly $130. The general manager in charge of my honeymoon in July is certainly going to hear about hosteling. I can just hear her say, “That's a wonderful idea,” as her hazel eyes get that faraway look. Riders, mount your bicycles.

‘Over the Crises’

ing publicly a few nights before at the Copacabana? “How did you get yourself in such good singing condition?” I asked Frank, whose voice is at its best. : “It's work,” Frank said. “And we're oyer all the crises now. We have nothing to worry about any more.” It seemed to me that he meant he had Ava

" now, and vice versa. And there was no worry

about it, like there used to be, when he was always feeling bad, and scrapping with reporters and photographers. That seems to be almost . over, now. “Isn’t it rest—although I don’t know how you two could be expected to rest?” I put in. “No, it's constant work. I don’t really do enough singing.” “Why don’t you?” “Bécatise he’s a lazy bum,” Ava sald. “I thought you were going to get a piano up here and do some stuff today.” » “It was too easy not to do it, sweetie”. Frank confessed. “I'll do it. tomorrow.” ‘

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“WHEN ARE YOU going to give me a singing lesson?” she asked him. “We hope to do a picture together eventually,” Frank explained. “When we get a really dynamite piece of property.” It was time to trot off to the Palace to see Betty Hutton. “She's our neighbor,” Frank said. hear her tumbling around over there.” “What do you think of Johnnie Ray?” I asked Frank. 3 “ He opened his mouth, but must have got a

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The only ones keep~ Ing up with the Joneses nowadays are the bill collectors”—Pearl Bailey. * oo TODAY'S WORST PUN: Maestro Don Rodney contends that singing is a man’s bathright. ¢ %

TODAY'S BEST WISHES: Hearing that Jane Russell is looking for a “proper vehicle,” maestro Buday de Franco said. “She can use my car any me.” The Diamond Horseshoe may reopen under French owners . . . Joe Louis is determined to try a comeback if Walcott licks Charles . . . “Three Wishes for Jamie,” the Anne Jeffreys, John Raitt, Bert Wheeler show, is proving a winner despite a couple of critics. : ® 9 : EARL'S PEARLS. .,. Mae West says the American girl's problem is, “Where is my next male coming from?” : ® 4 o

TAFFY TUTTLE told Will Jordan she may be dumb but she never lets a fool kiss her or a kiss foi her , . . That's Earl, brother.

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By iLovn B. WALTON DANA, Apr. 26—Baby chicks hatched in Cleveland's Hatchery are born into the ritziest surroundings ever seen in the hatchery business. ’ Housed in the old Dana State Bank on Main St., the

hatchery still proudly displays the marble floors, reinforced concrete vault and walnut trimmed directors’ room: that are memories of a by-gone day. Heavy steel doors from the vault were moved a few years ago to the new bank a square down the street. The directors’ table has been replaced with hatchers turning out 11,000 fluffy chicks a week. A

» # # ALTHOUGH the bank atmosphere has mostly disappeared, the bank-like efficiency remains. George Cleveland and his wife, Arline, personally supervise the entire operation and keep hatching eggs running through on a production line basis. Nearly five years ago the Clevelands moved into the building against the advice of friends Ww said they could never “make a go of it” in this Vermilli County community which raises mostly hogs and grain,” Now they are looked up to a business asset to the town and one of the outstanding producers of quality chicks in the United States. The events which brought them to Dana and the converted bank building are unusual,

8 » GEORGE is a former atomic scientist who worked on the A-bomb at Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Hanford, Wash. He is a graduate of William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va. holding a Bachelor of Chemistry degree. Arline graduated from the University of Richmond where she majored in history and languages. - She originally planned to become a diplomat—and finds that her schooling comes in quite handy in the business world. . They got married in 1939 and

By DONNA MIKELS JOHNNY BEVAN is only

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T will never forget one tough morning in Gib, when the skipper knocked on my door and requested aid. “The Chinese cook,” he said, “is chasing one of your men around the messroom with a toasting fork, and I want a witness to the murder.’ ° BUT AT SEA and in trouble they were the greatest collection of brave and competent men I met during the war, and I do believe they had a great chunk of that elusive thing called morale. There was never a dirty gun or a sloppy watch or dirty quarters, and they settled their troubles on the hatch without coming whining to Papa. I never pulled any rank ashore, and would take as many drinks with them as I could control, which was considerably less than their quota. But on the ship I was strictly mister and any newcomer to the gang who tried any cute little tricks on the boss got his head caved in by one of the old hands. In a solid year I never caught one of them in a lie, and when they fouled up they would come sheepishly up and recommend their owrf punishment. 5 They were tough and full of the devil but they _ belonged to me and there'll never be another crew just like them. It was nice to see the barber again, but I must say the years have calmed him considerably since that afternoon in Casablanca.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith +:

Q—Once again I am confused. Cultivating a rose bed aerates soil. It also lets the moisture in the soil evaporate, True? Then which is more important? Mrs, Sidney Mahalowitz, 6038 Central Ave. . A—Cultivation aerates the i by breaking up a cement-like crust, so air c¢ get down into tiny pockets in lower ground. But this same socalled dust mulch slows up evaporation of moisture from below. It's only the mulch that dries out fast. But moistufe and air are both important to plant root. So condition your soil with plenty of mater such as rottéd manure or compost or other water holding ingredients. Soil well conditioned with such materials is just like a sponge. It holds quantities of water. But at the same time it holds plenty of alr. And that’s the trouble with poor hard clay. It packs down tight, squeezes out air, leaves no little ‘ pockets where water can get into it in heavy rains without water-logging it. : .

But. sometimes a little

boy . knows better than grown-ups how to take the rough edges off tragedy. Early this year Johnny accidentally fired a gun beionging to his policeman dad, Detective Sgt. Jack Bevan. The bullet caused Johnny to lose his left leg. When it happened it seemed to his parents a curtain had fallen on a part of their son's life. Backyard Dballgames with “Mom” and “Dad,” hunting, boating, target practice—all the activities the closely knit trio had. always shared—now must be remolded, the parents thought, to fit Johnny's new way of life. . But parents sometimes don't grasp the amount of spirit and determination that’s packed inside one pint-sized, crew-cut 10-years-old. . ” » .

FOR JOHNNY BEVAN-—just a few weeks out of the hospital and back in school—is out on the sandlots hurling them fast and hard.

In the playgrounds at Christ the ‘King eho he props one crutch against the fence, braces himself and starts winding up for the pitch.

The first warm days of spring, Johnny was out in the yard of 7377 Edgewater Dr, dissolving any thoughts that the Bevan family's ball-playing days were over, “His arm is better than ever,’ said his father. “He's got his Mom and mie reaching for the liniment.” °

Right after” the accident, Johnny's grief-stricken father wanted to get rid of the gun collection with which he'd. so, carefully trained his young son in the use of firearms,

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George started training to become an atomic scientist. “I got bored sitting at home all the time,” Arline sald. “So I answered an ad for help in a hatchery at Morris, Ill. The ad didn’t say what kind of hatchery it was—and George and I thought it was probably a fish hatchery, It turned out to be chickens, and I fell in love with the business right away.”

AFTER the war. the Clevelands decided to buy a hatchery and go into business for thems selves. The first step was to get George a job in the hatchery at Morris so he could learn all about hatching and raising chickens. Then in 1945 they bought the hatchery at Dana and “set out on their own.” Until the Korean War started and created a shortage in the availability of commercial freight ' planes, the Cleveland hatchery operated a thriving export business. Their chicks were in great demand in Havana, Guatemala City, Costa Rica, Brazil, Porto Rico and Mexico. “It was not unusual to get a call fromr Mexico in the middle of the night,” George said. “It would be from a customer telling us the chicks had arrived and were sick. Then, he would tell us the symptoms over the phone, and we would tell him what to do for them.” o ~ os “EVEN WITHOUT the export chick business we could sell three or four times more than we're able to produce.” Mrs, Cleveland said. “However we don't try to increase our hatchery size because we like being

BACK AT PLAY—Johnny Bevan and Umpire

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Since guns were around, Johnny's dad thought his son should know how to use them.

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~The Indianapolis Tim

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1952

able to handle everything on a personal and friendly basis like we do now, If it were much larger we couldn't do that.”

The personal touch can be seen in the hatchery’'s bookkeeping system. Although the books are kept in the most modern and up-to-date manner, most of the customers’ names are posted with the first name only. a ; “We know all of our customers by their first name,” Mrs. Cleveland sald. “And it simplifies things to do it that way.” George and Arline keep a list of customers’ birthdays for gift giving, and they never let

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a new-born baby go by without a present, : s 8 » THEIR HOME is in a suite of rooms above However, home life is limited as they erally spend from

12 to 15 a day handling their chickens and eggs.

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A gun had caused zedy.

But when Johnny heard his dad planned to clear out his

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accident, the little boy “hi ceiling.” $ ¥ “He didn’t want me to sell it and the doctors said he was right,” said Sgt. Bevan. “He realized he'd made a he'd handled a gun when Be shouldn't have, and he'd an accident. But he's not a of them. , . . He's all sef to go’ out for target practice ag as soon as I'll take him”

Johnny speaks of his hand. :

cap with no self-consciousne; and talks of getting his limb in the near future with tie same enthusiasm as asgother 10-year-old might talk of a new bike. RR The same spirit Johnn showed in the hospital and the ball fleld has sent h back to his 4th grade el room full of enthusiasm, | In two weeks back in s he's already made his a