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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola .

I'M NOT going to stand on a street corner with a hat in my hand and beg or sell pencils.” Jesse Mattox; 36, disabled veteran from Huntington, W. Va. is a one-armed flagpole painter. He just painted the 70-foot War Memorial Plaza poles, ; You have to watch Jesse work to fully appreciate what it takes te climb 70 feet with the aid of three short lengths of rope and then paint the pole.

You have to talk to Jesse to hear how calmly and resolutely a man can view his handicap and proceed to do something about it. OD

LONG AGO Jesse accepted the fact that his right hand is gone above the wrist. Months after the accidenttal explosion mutilated his right ‘arm and blinded him for six weeks, Jesse, a former structural iron worker brooded over his lot.

Today he is reluctant to discuss his handicap. Jesse. wants to work and put results behind him. He has no truck with sympathy. There are other reasons why he paints flag-

poles besides earning money to support his wife and three children.

JESSE HAS an intense desire to demonstrate that handicapped people can be useful if given the chance. He dislikes to see dirty and neglected flag-

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‘It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, May 20—Fiery Zsa-Zsa Gabor is nominated by this reporter for the.title of the most feminine female living.

When I met the slim but shapely Hungarian beauty the other day, she declared she was so mad at her husband, George Sanders, “I don't talk to him ever again—right ; now.” What a womanly sentence. In it she expressed everything that's been said about a woman’s right to change her mind. Zsa-Zsa was swooning a little, too . . . about Zsa-Zsa. About her sudden success in the movies. “Darling, I'll become a very great actress—vatch,” she said. “By hard-vurking, already I am to be costarred. In only nine months, I don’t think any woman achieved more in Hollywood.” : And that, she felt, was the cause of her trouble with Sanders. ’ : “He ees a complex, that boy,” Zsa-Zsa was serving coffee, and answering the phone, and looking beautiful, all at the same time, as we sat in the Gabors’ apartment in the East 60s. Once when she answered the phone and somebody asked for Zsa-Zsa, she said, “Hullo—that's her.”

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“GEORGE,” she resumed, “I think he's professionally jealous. All of a sudden he finds me a movie star. I think eet’'s a shawck to him that I give more autographs than he does.” “Oh, you'll be back with him in a week,” I said. “George calls me not once but seven times a day, crying like a 5-year-old to come back,” she said. “But then I still get love letters from my -don’t-get-letters from Hilton;

“He knows better,” the reporter suggested. “He's a careful capitalist,” Zsa-Zsa laughed. “What I went through with that George. That man cost me a fortune, z “It cost me a life-long income of $25,000-a-year tax-free from Hilton to marry him. Which was a clever thing of me to do.” Zsa-Zsa shook her head, wondering how she could have been so silly. oe o«» oo “HE’S KIND of old for you, isn't he?” we said. “Not. too old. Only 44. He is my youngest husband. I don't like,a man my age. They are too dumb.” We begged further enlightenment on that theory. “It takes a man 20 years longer to grow up than a woman,” she announced.. “I married first when I was 16. I should have married a 16-year-old boy? They don’t even change their voice yet.” “How old do you say you are?” “I am 29 now, but say I am 27. I should start

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* tomorrow and Thursday nights. Part of the cast are (left to right): Bettye Taylor, Lexington, Ky.; Ernest Anderson Jr., Decatur; Betty Wehner, Waynetown; J. P, Salb, Jasper; Mrs. Virgina Quillin,

Cincinnati; Frances Martin, Acton; John Ralston Jr, Montmorenci; Janet Johnson,

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poles. Above all Jesse dislikes to see a flagpole without a flag.

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IT BURNED. .HIM UP to be turned down on many structural jobs after his arm healed. His arguments that he could heat rivets, cook, operate a pneumatic hammer went in one door of employment shacks and out the other. Being a watchmgn for a red danger flag waver irked One day -he figured out a method by which he could climb a flagpole and paint it. If his idea worked, he could be gainfully employed and a great many flagpoles would be better looking. LAE : AT MIDNIGHT in his native Huntington he climbed the courthouse "flagpole. Jesse didn't want anyone to see him fail, if failure it was going to be. Next day Jesse painted the pole, for free, and the towh was buzzing. Slowly his field of operations spread out. Since then- Jesse has painted hundreds of flagpoles, smokestacks. The 100-foot Los Angeles city hall pole has felt his brush. The Boise, Idaho, state capitol 150-foot flagpole was the highest he has ever painted. Jesse stood in his ropes for six hours painting. alee

HE CALLS HIS method of climbing the double-lash. The two ends of a length of manila rope are tied together. Jesse forms a slip-knot by doubling the rope. The knotted ends go under his feet. The more weight that is placed on the ropes the tighter they get. He has a double-lash for each foot and one for the right stump. The technique of going up consists of placing

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other two up. Then the weight is shifted and the bottom rope is slipped up. Jesse holds on with the stump through the rope. de 8 oN TWENTY MINUTES were required to go up As a partner on this job in the city, Jesse

eran, and -since his return from Korea in January, Tom has been helping Jesse turn out the work faster. The two ‘painters alternate. Jesse paints a pole and then Tom paints-one. One man on the job wastes time because he has to give his legs and arms a rest. This way the ground man is resting, but a pole is being painted. > fb ALONG ABOUT September, Tom will go back to his job in a coal mine in Huntington. Jesse will head south, looking for flagpoles that need painting and trying to get the job. The only thing Jesse will beg for is a job and a chance to prove a man with one’ arm is capable of earning a living. > When you see a man like that 70 feet up in the air, and you're saying to yourself that you , wouldn't be up there if you had four arms, a great big wad of pride presses for room in the chest.” Pride for an American who wants to work. . Jesse is the kind of a guy who would say, ‘I don’t have a hand to take your handout.”

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to lying now because in one year I am 30 so 1 will kill myself.” Gf de 5 “HOW DID you happen to become an actress?” “George's brother takes me on a TV spot as a guest. The next day they ask me, ‘Did you read the trade papers?’ To tell the truth, I don’t know what the trade papers are. They say I am a great feminine personality. Since then I vin three awards and have my own program called ‘Bachelor’s Haven.’ We advice the love-lorn.” “How can you do that when you're not a” successful wife?” I blurted. “I AM, a successful wife,” she corrected me. “Only my husbands aren’t successful husbands.” “What advice do you give?” “Frivolous answers. A woman says her husband doesn’t give her enough money for the kitchen expenses. I tell her ‘Kitchen expenses? Vy don't you ask for a mink coat?’ ” eB ZSA-ZSA said that Dore Schary, the production head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer told her, “Ve Just love you.” So she sees no reason not to go onward and upward in a film career. “I'll bet you and. George had some real battles,” I said. “Darling, I beat the hell out of him. I kick and I scratch,” she admitted. © “He was driving the car and couldn't hit back. He wrecked the car and got arrested for bad driving. He couldn't tell them his dear vife was beating him up.” . .. That's Earl, brother.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—A Mother's Day hydrangea—can I set it outdoors? When? Location How much water? . How often? Mrs. Joan Carter, 3130 8. Lyons. A—Most of the tender hydrangeas thriving in Indianapolis seem to be on the north side of a house or garage. If you do set yours out, plan to protect it against winter. Give it plenty of water, Hydrangeas are supposed to flower more freely in full sun if they get enough water. But in cen-

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column . in The Sunday Times

tral Indiana's summers that takes a bit of doing. It will pay you to prepare the ground for it with plenty of water holding materials. That means manure, compost, etc. You can safely set the plant out any time now. Q—Can Easter lilies be put outdoors? Will they live over nter? Mollie Mercer, Anderson, and other readers. . A—Yes. New strains of Easter lily bulbs are quite a little hardier than old-time kinds. Just be sure you put the bulb in a spot where water will not stand around it in winter or after heavy rains. Set it out now. Fertilize with high phosphate chemical fertilizer, You will likely get bloom again this fall,

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THE SHRINKING DOLLAR. '. No. 2

‘We Don’t Worry—It Doesn't Pay’

Second of a Series By GAYNOR MADDOX

AST ROCKAWAY, N. Y,, May 20—The Smillies, Ray- _ mond and Betty and their three blonde girls are lusty peoplé! On Ray's take-home pay of $3200 a year, they scoop a lot of fun out of living. But the steadily decreas-

ing buying power of their dollars {s putting the bite on their fun. ' Ray, powerfully built and good natured, is a big shot in this little town of 8000 near the south shore of Long Island. He is the chief of the Volunteer Fire Department. However, despite his white helmet and red chief's car, he doesn't get a cent out of the job. In fact, he has to pay a lot of his own expenses. : His money comes from works ing for the town. He does road grading and repairs, sewer

, cleaning, hauling and general

maintenance. After deductions for hospitalization and state employee's retirement fund have nicked his bi-weekly checks, they total only $3200 a year. That income is. shrinking in value and putting the squeeze on their way of living. They have had to draw all their savings out of the bank. They sold their automobile. The house won't be painted this

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FIRE CHIEF SMILLIE—He's a big shot in his little town, but doesn't get paid for it.

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summer though {it needs ft badly. Betty has had only one néw dress in" two years and that was to go to the Volunteer Firemen's Convention in New York last fall. But there won't be any more vacations for a long, long time.

” o = PATRICIA, the 13-year-old daughter at high school, no longer gets her weekly allowance of $2. “It's just never there anymore to hand out the time comes,” her mother explains. “So Pat babysits at 50 cents an hour when she can. But people seem to be cutting down cn that ex-

pense, too. There isn’t much call, for her.” Until recently, Ray and

Betty, who get a lot of fun out of being with each other, have always gone’ to the movies together every Saturday night and afterward stopped at the local pub for two beers each and a listen to the juke box. The movies cost 50 cents each and the beers 10 cents. Today, they have to go straight home after the show. They live in the six-room_ house where Betty was born, so they don't have to pay rent. But taxes are $150 and last summer a new cesspool set them back $150. The furniture

“shows the folksy wear and tear

of three husky girls and an athletic dog called Butch. The kitchen is well-equipped. It has a good gas stove, water heater and dryer. They use gas because out their way the electricity often goes off during storms. However, the refrigerator is electric. : ~ s ” BETTY, STILL youthful looking but with a few lines of fatigue on her face, takes life as she finds it. She laughs when asked how she budgets. “How can you budget what's never enough?” she replies. “Ray gets paid every two weeks. He gives me all his money and I pay the bills between then and last pay day.

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SHRINKING DOLLAR—It hasn't shrunk family closeness of the Smillie family. At before-dinner

reading session, even Butch, the dog, joins in with (left to right) Patricia, 13; Mrs. Smillie;. Rae, 5, and Jane, 10, Pat babysits when she can, but jobs seem to be scarce.

Then I charge again until the next. pay day. That's the only way I budget—just spend everything we get. If someone got sick or we had a big repair bill, we'd be In serious trouble. But honestly, we don't worry too much. It doesn’t pay.” For the five of them and Butch and Betty's father who lives with them, they spend $2134 a year for food. Butch gets a daily can of dog food (16 cents) plus table scraps. “Two years ago I could feed them all on $25 a week, but today L spend around $40, and that doesn’t include Butch's canned food,” she explains. “It doesn't pay for cigarets, either, and Ray and I like to smoke." '

‘MASTER MINDS’ OF BASEBALL.... No. 2

Mother's Letter Kept.Stanky.In Baseball

By ERNIE HARWELL

JD EFRESSED, lonesome

and home - sick Eddie Stanky in the summer of 1935 sat in his Greenville,

Miss., hotel room and wrote his mother a letter. He was disgusted with minor league baseball and he asked her for enough money to return home to Philadelphia. Ten days later he received a reply. Anxiously he tore open the letter. No check fell out. Instead, his mother wrote: “Edward, T have tears in my eyes while I'm telling you this, but if you do come home, please do’ not come to 951 East Russell St. (the Stanky residence). We do not want quitters in this family.” r Eddie rolled over on his bed and cried for two hours. That incident marked first and most crisis in Stanky’s career. Stanky has never forgotten his mother's letter. It has been an illuminated credo for this everbattling bantam throughout his 17 seasons. He has proved conclusively he is no quitter,

This year Stanky faces another crisis. He has undertaken one of the toughest jobs in baseball—managing. As pilot for the St. Louis Cards, Eddie must create small miracles. He must project inito the thick of the pennant chase a team which fin- _

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ished third in 1951 and in one season made an ‘ex-manager out of pleasant and affable Marty Marion. An astute student of base-

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ball, Stanky knows the demands of his job. He realizes the fatality rate among big league managers is high, especially in St. Louis where in one _ three-year period (1895 6-7) the National League entry had 12 managers. You don’t have to scratch that far into the records to discern that managing is a precarious profession, In the past

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five years there has been a complete turnover of managers in the American and National Leagues. Sénior leader in the National League is Bill Meyer who took over the Pirates in 1948, “Oldest” managers in the American are Casey Stengel and Red Rolfe who began bossing the Yankees and the Tigers in 1948. Only twice since 1900 have the majors opened seasons without a change in the managerial setups—in 1936 and 1945, The roll call of 171 managers for 51 seasons is evidence as temporary as a department store Santa Claus. Can Eddie stick as a manager? . : Most baseball men say yes. For instance, his roommate on the Giants, Alvin Dark; cites three reasons. “One—Ed not only knows the game, but is sure he knows it; two—Ed had such a hard time making the majors that he won't lose patience with ‘a player, as many managers do; three—Ed remembers things he learned because he fought too hard to learn them right.” ® - M

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ager's outlook different front

the player's. Bill McKechnie, who won pennants for Pitts burgh, the Cards and Cincinnati, put it: “Baseball is heartbreak for a manager. You can never: celebrate a victory. If

Five-year-old Rae goes to the inter-community cooperative nursery school. The Smillies pay $15 a month and Betty gives one full day a month to it. The other giris, Pat and 10-year-old Jane (the serious member of the family) go to public school. ” . . THE FAMILY used to pledge a lot more than $80 a year to the church but that's all they can scrape up now. “Every-

thing is getting so uncertain, I wouldn't dare pledge anything so far in advance,” Betty says. “I used to give to all the drives —Red Cross, Cancer Fund, things like that. But I have to say ‘No’ to some of the collectors today. It's very embar-, rassing because in a small

you win today, you've got to start thinking about tomorrow's game. If you win the pennant, you worry about the World Series. When that's over, you woryy about next season.” Worry killed Miller Huggins who guided the Yankees to greatness. The frail, little Hug repressed his feelings and was forever tied up inside. ‘Joe MeCarthy and Billy Southworth are retired managers because they grew sick from strain and worry. Mel Ott, the boy leader of the Giants, aged quickly once he took the club leadership. And

George Stallings, one-time Mir-

acle Man of the Boston Braves,

‘ was still another victim of his

profession. Stallings suffered with a heart condition. When asked by a specialist what might have brought on his illness, George quickly answered, “Bases on balls.” .

Managers have to worry. Only two of the 16 big league leaders can win each year. That means 14 are losers and targets for dismissal. It's

, customary for an owner to

fire a manager when the club falters. ‘Thus, th diverts attention and pres: sure from himself. . Sometimes a manager wins and still is canned. McKechnie .restored Pittsburgh to pennant glory in 1925 but was fired aft-

Flying Around Globe In Three Weeks Is Too

By WARD MOREHOUSE HAWAII, May 20—The surf is thundering pleasantly below my windows; there is a gentle tossing of the cocoanut palms, fringing the beach of Waikiki, and beyond the green water rises the meloncholy Diamond Head, stark and protecting. I've paused here for ,a night's sleep before starting out on the two final flights — first to the mainland at San Francisco and then on to New York : It's been, or will be, a three weeks’ flying trip around the world and the mileage total by the time 1 get back to the World-Telegram and Sun plant in Barclay St. .wfll be around 23,000. Now, I know—too fast and too much. There's certainly no rule that it all has to he done in such a hurry. I'm merely presenting some details of

Mr. Morehouse

a trip that was definitely a quick one, but none the less rewarding. I started with five pieces of baggage. I'm returning with 11 pieces, inclusive of two parcels packed with odds and ends bought in the Orient, particularly in Bangkok and Hong Kong, and a small wooden cage with a metal and removable flooring. It is inhabited by a 3-month-old Malayan bear cub, a Bangkok purchase, which will be sent along to southeast Georgia and will probably grow up to terrify the livestock on the Franklin farm in Bulloch County. In circling the globe I've touched ground 13 times, including the fuel stops at Gander; Rome, Basra, Okinawa and Wake Island. The stay-over points have been Paris, Beirut, Karachi, Calcutta, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo and now Honolulu, all on the around-the-world route of Pan American World Airways. I've used

the powerful Clippers all the.

way, éxcept when I turned to

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Airways India, Inc., for a side trip to the north of India and the Himalayan town of DarJeeling.

Oceans, Seas, Jungles

Now, with ivory from India in one bundle, silk from Sjam in another, trinkets from Tokyo in.a third and a small brown-black bear called Bangkok snug in his neatly-manu-factured box. I've reached the pink-walled Royal Hawaiian Hotel after getting through Immigration and surviving the Customs examination, which wasn't as tough as I'd been told it would be....I'm going over my notes and taking stock.

You fly over water for a

great deal of the time on such

a jaunt as I'm .now finishing. ‘Two oceans, five or six seas; two gulfs and the Bay of Bengal. You soar above the jungles and desert country and past some great mountains. The flying has been extraordinarily smooth for 95 per cent of the

way. There’'ve been no mishaps. *

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I brought along a topcoat and a tan gabardine, but haven't put on either. It's been hot, all right, but never any worse than along the Avenue of the Americas, City of New York, on a day in June, Bangkok was, perhaps, the hottest town; it was certainly the most fascinating. Hong Kong is a vital Crown Colony, with

. the cleanest streets on this

planet, Calcutta struck me as being - a tragic city, overpopulated and poverty-stricken,

with tens of thousands of

people sleeping in the filthy streets, along with cows and dogs. I like the north of India and cool, lofty Darjeeling and am going back,

Made in Hong Kong I've .alked with probably 200 people during these three weeks of global flying, Fellow passengers aboard the Clippers

have spoken of the threat of communism in Asia, of Point .

Four and the North Atlantic.

Treaty Organization, of the

‘coming Presidential election in

the States, General opinion in :

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town everybody knows everye thing everyone does.”

Besides the $3200 Ray earns he occasionally picks up a few extra dollars putting up screens or hauling a trunk for the neighbors. Betty's father pays her $20 a week. That covers three meals a day (she makes his sandwiches to take to work), light, room, and laundry, They did not pay an income tax. What is inflation doing to the Smillfes’ attitude toward life? Let Betty answer that one: “Two years ago every time the refrigerator began to rattle, I hoped it would break down. Then I would have a good exe cuse to buy a new one. But to‘day, every time it begins to rattle, I pray hard. Even repair bills would sink us. A new one is out of the question.”

ter finishing third the next year, He led the Cards to the 1928 pennant, but was released because the Yankees ripped through his club with four straight World Serjes victories. Rogers Hornsby won a pene nant for the Cards in 1926 and a month later had been traded to the Giants, Earlier he had refused to play an exhibition in New Haven. Hornsby and Owner Sam Breadon exchanged bitter words which doomed their partnership regardless of

Hornsby's pennant victory. 1 J - -

sprinkle a manager's hair with as much gray as his team's stumblings. During the war, Clyde Sukeforth was managing Montreal. The Royals pulled that baseball rarity, a triple play. After the game a Royal executive called Sukeforth to the offich. / “Clyde,” said the "executive, “that.was a fine play.” “Thank you sir.” * \ “Yes, a fine play,” the executive continued. “But let's have more like it.” Owners won't be ‘that demanding on Eddie Stanky, But Ed realizes he must produce. He'll bring new spirit to Sports. man's Park--the same spirit which typified the old Gashouse Gang.’ That's the way Stanky” plays and that's the way his team will play.

NEXT: Hornsby and Bill Veeck.

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the Far East: Eisenhower will make the White House.

Now I'm heading home. I'm apparently in as good health as I was when I left New York, My travelers’ checks have about run out, as they have a way of doing, but I haven't lost my eyeglasses, my passport or either of my two portable typewriters. I had a suit ruined in Hong Kong, a good new one from New York; it gave the appearance of having been run through a meat-grinding ma-

‘ chine when it was returned

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Kong style, in 24 hours, It's pretty terrible: My trip hasn't been made to

prove anything. I had not

flown around the world, wanted to do it, and I've enjoyed most of it tremendously. If youd like to take the same airline

I'd suggest six weeks in« Stead of three, OF as fhuch as Saree month. Be to “of a road