Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1952 — Page 19

; i : ~ By Ed Sovola

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stopped by a parent ams noy me. Can't help it. I'm SOrTYy. In the dead of winter, you can overlook a few coughs, if a person. covers his mouth properly. A raw throat is hard to control. The epiglottis can kick up a fuss at the darndest times. Common courtesy, however, should be enough incentive to keep you out of crowded, public places when a racking, caching is uncontrollable. : t Sunday might have been one of those days. Perhaps my imagination was working double time. “Before the service began, I noticed an unusual amount of hacking. One man sounded as if he was about ready fo check in his chips. He would hack five to eight times in a row. Vying for honors in volume and number, was A woman with a high-pitched cough. Scattered throughout the church were coughers of all types —low, high, the variable pitch type and the sustained death-rattle type. oo Bb .® I'M ONE of those health-conscious persons who will leave a crowded bus or trolley when a dirty look at a cougher has no effect. It's most distasteful to be within range. . Concentration’ was difficult. I have as my witness the Father above. I tried to stay on the

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hear the sermon, Junior, despairing of trying to get my attention and his parents’ with ear. piercing shrieks, began kicking the pew. Four teen times he whammed the pew before the father stopped him. » -l * © ¢

“AS THE sermon began, the coughing seemed to reach a crescendo. I began counting. It wiisn't easy. The sermon lasted approximately 20 minutes. There were times when it sounded as if everyone in church was coughing. Gave you the Impression coughs were highly contagious. = ~ During those 20 minutes, I counted 324 coughs, give 20 or take 20. Remember, the counting was done under the most difficult conditions. There was the kid behind me, a slight feeling of guilt for concentrating on coughs instead of the spoken word and the great number of simultaneous coughs. Well, that made the “neck hot around the collar. Others within earshot of the little darling making the guttural noises and kicking the pew turned and wiggled in their seats. It's safe to assume they were disturbed. i

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she should use discretion in bringing a youngster to church who can't behave. : Si Church is no place to tell a person with an ann hack he should investigate the possi-

in 2 " turned around a hal : and glares Oo Just before the congregation ‘settled back to

subject and I might have been successful if it pjlity of taking up residence in Arizona or giving hadn’t been for a little boy in the pew directly up smoking or buying a strong cough medicine. . behind me. A recording of the noise during last Sunday's He wasn't coughing, he was humming and service, if played to the congregation, I'm sure grunting incoherently as boys will do when they'rel would set the coughers and parents of nosy

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about a year and a half old. Let me be ‘the last ‘one to advocate banning little children from church. There isn't a prettier sight than a father and mother and a lovely child in church. Postively inspiring.

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By Earl Wi, { NEW YORK, May 31—Things appear kind of crazy around New York now to this hick correspondent. wil Our chubby friend, Mike DiSalle, candidate for Senator in Ohio, found a cheap way to campaign. He says he cornered all HE i the “I Like Ike” buttons — and is writing . an M in front of the

e. ' ay Crave Ave'— < e good-humored Av. In Washington — was “thought of by Harriman himself. 8 = X. LOVELY singer Mimi Benzell and husband Walter Gould, the agent, tried to keep

Miss Benzell it a secret till June. But they're expecting their first. ® © 9

SOME HILLBILLY, that Minnie Pearl. Ar- " rived for the Grand Ol’ Opry show at the Astor in her own plane. . .. Artie Shaw and Doris Dowling no longer say they're engaged. ‘Doris was at El Morocco with Charles MuleahY: Boston moneyman. . <> UNION MEMBERS won't like this. ‘At the Lambs. Club, Rube Bernstein, the manager, discussed getting a hearing aid. A member of the Stage Electricians Union said, “I can get you one.” Rube snorted: “Yes, you'd want to put a man on to operate it.” ? eb © GOV. STEVENSON’S Chicago friends say he will be available against any GOP nominee— except Ike. . . . Ben Hecht's daughter, Jenny, 8, who's in the movie, “Actors and Sin,” asked her father, “Why did Toots Shor pinch me?” Ben answered: “Because you're an actress. Now that you're an actress, youl Jaye to get used to that.” <>

THE BROADWAY BUZZ is that the Associated Press has high new hopes of gaining the release of correspondent William Oates soon. . . . WW:'s feeling real good. He’s 10 pounds overht. . . . Carol Channing's famous blond hair has started falling out. 4

KID STORY: Johnny, the 9-year-old son of QGéneral Motors big shot W. L. Vanderwater, uldn’t figure out what he wanted for his birthYay. He finally decided: “I want to stop taking plano lessons for my birthday.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 31—Personally, T never touch the stuff, because melted gold is cheaper this day, and besides it makes you feel so bad to feel so bad as a result of having spent so much. Like somebody said, you get sick and tired of getting up sick and tired and busted, to boot. I am referring to a plaintive bulletin from the government, which says that the increased taxes. on happy-juice has cut the revenue from liquor sales instead of increasing it. The government figured that when they drove up. the tax spirits.to $10.50 a gallon, consumption would drop, but the added revenue would make up for the per capita reduction in tippling. It hasn't. Indications from the Bureau of Internal Revenue cre that they are going to be about $150 milHon short of their estimated income, and 150 mil-

lion bucks buys a lot of beer. Beer is what it's bought, too—beer, wine, canned heat-and bootleg

whisky, instead of governmentally sanctioned

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children on their respective ears. That would be a good way to call attention fo the problem. . ‘1 feel as if I had just preached a sermpn. Well, last Sunday's sermon was missed, may

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DiSalle Discovers Cheap Campaign

& ‘WOULD-BE SONG-WRITERS, LISTEN: Jack (Mr. Music) Robbins quotes the famous advice of W. C. Handy: “You can’t write blues till you've

suffered ’‘em.” 1 ® & ©

RIG MEDICAL NEWS COMING: Early detection of hardening of the arteries, in routine blood tests, by usé of the drug heparin, now appears possible. National Heart Institute experts will broadcast details soon. . . . Lou Holtz and Milton Berle are ending a 10-year feud, (There's

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . ‘Laraine Day furloughs from her disc-jockey

show for two weeks starting June 13 when the . { .Giants fre at the Polo Grounds “Sol can go to" picture shows with. Leo.”- Mel Torme may sub, .-

+ « « Tall stripper Lois De Fee and character Ken McSarin’ll have an eating contest Monday at Manny Wolf's. . . . Marilyn Monroe's next four pix are: “We're Not Married,” “Don’t Bother to Knock,” “Monkey Business,” and “Niagara.” We just can’t believe the Hollywood rumors of a Judy Garland-Sid Luft managerial and romantic bustup. . . . Kay Williams, the Erie, Pa. gal who made good, reportedly spent $85,000 of Adolph Spreckels’ divorces sugar on a Beverly Hills house. ® 9 , EARL'S PEARLS . . . Could college boys be acting silly, asks Frank Stevens, because there's something wrong with their faculties? ¢ < o TINI STORY: A fellow’d just had a pitcherful. Somehow he fell out his hotel window. Hs landed on the- street with a crash. A cop charged over, roaring, “What happened?” Brushing himself off and readjusting the pieces, .he groggily repHed, “I don’t know. I just got here.” (Sounds better when You've just: had three.) ¢ > WISH I'D SAID THAT: “I know a man who says his wife's the salt of the earth. He's been trying to shake her. for years Myron Cohen. <> TODAY'S BEST DAFFYNITION: “Optimist —a fellow trying to sell shoe trees to a hillbilly,” ~=Lynne Gilmore. ¢ © BARS ARE SOMETHING, says Arthur Maisel, which if you go into you are apt to come out singing a few of and get tossed behind. . . . That's earl, brother, i . ow

Taxpayer Considers Carrot Juice Binge

cause they drink so much of it, and talk so much about it. Smoking must be important, or so many people wouldn't smoke. A new handbag or a gaudy geegaw must be important, or. the stores would fold fast due to lack of female trade. Entertainment must be important, or people wouldn't hold still for that 20 per cent amusement tax. ¢ & o “* WHAT: IS so immoral about amusement that

“ it must be taxed out of existence by a bunch of

wastrels and scoundrels and thieves and fuzzyheaded global architects who couldn't plot their way out of a closet? We have to have some available amusement to put up with the stupidities of the masters of destiny, and they are taxing the fun things right out of. reach of the average guy. I have seen the penalization of luxury work in a great many countries of the world, and it has never accomplished anything except to create a great sullenness on part of the population, and foster greater political emergencies. And eventually destroy the revenue the greedy were grasping at. I am about to say byebye, booze, unless I can figure out to rig up a still in the bathroom and boil my own, and so I imagine, are a great many other customers of the luxury, who, to paraphrase Marie Antoinette, are about to say: “Let ’em tax carrots.” i

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than it was when every backyard housed a still and the feds were shooting up innocent bystanders and blindness accompanied every third bot-toms-up. Fine, I say, just fine. Look at it and laugh, suckers, at what happens wher: the gov- . ernmental penchant for foundering the free horse reaches infinity. Alii t : Some months back, when the new tilt on whisky went into effect, we Wrote a.bitter little plece about putting ‘yourself out of business it you carry the tax*en luxuries too far. It seemed © to me to keynote the whole wrong with the way we run our show out of Washington. Keep on penalizing it, no matter what it is, and the people will eventually either stop using it, or they will find a substitéite for it, or a way to duck it. We have adopted an arbitrary approach to frivolities, Which is to say that the government idea is that anything which cannot be ‘construed as an- absolute necessity. is per se wrong, and: should be slugged into submission, taxwise, ‘ oo

5 ARGUE BACK that the frivolities axe ia many ways the real necessities of sweating your way through this misdirected rat maze of bureaucratic strife, and that there are times

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith ~

; QJ have raised some geraniums from seed. But I live in an apartment and the soil around it is all basemerit excavation. What to do? Leave them in pots outdoors or set them out in the ground? WE garden clubber. A—I like to put my own geraniums out in the ‘ground in summer. And geraniums won’t mind that tight subsoil as much as most plants would. If you can mix as much as half good topsoil (or buy some compost) with it, they should thrive. Mix in some fine bone meal, too. Subsoil has plant food in it.. It's just too hard packed for most plants to do well in it. You can’t carry these plants over winter bloom anyway. you could slip them ‘now for winter plants. ® o ¢ Q—What to do with African violets im the summer time? No-name. nit A—Hobbyists who have quantities of plants usually keep them indoors as in winter, If ydu

when a slug of hooeh or a cigaret or a pretty have only a few, they love being moved into a play toy is more important than the grim bust- protected shady spot on a porch. It isn't at all ness of rent and bread. Man can't-live entirely according to the gardener’s Hoyle but I know one on what is expected of him, according to the violet fancier puts hers outdoors in the Ds al Borin him from ground to take cage of themsélves while she’s on Ee aa SoA refrains vacation. But better not it unless you're Jom ittg her usbiaPuist tly bY Viying & sew . sclled with. violets: The ties leallet on . violets is available if you send a self. Whisky mist be Important to the masses, be- addressed snveiops to DISHING THE DIRT. = 2g

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OFF TO CAMP—Gilbert Otto

plans evening recreation

MODELING CLAY—Miss A Daniels, Elizabeth Geider and Carol Hall (left to right) how to work with blue clay.

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By LLOYD B. WALTON Aircraft instructor Wil-

lard B. Van Matre &t Technical High School doesn’t have a bit of trouble keep-

ing his students in class, “They're all so interested in their work I have to practically chase them out of the shop when class. is over,” Mr. Van Matre laughed. : There are 84 students in the four classes at Tech. Although the course is not yet approved by the CAA for licensing aircraft mechanics the students do their work under CAA supervision. - All of the instruction and work in the aircraft shop is done on “live” airplanes. Thestudents use an average of $5000 worth of materials a year re-covering, repairing and completely rebuilding light planes brought to them by private pilots, “The class has created quite a lot of interest in aviation here,” Mr. Van Matre said. “A Jot of my students have gone straight into the Alr Force when they graduated from ~ Tech.”

s » ” ‘MR. VAN MATRE has been instructing in the aviation department five years. “When I first started I did some canvassing to get work into the shop,” he said. “Now people come in and ask us. to do their work. We get so many requests we have to turn down a lot of them.” The boys learn how to reconstruct broken segments of wood-frame airplanes, re-cover fabric and metal planes, and the fundamentals of instrument repair. At the end of the course they are awarded a vocatiohal certificate in aircraft repair. In - addition; the students have an opportunity to study

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YOUTHEUL KPS—Wilbur Watts Je

. (lef#) and Robert Ho shaw, School 77, do dinner dishes. :

TREASURE HUNT—Gerald Pate (left); School 77 teacher,

discusses ing cone with Jucusgs ving core with ffe

NATURE STUDY—=Mr, Otto Fusco, Donald Ellis, Lucille Finch,

fo. right}: Chris Clark, Lirry

FOSSIL BANK—School 46 shale bank for fossil specimens,

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PLANE OWNER— could afford to do more flying.

STUDENT MECHANICS—Instructor ‘Willard Yan Matre

(left) helps Tom Dew and James McWilliams work on a plane wing.

it would be cheaper to have my own plane if I wanted to do ing,” he said. “Some to own cars,

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Van said he expects boys someday to be enrolled if the Tech shops. He tells

Experimental Hangar was here and looked at a riveting job Jim did on an Ercoupe,” Mr, Van Matre said. was one of the best jobs he had

flight students from solos until they are 16; so Jack had 54 hours dual training before he recently soloed. He flles at Sky Harbor and works at the gas

Bill bought a J-5 Piper Cruiser with money he saved working after school at Lake Central Airlines. mantled and taken into the ‘aircraft shop at Tech where Bill and some of the other advanced students gave it a coms plete re-coveri a

completing three years in aircraft body shop and has ha@ one semester in the aircraft engine shop. “I think that should give me a pretty good background for taking flight courses at the Spartan School of Aeronautics (Tulsa, Okla.),” he said. “I ho a commercial airline

MR. VAN MATRE has been working . on airplanes years. He graduated from the Spartan school and holds an A. & BE. license. and during the summer he is a mechanic for Lake Central. He owns a Taylorcraft which’ Wheatcraft Airport near Greenwood. Van's wite, Mildred, and two

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NEXT SEPTEMBER Bill expects to enter the Riddle School of Aeronautics at Miami, Fla., and take a 60-week course

James Goad, 260 N. Temple Ave, works in a