Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1952 — Page 24
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In 26 Years of Teaching, Mrs. Howard
Has Helped Shape Her Community
LAST CLA “teaching. : By LLOYD WALTON
. “SHE'S NOT as big as a ‘minute, but she's certainly {made her mark in this com- . munity.” This tribute paid by a neigh‘bor lady sums up the feelings of hundreds of former students ‘of Mrs. Blanche Howard who last ‘week’ retired after teaching the first grade at Flackville School ‘for 26 years.
“We'll miss her an-awful lot,” §
sald Mrs. Bishop Gregory, 3300 Brewer Dr, “She always speaks with such a soft voice, but she ‘does get results. The children just love her.” Mrs. Gregory's daughter, Libby ‘Ann, was in the last. class taught by Mrs. Howard, Her son, Fred-
erick, who was graduated this ?® ; High }
year from Ben Davis School, has paid frequent visits ‘to Mrs, Howard since he left Flackville School. Thursday was Mrs. Howard's last day at the school. There were no classes that day. The children jyst came in to get their report cards and say goodby to the
SS—Twenty-six years later Mrs. Howard posed for this picture - she retired beams
FAREWELL PRESENT—Mrs graders, accepts overnight bag
rT Ev to a on
. Howard, surrounded by first from Linda Randel and Shirley
teacher and their classmates as Howard (left to right). The bag wai a gift from former pupils.
‘they left for summer vacation. ” . »
BUT EVERYONE knew Mrs, Howard won't be back next year. Several of the children’s mothers actompanied them to school to tell the retiring teacher how sorry they were to see her leave and how much their children had enjoyed being with her. John David. Waggoner, 3300 Brewer Dr. a 3d grade pupil, brought his little flash camera to school to take a picture of Mrs. Howard with her last class. Children from other rooms came to get her autograph in books and on the backs of their report card envelopes. Mrs, Howard wiped her moist eyes as she posed for g¢he pictures and obligingly signed her name for dozens of children. She sat down on one of the tiny classroom chairs to talk to her students for the last time. Several of them threw their arms about her.neck and hugged her before
nearly every day from school and] talked about how nice Mrs Howard is.”
Mrs. R. L. Pottenger, 4012 W, 34th St., was one of the mothers| who visited the class on the last| day. She said she felt as if she had a double interest in Mrs. Howard. Her son, Rickey, was in| the last class the diminutive, gray-| Ing teacher taught. Her husband was In the 1st grade when Mrs.| Howard started teaching there in| 1925.
“Rickey's dad told him before he started to school: this year that he couldn't take marbles to school with him,” Mrs. Pottenger sald, “He said he could remember when he first took marbles with him and they feli out of his pockets and rolled up the aisle. Mrs. Howard never did find out who the marbles belonged to.” Several families have had two or three children in her class. Bit the largest number Mrs. Howard!
dashing. out. the door to catch thelr-schéol bus. | "8 =a “I DON'T think words can exress what we think of her,” said Mrs. R. J. Parker, 3200 W. 30th St. “Mighael has come home
| with Newman Adkins, who was
can remember from one household! Is the Adkins fami',. Starting
{her pupil in 1925, 10 of the Adkins {family have studied - under her; {Tuli Adkins was in her last! | class,
- "Eleven Hoosier Midshipmen will graduate from
the U. 8. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Friday. Seven of them will be commissioned Ensigns;
three 2d Lts. in the Air Force; an Ite Marine Corps.
Each will receive a BA degree, They represent
Kokomo, Evansville Reitz, Gary
Michigan City, Hammond, Fast Chicago Roosevelt, § Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, Indianapolis Washington and New Albany High Schools and Culver Military |
Academy.
Two are from Indianapolis. They are Frank L.
Hines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hines, 1015 Blaine Ave, and Harvison Hunt, son of Mr. and Mrs, Lester M. Delaware St. ! . Midshipman Hires attalhed the rank of Chief Petty Officer serve ing as mystering officer last winter. He received plebe letters in football and track and was a member of the Newman Club. * Young Hunt was ranked midlfeutenant (junior
Hunt, 5243 N. §
d one a 2d Lt. In
Mann, Mitchell, |§
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Ens. Langloh
THE ADKINSES sent Mrs. Howard a white purse as a farewell present and with it was a card autographed by each of the family who had been her pupil. Trudie printed her name. She has not yet learned to write it. At the last meeting of the PTA, a farewell party was given in Mrs. Howard's honor. She was presented with a traveling bag to use on her planned vacation to California this summer. On the last day of school a group of her former pupils gave her a matching train case. “This is almost too much for me,” Mrs. Howard laughed hap-
Jur. “They shouldn't have done
She _expegts to make a trip to Califorriia in July and then re-
turn to Indianapolis and “keep house.”
| “I'haven't been able to do much
housekeeping for some time,” she said, Mrs. Howard lives at 3720 W. 30th St. with her daughter, Miss
Edith Lois Howard. Edith is al I3d grade teacher at School 84.
Ens. Driver
Lt. Hunt
‘| experts and mobilization plan-
| | tain.
-'| airplanes. ‘| production during the same pe-
every one we
| many reasons for this,
{in production.
{tors are desperately needed in
Eleven Hoosiers to Be Graduated From Annapolis
Russia in the air? ‘Here's today's picture:
“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __
000 Milita
WASHINGTON, May 31—How do we stack up against
The Air Force has 90 wings, with approximately 900,
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ry Airplanes ‘Modern’
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SUNDAY, JUNE J, 1052 |
‘Kid of the Year’
ie: id To Call on Truman
000 officers and men. This is an
30,000 air marines. It'y estimated we have available
years, What about Russia?
per year. That's almost double our production rate. It will not be until September of 1953 that we begin to match Russian production. Meantime, she will have built up a sizable lead. We are superior to the Russians in long-range bombers, medium bombers, night fighters and fighter bombers. (However, House Speaker Sam Rayburn recently told Congress Russia has tripled her production of long-range bombers in recent months. He| apparently spoke with White) House approval.) In the day fighter field, Russia has large {numbers of MIGs which -are equal—and in many ways superior —to our best jets. :
Hard to Guess It is difficult to know what Russia has or will have. If our
ners knew with certainty, our production policies could. be charted with more confidence. We have rio really reliable information from behind the Iron Cur-
In 1951, our aircraft industry produced 4500 to 5000 military Estimates of Russian
riod range from 12,000 up to 20,000. The lower figure is believed more accurate. Thus, in the number of planes in operation as well as ability to keep furnishing more, the Russians have had a decided advantage. = In Korea, however, HAVE ATRL ANT “APMIGE-to,
‘true we have lost more planes than the Reds—the score is 1400 to 400. Most of our losses have been tp ground fire. - There Our planes have been in Korea much longer. Moreover, we have worked constantly over enemy territory—in close support and on bombing raids. The Chinese, on the other hand, fight only in that narrow air- corridor known as MIG Alley, close to their sanctuary in Manchuria.
Air Force Estimate Nevertheless the Reds have a substantial air force even when these facts are considered. Russia has expanded her aircraft industry, engaged in extensive research and devoted a tremendous proportion of her national income to creating an aircraft industry. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, chief of the air staff, recently told Congress Russia had “several thousand” more warplanes than the U. 8. He said in three years the Red air force will be almost entirely jet and “will begin to approach ours” in the number of atomic bombers. The Russians have no naval aviation comparable to ours, If they have a single carrier, we don’t know it. Nor are they using helicopters. Some top men in the Pentagon are not overly impressed with the record of the Korean War—which has been a test between the MIG ahd our Sabrejet—nor with claims of Russian production. “Sure, we could build MIG’s if we wanted to,” one of the joint chiefs of staff said. “But I don’t think we do.” It is the view of this officer— who does ‘not represent the Air Force—the MIG is a single-pur-pose plane which would be badly outclassed anywhere it could not choose its own theater. } Baruch’s Warning “As I see it, you always get back to one hard fact—steel, Russia produces only about one-sixth or one-eighth as much as we do. Granted Russia is totalitarian and can eliminate all production of non-military items. Using all she has, she still has much less steel than we have. Without steel, you don’t fight long these days. I try always to balance these reports of Russia's military production against that” = ° Bernard Baruch concedes Russia can hardly afford to match us But he ‘sees that as an added danger. “To convert a factory from tractors to tanks is no easy decision for the Soviets since trac-
; Lt. Tonettl Lt. Hines "Lt. Johnson and Mrs, Jullus ¥. Peters, Evans-json of Capt. and Mrs. W. OC. Mrs. Hart-| ville; Glenn C. Driver Jr. son of Bady Sr. on (ret.), Michigan ley. of Mx. 80d Mx Gaba H L. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn C. Driver Sr. City. | Johnson, a ES For Bo A Gan 0 2, cn "8 Ma » Lang- Tonettl, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
increase of 52 wings in 12 months. Russia,” he said. “When the The Navy has about 126,000 Kremlin orders officers and men, in addition 10'armaments, it pays a harsh price, Jimmy, age 13, won his title lin terms of living standards, re-/in nationwide competition with |pairing the devastation of the last) YOUnSsters between 5 and 15 for combat approximately 17,000 8 n e last hominated by 2200 chapters of
d even in terms of future the U. 8. junior chamber of com-
Afr Force planes and 13,000 in the war an Navy and Marine Corps. Only military strength. We can be merce. about 3000, however, can. be con- sure these decisions were not] sidered modern. We may not be taken without exacting calcula-
completely ready for five more tions. Will the Soviet leaders al-
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GIs around the world.
WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) —The “kid of the year,” Jimmy Carrick of Pittsburgh, Pa., will] drop in at the White House next | Wednesday to receive congratularesources into tions from President Truman.
spinal tubercular victim, (Jimmy has spent 11 of his 13 i {years in hospitals for bone graftlow these weapons to rust and ings. Nevertheless he has found spoll—considering the cruel price time and courage to solicit 9000 . The Reds outnumber us in paid for them—or will those pints of blood for the Red Cross modern planes about three to one. Weapons be used before they be- and write about 40,000 letters’ to {Russia is known to be building|come obsolete?” between 12,000 and 14,000 planes
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Mayo to Move Patients “If Employees Walk Out ROCHESTER, Minn, May 31 (UP)—Mayo clinic officials made plans today to move patients to another hospital if employees call a strike next week. A union spokesman said AFL operating engineers who supply the clinic and three Kahler Corp. |hospitals with heat and power “already” have rejected the latest conciliation proposal. But he said no strike action would be taken until Tuesday night “at the earliest,” when AFL hotel, hospital . apd restaurant workers vote on the same pro 1 posal. .
Rooster Tries To Be Good Egg
PHENIX CITY, Ala., May 31 (UP)-—-Roland the Rooster, a‘ year-old black and yellow game cock, doesn't turn a feather when his fighting brothers call him sissy, Born of a fighting breed but showing no hankering to fight, Roland crowded a setting hen off her nest and now sits placidly all day on two eggs. Roland’s owner, Aubrey Morris, said the hen who laid the two eggs has given up trying to get them back and now leaves i them to Roland's motherly care.
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