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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovela

THE CHANCE meeting with Bob O'Neal, superintendent of the Indiana state police, began with a “hi” and ended with a pretty good message for an easy-livin’ Fourth of July, Bob asked polite y about plans for the week end. 1 had to say there weren't any. Big things vere cooking for “next week. The three-day holiday would be good for getting ready to move my junk to a new location. “Maybe tomorrow or Sunday Rosemary-and I will go out to Broad Ripple pool and see the Olympic tryouts.” . “Drive, carefully,” said Bob. “I shudder when I think of the accidents that will happen during the holiday.” “I'll pass that information on to the driver of the DelawareCentral bus.”

oo oe oo THEN I ASKED about his plans for. the Fourth. Bob said the main thing he was going to do was stay off the highways. He was going to spend most of his time at home with his wife and three boys. : ; 5 “I bought a wading pool, that's all a police‘man can afford, and the boys and I are going to splash-around in it,” laughed Bob. “How deep is it?” Bob said the water comes up over his ankles. Just right for his 1-year-old boy, though. Tomorrow he will spend the greater part of the day at headquarters, Sometime during the three days: he plans to generate enough energy to build a new gate on the “shady side of the house.” «BD SUNDAY THE family will go to an early church service. The usual stuff like the comics, meals, small household chores and fun in the backyard will follow. . “Come Monday we're going to be a well-rested gang of O'Neals,” Bob said. “Barring any accidents ‘like a leak in the pool, everything should be all right.” - The way he talked a person, if he didn’t know

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

CHICAGO, July 4—I'm trying to get a little tin badge for my Beautiful Wife so she can get into the Chicago conventions and do my work for me. The B. W., a sensational gate-crasher, made One-Eyed Connelly look like a bum at the '44 conventions. 80 if she can crash them again, maybe she can grab some: items about Mamie Eisenhower, Martha Taft, Jean MacArthur and Frances Dewey. Only a sneak could do what she did in ‘44. On that torrid night all I could get for myself was a newsreel cameraman’s badge entitling me to sit 5 miles from the speakers’ platform. “Poor B. W.” I kept brooding. : She'd wangled a radio correspondent’s badge. She was entitled to it because she owned a radio set. . I worked my way forward to the very back of the press box . . , half mile from the speakers’ platform, 2 oe ed “DID YOU see Rosemary?’ somebody asked. “No,” 1 said sadly. “Poor thing probably couldn’t get in.” . “Why, she’s up there on the speakers’ platform—on the front row.” - "Twas quite a while before they fetched me to. The B. W. was right next to a Big Celebrity, the orator of the evening, and his pretty wife, - Afterward, the B. W. was kind of snooty. “I'm a big shot now,” she said. “I sit on the platform.” : - “Let me pinch you,” I said. “BIR,” she retorted. “All right, reporter,” she said, “I'll tell you what happened. “We were having dinner and I said all T had was this radio badge, and the speaker of the evening says, ‘You'll be my secretary.’ ““He put his big arms around both of us when we went in and said, ‘My wife and my secretary’ and we brushed right past everybody onto the platform.” ili

THE BIG CELEBRITY and his wife were put on the first row, the B. W. on the second row. The B. C.’s wife turned to the B. W, and said, “If you sit there, how can we dish?” She turned to a guy sitting next to her on the front row and said, “Are you going to sit there?” He said he was. “Is it really necessary?” she asked him. “Yes, I'm going to sing the National Anthem,” the guy said. ! “Couldn’t you sing it just as well thanged seats with my friend?” she said. So the guy gave the B. W, his front row seat. Well, there you are. The B. W.s had eight years of experience since and should be red hot at Chicago. As she often says, “I can get into anything-—except a size 12 dress.”

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Fighting Salmon By William H. Stoneman

GRONG, Norway, July 4 (CDN)—Put on your ear muffs and your woolies, your hip boots and your mittens, and let's go fishing in Norway. On the voyage from Oslo to this spot, 400 or 500 miles up the line, we awoke one fine June morning in a village called Opdal to find the world blanketed in snow, with more coming down. Yesterday, while driving 70 miles to a river which was guaranteed by local yokels to be full of man-sized trout we corkscrewed for a dozen miles across “a high mountain plateau dotted with frozen lakes, through a slashing, freezing ale. B The river, when we finally got to it, was still enjoying the equivalent of March in Minnesota without a fish in sight. is “Better come back in‘ August,” said Jens Johansen, the local farmer. “That's when we have summer up here.” Ao de ole. A

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ON ANOTHER memorable occasion we wallowed 5 miles up a boggy cow path and then battled our way across a mountain to reach a lake where “sometimes they go up to 5 pounds.” When we staggered down the mountainside to the lake it was in the grip of a raging storm that made boating suicidal. Snow still lay on the surrounding slopes. So we caught a mess of

eating trout in a mountain stream and waded.

back through the mud to the main road two hours away. . In the two weeks that we have spent here it has rained every day except one, when it just sprinkled. The lilacs and the violets are just begining to blossom and we sleep under a good old-fashioned Norwegian eiderdown, when we sleep at all. The eiderdown keeps slipping off the bed, in the manner of all eiderdowns, and the daylight has a habit of slapping us in the face just about the time we are getting set for a good night's sleep. When we wake up we can't tell whether it is 3 a. m. or breakfast time.

THE OTHER evening we found ourselves sitting on the porch of our country boarding house at 11 p. m,, facing a hillside streaked with snow, reading by daylight about people dying of the heat in Chicago and St. Louis. The darkest night we have had was mid-sum-mer's eve when we had a storm. Thep again there is the salmon fishing in the Namsen River, which comes roaring down through Grong on its way to the sea near Namsos, v VE T The Namsen is famous for big fighting salmon which come up from th#“¥ea every .&pring, in

other words in June. English sportsmen have" beeri coming here for more than a hundred years.

Bob O0°Neal to Play It Safe, Stay Home

Bob, would think he didn't have a care in the world. The truth ‘is that he's plenty worried what other people will and might do on highways, in. gravel pits, rivers to write tragedy in their

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He realizes there will be a great movement of people over the holiday. It’s unavoidable. Threeday holidays are ideal for visiting friends and relatives and taking in new scenes. - In the same breath, as a man who spent his life in police work, he hopes those who plan to drive out of town will leave early in the morning when they're fresh. eS BD . BOB RECOMMENDS leaving in.plenty of time, going and coming. An impatient, hurried driver will take chances and on the highway the dice are always loaded, “You know,” Bob continued, “as a father and

. a police officer, I've been preaching for parents

to have their children rested when théy start out driving. And they shouldn't drive for too long periods of time. When you begin dividing your attention between the da the highway and unruly.kids in the car, you're headed for trouble.”

The man who keeps referring to himself as a - “policeman,” when he's head of Indiana's most

important law enforcement agency, frankly admits there aren't enough officers to go around. “Traffic problems should concern the individual. I'm very concerned about talk that we need more police action to cut down fatalities on our highways. “Police control is not the fundamental American way to live. But if we don’t observe the rules of safety, someday drastic police action may be forced on us.”” Bob O'Neal wasn't smiling. The guy is worried. . SB i HE DOESN'T go for this business of having those who want to smash their cars and their heads go out and remove themselves from the highways. Unfortunately, as records will show, the driving idiot involves the innocent. Here's one man who isn't sticking his neck out on the highways. No wheels, lot of work, and scared. Happy holiday.

Plans to Crash Gate At Chicago Convention

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . : Two-thirds of the $300,000 Olympi® telethon funds “pledged” in N. Y. to Crosby and Hope were phony. “Morons” who phoned in celebrities names were responsible. - City. . Comptroller Lazarus Joseph's committee met to face the cruel facts. Betty Grable is reported walking out of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” at 20th. Marilyn Monroe's new sidekick in it may be Jane Russell—if Howard Hughes . approves. , . . Mayor Impellitteri confers Wednesday in Washington with Attorney General McGranery. Patronage? Turhan Bey's been in N. Y. two weeks. undiscovered by the press, He's on his way back to Filmland — still a bachelor. “Nobody wants me,” says he. . . Dagmar’s brother, Jack Egnor, of Huntington, W. Va., entered West Point Tuesday. His picture and Dagmar’s were posted together at the Academy, with a sign saying, “This boy we're waiting for.” Milton Berle and Ruth Cosgrove have an audience with the Pope . .. Henry Ford 2d’s futuristic Ford's causing a furore in LA. .

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Martha Raye was in a Miami hospital for a few days from a slight tiff with husband Nick Condos, Just a little love match, SB TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Paul Whiteman claims he overheard this dialog: “See that guy? He looks like Paul Whiteman?” . , . “Don’t be nuts. Paul Whiteman’s been dead for years.” . Miami Night Club Operator Murray Weinger feels healthy—and cheerfully denies the wave of rumors he’d passed away . . . Ex-Miss America Jean Bartel's returning to California to join her . sick mother and to start a TV show with Tito Guizar. La Vie En Rose shuttered until September . . . “Of Thee I Sing” is having its toughest fight this week . . . Mel Torme's B. W. Candy Toxton is trying to save her baby... The Earl of Warwick may wed Lisa Fuchs, American actress ... Max Schmeling’s got gal trouble in the German courts.

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EARL’S PEARLS—Bernice Parks maintains that girls on television really stick their necks out. . LS WISH I'D SAID THAT—“Men die of broken hearts but women die of broken mirrors’—Russ Landi. Taffy Tuttle told Lester Lanin that to any woman the ideal man is the one she turned down to marry the one she did ... That's Earl, brother.

Want to Keep Cool? Go Fishing in Norway

You fish the salmon from a rowboat, rowed by two men, trolling with two rods in the fast current and deep pools. Thousands - of logs tumbling downstream in a constant procession make this riskier for the fishermen than for the salmon. : oo 0 Wh WE HIT our first fish late one afternoon just after Mr. Baeckstroem, an ancient one-eyed Swedish boatman, had announced for the 10th time that “there ain't any fish in the Namsen any more.” > There was a sudden heaving tug on the line and a salmon came barreling out of the water 30 yards away. Then he was off like an express train for 200 yards, winding up in a mighty leap into the ozone. When we finally headed him into shore and gaffed him 15 minutes later he turned out to be a fine 24-pounder. '* The second fish was a grilse, .a baby salmon weighing only 7 pounds. ooo B THE MOST impressive thing about this neighborhood, aside from the weather, is the population now enjoying a rare degree of prosperity due to the boom in timber prices. Most peasant families have their bits of forest and every log is now worth good hard cash.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—We are never able to find your column in the Saturday and -§unday ‘papers. Do you have those days off? Or aren't we looking in the right place for it?—Mrs, C. B. (Also answering Mr.

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16 VACATION SPOTS—

State Park Trip Easy On Budge:

HEAVEN—Boys with their fishing rods, a can of worms and a creek by a waterfall—could anything be better? It can be had

at several state parks.

By TED KNAP

Long holiday week ends and vacations are wonderful, and we don't wish to knock them. But there are two things wrong: They don’t last forever:

They knock the *“chlorphyll” out of your wallet, If you feel like packing the wife and kids off to a lake resort, you almost have to hook on a trailer to carry the money. If you own several extra trailerfuls of booty, don't bother to read this. Otherwise, you might be interested in an easy-on-the-budget vacation or holiday at one of Indiana's 16 state parks. i

A state park outing will offer

just as much fishing, swimming, hiking and other fun for half the price.

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A FAMILY of four going to a private resort in northern Michigan or Wisconsin will be socked about $250 for one week in a reasonably good cabin with meals. Do the same in a state park, and the bill will figure to about $140. Cook your own meals, and you can easily cut that to about $75. Family housekeeping cabins rent for $15 to $35 a week in state parks. Each takes up to six persons. Many vacationers who like to keep on the move make a circuit of state parks, staying a day at each. It's tougher to get reservations that way, but it can be more interesting. Good private quarters can be had if state cabins are filled. State parks are soaring to new heights of popularity among Hoosiers and outstate tourists. So far, about 600,000

This is the last of five articles by Norman D. Ford, ‘traveler, editor, author and a - founder of the Globe Trotters Club.

By NORMAN D. FORD HE Globe Trotters Club advises its members, when packing, to sort into three piles: Those things you can't do without. Those things you need. : Those things you want to take along. Then, says the club, put the last two piles back in the drawers and take only the first, Vatationers can benefit from this advice by at least putting the third pile back in the drawers—and taking a good look at the second pile to see what might be omitted. If straveling in your own car, reduction of baggage is not so important. Even so it is possible to cause yourself some privation by filling the car so full you hardly have room to sit down. Choice of a suitcase doesn't have much effect on capacity or weight, but you'd do well to

persons have paid admission (12 cents) to visit the parks. Kenneth PR. Cougill, state

parks director, figures the 1952 .

season will bring a recordsmashing attendance of stwo million. Last year’s total was 1.6 million. 5 = »

THIS FOURTH OF JULY week end is expected to hit the peak of the year. Officials figure on more than 100,000 visitors for the three-day holiday. A variety of simple, outdoor fun, with good accommodations and food, are the keynote of Indiana's state park systems. Here are the parks, their distance from Indianapolis, and briefly what each offers: BASS LAKE — 112 miles northeast. Swimming and fishing on Indiana's fourth largest

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BROWN COUNTY-—50 miles south, Game preserve, streams, trails in 17,000 acres of beautiful scénery. : CLIFTY

east. Two waterfalls, creeks

-and panorama of Ohio River.

INDIANA DUNES ——357 northwest. Miles of sand and wild beauty along Lake Michian. . LINCOLN — 157 southwest. Trails and drives on land where Honest Abe Lincoln spent 14 years of his youth. Fishing, boating, swimming. McCORMICK’S CREEK-—59 southwest. Waterfalls, canyon, trails and horse paths. Swimming pool. MOUNDS Earth mounds and along White River, antiquity. MUSCATATUCK-—-66 southeast. -Gorges and heavy timber along Muscatatuck River.

44 northeast. woods Mists of

FOR A HAPPIER VACATION—No. 5

Too Much Baggage Can

avoid a gadget loaded case if traveling by air. A wardrobe case weighs 12 pounds against the six pounds of the ordinary overnight case. The worst mistake you can make, however, is to get a trunk. Trunks are the sign of the amateur traveler. They cost a small fortune to ship around. You're helpless to move them alone. They invariably arrive at least a week after you. reach your destination.

n 5 n TWO WEEKS in advance is not teo soon to begin packing for your summer vacation. During that period, you're likely to think of practically every-

thing you should take along. The two secrets of cutting

_ down on your clothing and bag-

gage are to use a basic suit and to stick to a common color scheme, preferably dark for easy laundering. This applies equally well to both men and women, : A dark suit is almost essential if going abroad, especially in South and Central America and even Mexico. Light clothing will make you appear outlandish, besides causing you to stand out conspicuously as a

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Sparks—John Brown's raid on a U. S. arsenal, the LincolnDouglas debates, the Dred Scott decision flew about

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igan off the Indiana Dunes.

in setting sun.

' POKAGON — 164 northeast, Anything you want to do at a .

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SCALES LAKE-—170 southwest. Former state forest and strip mine. Good swimming, fishing, picnicking. :

SHADES 56 west. Hiking in virgin timber, fishing in Sugar Creek.

supposedly dollar-laden American tourist. All your clothes. should fill-a dual, if ‘not triple, role. Nylon, rayon jersey, seersucker and silk are the materials least likely to crease. The ladies should stick to them as far as possible. Of the four, nylon seems the favorite. n » » ONCE you've got everything together, stuff shoes full of socks and pack them into + brown paper or plastic bags. Seal bottles with Scotch tape or place in pliofilm bags. Then lay all your items on a

bed and judge how large a suitcase you'll need. If-taKing evening clothes, the average

woman will need one large suitcase, ,one overnight bag, and a

hatbox for shoes. and handbags. A man will need almost as

much, But if formals can be dispensed with, most people can get away with®one large suitcase and a small overnight bag for the average two weeks vacation. Packing a woman's bag differs widely in principle from packing a man’s. There are also two radically different schools of thought on the subject of

EASY ON THE EYES—Patio overlookin

SHAKAMAK-—86 southwest. Two artificial lakes stocked with game fish. Swimming, diving meets. SPRING MILI—-85 south: west. See life of 100 years ago in reconstructed mill town. Caves and blind fish. TIPPECANOE RIVER — 100 north. Picnics, hiking, camp-

big breaker on ‘a hot day? Not this miss in Lake Miche

q Clifty Falls state park provides beautiful panorama

ing along eight miles of beautiful “Tippy.” TURKEY RUN-68 west. Long a favorite for hikes, rides, bass fishing in Sugar Creek. Canyons are breathtaking. VERSAILLES 75 southwest. Tops for field trials. Pionics, group camps, horseback riding on 5000 acres along Laughery Creek.

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whether or not to place tissue paper between all folds to prevent creases. My advice to the amateur is to make use of the tissue paper first until, with experience, you may léarn how to pack without it.

” ~ » IN PACKING a woman's bag, place the shoes in the bottom toward the rear and cover with more paper. Two or three bags allow shoes to go in the hatbox and evening clothes in the bottom of the Suitcase, Above the shoes go lingerie and dressing gown, heavier skirts and dresses, blouses and undies and then lighter blouses and shirts in that order. Woolen items can be rolled safely. Pleated skirts should be placed inside a cloth hanger and each pleat pinned to the hanger. Toilet articles, folding

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overnight last, i To pack a man’s hag, cross the suit jacket sleeves in front, then fold each sleeve at the elbows so that it lies back up the opposite forearm. Lay it in the suitcase with the tail hanging over the front, Next, lay one pair of pants

across it so that the legs come

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out over one side of the suitcase and lay a second pair across in the opposite direction 80 that the legs drape over the opposite side. Now place in the shoes and heavier items, always laying them toward the rear. Fill up with the balance and placedn last of all the overs night and toilet requisites. Lastly, fold in the legs of the two pairs of pants and the coat tail. Before closing the lid of any bag, place inside it a label or slip of paper with your home address and phone number. Remember that in packing for a car trip, there is no necessity to put everything in suitcases, Suits can be placed on hangers, covered with dry cleaner’s folders, and hung in the rear of the car. Shoes carn be placed in a cloth bag hung over the back of the front seat, Many., other items can be stowed in the glove compart ment or packed in open cartons for easy access. And if you're one of those people who always have to sit on the suitcase lid, try a duffel bag-—it's almost impossible to fill one completely.

(Copyright, 1952, by Harfan Publications Greenlawn, N. Y.)

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L. B. M.). A—In a manner of speaking Saturday is “off” —though garden troubles seem to pop up seven day: a week and right around the clock, alas. On Saturday, there is no garden column in the paper. On Sunday (in addition to the garden page in the society section) Dishing the Dirt ap- .§ pears in the same spot as during the week. How--ever, you have to look past the sports pages that make up the front of this section on Sunday. Hope you find it next Sunday! . Q-—Are coffee grounds good for plants?—A. L. A—Coffee grounds do not add much in the way, of plant food. But they certainly loosen soil if you use enough of them. My favorite example is the small flower bed whose soil I improved to practically perfection simply by dumping the morning coffee grounds on it every single day

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