Speedway Flyer, Volume 20, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1952 — Page 3

TELEPHONE STATISTICS OF THE WORLD

There were nearly 75 million telephones in the world at the beginning of last year, according to “Telephone Statistics of the World, - recently released by the ftAmerfcan Telephone and Telegraph Company. The actual world total on January 1, 1951, was 74,800,000, an increase of 4% million over the previous year. * The- 75-million mark was an appropriate milestone since it was passed early in the 75th anniversary of the invention of the telephone. . In the past half century, the growth of the telephone has outstripped population growth 60fold. There are 30 times as many telephones in the world today as there were fifty years ago. During this same period, the population of the world has increased only 50%. The United States had more than 43 million of the 75 million total—ll million more than all other nations combined. The United Kingdom was second with 5,433,614 telephones and Canada was third with 2,911,900 instruments. The U.S. had an average of 28.1 telephones for every hundred persons, Sweden was runner-up with 23.9 and Canada took third place with an average of 20.8 hundred people. The Indiana Bell Telephone Company’s average of 35.1 telep per 100 persons was well ahead of the national figure. New York, with 3,137,405 telephones at the start of 1951, topped all other cities in this respect and actu<Uly had more telephones than any foreign country in the world with the exception of the United Kingdom. Greater London followed New York with 1,632,900 instruments. Chicago was third with i,5zc,i56, sligntly more than the total for the entire U.S.S.R. Washington, D.C., retained first place as the most intensively developed city telephone-wise, with 60.6 telephones per hundred persons. San Francisco followed with * 55.5 telephones per hundred persons and Stockholm, Sweden, was third with 47.9 per hundred. Americans completed 56 billion conversations oyer their vast telephone network during 1950, an average of more than 370 per person.

Telephone ownership continued predominantly in private hands. On January 1, 1951, more than 50 million telephones—two-thirds of the world’s total—were operated by privately owned companies, to maintain the ratio of the previous year. :

Mother was absent from the dinner table, so Dorothy, aged eighty sat in her chair and pretended to take her place. Father was watcning the child’s solemn assumption of matronly airs with glee, when her brother said: “So you’re motner tonight? Well, if you’re mother, tell me—how much is six times nine?” Calmly and without hesitation, Dorothy retorted, “I’m busy—ask your father!” Treatment of a single polio patient has already cost the Lake County Chapter of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis more than $12,000. This patient is still receiving treatment.

Pain Killers Bad For Arthritis

“Temporary relief of pain is suicide for the arthritis patient,” says Dr. E. C. Andrews, Director of the Ottawa (Ill.) Arthritis Sanatorium and Diagnostic Clinic in a recent interview. “In my twenty years' experience of exclusively treating arthritis patients, I have seen thousands of them who would otherwise be leading normal lives today if they hadn't taken some pain killer which temporarily relieved their pain.” The doctor went on to point out that the so-called pain killers do the job of killing the pain but what they dofTt do is something which stopsAhe progress of the arthritis. The destruction of the cartilage within the joint continues, unknown to the patient until it is too late for him to do anything about it. He's happy because the pain is gone but the destructive process lingers on. As a solution Dr. Andrews pointed out that the only possible way •hat a patient can get permanent relief from arthritis is to have a thorough comprehensive diagnosis to determine tne cause of his trouble and then put himself in the hands of a physician who can treat accordingly. He notes that, because of his long experience with this condition, he diners with most doctors in the belief that arthritis itself is not a disease but is rather the end result of a number of diseased conditions within the body. These abnormal conditions could be anywhere in the body and could be causing the inflammations in the joints which most people commonly associate with arthritis. He therefore feels that the Only wav to successfully and permanently benefit the arthritis patient who might be a man, woman or child from the age of two to 80, is to • make certain that a thorough, comprehensive diagnosis is done on the patient, correlate the findings and then let the doctor suggest treat- ■ ment. And Dr* Andrews added: “I’m thinking in terms of an examination which takes about a week under clinical conditions and not one where you get a blood count and a few taps on the chest.” His parting advice to arthritics • • • “Take it easy . . . lazy people donfget arthritis."

Polio is a treacherous and unpredictable disease. No one can estimate in advance how many cases to expect or now serious they will be. For this reason The March of Dimes must raise as much money as possible so that wherever polio strikes there will be ample funds available to care for every patient ’

O Narrow H Escape By Richard Hill Wilkinson

LAURA knew her first feeling of fear when Jud took the whip from its socket and flicked it across the backs of the plodding horses. _____ _ She had been 3.111nnf n watching the clouds pile out of FiCilOn the northwest with amazing speed for the past 15 ifiinutes. But this was April, and there was no wind at all. Also, the day was mild, almost sultry. It was hard to imagine a blizzard even in Nebraska. Beauty and Prince broke into a lumbering trot. The rhythm of the crunching wheels of the heavy farm wagon increased in tempo. Beneath them, at the foot of the long slope, Laura could see the buildings of their farm. The cloud bank came toward them with astonishing speed, hanging an impenetrable gray curtain from sky to earth as it swept across the prairie. Jud stood up and lashed out with the whip. A Little Lucy began to cry, and a .moment later Jud, junior, joined in with lusty bawls. Laura huddled one under each arm and said: “Sh! Sh, now!” But when she lifted her anxious eyes, she felt again the terror. The farm buildings were not more than a quarter of a mile away. Now they could hear the roar of the

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Snow whipped into their faces. The temperature dropped below freezing.

wind. It drowned out the crunch of wheels; it plucked Jud’s cries from' his lips and sent them screaming back over his shoulder. The blizzard struck them like a blast from the Arctic. Laura drew the heavy bear rugs about the children, and bound her own scarf about her face. She could no longer hear the crying of the youngsters, nor the clopping of the horses* hoofs, nor Jud’s shouts. There was no point in looking up. She tried it once. It was like being suspended in a great vacuum with moving, screaming walls. Even the outlines of the horses were blotted* out. The progress of the team slowed. Jud was no longer using the whip. He sat humped forward, barely visible behind a veil of snow.

AFTER awhile Laura had the feeling that the team was swinging in a great arc. A new terror seized her. The road was straight. There was not a curve for miles. She screamed at Jud, tugged at his sheepskin coat. He bent down and she tried to make him understand. He shook his head and pointed down. She bent forward, could barely make out the right front wheel. It was running even with the whippietree, had not turned at all. She setled down once tmore, hugging he children close: Cold crept in under the blankets. Snow piled up in her lap and on her shoulders. The world had gone mad. Again she had that feeling of swinging around. She fought it until the horror of it threatened her sanity. Then she poked her head from beneath the blankets. Jud was crouched forward, tense, pulling on the nigh rein. She beat against his shoulder. “We've missed the house! I'm turning back!** She could barely catch the words. A cold chill, a hideous fear congealed the blood of her veins. Missed the house! It would be hours—possibly days before the storm ended. They had no provisions aboard the wagon. They would freeze. She clutched the children . against her. They never should have started out. They wouldn’t hate if it had been a month later. The storm attacked with a new fury, an uncombatable violence. It lashed and screamed and laughed in hideous triumph at their helplessness. Time once more stood still. Laura was roused by someone rubbing snow against her cheeks. She sat up, trying to cry out, remembering the children, “They’re all right,*’ Jud said, “I gave the horses their heads. They took us home. Wouldn’t have, made it otherwise.” < Stiff-legged, carrying a child in either arm, she went through the shed and into the kitchen. The heat beat against her face. She set the children on the table and went to the stove. The kettle was still steaming. In another five minutes they would have caught

“STATIC - kF LAWRENCE WITTE

DID YOU KNOW? That Sunday night TV star Red Skelton (NBC) cannot stand the color red, although that is the color not only of his hair but of his wife’s and that of his two children? All the decor in the new Skelton home is in pastel shades. He owns a shocking pink piano—on which he recently startled an assemblage of guests by playing with skill, talent and dexterity; until he got up to look for some more music and the piano an old pianola went right on playing! . . . That Lowell Thomas, the CBS newscaster, has used his famous “So long until tomorrow” ever since his radio debut? He’s repeated that phrase something like 6,600 times in his 21 years in broadcasting! . . . That Fibber McGee and Molly are in New York from Hollywood looking over the video scene? Looks like they’ll have their own show next fall! • • • DIAL-LITES: Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (CBS-TV, Wednesday nights) just celebrated their third anniversary on that

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network last week.... Roa Rawson and his lovely wife, Ruth, ate one of the busiest couples in radio. They’re featured on NBC’s “The Road of Lite” and CBS* “Vfrwg Dr. Malone,” where Ron handles the announcing reins and Ruth lends a hand with the commercials. When not before the mike, Ron and Ruth are kept busy making plans for their Westhampton Summer Theatre. . . .

INSIDE STUFF: Many people wonder why Garry Moore, the star of his own daily CBS-TV show, quit the Jimmy Durante Show a few years back. The inside story is that Garry thought he was being carried by Jimmy a thought possibly engineered by the remark of a Hollywood top man who, Garry had been told, regarded his as “one of the greatest of comics.” Garry ran into this man one day and the latter told him he thought Garry was one of the greatest straight men ever put in the comedy business. It was then that Garry decided to strike out on his own. He made a wise choice because he’s now one of the top-rated stars on video row! • • • WATTS WATT: Dinah Shore, who co-stars with Jack Smith and Ginny Simms on CBS, was reminiscing the other night “I remem-

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Vincennes Central Catholic Patriots took over undisputed possession of first place in the conference by downing two foes during the past week while Winslow was winning one encounter from Tell City 65-57. Kokomo remained in third place while Crispus Attacks jumped from 6th to 4th on their triumph over Decatur Central. Bloomington in 11th place with an 8-2-.800 average, is breathing down the necks of the last four teams. The same ten teams are back this week, except

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6*, Jr.; Norman Smith, 160, 6*, Jr.; Robt Flynn, 145, s’B,* 17, Jr.; Neal Caskey, 180, 6*1,” 17, Sr.; Braxton Pinkins, 185, 8*1,” 18, Sr.; Jim Manous, 153, B*, 18, Sr.; Joe Arrendondo, 180, 5*10,” 17, Jr.; Ed Juratic, 195, 8*5,” 18, Sr.; and Fletcher Battle, 185, 5*10,” 18, Sr. On this same date last year the

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• Senators were leading the HFC with eight straight wins and no losses. They finished in the lead at the end of tae campaign with a record of 18 wing and only one loss. Their over-all record wm 19-3-.905. It was Gary Froebal. during their undefeated marqh toward the title, who handed the Senators their only loss BS-3C They in tarn were stopped in their march to the title by Marton Crawley and his Broncoes.

Canadian, Texas,* RE CORD: “Yes, it is possible that if we continue to relinquish our personal dignity and our individualism to government we will one day wake up and find we have relinquished our country without a struggle.”

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