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'MV 11 r- IC 1 if I9r. i i liitniiv SOME WATCH RACE mJL Swings Around Clark Spins His Opposite Direction Traffic Flow Into Speedway Is Smooth But Rough Going Out Potpourri In Infield Stages Own ar GIRLS WORE things Goodwill wouldn't push in a fire sale. There was a blond on the northwest turn with screaming pink stretch pants and a boy's sleeveless sweatshirt a very large boy's sleeveless sweatshirt and a black bra beneath. Boys were uniformly shaggy in long-haired protest against their elders' conform-ity. IT GETS harder and harder for them to non-conform through fashion.

As soon as they think of something bizarre, their parents start wearing it to such things as a 500-Mile Race. Some of the elder generation watched the race in startled sobriety. They had come from other states with until the very last. "Then they all tried to leave at once," he said. Once in their cars, however, motorists generally seemed to be unhurried and many munched sandwiches and drank beverages, Capt.

Konkle said. CONGESTION on main arteries leading from the Speedway was blamed on the large amount of public transportation (buses) used and on motorists who tried to beat the traffic by driving down side treets, then trying to get back on main streets again. City, county and state law enforcement units reported 13 accidents in race traffic five of them resulting in minor personal injuries. Three accidents on Ind. 100 near Cold Spring Road snarled traffic in that area and two wrecks on Georgetown Road By HARRISON ULLMANN Perhaps the world's most bizarre potpourri of people populated Mr.

Hulman's famous infield again yesterday. There was a lovely quartet of co-eds who came all the way from Iowa to p'ay bridge on a blanket in the northeast turn. THERE WAS the precious couple, evidently, a boy and a girl, with identical heads of hair and gold loop earrings a-dangle from both pairs of ears. There were all the matrons, remembering their youth in a crowd around Cesar Romero. There was a scattered battalion of motorcyclists in the uniform of their set: Iron Crosses and replicas of Wehr-macht helmets.

There was a husky youngster, a brewer's best friend, who thanked the deputy sheriff and wished him a pleasant day as he left in custody to come downtown to post bond for violating a liquor law. THERE WERE 275,000 citizens at the golden anniversary running of the 500-Mile Race. The civilized, sedate and prosperous took to the grandstands and the rest the happy leftovers from the melting pot loosed chaos in the infield. The crowd was stunned by the smash that stopped the race before It scarcely had begun. But no one seemed Hill Is Typical Englishman Heads In no suspicion that Hoosiers would close their taverns for two consecutive days (Sunday, because it was Sunday, and Monday, because it was Memorial Day).

Some of the Hoosiers foresaw a profit in the calendar and came heavy laden with coolers and tubs filled with liquid treasures they shared with the visitors at $1 a bottle or can. THERE WERE automotive wonders in the infield like nothing ever put together in Gasoline Alley. One group drove in a beach buggy all the way from Arizona. There was a wonderful old Ford coupe with more chrome than paint parked half-a-dozen rows from a wonderful old Chevvy panel truck think there is a darned good chance he might be back." Mecom, the wealthy and personable young man from Texas, was bubbling throughout the interview. "I said all along that Graham was our dark horse.

We knew Rodger (Ward) would hang back and let things get sorted out. And we knew Jackie would run with them. Graham played his cards perfectly. He made his move when it was needed and he drove a splendid race. "And do you know what his first words were when he pulled into victory lane? 'It's a pity that Jackie didn't win; he deserved And isn't that something for him to say?" MEANWHILE, Hill was sitting back quietly, answering the same questions over and over again and smiling when reminded that he grimaced when taking a swig of the customary chilled bottle of milk presented to the winner.

The moustache wasn't even quivering, the hair was carefully smoothed back from the forehead, but British reserve or no, he couldn't quite mask a feeling of elation behind such demeanor. He had just won the world's richest automobile race and he knew it. Sailor Fight Halted Valletta, Malta (UPI) Strong police reinforcements were called out Sunday night to quell disturbances and fights involving visiting sailors from an Italian naval squadron, Maltese civilians and British of-duty servicemen. No serious injuries were reported. New York Subway Bomb Blast Hurls 2 Traffic movement to the In dianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday morning was the best in the memory of the State Police officer in charge, but the vehicular exodus from the track in the afternoon was slow and marred by accidents, none serious, he said.

Capt. Robert Konkle said he was able to close traffic operations around the track by 10:30 a.m. 30 minutes before the race. i'e blamed traffic problems after the race on the closeness of the race competition, which caused fans who normally leave early to remain University Cuts Humor Magazine Funds Amherst, Mass. (UPI) The University of Massachusetts announced yesterday it has cut off funds to Yahoo, the undergraduate humor magazine accused of slurring the Army's elite special forces.

University President John W. Lederele said he was acting on a recommendation by William F. Field, dean of stu dents, who urged that $5,600 earmarked for Yahoo be deleted from the 1966-67 budget. Field said Yahoo was "not representative of the excellence of other activities at the University of Massachusetts." Sunday State Senator John Harrington (D-Lowell) charged that Yahoo insulted the elite Green Berets in a cartoon by calling them "green sickles." "This really sickened me," Harrington said, calling for an investigation. 4th Place Winner Johncock Faces Speeding Charge Gordon Johncock of Hastings, who finished fourth in the 500-Mile Race yesterday, failed to appear in the Cicero (Ind.) Justice of the Peace Court on a speeding charge Saturday.

But JP Agnes Mitchell said she understood the defendant "might be busy." Johncock was arrested by a state trooper on U.S. 31 near Cicero May 21 and charged with 90 miles an hour in a 65-mph zone. Her Honor said she did not issue a warrant for Johncock, adding, "We'll wait and see what happens." surprised that there had been a wreck, a big, bad wreck, early in the race. The crowd concensus if there is ever such a thing abroad in Mr. Hulman's farm 'nfield was that the jre so fast, and so ist drivers were back in pack, that a wreck was inevitable.

BUT THERE was disbelief when the race was restarted and Johnny Boyd promptly brought the yellow light on by smacking the wall in the first turn. There was doubt then that there ever would be a 50th race. The race finally did get past the first turn, but it seemed that each time the pack went past there was one fewer car in it and that it was usually one of the favorites who was missing. Toward the end the announcers would say who was leading and there were people in the crowd who would ask: "Who's he?" THE DAY was beautiful. The colors never were brighter.

Great white billows of cloud rolled across a sky of perfect blue a sky so filled with aircraft that it looked like the Battle of Britain again. The air was crisp to a fault. There were a lot of blankets and winter sweaters worn over summer shorts. In fashion it was the year of the nouveau slob look. (Star Photo) 'I pi Willi ii I III W'li imJJL" I ymf ----1 (Photo By Roger Ptthom) Front slowed traffic there.

"THE HELICOPTER was a big help," Capt. Konkle said. "It was able to spot traffic jams and give us information on how to best route traffic." The officer said traffic move ment around the track after the race was 30 to 40 minutes behind estimates. But he said ha had seen exit traffic much worse than it was yesterday. A car driven by Gilbert G.

Philpot, 62 years old, Corbin, Ky struck one in which Mrs. Vida Morley, 33, Oak Forest, 111., was a passenger in the infield. Philpot was charged with being drunk and will appear in the Speedway Magistrate Court Thursday. Mrs. Morley was treated in the track hospital for whiplash and a back injury.

Capt Konkle said traffic was back to normal at 6:45 p.m. the Consolidated Edison Company. Metesky, a former employe of Con Ed, was arrested in January, 1957, and is now In Matteawan State Hospital at Beacon, N.Y. He recently applied for release. Dr.

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It was automotive democracy: there was a couple being alone together in a magnificent Mercedes sandwiched between a Hudson and a station wagon loaded with sleeping youngsterr. Human Error Blamed For Saturn Blast Bay St. Louis, Miss. (UPI) Failure to reconnect a pressure sensing line following a test evidently a human errorwas blamed in a preliminary report yesterday for the Saturday's explosion of a second stage for the Saturn moon rocket. A board investigating the blowup at the Mississippi test facility of the National Space Agency here did not, however, attempt to assess any possible setback to the U.S.

man-to-the-moon program as a result of the explosion. Five persons were injured none seriously, THE INVESTIGATING board, headed by Dr. Kurt H. Debus, director of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, released its preliminary findings yesterday following two days of probing the blast. It destroyed the test second stage for the massive Saturn rocket, designed to launch the three-man Apollo spacecraft on journeys to the moon, hopefully by 1969.

The board said that at the conclusion of one of several tests of subsystems of the Saturn space machine a tank pressure sensing line, disconnected for the test, was not reconnected. Try And Stop Me By BENNETT CERF In the good old days when trolley cars clanged their way through street after street of the Borough of Brooklyn, re lates John Straley, an inspect or climbed aboard one open car to check on the integrity and'eompetence of brand new Conductor Dinty O'Toole. First he counted the passengers, then he noted the number of fares OToole had rung up "Ah ha, lad," he roared. "Caught you in the act. There are two more passengers on board this car right now than the fares you've registered." Dinty carefully made a count himself, then addressed the passengers: "Bejabbers, the inspector is right! Two of yez will have to get off! GROWING OLD gracefully is an art that few have mastered.

Winston Churchill and Dr, Schweitzer were two conspicuous examples. Bernard Baruch was another. Just a few months before his death, Baruch made his priceless comment: "A man's life can be divided into three stages: 1. Youth; 2. Middle age; and 3.

'My, sin; you're looking well!" George Bernard Shaw, another irrespressible octogenarian, put his rueful reflection on the process of ageing into the mouth of his play character Julius Caesar; "I grow older, whilst the crowd on the Ap-pian Way is always the same age." PAUL PORTER complimented a Texan tycoon on his plush new offices. "Don't com pliment me," the tycoon told him. "I just gave the decorator an unlimited budget and, by gosh, he exceeded it!" (CopyngM I'M) Concluded From Page 1 Clark) were 1-2-3. A lot of good runners were sidelined in that first smashup and several others had trouble as the race went along. "1 made only two pit stops.

On the second, the bloke didn't get the refueling hose out of the way quite in time and I ran over it. Got a bit of a wheel spin out of that, too. I don't know how long my pit stops were I wasn't timing them, you know, I was just sitting there, picking my nose. "I DIDN'T know about getting the lead until my brew gave me the sign when Jackie dropped out. I just drive the car and watch for messages they give me.

"The first start to the race did seem a bit slow to me. Everyone seemed to be toying around but I thought maybe that was a normal operation. With that type of start, of course, it requires a great deal of discipline to avoid just what happened here especially by the people in the back. "Now that it's over, it's really very nice. I've never won this much money before, of course, and it would be rude of me not to stay around until tomorrow night to collect it.

"As far as returning to run in some other races, I'd say it is extremely doubtful right now. I have a full calendar in Europe and I don't know what the dates are for the races here. If it can possibly be worked out, I may come back for some other races this summer." TO WHICH car owner John Mecom hastily added, "I luHiiy Jim Willi' ixi "H'VW-W V- MC New York (UPI) A powerful homemade bomb exploded in a subway station underneath the Municipal Building yesterday, Injuring two women and reminding authorities of the "Mad Bomber" who once terrorized New York for mora than a decade. The bomb, evidently wrapped in old newspapers and magazines, went off in the Chambers Street station of the BMT line, near the Brooklyn Bridge, at 3:20 p.m. (EST), as an estimated 50 men, worn-, en and children were leaving a train.

THE BLAST shattered two underground telephone booths and showered broken glass over the immediate area. Police said Carrie Mangun, 38 years old, Brooklyn, was hit in the face and rushed to New York Eye and Ear Hospital where doctors said she might lose an eye. Another passerby, Maria Ortez, 18, the Bronx, was shaken up by the blast but refused medical attention. Members of the bomb squad who rushed to the scene and cordoned off the area disclosed no possible motive for the explosion. IN THE case of George P.

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