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THE THINGS I IIEAH LOWELL NUSSBAUM the Indianapolis Star Hoagy Unsure Of Home Site Page 21 TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1968 Sports Financial Classified HOAGY CARMICHAEL says he is "overwhelmed" by all the interest in where on Lockerbie Street he lived as a small boy. He doesn't know, he says in a letter written from his Los Angeles home. But he thinks it was the house I mentioned the two-story brick on the northeast corner of East Street and Lockerbie. "Mother and Dad never pointed out to me the exact house," he said. "'But I do know from their conversations that it was no more than two houses away (from the James Whitcomb Riley home), and that it was a 11 CM.

vVX i'H i 1 if Ml The Wm.H. 'sZZ-' SirH -'iiM 1 dock I iijgj. Wi L.o. I Jf. U-i'-M iff I 1 dinner in Chicago that year but it never became a big hit like some of his other songs.

A NOVEL political "poll" is being conducted at Hook's Old-Fashioned Drug Store at the Indiana State Fairground. The store bought reproductions of some famous old political buttons, 100 of Republican candidates, another 100 of Democrats. Jim Rogers, a vice-president of the Hook's chain, says the Republican buttons were sold out the first day of the Fair, but 23 of the Democrat buttons still were unsold at 10:54 a.m. yesterday. Well, most of the Democrats are busy in Chicago for a few days.

That might be the reason. IF YOU SAW what purported to be a Nu'ssbaum column in The Star Saturday, you weren't any more surprised than Charley Griff and I were. While the heading, "Lowell Nussbaum-r The Things I Hear," and the picture were mine, the words were Griffo's. The composing room computer which matches heads and pictures with stories got out of kilter. Some thousands of papers were off the presses before the error was caught.

Meanwhile, Griffo and I are negotiating to see which one of us should sue. WALLY NEES of L. Strauss' men's suits department visited a famous candy kitchen while on vacation in the Smokies. A tourist who walked in inhaled deeply of the heavenly aroma from the kitchen, then exclaimed a la Jackie Gleason: "How sweet it is!" A SIGN in front of a church read: "You must pay for your sins." Beneath that someone had chalked: "If you already have paid, please ignore this reminder." brick house and we had furnished rooms on the second floor. "There was a gas plate for cooking, I think.

I was only about 2 years old at the time. "Mother, told me that Mr. Riley carried me a couple of times to a little store nearby and bought me candy. She also told me about the fire engine incident." There was a grocery store at that time on the southeast corner of East and Lockerbie. CARMICHAEL says he thinks the words I quoted Aug.

15 from his book were those his mother expressed "to a man who was attempting -to write the book which eventually was published as "Sometimes I Wonder." "He interviewed mother on several occasions," the famous Hoosier songwriter said, "and the words, 'I saw him (Riley) often, a fine figure of a man, riding on his bicycle. He nearly always wobbled a certainly are mother's, because as I have said, I was only about 2 years old then." Carmichael set Riley's "When the Frost Is on the Punkin" to music about a decade ago. It was introduced at the Indiana Society EARL WILSOX IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT A Singers Heard YOU PROBABLY don't get the gut-gripping drama of it of what the guy's been through who sings "The Star Spangled Ban ner" at the Democratic convention. It can sear the soul. It shouldn't happen to a tenor.

About three weeks ago, Robert Merrill of the Metropolitan Opera told me he'd sing at the convention. "If I can get a hotel room," he laughed. Bob's one of the Star Spangled boys of today. His recorded voice onens the called it a saloon Humphrey will operate a "Hubert cabaret" in Chicago during E. G.

Marshall takes over "Plaza Suite" role Sept. 9 brought veteran Actor Stepin at "Dolly" and sang with Tim, doing big business at the Caesars Palace, was held over. said, "He'd better make his he loses his BEST LAUGH: An actress said Press Box that she doesn't she's 35 years oldparticularly she's 42. SAID THAT: September is a it's too late to put up the eariy to put up the storm QUOTE: Oscar Wilde once Bernard Shaw: "He is an He has not an enemy in the of his friends like him." Like To Be 111 Fields boasts at 35 cents a defect the theque," so she backers (called a the convention George Scott's Pearl Bailey Fetchit onstage him Tiny Las Vegas (Danny Stradella pile now before TODAY'S at the New York care who knows because WISH I'D lovely month screens and too windows. REMEMBERED described George excellent man.

world, but none EARL'S New York Yankees ball games. He likes to say, "When they announce I'm going to sing 'The Star Spangled Banner, I get a standing ovation." I saw Bob two weeks later, and he looked distressed. "We decided not to go," Bob said. 'They made it tough. You got to take a hotel room for five days, give them a $150 deposit, and Tougher Gun Policy Put In Effect By JEP CADOU JR.

Prosecutor Noble R. Pearcy yesterday put into effect a major policy change designed to improve gun control and provide tougher enforcement. Pearcy instructed his deputies to begin filing cases for violation of the 1935 Firearms Act directly into Criminal court, instead of the previous policy of filing preliminary charges in Municipal courts. The prosecutor said he believes the change will lead to more strict enforcement of the gun law. PEARCY ALSO said more extensive use will be made of the Firearms Act, which he termed "an excellent law," and less of the statute which bans carrying of concealed wea pons.

He said research has shown more convictions can be ob tained under the firearms act. Pearcy said one great ad vantage of the firearms act is that it provides for determi nate sentences, which may be anywhere from one years to 10 years. The statute also provides a possible fine of not more than $1,000, Pearcy pointed out. Pearcy had his chief deputy, James E. Bath, do extensive research on gun control in an attempt to improve enforce' ment in the county.

POLICE CHIEF Winston L. Churchill said last Thursday in a speech at Shelbyville, that more stringent enforcement of existing gun legislation, rather than increased controls is the answer to the firearms prob blem. Churchill said. "All the courts in the land from the Supreme Court on down have set a pattern for leniency." Churchill also said, "I've been a policeman for 12 years and I've never known of person going to prison for one to 10 years as called for in the Indiana 1935 Firearms Act." PEARCY SAID he believes the present firearms act is beter than gun control legislation recommended by a legislative study committee, which would have carried an Indeter minate 1-10 year sentence for a first conviction, 3-to-15 years for the second, 5-to-20 years for the third and life for the fourth. Pearcv stresed that the fire arms act does not include guns in private households or places of business.

They are specm cally exempted. Curfew Lifted At Evansville After Disorders STAR STATE REPORT Evansville, Ind. A curfew imposed here after two nights of racial disorders was nnea yesterday by the city counci on the recommendation of Po lice Chief Darwin Covert The ordinance ordering the 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew was passed Saturday in the wake of disturbances climaxed by a $275,000 fire in a near eastside Negro neighborhood and the sniper wounding of a city patrolman standing guard on fire hose lines r.ear the lumber yard blaze.

Calm had returned to the troubled area by Sunday night although 89 persons were ar rested for curfew violation in the two nights it was in effect. Benefit Dance Set STAR ITATI RIPORT Noblesvllle, Ind. A bene fit dance for David McKowan, a member of the Dawn Five band who was injured earlier this year in an auto accident, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, In Noblesvllle High School.

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Singers like to be heard singing, why not? PEARLS: Hefty comedienne Totie she got a great buy stockings pair: There just one small seams are in the front." Judge Roy Hofheinz escorted a British TV crew around his huge Houston Astrodome ACTOR ROBERT VAUGHN'S secretary, Sharon Miller, is writing a book entitled "Sex and the Single Boss" David Janssen'll star In the film version of "Scuba Duba." THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Lauren Bacall autographed a poster to hang in the New York Arthur but couldn't spell "disco and 57-acre Astroworld amusement park. He asked, "Got anything this big in England?" "Almost," said a cameraman, we call it 'London'." That's Earl, brother. (CoprrllM tlachurnch On Vane PETER .1. VTFIXfUOIIX. M.I).

Wife Advised To Keep 17 TO YOlll HEALTH Nagging These are all suppositions, but I still think you should stand up to the challenge of nagging him until he takes care of himself. I say "challenge" because it is that: It's not easy for a wife to keep a husband well and alive if he persists in committing slow suicide. DEAR Dr. Steincrohn: I had to write to you about your column concerning the Brown Recluse spider. It is also found in Indiana.

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Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't Read the following: DEAR Dr. Steincrohn: I have read in your columns that it is better to nag at your husband than to wait until he is gone and be sorry that you didn't nag. I never nag at him about the things he docs or does not do, such as not hanging up clothes or tracking in mud. This would be hopeless, so why even bother? I do nag at him constantly about smoking! I'm beginning to feel that this too is hopeless, yet I keep on. He Is 49 years old and coughs constantly.

It grates on my nerves like squeaking chalk on a blackboard. He coughs just when someone is giving the punch line on TV or when he Is dishing up his food. He wakes me up during the night with his coughing. THIS IS ALL very nerve-wracking to me, but worse still is the thought of what his lungs must be like. He has always had a bronchial condition, and never should have started smoking.

He knows better than to smoke around me, but he cm leaves the room and comes back reeking of smoke. To me, the smell is sickening. This morning when he kissed me good-by he smelled of tobacco smoke. I nagged, and he left mad. To coin a phrase, "What's a (mother) wife to do?" Mrs.

W. COMMENT: There's still hope if he kisses you good-by after all the nagging, but I'd keep on, if I were you. One day he may become so fed up with it that he will consent to go to a doctor. Perhaps the added nagging by a professional may turn the scales. If your doctor can convince him that he probably has emphysema in addition to bronchitis, if he can get him to believe that continued smoking will not only worsen his cough but shorten his breath and life, perhaps he'll quit.

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