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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1970 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR "PAGE 12-5EC. 1 HOOSIER SCRAPBOOK 1 user IFins Pole; 17 Qualify For '500 A Politician 'Hunkered' For Votes By EDWARD A LEARY Today's politician may "seek" or "want" an ofice, but in pioneer Indiana the voters had a more honest way of putting comical string of emasculated "nasals" as the question of a prominent Indiana lawyer of Kentucky persuasion: "Where were you a standln' at the time of your perceivln' of the hearin' of the firin of the pistol?" dropping of the In -'h words as "coming" wj "going." Commenting on this feature of Hoosier speech, n. Sulgrove, an author and long-time newspaper editor of another century wrote: it. A man "hunkered" or "hungered" for office. "Hukered" was just one of the many words and phrases brought to Indiana by the sturdy and often uneducated yeomen who came to the state from Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Maryland and Virginia.

These first settlers not only gave the language color and imaginative twists, but they created the Hoosier dialect captured in story and poetry by a long list of Indiana writers ffe- i Correct pronunciation was positively a by the Southern immigration as a mark of aristocracy or, as they called It and the children in some cases discountenanced in acquiring or using It. The "ing" in "eve-ning" or "morning" or any other words was softened into the full sound being held finical or "stuck-up." So it was not unusual to hear such a Leary from Edward Eggleston to James Whitcomb Riley. i THERE WAS Old English in some of the words. A woman i 4" 1 dull, she dun, sne A distinctive feature of the pioneer Hoosier dialect was the was not was "daunsy." To be surprised was to be "tatered." Something on the bias was "si-whickity" or "cattawampus." If a child longed for something he "honed" for it. People who Shop Ewrgate, Sunday 12 Noon to 5:30 P.M.

Downtown Open Monday 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. A went around together were "bobbing around." Gesturing Special Purchase SALE! Star Photo) THREE STATE TROOPERS WATCH YOUNG RACE FANS AT INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY Southwest Torn (Above), Traditional Trouble Spot, Was Free Of Incidents Trailcat Mini Bikes or demonstrating was "go-strating." A heavy rain was a "sod soaker" or a "gully washer." Logs for roads or cabins were "cross layed" or "cross wayed." Andirons were "dog irons." Buckskin blouses were called "wamuses." A mill race was "the tumbles." Gibberish was "gabble." AS IN the South, the arm or outlet of a river or creek was a "bayou" and a popular whisky in Indianapolis frequently called "Noplis" or "Naplis" was "Bayou A popular pioneer greeting was "Come in and welcome. You can have as good as we got." There was both respect and disrespect in calling a wgid churchman a "40-gallon Baptist" or saying of a minister, "he could pray his congregation to hell and back." "Grace was said when the hog was shot" was a common saying that dispensed with formalities at the start of a meal. AS IN the South, Hoosiers used "set" for "sit" and, as in a popular cigarette advertisement, used "like" for "as" a common Southern 2V H.P., 4-Cycle Teeumseh Engine Reg.

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they said. 'IT WAS THIS WAY' "500" Fes-tivol Princess Freddi Jo Stevens (right) explains how she dislocated her left shoulder to Princess Alanda McCarley. Miss Stevens tripped and fell while carrying a bag of groceries recently. Because the sling is taped to her side, she had to make an opening in the front seam of her dress to have use of her hand. (Star Photo) Continued From Page 1 hustling all the way as be started fast and finished "slow" for a 170.004 mph figure which put him on the outside of the front row.

Almost anyone else in the race field would have been jumping with joy at such a performance but Foyt had his sights set on being No. 1 and isn't a bit used to being either second-or third in the matter of speed. But if Foyt was considerably frustrated by his performance, Mario Andretti, had to be on the opposite side of the teeter-totter. The 1969 pole sitter, Andretti has had nothing but troubles in wholesale bunches with his new STP McNamara cars at the Speedway this spring. IT HAD BEEN SAID publicly by car owner Andy Granatelli that the defending "SOO" champion had given up hopes of winning the pole.

But Andretti, like Foyt, can never make his system work toward anything but the top and when the timing clocks finished their whirring yesterday, he had qualified at 168.209 mph, which may have been good enough only for the third row, but just might have been a result of the best job of driving in yesterday's qualifying. There were others, of course, who had nothing but troubles after the start 'of qualifying was delayed an hour and 40 minutes while the track dried out from an all-night rain. Dan Gumey had to settle for a 166.860 mph average and No. 11 starting position but promised his Olsonite Eagle would "be ready by race day." Mark Donohue, rookie of the year in '69, landed in the fifth spot with a 168.911 mark and 1968 "500" champion Bobby Unser worked his way in at 168.508. Bobby U.

wasn't too unhappy about this, however, because it was his quickst time of the month and did put him in the No. 7 position. But if they pass out aspirin tablets for absolute frustration, Lloyd Ruby would be first in line. The original hard-luck guy of. the 500-Mile Race, 01' Rube had three straight laps above 171 miles an hour In the 30 minutes of pre-qualifylng practice-then had to sit and chew his straw hat to ribbons when the heavens opened up and began weeping all over the landscape to close down action at 3:40 p.m.

FOR RUBY'S NO. 12 turbo-charged Offenhauser had drawn the last qualify Shop Eostgatt, Eagledale, Sunday 12 Noon to 5:30 P.M. Downtown Open Monday 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Big Savings Off Our Regular Everyday Low Prices! ALL CLEAR Chief Starter Pat Vldan (standing) leaves friends In the Tower Terrace to tako his position at the starting lino as yesterday's qualifications got under- ing spot in Friday night's drawing and there were only four machines in front of him when the yellow light came on to stop action for the day.

During the steady procession of qualifying attempts, 25 cars answered the call of chief steward Harlan Fengler and 23 made tries. Bentley Warren didn't take the green flag and Gordie Johncock called his try off when his speeds began dropping rapidly. Sam Posey, one of the most highly-regarded rookies this year, had two good lps in on his try then had the only engine available to his operation, fly into pieces just before Al Unser took his pole-dash. Australian Kevin Bartlett also called off his attempt. Only Steve Krisiloff doesn't appear safe among the 17 first-day qualifiers.

He accepted the checkered flag with a 162.448 mph average that not only was slowest of the day but seems very precarious although it was the best he's gotten out of his double-overhead cam Ford engine this month. WITH AL UNSER, Rutherford and Foyt filling out the first row, McGuskey has the inside pole on the second with a 169.213 average in his QuickKick Special. Donohue Is in the middle and Art Pollard on the outside at 168.595. Bobby Unser is on the inside of the third row with Andretti tucked in be-tween him and Jim Malloy (167.895) the latter being somewhat in the surprise speed category. George Snider has Foyt's second car on the inside of the fourth row at 167.660 with Gurney to his right and Mike Mosley on the outside at 166.651.

Lee Roy Yarbrough of Nascar fame leads off the fifth tier at 166.559. Bruce Walkup surprised a lot of people with a 166.459 performance from his Wynn's Spitfire and Rick Muther joined the eyebrow-raising category by putting his Two-Jacks car in the field at 165.654. Muther is the man who started out the month with the only turbine entered for the race then switched to his conventional "backup" car in time for qualifying. Tony Adamowicz, another rookie, overcame a first-lap surprise to qualify his Patrick Petroleum Special 16th at 164.820. He started off with a 160.829 lap when the starter almost missed Tony's acceptance signal at the end of his third warmup lap.

ADAMOWICZ SAID he saw the yellow lights come on and got off the throttle and didn't pick up the green until the second turn. He stood on the gas the rest of the way, however, and seems comfortably in the field. All positions won yesterday will stand, of course, providing a faster car doesn't "bump" someone out of the field. All cars that qualify today will line up on the basis of their speeds, beginning with the 18th position. Turbocharged Fords and Offen-hausers evenly split 16 of the 17 starting spots with Krisiloff's conventional Ford the only "stranger." Sonny Ates was Involved In the only crash of the day, although Jim Hurtu-bise spun in practice and Greg Weld did the same while trying to qualify.

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An AP reporter there said the cachei are In the same area where three American fire bases were attacked on three successive week. Continued From Page 1 positions surrounding the town, and the Cambodian high command rushed reinforcements toward the city aboard commandeered civilian trucks and buses: Cambodian officers renewed an earlier request for South Vietnamese ground troops to help break the siege. Officers at South Vietnamese Task Force Headquarters at Tay Ninh were considering the request Saturday night. LT. GEN; DO CAO TRI, the task force commander, rejected the first request for ground forces Friday, but ordered fighter-bombers to fly support for the Cambodian defenders.

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