The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 21

You Can Fight Off rhose Attackers, Girls Here's How iff i J.f., 'i IT J. 1 pvwj lyS The pictures, posed by Miss Norma Starcher of the police record room and Detective Phil Barnes show five ways an attacker can be put to rout. LEFT A good slap in the face with a heavy purse discourages any assailant who might grab from behind. NEXT A few scratches fin the and results in a surprised attacker grabbing a battered nose or a cut lip. Two of the best all around defenses are a healthy scream one that can be heard for blocks and a hat pin.

One police officer contends a vigorously wielded hatpin will do more to stop an attack than anything else. With darkness coming earlier, police records fhow a sharp increase in the number of purse-snatchings and attacks on women. Some of the attacks succeed, but police say few of them would if girls who are grabbed by men would remember a few rffertive ways of fighting off assailants. face make it difficult for an attacker to deny his guilt when he is caught. Norma shows hov a dig on the face will make any man think twice before he grabs a girl.

CENTER INSERT This maneuver is calculated to make an assailant forget everything but pain. A sharp heel jabbed down hard on tender toes or instep is an effective defense. NEXT A very effective way to discourage unwanted attentions is to "put the bite" on the man's fingers. Make it good and leave sharp teeth impressions in his hand. He'll not be back for more.

R1CHT -Throwing the head back quickly often catches the man off guard mini. hiiuijiii.ijimiii.i; ipimimwi AKRON BEACON JOURNAL ')iw p.i"w"uji OUT TO SEE- Ciillui In Akron? Yes, Plenty Of It! Concert, Lvcture List Extensive Ry OSCAR SMITH "Culture in Akron? That's a joke." "What can you expect, in an industrial city?" "And that dismal armory. You couldn't get me inside that place." "Well, we can always go to Cleveland for music. Nothing WEEK NEW YORK TURNS WE On araae a By J. HOWARD ABSALOM New York has its biggest Christmas celebration this week.

Thanks to Akron artistry, skill and ingenuity it will be a truly giant affair. The celebration on Thanksgiving day will take the form of huge parade, sponsored by Macy's department store, heralding the opening of the Christmas shopping season. The line of march will include hundreds of colorfully costumed figures. Towering above the human paraders will be huge comic characters. That's where Akron comes in.

These giants come from Ak-ronthey're huge balloons made at the Goodyear Tire Rubber -1 If- Slkt i American Male chorus, composed of veterans of the Pacific war, on Her. 12 and the First Flano quartet on Feb. 20. Both concerts will be in the armory. Akron Civic chorus, directed by William Albert Hughes, gives its annual presentation of Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah," on Dec.

11 in the armory. The chorus' annual spring concert will be announced later. GOODYEAR Operetta society will present one of Sigmund Romberg's most popular musical shows, "The Student Prince," In Goodyear theater Dec. 4, 5 and 6. VVcstminster choir, directed by Joh WJJliamson, will give an armory concert on April 27 under auspices of Hrsr Methodist church, Cuyahoga Talis.

Other concerts here this season were by the famous United States Marine band, sponsored by the Beacon Journal Fund, proceeds for child welfare work; Columbus Boychoir, sponsored by the Akron Junior Chamber of Commerce, proceeds going to Boys Village; Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians and Phil Spitalny and his "Hour of Charm" all-girl orchestra. THE CITY is fortunate in having many outstanding speakers on several lecture courses this season. Next speaker on the Akron Civic Forum at the Akron Jewish Center auditorium will be Marquis W. Childs, columnist whose writings appear in the Beacon Journal. He will speak on Dec.

9. His subject is "America Must Choose." Other Forum speakers will be John Ray Carlson, author, speaking on "The New American Hate Front," Jan. 19; Bartley C. Crum, speaking on "Palestlne-An International Problem," date of lecture to be announced; Rabbi F. M.

Is-serman, whose subject Is "Personality Essentials for the Atomic Age," Feb. 10, and Margaret Bourke-White, noted photographer, whose subject is "Eyes, on India," March 11. The Forum opened its 1947-48 series with a lecture by Sen. Wayne L. Morse on the subject, "Government in Action," Nov, 10.

WOMAN'S CITY club's Town Hall series of morning lectures brings to Akron a number of prominent men and women speakers. The club's next speaker will be lr. Harold Cooke Phillips, pastor of the First Baptist church In levclnnd. He will talk on "The Moral Law Within" on Dec. 4.

Other coming 'Town Hall lectures: Jan. 15. "The Will to Win," by Alice Marble, tennis star and writer; Jan. 22. "What Russia Means to Us," by Robert Kaz-meycr, author and world traveler; Jan.

20, "Spain, Cradle of Conflict," by Bruce Thomas, newsman: Feb. 5, "The Atomic Bomb and the Future of Atomic Energy," by David Dietz, scientist and editor: Feb. 12, "How to Live in the 20th Century," by Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, religious consultant, and Feb. 19, "Arabian Song and See ULTURAL, Page 5-B "Maybe we could get her to wait on us this way you go up to her, try to make a date, and gradually work the conversation around to menus!" I 4" i 1 ffi THIS IS THE Macy's.

They select the figure tney want. Next, it's up to the designers. Working under Jack Sturtevant, division manager of rubberized products, they make blueprints and the manufacturing gets under way. One of the biggest production problems is deciding where to place the patches to which tow be properly balanced when float ing in the air. GOODYEAR has been making the big balloons for the parade since 1928.

There was a 3-year interruption in their manufacture dujing the war when the parade was discontinued. The store buys the balloons outright, shows some of the old figures each year along with new ones. But the parade watchers will never see the pre-war balloons again. They were sacrificed in the war effort, being donateJ to the scrap rubber campaign. Macy's keeps most of the balloons, but once in a while dis- Plant 1 balloon room.

TOR THE last six weeks the bnlloon room has been a Santa Claus workshop of unbelievable proportions. As it is every year at this time, the two-block long spare has been filled with the sprawling rubber figures. Looking like Lilliputians, workmen clambered over the de- fbted giants, attaching ears, lines are attached. This deter-arms, legs. Then the painters mines whether the figures will cultural ever goes on here." LKT'S LOOK at the record, as the late Alfred E.

Smith used to say. The many musical events and lectures scheduled for Akron this alone are enough to prove that such complaints as the ahove are not justified. For Instance, a number of for ward-looking men and women have seen to It that the city now has its own symphony orchestra. For the first time concerts have been arranged this season especially for children, thanks to several prominent sponsoring groups. Organizations and individuals have many concerts and lectures Rooked at the armory and other auditoriums.

Opera, balJet, con certs by pianists, singers and nationally known orchestras fill are being presented in Akron this season. (TLTFRK, indeed! in the last three or four years more concerts have been given in Akron than at any time in the city's history. For decades the Tuesday Musical club carried the cultural burden alone. Akron used to have seven or eight concerts a year. Now, with many other groups ulso presenting musical events, It Is nothing for the city to have 40 concerts-a season.

The Tuesday club, now in its 60th season, presents in the armory Lily Pons, coloratura soprano and Metropolitan opera star, Dec. Eugene List, pianist, Jan. 6: Dorothy Kirsten, soprano, and Eugene Conley, tenor, Jan. 20; Zino Francescatti, violinist, Feb. 3.

Columbia Bel Canto trio, composed of Frances Ycend, soprano, Mario Lanza, tenor, and George 1wdon, bass-baritone, March Mary Van Kirk, Akron concert and opera contralto, and Mildred Dilling, harpist, March 16, and the Cleveland orchestra, conducted by George Szell, April 20. TIIK TI'KSDAV club has presented already tins season Christopher Lynch, Irish tenor, and the Cleveland orchestra, conducted by Szell, with Rubinstein. Cleveland pianist, as soloist. The Akron Concert course, now in its fourth season, presents in the armory the Original Don Cossack chorus and dancers, directed hy Serge Jaroff, Ian. 12: I'eeree, tenor and opera star, Kcb.

ti. Indianapolis Symphony orchestra, conducted by Kabien Sevitzky, with Sari young Hungarian Sunday Nov. 2.S, 1917 SUCTION day parade, this giant gnome, still be difficult, for many people to see things even half-way straight There will be 45 million cars on the road, instead of today's 3(1- odd million. New cars will have television, telephone, one tray of be-eubes and undersea! toilets. will last as The traffic problem will be ter rific, but a few cities will have eliminated rush hour by making people park cars in suburbs and use high-speed urban transit came vith their bright colors and turned the odd-looking rubber creations into gnomes, pirates and comic characters.

When finished, the balloons are inflated, tested and then deflated again for shipment. BUT MAKING the giant balloons is more than a six-week job. A lot of work precedes the activity in the balloon room. First, there have to be ideas for new figures that will draw squeals of delight from the parade's juvenile watchers. Goodyear and Macy's both offer suggestions.

Then Miss Elizabeth Rodgers goes to work. She makes sketches and suhniits them to cards one by selling it to a parade syndicate outfit. fiOODVEAR'S part it; the parade means that 13 of its technicians will miss Thanksgiving dinner at home. They'll be in New "fork to blow up the balloons and see that they are kept properly inflated. The inflation will start at dawn.

It's a big job because of the size of the figures. The largest of six to be paraded this year is 40 feet in height, weighs 325 pounds and requires R.200 cubic feet of helium to keep aloft. It takes an average of three hour? to pump up each of the balloons. When parade time arrives, a crew of 15 to 25 men jockeys the giants into position and they are floated down New York streets before curb-lined crowds of more than l.nnn.000 persons. SOMETIMES the balloons need attention during the parade.

If the weather turns chilly or a i cloud covers the sun, they start to sag. Goodyear meets this contingency by sending along a maintenance truck from which the balloon is given the needed shot of gas in the arm. II. T. Evans, foreman of rubberized fabrics products, will be in charge of the crew Goodyear is sending with the balloons this year.

Others in the group are: R. G. McClune, R. D. No.

1. Akron: V. J. Jenkins, 136 Ros-1 well W. S.

Saffell. 771 Brit-' tain R. II. Freas, 123fi Tona- wanda aw; J. T.

Corbett. 13S7 Chippewa R. H. Ahhott. 218 S.

Arlington ('. II, Whetstone. 771 Harrison C. Herkclman, R. IX No.

4, Akron; M. E. Miller, 307 Sumner Albert DFrangis, 410 Pelmar av, L. W. Humphreys, 1033 Waltor and James Perirh, 1313 An-! drus st.

Coming In By TKTKR EDSOV WASHINGTON (NEA) A great big guess as to what life will be like in 1060 has just been made by Kiplinger's magazine, published here. It is based primarily on a voluminous Twentieth Century B'und study cp Med "America's Needs and Resourci. But the Kiplinger experts have doctored up this high-powered economic treatise with some original ideas of their own. Such as the one that bubble gum of lOliO will aNo whistle. Do you think you can stand it? ft RKiHT AT the beginning, the predictions arc based on two big it's IF' the world can avoid a war and IP" it can avert another depression.

If it. csn't do both-well, the hook says a lot of people Just won't he around to compare notes. Even Inking Hip optimistic that war and depression can he averted, the experts predict Europe Mill won't he nettled down. At home there will still he strikes and lockouts and rackets, ulckness, poverty and crime. Human nature and the economic machinery will atlU have kinks, Ll 1 ii- 5 lf IP One ot this year's additions to the ork Ihanksghing 38 feet tall, dwarfs Miss Rita Campbell, Goodjear office worker.

I960 Bubble Gum Thai Whislles! At the other end of the scnle, the $l8n0-a-year family will still have tough going. It will live In a house, with a second hand radio-phonograph and me- chanieal refrigerator, hut still no car. The average guv will be making a year, including a httle profit-sharing and a guaranteed annual wage. The house the aver THE LIVING standard Will be about a third higher than it was in 1040, but, to show what this means, examples are given for three typical families, with incomes of $150, $206 and $1000 a month. The family will live in a custom-built house in the suburbs, and may commute by helicopter to city limits.

Mrs. Twelve Thousand will still go in for antiques, but her husband will have a remote-control lawnmower he can run from theront porch, with a highball in the other hand. $Wk syV JPA 't, if '( pianist, as soloist, March 22. and Artur Rubinstein, Polish pianist, April J.Y An added concert, not on the Akron course's regular series, will he given in the armory on April 8 hy Launtz Melchior, banish tenor of the Metropolitan and movie star, and his concert orchestra. Earlier this fall the Akron course sponsored Puccini's "Madame Butterfly," presented by the Charles L.

Wagner Opera Co. of New York, and Ballet theater. Both were given at the armory. NOW IN ITS second season, the Akron Symphony orchestra conducted by Grant Fletcher is presenting six subscription concerts in Goodyear theater and three children's concerts in the armory for 1917-18. Remaining subscription concerts will be played on Dec.

15, Feb. Hi, April 5 and May 10. Previous concerts this fall were presented on Oct. 6 and Nov. 10.

Remaining children's concerts are scheduled for Dec. 15, sponsored by the Tuesday Musical club, and Feb. 16, sponsored by the Junior league. The first children's concert by the orchestra, for an overflow audience on Nov. 10, was sponsored by the Akron Civic Opera Guild.

AKRON -lIAVIsll Center again will present its Sunday evening series of concerts. The attractions include Efrem Zimbalist. violinist. Jan. IS: Roth String quartet.

Feb. 22, and Robert Brereton, pianist, March 11. Woman's City club presents the BE0ABERS ITS WORSE THAN rtlik age family lives in should be better than today's. GARBAGE ANS will be fewer because more home disposal units will be in service. Insects will be fewer.

Home laundries will be more automatic. Maids will he scarcer, hut house-clcanlng corporations will send a squad around once a week to scrub floors unci wash windows spite of gadgets, housewixes will still work longer hours than huslmiids. There won't he enough doctors, but prepaid health insurance and clinics for group practice will be catching on. THERE WILL BE more federal aid for ducation( but it will First an Idea, then the sketches. Miss Elizabeth Rodgers, Goodyear artist, makes drawings from which the balloon figures will be selected..