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The Indianapolis News from Indianapolis, Indiana • 16

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Indianapolis, Indiana
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16
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i I. a I 5 VT' Jll( Downtown Gets a Scrubbing commissioner's equipment and street crews came to work about midnight and began a systematic cleanup of streets and alleys. At 6 a.m. Indianapolis firemen (other picture) unreeled their high-pressure hose Nines and went to work flushing sidewalks and streets. The final round in the downtown effort, which was initiated by the Merchant's Association, started at 8 a.m.

when city officials personally manned brooms and swept the Circle. The News Photos, Larry George and Robert Lavelle The cleanup-fixup campaign got off to a flying start in the downtown district with the cooperation of merchants, cjty firemen, street commissioner's employees and city officials. The scrubbing began last night with store operators sweeping and washing down the sidewalks in front of their establishments. That's Les L. Force (picture at right) dousing the sidewalk in front of the Flagg Brothers shoe store, 8 E.

Washington. Street New Speedway Tower A new landmark is going up at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the erection of the steelwork for a 73-foot high electric scoreboard. The giant signboard will have 22x25-inch lights to show the position of all 33 cars during the race. The concrete base necessary to hold the huge structure is 4 feet deep and weighs 66 tons. The News Photo, Robert Lavelle 6iLfc 1 7T iV I iff K' I LiJ Hiih (wmr I iU-' (VL.1 frf -Jfci, -M iiniinifMiwwmiiifii i i.i.mri jlj New Queen Is Happy SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.

Dorothy Ann Mum-mert, 17, drops her bouquet in an impulsive gesture of joy. She had just been announced as the new queen of the national orange show. The dark-haired high school senior from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, will appear throughout the nation for a year as the orange queen. AP Wirephoto Teachers Being Taught A group of Indianapolis and Marion County teachers listen to Russell Hawkins, a security guide and public relations representative for Weir Cook Municipal Airport, explain a point about flying the big airliners. The teachers were guests of Lake Cen tral Airlines at the airport as a part of the city's annual Business-Industry-Education Day.

The News Photo, William Palmer sm writ' i ImwMk I iUu.J (' r) r. rX 'l Vmfc'V 'eammmtLAjt' T-Vi'nmnia 'li, tll wl, 1 Patients' Paintings in Art Exhibit The Hatter's Mad Three COP partisans model the fancy headgear they wore to the annual bonnet breakfast sponsored by the Young Republicans at the Columbia Club. Under the elaborate hats are to right) Margery Black, an em ployee of the state Cross Income Tax Division; Cynthia Beaman, a state motor vehicle division worker, who chose an "Around the World in 80 Days" theme, and Leola Robison, 2 1 49 Vi Sugar Grove. The News Photo, William Palmer Art League tomorrow between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.

and Sunday between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. at Tuchman's Town and Country cleaners 4401 N. Art League work also will be on display. Both women are all instructors at the hospital.

The News Photo, Robert Lavelle IVrs. Robert C. Hurt (left), 6464 N. Sherman, and Mrs. Earl Wiseman, 3399 Manning look over the paintings done by patients at Central State Hospital.

The paintings will be featured in sidewalk art exhibit and sale sponsored by the Indianapolis.

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