The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 11

ffttt CEDAR BAPIDtf 11 jCbrtsidine Series C.fl. Fire PeparmenisXonm(jcoo. System Is Streamlined for Efficiency 1 I Hi; i I i -r wniflM'm(H'ii i -w i i I I' mm -mr-i nr-i '--M ft 1 'j NTHE RACCOON WAS STILL 1N THE TREE CHAPTER 2. rOne Shooting Match Davy Didn't Win by Ted Ashby. The, name of Davy Crockett, that Irrepressible Ten wvin annwia evauMB Vu nmwiuBB nessee backwoodsman, was a as well as for his fantastic Perhaps the real Davy where between the poor but cian and the fabulous hunter crazy.

LIKE TOPSY, this antiquated and inefficient collection of fire alarm-dispatchina apparatus at Central fire station in Cedar Rapids "jes growed," until it reached the point of being un manageable. The whole thing hs been replaced with a relocated, streamlined dispatcher-con-trol desk which embraces all phone and radio facilities used by the department. One of the Crockett legends tells of an alleged shoot i I mm vmmmmmmmmm May t. 1955 opened in April, and four new plush yesorts are ready to make their bids in the new competition, shortly. Las Veeas continues to surie forward to the point of strain on, airline, bus and highway capacity An' estimated 25,000 tourists a day now pour into' the desert en tertainment-capital.

Senator Reports Heavy Speculation On Stock Market WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. J. William Fulbright- (Dl-Ark.) warned Friday night' there is heavy speculation in the stock market and said stocTc margin requirements possibly should be raised to 100 percent. Fulbright, chairman of the senSte banking and currency committee which recently completed an investigation of the stock market, said he saw no "immediate danger" of a stock market crash. He said on the radio program "Capitol Cloak Room" that the purpose of the investigation to call attention to the "p6ssi-bilities of a decline" and try to minimize extreme fluctuations in the stock market.

But, he said, anyone who tries to call attention to weaknessea in the stock market "is immedi ately condemned as a prophet of gloom and doom." That "was exactly the attitude that occurred In '28 that I think1 contributed to the disaster of '29," he said. Learned Lesson Too Thoroughly JOLIET. Ill OJP) -r- Polite found Jean Jericic, 2, wandering, in a residential neighborhood and took her to headquarters when she refused to tell them ber name. "Why didn't you tell the police men your the girl's father asked when they were reunited. "You taught me never to talk to strangers" she said.

Son Finds Ring His Mother Lost in 1910 MACON, Miss. lUf ueorge" Schimmell mailed his mother's wedding ring to her at her Birmingham, home after spading it up in the family garden "at just about the spot she lost it" in 1910. A PROFESSIONAL HOSPITAL BED FOR HOME USE mpe fo perore qsy to adjutl Wit stock a variety of sickroom equipment for home use. Call or visit us for complete details and low rental rates. ALSO RENT Wheel Chain Crutchee Walkers Sun Lamps Baby Scales, etc.

MEDICAL ARTS SURGICAL SUPPLY 307 Second St. SE phono 4-4157 a mi Lr If 'v- household word for his Jokes achievements. Crockett can be found some honest trapper, soldier, polltl who could grin a b'ar plumb Fink, another crack shot of by default. Davy set himself, but after grinning for what seemed a reasonable length of time, noted that the animal moved nary a muscle. Crockett, undismayed, procured a five-foot limb, placed it against the ground, rested his chin on it.

He grinned for five minutes. The cursed raccoon hung on. Davy reasoned that the raccoon must be a droll fellow, decided to take more drastic steps. He went home and got an ax. The raccoon was still there when he returned.

The rose and fell In the strong hands of the great fron tier scout. Presently the tree toppled. Davy darted forward. The raccoon was nowhere about. Davy investigated, and got quite a shock.

He discovered he had been staring at a large knot on a branch of the tree. His effort had not been entirely wasted, though. Davy had grinned all the bark off the limb, leaving the knot smooth as satin. may be on trial and open to pos sible restrictive rulings. Slnre all gambling licenses-even the oldest come up for renewal every three months, the concern now extends even to the old-line Nevada gamblers, some of whom have been operating lerally since the state opened the "floodgates" in 1931.

There are rumblings of an even bigger tax bite possibly a 10 percent state "cut." The most vocal protests against it have been concentrated in Reno where the gambling industry appears to be moving slowly. The alarm has not yet reached the Las Vegas resort hotel in dustry, which is breaking all records. Three new multi-million dol lar resorts on the famdd "strip" COMES OUT HERE Vpice amplifiers (upper box) ityatd in all Cedar Rapids fire-tta-tions, permit all members of the department duty to 1 hear all tire alarms. Lower unit is for intercom. SUPERINTENDENT of fire alarm system for Cedar Rapids is J.

Robert Correll, who played a leading role in changing over the city's fire alarm-dispatching system from-an antiquated outlay to a new and streamlined facility. wrote that the nation has a five- year stockpile of natural rubber and that "We can be entirely comfortable aa long as we can obtain natural rubber for 23 percent ef our total needs." He added that natural and synthetic rubber, from now on, will compete on equal terms and that "the most economical-to-use material will heavily influence the market price of the other." i The B. F. Goodrich Chemical Company has just introduced a plastic-coated nylon "garage which unfolds over an automobile Jtke, a convertible top. The strong vinyl-plastic fabric which the company says resists all kinds of weather, including salt air and will remain pliable in 30-degree below zero conditions has been designed particularly for tourists and people living in new developments which do not in clude garages la the house construction price.

The plastic covering is attached to a folding multiple-spring tubular steel frame held archlike by two center posts driven into the ground. You simply drive under the arch and pull the garSge down over the front and back of. the car. Theentire garage weighs 87 pounds. G.

It. "Rocket" Jones, general salft-manaeer of the Oldsmobile division, says that while the light! pastel shades are growing in pop-ularityLmost motorists still are i il.L ii.ii... ir ii l.il.iihi.nirlrli..il miJIl Brings cleanup in Nevada Gambling By Chet Sobsey. AS yEGAS, Nev. (INS) Li Nevada is worried.

The state that once was wide open is tightening up, Tighter restrictions on gambling have been Imposed smcerBotr Consldinr of -INS wrote a seven-article series early this year "Las Vegas town and the gangland In vasion of "it. Ever since then, "caution" has been the watchword of uov Charles H. Russell and the state tax commissioners wuu iuuuw the gambling licenses. They have denied a license to Actor George Raft and refused him a rehearing. They have refused a license to the builder of the plush new Royal the latest in the southern Nevada hotel chain owned by Millionaire Frank Fishman.

And they have turned down another applicant seeking an interest in a Las Vegas "strip" re-fsort because his record showed iao arrest for booking horse, bets. The "charge" against Fish-man was "sharp business Yet be had no criminal record and far as could be learned was "desirable" in California and 46 other states. Fishman was permitted to lease all the hotel's facilities, including the gambling to new interests who were acceptable to the commission. He now receives rent but does not participate in the actual operation The lessees are a group oi Florida and St Louis men. In another crackdown the commission, of which the governor is head, ordered two major owners of the Thunderblrd hotel, Marion B.

Hicks and former Nevada Lieut Governor Clifford A.1 Jones, to sell their Interests In the $5,000,000 place by June 1 or face revocation of their gambling license. The co mraission made that move on the ground that the hotel had failed to disclose that New York underworld figures Meyer and Jake Lansky had interests in the Thunderbird. For the first time in the state's hlstorv the hotel has challenged the commission's order in court, seeking an injunction preventing the state from carrying out the ultimatum. Hicks and Jones have denied that the Lanskv brothers are in terested in the Thunderbird and they have won a temporary re straining order against tne governor and tax commission pend ing a scheduled hearing on a per trnanent injunction June 10. This is what has happened in Amenta's gambling capital sure Considine wrote about Nevada fcrime and the "hoodlum" back grounds of certain Casino owners: Gov.

Russell conceded to the 1955 state legislature that ete ments of Murder, and other eancland mobs from New iorK Chicago, St. Louis, Miami and Detroit had managed to infiltrate Nevada's 8. 4-year-old "experi ment" with state sanctioned craDS. roulette and He named no names, but de clared: "I am determined that Ne vada's licensed gambling industry shall not be invaded by hoodlums nor organized crime. The legislators immediately clamped a 90-day moratorium on all new gambling licenses, exeept those then pending before the state tax commission.

Then they revised the entire gambling control organization with what they said was an eye toward "better protecting the public health, safety, 'morals, good order and general welfare." When the seven-year-old tax commission admitted that it could fight no more than a rear guard battle against the intrusion of so-called the lawmakers created a new three- man "Gambling Control Its broad authority becomes ef fective July 1. Three fuUtime, year casino crars will have complete control ever gambling licensing, replacing the seven-man tax commission which found Itself swamped wtth a dosen other duties during Its twice monthly meetings without pay. The new control agency will have to hire what it investigators. It will able to, inspect casino operations, seize gambling house records and corn- Del the. attendance of witnesses The tix commission retains the right, to order ny case reopened ior cause." otherwise the deel slons of the thre xperu will be final.

Expected to head the agency ls'Secretary bobbins Ca hill of the old tax drieS lite now. I'M happy. Saf Er -too. -He -took- STREAMLINED Engineered especially for the Cedar Rapids fire department, this new fire alarm-dispatching -control system was recently put into operation at Central fire station. In the panel at the left is the speaker for the two short-wave radio (police and fire) systems and twitches for operating them.

The center pane( accommodates the telephonic communications system with all fire stations. Mounted en top of the board is a boom for the radio microphone. "Street sirens and loop-traffic emergency lights are controlled from the panel at the right, A business phone is on the table at the left. The light-colored box at the right is the master control for trie intercom system. Speaker for the Air Defense Warning system is situated above the row of switches.

The console and its connection were engineered under the direction of Superintendent of Fire Alarms J. Robert Correll. ing match against one. Mike; the day. Davy lost the match It got down to where Fink fired at his wife, who was on her way to the spring for a gourd of water.

The shot knocked half the comb off her head without touching a hair. Fink yelled at his spouse to stand still while Davy shot away the other half of the comb. She obediently remained rigid. Plainly Crockett wanted to give Mike a taste of triumph. He declined to fire.

It was" generally conceded that no raccoon could stand -Davy Crockett's grin. Davy boasted it was because he was so homely the raccoon capitulated rather than lock eyes with him. i Actually, he was considered by some to be quite handsome4. It is a matter of record that he was sufficiently alluring to attract a bride -with two cows, each about to give birth to a calf. One night, he, himself, recounted, he was on hisway home with his dog, Ratler.

He spotted "a raccoon on the top limb of an old tree, resolved to bring it down jwith a grin. For the other two members, the governor is known to.be.insid ering eight candidates trained in "undercover" work. At the same time, the lawmak ers doubled the state gambling tax and stiffened requirements for licensees. The net result is that Nevada today is more than ever "shooting craps for the education of its children. Last year's two percent levy on the gambling industry netted the state $2,200,000.

But funds still were lacking for adequate schools and mounting welfare costs. This year, based on a sli ding- scale increase to five and one-half percent, the tax net should reach $5,000,000 or about 40 percent of the state's total biennial budget, So that Neyadarweuld not be completely dependent On its casinos, the legislature for the first time joined 32 other states in im posing a sales tax estimated to produce about half the anticipated revenue. On the whole, the gambling houses were delighted to pay their share of the mounting cost of state government. There were only scattered protests. The state legislators niade no secret pf their concern over the Considine articles which trained the national spotlight on some of the retired hoodlums long entrenched in Nevada's legalized gambling.

What concerns Nevada most Is the long-feared possibility of U.S. congressional action to legislate legalized gambling out of existence through prohibitive fed eral taxation. on the homefront. there are frequent Democratic tries of "politics" the handling of licenses py the state current Re' publican administration. Some in siders believe that the tax com mission itself may find some of lings challenged before long to the state courts, If and when that some.

fear the entire gambling industry I Speedier dispatch of fire companies after receipt of alarms Is resulting from a completely redesigned and' rebuilt communications sys tem for the Cedar Rapids fire department. From a collection of alarm and dispatching apparatus that had been added to over a period of 30 years, the department has gone to a streamlined all-in-one dis-patcher-itation which embraces all of the department's phone and radio communications facilities hMiriM other eauipment related to the movement of fire apparatus on fire routes. The dispatcher-station cabinet and its many connections were ae 00000000000000000000 jl- TT-rTL An- signed Jwjfire department, in Its complex highly workable system of PIP I Turnover of Car Officials At Fast Pace DETROITONS) The turnover In automotive In dustry executives almost keeps pace with the chanee in passenger car' models. This fact is pointed out by the biographic sketches and photographs of 883 top officials carried in the recently-issued 1955 Automotive News Almanac. In compiling its "Family' Album Automotive News said it discovered that in the last year 24 oercent of tho-tnn YMuivc either retired or changed titles.

Automotive News failed to mention the number of executives who died in the saddle durinff the vear. but the mortality rate is excep tionally nign in tnis mgmy-cora-petitive business. e' T. XV MtrhfluM hmM rh oil man of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, claima that private control of the nation's synthetic rubber nrodurintf fartlitloa ushers In a "bright and promising new era- ior tne rubber industry. Litchfield writM nf "A Nw Look for the keynote oi wnicn is stability.

"In my more than 59 years of close association-with the Industry, basic uncertainties have been the rule," he pointed out "With ear major source of supply situated half way around the world, we have been at the mercy of forces beyond our control. "Government cartels. Invading armies, submarine warfare and, civil unrest in the rubber-growing areas have been among our recur-j ring problems. But now; with the development of the synthetic rub- ber Industry, the sharp" edse of I this Damoclean sword has been dulled." i The rubber company executive "The Store for Service" Ay fvQ crfflEio 2 8 fclilMlill conservative in their, choice t(J Iufficient Uained authority station dispatching desk, or with all of the stations simultaneously. Receipt of fire alarm signals by the several stations is quickly acknowledged simply by lifting the fire alarm phone from its cradle.

The person picking up the phone at one ef the sub-stations need not even speak Into It. Raising the phone from the cradle automatically flashes a light on the Central station dispatching center control board. Any questions concerning the alarm may be settled in a split second with the dispatcher by the use of the fire phone. In addition to the phone sys tem, two short-wave radio chan nels are now being used by the communications. Not only can the department use the police radio wave length but it also has its own.

With these facilities there is easy communication between police' and fire departments, and between the Central station dispatching control and the various fire companies, at fires or during periods when they are out of their sta tions making fire prevention in spections. Central station also has a new Intercom system which saves time and steps In locating any member of the shift on duty, anywhere In the station. Master control ef this Intercom tsv with all the ether communications apparatus, situated on the desk of the dispatcher atatlon. Also at thefingertips of the dispatcher, as he sits at this key point in the communications setup are the Air Defense Warning telephones, so that Cedar Rapids is in constant contact With that national defense setup through the fire department The fire dispatcher, in addition, to hashing the Communications system from Wis central position, also operates from the same master control point the switches which activate emergency trauia iigm system in the downtown area and the street sirens which herald, the-eoming of appartus, on First street East and Fifth avenue SE. Long situated on the first floor of the Central fire station building, the dispatcher-control station now is, with the alarm box apparatus, in a second -floor room at Central station.

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11 If ROUS lAlllY-ow scatter nigt, ooor suis, II ll It- II UUNI Wl llO III KUI-i NIW WW toot cost of thousands of dollars less than would have been spent had a commercial console been pur chased. Northweatern Bell Telephone Company engineers In the district office at Dee Moines engineered, the special telephone eystem. which inclodea oice amplifiers as well aa telephones, nd local company technicians, under the direction of Edward Ehrke. inataUed It Mora than nine' weeks' time was required to make all the phone wire and came lnsiaiiauonj ana hookups but the changeover from thld to tne new was maae wun- out interruption of service in the receipt or transmission of fire alarm slgnals Under the new arrangement, a pomDlex system of wiring ana re- i lays, fire companies are alerted to an alarm by the ringing of bells In each station and the subsequent use of the voice amplifiers to announce the address of the fire. Contact rhay be made with any one station, from the Central ACT AIM visa I WHEN YOU HEED IT! ft tfotM'f cost ei ir)0ci os yoa think! For $1,509 yea can have a aervlceable irrigation ays.

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