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PRESTON STEDMAN Bloomington, Ind...
Child-Saver. A portable traffic light that can be set up in the center of the street and operated from the sidewalk has been developed by J. R. Vissing, a Jeffersonville, Ind. garageman. The 4-ft.-high, battery-powered light is primarily for school crossings...
...Though the privately owned company never discloses operating figures, it admits it wound up 1953 with a big loss (reportedly $5,000,000), while both Procter & Gamble and Colgate's increased profits. Reasons: poor sales, high operating costs, and a 13-week strike at Lever's Hammond, Ind. soap plant...
...William Harrison (Will) Hays, 74, pioneer guardian of Hollywood's celluloid morals (as head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), onetime G.O.P. National Committee chairman (1918-21) and Harding's first Postmaster General (1921-22); of a heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw...
...Road. In Auburn, Ind., Carl Wilder, charged with drunken driving after his truck went through a farmyard, caromed off an automobile and demolished 100 yds. of fence, told police: "I always take this shortcut...