23 Skidoo! Flatiron is 50 Years 6ldl
By SAVL PETT
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New York The once-famous
Flatiron building it observing
its 90th birthday like a lonely
old freak too short to show up
on today's skyline, too far down
town to have any glamor, too
durable to excite alarmists any
more.
Today, only a handful of tour
ists visit the 21-story building
and most of them want to go up
in the Flatiron only to take pic
tures of other taller buildings.
: Today, nobody is afraid to
walk on the Flatiron's side of the
street Years ago, many pedes
trians stayed on the other side.
They feared that a strong wind
would topple the thin structure
which is shaped, as one critic
said in 1902, like a "stingy piece
of pie."
By now? the Flatiron has con
vinced the public it's here to
stay.
"And it will be here another
150 years," says superintendent
George Bonhag. "This was one
of the first skyscrapers in New
York built on a steel frame."
In 1902, when the Flatiron
was completed, it became the
number one tourist attraction of
its day. Its picture was repro
duced on postcards sent all over
the world.
In 1904 William Ordway Part
ridge, an artist, called it "a mon
strosity, disgrace to our city,
an outrage to our sense of the
artisic and a menace to life."
It was built on a small trian
gular island on 23rd Street,
where Fifth Ave. reluctantly
crosses Broadway. It stands 280
feet high. It has frontages of
214.8 feet on Broadway, 85 feet
on 22nd St., 197.8 feet on Fifth
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its strange design increased the
wind. It's still one of the windi
est corners in New York.
In the old days, local drug
store cowboys used to watch wo
men's skirts blowing up. The cop
on the 23rd street beat was for
ever chasing them. This, accord
ing to legend, gave birth to the
expression, "twenty-three ski
doo." .
The Flatiron building is
strange in various ways. It's top
floor is above the attic. Orig
inally, the building was built to
a height of 20 stories, plus an
attic. Later a 21st floor was!
added. The attic, used only for
water tanks and equipment, still
lies between the 20th and 21st
floors.
The very top of the building's
apex is adorned by statues of
two cherubic boys holding
scrolls around a big tablet bear
ing the initials of the builder,
George A. Fuller.
Pari-Mutuel Head
Named at Lebanon
Lebanon Dr. J. G. Gill, Le
banon dentist, has been named
to the newly organized taxpay
ers committee to retain pan
mutuel revenues, according to
Schoolbook Landmark The
famous Flatiron Building.
Ave., and only four or five feet
on 23rd St.
unices occupying me apexjan announcement by acting
come to a point only three or I chairman, Henry W. CoUins of
four feet wide inside, only wide t Portland.
enough to get a chair In. Frank j qo fa accepting the position
Munsey, the publisher, used to for Linn county said, "Should
have an office on the 18th floor, 1 pari-mutuel revenues be lost it
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Bench for Barnch Bernard M. Baruch (right) sits with
California'! Governor Earl Warren on a bench hewn from
redwood log and dedicated at Dyerville, Calif., by the gover
nor in honor of Baruch. The event took place on Baruch's
80th birthday. The bench is located in a redwood grove at
the foot of a 364-foot tree. (AP Wirephoto.)
in the corner. He had the floor
raised so that he could get a bet
ter view of the two rivers bound'
ing Manhattan and also better
view of employes working be
fore the throne room.
When the Flatiron was built.
some neighbors complained that
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Bnrning Through Steel A saw without teeth.
New Saw Without Teeth
Cuts Steel With Ease
. By NORMAN BELL
(AP Newilestures)
San Diego, Calif. A saw i analyst, discovered the teethless
without teeth that cuts costs as saw. He noticed that regular
well as hard metal is being blades cut as well with the
hailed here as revolutionary,
It slides through stainless steel
like a hot blade through butter,
a literal comparison, engineers at
Solar Aircraft Co. say.
smooth back of the blade as they
did with the toothed edge.
Band saws, Prince explained,
actually burn through stainless
steel and harder metals, but the
The saw so simple that one, teethless blades do not work on
observer suggested it be called soft metals, such as aluminum or
the "pshaw saw" is nothing but
smooth-edged band of steel.
Solar officials said they found
that box strapping, used for se-
i .pin rr flhlnnlna ppnlo, ArvoH
excellently as blade. They put! InTlirpfl Mfln HfK
it in the high-speed band saw atjlHJUICU Flliil. IIU)
a cost of 10 cents a band, and cut
away at stainless steel parts for
as long as 29 hours without
changing the band. '
By substituting spring steel for
the box strapping, at 50 cents a
band, they got a 70-hour per
formance.,
1 Regular band saw blades, the
copper, or on wood, where actual
cutting, rather than melting, is
necessary.
Slight Polio Case
Canyon City, Ore. A man
hospitalized' for several weeks
with automobile accident hurts,
now has a mild case of polio.
John David Laura nee, 20, who
suffered back and other injuries
officials reported, cost $3 each some weeks ago and has been
and last on the average less than I j the hospital since, complained
two hours. I of new pains in his arm. A check
Jack Prince, a Solar methods revealed polio in a mild form.
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Eagles Not So Powerful
Carriers as Some Believe
Portland f) A federal biol-1 carrying a full-grown jackrab
ogist said here Thursday that bit weighing six to seven
a lot of talk about eagles isn't pounds. The flight was labored
so. I because the load was heavy,"
They aren't comparable to he said.
flying boxcars, for instance. "There is no actual record
The biologist, Ralph H. Im-: oi an eagle carrying as mucn as
who is regarded in the 13 Puna- len pounu u near
fih ' uie aosoiuie limn.
Imler said he was moved to
Polk County Trapper
Appointed by Court
Dallas Larry Bivan, 120 Dim
mick St., has recently been ap-
nointed bv the Polk countv court
as countv traDDer for the nreda- i ler.
torv animal controL Bivan is also regional office of the U.S.
cervine in the name canaeitv in. and wilflife service here where
Linn county. ; be works, as a top-flight eagle : comment because of a recent
All rennesti for the assistant man. said it's this way: I Associated Press story from
of the traDDer will be handled; Thr i. nn nHHonro n hnnr i Chehalis telling of golden
through the county court. Phone; an eagle can fly off with any-.ea&es, killing lambs and flying
requests can De placed through thing that weighs more than ou- w"a ulusc wc's,mi
Dallas 2206. it does. And most eagles weigh . 40 Pounds.
In addition to the trapper,' g to 10 pounds, with a few bald I Imler said that in the first
bounties are paid by the county j eagles getting up around 13 place he would be more inclin-
on certain predatory animals. A
list of the bounties is available
in the county clerk's office at the
courthouse inallas.
Radar For Philippines
Manila W) Defense Secretary
Ramon Magsaysay said Thursday
a vast radar warning network,
using equipment from the U.S.,
will be woven around the Philip-
pounds.
Yet there are recurrent stor
ies of eagles flying off with a!
ed to believe the eagles at Che
balis are bald eagles the na
tional bird rather than Gold-
lamb weighing anywhere fromen- There are some golden
30 to 40 pounds.
"Wholly impossible," said
Imler, who has studied that par
ticular subject all the way from
Colorado to Alaska.
"Eagles have been observed
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Pigs That Smell Like Wisteria
Secancus, N. J. VP) Secaneuj pigs may not be social oat
easts from now on.
A New York firm is spraying a deodorant on the hog
habitants of Charles Sch oca's farm as an experiment
If the secret scents wafted over his wallows itiffle odors,
says Sochs, all of the township's 55,000 hogs probably will
get the perfume treatment
Schoch, president of the Stock Farmers Association of Se
eanens, is confident of success.
"Doris Dnke has pigs that don't smell," he said.. "After to
day we will have pigs that smell like wisteria."
Miss Dnke, heiress to a tobacco fortune, raises pigs on a
model farm in Somerville, complete with an atomiser in
every pen.
eagles around, but not as many
as there are bald eagles, he said
It takes an expert to tell the
difference between a golden
eagle and a young bald eagle,
be said. Until about three years
of age, the bald eagle lacks the
distinctive white head and tail
and looks very much like the
golden eagle.
Neither is normally very im
portant as a predator, Imler
said.
If farmers find a bird or, a
pair, to be inflicting losses, they
can get relief by calling the
fish and wildlife service, which
will institute any needed con
trols. The bald Vagle is protected.
There are no federal laws pro
tecting the golden eagle.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Aug. 21, 1952 It
Pen-Pal Romance Fades
Dingle,- Ireland W) Frank Bayostak started back to his
Johnstown, Pa., home last night without even a final wavs
from bine-eyed Breda O'Sullivan, his Irish pen-pal who
found his name and address in a bottle.
Breda, in fact harvested oats oa her mother's farm while
Frank climbed aboard the bus for Tralee.
No one else came to see him off either, not even the dis
appointed Dingle folk who hoped that a romance would cap
the couple's six years of letter writing.
Frank flew to Ireland two weeks sgo to meet the young
colleen he had known only through letters that started the
day she found the bottle with his name and address on the
Dingle shore. Frank had thrown the bottle overboard from
the troopship on which he was returning from World War
army service la Europe.
A week after his srrival, both flatly denied there was sny
romance. But one of the local folk said that Frank "looked
a very disappointed man, Indeed," as he rode away last night
in the rear of the bus.
Cabbie Finds He Can't Win
New York UJJ Cab driver Tony Tolve of the Bronx took
the traffic ticket Patrolman Joe Powers handed him and tors
It np in the presence of the officer.
Powers then charged Tolve with violating the city sani
tary code by littering the streets. Police said Tolve paid a
$2 fine Wednesday.
Represents Bong Kong
Hong Kong (JP) General man
ager Yin Chin-Chung of Ta
Chung Great China Industrial
Co., Ltd., will leave Saturday for
Seattle to represent Hong Kong
at the Far Eastern International
Trade Exhibition.
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