Smoke-Conscious Hoosiers Detect Fire in Hotel Room

[Page 1] Smoke-Conscious Hoosiers Detect Fire in Hotel Room By CHARLES G. GRIFFO PHOENIX, -Gazing into ear aches isn't funny to a 4½-year-old valley of the sun. And that's how we started off suddenly crying en "my ear aches" drugstore open in the town. It was at breakfast and the eggs toast, milk, bacon and potatoes. I told Greg to grit his teeth. "My teeth hurt too," says he. It was a case of -exposure to air conditioning in the hotel room. Meanwhile, Mary Elizabeth and Martha ate heartily. "Can I some of your bacon," asked Chuck. We managed to wade through it and the first customer in the Economy Drug Store nearby the hotel seeking ear oil was undoubtedly yours truly.

Irrigation of the ear and the oil transformed the € stormy petrol of the tribe to his usual bouncing self and things were back to normal. Where There's Smoke That is if you can call discovering that there was a smouldering fire on your floor in the hotel is normal. We were back in our room when Chuck, who has a good sense of smell, said "Daddy, your pipe stinks.' » He knows that any such reference to my pipe irritates me. "I'm not smoking my pipe," I say, sniffing the air. . "I smell smoke," I add, remembering police reporting days, adventure, romance. We went into the hall, the boys and I. Mary and Martha were visiting friends in Phoenix. "Do you smell smoke?" we asked the middle-aged housekeeper from Texas who was in the linen room.

"I smell something,' says she, "smells jus lawk smoke." The four of us sniffed up and down the hallways of the seventh floor. Then the housekeeper reported the odor to the management and the management made a room check. You've guessed it, a chair was smouldering from a departed guest's cigaret in the room down the hall and tragedy was averted. Midget Auto Racing Chuck's sense of smell had paid off. Sightseeing around the city and visiting friends took up most of the afternoon but that night we really "carried coals to Newcastle." We went to an automobile race. And for an Indianapolis resident who missed the 500 this year, that was an occasion.

The races were more thrilling than the Indianapolis classic. And the drivers ranged in age from 5 years old to 14. It was quarter-midget racing put on by the Phoenix MicroMidget Racing Club, Inc. The races, extremely popular on the West coast, are between midget racers, powered with lawnmower type engines, and driven by the kids. As much as a $1,000 go into some of the cars, which are miniatures of the 500 racers. An 8½-year girl won one of the main events and is one of the top dr drivers here. The final race was what was called an Australian pursuit. The 12 cars were lined up, slowest first and on down the line. After a rather hectic start each car that was passed by another had to drop out.

It sore of reminded me of trying to keep tab on four kids at one time. Tomorrow we are going to Scottsdale, "The West's Most Western town." two eggs, sunny-side up, while your boy even in this extraordinary our day here, Gregory and the early hour not betatsoul were on the plate, complete with They don't have grits here. The Parent Problem Help Develop Love of Music By GARRY -MYERS, Ph.D. In "Today's Living," April 21, 1957, Licia Albanese, a Metropoliton opera star and mother of a four-year-old son, gives some good advice on cultivating 1 love of good music. She suggests giving the child his own phonograph and building up a record library for him.

Some of the best records cost only 25 cents. Make lullaby records a part of his bedtime schedule. While a soothing melody might be good for putting your child in a happy mood at meals, music at this time is of doubtful value for the preschool child. Even at six months, the child may show a surprising interest in rhythm. Selections such as "The Cradle Song" by Brahms and "When. at Night I Go to Sleep" by Handel are excellent for him. For Older Children For the three- and four-yearolds add songs like "Silent Night" include such nursery songs as that tempt the child to sing. Also "Ten Little Indians" and "Baa Baa, Black Sheep." Look through books and magazines for pictures which will best illustrate these selections.

The kindergarten child also likes purely rhythmical music, rich in drums, bells and cymbals. Marches are musts. Patriotic songs such as 'Dixie,' "Yankee Doodle," "America the Beautiful,' "Hail Columbia," appeal to children of kindergarten age. "Golden Songs About America" (Simon and Schuster) includes such spirited, selections as "The Halls of Montezuma" and "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along.' Then there's the recording of the Broadway musical "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin, and there is an album, "Saturday Matinee for Children," which includes numbers from Broadway hit shows. Public libraries are developing lending services of record collections for children.

The New York Public Library system will soon have such services in its three boroughs. Fortunate are children who may go to sleep night after night with good music. Shirts 'n' Shorts Weather Seen in 'Crystal Ball' By ASSOCIATED PRESS Fair skies and pleasantly comfortable temperatures were forecast for all portions on Indiana Monday. The Weather Bureau predicted Monday afternoon temperatures around 80, a trifle more comfortable than the hot conditions which prevailed throughout state Sunday. Clouds are expected to drift into the state in scattered patches Tuesday but temperatures should climb about 5 degrees higher. Monday night temperatures of 60- 68 are forecast.

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