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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1945)
Today We Pay Tribute to V5, ) -. n Vi i rfi iff i tuHf! 'in - r-- - Pvt. MurvinO. Patricks, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Thompson of East X ave nue, La Grande. He served with the U. S. infantry and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in France Aug. .'1, 1911. He was hospit alized in England. Ik-fore en tering the service March 2, 191.'!, he was a student. Richard (Dick) Bramwell. Y 1c left this afternoon for Seattle after spending a few days visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Bramwell in La Grande. Bramwell has been in the navy three years and has just returned from 13 months duty in the south Pacific At Seattle he will be reassigned for further duty. He visited with his wife and baby in California before coming to La Grande. i Orville Bowers, carpenter first class, Seabees, is home from duty in the Pacific and is spending his leave in La Grande with relatives. First LI. Douglas M. Hone, signal company, who is on de tached service from the Fifth army, and is now stationed in Francolice, Italy, with the Bra zilian expeditionary force, was recently presented the "Medalhas De Bronze, De Campanha" or the bronze medal of the campaign of the army of Brazil, for parti cipation in combat with the Bra zilian expeditionary force. The medal was awarded on be half of the president of Brazil for services rendered during the campaign beginning Sept. 14, 1044, through the end of the war on May 8, 1945, "in appreciation of the work in coordinating com munications problems between the first division and for the har monious way of bringing about a smooth friendly relation among the soldiers and officers of the two armies." Lt. Hone was also given a writ ten commendation from Gen. Masquerianioos De Marias, C. G., B. E. F., through chanels ex pressing his personal apprecia tion for the job done as liasion communications officer and for the manner in which diplomati cally, he was able to bring about friendly understanding between the two foreign speaking forces. This award was issued for the fiist time in Europe at this par- JUST RECEIVED! Ijiwn Sprinklers Switch Hoxes Fuse Plugs Archery Sols Mt. Vernon Coal and Wood Ranges (These Ranges Are Knroute) Pure Nents Fool Oil Nents Foul Oil Com pou ml Floor Varnishes nl Dura Moor and Implement Paints Presto Ijic Lacquer Thinner 4-Hr. Eniimels in Quarts & Gallons Pure Paint in Gallons I'ndorcoalcr Paint Remover Estate Coal & Wood Heaters, ,1 Sire. Ammunition for, F.tim I s 'Spit on Chub's Nose For Luck,' Advises George Collins, Blind Fisherman and an Old Guide By JACK H. BIRNBAUM NEA Staff Correspondent GRAYLING, Mich Spitting on the nose of a chub for luck is an unusual way to start an evening's fishing, but then George Collins is an unusual fisherman. For George Collins, you sec, is blind. A former guide and resort op erator for most of his 54 years, Collins began to lose his sight some years back and went com pletely blind about IB months ago. Although this stopped him from hunting it hasn't stopped him from fishing. Knowing by heart the general width of the seven streams in and around Grayling, he is as much at home on the water as he ever was. Collins' sense of touch is acute and it is no trick for him to put his fly rod together, thread it, tie the leader and bail the hook. He thinks nothing of the feat and wants to ( demonstrate to blind war veterans how easy it is to fish and enjoy themselves al though handicapped. Still possessing a robust sense of humor and a keen perception that comes to the blind with time, he began to teach this wri ter how to fish from a rowboat on Lake Margarethe. First, let's spit on his nose for luck," Collins said as he hooked a chub (un oversized minnow) on his line. He was seeking pike but using a trout rod. "When using live . bait," he spoke while demonstrating, "be careful not to injure the minnow or chub when it strikes the wa ter. Fiah don't like dead bait. "These pike like to dwell in the vegetation at the bottom of the lake, so we'll try 'em there." Lets go out further where the water is about 17 feet deep. It's only fifteen here." Collins gauges the depth by the length of the line he brings in and coils in the palm of his hand. His acute hearing can detect the groan of oarlocks nearly luu yards away and he is careful not to get too near other boats. While Collins cast and trolled he commented on the plight of the blind. "You're heartbroken at first, but that feeling passes. My advice to those who have lost their sight is to take up studying, take up Braille and soon you won't notice your blindness. "It's not so bad after once see ing. You still have a perspec tive on how things should look." Collins is studying Braille and typing in Saginaw. The blind learn to worn dui there is not enough emphasis on teaching the sightless to play and relax." Collins is married, has two grandchildren, Colleen, 8, who al ready has several years of fishing behind her, and John, seven months. This would be a better story if we could relate that Collins caught his limit of pike but after an hour of rowing and casting with no results, the writer gave up and came to shore. But not Collins. He rowed out again. Figured we just didn't hit the right places. ticular presentation. Following the ceremony cocktails were served in the general's mess and prsonal congratulations were ex tended. Nine enlisted men were similarly decorated. Lt. Hone is the husband of the former Alladeen Ayars, and the father of the two and one-half year old Sandra Kay Hone, whom he has never seen. His home is in Pendleton. Clinton Lowe of Cove has been advanced from the rating of private to that of private first class. He is now in Hawaii. Lowe has been awarded the purple heart for injuries sus tained at Iwo Jima. His regi ment and battalion was the one to raise the flag there. Lowe is the son of Mrs. Everett Williams of Cove. Elery John Thiolen, F 1 c, returned to San Diego last night after a 10 day leave spent here with his purents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Thielen. and with other relatives and friends here and at Baker. Thielen, 18. joined the navy last December. Clayton Cue, boatswain second class, and his wife, Jeanette Case, are guests at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Case, in La Grande. Case has returned from 18 months duty in the Marshall is lands, and prior to that time pent II months in the Aleutians. At the termination of his 30-day leuvt he will report to Bremer ton for further duty, and Mrs. Caw will return to Echo. I Dnnee! Mi nam Store Saturday p.m. 'til 1 a.m. EARL lUNSfcN ,M) HIS ORCHESTRA JUmieeion 60e (Ad. 50c Tex 10c. Total 60c) Imnce Kvrv (Wher Snt. if l k George Collins . . . blindness doesn't curb his fishing. Portland Creamery Wallops Albany PORTLAND, Aug. 3 (UP) Challenge Creamery of Portland walloped Albany 12 to 5 last night in the second round game of Oregon's American Legion junior baseball tournament here. Coming from behind in the fourth inning, the Challenge players went into action, chalk ing up two runs in the fourth, three in the fifth, six in the sev enth and a final tally in the last inning.' Albany s five runs were made in the second and third innings. tarlier in the evening the (J-ind - Pomeroy team defeated Salem 16 to 5. The setback was Salem's second in the three-day tourney and eliminated Coach Al Lightner s boys from further play. The florists will now play Albany. 'Alaska,' Fine Yarn By Jack London, On at Liberty Alaska" takes its place as one of the most thoroughly interesting dramas of the far north to reach the screen for a long time. This lavish Monogram film, which opened a three-day engagement at the Liberty theater last night, qualified as outstanding enter tainment through a combination of many factors, including an un usually competent cast, a virile story by Jack London, scenic beauty, direction and general pro duction values. The plot is a suc cession of absorbing situations and fast-moving action, and the atmosphere of the entire picture is convincingly maintained . featured players in the prin cipal roles are Kent Taylor, Mar garet Lindsay, John Carradine. Dean Jagger and Nils Asther. All arc excellent. Westfir Mill Sold To Hines Company PORTLAND, Aug. 3 (UP) F.d ward Hines Lumber company has purchased the Westfir Lumber company mill at Westfir fro m Blythe & company, It was reveal ed today. T. J. Mi'Hugh, senior vice pres ident, said the new owners will operate with the same personnel. Present crew numbers 240 men. The Westfir mill has a capacity of about 50.000,000 to 70,000,000 board feet of lumber a year. 1)US. HIGGS & BIGGS ClUROl'KACTOHS Palmer Graduates X-Ray Neurocalometer Ser. 2019 1st St. Both Phones 651 Baker, Ore. INSULATE TO SAVE FUEL! Heat-seal your attic, roof and floors. Keep the heat out in summer . . . the cold out in winter. l.ooe Insulation in Sinks. Easy tn Install Just Pour! Also RAl.SAM-W(KL "The Blanket Insulation" ' T Lumber t'ompjnu dit.l.MiK and IN ION (Former).' Home Lumber & Coal Oa.) Cubs Fight Hard For Charlie Grimm Bv WALTER BYERS CHICAGO, Aug. 3 (UP) The Cubs never fought haider for a National league pennant than I they fought today to vindicate their manager, Charley Urimm, who risked his career to be a "good guy." This fun loving, banjo strum ming Dutchman with the amaz ing gift for mimicry once lost his job as the Cubs' manager principally because he was too easy going on his players. When the Cubs began to skid toward the bottom earlier this, year, it appeared his players once again were going to let down a manager who had given them the breaks on everything, the kind of guy who always had gone to bat for them in a dispute. But Capt. Phil Cavaretta, who succeeded Grimm al lirst base for the Cubs and has always been one of his strongest friends, sparked his teammates to a win ning streak. They've been going ever since in a determined ei- fort to prove their manager doesn't have to be a brawling, hard-boiled boss, such as John McGraw, to b u i 1 d a winning team. The Cubs, who gained notiriety a few years back for their lazy play, have come to life. They are a spirited, hustling bunch of players and as third baseman Stan Hack, who has been through both Grimm regimes, said: "You can't help playing ball for that kind of guy." Judge Says Angel Not Street Bum PORTLAND, Aug. 3 (UP) A possible international complica tion was deftly sidestepped in municipal court here the other day when Judge J. J. Quillin held, in effect, that Maurice (The Angel) Tillet, of France, was not a bum given to street fighting. What Quillin literally ruled as if mindful of what an aroused La Belle France does to persons in disfavor was that Tillet, a well-known wrestler, did not pro voke a street brawl with a cer tain Benny Shermaii. Tillet's $25 bail was refunded. Although the niceties of pro tocol were largely lacking, an air ot mystery hung over the whole affair, chief mystery being why Benny, a mere light heavyweight rassler, would tackle the 270 pound Angel on the street. Why anybody would wrestle The Angel for nothing when he didn't have to is in itself a mys tery. From ringside, wrestling The Angel appears akin to tang ling with the missing link, Gar guantua and King Kong, all roll ed into one. i Pauline Betz On Way to Victory WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 3 (UP) Pauline Betz, national women's tennis champion, was well on her way to winning the Drlaware state woman's grass court championship as she breez ed into the quarter-final round with an easy 6-2, 6-0 victory over Margaret Varner of El Paso, Tex. Miss Betz advanced into the quarter-finals yesterday along with Doris Hart, Miami, Fla., who scored a 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 victory over Barbara Krase of San Francisco, Kay Winthrop, South Hamilton, Mass., who defeated Nancv Chaf fee, Ventura, Calif., 6-2, 6-2, and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke of Boston, victor over Dorothy Head, Alameda, Calif., 6-2, 8-6. Fiske O'Hara, Tenor. Playwright, 67, Dies HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 3 (UP) Fiske O'Hara, for 30 years a lyric tenor of stage, screen and radio, died yesterday al his home after an illness of a year. He was 67. Best known on the stage, O'Hara played a leading part in the light opera "Robin Hood'' and starred for years in plavs he wrote him self. Horace J. Nelson LIFE - FIRE - AUTO Qualitr Insurance Service Tel. 351-W 703 K Ave. La Grande, Ore. TO KEEP COOL! ' ,.- A 1 il r-Sy Ft.;' .'''Ai a r-sy- Pitchers Returned From Army Make Good Records Benton, Ruffing Come Through For Wins By CARL LINDQUIST NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (UP) If the record of eight pitchers who have returned from military serv ice to the majors this season is any criterion, it's time to quit worrying about G. I. Joe making the grade when he doffs khaki and dons flannel. Each of the eight was in the service last year and some came back after the current season be gan. Six of them have won more games than they have lost and collectively they have picked up 54 victories againist 27 defeats for a .067 percentage. That's bet ter than the first place percent age of the Chicago Cubs and De troit Tigers in their respective leagues, aim u ,sn i uni easunauie to assume if they were all on same club they could win the flag without difficulty. Win Two The four in the American league are Dave (Boo) Ferriss of the Red Sox (17-4), Al Benton (10-2) and Les Muller (3-4) both of the Tigers, and Charley (Red) Ruf fing of the Yankees (2-0). The national league returning mound vets are Van Lingle Mungo (11-5) and Jack Brewer (4-3.) both of the Giants, Jack Klaus of the Phmillies (2-2) and Vic Lombardi of the Dodgers (5-7). Two tisem dame through again yesterday. Benton, t-ie Tiger right hander, who may set a new major league earned run mark, gained his 10th victory and his fifth shutout, 6 to 0, over the Browns at Detroit. Eddie Mayo's two home runs gave Benton all the margin he needed to fashion a seven-hit, game. He has not yielded more than two runs in any of the games he has pitched. Oit for more than a month with a broken leg, he ap pears to be as effective as ever now. Hits Homer Ruffing, the lion-hearted red head of the great pre-war Yankees, won his second straight game since coming back from two years in the army by beat ing the Red Sox at Boston, 3 to 1. Nick Etten set up the victory with a three-run first inning homer. The only Boston run was unearned. It was New York's eighth victory in 11 games. The Washington Senators, win ning their second straight doubie header at home, moved into sole possession of second place with a couple of 2 to 1 victories over the Athletics. Mickey Haefner, pitch ing a four-hitter, broke up his own game by singing in the winning run in the ninth in the opeer. Grand Slam Pat Scerey, whose specialty is "grand slam" homers, delivered one to highlight an eight-run third inning for the Indians, who beat the White Sox, 13 to 7, at Cleveland. The victory moved Cleveland into fifth ahead of Chicago. The Indians made 17 hits and the White Sox 15 in the batting melee. Chicago's Cubs went five and a half games ahead in the na tional with a "reverse" 1 to 0 victory over the Pirates to counter their defeat by the same score on the day before. Big Paul Der ringer, pitching his best game of the season, gave up only three hits, two to Frank Colman. Har ry Lowrcy produced the only run with a double which scored Don Johnson in the sixth. It was Der ringer's 12th win. . There were no other national games scheduled. Granada IT'S A MERRY MARCH of CRIME! THEREoOGS KELLY4 MCKII MORAN WANDA McKAY S1DNI MIUER Holph Sonford 0w.y obimon Jon W.lv Plus Western Thrill Feature DON 'RED' BARRY taiu'iitia LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER o Phone 600 Complete Local Reports Friday, August 3, 1945 Today's Sport Parade By CARL LUNDQUIST NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (UP) Within a month college kids all over the land will begin training for what may be the most inter esting football season since Pearl Harbor. As soon as they get back to their campuses the national gambling syndicates will be ready to resume full-scale op erations. The 1945 season is almost cer- . , . . . rpnrri.hrMkpr for big-time betting because Ameri can pockets and purses are bulg ing with inflation dollars. Also the average home front citizen is a little jaded and seeks excite ment. Huge Business The trend already has been established. Betting at race tracks is at record proportions. Each holiday or special event and baseball pool operators report al most double the volume of bus iness they have handled in any previous year. All of this wouldn't be alarm ing if there weren't the ever-present danger some gamblers, not content with the easy money certain on their long-odds cards, will try to make a "killing" by fixing a game. The reminder of what happen ed last winter to the Brooklyn college basketball players, who were lured into accepting bribe money, should be fresh enough in the memory of every college of- Baseball Standings By United Press AMERICAN LEAGUE W. Detroit 53 Washington 49 New York 48 Boston 47 Cleveland c 45 Chicago 45 St. Louis 42 Philadelphia 30 L. Pet .576 .544 .539 .516 .500 .495 .477 .333 36 41 41 44 45 46 46 60 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 59 St. Louis 56 Brooklyn 53 New York 51 Pittsburgh 50 Cincinnati 42 Boston 42 Philadelphia 26 33 41 39 47 47 49 53 70 .641 .577 .576 .520 .515 .462 .442 .271 PACIFIC COAST Portland 78 45 Seattle 72 51 Sacramento 63 62 San Francisco 61 64 Oakland 61 65 San Diego 59 69 Los Angeles 54 70 Hollywood 51 73 .634 .585 .504 .488 .484 .461 .435 .411 Mangrum Leads In .. European Tourney PARIS, Aug. 3 (UP) Cpl. Lloyd Mangrum of Los Angeles went into the final round today of the professional bracket of the European theater golf tourna ment with a one-stroke lead over Lt. Matt Kowal, Philadelphia, his only close competitor. Chill winds blowing across the St. Cloud course yesterday sent Mangrum to a 76 and 54-hole total of 217. Kowal had little tiptter I ii r If with th ndi'nrcQ ' weather and took a 75. TONIGHT and SATURDAY 1 PdS i - . . Mftm VERNON rr MCDDirtr r uI2 HV- rtj. iCfRi -. SPORTS Page 6 UP Staff Correspondent ficial to increase vigilance against a recurrence. If anything has been done it is a well-kept secret. Already the syndicates are lining up their op eratives on the various campuses who work their way through school supply information by tel ephone that usually is not made available to newspapers and press associations. The campus representative, usually well acquainted with the players or the coach, goes be yond the smoke-screen of pessi mism and tall tales of injuries that seep out just before a big game. He isn't interested in any psychological war of nerves be tween coaches. His big job is to find out the true physical and mental condition of the team and his future as a representative of the syndicate depends uncn him getting it right. Leqiiimale It is on this information, sup plied several times a week, that the syndicates base their pre game odds. These odds have been uncannily accurate in the past with syndicate operator ojften able to boast of a higher average of correct selections than the most veteran football forecaster. At most colleges the syndicate representative makes no secret of his work. At times he has been able to supply more accurate in formation on the next opponent than the coach or players have been able to get elsewhere. His job is considered a legitimate one and it helps him to get a college education. Lucky Shot Keeps Byron Nelson In Canadian Open TORONTO, Aug. 3 (UP) By ion Nelson had luck alone to thank today for being in his ac customed spot as low pro after the opening round of the $10,000 Canadian open. He shared the lead with Vic Ghezzi, veteran Deal, N. J., pro, who has been out of military ser vice only about three weeks. Both had two under par 68s, but Nelson required two miracle shots to get his. On the 445-yard fourth hole his drive arched to ward a creek, but instead of hit ting the water, it struck a narrow foot-bridge and bounded 75 yards further toward the green. Actually he got greater distance than if the ball had landed on the fairway. His second shot for the "book" was on the 575-yard 14th hole when he hit a tremend ous approach that landed on the green and he holed his putt for an eagle three. Hefty Willie Goggin, a veter an from White Plains. N. 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Los Angeles ended a three-game losing streak against Sacramento ;with a 4-1 victory. Catcher Mickey Kreitner's tri ple proved to be the blow that brought the brake back on the Angels' losing streak. Rip Rus, sell contributed five-for-five, in eluding a triple, to the Seraph's 13-hit attack. . i. i It was all Dumler as he re stricted Oakland to two hits. He gave up two hits and two runs to the Oaks in the first inning and from then on he doled out goose eggs to the visitors. Oak land gained a split in the finale by scoring three runs in the ninth inning. Colleges to Begin Practice Sept. 8 CORVALLIS, Aug. 3 (UP) Colleges in the northern division.; of the Pacific Coast conference will begin official football prac tice Sept. 8, Percy Locey, Oregon State athletic director and chair man of the northern division ; Managers association, announced today. 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