Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, A pril 17, 1JM7
News Conferences Net Few Leads
Truman's Press Confabs
Lack Color of FDR’s
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By BAUKHAGE
A m j I m I »»J C o m n tH lilo r.
H o w to T a k e C a re
O f the N e w B a b y
brihgin 6
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IT MAY interest you to know what
* various ball players, scouts and
m anagers think ubout the next two
pennant races, Taking a general
consensus, here is the vote in both
leagues,
In the Nutionul league, the Dodg­
ers ure sure to be an Improved team ,
with m ore experi­
ence and greater
c o n s i s t e n c y In
p itc h in g . Youth
rides faster from
m idsum m er on.
But the C ardinals
are also much
s t r o n g e r th a n
they looked to be
a year ago—espe
chilly withG corge
M. Cooper
Munger and John­
ny Beazley back
to help out Pollet, Breechecn, Dick­
son and others.
The C ardinals look to be the class
of both leagues. They have a young
hustling sta r c a tc h e r—a great pitch­
ing staff—the best infield in baseball,
with Musial, Schoendienst, Marion
and Kurowskl, and one of the best
outfields. They have class and sp ir­
it. They are not getting any young­
er and there a re still a few “ Ifs"
connected with T erry Moore's knee,
the arm s of Kurowski and Slaugh­
ter, M arion's back and Johnny Beaz­
ley. But so far. these highly im por­
tant cogs seem to be grinding
smoothly.
The serious experts I've talked to
pick Billy Southw orth's Braves as
the serious threat.
“ If Mort Cooper picks up where
he left off last y e a r," one scout told
me. “ the Braves can challenge the
C ardinals and Dodgers. Cooper Is
a great pitcher—not m erely a good
one. Southworth is two deep. Elliot
will help a lot. The Braves can be
a tough club to handle any tim e.”
A fter-B ath Care
of type that alm ost always appeared
ANY new m o th e rs w onder
after a Roosevelt news conference.
w h e th e r to p u t oil o r po w d er
We
wondered
why.
Looking
back
WASHINGTON — President Tru
on b a b y 's sk in a f te r a b a th . W hich
man held his 100th White House over the hundred conferences with
you u se is n 't so im p o rta n t. W tiat
Mr. Trum an, we agreed they had
press and radio conference recently
k in d you use is v ita l, how ever.
been pretty good. But of late, we
He said he had enjoyed them all
S o m e b a b y p o w d e r s c o n ta in s t e a r a t e o f
The reporters, he said, had been agreed, it required a bit of digging
t i n e . I f t h ia c h e m i c a l Is I n li n l e d , n s e r io u s
to
get
the
news.
Roosevelt
usually
a n d o fte n f a t a l f o r m o f p n e u m o n ia d e ­
fair; had reported the facts.
v e lo p s . Y o u c u n s a f e l y u s e t a l c u m p o w ­
gave us something which, even if
Thank you, Mr. President.
d e r.
“How have I been?" he might it w asn’t news, had a strong human
n e w b a b y Is a f u l l ­
T a k in g c a r e o f
interest appeal. Even if it were only
have asked us, but didn't.
t i m e Job
O u r n e w b o o k le t N o . 203 c a n
On the way back from the White a striking simile like the one Roose­
h e l p y o u In c o u n t le s s w a y s . S e n d 23 c e n t s
( c o i n ) f o r “ l l a b y < a r e ” to W e e k l y N e w s -
House that windy 100th day, some velt used in connection with lend-
j »a i>er S e r v ic e . 213 W e s t 1 7 th M t., N e w
, of us discussed lease.
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b o o k le t t i t l e a n d N o . 203.
(You may rem em ber, he said that
the question. That
100th conference if a neighbor's house was on fire,
<*• e- <*• e- e- «*•<*• <*- e- <*- e- e- e- <*• <*• e- e- r*
was the first since you naturally would lend him your
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his Florida trip hose if his w eren’t long enough, not
?
NEW BLOOD FOR AILING FOAL . . . Blood transfusions are no nov-
w h ic h
b e g a n only to help him save his home but
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elty now, even in the anim al world. This tiny colt, suffering from a
when the Sacred also to keep your own from catch­
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joint infection, is being given a blood transfusion.
Cow winged its ing fire. And you wouldn’t dem and
?
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A
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e
n
e
r
a
l
Q
u
iz
paym
ent
for
its
use.
After
the
fire
way from the na-
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a i r p o r t , was out the neighbor would give
-
some 30 minutes back the hose or pay for it with
T h e Q u e a tio n a
after Mr. Trum an w hatever he had to offer in return.)
1. W hat a r e th e four c itie s r e ­
left the cham ber
Even the anti-Roosevelt papers I
fe rre d to in th e ra ilro a d n ic k n a m e
of the house of would have to report stories like I
"The Big F our"?
r e p r e s e n ta tiv e s that, whether they agreed with the :
2. W hen C a e s a r cro sse d th e R u ­
where he had de­ idea behind them or n o t
bicon,
w hich m a n did he d e c la re
livered his histo­
And if Roosevelt hadn’t any spe- i
Baukhage
w a r upon?
cific com m ent on the im portant )
ric message.
3. W hat is a d igam ist?
Meanwhile, the new declaration of news of the day, he frequently would GERMANY:
4. The favorite d au g h ter of Mo­
I other 2,013 mines under federal con-
American policy had wakened thou­ m ake use of a parable or give us a |
h a m m e d w as c a lle d w h at?
| trol have reopened. It is estim ated
sands and thousands of words, spo­ homily, which showed us how he ! Strikes for Food
5. W hich c ity is r a te d the w ind ­
ken and printed in every nation and was thinking on the subject, some- j Coal m iners in G erm any's Ruhr that coal output has been reduced
ie s t c ity in the U nited S ta te s? •
in almost every new spaper in the thing that m anaged to get his ideas area a re striking for larger food about one-sixth by the closing order.
6. How m a n y tra v e lin g c a rn iv a ls
world. Diplomats, generals, states­ over and furnish us with the back- ; rations for them selves and their
John L. Lewis, who was testify­
a r e th e re in th e U nited S ta te s?
men, people big and little, had ground we needed to interpret the families. This region is in the B rit­ ing before a house labor subcom­
7. H ow m a n y E n g lish m e n h a v e
quaked or exulted. So we naturally daily happenings.
ish zone. More than 300.000 m iners m ittee when Secretary Krug issued
o ccu p ied th e p a p a l th ro n e?
looked for something very hot to
We talked the 100th press confer- j have been off the job at various the order, com m ented,
8. T h e r e ’s one s tr e e t c a r o r au to
write about as a result of our first ence over, lam enting th at nothing tim es in dem onstrations against
“ I point out that Secretary Krug
b u s fo r e v e ry how m a n y p e rso n s
White House conference thereafter. had come out of it which would c la r­ what they consider inadequate food is doing now what he should have
in the U nited S ta te s?
We didn’t get it.
ify the Greek-Turkish aid program . allowances. Most of the R uhr’s 170 done ever since the safety code be­
We did hear form er A mbassador We regretted that P resident Trum an mines have been idle at some tim e cam e effective. H e's started to en­
T h e A n a w e ra
to Poland Arthur Bliss L ane's blast h adn't injected a little m ore of him ­ or other during the past two weeks. force his own code after 111 deaths."
against Communism; we found out self into the meeting. It would have The Ruhr is the h eart of industrial
1. C le v e la n d , C in c in n a ti, C h ic a ­
that the President was a left-handed been to the advantage of the news G erm any, containing coal and iron ICELAND:
go and St. Louis.
bowler (he had just been present­ folk, the program itself, the peo­ mineS, steel mills and other heavy
Cubs
for
Fourth
Place
2. Pom pey.
Ash Ruins Farms
ed with a bowling alley); we were ple who were trying to get support industries.
3. If you h a v e m a rrie d for a sec­
The
Spring
vote
for
fourth
place
Ashes from the furiously erupting
assured that he was concerned about for it.
ond tim e a f te r d e c e a s e o r d iv o rce
B ritish authorities have been ap-
goes
to
the
Cubs.
After
that,
it
is
rising prices: we listened to him ex­
Of course, there was reason for I pealing, for the m ost p art futilely, Mount Hekla a re ruining pastures anybody's scram ble, with the Phil­ of y o u r sp o u se, you a r e a d ig a m ist.
press the hope that industry would Mr. T rum an’s reticence. He had ; to the m iners to rem ain on the job. in a large area around the cone,
4. Fatima.
lies, Ginnts, P irates and Reds in a
see "the handw riting on the w all" been criticized early in his adm inis­ ' The situation has been getting which is situated in southern Ice­
5.
Buffalo. N. Y.
hard drive to head the second divi­
and stop an upward spiral which tration for answ ering some ques­ worse for some tim e, largely as a land. The volcanic dust is three
6. A bout 300.
sion.
But
the
experts
are
cagey
would bring forth renewed w'age tions too glibly. He had suffered result of British inability to obtain inches thick, and constantly getting
7. One (A drian IV, 1100 1159).
enough to suggest th at one of these
and transport large enough quanti­ deeper. It is feared that 17 farm s, might reach the first division.
8. E v ery 1,500 persons.
20
to
30
miles
from
the
volcano,
will
ties of foodstuffs to m aintain a m in­
The Cardinals are the pick. "By
imum subsistence diet.
Heavy be ruined.
T hree main volcanic cra te rs are all odds, the best all-around team in
workers feel the lack even more
baseball," one veteran told me.
acutely, and trouble has been brew ­ active. Stream s of lava two miles
"Only savage ill luck ean let them
wide
and
48
feet
high
are
flowing
ing all winter.
down. They are all class. The Dodg­
Curtailm ent of coal output has from the mountain. Boulders hurled
ers will hustle, but they won't out-
into
the
air
explode
like
artillery
G r e a t fo r A ll Afl«»^
serious consequences, not only for
hustle this Cardinal team —not on the
. G erm any, but for 13 European shells. F a rm e rs are slaughtering
ball field, where they win and lose
i countries now receiving 10 per cent their livestock and moving out of gam es."
the
ash-coverd
area.
Recommended
of the G erm an coal production.
The Dodgers are packed with “ ifs”
E lectric power reductions soon will RADAR:
—Branca, Barney, Head, first base,
by Many DOCTORS
zi
become necessary in these nations,
T ests are being m ade at the third base and Pete R eiser. The
it is feared. In an effort to ease the
Helps tone op adult
only Cardinal "if" is a few rem oved,
situation, B ritish authorities are Washington, D. C. and Chicago a ir­
s y s te m s — h e lp s
and replaced, hones.
ports
to
determ
ine
how
practical
rushing all available food from
children build sound
the ground approach control meth­
The consensus in the A merican
other p arts of their zone.
teeth, strong bones.
od is for com m ercial aviation. This league circuit leans strongly to the
method, found successful by the Red Sox.
BRITAIN:
i r i OOOD’ TASTfN&f
arm y and navy air corps, employs
I know the Tigers think they will
Peacetime Draft
ra d a r to guide planes to a safe beat out the Yankees. They don’t
Recognizing the th reat to peace landing.
think they can beat out the Red Sox
that the Russian foreign policy pre­
E xperim ents will be conducted —but they figure there's a chance
sents to Britain, as well as to all also at New York and eventually at
with better pitching, which they
the world, the parliam ent passed a other leading airports. The test pe­
might get And better pitching can
peacetim e conscription bill, dis­ riod will continue, according to
pick up a lot.
tasteful as this is to the Labor gov­ Civil A eronautics adm inistration of­
ernm ent. A curious alignm ent com ­ ficials, until it is determ ined to what
Yanks Need DiMaggio
YOU
bined to force passage of the bill as extent ra d a r could be used to sup­
The
collapse
of
Yankee
hitting
last
Conservatives joined with Laborites plem ent or substitute for instrum ent
can have a
Newspaper men and radio casters crowd eagerly about President
year, plus the type of spring train ­
to vote the act through. There was landings.
Trum an in one of his 100 press conferences.
ing they have employed, w on't be
em barrassm en t on both sides, for
any big help. Both the Red Sox and
dem ands; we asked for but got "no from spontaneous replies. As a re­ m any of the Labor party m em bers
Tigers will leave Florida m uch bet­
com m ent" on a num ber of bills "in sult he is now perhaps leaning a had voted against conscription at
te r conditioned team s. The injury
the works" because the President little too fa r backw ards.
the beginning of the war. The Con­
to Joe DiMaggio has been a hard
won't talk about “pending legisla­
servatives,
led
by
Winston
Church­
The White House press and radio
blow. Joe is the Yankee spearhead.
tion” —and he applied the sam e rule conference is a great institution. It ill, reluctantly favored a bill spon­
T here will have to be a terrific up­
to the Greek-Turkish affair.
provides a m edium for bringing the sored by the party they ardently
with
ward lift on the p a rt of the Yankees
We also were handed a good laugh people and their governm ent n e a re r dislike. L iberals and certain paci­
to
beat
out
either
Red
Sox
or
Tigers
out of comment on the famous faux together than any other medium fist Laborites voted “no” on bill.
—possibly to head off the Indians.
pas made by Gael Sullivan, deputy which exists, except perhaps the r a r ­ The national service bill extends
At this mom ent, the Yankees
the
present
conscription
laws
for
chairm an of the national D em ocrat­ er “fireside ch at.” Nothing like it
are not in any too high favor as
ic committee while the President exists anyw here else in the world. five years beyond Ja n u ary 1, 1949.
pennant people. Russo could m ake
was away. Sullivan almost disrupt­ But it is not an easy thing to handle. It provides for 18 months of active
a big difference.
ed “bi-partisan foreign policy" by The correspondents are there to get service for all men 18 to 26. and
Yankee pitching can be O.K., as
w riting to the Republican national every scintilla of news which they five and a half years of part-tim e
FERRY-MORSE SEED CO.
it was last year, but there m ust be
com m ittee chairm an and asking for think will interest th eir read ers and service.
ORTROtT I I
J A N FRANCISCO 14
a big change In Yankee hitting,
a joint statem ent supporting the T ru­ listeners. The P resident is there to
COAL
MINES:
Yankee spirit, and Yankee hustle.
m an plan on Greek aid.
reveal only w hat he thinks is his
This refers to the Yankees of 1946,
When somebody asked if Sullivan duty to release in the public good. Closed as Dangerous
not the squad getting ready for 1947.
Five hundred and eighteen gov­
was thinking .of resigning there was And he is also there to present his
But the 1947 Yankee squad m ust
side of all questions so th at his ad­ ernm ent-operated soft coal mines
considerable gaiety.
know by now how m any gam es It
SO N G W R ITERS 111
There were a num ber of other m inistration appears in the best have been closed down as unsafe by
TiiSnVwv-S14' M',S,C PUBLISHINO
lost last year through this wrecking
S ecretary of the Interior Krug.
CO M PANY H newdepnrtm ent ofTcn, pro-
questions which elicited some minor light.
fault. A few transfusions of C ardi­
finHionnl Assistance and advice on allynur
P resident Roosevelt was a past They will rem ain closed for an in­
stories but no scream ing headlines
■nnga in preparing them for commercial
nal blood could help m ore than a
m aster at the art. He seldom re ­ definite period, until inspections in­
uao. Publishing IH>aait>ilitica determined by
trifle. You can bank on Bucky H ar­
fused to answ er a question, for that dicate that they are “ reasonably
experts. I' reo collaboration arrangement«.
Sond your »„nan and fin no todan for on»
ris, Chuck Dressen and Red Corrí,
H e r e ’a P o in t fo r
just m eant “no new s.” He preferred safe.” R epresentatives of m iners’
y«or profution al ttrnie»» to ■—
den
to
handle
m
ore
than
their
share
THE CROWELL MUSIC PUBLISHINO CO.
to feint and dodge in a m anner unions also will pass on the safety
BOTTLE BABIES . . . Miss Avis
B e tte r R o ad a
Wood«
Thootro Building, Suite 709
of the plot, but they are not out on
Gunderson feeds three baby Cali­
B4 Wo«t Rondolph Si.
Chicogo 1, llllnola
L ast year, some 34,677,000 tons of th at produced som e kind of an an­ elem ent in each mine.
the
field
winning
gam
es.
sw
er
which
would
suit
his
ends.
About 40,000 m iners are employed
fornia black bears, which were
milk were hauled over ru ral roads
found in the redwood forests near
A Yankee revival could m ake a
on the journey to milk plants and President Trum an has chosen to go in the 518 dangerous mines. The
into a clinch ra th e r than feint or greatest risk. Secretary Krug said,
Willits, Calif., and given to San
big difference, but this m eans prac­
dealers, according to a report from
risk a wild haym aker.
Francisco zoo.
is from explosive gas and dust. The
tically the entire team m ust play
the Public Roads adm inistration cit­
better ball outside of Spud Chandler,
T o h o ld y o u r looao u p p e rs a n d lo w ­
ed by Charles M. Upham of the
u re a ll d a y — e n d
who is still their best pitcher after e e v rs e ry c o d m a f y o , r ta t r b y ly d e sec
A merican Road Builders’ associa­
n tis t's a m a z in g d s -
c o v e r y c a lle d 8 T A Z E . N o t a - m essv ’
some
nine
years
of
m
ajor
league
tion.
powderl
8TA ZE
Is
p le a s a n t- t o -if te
service.
p a s te . G e t 35c tu b e a t d r u g g is t ,
Figures show the nation is us­
t o d a y ! A c c e p t n o s u b s titu te !
/i
ing 13 billion pounds more of milk
Cleveland
Has
Hurlers
6*1*2^71?
Holds
All
0s»
et
and various dairy products a t p res­
A < tB » Yssr Missy (sckl
The vote we have picked up gives
ent than in prew ar years. During the
Joe Gordon a good year, possibly a
prew ar years, 1936 to 1940, the aver­
WASHINGTON.—As evidence o f ^
16—47
big year, with Cleveland pitching al­ WNU—13
age yearly tonnage of milk going
$86,500,000
went
to
people
in
Canada,
B
ritain
and
N
orthern
Ireland,
$17,-
the
huge
am
ounts
of
A
m
erican
ways dangerous. The Cleveland out­
over ru ral roads was 21,287,000. In
Mexico and Latin A m erica; $1,900,- 400,000; B erm uda and other British
1945, 101.5 billion pounds of milk money being poured into foreign 000 to A frica; $60.000,000 to Asia, dependencies in the Caribbean, $12,- field. however, is below par. The
countries,
the
com
m
erce
departm
ent
T iger infield isn’t any too hot, al­
w ere sold from farm s, returning
and $4,700,000 to A ustralia and other 200,000; Canada, $11,700,000.
though Kell Is close to being the best
$3,070,380,000 to our farm ers, a good estim ates th at residents of the U nit­ Pacific ocean islands.
Persons In Greece, for which con­ third basem an in the league.
percentage of their annual cash in­ ed States sent $296,900,000 to
Among
individual
countries,
Mex­
friends and relatives in other coun­
gress now Is considering loan aid,
The m ain job, of course, is sup­
come.
R
tries during 1946. In addition, gift ico got the larg est sum, $44,000,000. got $11,000,000 from people in this pressing the Red Sox, with Ted Wil­
The highway plays the m ajor role parcels valued at $125,500,000 were Much of this represented money
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in the transportation of milk from sent abroad last year.
earned in this country by Mexican country. The sum of $10,800,000 went liam s, Tex Hughson, Bobby Doerr,
, Kpray w ith Black Leaf 40. Ona T
Dom DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky.
the farm to the plant or dealer—
ounce in 6 callona of water makea E
w orkers—largely engaged In farm to Switzerland, $10,700,000 to Swe­
The
vote,
at
this
mom
ent,
is
C
ardi­
an effective aphid-apray.
The
actual
money
sent
was
$10,-
and to the custom er, Upham points
work—and sent home to their fam i­ den, $10,300,000 to Spain and $4,300,-
Black
Leaf 40 alio controta leaf hoppers, C
nals vs. Red Sox. The next vote is
out. Forty-nine of our large cities 500,000 m ore than in 1945 and $100,- lies.
leaf miner«, moat thripa, mealy buia,
000 to Palestine.
000,000
m
ore
than
in
1944,
the
de­
Dodgers
vs.
Red
Sox.
The
third
vote
lace
bugs,
young sucking bugs and similar T
receive every drop of milk by high­
O ther large sums went out as fol­
United States residents sent $600,- is C ardinals vs. Tigers.
Insects.
I
way, as do 54,000 com m unities that p artm en t said.
lows;
000 to Russia and the sam e amount
TOBACCO BY-PRODUCTS A O
But a fte r all, there is a hot sum ­
C H E M IC A L CO RP^INCQ RPORATED
N early half of the 1946 money, or
depend upon the highway for their
Italy, $26,000,000; China, $20,000,- to Egypt, tWe sm allest sum s record­
Laulavilla 2
Kentucky N
$143,800,000, went to Europe, while 000; Hongkong, $24,600,000; G reat ed for any place listed In the report. m er on ahead, plus the grind of the
en tire food supply.
‘ ° O * «or th e le a « on th e P a c k a g e
stretch.
WNV Service, Ifilfi Eye Street, N. W.
Washington. D. C.
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