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southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, May 8. 1947 Profit, $ 5 0 —But Houses A re Built Hammer's Cheerful Song Assures Homes for Vets 1 Grape and Leaf Doily to (¿rochet .Z By BAIKHAGE S THE lid of a new baseball sea son is pried off. it seems to be about time that Ford Frick, presi dent of the Nutional league, sod Will Hurridge, president of the American league, did something about the umpire situation. We are referring to the matter of umpire baiting—including profnnlty, invective and shoutrd Insults from too many managers, and too many players, who use umpires as alibis for their own mistakes or dumb ness. We agree 100 per cent with Wilbur Wood, sportswriter, that such actions in the future s h o u l d be su p - pressed under dras- I tic penalties, j It has been said i that umpire baiting | has a big crowd ap peal and that it Is now an accepted addition to the na tional game. We It. Southworth don’t believe this is true. It may have its appeal to a few, inclined to I the mucker side, but not to the mass of spectators, who go out to get L-I F E E 'S « crocheted doily to their thrills from a hard fought bat treasure — cle ve rly designed tle on the field, not to hear a salvo around u center u rb o r hung with of billingsgate directed at some mun five-inch bunches o f round grapes in blue. If this has become a tradi and big three - inch crocheted tion. then it is a tradition that should | leaves. Completed it is 20 inches be ended. ■ and ‘is w onderfully easy to do Fight and aggressiveness are a Nice as a dining table centerpiece big part of the game, but they in ecru or w hite. • • • should be directed against the op posing team, not against an able To obtain complete crocheting Instruc- tlons for the Gra|>e and I . c f IJolly i | ’»t arbiter, whose average of ability tern No XIS4I ta rg e detail of leaves and Is too often well above the aver trapes. send 20 cents In coin, jo u r name address and pattvrn num ber. age of the ball player’s skill. Due to an unusually large demand and Umpires today are carefully se current conditions, slightly more tim e is lected and well trained. Their rec required In tilling order lor a lew of the ord for honesty in the last 40 years most popular patterns. Send your order to; surpasses any other record in sport. ,4« m / v i / and Commentator. WNV Service. ISIS Eye Street. N. W., built 613 new houses—100 per cent Washington. II. C. more houses than were ever built (Tbit is the third of a jeriei describ in any previous year of the c ity ’s e s bou- American ingenuity it b e ll history. In addition. Yorkites add ing to solte one of America's biggest ed 481 new dwelling units by con Problems—the G.l.'t No. | headache__ verting old houses into apartments the bousing shortage). Of course, this didn’t just hap- WASHINGTON—Have vou been pen. It was made to happen by in York. Pa., lately* I t ’ s a big- • great many local people deter little town of 50.000 population in mined that York’s veterans southern Pennsylvania with a hin would have a place to live. terland of rich farm country, of the The big drive got under way last famous Pennsylvania Dutch, where tables groan with seven-sweet-and- year when a survey showed that one SCHOOL AT NORTHERNMOST OUTPOST . . . There seem , to be no seven-sour dishes, as good victuals out of every three York veterans ‘Sf ‘rad“ lonal These little Eskimo resident, as you 11 find though you wonder was living doubled up with friends of Point Barrow, northernmost outpost of the United States, are the world between hors d’oeuvres or relatives in dilapidated old learning them at the Point Barrow school (background) from Amer and baked alaskas from pole to pole buildings In need of major repairs ican >«achen. Point Barrow, a little village covered by snow the year and back again. or in trailers without standard U, 1944’ ’ <hC ‘ e,HCr ° l rxUn*‘V* 0,1 *«Pl<»ration. started by the navy York is a busy place, a place of plumbing facilities. That’s the way it was in York a year ago when Mayor bustling industries whose products •re known from coast to coast. It John L. Snyder appointed an 18- is also a town which can lift Its eyes member emergency housing com from the plowshare and the forge to mittee. The committee's decision was that think, simply and soundly, about caring for its own. I t ’s a town of York should be able to provide 1.200 new units in 1946; another ingenuity. \\ alk out to the Midland avenue 1.800 this year. They called a meet- section with me. You come upon a ing of every one concerned with hous ing; asked each builder to stand up «"'■"■’aa batch of clap- and tell the group how many of « board houses — if they line both the needed houses he would build in 1946— until the pledges met the i sides of the street quota. MOSCOW MEETING: for a whole block New evidence turned up by the FBI. Shortages of materials were a se —i n v a r i o u s Little Accomplished according to the prosecutor. Is the stages of comple rious threat to this undertaking, but After seven weeks of wrangling, tion. One group of York builders had accepted their the foreign ministers’ conference at typewriter used in preparing the false invoices of the lumber com quotas and were determined to build 1 workmen is fin- Moscow ended in a state banquet pany. through which it is alleged 1 ishing the grad houses. When they couldn’t find the Results of the parley were ex ing on lots; an- scarce materials near home, they tremely disappointing, even to May received the bribes. went to Buffalo, to Ohio, to Hagers- I other hauls plas those whose expectations had been WHEAT AGREEMENT towm, Md. ter into a house; small. It had been hoped that a Members of the housing commit I still others un treaty for Austria would be worked British If on t Sign load door frames tee pitched in with enthusiasm. One out, but even prelim inary agree There will be no worldwide Proud of Profession N K K IH .K W O K K across the street, of them came back from a Sunday ments could not be reached. The 70S Mission St., Man Franrlsro. Call! agreement of wheat • producing drive with two kegs of nails in his They have an amazing pride in Enclose 20 cents for pattern Baukhage arid Put the fin more important matter of the Ger countries on prices and marketing their work, In calling each play as No________________ ishing touches to car bought on the spot when he dis man treaty suffered the same fate, procedures in the near future. This they see it. Pride in their profes the roof of a house being built for covered a little country hardware as expected. Name seems certain as the International sion is something that not all man a veteran. store that had some. Someone else Secretary of State Marshal] blunt Wheat conference in London has Addies. found a m illwork concern in a near agers and ball players have. Many Go a little farther downtown and ly blamed the Russians for ob broken up on British refusal to sign have—but too many do not. Other you come to the Elm street houses— by town which had some door frames structing the negotiations. He the proposed plan. Negotiations have wise, many more ball players would neat, obviously new, two-bedroom for sale. charged that the Soviet delegation been in progress for many weeks in bungalows which have just been sold To keep prices down, local had “ widened rather than narrowed an attempt to formulate a five-year be In far better physical shape both I raveled Around World before and during the baseball to veterans for $5,250 each. builders voluntarily cat profits. our differences.” price and marketing schedule. On High-Wheeled Bicycle season. One went so far as to take a prof On the other side of town, in Park . Principal points of controversy Sir Herbert Broadley. British del it of only $50 per house on a managerial or player squawk Village, you can drive for blocks were the definition of German and egate. explained his reason for re is The usually an alibi, either for lack I 1884’ Thom a« Stevens large group of veterans’ houses. through winding streets flanked by Austrian assets which the Russians jecting the draft was that the price of physical skiU a cover"p for i* ™ “ new houses, partly completed houses, Because converting to apartments want as reparations and the disar scheme in it would not enable the missing brain cylinders No smart c Í c k a Í a t c o n s ií^ r T i m * excavations for houses, and every is quicker and takes less materials. mament and demilitarization plan, price of wheat to fall quickly fan ever falls for this corny hokum, at he t me na Í *niposs.hle where the cheerful song of the ham Y°.u- ^1S° undertool< a campaign known as the “ four nation treaty.’’ enough to a reasonable level. “ The stlempt ,0 shift the blame. j yet t ^ ^ t i T t r i í kJ mer and the saw, the lap of pouring tn this direction, aided by the Cham Almost the only proposition ac concrete, the thud of the pick in the ber of Commerce, the local housing cepted was one. introduced by Rus United Kingdom cannot afford to The umpire a decision I. final. A contrivance, even on a paved pay excessive prices for its im deep soil. expediter, banks, press and radio. sian Foreign Minister Molotov, that ports,” he said. “ The world must doie®. pro,an*’ Babels can’t change street, says C o llie r’s. In 1946—a year when shortages all German prisoners of war in When the lights go on at night, face much lower prices for wheat It. Right or wrong, it is the way he W hile Stevens traveled by boat you w ill notice that a great many brought building programs in many Allied hands be returned to Ger than those ruling at present, but we saw It. And the umpire Is in the across the A tla n tic, Pacific, etc , of the old-fashioned, three-story communities to a dead stop—York many by December 31, 1948. want to see those prices achieved spot to see it better than anyone he pedaled his way over 13,500 row houses in downtown York are built twice as many houses as had Failure to complete the Austrian in a manner which protects the pro else. He Is certainly In a far bet land m iles, through the United lighted from top to bottom. You’d been produced there in any previous treaty means that occupation troops ducer against hardship and enables ter spot than howling fans, 150 to States and 11 other countries from guess that a lot of people were liv year. York’s goal for 1947 is 1 800 of the four powers w ill remain in necessary switches to be made 200 feel from the play, looking on at England to Japan, and a rrive d new living units. The folk in York ing in those houses. You’d be right. Austria for several more months. deceptive angles. without disaster.” back in San Francisco in Decem Phe buildings have been converted aren’t promising anything — they A short while back, we asked sev ber, 1886. Delegates from Canada. Australia aren’t talking about what they’re go WAR GRAFT: into small apartments. and India followed the British lead eral -National league umpires what It looks as though York is getting ing to do. But in the first four Garsson Case Again Leslie Wheeler, U. S. delegate, managers and what teams gave months of the year—with the build Itself pretty well housed. A glance ing season just getting under way— urged immediate acceptance of thè them the least amount of trouble. A new move in the drawn-out war at the figures confirms just how well The vote came for Billy South they’ve filed over 1,100 applications contracts graft case of Representa draft. Brazil’s delegate seconded the town is doing. In 1946 York to build houses. him. This move was rejected. worth, formerly of the Cardinals tive May and the Wheeler then asked that the pro now directing the Braves, and Ed Garsson brothers ’ T- T T- posal be sent to the international die Dyer of the Cardinals. w ill be May’s testi wheat council, which w ill be held in mony in his own Washington, and that countries not Cardinals D ont Argue defense. His law Neither Southworth nor Dyer w ill now adhering be invited to Join. The yer, Sawyer Smith, On a a 140 -Sfiro fm erv» a _ couple —__I - stand for any such rowdy tactics. conference accepted this request. On 140-acre fru iif it farm told the court that And what team has been the most af miles from Olcott Beach where it is untrue that the NO RENT BOOST: aggressive outfit in baseball for the I used to go swimming and the name 71 - year - old Ken- last 10 years? You know the an of which was taken by one of the t u c k y politician House Kills 10% P la n _ swer. The Cardinals. But they sweet singers of the last genera profited from deals The house banking committee, re take out their aggressiveness in hus tion (some of you remember Chaun between the Gars versing its previous stand, voted tle and scrappiness on the field. cey Olcott of “ My Wild Irish Rose” ) son m u n i t i o n s down a proposal for a 10 per cent Their opponents are the other teams anyhow on that farm a young plants and Cum boy strained with the pruning berland Lumber company. “ Andrew blanket increase in rents. It ap —not the umpires. knife; stretched to pluck the fuzzy, J. May w ill take the stand and ex proved and sent on for action a bill No umpire ever heard Walter Niagara county peaches. plain to you how every dollar of continuing controls until December Johnson make any sort of kick. That was scarcely a decade ago. that money was spent, and how not 31. The senate banking committee “ In a sudden lapse, I called a one cent went to Andrew J. May,” already has voted unanimously pitch that almost split the plate a On a bright March day, this same against any raise, and the senate’s ball against Walter Johnson,” B illy the lawyer asserted. fellow—now 17—came into my of bill would continue control until Evans told me. ’ ’Johnson never even On tria l with May are Henry and fice. Since he was a graduate of a F f O llC k / f~TltZ Eats well, acts March 1, 1948. M urray Garsson, head of the war frowned. I apologized later for my Buffalo school, we had something well, Is well—on a basic diet of Gro- The vote in the house committee in common despite the gulf of the materials s y n d i- was 14 to 10. As outlined by Rep mistake. ’ Yes, I knew it was a Pup Ribbon. These crisp, toasted rib yevs. We had something else in cate, and Joseph resentative Wolcott, chairman, the ■trike,’ Johnson said, ‘but we all bons give him every vitamin and make mistakes.’ ” common, too. I also had once won Freeman, the Gars house bill provides: mineral dogs are known to need. Eco a prize in oratory. nomical, too. One box supplies as son agent in Wash I was sitting on the bench with I Continuance of rent control Just much food by dry weight as five 1-lb ington. The govern- about as it is now until December Ted Williams. He went to bat with Mine had to do with a gentleman cans of dog food! Oro-Pup also comes m e n t prosecutor 31, with the President having author two on and took a third strike. No named Spartacus when I was a in Meal and in Pet-Etts. For variety contends that May ity by proclamation to keep ceilings squawk. Masten Park high school entrant. feed all three! received $5,000 out- “ Was that a good one?” I asked His was a far more timely topic— in effect until next March 1 if he him. r i g h t from the deems it necessary. the Constitution of the United States. Edward Smith of Buffalo, a win Garssons and two “ Yes,” Ted said. ” It cut the out His name is Edward Smith and he’s ner In the American Legion ora A new provision whereby tenants checks for $1,000 and landlords may voluntarily enter side corner by an inch. It fooled a graduate of St. Joseph’s on Main torical contest based on the Con each for “ interven- lease contracts for up to 15 per cent I me. It was a swell pitch.” street in Buffalo. stitution, is being quizzed by DOG FOOD M. Garsson *n6 with war de- increases in rent, provided these Smith is one of the four national Baukhage, also an ex-Buffalo That’s the way baseball should be. Mad« by ■ ¡a m s , , , P a r t m e n t offi leases do not expire before Decem The great m ajority of the big names winners of the American Legion’s schoolboy, on the B ill of Rights. cials in behalf of the companies. ber 31. 1948. oratorical contest held each year to in the game are that way. They stimulate American high school don’t have to throw their alibis at boys to study and understand the the umpire. Cy Young, Mathewson, C rM * M M 0m «M Constitution. Never was such an un Alexander, Johnson—four of the derstanding needed more. greatest of all pitchers, never had W N U — 13 any umpire trouble. Winning was no cinch. Two hun 1 9 -4 : dred thousand boys from every state If ball players want to show their entered this year. Smith (there aggressiveness, why not score from weren’t too many “ Smiths” in this first on a single to center to win contest, he told me) had to face WASHINGTON. - Expanded © a world series, as Country Slaugh WASHINGTON. — Expanded con- con greatest eomvern------ __ . greatest cooperative endeavor be nine different critical audiences— ter did? Or run bases as the Cardi maintain rigidly high prices by cut sumption and adjusted production tween farmers and the govern one in his school; one in the city of nals run bases? Help Thera Cleanse the Blood Buffalo; one in Erie county; one in are the major points of a strong ment,” O’Neal criticized “ a tend ting down production and applying of H arm fu l Body Waste the district; one in the zone; one in farm program recommended by ency to develop centralized control Tour kldn.ra are constantly Bltsrtns in 0,Aer Gm™ matter from blood ■treem. stream. Bal Bui the state; one in the region; one Edward A. O’Neal, president of or these programs from Washing klruZ.. 1 ™ tho not a< b,o°d ,n w ork -35 What fun can a crowd get from in the section, and then the final heat American Farm Bureau federation, ton. ’ Instead, he urged transfer of rigidly high wage rates and to con- tinue such increases in wages with- seeing a swarm of players surround —the national contest at Charles in testifying before the house agri larger authority to state extension out regard to productivity, and to some umPire. holding up the game. K S V . , , ’.’ " " “ a “ • culture committee. ton, W. Va. services as a means of effecting enforce such rates with scarcity howling about a decision that won’t savings in costs and providing It would be folly to assume that b* backache, Smith’s theme was that Americans « .7 u . ‘ attack, of d lw ln w i policies which discourage consump and can’t be changed? They don’t must not be too complacent about we w ill not have burdensome sur greater service to the masses of tion and throw people out of work see "anything like this happen In foot • faalios of nervous the dangers of Communism; that pluses of farm produce again that farmers. and onto relief rolls. ball, an even more rugged competi OthL i i ? ° T t 2 i P*P atransth. O’Neal informed the house com sign« of kidney or bladder dl». our Constitution in itself is not pro may wreck farm prices,” O’Neal tive sport. They rarely see It in “ It is this approach which leads order b i a i i . ™ * ’* * warned. mittee, which is considering a long- tection for our form of government loo (r.qu.nt ufln.tlon. or to economic chaos. any other game. range farm policy, that his organi In endorsing reciprocal trade —that its duties and privileges must tr “° l° " b‘ th“ P ro»». Farmers believe in an economy U m pire baiting Isn’t aggressive constattly be exercised by every c it principles, the farm leader declared zation has not come to final conclu of abundance and stand ready to izen. He told me, Incidentally, that that “ agriculture more than ever' sions on the subject, but he read join with industry and labor to ness. Too often It Is cowardice, and I Era - - - - - -a - a?” y -w l4 a r.putatloa. thia also goes for the stands, where Communism -------------— ... in relation w to Mlv the von- Con- j nceds an expanded volume of for- this statement: achieve maximum production and the odds are only 30,000 to 1. “ We recognize the desirability of stitution was quite a popular sub- I ei6n trade to absorb its output.” maximum employment through The umpire can take care of h im Ject among this year's contest en- i Although describing the farm leg* full agricultural production, but price policies and wage policies trants- islation since the early ’30s as “ the agriculture cannot maintain full which are geared to a maximum self. Being human, he w ill make production If Industry la going to his share of mistakes on split-second level of consumption.” NEWS REVIEW Big 4 Parley Is Failure: Wheat Pact Is Delayed Pojslve Known. School Boys Learn Constitution GRO-PUP H l /l’A s QE SURPLUSES Strong Farm Program Urged Watch Your Kidneys/ or split-inch decisions. D oans P ills
