Southern Oregon miner., June 26, 1947, Image 2

^FICTION CORNER
i
THIRD STRIKE CALLED!
By JACK KOFOED
*T 'H E sun slanted into the bull pen ain’t it? Lookit this sene* now.
* where High Pockets Kelley was Here we come to the last game, and
warming up. and caused beads of every pitcher on the staff except
perspiration to stipple his brick- McKeever and me is as healthy as
colored forehead like raindrops. He if they had the cholera. And what
threw the ball listlessly because happens? Slats makes 'em eat out
there wasn't a chance in a m illion of his hand while I'm here in the
that he would get into the final bull pen. The boss is wavin' for you.
game of the World Series His team­ L u c k I"
Howard laughed, but there was
mate, Slats McKeever, had held the
Giants to three hits, and the Yan­ no m irth in it.
kees led one to nothing going into
" I f you gab less and look more,
the final inning.
maybe you wouldn't feel that way.
"Something always happens to McKeever's lost his stuff Moore
m e," Kelley said, "and it is seldom singled and Wilson walked and
anything to write home about. As there's Lake at the plate now. If he
far back as I can remember, I have gets a piece of one, goodbye ball
been the unluckiest guy in the game! Uh-huh, he walked, too. And
world. When I was only seven years the boss is wavin’ for you."
old, I met Sally Ryall. . .
Kelley stuffed his glove in his hip
" I f you call that bad luck," pocket and pulled his cap further
snorted Pete Howard, "get me a down over his sunburned forehead.
load of it."
High Pockets
put an e x t r a
little zip on his
fast ball.
"That's right
but y o u o n l y
got the start of
it.” he s a i d
"W e ’ r e from
Is h p e m in g ,
Michigan, and a lot of houses out
there have board fences along the
back yard. I tried to make a hit
with Sally by walkin' on one of
them and fell off and busted a
couple of ribs. When I got my first
job in the Northern Michigan
League, she came to see me work.
I tore a nail off a finger of my pitch-
in' hand and they knocked me out
c* the box in two innings. But that
wasn't the worst of it. We had
signed a new first baseman named
"What happened?"
Frederick Longstreth McGee. . . .’’
High Pockets banged the ball
"Good luck," he echoed scorn­
viciously into his glove. "Yeah, but
fully. " I f I strike out the side, I 'll
look what luck does to me. Fred
bet Connelly misses the last pitch
wasn't supposed to report until the i and the winning runs come over."
next day, but he's just dumb enough
McKeever was still waiting at the
to get his dates mixed and showed
up in time to meet Sally. What's i pitcher's box with all the inflelders
Clark Gable got that ha hadn't got? around him when Kelley shuffled
Not a thing. And me six-feet-four, up. “ Somebody's makin’ an awful
and with a pan that stopped prac­ mistake.” said High Pockets. "Lea­
tically every clock in Ishpeming." ner knows how unlucky I am. Does
he want to lose this series?”
"So you lost Sally to him, eh?"
Slats glared at him.
"Not yet. If my luck in love is as
" I f the rest of the staff wasn’t on
bad as it is in everything else, I
the
waitin’ list of the hospital for
probably will. When we came up to
the majors, McGee was signed by joint diseases, you wouldn't even be
the Giants. Five minutes after he here. Forget that luck stuff. It’s not
put on the slidin’ pads. Smith’ s legs as important as the hop on your fast
went bad, and there was McGee the one.”
"T hat’ s what you think," Kelley
regular first baseman. The Yankees
took me and all I had to beat out said. "B ut I ’ll take a double order
for a job were Jones, Pearson, Tal­ o luck. My g irl says there ain’t
any. Laugh that off And for a real
bot and W irtz."
"You complain too much,” said' break—Frederick Longstreth Mc­
Pete, “ look at me. That Connelly Gee is battin’ next. What a guy! He
w ill go on catching till I've got a could trip over a cat and fa ll into a j
beard way down to here. All I get gold mine. This sure is a spot i
for a guy who ain't pitched much '
to do is warming up these bums."
High Pockets considered that un­ more this season than Shirley i
important. He had his own troubles. Temple has."»
McKeever’s gaunt, red face ex­
“ Sally talks that way, too. She
pressed
the deepest disgust.
works for a psychiatrist named Gol­
"Well, you better come outta this
enpaul, and he says I’m obsessed
by the belief that luck is the domi­ game with somethin’ better than a
natin’ factor in my career. Well, bad luck alibi, or New York won’t
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Horizontal
1 Plucky
5 Young dog
8 Place of
trade
12 War god
13 Chimpanzee
14 At any time
15 Joyous
17 To revolve
round a
central point
19 Confronted
20 Askew
(Scot.)
21 Dry
23 Combining
form : oil
24 Sick
26 Hackneyed
28 Insect egg
31 Egyptian
deity
32 Emmet
33 101
34 To append
36 Tendon
38 Domestic
fowl
39 Ardor
41 Mere
repetition
43 Preserves
45 Lasso
48 Memorial of
victory
50 Deer’s horn
51 Poker stake
52 Bristle
54 To steer
55 Dutch farm er
in S. Africa
56 Explanation
57 Epochs
I
10 Network
11 Card with
three pips
16 Mine
entrance
18 Eastern
university
22 To flow off
gradually
Vertical
23 Weasellike
aquatic
1 Boat hook
animal
2 Plane surface
3 Small cactus 24 Man’ s name
25 Youth
4 Ether com­
27 Hotel
pound
29 Frozen water
5 Slang: chum
30 M ineral
6 Above
35 To apply
7 Wooden pin
36 O fficial’s
• To be swal­
scarf
lowed up
37 Impaired
• Where King
by use
Arthur got
his sword
38 Physician
Solation In N e x t Issae.
be big enough to hold the two ot
us."
He turned on his heel and strode
back to the bench.
The inflelders took their positions
and High Pocket* stood in the mid '
die of the diamond with the bull in
hi* hand and remembered how ht 1
1 had fallen off the fence and h o v '
those Northern Michigan fellow*
had pinned back his ears, and knew
in his heart that he wasn't lucky
enough to get one past McGee.
He better, though—if he failed he
could not excuse himself to Sally.
' She wouldn't listen to that bad luck
stuff any more. She would say he
was given the greatest break of his
life and had not been man enough
! to take advantage of it. Besides,
High Pockets felt that if he let Me-
World War II and the rapid ex­
j Gee hit, he'd be delivering grocer- tension of government-approved ru­
| ies for old man Hemingway back In ral power line* to meet furm pro­
I Ishpeming next Summer instead of duction emergencies contributed,
! drawing salary checks from the more than any other factors, to the
J Yankees.
widespread use of trnnsformcr-typn
i Connelly was signaling Kelley
didn't know what the catcher was
calling for. A curve? A fast ball? A
: dipsy do? What did it matter, any-
way? Whatever he threw McGee
was going to hit.
I The plate umpire took off his
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS
S u m m e r p a r l u S \e S .\ fo r SJofs
O n e - I f a r t i (JSfouAiA ^ i r e .S m a r t
Farmers Repairing
Equipment at Home
Increased Use of Arc
Welding Aid to Farm
Welding being done efficiently
on the farm .
electric arc welders on farms. Weld­
ing was an entirely new job to most
farmers when the war started, but
before it had progressed many
months, scores of them had become
old hands at the "fix it up, make it
do" trade.
Thus a war-taught talent enters
the peacetime picture with increas­
ing popularity. Experience showed
that many broken parts could be
welded satisfactorily without having
to remove them from the machine
and that such equipment then could
be returned to the fields promptly
—especially when time-saving weld­
ing Jobs were done on the farm.
Also, farmers soon learned that they
could use their welders to construct
new equipment out of scrap parts
and modify present equipment to suit
their particular need*, as well as
make necessary repair*.
With the use of welders, discard­
ed repair parts and scrap metal can
be made Into feed cars, manure
loaders, buck rakes, m ilk can trucks
and racks, disc harrows and tra il­
ers; broken sickle bars, tractor
wheel rims and spokes, tractor hitch
drawbars,
spring tooth points,
gears, gear teeth and sprockets enn
be repaired, and horse-drawn equip­
ment is modified for tractor use
he asked, dazedly.
mask and bellowed, " if you can
pull yourself out of that trance,
Kelley, how about working at your
trade? I don't want to stay here
through the whole football season!"
Well, there wasn't anything else
to do. Then High Pockets wound up.
his mind on Sally . . . and bad luck
. . . and the instant the ball left the
tip of his fingers he knew it didn't
have anything on it but the stitches,
and it was straight as a ruler and
big as a balloon. He saw McGee
pull back his club . . . and then
there was a whack of wood against
leather . . . and that was all he
remembered.
High Pockets woke up in a nice
clean hospital bed with a nurse tak­
ing a thermometer out of his mouth.
Pete Howard stood nearby.
"The doc says you're all rig h t."
said Pete. " It's lucky you got a
head like a wrestler, or they'd be
tuning up the harps for you now."
High Pockets twisted his neck.
There was a little ache in the back
of his skull, but not much.
"What happened?" he asked.
Howard seemed embarrassed.
"Well, McGee hit a line drive that
bounced off your noggin into Stone's
hands and Lou made a triple play
unassisted.”
Kelley sat straight up in bed.
"H oly Moses! The first break I ever
had in my life, and we win the
World Series with it! I 'll never crab
any more. Wait till I see Sally!”
“ I wouldn't bother, if I were
you," Pete said, moving toward the
door. “ Women are awfully funny.
Sally said nobody ever got a worse
break in luck than Fred McGee,
and before she marries him she's
going to tell Dr. Golenpaul he
doesn’t know what he's talkin'
about.”
Merely Using Your Head
Will Save Your Heels
Is there an easier, better way to
do that job? Purdue university an­
swers with: "Yes.
there probably is.
There is an easy
and a hard way, a
labor-saving and a
labor-wasting way
to do any job. Few
of us are doing our
farm job the easiest
way. If we use our
heads we can save our heels—as
well as time, energy and expense.
But we rarely take time to save
time. We don't figure out the easi­
est, most effective way—we just
get the job done."
Three Blouse*
A TRIO of blouses th at are as
pretty us can be, und so sim ­
ple to m ake—and each requires
just one yard of colorful fabric I
D ainty Princes* Dress
| For trim m ing add gay buttons and
A DAINTY little sum m er party ' crisp narrow ruffling.
* * dress to delight the young
• • •
m iss of three to eight. ’ Scallops
P a tte rn N o 1641 I* fo r sizes 12. 14, 16,
finish the front closing, bows perch 18 nm l 20 Sis* 14. 1 y a rd ot 33 or SO-
I in c h fa b ric fo r each blouse
on each shoulder—cute heart-
Kend to day for your ro p y of the Rum
shaped pockets are just right to n ir r Issue ot I IS H IO N . C on tain s 1Z
hoiu a hanky. This princess style l>a*r> ot style, ro to r, e a a y -la n i a f c r r l o t b r i
to d r lle h l e v e ry w o m n who tewa
Free
is easy sewing for m other, too.
p a tte rn p rin te d Inside the book
M < r u t ’
Send your order to:
P a tte rn No 8012 conies In sizes 3. 4
9. 6. 7 an d 8 y e a r *
Size 4 requires 144
y a r d * of 33 or 30-lnch; 2 ' j y a r d * p u r ­
chased ru fflin g .
P a tte rn No
Addiess.
Hold
47 Weapons
49 Animal of the
ox fam ily
50 Some
53 You and I
A nsw er to P o tile N um ber 19
1D|E I t I b I r I
S erle* H-47
a
piece
of
cardboard
’ against wallpaper to protect it
from stains while waxing base-
!board.
Women can drive nails!
But ,
they’re easier to drive if you rub
them over a cake of soap first.
KOObfM.
Thirst
—•—
Q u e n c h e rs /
Add two tablespoon* of lemon
juice to one q u art of boiling w ater
to keep cauliflower white.
gJiJ*VORSATGRocERs
You m ay get quick obedience
out of scolding or spanking your ;
child, but the surest kind is ob- |
'tained by taking tim e to under­
stand why a child behaves as he
does and letting him come to trust
you.
SMALL FRY
fcy
QUICKIE BREAKFAST
When putting elastic in chil­
dren’s panties, sew a hook on one
end and an eye on the other.
Makes for easy laundering.
—•—
To help restore fluffiness to
blankets, add one tablespoon of
glycerine to the rinse w ater for
each pair of blankets.
Suppose You Had Six Months More
40 Outcast
42 Tenth part
43 To pierce
44 Italian river
46 Web
si»«
N am e,
itth
No. 20
S E W IN G C t lt t I F. P A T T E R N O E P T .
109 .Mission ht., Man F ran cisc o , C a lif.
Enclose 23 cenia In co in * (o r each
p a tte rn d rs lrs d
He handicapped himself all his
life because all his life he had been
on the wrong side of the fence in his
thinking. In other words, he was!
negative in his thoughts and in his '
outlook on life, rather tha. positive.
A person like that can't be very
successful or happy, as you very
well know.
And he wasn’t young—he was
past forty. And yet I watched a
miracle happen in that man’s life,
watched him transform from a man
who was negative about everything
into one who was positive about
everything.
" I owe everything I've done to
some advice I got from an Old
friend I had admired from child­
hood,” he told me when I asked him
to outline his method. He told me to
make believe that 1 had just six
months more to live, Just six months
more. It was June when I saw him.
■Just pretend you won't be here
January 1,’ he advised. Then he
said, ‘In that case, what would you
do with those remaining six months?’
I thought for a moment, for I hadn’t
ever been asked a question as por-
tentious as that. Then I told him:
’Why, believe me, I ’d live! I ’d crowd
as much into those six months as I
possibly could!’ ’’
It gave him a new life really!
What a wonderful thing it would
be for everyone if he or she could
imagine the same thing and try
living a fu ll and complete life for
just six months. Why no one would
ever be content to live a less happy,
less complete, less full life'
I
Believing that there is an impor­
tant relationship between the inten­
sity of sunlight, air temperature, the
body temperature of the grasshop­
per, and where and when the pests
do their eating, Professors Pepper
and Hastings, Montana State col­
lege, have designed a special ther­
mocouple with which to take the
temperature of grasshoppers.
Crop Rotation Plan
Should Be Balanced
Unless a farm has a well bal­
anced rotation for its fields, the
chances are that the farm er who
works that land is depleting the soil
and getting lower yields of the crops
he grows.
Dr. R. L. Cook, soils specialist at
Michigan State college, says that
there are several ways in which crop
rotation may result in soil improve­
ment. If a cultivated crop is con­
tinuously produced on one field, the
organic matter content of the field
is decreased.
o / l
Sit (tfuuL
When the delinquent tenant saw
the sheriff coming with the evic­
tion papers, he locked him self in­
side the house and refused to an­
sw er the officer’s sum m ons. The
sheriff slipped the papers under
the door, whereupon the tenant
picked up a bellows from the fire­
place and blew the paper out from I
under the door.
The sheriff again slipped the pa­
pers under the door, and again
the tenant blew them out.
Pocketing the document, the of­
ficer turned to his deputy and
said, "Com e on, let's take this
back to the landlord. I wouldn’t
pay rent either if I had to live in
such a drafty old house.”
READY TO SERVE. DELICIOUS/
GET THE ORIGINAL KELLOGG'S
CORN FLAKES (N THE WHITE,
RED, AND GREEN PACKAGE.
REGULAR OR FAMILY S IZ E .
Castrate Pigs Early
For Market Results
The earlier pigs intended for m ar­
ket are castrated the better they
w ill weigh In. When pigs are cas­
trated at three to four weeks of age,
they are easier to handle, the
wounds heal more quickly and the
pigs are usually under closer super­
vision so that the wounds can be
watched closely. Incisions should be
made low to perm it good drainage
and to give the finished barrow a
neater appearance.
CLABBER GIRL
The Baking Powder w ith the B A L A N C E D D ouble Action