Southern Oregon News Review. Thurusday, December 23. 1W8
î 'Slavic Dancing Usltcrs in Christinas Season
Washington Di Rest;
Baukhage Finds Old Dates
O f Interest in Year 1948
Bv BAUKHAGE
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J
A tutlftt and ComrntntMor.
to Coaching Star
Average Farm Family Scrub
RACTICALLY every one of the
P long parade of great football
Sees Income Recede coaches
has come from good or
better football players — Camp.
Haughton. Rockne, Little. Crlsler,
Bierman. Neyland, Thomas, Hick
man. Voigts. Yost. Heisman, on and
-
What, if anything, is happening to on indefinitely.
I remember when we took the idea of New Years ' calls seriously. the average U. S. farmer with re
I can recall but one exception.
That was back in western New York. I also remember later, when I was gard to the money he gets for what His name is Bill Alexander of Geor
a student in Europe, three of us living in the same • pension- (a word he raises, and does he have any gia Tech, one of the top coaches
which Americans abroad prefer to -boarding house” ) We made our calls thing to worry about?
of all time.
consecutively so that the one pair of gloves and one silk hat. which we
Although there has been a mod
Alexander headed north from the
possessed collectively, could serve for all. In that day and place both erate drop in income of farmers, red clay hills of Georgia to accept
' the average family has more pur
were essential.
the accolade of the
chasing power today than it had a
Touchdown club of
Today I have been meeting some^
New York Today
clever speech without revealing
old “dates of 1948."
he is Georgia Tech's
—
— —.........—
The first I have to record is Jan that she and her husband are going
graduate manager,
( hrlslmss ushers In a season of gladness and merrymaking that
urch
as
ing
POWER
to plump for Vandenberg later.
uary 6 . . . “Baukhage talking
having turned over
from the radio Television is most unkind to what
the coaching reins
1 -
g a lle r y of the should have been a most telegenic t * « . . .
at Tech to Bobby
house of repre subject.
Dodd after direct
S S -Ï Í ." L
« '“ »
' l-d lm l.-.
Orth*-
sentatives a fte r
ing the destinies of
JUNE
23.
A
heavy
mist
hung
having w a tch ed
dox church oí C'hlcoio.
the Yellow Jackets
over the city of brotherly love
the opening of the
for
25
years.
on the day of the convention's
second session of
But the Important
Grantlund Rier
crucial session. I had left the
the historic 80th
point
is this—Alex
hall at 4 o’clock that morning.
Christmas Hally
c o n g r e ss." Note
ander was never a college star. He
We
had
witnessed
a
stirring
and
the word “histor
was on the scrub team at Georgia
a pathetic scene when the blind
ic.” Noone guessed
Tech in 1907, 1908 and 1909 before Makes Tasty Tea
veteran.
Harlan
Kelly,
nomi
then that other
The Christinas tree is almost a
he became John Heisman's assist > Holly is useful for something be
nated General MacArthur in a
adjectives applied
sides
Christmas
wreaths.
Yaupon,
universal
symbol. It Is common In
ant
in
1912
clear, unhesitating voice which
to that legislative
a shrub which grows profusely in many countries and its decorations
held
in
it
the
ring
of
a
true
Bill
Alexander,
physically,
body were to help
certain sections of North Carolina, mirror the cultural traditions and
devotee. Earlier, there had been
was never quite equipped to be
cause one of the
can be brewed into tea and is customs of the world.
the
longest
demonstration
so
far,
a
college
star.
But.
mentally
great
“u p s e t-
actually on the meny of one Caro
BAUKHAGE
The Japanese,
who adopted
for
Taft.
Stassen's
had
been
the
and psychologically and emo
election victories
linian hotel.
iiv u t o is iT M iun,
w w iiH lU I
American bascbull,
have ulso
most
vigorous.
tionally
he
was
far
beyond
most
of American history.
of the greatest players the game i It’s an old story to old-timers of adopted the Christmas tree. They
On January 7 (my birthday)
JUNE 24. I was looking over the
the region. They’ve been drinking hove given it an oriental appear
has ever known.
there was "a bright sun shining public opinion polls and mentioned year ago. a reliable monthly sur
| Yaupon tea for centuries and swear ance by decorating its branches
vey
of
“real
income”
reveals.
“Real
down on the Capitol but,” I broad that qualities the voters said they
He knew football. He knew the that it hns all kinds of good qual
with Japanese dolls, woodcuts,
cast. “the shadows beneath it are would prefer in a presidential can income” is the relationship of rev physical side of football But. bet
ities.
small tangerines and rice cookies
enue
to
living
costs.
deep and dark.”
ter
than
most,
he
knew
the
value
didate were those of "the humani
The Indians before them used it. called “sembet" that hold paper
The national figures indicate that of deception, of using speed to
tarian, the protector of the weak, the average home has 2 per cent
On that day the President de
and John Lawson, an early histori slips of fortunes.
match weight and power.
the benevolent guardian of the chil
livered his message and the
an, said the shrub was so highly
more buying power than last year.
In Germany, where the Christ
When John Heisman left Georgia valued that it was carried into the
dren, of the common man." Per Wage-earners, salaried people and
next day the Associated Press
mas
tree originated, chains and
Tech
in
1920
to
go
to
Pennsylvania,
haps
that
was
a
better
guide
to
said: "Most of President Tru
those with investment income are Alexander took over and set up a 1 Inland where It fetched a fabulous boskets made by hand—from ordi
what the choice was to be than the
man's 1918 legislative propos
price from Indian tribes.
nary newspapers when nothing else
figures the pollsters provided us. equally well off, while the farmer brilliant record for the next 25 years
als, particularly his tax reduc
Actually.
Yaupon
is
an
American
is
now
about
3
per
cent
below
his
is available—are hung on the tree.
until
he
turned
over
the
Job
to
Bob
It was late in the evening when
tion and anti-inflation plans
holly, but is closely akin to Mate, Candles have been used for Illumi
by Dodd in 1945.
candidate Dewey, accepting the status of a year ago.
appeared headed today for a
It should be remembered, how
In that time. Old Man Alex had the drink so popular in South nation ever since the time of Martin
nomination, raised his hand and
congressional waste basket.”
ever,
that
such
status
a
year
ago
Both drinks are pre Luther, when the custom of deco
won seven conference champion- America.
swore that he had made no com
How true that was and how it
pared much the same way. fhe rating trees at Christmas first be
was at a then all-time high.
shipS_
h
e
was
named
the
coach
of
mitments
to
any
man.
helped re-elect him. In his an
Besides the recent drop in farm the year in 1942—and he had baffled leaves are cured with hot stones gan.
JUNE 26—The Berlin airlift,
nual message he is to present
The French Chrlstmus tree is
which with the Marshall plan prices, the survey said, it is ex and bewildered more rival coaches in a barrel and then chopped up.
most of them again, more hope
achieved the two greatest victories pected that there may be further than anyone I know, with lighter, twigs included, and dried out in loaded with glittering ornaments
fully.
tapering off during the next six faster, smarter working material. ' an oven. Leaves and twigs are and sugar-balls hang from Its
in the cold war. begins.
Jaiiueuy 12 was a C uld d a y in
It was lack of weight and power then steeped in hot water and branches.
JULY 12. The other side: a le months, but farm income will con
New York which had just emerged thargic
syrup, orange Juice, lemon Juice
tinue
at
a
high
level.
In
the
same
that bowled Tech over this year.
Democratic
convention
In Italy, the crib is the tradition
from a blizzard. I was there cov woke to life with a 28-minute dem way, although surpluses are begin
and cinnamon are added.
al
symbol of Christmas and is care
Bill
Alexander
Is
football's
ering the assembly of the United onstration for keynoter Barkley ning to appear in the clothing in
So at Christmas, instead of fully arranged beneath every Ital
leading philosopher. He has
Nations and that day the Palestine which "had more real feeling and dustry, there arc no signs yet that
known the game from the front ' throwing away that dried up ian tree. This custom dates bock
commission was preparing its pro spontaneity in it,” I broadcast at sharp price breaks are likely.
line for over 40 years. He has ; wreath, try brewing it up into a to 1223 when St. Francis of Assisi
gram of partition which was to be the time, “than anything which
pot of tea
-
arranged the first crib at Grecio,
a marvelous sense of humor—
completed with bayonets and hand- even the super-confident Repub
an
amazing
understanding
of
Italy, using a simple manger with
grenades.
Overhauling the Land
produced.
a doll to represent the Christ Child
values.
JANUARY 23. At 11:30 a. m. a licans
Serbians
Glorify
JULY 13. This was a day of the
and adding live animals for real
message came over the news tick battle of the extremes against the
Here's an Alexander story that
ism.
er, and such a sigh of relief went middle. The Negro attacking the
goes back exactly 20 year* to 1928 Abundant Harvest
Czechs decorate their trees with
ap from the White House and from Dixiecrats; Southerners begging for
and explains Alex:
The Serbian strews his table with clusters of gilded nuts, apples, and
both Republican and Democratic a candidate acceptable to the South.
Georgia Tech was playing its final
headquarters that the trees on Con So heated were the arguments on
game of the season against Notre hay or straw at Christmas lime cookies made to resemble animal
necticut avenue bent nearly dou the floor that policemen walked
Dame. This game meant staying and he is likely to eat roasted suck figures, peasant girls, stars and
ble. “I am not available for and into the aisles several times. The
home or going to the Rose Bowl. ling pig for Christmas dinner. village huts.
Weather permitting, a fire is built
could not accept nomination to high Democrats’ glamour girl had her
“How are things?” I asked
political office.” Signed—General chance, and Helen Gahagan Doug
"How would I know.” Alexander outdoors on Christmas morning and
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
said, "I haven't seen the team in the pig roasted over it on a spit.
las. for some reason or other more
JANUARY 30. Gandhi is dead. telegenic than her Republican rival,
The Serbians, as well as the
three days. I’ve had 122 tickets to
The priest and prophet of Indian emerged equally triumphant, foren-
collect and deliver to old grads Croats, have several Christmas
independence was shot to death at
customs in common. Both plant
Say, who’re we playing?”
his prayer meeting on the lawn of sically.
wheat on a plate on December 10th.
JULY 14. The President finally is
the estate where he lived.
By Christmas day there is a minia
nominated and makes his accept
MARCH 9. Truman announces
ture field of wheat which serves as
The Four Horsemen
ance in the small hours, offering
nis candidacy;
MacArthur re a sample of what was to come forth
There have been many stories a decoration, usually placed on a
Ten years’ work in rebuilding
nounces his.
told about the Four Horsemen of window sill.
in the campaign. Many had already
the soil-depleted 300-acre Rio
MARCH 10. Jan Masaryk is dead.
left the hall. He called for the spe Grande College farm at Rio Notre Dame since they rode to vic i Before sunrise on Christmas
Much died with that name.
tory over 20 years ago, sweeping morning, the men of the family go
cial turnip day session of congress.
Grande, Ohio, were compressed
From the house radio gallery
the plains from Army and Prince into a nearby forest to fell a young
"I have run into perhaps four or
into 1354 hours recently by 600 ton to Stanford at Palo Alto.
again on March 17 I report the re
oak tree. It is selected with great
five people,” I commented next
workers and hundreds of pieces
enunciation by the President of
care and yaditional rites must be
You
may
remember
their
names
day, “who venture the assertion
of mechanized farm equipment. In
what was then called the “Truman
observed in cutting it down. It must
—Harry
Stuhldreher
at
quarterback,
that perhaps he might still win.
this hilly Ohio valley country,
Doctrine.”
fall toward the East at the moment
weight
154;
Don
Miller
and
Jimmy
But everyone else laughs at the
chief problem was removal of
MARCH 19. Wallace attacks the
Crowley at the two halves, around 1 of sunrise. It is brought home In
thought. The calling of the congress
excess
water
which
had
been
President’s foreign policy.
162 and 164; Elmer Layden at full state and lighted candles are held
proved good strategy
carrying away top soil. Diversion
on each side of the door through
It was no April Fool's day
back, 162.
ditches
and
sod
water
outlets
Thousands of people braved
which it is carried.
joke when the Russians stopped
Some of the main arguments
were prepared. Two ponds were
Washington’s heat of July 19 to
the trains in Berlin.
Com and wine are sprinkled on
that
always
break
out
when
built.
The
course
of
a
stream
was
line the long, slow march of the
The next day, April 2, our
this
Yule log while wishes for an
their names come up are:
altered. Years of cultivation had
caisson bearing the General of
counter move: Congress passes
abundant harvest for the next sum
"What
did
they
all
do?
Who
did
taken
much
of
the
life
from
the
the Armies, John J. Pershing,
the European recovery pro
mer are expressed. As soon as the
the blocking? Who did the ball
farm’s soil, so the horde of work
to his last rest in Arlington.
gram.
log is placed in the fire and is
carrying? Who did the kicking?
ers also attacked the problem of
burning brightly, a neighbor, chos
On the afternoon of Friday, the
Who did the tackling?”
The gaygreen of leaf and lawn
soil rejuvenation. Great areas
en beforehand for the ceremony, Chicago Museum of Selene» and Industry.
on this 12th day of April are not 13th of August, as we were leaving
were tilled, limed, fertilized and
This was undoubtedly the great enters the house to bring Christ
seeded and overgrown pasture
enough to dispel Washington’s con the White House press and radio
Placing wooden «hoes on the
est pony backfield, pound for pound, mas blessings. He pours a little
cern over the revolution in Bogota. conference, Stephanove Kasenkina
land was reclaimed and prepared
doorstep for the good Saint to
In football history. The average wine on the log and places a coin
<Remember? A Communist-directed jumped from the window of the
for seeding. In the picture, a Jeep,
fill with toys and sweets Is tra
weight was around 160 pounds. on it, a symbol of prosperity for
affair. Secretary of State Marshall Soviet consulate in New York City.
equipped with bush and bog har
ditional Dutch fashion. Carrots
There wasn’t a man on the job at the coming year.
She lived to become the symbol of row, is engaged in mulching as
was there.)
are left In the shoes for the
165 pounds or higher. Yet it ripped,
At 10:30 in the morning of April the escape which so many human
part of the work done on the farm.
white horse which Rt. Nicholas
ran and passed its way from coast
19, Justice T. Allen Goldsborough beings, suffocating behind the iron
rides In Holland.
to coast with a series of victorious
ruled John Lewis guilty of crim curtain, have sought before and
Biblical ‘Stables’
thrusts.
2.4- D Winter Spraying
inal contempt.
since.
One of the main arguments start
AUGUST 16. The diamond’s rough- Destroys Stumps, Weeds
On April 27 come the rumors of
ed when Don Miller, now a high- W ere Hewn Caves
Old Roman H oliday
diamond,
beloved
Babe
Ruth,
dies.
war from Palestine.
Successful winter spraying with toned Cleveland judge, stopped/me
The “stable” In which Christ was
SEPTEMBER 17. Tragic end of an ester of 2,4-D is the newest twist
The Moscow newspapers of May
before the Army-Navy game a year born does not conform to the mod Like Christmas
11 are bought out—Ambassador a man who had lived and died for to the ever-broadening field of chem ago and berated me soundly for ern conception of the word.
Bedell Smith is conferring with peace. Count Bernadotte.
Long before Christ was born the
ical weed control.
picking him as a blocking back.
In Biblical times, places of shel
SEPTEMBER 20. A stormy ses
Molotov.
At East Lansing, Mich., agron
"I never blocked a guy in my ter were hewn in rocky ledges; Romans observed a holiday that
sion of the United Nations begins. omists Keith Barrons and L. L. life," Miller said with much Indig
Judean travelers, frequently housed was very much like modern Chris
The birthday of a state, May'
Its deliberations all but forgotten in Coulter of the Dow Chemical com
in such caves, welcomed joint ten tian celebrations of Christmas. The
nation.
14—Israel is born.
the heat of the presidential cam pany
announced
that
stumps
ancy with beasts because of the day was December 19, known as the
I told this to Elmer Layden,
Dewey wins the primary in Ore paign.
sprayed in near zero weather dur
extra
warmth provided by the ani Feast of Saturnalia.
recently. Layden laughed. "I’ll
NOVEMBER 2. The election of a ing the past three winters have
gon on May 24. Later he won the
mal's bodies.
The Romans ornamented their
tell
you
the
truth,"
he
said.
"We
President who nobody believed when responded to treatment in the same
state.
The birthplace of Jesus was such homes with green boughs. Also, the
all had to block. We all had
he
went
to
bed
that
night—or
even
A veteran steps down. Prime Min
manner as stumps sprayed during
a cave. Now a grotto beneath Beth Druids observed the Feast by
our blocking assignments, even
ister Smuts of South Africa is de in the early hours of the next day the summer season. The chemical
lehem’s Church of Nativity, the en gathering and decorating with
bowling
over
the
two
ends,
help
—had won.
used was Esteron 44 which contains
tested on May 28.
tire surface has been elaborately mistletoe, while ancient Saxons
ing take out a tackle, or han
NOVEMBER
3.
A
little
before
Oregon in the news again, trag
44 per cent of the isopropyl ester of
ornamented.
dle the secondary.
used holly, ivy and bay.
ically. The little town of Vanport noon in a New York hotel Gover 2.4- D.
nor
Dewey
announced
one
of
the
“Stuhldreher was probably the
is inundated. May 31.
best of our blockers, but we had to Yule Log Fires
A ncient Swiss Legends
Tragedy for a neighbor state on greatest upsets in American po
block. Miller, Crowley and I han
June 10. Secretary of Labor Schwel- litical history when he conceded Weak Egg Shells Mean
R ecalled on Christm as
dled most of the running. Stuhl Prevented Evil
lenbach of Washington state dies his defeat and congratulated “the Hens Require Calcium
Winter beauty and winter sports
champ."
dreher
did
the
passing,
but
we
were
at the age of 53.
Feeding oyster shells to laying
Centuries ago huge fires were reach the acme of perfection in
NOVEMBER 14. A male heir-pre
more of a running team than a
Outdoors, Philadelphia was cloudy
hens to furnish the calcium needed
built in the great baronial halls in
and gray on June 21. Inside Repub sumptive to the British throne is for making strong egg shells is sug- passing team. We all had speed 1 England on Christmas eve and the Switzerland by Christmas time—
and ancient Christmas legends
could Just shade 10 seconds—say
lican headquarters it was rowdy and born.
gested by Irving J. Mork, agent of
servants brought in a log that was rule.
DECEMBER
13.
Baukhage
re
94fc
for
the
100,
and
the
others
were
gay. Dewey starts his shock and
the North Dakota Agricultural col
Legend has it that all you have
about the same. I did the kicking.” to burn throughout Christmas.
blitz tactics against the field. Cor turns from his vacation with a lot lege extension service.
It was customary to save a brand
respondents discuss the mystery of of lies about the fish he caught.
Also the pass interference, I sug from each year’s fire to light the to do on Christmas eve is cut an
“Hens
that
lay
steadily
will,
as
I hope my readers will understand
the vacant seats in the gallery.
In the Stanford game next one with. If the log was onion in half, peel off 12 layers and
time goes on, lay eggs with weak gested.
(Did this foreshadow the absence that the last hectic days of the year shells,” he said. "Usually this Is against Ernie Nevers and others, properly burned It was believed fill the same with salt. Each layer
of the Dewey voters from the polls have been recorded in the daily due to a lack of calcium in the ra Layden intercepted four or five that the devil was powerless to do represents a month and those which
are still salty the next morning pre
on election day?) The attractive press and are fresh in your mem tion. It can also ba due to a lack passes, running two Interceptions
any mischief to the household.
dict rain.
Republican glamour lady, Clare ories. Hence I think they can be of vitamin D, however."
back for touchdowns.
Booth Luce, hurls her barbs in a safely omitted.
WASHINGTON. — New Year’s day, according to an
encyclopedia which I once remember consulting, is cele
brated in the western world by merrymaking and, theoret
ically at least, in the meeting of old friends.
Buying Power Higher
Now Than Year Ago
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Christmas Trees
Universal Symbol