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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, December 30, 1948 Washington Di9CSt> Now He Loafs in Florida, Catching Fish, Mermaids ►A f ) Four-Piece Bookcase For Your Living Room cleome, \ \ ’ ! 1.1 OME to you. New Year, enter * * newborn king— Can >ou tell us something o f the tiding* Old Gnrtie and the New Milk House Heaters Solve Farm Problem “*HE football that used to be— —and the football that Is today N ew t A m ly il im l Com nitalalor. To cost out doubt and fear ™ —are two entirely different game*. Perhaps a balm for hcartacliesJjJJ^ Easily Attached to If you don't mind, we'll take you FORT PIERCE, FLA.—As you read these lines I expect You bring along with you; / . back a bit—Just a few years. I to be back where the quiet along the Potomac will be dis Perhaps Walls in Winter Time a key to friendship* V\A4F spent most of one recent week-end turbed by the plans for an old-time inauguration party and To buoy u* all year through. * Nobody enjoys working In a cold with my old friend Pudge Heffel- the beginning of a new legislative year. But as I write I can t\'s bid you welcome, New Year—our finger, m ilk house. Hut until very recently, who is still Mr. Football. see the blue of the Indian river whose eastern shore line is a dreams we trust with you, Pudge was a mighty football farmers could do little ubout it ex slim silhouette of palm trees screening the Atlantic beyond. Forgetting ills of all the past, wo sturt player at Yale from 1889 to 1891. cept, perhaps, add another layer the book anew. When I stand up I can look over the seawall and watch mullet Jumping He was just as to their already uncomfortably higher than I ever saw a fish leap except when the Washington state good aroun 1913 bulky clothing. salmon were hurdling the falls on their way to spawn. Experiments conducted in the last when he was in his 40s. He played for j two or three years, however, have A little way north of here a wide-S— 54 minutes against helped solve the m ilk house heating Inlet breaches the natural strip of fact as far as I am concerned, she, a crack pro team problem. One type of equipment, de- beach and dune, not Hernando de Soto, discovered when he was 53 He ! vcloped os o direct result of such s c r u b p i r e and the place. . . . I land a snook, Over England and Scotland. In was still playing at agricultural engineering experi cabbage palm enough! Fried, with corndogers, the villages of the plains and high 05 against another ments, is shown in the accompany which forms a part crisp and golden brown, a salad lands, ancient New Year supersti leading pro team ing illustration. It is a 3000 watt, of the barrier be of grapefruit, oranges, pineapple tions still exist. in M in n e a p o lis . 240 volt, thermostatically controlled tween the ocean and fresh cocoanut from the back electric space heater. Easily at It is considered unlucky to wear and the great in yard, that snook is delicious. And old clothes on the New Year; bad Irantland Klee Pud«e » « ^ " d a tached to the m ilk house wall, it is bad knee at 85 and land w a t e r w a y so to bed. five feet high and produces a tem luck falls on a house if anyone goes couldn't understand it. s tr e tc h in g f r o m Next day I go after a different out before someone has entered. If HeffelAnger can't understand why perature range of between 40 and New York harbor species of marine fauna. (See ac the first comer—“ first foot,” the a football player can't go 60 m in 80 degrees. to Miami. Other new developments along this companying photograph.) Mer natives call it—be a man. good luck utes at least twice a week. “ What These occasional maids aren't as hard to find as w ill bless the house; if a woman or are these young fellows made of ! line include the use of small hot wa intrusions of the they used to be before that in a fair-haired man. the luck is evil. ter radiators which are connected to today?” HeffelAnger asks. ocean don't dis genious creature, homo-press-agen- So widespread is this belief that in standard dairy water heaters, and turb the Indian ticus, was discovered and carefully many villages the dark-haired men Pudge is now 81 years old. river in the slight cultivated by the chambers of com of the community make it a regu- I He only weighs 270 pounds, and est for through the merce of all energetic resorts. lar business to go from house to I hr still moves around like a BAUKHAGE dredged channels I lightweight. He has hands like Although I didn't intend to make house to "take the New Year in.” come the fish and the deep-sea a busman's holiday out of my va In Herefordshire, at midnight, the ! two sets of hams. Bud Kelland fishing boats, the shrimpers and the cation I couldn't help getting one girls rush to the spring. The one ! says Pudge is a throwback to freighters that mingle with the trim or two interviews. who gets the first drink, or the j the dinosaurs. pleasure craft in the yacht basin. I called on Douglas Silver, presi- “ cream of the well.” is sure of a ; Now I ’ll take you to another case Approaching this spot on land J dent of the local chamber of com handsome husband. —to another friend of mine. His you are welcomed by the brilliant merce. I had known him when his Unlucky, too. is the good woman name is Shep Homans of Engle- ! I red of the Turk's Caps, the flower beat was Broadway and the New that never opens—never has to. York advertising district. His of who gives away a light on New wood, N. J. Shep Homans was ' Perhaps it is too lazy. It loafs fice was as busy as one in the Year’s day. Where a brand goes Snake Ames' substitute at Prince- i along the ditches, growing wild in Merchandise M art or Radio City. out, the evil fays come in. The ton around 1889 " I never got in f fields or tamed in gardens, showing “ Do you like it any better here?” most tender-hearted woman w ill see 1 a game that year,” Shep tells me. no envy for its more aristocratic I asked him. " In some ways it's her neighbors shiver in a ftreless Homans was Princeton’s fu ll house rather than give away a light back in 1890 and 1891. Homans sister, the hibiscus which throws worse,” he said. on the New Year. its flames out in wide tongues, the weighed 167 pounds. He played 70 1 I nearly fell off my chair. dainty bouganvillea blossoms, or > minutes in 22 consecutive games Such a statement from a Flo the languorous poinsettia. j His substitute never got to play. ridian! He saw my consterna “ Sure I was hurt,” Shep told me When a crane flashes up from tion, immediately realised my long afterwards. “ But you don’t the river edge, a polished silver misunderstanding, and hastily quit a game because you happen to streak in the sun, you know proceeded to put me right. j get hurt. you have left the northern city “ I see you don’ t mean what 1 Arthur M ille r of Union, III., ad canyons far behind. Now the “ If you don't mind, you might mean,” he said. " I thought you mires the new heater recently In groves. R ip e n in g o ra n g e s also mention that Snake Ames was were asking m * if I like work any stalled In his m ilk house. among the leaves shine like lit a greater all-around athlete than better here. Frankly, I have the tle golden beads against rich, Glen Davis or any other college the conversion of electric milk cool same allergy to useful effort that green velvet tapestry. Quite a athlete. Snake was the greatest er compressors into heat pumps. you have. But work for you up different green from the deli Most farmers, however, are in ' college player I ever saw. He was north is all you have to do. Now cate tint of the little lizard also the greatest college baseball terested p rim a rily in "spot heat look out there.” He pointed out the sunning himself on thp window ! player I ever saw. He held three ing” —that is warning only the spe window to a gentleman in wrinkled screen beside me. He would ' big league teams to less than five cttic places in which they happen slacks and a faded khaki shirt sit match the tender tint of the ! hits and beat them all. He was also to be working at the moment. This ting in a boat out on the river. clusters of new pine needles un ' a great golfer. I've paid to find that is a relatively simple job and can Even from where we stood we dulating in a breeze that keeps be done by placing heat lamps d i ! out.” could see the look of almost child the palms fanning themselves rectly above or adjacent to the space ish contentment on his tanned Either the footbali players of with their rippling fronds. to be warmed. face. Just then he stood up and be 40 and 50 years ago were much I am met in new, blue truck gan reeling in his taut line. tougher and rougher and had which also transports fish, groceries Silver gave one look and pushed more fiber than the present Those Greener Pastures and whatnot—even a marauding back his chair. “ Listen,” he said, bunch—or the game today is wildcat which has suffered his just “ I can finish up what I have to do fa r rougher than it used to be. deserts among the palmettos at in about 15 minutes and we’ ll get , The old saying that “ grass is dawn. Walter Eckersall was a good grcener on the other side of the right out there. But to answer your V . Over the cottage great bulbous question: work is no better here friend of mine. Weighing 148 j fence” has a scientific basis in fact, blossoms of the yellow trumpet than any place but the difference pounds, Eckie could travel 60 according to Dr. W illiam A. Al- vine are waiting until the sun sets here is that when you quit you don't m in u te s w ith o u t ta kin g an e x tra . brecht> head o f , he d e p a r, to send out their intoxicating per have to take a train or a plane to breath. He carried the ball—he did ' ment of the University of Missouri. -O- fume. all the kicking—he blocked and get where you really want to be— Cattle's grazing habits, he said, The next day starts, as it should, you’re there already.” tackled and passed-and he fin are based on a search for feed that • • • on the river. Overhead are the ished fresh. w ill best nourish them. At midnight on New Year’s soaring fishhawks, the nervous Maybe the game today is too “ When a cow risks her neck to Shrim p A lto kingfishers, the greedy, speedy and Eve, tustoc. demands that gen rough. Either the football players get grass on the other side of the graceful black cormorants and high A bound There tlemen kisu the nearest lady. are much too soft or the game is fence," he declared, "she is show The lizard has moved over to get Here’s a fine example of army- above all the tireless man-of-war much too rough. ing good sense. She does this be birds with their wide sweeping into a patch of sunlight leaking navy cooperation. At the finish of this season many cause the neighboring grass not | wings, like an upper-case M, which through the leaves of the magnolia of the best backs in the country only looks, but is greener. She is never seem to change their shape. tree. including Doak Walker SMU, instinctively seeking grass from soil Some shrimp boats are coming in L ittle snappers are so thick that Stuart and Stephenson of Army and high in protein producing ele we couldn’t bait fast enough, but we through the inlet. Thi3 is probably many others were too badly hurt ments.” the biggest shrimping port south are fishing for our supper! to be of any use. Feed that contains body-building And so days pass with no sense of Savannah. I think I w ill go over Sitko and Brennan of Notre bone-making values comes only of time passing w'ith them—trout and see if I can’t get some nice fat Bishop H all’s "Satires,” pub Dame were both out of action. So from soil that is high in mineral and a few fighting jacks that flop ones. B ill Turner w ill clean them lished in 1598, tell how every tenant was Charley Justice with a bad and grunt but which is of little in until they are sweet and delicate at the dawn of the New Year pre shoulder, according to Carl Snave- terest to the commercial fisherman. as a newly opened gladiolus. They sented his lord with a fat capon; ly, in the W illiam and Mary game. Not a “ honey-money” fish like a w ill be boiled with just the right and Ben Jonson, in his “ Christmas Most of the good backs were hurt trout or pompano, as my wife amount of salt. They w ill be Masque” introduces among his cast and out of action, or useless in ac would say, making a little more chilled (not drowned in ice water of characters “ New Year's gift in tion, a good part of the year. euphemistic the terminology of the until they are mushy). a blue coat, serving man like, with The game today is far rougher commercial fisherman. My wife w ill do something m iracu an orange and a sprig of rosemary than It used to be. The old game lous to the sauce. How I long for on his head.” B ill Turner smiles. He knows was mass pushing and shoving. The that dish. Why I haven’t had a real the personal histories and hab Oranges and nutmeg, gilded and shrimp for I don’t know how long— decorated apples, were frequent modem game Is a matter of col its of the furred, feathered or it must have been as long ago ai gifts exchanged among the poorer lision at top speed. The equip finny folk that inhabit these ment is atrocious, something the yesterday at lunch! parts and gets as much pleas people. Ladies of fashion delighted coaches should have corrected ure out of seeing somebody else in pins, invented during the Six years ago. They admit their fault land a catch as he does doing Fort Pierce teenth century to take the place of „o w /a little late Is, it himself. And he has an un V.- clumsy wooden skewers. Here we H at H istory *»»« canny sixth sense that takes have the origin of our own “ pin , . , c , F ort Pierce was a real fort once him straight to the spot close fe rtility, Dr. Albrecht said. Declin —built in ’ 838 as one of the chain money” —a g ift of money given in to the bank in the green shadow When you measure the old against ing soil fe rtility means a decline in of east coast defenses against the place of pins. of the mangroves, outside on the new, you run Into deep trouble. the health of our livestock, our Indians. It was a strategic point reef, deep in the cuts wherever In the m atter of tim ing and crops and ourselves. on the Indian river because a fish w ill be if fish there are. Dr. Albrecht warned that wide inches, In the way of measure natural opening to the sea perm it . . . I watch my wife pull in ted easy water communication with ments, the years prove that the spread loss of “ life-giving ele four speckled beauties. I get none. the north. Settlers came, fought modern stars outclass most of ments” from the soil is becoming That’s not what the male animal off the Indians, planted their pine z 4 o \ * those who belong to the past. They more serious. The feast of St. Sylvester, who , run iaster_ o r at ieast just as fast. ordinarily calls good fishing. But apples, citrus groves, and vege Rebuilding the soil’s fe rtility I don’t resent the fact that she is tables for the winter markets. was Pope from 314 A. D. until his They Jump higher or further. The, strength so that it can produce the fisherman in this fam ily. In Later the artificial inlet was death in 335, is observed by the keep breaking records. crops with body building values, Roman and Anglican churches on said Dr. Albrecht, depends on dredged so the big ships could December 31, Wherever you can use the stop proper soil management. That dock. watch or the measuring tape, In Germany and Belgium the includes lim ing, the growing of Florida played more of a the new years bring you new morning of St. Sylvester’s Day is deep-rooted legumes regularly in part In the C ivil war than most champions. But you can’t meas commemorated religiously, while the rotation, the use of phosphate textbooks record. It was the ure baseball and football. You the afternoon and evening are de and potash fertilizers and the re food basket of the Confederacy can’t measure the days when voted to various kinds of horseplay turn of barnyard ’ manures and and also one of the great Walsh and J o h n s o n and in anticipation of the coming New green manures to balance fe rtility blockade running bases, and I M a t h e w s o a and Alexander Year. losses through crop removals. have no doubt these cuts shel pitched over 400 innings a sea tered many a contraband cargo son—against the stars of today going to or from Cuba or the who pitch from 280 to 300 In From Chick-Fed Mink Bahamas as they did in the nings. To Chic Fur Coats days of the rum runners. As we check back ws find the The town felt the shock of World Poultry raiding habits of wild old-timers lead In stamina and m ink have provided a tip for econ War II, lite ra lly felt it, for the New Year's with its open houses, submarines crept close to the parties, exchanging of New Year’s fortitude—the new stars lead In omy in the feeding of captive mink coast and explosions rocked the cards, horn tooting, Auld Lang Syne speed and quick records. which for years have been fed on It may be that since the Inven horse meat and fish. houses far Inland. Wounded sur- and New Year’s resolutions, is one i vivors were brought in and cared of the oldest celebrations. As a tion of the automobile, no one ever But the fondness of mink for poul for here as in other coast towns. holiday it has been observed since walks anymore and leg power Is a try suggested the feeding of the Later, because land and water con ancient times, and has been marked missing factor. waste from poultry dressing plants Something has happened to stam —the heads, feet and entrails. Ex ditions could be simulated to re throughout history by the giving of semble the terrain In the Pacific, gifts and the exchange of greetings ina. We have pretty fa ir runners periments proved that both adult from 100 to the 800 meters. Not mink and kits thrived on this cheap- it became the country’s largest and good wishes B a u k h a g e a n d F r ie n d s much after that. • r diet. amphibious training base. 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