Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, December 30, 1948
Washington Di9CSt>
Now He Loafs in Florida,
Catching Fish, Mermaids
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Four-Piece Bookcase
For Your Living Room
cleome,
\ \ ’ ! 1.1 OME to you. New Year, enter
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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
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—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.
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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
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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
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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
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o
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* 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.
By BAUKHAGE
1
Strange New Year
Beliefs Still Exist
ut
Pins Once Prized
As New Year Gift
[Stamina and rtpeed
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Saint Sylvester’s Feast
Day Marks End of Year
Facts and Fancies
O f New Year’s Day
• Georga McCoog, schoolboy of
Paterson, New Jersey, had cancer
of the thigh In 1938. Today, thanks
to prompt, effective treatment, he
Is cured. If YOU think you have
cancer, see your doctor at once.
Early action can return a priceless
dividend . . . years of healthy liv
ing to come.
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CANCER SOCIETY
47 BEAVER STREET, NEW TORN 4, N. Y.