Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, September 22, 1949
V ariety Is Fun
YANKS, CIGARETTES, BUMS AND B E E R ...
Oils Skid, Garters Fall, Cathartics Fail
. . . FIGHT TO FINISH IN BIG LEAGUES
By H. I. PHILLIPS
MR. TWITCHELL ANALYZES
*»T LOOK FOR the most exciting
* race in years in both baseball
big leagues,” declared E l m e r
Twitchell, eminent sports fan. pi
nochle player and antique nutpick
collector, today. “If you wish my
analysis, based largely on getting
the games by radio and television,
here it is. Beer, cigarettes, the
Yanks, motor oils, Dem Bums and
various breakfast foods will fight It
out to the finish in both leagues,
and any one of them can win.
"It has been a very good race
so far, with the American
league a little faster with the
clear - cut commercials, but
with the National league clear
ly outclassing it with the more
informal testimonials to popu
lar products. I don't recall a
T oday irt a T ro u b le d H o u r
^ p O D A Y in a troubled hour I doubted God,
And then was ashamed,
For there came a voice through the dark
ness, calling to me,
That clearly named
Those far-off times when I had cried aloud
In my pain and grief,
Reminding me that unfailingly God's hand
Had brought relief;
Bidding me wait and hope, bidding me trust
Until I could see
That he who had never failed, still will not f a il. . .
It comforted me
As a mother comforts her ailing child, and my
faith
That had been so small
Suddenly grew as the young com grew in the sun:
Straight and tall.
GRACf NOLL CROW fit
baseball race when the appeals
to radio fans to hurry to the
Icebox for a cold drink were
done with such spirit and form.
"In both major leagues the boys
who bat out the commercials were
in there trying at all times and
they rarely failed to come through
in the pinches. The game, it seems
to me, is much faster than it used
to be. When I was a boy, a game
would go on all afternoon with no
reference to a cigar, a lubricant
or a drink. The emphasis seemed
to be on garters and cathartics all
via the old-fashioned billboards.
Advertising as a handmaiden of
the national game was minimized.
You could take it or leave it
• • •
"Today from the opening cry
of ‘Play Ball’ the contest tin
gles with sales talks. They are
not only using the livelier ball
but livelier Jingles and selling
arguments.
• • •
"For years I took my baseball
without having my sales resistance
knocked over the fence, but today
it happens to me in every inning
• • •
“Hitting, pitching and base run
ning have Improved tremendously
in baseball. So have enunciation
and merchandising. The twirling is
much better. The announcer throws
............... “•
- — -ed
but also has a change of pace.
"What do you think of the Ath
letics?” we asked.
"I would have to know more
about the product they sponsor,"
replied Mr. Twitchell,
• • •
FATHER AND SON
Q — Popper, what is a British dol
lar crisis?
A.—The British dollar crisis"
Ahem. Well, er, it is a crisis over
dollars. The British have trouble
buying things with the American
dollar.
Q.—Like mommer does?
A.—Yes, in a way. Haven't yoc
any home work to do?
Q —But, popper, isn't a dollar a
dollar in England just as much as
in this country?
A —No, my son. I think the Willis
boy is outside calling for you.
Q —Answer my question first
popper-
A.—Well, er, the dollar is an
American unit The British use
pounds.
Q-—Pounds of what?
A.—A pound is their unit of
money. An Englishman never
asks "Lend me 10 dollars." He
asks "Lend me 10 pounds."
Q —If we say we haven't any
pounds and offer him dollars
will he refuse to take the mon
ey?
A.—Don't be fantastic. Of
course he takes the money, but
he won't spend it in dollars.
Q — Then what good are dollars
to him?
A.—The kids are playing ball
"They say that whoever is
across
the street. Don't you need
ahead July 4 will finish as the
fresh air?
pennant winners. The Dodgers
• • •
and a couple of breweries were
Q.—Popper, what is a sterling
out front on that date this year
area?
in one league and the Yanks
A— It is an area where sterling
and tobacco away out ahead in
is the monetary base. Various
the American. I look for no
countries use different kinds of
great change.
money but it is converted into ster
• • •
ling, and where's your catcher's
"The final result may be in mitt?
fluenced somewhat by mishaps.
Q.—Is the dollar worth more
One of the top announcers in the than the other kinds of money,
American league has developed popper?
calcification of the vocal delivery
A.—It is worth so much more
and may be out a few weeks. And that the British can't afford to use
two announcers in the National are it to buy things until next Septem
out with lame tonsils-”
ber. Now beat it
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being installed over celling of
dairy barn at Sinnlssippi Farms,
Oregon, III.
farmers. Known as Zonolite ver
miculite, it is completely inorganic,
unburnable, and easily used as a
lightweight plaster or concrete ag
gregate, or as insulating fill. Zono
lite. a mineral of the mica family,
weighs only about one-sixteenth as
much as sand.
Perhaps its most important bene
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Richard H. Wilkinson
ing warm and dry, and enables the
ventilating equipment to work more
efficiently. Here's how it functions
in a hen house:
provised raft ashore. But it wasn't
When outside temperature drops
until Anne had alighted and he had to zero, the heat given off by the
carried Bobby to safety that he birds might keep the interior at
discovered the raft was the hen about 25 degrees. Unfortunately,
coop he’d made for Anne's chick the chickens also contribute mois
ens.
Four or five boards were ture to the air. At low temperatures,
laid across its top and lashed to air cannot hold a great deal of
gether with part of the wire.
moisture.
"It was the only thing I could
If the insulation is used to keep
carry," Anne was saying. "I
the inside temperature at 50 de
took the boards from the fence.
grees, considerably more water will
The chickens are all In the bur
be removed. It is a fact that air at
lap bag, and our things are
50 degrees will hold six times as
sunk in a box on the other side
much moisture as air at 25 degrees
of the river.”
and will take that amount with it
Langford stared at her and for when removed from the building by
no accountable reason he began to the ventilation system.
laugh. It was a curious sound, not
wholly rational.
But the incon-
gruity of it was justified, for it had
occurred to him what a stupid fool
he’d been to think Anne helpless.
Speeding Up the Tools
Standard grinding machine tools
now can operate accurately at
speeds ranging from 40,000 to 55,-
000 revolutions per minute in
everyday shop practice, according
to SKF, ns compared with average
speeds of only 10,000 to 20,000 rpm
som e 20 years ago.
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Fiction ★ HELPLE5Î ANNE * , , ,
Corner
By INEZ GERHARD
ROWN-HAIRED, blue-eyed Mar
ta Toren was discovered by a
film writer at the Royal Dramatic
Academy in Stockholm, where
Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman
also studied. The writer tested her,
and as soon as Universal-Interna
tional executives saw the test they
signed her. “Sword in the Desert,”
her fourth picture, in which she ap-
B
MARTA TOREN
pears with Dana Andrews an4
Stephen McNally, makes her a full
fledged star. She studied ballet till
she was 13, wanted to become an
actress when she finished high
school, but her father pursuaded
her to become a secretary instead.
Three years of that, then she broke
away, and dramatic school came
next.
"Sword in the Desert” is the
first Hollywood film to deal with
the smuggling of settlers past the
British blockade in Palestine. Full
of action, it moves rapidly, gives
film-goers plenty of excitement for
their money.
"Cavalcade of America,”
back on the air Monday nights
on NBC, will once again have
top stars in top vehicles. It not
only brings the stories ot great
personages to its mikes, but
also those of little known peo
ple who have contributed sig
nificantly to the American way
of life. Such stars as Irene
Dunne, Raymond M a s s e y ,
Charles Boyer and Dorothy
McGuire appear on it.
Lloyd BrMges says you can’t
overestimate what luck does for a
movie career. "It took me 12 solid
years of struggling in Hollywood
before I got my first decent break
in 'Home of the Brave.' Then
Eagle-Lion gave me the lead in
Trapped.' Since it was finished
I’ve been offered dozens of other
breaks.” Modest Mr. Bridges says
nothing about what his talent has
contributed
HROUGH the opening in the
T
trees above the woods road
Langford could see the dull glow
against the sky. It was growing
brighter by the minute, and now
the smell of smoke was strong. In
his ears there
was the distant
and omi n o u s
roar of crack
ling flames.
He stumbled
forward, his breath a sobbing gasp
in his throat, his face white and
drawn from the strain of running.
It seemed that he had run a thous
and miles, though he knew it was
not more than eight. Eight at the
most. That meant there were still
three to go before he reached the
river. Then he’d have to swim
across and make another mile up
the slope to his cabin. By then it
might be too late. By then the fire
might have swept down on the
little log structure and destroyed
it, and what it contained. Anne and
little Bobby. He closed his eyes to
shut out the picture.
After a while he stood up and
went on. The glow against the
sky was brighter, bright red
and orange and yellow. Against
it he could see billowing smoke
clouds and occasional showers
ot sparks. That meant the
flames had reached the ridge
behind the cabin. In another
moment they would be sweep
ing down the slope toward his
clearing.
His spirits sank. He choked as
the smoke grew thicker and the
air suffocating. Above him he
heard the wail of a rising wind,
and above the wind there was the
increasing roar of the fire. Anne
wouldn’t understand until it was
too late.
It couldn’t be much more than a
mile, he told himself. He called on
his last ounce of energy and fought
ahead.
Suddenly a wild hope beat in his
heart. He looked up and there at
his very feet was water. The river!
He had come faster than he
thought.
But abruptly the hope
died. Looking across he stared into
a solid sheet of flame and smoke
belching sparks. The entire slope
of the hill, which was between the
river and his cabin, was afire.
Groaning, he sank to his
knees. Before him the river
hissed and steamed as flying
fragments fell into it. Its black
depths mirrored the licking
tongues of flame with terrible
beauty.
Watching with horrible fascina
tion, Langford’s heart suddenly
gave a bound. He leaped to his
feet and plunged into the water,
shouting. Fifty feet from shore a
dark silhouette had come into the
path of orange reflection, wabbling
crazily but moving steadily toward
the shore. Atop it, was a huddled
bundle of something, that moved
and propelled the silhouette for
ward
with
awkward,
clumsy
strokes.
T ANGFORD WADED in to his arm-
" pits and then started to swim.
He called again and a voice an
swered him, telling him to go back.
But he didn’t. A. .’ presently the
silhouette ranged alongside and
Anne’s frightened eyes were look
ing into his own.
“Bobby?” he gasped.
"He’s here, under the blankets.
And I saved the hens too, and a
lot of our personal things.”
Langford helped push the im
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With another multi-million
bushel corn harvest expected
this fall, America’s farmers are
turning more and more to ma
chinery to prepare the crop for
use.
One Improved machine (shown
above) made by the New Hol
land machine company shells up
to three and one-third bushels
of corn each minute. This ma
chine takes in ears of corn and
seconds later ejects cobs in one
direction and cleaned shelled
corn in another. The shelled
corn is either bagged or ele
vated into a wagon automatical
ly.
Leaving Straw to Rot
Costly to Dairy Men
Leaving straw to rot in the fields
will get a farmer as much for his
money as lighting a pipe with a
10-dollar bill.
Ivan H. Loughary, dairy special
ist of the Wyoming agricultural ex
tension service, says: “Use that
straw for bedding down your dairy
cows, and especially since the
bedding problem always becomes
acute during the winter months.”
He adds that straw la costly.
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