S O U T H E R N O R EG O N N EW S R EV IEW
W ÎW J
BROADWAY A N D M A IN STREET
Ghosts Haven't Ghost of a Chance in Manhattan
But This Haunting Story Gave New Yorkers Pause
By BILLY ROSE
We men of M anhattan are an undaunted and unhaunted lot— it's alw ays been on my list, no
or at least think we are—and so ghost stories seldom stand a ghost body’s ev er w anted it."
"D o you think sq u a tte rs m ight be
of a chance in this town.
‘
The other night, how ever, a real e sta te m an buttonholed m e com ing
out of "21" and told m e a chiller about a d eserted house In the Flushing
section of Queens, and on the off-chance th a t your scalp can use a
tingle or two. I’d like to pass it along . . . .
On the night of the big snow th ree
w inters ago, a doctor in Q ueens an
chief, and though the doctor went
sw ered his doorbell and found a
through the motions of an ex
sm allish m an in a
amination be knew at once it was
f a d e d m ackinaw _ ..............
an adt anced case of tuberculosis.
standing on t h e
“ I can give h er som ething to re
stoop.
lieve the congestion," he told her
"M y wife is very
husband, "b u t sh e’ll have to be
sick ," he said. " I
m oved to a hospital first thing in
h ate to ask you to
the m o rn in g ."
com e out on a night
He th en w rote out a prescription.
like this, but it’s
" I ’ll get it filled rig h t aw ay,” said
only a few blocks."
the m an, and showed the doctor to
The doctor fol
the door.
lowed him to a
N ext m orning, w ondering how
the w om an w as getting along, the
large wooden house
Billy Ruso
n e a r the in te rse c
physician stopped by the wooden
tion of Vine stre e t and B roadw ay, house, b ut th e re w as no answ er
and when the m an unlocked the when he ran g the bell. M oreover,
door the physician could see by the th e re w ere no trac k s in the snow
g la re of an unshaded droplight th a t to indicate th a t an am bulance or
the lower floor w as em pty except any oth er vehicle had pulled up in
for a few kitchen ch airs and a front of the place.
Puzzled, he w ent to the office of
length of carpet.
a re a l estate agent on the next
“THIS IS NO PLACE for a sick stre e t and asked if he could get
w om an,” he said. “ You ought to som e inform ation about the re si
dents of the house.
have som e h e a t in the house.”
• • •
The man led him up a creaky
"TH A T’S A FUNNY sort of q u es
set of stairs to the second floor,
tion," said the agent. "T h ere a re n 't
end in the front room an emac
any resid en ts and th ere a re n 't like
iated woman was lying in an old
ly to be any. The house h a s n 't been
four-poster bed. She kept cough
occupied in 15 years, and though
ing into a blood-flecked handker
THE
FICTION
CORNER
¡E<SCREI
By IN EZ G ERHARD
ILLIAM HOLDEN m ade quite
W a record in 1949—he did five
p ic tu res a t four studios; this y e a r
p rom ises to be equally busy. His
role in "S unset B oulevard” is one
of his favorites, though he had to
figure a bit over ju s t w hat to do
a fte r G loria Swanson shot him.
T h a t very effective bit of acting
ca m e afte r long study of the
WILLIAM HOLDEN
c h a ra c te r he w as playing. His p er
fo rm an ce is rea lly tops. In p riv ate
life his se v e re st critic is his daugh
te r V irginia, who rea d s all his
sc rip ts; of this one she said, “ Why
do you play such h eels?” His
young sons w alked out on a rec en t
p ictu re of his to look a t an old
W estern on television.
G loria Swanson, a fte r h e r se n sa
tional com e-back in “ Sunset Boule
v a rd ,” plans to s ta r in another
picture, which she will co-produce
w ith W illiam D ieterle. She has
p lans to m ake it in Istanbul, w ith
p a rtia l T urkish
financing. The
story sounds perfect for h e r—it's
about a w om an who is in love with
a m an younger th an she, who can
not save her from death.
ART HODGES had lived in the
he longed for the sm ell of sweet,
fresh air, the sound of ro o sters
crow ing
and
cow s
lowing.
Minute H e w anted to
go to bed to the
Fiction tune
of crick ets
cheeping
and
bullfrogs jug-a-rum m ing.
It w a sn 't as if the city h a d n 't
been kind to B ert. It had. It had
tak en him to its bosom , and he had
prosp ered . Nor had he been un
happy. He loved the lights, the
noise, the hustle and bustle. And
m ost of ail he loved a girl.
Tonight, lying on the divan in
the living room of his ap a rtm en t,
B a rt w as tro u b led w ith an annoy
ing thought. He w ondered, stra n g e
ly, w hich he w anted m ost: S ab in a's
love or th e country.
It w as a t this p a rtic u la r m om ent
in B a rt’s speculation th a t the tele
phone ran g . A stran g ely fam iliar
fem inine voice answ ered.
“ Hello, th ere. B a r t , ” the
voice said.
“ T his is Sadie
Blake, fresh in from the old
hom e town. Come down and
talk to one of your forgotten
frie n d s.”
B a rt’s pulse leaped. Sadie! His
boyhood pal! Sadie, whom one day
he ex p ected to m a rry ! Sadie, in
the city. H ere! Now! F re sh from
C enterville, with new s and notes
of th e old hom e town galore.
At th a t m o m en t Sabina Good-
now w as forgotten. T here w as ju st
one girl in the world for B art. And
th a t g irl w as Sadie Blake. He felt
suddenly ash am e d he had neglect-
ed to w rite, to re m e m b e r h er at
C h ristm as . . .
Sadie, pink cheeked, blooming
w ith good h ealth and freshness,
F re d U ttal, anouncer on “M r.
D istrict A ttorney,” has two boys,
B ro and Lyn, aged 2 and 1 re
spectively. He say s th a t if he and
his wife has a th ird one h e’ll call
it Ook—“P u t them all tog eth er and
they spell B rooklyn.”
"M aybe you’ve got this house
m ixed up w ith an o th er on e," the
agent suggested.
"I still think it's the sam e place.
L et's look u p sta irs.”
On the second floor they w ent into
the front room . It w as also em pty.
E m pty, th a t is, except for a piece
of p ap er on the window sill—the
prescrip tio n the doctor had w ritten
the night before.
p raised of all the events and h ap
penings in C enterville during the
p ast two y ea rs, and assu re d th a t
his folks w ere well.
He took Sadie out to dinner, and
delighted in showing h er around.
She seem ed a little aw ed by it all,
and m o re aw ed by B a rt’s indiffer
ence to the m any wonders.
“ You g et used to it a fte r a
w hile.” he said indifferently, and
stood gazing thoughtfully at the
m any lights along B roadw ay. He
felt enlightened and no longer
hom esick. S tran g ely enough the
noise and bustle asso ciated th e m
selves in his m ind w ith Sabina. He
w as glad to be a p a r t of it all.
He gazed fu rtiv ely a t the com ely
Sadie and p ictu red h e r in the ru ra l
setting of C enterville.
They atten d ed a th e a te r and
dined afte rw a rd at an exclusive
night club. Sadie would h av e liked
to go back to h e r hotel, b ut she
w anted to p lease B art.
“ B a rt," she said, when a t
la st they stood outside th e door
to her room. "W hen a re you
com ing hom e? When a re you
going to give up ail th is and
com e back w here you belong?”
B a rt looked down into h er eyes
and saw som ething th a t two y ea rs
ago he had longed to w itness. He
sighed deeply.
"Sadie, it’s been ju st g re a t see
ing you. J u s t w hat I needed. A sort
of tonic.” He sm iled a t h er gently.
" I ’m not going back ju st yet, S a
die. T h ere's som ething keeping
m e here, som ething th a t before I
n ever knew existed. I know now
th a t it’s som ething g re a te r th a n —
anything. Some tim e I'm com ing
b ack ’” ’a n d " w h e n T d o ’ th e re 'll’"be
two ot us ,.
m e t h im in the lobby of h e r hotel.
“ Hello, p a l,” she cried. "Look
ing ju st th e sam e. T hinner, m ay
be. B ut otherw ise old B a rt him
self.”
%
" S a d ie !” Bob sta re d In open
ad m iratio n . “ Sadie! How good
ew A yres began his c a re e r as a
it Is to see yon. Tell m e, how
a re things In C enterville? How
ce band singer, but in his y ea rs
p ic tu res h e 's done everything
a re the folks? Tell m e ev ery
sing. At last, in RKO’s “The
th in g .”
tu r e ,” h e 's a singing c o w b o y -
"S am e old town, B art. Your
one scene w here he plucks a folks a re fine. Your dad owns a
a r an d sings “ Git Along Little new tra c to r. Polly, th e horse, died,
ie.” B ut A yres ra n into diffi- you know. B ut I suppose they
y; he h as a tru e ea r, and had w rote you th a t. The voters decided
practise h a rd to learn to sing to ru n tow n w ate r up to W illiam ’s
Hill a t th e la st town m eeting. Not
so m uch d an g e r if fire b reak s out
ielville Cooper and E lsa Lan- now. E d Salm on ra n off w ith Bob
ste r w ere a vaudeville te a m 25 E v a n s’ wife. She cam e back two
rs ago in London, ap p earin g in w eeks ago, an d Bob took h er in.
ainiature th e a te r ow ned by E lsa Sham e. P oor kid . . ."
[ C harles L aughton. T ogether
HEY TALKED for hours. By
s in “The P e tty G irl,” they did
evening B a rt w as fuUy ap-
ir a c t for th e ca st.
T
This Is
Your Paper
Those 'Changed'
News Items
item , why do you alw ays
change it all aro u n d ?"
T hat question is one of the m ost
frequently asked in every hom e
town n ew spaper office in the coun
try. Som etim es it is asked in con
sid erab le exasperation.
The answ er is, of course, th a t
nqws stories are ea sie r to read,
b etter understood, take less space,
when they a re w ritten to conform
to a som ew hat flexible p attern . T h at
style, developed over the y ea rs, is
fairly uniform in all new spapers
because it was designed to ev a lu a te
the facts for th eir news value and
tell them quickly and clearly
A well writ-
'Lead"
te n ,
stra ig h t
Is
news story pre-
Inclusive
sent« IT« out
standing infor
m ation in the opening p a ra g ra p h ,
or lead. W hat follows after th a t is
am plification,
additional details.
T here a re excellent reasons why
news story style is best, am ong
them : (1) The rea d er can quickly
read the lead, and quit there it the
story fails to in te rest him or her.
(2) It p e rm its cutting or reducing
the length of a story, to get it into
a p a rtic u la r place in the paper, by
elim in atin g from the bottom . As
these bottom p a ra g ra p h s contain
less im p o rta n t details, th eir re
m oval will not seriously reduce the
inform ation the story is conveying.
The ed ito r trie s to pack his p a
per w ith as m uch news as he can
get, w ritten in clear, read ab le style,
and a rran g e d to give the p ap er a
v aried and a ttra c tiv e ap p earan ce.
Y et he cannot p rep a re the e n tire
content of an issue in an hour or a
day.
B ecause Writ-
W r itte n
1 n g.
editing,
to Fit
s e t t i n g type,
The Space
putting the type
in
the
page
form s, and printing, add ressin g and
d eliv erin g take tim e, they m ust
s ta r t ea rly enough to conclude at
a specified tim e each issue. If r.ews
stories a re not w ritten so they can
be m ad e to fit the sp ace assigned
to them , m uch tim e will be lost and
the p ap e r will contain few er stories
and be less interesting.
The editor is a sp ecialist whose
stock-in-trade is an und erstan d in g
of w hat in terests people. He wel
com es news and does his best to
p resen t it in accu rate, read ab le, in
te re stin g form.
N ext tim e you bring in a news
item , and it is “ changed all
aro u n d ", rem em b er th a t it w as re
w ritten into news style to help you
m ake it of in terest to the g re a te st
possible num ber of read ers.
SSWDRD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1. Consum e
H er n am e w as Sabina Good-
now, and she adored him .
SYLPH-CONTROL . . .T hom as
Tiny T im ) of Pittsburgh hopes
that an apple a day w ill keep
extra pounds a w a y .
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By Richard H. Wilkinson
B city for two y e a rs and he w as
getting tire d of i t C ountry bred,
Key Deer Get Help
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T he Key d eer has found in the
F lorida
congressional delegation
stau n ch allies in its b a ttle with ex
term in atio n . according to the Wild
life M an ag em en t Institute.
Two bills have been Introduced to
extend the boundaries of the G reat
W hite
H eron
N ational
Wildlife
R efuge to Include the restric ted
ran g e of the dim inutive m e m b er of
the d ee r fam ily which is battling
for su rv iv al on sev eral sm all islands
near
the refuge; C ongressm an
C h arles
E.
B ennett introduced
H.R. 7524, which was referre d to
the house co m m ittee on m e rch an t
m a rin e and fisheries, and Sen.
C laude P ep p er introduced a com
panion bill. S. 3286, which was re
fe rre d to the S enate C om m ittee on
In te rsta te and F oreign C om m erce.
U nless this land is acquired soon,
the Key d eer is doomed. No m ore
th an 50 and possibly only 25 have
survived the ra v a g es of poachers
who, in defiance of law and hum an
decency, have been burning the
cover, running d eer into the sea
with dogs, and killing them in the
w ater as they have attem p ted to
sw im to safety.
Steady en cro ach m en t of reso rt
developm ents on the estim ated
10,000 ac re s th u t com prise their in
habited ran g e poses an additional
th re a t to survival. The Keys ore
too far from the m ain lan d for e f
fective sta te protection in spite of
efforts.
A A A
Hundred Per Center
C atching two sailfish on two
strik es is about the sam e as a m ajor
b allp lay er slam m in g two hom e
ru n s in two trip s to the plate, how
ever. John Heddon (a b o v e > re c e n t
ly tu rn ed the trick at Acapulco,
M exico, on a sporty "6 9" " P a l"
rod.
In an g lers' p arlian ce, this m eans
a 6 ounce tip. 5 feet in length, to
g eth er w ith a 27 pound te st line
and since these sailfish weighed in
the neighborhood ot 125 pounds
each, skill played a m a jo r p a rt in
th eir cap tu re.
John com es by his angling prow
ess q u ite n atu ra lly as he is the
th ird g eneration of a fam ous fish
ing fam ily and p resid e n t of Ja m e s
H eddon's Sons, D ow agiac, M ichi
gan,
His g ran d fath e r, Ja m e s Heddon.
founded the com pany by w hittling
out A m eric a’s first to p w ater casting
b a it in his kitchen m ore th an a half
cen tu ry ago.
A A A
Bigmouth Data
The largem outh bass, In the
opinion of m ost anglers, is ju st as
moody and u n p red ictab le as his
m o re agile brother, the sm all
m outh. B ut in m any of the lakes
In the South, the larg em o u th bass
grows fat and lazy from too m uch
food, w hich he is able to obtain
w ith a m inim um of effort.
H ow ever, these sam e fish will
ru sh for an edible-looking plug if
popped along the su rface, and will
fight h ard when hooked. N aturally,
they do not show, as a rule, the
pugnacious q u alities of the sm all
m outh in N orthern lakes. T h ere
fore It should be rem em b ered
th a t local conditions play a big
p a rt when the su b ject of bass fight
ing q u alities is u nder discussion.
G etting back to ta ctics: On a
quiet, w arm day the bigm ouths of
lake or pond m ay refuse to rise
eith er to plug or fly. T h at is when
a w eighted frog, craw fish, minnow
or anglew orm m ay be used to good
advantage.
If a light breeze springs up,
ruffling the su rface of the shallow
portion ot such w ater, or clouds
c a st a d ark shadow, then the bass
a re m ore likely to accept
lu res directed to th eir
places.
A A A
Hatchery Costs High
It costs m oney to o p era te fish
h atch eries and put fingerlings and
even catch ab le size fish into angling
w aters. W isconsin h as kept accu rate
figures on these costs and during
sev eral y ea rs has reduced the per
thousand cost considerably. How
ev er It is still high.
F o r instance, It costs $81.92 to
produce 1,000 m uskle fin g erin g s.
Slxteen-m onths old legal size ra in
bow tro u t cost 50 cents a pound to
produce.
Each With Your Own
Initial!
Farmer Finds Blower
Effective Hay Dryer
Mounted on Cart, It's
Easy to Move About
Teaspoons Only 754
Wet springs and early frosts
a re n ’t the headuches they once
w ere to a growing num ber of fa rm
ers, F o r they have discovered th a t
Im m ature grain can be cured Just
us effectively In sto rag e buildings
as In the field.
The av erag e fa rm e r will find th a t
m echanical d ry in g of hay and gruln
is not as expensive as it would ap
pear. Hay and grain saved will soon
pay for equipm ent.
E quipm ent for m echanical d ry
ing of g rain is sim ple, and present
farm stru ctu re s can be converted
easily, quickly und inexpensively
to handle this new est of farm pro
duction
chores.
F a rm e rs,
who
have hay curing equipm ent, will
find th a t the sam e fan and m otor
J ’ ’;’ ,
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K00tA'DbZÄ
MAKES 10 BIG
COLD DRINKS
■ P v J IM R H O D Y
By W illiam R. Nelson
When they got Io the house,
it look the agent quite a while to
get the rusty lock open, and when
they entered there wasn’t a stick
of furniture in sight. "I could
h ate sworn I saw some chairs
and a carpet down here last
night,” said the doctor,
BART S DECISION
Rhonda F lem ing, s ta r of “The
E agle and the H aw k,” is fea
tured in the Ju n e issue of Holi
day m agazine in a color por
tr a it shot a t M alibu; she w as
chosen as “ being typical of the
1950 fem inine figure in a bath
ing su it.”
Walt D isney studied the a p p e a r
ances and c a re e rs of notorious pir-
Mtes of history before c a m e ra work
sta rte d on " T re a su re Islan d .” The
fam ous B lackbeard, the ruth less
Isra e l H ands and o thers a p p e a r as
Stevenson c h a ra c te rs.
living in It on account of the hous
ing sh o rtag e ?" ask ed the doctor.
"Could be, but I doubt it,” said
the agent. "T h e re ’s been a lot of
qu eer talk about th a t house, and the
last fam ily th a t m oved in during
the depression could only stan d it
for a few weeks. The husband and
wife slep t in the fro n t room on the
second floor, and to h ea r them tell
it they w ere k ep t aw ake night after
night by the sound of a w oman
coughing. It finally got so bad they
packed and left."
" I know its sounds a b su rd ,” said
the doctor, "b u t I ex am ined a sick
w om an th e re la st night, and if
you've got a key I’ll w alk over with
you and prove it.”
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Mounted on w h eels, this m o
tor and blower lak es the head
a ch es out of curing im m atu re
grain for farm ers. Here the
equipm ent is shown being used
for hay drying.
Good Cook Stops
Stomach Trouble
can be used for both drying grain
and finishing forage crops.
The accom panying Illustration
shows w hat can be done in the way |
of inter-changing hay curing and
grain drying equipm ent. When the
hay curing season is over, this
fa n n e r m ounts his fan and m otor I
on a c a rt and hauls them to a crib
Mrs. Maud T ebeaux, Route 4, Bog
(th ere they a re put to use blowing
m oisture out of his im m atu re corn. 840, Waco, n m ighty fine cook, says
An outlet, into w hich he plugs his th a t good food, lots of fresh sir,
five-horsepow er m otor, is located plenty of sleep and a box of Crazy
W ater C ry stals on hand is a fine
in an ad jac en t building.
way to assu re good health.
When double crib s are used, as
Mrs. T ebeaux say s: "A ny tuna
in the case shown, the nir blast anyone feels sick or sluggish I insist
en ters through one end of the they t a k e Crazy W ater C rystals. I
drivew ay. T he opposite end Is have used them for over five y ears
scaled up, and heavy pap er placed and before I sta rte d tak in g them 1
was troubled with g as ami my stom-
on walls of the crib from the peak ncre was nlw nys sore. Now since
of the roof to the top of the corn tak in g C razy W nter C ry stals reg u
layer. O penings around the fan larly I have nqt laid my stom ach
and in the floor also are closed. In trouble A ctually, I do not consider
single cribs, wooden ducts or "A " Crazy W ater C ry stals a medicine—
fram es a re layed down the cen ter I call it a good nourishing before-
of the floor and the air blown d i b reak fast drink.”
It doesn’t m u tter how old you nre
rectly into them .
or where you live—-Cruzy W ater
D rying is successful w ithout sup C ry stals are good fo r you l»ecnuse
p lem en tary h ea t when the te m p e r they are n a tu re 's own product.
a tu re Is tO or above and the re la F au lty , sluggish elim ination so often
tive hum idity 65 per cent or be is the cause of ninny ailm ents folks
low. If h ea t is used, buildings su ffe r from upset stom ach, gns
pains, headnclies, rundown, played-
should be insulated and properly out feeling, nervousness and other
ventilated. W arm air is blown into body aches and paina can often lie
sto rag e sheds by m otor driv en attrib u te d to faulty elim ination.
fans. T h erm o stats and oth er con
The one and only genuine CRAZY
trols au to m atically keep the te m W ATER CRYSTALS have been pro
p e ra tu re and the flow of a ir at duced und distrib u ted to your drug
g ist for over 70 y ears by the CRAZY
eflicient d ry in g levels.
W A TER CO., INC., of Mineral
Wells, T exas.— Adv.
Don’t Strain
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W N U - 13
2 3 -5 0
Substitute
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ewih-v,
ir
H ere's a rig h t s m a rt Idea for
a feed and g rain acnop th a t
elim inates the w rist strain of
scoops with the usual p ro ject
ing handles. F o r a large seonp,
one th a t can be used in sacking
grain, 20-gauge galvanized m a
terial is about right. The sc ra p
iron b race to which the front
end of the handle is bolted helps
hold light m e tal In shape.
Year's Fruit Prospects
Hit by Widespread Damage
Explosive April caused consider
able d am ag e to budding fru it and a
g re a t drop In the y e a r's prospects
is indicated.
South C arolina, Virginia and G eor
gia suffered d am ag ed
peaches.
W ashington, Idaho and Oregon show
a 100 p ercen t bud loss and m any
tree s killed. D am age in southern Il
linois ranged from 50 to 100 per cent,
according to som e rep o rts by (arm
bureaus.
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