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Dick West Finds Bricklaying
Contest Less Than Thrilling
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By DICK WEST
Washington-ilTO-For action-1
packed thrills that makes the
spine tingle and bring a cheer
r"n-i.- to the throat,
I wouldn't
six-day brick
laying contest.
Such an event
is going on
here at the
AFL-CIO un
ion industries
show, and
okk west 1 n 1 n K 1 n 2 I
might be stirred by the clas
sic struggle of man against
mortar, I went out to watch
the first heat.
Possibly a real dried-in-the-kiln
fan of brick masonry
could have found something
to shout "ole!" about, but I
doubt it. Any excitement that
a bricklaying contest gener
ates is pretty well confined to
the bricklayers. As a specta
tor sport, it ranks somewhere
between quilting bees and
hourglass watching.
Many Watch Contest
Nevertheless, a goodly
crowd was on hand for the
start of the contest, which is
being sponsored by the Brick
layers Union as a means of
selecting the 1960 "apprentice
of the year."
At some other exhibits in
the show, union-made articles
were being given away to
spectators and I suspect this
partly accounted for the turn
out at the bricklaying con
test. As I was being elbowed
aside by a couple of women
carrying shopping bags, I
heard one of them ask: "What
do they give you here, a
brick wall?"
I don't know how those la-diwork to correct some mis-
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dies figured on getting brick
walls into their shopping bags
but I expect they would have
managed it somehow.
More than 40 apprentice!
country arc competing for
1300 in prize money and vari
ous other emoluments that
accrue to contest winners.
Twice daily, six of them
take positions at a brick pile
and, at a signal from the
judges, begin erecting things
as called for in the contest
blueprints. This goes on for
six days.
Has "Early Foot"
I don't know a thing about
handicaping bricklayers, but
if there had been a book
maker handy I would have
put my money on No. 6, a
tall, dark-haired young man
from New Haven, Conn. As
the racing writers say, he had
good "early foot."
While the other contestants
were taking preliminary
measurements and drawing
lines on the floor, No. 6 sim
ply slapped down some mor
tar and began laying on the
bricks. He was well ahead of
the field when I returned
from the scene to inspect some
of the other exhibits.
When I returned, drops of
perspiration were cascading
off No. 6's nose and he was
tearing down part of his han-
take he had made.
The first heat still had two
hours to go and I didn't wait
to see how it turned out. As
Have suggested, a little
bvicklayiitg goes a lung way,
particularly when it develops
into a hare-and-tortoise race.
Statm Samking Two
Prison Pward
The Oregon state civil serv
ice commission has announced
recruitment for two prison
stewards. Vacancies now ex
ist at the state penitentiary
and at the correctional insti
tution, Salem.
Applications may be ob
tained at any field office of
Uie ueptu tnieltt uf cuipioy-j
ment or at the civil service
commission in Salem or Portland.
Try and Stop Me
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Urology Institute
Set May 18 at
RC Building Here
An institute on urology will
be held in Mcdford Wednes
day. May 18, at the Red Cross
building. 60 Hawthorne ave.,
sponsored by the general duty
nurses of the Oregon Nurses
association, District 4.
Four physicians will serve
on a panel and discuss the
medical, surgical and nursing
care of the urologic patient. A
registered nurse will serve as
moderator.
Panel members and their
tooics will include Dr. Laurel
G. Case, urology in general
practice and obstetrics; Dr.
William J. Miller, urologic
problems in pediatrics; Dr.
Florain J. Shasky, urosurgery,
and Dr. Martin L. Vorheis, the
role of the internist in man
agement of the pre-and post
operative urosurgicai patient.
Mrs. Jane Anders, RN, will
speak on nursing care of the
urology patient.
All nurses, practical nurses,
nurses aides, office assistants
and anyone working in the
medical fields are invited to
attend.
The institute will be held
from 7 to 10 p.m. A fee will
be charged for non-association
members. Chairman of the
event is Miss Loretto Costello
assisted by Mrs. Joan Jensen,
Ashland, and Mrs. Christine
Bates.
TVTEAR THE BROOKLYN Navy Yard, a young tailor
i ' spotted a pair of lovely chicks and happily began fol
lowing them. They ignored him completely for four block.
Then one wheeled about
sharnlv and instructed.
"Listen, sonny boy. Either
stop following us or
get another sailor!"
"What does that 'O' on
your sweater stand for?"
inquired a wide-eyed young
thing. The great big he
nsan explained, "That's the
letter I won for football at
Northwestern." "But North
western begins with 'NT
aha protested. "Naturally,"
agreed the he-man, "but I
played on the second team."
m
A famous professional gambler gave his son, Jtmt out of ert
lege, two pieces of invaluable advice: 1: Never bet on anything
that can talk; 2. Don't gamble with people who have bo visible
means of support.
O I960, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Klnt Feature! Syndicate
Washington Report
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
Smith Says GOP
Must Sell Party
Bend OJPD Former Gov.
Elmo Smith, a candidate for
the Republican nomination for
U.S. Senator, told Deschutes
county Republican workers
Monday night that positive
selling pan elrt Rpniiblirans
this fall.
"If we nominate people who
can tell the Republican story
we're going to elect a lot of
candidates this fall," he said.
"The time has come for us
to quit simply criticizing the
Democrats and instead tell the
people what is right with the
Republican party. We have
more to offer many registered
Democrats than the Demo
cratic candidates themselves,"
he said.
Smith predicted that Repub
lican voters this fall will se
lect candiates who represent
the broad base of public inter
ests rather than being tied to
any special interests for Re
publicans at the expense of
other Americans.
He said the I960 election
will be won at the precinct
level.
Two-Parts Perfect
Whooping Cranes
Head for Canada
Washington-!tPI-The Inter
ior Department said today all
but two of the world's last
flock of whooping cranes ap
parently have left their win
ter range in the Aransas wild
life refuge in Texas for their
summer nesting grounds in
northern Canada.
The flock numbers
cranes.
PEDIATRIC! DISS
New York-itPll-Dr. Howard
H. Mason, 81, a pediatrician
and former clinical professor
at Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center, died Sunday.
A department spokesman
said an aerial survey May 6
of the "whooper route" at
Aransas and nearby Mata
gordo island showed 13 cf
in I the big birds still in winter
I quarters. Sunday there were
S3 ! only seven in view. Early
I Monday tlirre were only two.
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Stitch In Time
Shawn Caperna led the
pledge of allegiance to the
flag at the recent meeting of
the Stitch in Time 4-H club.
Margaret Carnegie led the
-l-II piedge.
The ?rntip talked shout go
ing to the old people's home.
They started aprons for a club
project. They talked about the
MAIL TRUUNI, MnKerA 0r.
Tenalay, My It, !
charter and secretary books
of last year.
Club members practiced
good posture on sitting, stand
ing and walking. They plan
to finish their aprons
meeting which will be
at Marlene Nnugtiier'?,
Shawn Caperna,
Reporter
next
held
About one-half the people
of Formosa are farmers.
Buenos Aires has five subways.
1? j
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put th
ey on
" imal
TIDES OF CHANGE
Washington-There is grave
new from across the Atlantic.
It suggests how deeply the
tides of change are sweeping
across the old British Empire.
It is seri
ously recom
mended that
the British
their mon-
on the dec-
system
similar to
what we have
in this coun-
tru T1dii
William S. , j.
wuite where a dime
is the tenth part of a dollar,
everythings is mathematically
reasonable. But in England
there is an insipred madness
in coinage which had been
the despair, if not the envy,
of all the world.
There is a guinea. This is
a pound plus one shilling. A
pound is 20 shillings, which
in U.S. money comes to $2.80.
There is a one-shilling coin
called a bob. There is a tan
ner, which is a six-pence.
There is a half-crown, which
is two shillings plus six-pence.
(There is, naturally, no full
crown). There is a thruppeny
bit, which is three pence.
There is a hapenny (half-penny).
And then there is a far
thing. When you don't give a
farthing for something, you
really don't care much. For
farthing
penny.
is one-quarter of
SPEAKING FOR MODERN OIL HEAT.
"We Know Oil Heat's the Cleanest,
Safest Heat"
5k 5r
XM1
"Safety and cleanliness are very important to baby and me.
We both sleep soundly and comfortably while the depend
able oil furnace keeps the bedroom temperature just right.
We like the clean, fresh-air comfort of gently circulating
air . . . no drafts or stuffy corners in our house. It's a good,
secure feeling to have a modern oil furnace working for
us downstairs."
. In MEDFORD, the fiiitt homes us modern oil heat . . .
e for safety e fordnDendability for economy for comfort
rHlAT all this might at this
late date be changed into
a system readily sensible to a
foreigner is surely a hideous
prospect. Any man who has
spent years In learning to
break the ancient code is
bound to feel defrauded If
his hard-won skill is now to
be made no longer relevant
It would be as though all
the endless generations of Lat
in students had awakened to
hear that Latin was about to
be abolished, down to and in
cluding the Latin of Caesar's
Gallic wars. ,
Hundeds of thousands of
Americans, generations of
Americans, have put vast ef
fort into threading the mystic
mazes of that extra-ordinary
thing called "British money
When a fellow has finally
grasped, in toil and sweat,
how to avoid either under
tipping or over-tipping (and
in England over-tipping is
much the worse crime of the
two), it seems a hard thing
to have his expertise sudden
ly made obsolete.
INDEED, if the British are
ffnlntr tn Hn thi in uc mone
tary experts from afar, they
are going to give us, intel
lectually, a bloody nose. They
are going to put us on sticky
wicket. Visits to England will
be, hereafter, simply too
tickety-boo for words; no
challenge will be left.
It well may be that the
British will draw back from
this still quite unbelievable
reform. Though the reformers
have massive forces the as
sociation for the advancement
of science all is not yet lost.
This correspondent is told
by British friends here who
are authorltiative sources and
informed circles that it is too
early to let fear have the
field. Changing the British
coinage has been "up for dis
cussion" these past 50 years.
Nevertheless, they do warn
"But the movement is devel
oping a bit more force all the
time.
A LREADY the British have
made many concessions to
their allies. They allow the
U.S. to take the lead in for
eign policy except when
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan feels he really must
take it himself. They have
accepted American dominance
in other transitory things, like
nuclear policy and world
trade.
But they have not, thus
far, surrendered what has
really counted - such as their
determination to drive on the
left-hand side of the road;
their resolve to call all for
eign places by good, sound
English names, no matter If
him
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MODERATOR DIES
Princeton, N.J. - IUPH - Dr.
Charles R. Erdman, 93, for
mer moderator of the Gen
eral Assembly of the Presby
terian Church, U.S.A., died
Monday.
A DEADLY SMILE
Tyler, Tex.-fflPD-An adver
tisement in the Tyler tele
phone directory for the Chrls
tion Funeral Home: "Honest
service with a smile."
foreign places oddly insist
upon calling themselves some
thing else ?!toE"ther
It would be the end-the ab
solute, flipping end, as certain
uncultured types might say in
England - if the British were
now to sink forever the tan
ner and all the rest and put
into their place something
dully logical called the deci
mal system.
(Copyright. 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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