Baseball On Way Out
Teams To Investigate Estes
Said Becoming National Pastime
By DICK WEST
Washington - (Ml - Base
ball may be hard pressed this
year to retain its ranking as
the national
pastime.
At the mo
ment it ap
pears that
A m e r i c a's
most popular
diversion is to
choose up
sides and in
vestigate Bil
lie Sol Estes.
Exact figures on the num
ber of persons engaged in this
pursuit are not available. But
as Rep. L. H. Fountain points
out, the total is considerable
and seems to be growing.
He noted that the roster
currently includes at least 76
FBI agents and more than 30
Senate investigators, plus an
undetermined number of gum
shoes representing the Agri
culture Department, the at
torney general of Texas, the
Internal Revenue Service and
private creditors.
The North Carolina Dem
ocrat added that hit own
government operations sub
committee has enlarged its
staff for hearings on the
Estes can. which got start
ed Monday.
Furthermore, the way his
phone has been ringing indi
cates there must be two or
three hundred reporters look
ing into the matter, he said.
"Before it is all over, I
think Mr. Estes is likely to
find a place in history as one
of the most - if not the
most - thoroughly investiga
ted individuals of all time,"
Fountain commented.
Strictly as a spectator, I
took in the opening session
Ron's
opening
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of the House subcommittee's
inquiry, a large part of
which was devoted to inter- j
party batting practice.
Fountain, who has a way
with words, promised that the
Democratic controlled group
would "leave no stone un
turned" and would "let the
chips fall where they may."
Rtp. Florence P. Dwy
r of New Jersey, ranking
Republican member, then
read a statement saying the
was confident the investi
gation would proceed in a
bi-parittan manner.
Her confidence presumably
was bolstered by the fact that
she managed to get a GOP
lawyer assigned to the staff
for the duration of the in
quiry. Demonstrating bi partisan
ship, Mrs. Dwyer praised the
chairman for being so quick
to act on her suggestion that
the inquiry be undertaken.
In response, Fountain po
litely declined to take credit
for that, saying he was al
ready in action before she
made the suggestion.
It remains to be seen where
the chips will fall, but the
first witness certainly showed
a strong aversion to being hit
by turning stones.
Asked if he ha dever met
Estes personally, he replied:
"I have not, thank the Lord."
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(Register and Tribunt
Syndicate 1962)
This Sweet-Smelling Plant
It Common, but Useful
Until dad found out he
could purchase a bottle of il
for his own use at home, he
visited the barber shop twice
as often as necessary merely
because he liked the smell
of witch hazel.
It was a common skin lotion
used extensively by barbers
who, perhaps to show their
versatility, would sometimes
substitute bay rum. But witch
hazel was the favorite. Usu
ally it was pretty economical;
whole pint could be pur
chased for the price of a cou
ple of cheap cigars.
Supposedly the pungent
liquid, patted on the tender
face after shaving, soothed
and healed the razor nicks.
The housewife, too, found
witch hazel a benefit in cases
of bruises and burns and used
it frequently in most inflam
mations affecting the skin.
Commonly Sec i
The shrub from which the
lotion is distilled, grows pret
ty generally over a large part
of America. It is the small
tree that brinss each year the
epilogue of the fading sum
mer to a fitting close because
it bears its yellow flowers
late in the fall, usually No
vember - the very last blos
soms of the northern year.
The witch hazel shrub gives
the honeybees their final
chance of nectar gathering.
After the hazel bush blos
soms, the cold north wind
whistles across the hillside.
The woodsman and the farm
boy found the witch hazel
bush a very interesting plant
because of the explosive na
ture of its seeding. The hard,
shiny seeds are shot out of
the dry pods with consider
able force. Like little, fast-
flying missiles they have
often struck a bystander in
the face. If they meet no ob
slruction, the seeds are shot
to some distance away from
the parent tree.
Mystical Powart
Some folks who didn't care
for the peculiar fragrance of
witch hazel, attributed mysti
cal powers to it. They main
tained a forked branch of the
hazel shrub was. the proper
material for divining rods, i
Those gifted individuals took !
a forked branch from the I
tree, held the two long ends
in either hand, the other end
pointed down and walked
across the ground.
When the short end of the
branch pointed directly down
ward, there water would be, 1
any amount of it. A divining j
rod, in the hands of an "ex-;
pert" could also locate buried
treasure, ore depe its or oil
pockets, so the operator
claimed.
Of course, the operator
used his head, selcting only
those areas where under
ground: water was usually
plentiful. Scientifically, the
witch hazel divining rod
leaves considerable to be de
sired. An adequate water sup
ply could have been better
found with a generous amount
of "sweat of the brow" and
a shovel.
American Officers
Missing in Laos
Washington - IUPII -Two
U.S. noncommissioned officers
are missing after an attack
by 150 Communist Viet Nam
Minh forces on a 15-man
Royal Laotian patrol in Laos,
the Defense Department said
Tuesday.
The royal patrol suffered
six casualties, according to
the report. The fighting took
place Sunday 15 miles north
east of the town of Ban Houie
Sai.
The report was received
from Ma, Gen. Reuben Tuck
er, chief of the U.S. Military
Assistance Advisory Group in
Laos. It did not identify the
missing Americans, but said
six other U.S. instructors with
the patrol were uninjured
and accounted for.
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