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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1960)
HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore Fridav. March 25. 19R0 PArtF fl A Franklin Pierce Adams, 'F;P.A Dies At Age 78 NEW YORK IAP) Franklin Pierce Adams, the "F.P A.' whose wit and wisdom delighted The 78-year-old newspaper col umnist and unabashed poet, or.c of radio's earliest pane! stars on "Information Please." had been confined to a nursing home for the past five years. Death was at tributed to hardening of the arteries. "F.P.A." had not signed those initials Iff a regular column since 1941. But for a time shortly after World W?r II he wrote a syndi cated daily piece of several para graphs called "This Little World." His verse on subjects ranging from baseball to humorous "trans lations" of the classics appeared in many collections as well as in his columns. In one brief piece he described '. the newspaper craft to which he devoted nearly 40 years: "Journalism is a shrew and a tcold "I like her. "She makes you sick and she makes you old "I like her." Adams not only wrote light verse, but did so without apology. In fact, in an introduction to a 1942 collection of his and others' "Innocent Merriment." he wrote that if he could choose the ability to write either serious or light verse, "I would vote for light ness." His best-known bit of verse, quoted by thousands who may not have known its source, had to do with an immortal Chicago Cubs infield and was entitled "Base ball's Sad Lexicon": "These are the saddest of pos sible words. School News HONOR ROLL LAKEVIEW Fifty four students of the Lakeview Junior High School made honor roll grades for the fourth si-week period of the school year. Those in 8-a were Jack Berreth, Keith Clawson, Patty Cory, Mi chael Gray, Susan Hotchkiss, Bar bara Kcirsey, Linda Lampkins Anita Lukl, Marilyn McNeal. Bar bara Newcombe, Brian New- combe, Larry Samples, Jean Sni der and Dennis Warren. In 8-c were James Ackcrman Karen Anderson, Marie Denting. Sheila Jarman, David Milholland Jack Moon, Gail Robin, Mary Stephens and James Tooke. In 7-a were Sheryl Anderson John Bach. Leigh Barry, Billy Duke, Susan Kliewer, Konrad Kratz, Daryl Jean Lcavitt, Bruce MacKay, Aaron Osborne. Chris tine Radford, Bonnie Simpson, Linda Toner and Ann Weir. In 7-c were Carol Allen, Jerry Bissell, Sally Bratton, Judith Creel, Bruce Getty, Greg Gilbert, Kenneth Giles, Pat Peacock Kathy Plato, John Smerski, Laura Walsh and Gene Williams. In 7-d were Lynn Anderson. Wil lard Edwards, Betty Kelley, Helen Oliver, Beulah Overton and Mike Weatherly. " Tinker to Evers to Chance Trio of Bear cubs and fleeter than birds, "Tinker and Evers and Chance "Ruthlessly pricking our gon talon bubble, "Making a Giant hit into a double "Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble. " Tinker to Evers to Chance.' ' To many Americans "F.P.A. was the seemingly-shy, head-dip ping man with '.he long nose and big mustache who helped white haired former sports writer John Kieran answer Clifton Fadiman's toughest questions on "Iniorm tion Please" on radio and later TV. The 11152 TV version was short-lived, folding after one sea son. Kieran said Wednesday night in Boston that he would fly to New York Friday lo take any part in the services for "F.P.A." that his widow might desire. "We had an affinity long before e got together as baseball ad dicts, and we both wrote light verse." Kieran said, adding: "Some of the proudest moments of my life were when I broke into his column, and when he com mented on my baseball writing." Adams' second wife, Esther Sayles Root Adaira, survives, as do three sons, Timothy, a staff member of the San Francisco Ex aminer; Anthony, of Weston. Conn., and Jonathan, of New Ca naan, Conn : and a daughter. Miss Persephone Adams, of New York. His sons likely inspired one of his most delightful and briefest verses, entitled "Lines to Three Boys. 8, 6'j and 2 Years of Age": "Gentlemen, I love and like you. "Caring little for your IQ." Adams was born in Chicago, at tended the University of Michigan briefly, then began selling insur ance. It was not long before he turned lo newspaper work, becoming a S2a-week columnist for the Chi cago Journal without an appren ticeship as a report. After a year of writing "A Lili tie About Everything" for the Journal, he came here lo spend nine years on the old Evening Mail. The he moved lo the Tribune and started the column known a. "The Conning Tower" which he wrote for 27 years. After World War I interrupted his career and he became a cap tain in intelligence, he made this comment: "I didn't fight, and I didn'l shoot. "But general, how I did salulc." "The Conning Tower" appeared in the Tribune until 1922, moved to the New York World until 1931, then returned to the combined Herald Tribune where he stayed until l38. That year he joined the New York Post. In 1341 Adams gave up the col umn for free lance writing, con tinuing on the Information Please" program. In 1944 in com plete seriousness he ran for the Connecticut Senate as a New Deal Democrat, and lost. t v .- tiKK &if i i . . fw i NEW HONOR SOCIETY mombeis wore named this week at Klamath Union Hiqh School. They are, left to right, front row to back, Gary Loavitt, Betty Kerns, Beverly Esgate, Chubbin Spero, Nancy Herlinger, Katy Warren, Linda Pernell, Barbara Herman, Joan Wii. ner, Diane Drew, Krlstina Hawley, Marilyn Thorne, and M y r n a Frewlng; second row, Grover Gentry, Dave Sibbet, Charlton Currin, Judy Hodge, Vicki Mattox, Phyllis Hawes, Sharon Vincie, Diane Wolter, Trudle Turpln, Sandra Benson, Darlene Reynolds, Char lotte Corley and Karen Sullivan; back row, Dean Metcalf, Ted Blair, Remo Melchiori, Lucille Waters, Eunice Anderson, Margie VVelman, Nancy Hugelman, Janice Parr, Virginia Learning, Bobbe Taylor, Patti Propst, Saramarle McLin, Barbara Robichaud, Kathleen Townsend, Peggy Jo Buck and Judy Esgate. Darali Gibson, Carole Saunders and Bob DePew are not pictured. They showed superior scholarship, leadership and character. PTA NEWS CARNIVAL NEW PINE CREEK-Saturdayl evening. March 26. is the date for the big PTA school carnival at! Kelly Creek. 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M Levitt, director ol Franklin Institutes Fcls Planet arium m Philadelphia, told the American Docket Society Wednes day lie thinks men will land on the moon within 10 years. Within 20 years there may be a civilization there, he added. Levitt, who admitted he didn't have the faintest idea what it would cost, said a nuclear reactor could supply the power needed aiul the moon itself provide every thing else. food, water, air. cloth- ins. etc. From rocks, he said, man can extract water, which in turn can be broken up into oxygen for an and hydrogen for fuel. Food, he said, would be derived from algae primitive plants'. "Once the atmosphere and food situation is taken care o(," he con tinued, "we can begin worrying about clothes, hollies, desks, chairs and other structural mat erials. "1 propose tliat these items will be fabricated from the basic ele ments: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and so forth." Levitt thinks man will gel to the moon from some sort of space station. 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