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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
COME earnest and able compiler
^ of facts and figures has estimated
there are over 30 million citizens,
young and old, male and female,
who are directly or
indirectly interested
in baseball.
I believe these
figures are on the
short side. We have
22 million high
school kids for a
starter, and most of
these follow base
ball, in one way or
another. The range
is from 8 to 80
years, and this in
cludes those who
play at the game, see the games,
follow the box scores and the stand
ings in the daily newspapers or hear
games over the radio. My estimate
would be 40 million, including the
fanatics and the only mildly inter
ested.
Gnmtlaad Rice
This is only a guess. But that
many through newspaper and radio
must follow a world series.
Many or most of the regulars
have their favorite ball players.
They may dig back into the past,
or they may pick a few from the
modern library. The leading favor
ite in the game’s long history has
been Babe Ruth.
Proof here is simple. Babe has
gone into such cities as Philadelphia
and Boston when they were trailing
and drawing less than thousand at
home games. But when the Babe
came to town they had to call po
lice reserves to the scene.
Next to Ruth we’d have Ty Cobb
and after Ty Cobb there would be
Bonus Wagner. Among those of
more recent date, there are four who
belong among the rafters of the roof
—Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean, Carl
Hubbell and Bob Feller. And you
can’t leave out Hank Greenberg.
Pepper Martin, one of the great
est hustlers baseball ever knew,
was everybody’s favorite, wherever
he played. You got the idea that he
was willing and ready to break a
neck or a leg to get where he was
headed for, and you were usually
right.
The 1946 Favorites
Who will carry most of the pub
lic favor from city to city through
1946? In Boston the leading candi
dates at this spot are Ted Williams
and Dave Ferriss. Among the Yan
kees you will find Bill Dickey, Joe
DiMaggio and Joe Gordon—with Phil
Rizzuto close up. Stirnweiss will
be another. Terry Moore and Marty
Marion will lead the Cardinals, who
have several other candidates.
Hank Greenberg and A1 New-
houser will head the cast for the
Tiger zoo. For the Giants you’ll find
Mel Ott and Johnny Mize in front
when the season opens.
What about the Dodgers? In this
dizzy land of Bumdom they change
with startling rapidity from day to
day. Dixie Walker has been the civ
ic nomination, or the peepul’s choice,
for some years. Whether Dixie will
retain the affections of the nation’s
most turbulent and tempestuous
baseball crowds remains to be seen.
If anything happens to Dixie, or if it
happens to be untrue what they say
about Dixie, an early nomination
is Peewee Reese.
The Cleveland situation is simple.
The Indian’s contribution to the fa
vorite class will be one Robert Fel
ler who will lure out the multitudes
in fancy numbers at each start.
What about the Cubs? Andy Pafko
will be one of them and so will Phil
Cavarretta and Hank Borowy. The
able veteran Stan Hack will also get
some votes.
At times it is hard to tell just
what qualities are needed to make
some ball player the crowd’s fa
vorite. Hustle is always one of the
main points. Tht populace likes to
see the athlete giving all he has.
Home-run hitters always have a
strong call. So do strike-out pitch
ers. Good people who are there in
the clutch or pinch also harvest
their share of fanville’s affection.
The All-Time Best
Who have been my ten favorite
ball players? It doesn’t matter
much, but here they go — Babe
Ruth, Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Tris
Speaker, Hans Wagner, Dizzy Dean,
Pepper Martin, Rube Waddell,
Christy Mathewson, Pete Alexan
der. Plus Walter Johnson. Old Bar
ney’s pitching motion and the ball
you couldn't follow were still some
thing to look at. Carl Hubbell also
belongs in this group. So does Bill
Dickey. Ten isn’t enough. As an
artist Hal Chase has no equal.
Just what favorite crop the new
season will give us is in the so-
called laps of the gods. There is
time enough later on to take this up.
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Bow and Arrow Records
Every record improves in sport
and archery has made a big
advance since the days of the Sioux
and the Apaches, the Iroquois and
the Mohicans. Their range was
rarely beyond 200 yards. But in 1941
Curtis Hill of Dayton, Ohio, set a
new mark a 614 yards, 8 inches—
a new record for what is known
as “free flight shooting.’’ Hill’s rec
ord for the regular flight shooting,
according to Frank Menke’s book,
is 517 yards, one foot.
In These United States
Little Town in Kansas Is
‘Oberammergau of Plains’
LINDSBORG, KAN.—On Sunday, April 14, and again on
Easter Sunday, April 21, thousands of pilgrims will come to
Lindsborg, “Oberammergau of the Plains,” to pay their homage
to “The Messiah,” just as they have done for the past 64 years,
since 1882. So much a tradition has it become that pilgrimages
from all parts of the Middle West are made each Easter season
to hear the inspired singing of villagers and town folk in Prosser
hall, Bethany college.
sung 181 times by the Bethany col
lege oratorio society and will be
sung the 182nd time on Palm Sun
day and the 183rd time on Easter
Sunday. The chorus of 500 voices and
orchestra of 65 pieces will be di
rected by Dr. Hagbard Erase, who
has been the conductor since 1915.
It was the Rev. Olaf Olsson, a
lover of music, who organized the
first choir in Lindsborg. Later, an
other Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Carl
Aaron Swenson, gathered an enthu
siastic group in the Bethany Lu
theran church for a rehearsal under
direction of his wife. That was
in January, 1882, and the first “Mes
siah” was sung the following Easter
Sunday.
At first, most of the singers were
farmers, but they all loved music.
Through the bitter Kansas winter
the singers came in sleds and lum
ber wagons to the rehearsals.
There were many trying times, but
the people remained deeply spirit
ual. “The Messiah” became their
religion, their faith. And so it has
remained from generation to gen
eration.
The Lindsborg “Messiah” had
made possible the appearances
here of celebrated artists. The first
one was Madame Nordica. After her
recital the Bethany male chorus
pulled her carriage to the local rail
road station. Since that time Hem-
pel, Elman, Schumann-Heink, Gal-
li-Curci, and many others have in
spired Lindsborg audiences with
their solo parts in “The Messiah.”
NEW TEXAN . . . Johnny Cam
era, Italian war orphan, mascot
of the 36th combat infantry, is
shown trying on a pair of boots at
Waxahachie, Texas. His benefac
tor is Claren (Curley) Thomp
son.
Over 200 Officers,
One Sergeant Left
TURNER FIELD, GA.—Few for
mer privates will sympathize with
this sergeant, but they’d probably
like to see him wear his arm out
saluting the officers.
The strength at Turner field,
which is near Albany, has been re
duced to one sergeant major—and
between 200 and 300 officers!
The officers, a civilian staff, and
the lonely sergeant keep 550 air
planes on a flyable-storage basis.
Incidentally, many of the civilian
employes are former servicemen.
GI Joe (Pony) Is
Sold for $20,000
CHICAGO. — The price of “G.I.
Joe” has been zooming the last few
months. Now he’s worth $20,000.
Joe is a Shetland pony who
brought an all-time high of $13,500
at the Chicago Coliseum horse show
last November. Recently an Indian
apolis business man who bought Joe
in Chicago sold him to J. L. Young-
husband, Valley View farm, Bar
rington for $20,000. The pony, great
est of his breed in ring competi
tion in the last 10 years, cost an
Industry, 111., man $1,500. He sold
Joe for $10,000 at the show to a
Springfield buyer and H. Leslie
Atlass of Wheaton. They in turn
so!4 him to the Indianapolis man.
Kansan Watches
P-80 Fuel Tank
Fall Near Farm
SABETHA, KANS. — It’s one
thing to read about the P-80 S’ not
ing Star airplane—and quite an
other to hear one, not be able to
see it, and then have one of its
fuel tanks come hurtling down
from the sky and land near you.
Ask Otho L. Johnstone; he can
tell you!
At first Mr. Johnstone was puz
zled by the sound of the jet
plane, for it did not sound like
the ordinary planes which fly over
Kansas all the time. Unable to see
the plane, he picked out the loca
tion of the sound, thinking a high-
altitude flyer was in trouble.
Just then he saw an object come
hurtling down, end over end. It
landed farther from him than he
expected, fortunately, and he went
over to inspect it. Made of alumi
num, it was about 12 feet long and
had been crushed on one end by
the falb but not broken. There was
about a gallon of fuel left in it.
Two of the fuel tanks were
found in this area. First to report
one was Albert Holthaus, who
lives near Maple Shade school.
Since the tanks were just alike, it
is possible that both came from
the same plane. They are auxili
ary tanks which can be dropped
from the plane when the fuel in
them is depleted.
Jeeps Conquer Mud
For Rural Carriers
JASPER, GA. — When it comes
to good old Georgia mud, Pickens
county is an unwilling claimant to
the state championship. But two
rural mail carriers have solved the
mud problem and up to now have
been making their trips on almost
mid - summer schedules. Jeeps
turned the trick for the carriers,
W. J. Hamrick and R. E. Williams.
On only one occasion vere they
doubtful, and that was after a two-
inch rain had fallen with the mud
! worse than ever. But the jeeps took
them through.
Hamrick had a premonition of a
bad winter, so he purchased a jeep
in December to serve the patrons
on Talking Rock Route 1. Early in
January, Jasper Route 1 got so bad
that Williams could not get through
with his regular car. So he hired
Hamrick to drive him around in the
jeep. One trip was enough to con
vince Williams that jeeping it was
the right way to beat Pickens county
mud.
Throughout the winter the jeeps,
with their four-wheel drive, have
been able to travel over every road
in the county. And so far “neither
snow, nor rain, nor heat nor night
(nor mud) stays these couriers from
swift completion of their appointed
rounds.”
Rural carriers, who have long
held that ‘the mail must go
through,” have thus found a peace
time use for the reliable jeep which
won so many laurels in war.
STILL WORKING . . . Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman
to be chief executive of a state—
she was governor of Wyoming at
one time—is now director of the
U. S. mint. She is shown with Ed
win H. Dressel, superintendent of
the Philadelphia mint, as they ex-
am’ne the plaster casts of the new
Roosevelt dime.
Farm Machinery Output Rose in 1945
WASHINGTON. — Farm ma
chinery production in 1945 topped
that of 1944 by over 20 million dol
lars, the civilian production admin
istration has reported.
The production totaled $663,484,196
of which $240,060,434 or more than
one-third was in repair parts and
attachments.
During the second half of the
year, the production of repair parts
decreased and more new machinery
was produced. Irrigation systems
and domestic water systems record
ed the greatest production gains
with harvesting machinery, hay
ing machinery, sprayers, dusters
and orchard heaters also showing
substantial increases.
Only a few new models in farm
machinery were introduced during
the war years, but before the end
of 1946 many new devices for pow
er farming will be on the market.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
T HIS is news that a lot of
people have been wait
ing for — Lanny Ross returns
to radio April 1. He’ll be
heard from 7:00 to 7:15 E.S.T.
every week night over CBS,
with Evelyn Knight and the
Chittison trio. He’s out of the
army after 27 months overseas,
during which time he was assigned
to MacArthur’s headquarters—has
four battle stars, the Legion of
Merit and the Philippines Libera
tion ribbon. First thing we know
LANNY ROSS
he’ll probably be making pictures
again; “Stage Door Canteen” is his
last one. A star athlete at Yale,
Lanny put himself through law
school by singing on the radio, then
decided he’d rather be a singer than
a lawyer after all.
*
Will George Sanders sprinkle his
hair with water and wear curls in
“Bel Ami” or won’t he? He says
he won’t; he’ll play one of those
awfully virile he-men, and he thinks
curls would look sissy. Director
Albert Lewis thinks curls would be
historically correct, and he’s an ex
college prof and should know. What
ever happens, Sanders will have a
sweeping mustache; he won that
argument.
*
Virginia Keilly, a British film ac
tress who’s just arrived in Holly
wood to work for RKO, gave up her
place on a fast ship to a G. I. bride
and crossed on a boat that took
14 days—during which she found a
stowaway, darned the crew’s socks,
painted the captain’s quarters and
weathered a storm without getting
sick. You’ll see her soon in “Car
nival,” a British film.
*
They were playing “If” in Holly
wood, guessing what famous histori
cal characters would be doing if
they were in Hollywood today.
Gracie Allen won; she said Shake
speare would probably be under
contract to Warner Bros., writing
melodramas for Humphrey Bogart,
the Borgia family would most likely
be in charge of the studio commis
saries, while Cleopatra would be
giving Lamour a run for her money
in the sarong field.
•—*
An unusual feature of the new
office building which Bud Abbott
and Lou Costello are erecting in
Hollywood is a television test stu
dio. The stars of that Thursday
night airshow are looking way
ahead, polishing up their video rou
tines for the future.
*
Somewhere there’s a colt that’s
going to be one of the screen's big-
name horses. James Warren,
RKO’s western star, soon to be seen
in “Sunset Pass,” is on a trip
through Arizona, Texas and Wyo
ming, looking for a colt with dis
tinctive markings, to be featured
with him in the studio’s next Zane
Grey western. The colt will have
film training at a ranch, and ba
groomed for stardom.
*
Mrs. Lillian Fontaine, mother of
Joan and of Olivia de Havilland,
is going to play a mother again.
She was Jane Wyman’s mother in
“The Lost Weekend,” then worked
in “The Imperfect Lady,” now
she’s been cast as Paulette God
dard's mother in “Suddenly It’s
Spring.”
*
If Paramount's “The Emperor
Waltz” lives up to expectations it
should be one of the year’s best
pictures. Bing Crosby and Joan
Fontaine will co-star in this Tech
nicolor musical, and the com
pany will go all out in providing
beautiful settings and lovely mu
sic. “Her most glamorous to date”
is what the studio says of Joan’s
role, promising costumes that will
make her look her loveliest.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Metro has signed
Tony Martin to a long term contract fol
lowing completion of his role in “Till the
Clouds Roll By,” the life story of Jerome
Kern. . . . Alfred Hithcock has lost 90
pounds on his lean meat diet. ... Metro’s
offered Ed if'ynn a contract to co-star with
his son, Keenan Wynn. . . . The first radio
assignment of Reese Taylor, currently fea
tured in “Young Dr. Malone,” was playing
the lead in a sketch called "The Life of
Clark Gable”. . . . Martha Vickers has to
move from her North Hollywood house;
wants to find a home for herself, her /*
ther, mother, brother and six kittens.
Homes Poured to Order
If we see anything approaching
us resembling a huge concrete
pourer accompanied by some ap
paratus out of a Superman cartoon
it could be one of those outfits that
now pours a man a home while he
waits.
•
It seems that the machinery for
producing such a home has been
perfected and is already on the
roads pouring home, sweet homes
for people who want to get a par
lor, bedroom and bath while they’re
hot.
_•
The apparatus consists of a giant
house-form or mould which is cart
ed to a homesite. Then the cement
mixer draws up and pours. After
24 hours a hydraulic derrick ar
rives, lifts off the form and-. . .
presto I . . . Thar she stands, the
home complete if not beautiful!
m
All you have to do is chisel off the
rough edges!
* •
A man named LeTourneau has in
vented the housepourer and has been
pouring ’em in Longview, Texas,
and Vicksburg, Miss. Huge crowds
gathered in each place to watch a
machine lay a house just as a hen
lays an egg.
>
All that remains to be done is to
make the machine cackle at the
end of the performance.
•
How simple! You buy a lot, phone
the Day-A-Bungalow office and say
you would like a four-room home
right away. The man asks if you
can wait a couple of hours. You
say it’s a rush order. Presently the
apparatus trundles up and a man
hops out with the query: “Where
would you like this residence
poured?”
• • •
Fulton Makes Good
Fulton, Mo., site of Westminster
college to which former “Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill made a his
toric journey, is a town of 8,000 per
sons. It has a police force of only
seven men. The college is one of the
smallest in the world. But it is on
the map now and howl
•
Up to now it had been known
only as a place once visited by Jeff
Davis and as a town where Bill
Corum once dug sweet potatoes,
danced the two-step and played bas
ketball. But today out there they
ask “Yale? Harvard? Princeton?
Where are they?”
• • •
WITH THE WANT ADS
“Will swap my collection of
swords, bayonets, daggers, roller
skates, opium pipes for small elec
tric organ, music box, &c. (N. Y.)
F907.”—Yankee Magazine.
♦
Careful, mister! Your presump
tion that the labor-management cri
sis is over may be premature.
• • •
“I have an old magic book (about
1895), which exposed all tricks. It
is a professional magician’s book.
Will swap for four new pair of ny
lons size 10. (N. Y. J909.” — Yan
kee Magazine.
•
Don't be silly! You’ll need every
thing any magician has got if you
are determined to get nylons.
• • •
A nation-wide phone strike was
averted and it’s pretty much of a
surprise to the public, which has
become accustomed to having noth
ing settled.
• • •
Ima Dodo, by the way, thinks
those “long lines” operators are
the tall, stately ones.
• • •
Can it be possible that Henry
Kaiser sold all that stock without
knowing where he was to get the
steel to make cars?
• • •
CAN YOU REMEMBER
Away back when there were more regu
lar newspapers around than there were
columnists?
• • •
Hirohito who never mixed with his
subjects now walks around town
and visits shops and stores. A halo
fellow well blitzed.
* • •
“President Asks Americans to
Eat Less.”—Headline.
•
Judging from the portions being
serve# in most restaurants, it won’t
be any too difficult.
• • •
Chester Bowles, the red-hot ad
vocate of ceilings, is a Yale man
and it is possible his yen to keep
things down is a result of all those
Harvard football scores.
/ e e •
Japan is so full of sweetness and
light these days and behaving with
such rare gentility that it makes
most people mighty suspicious. It
would make a lot of folks feel bet
ter if somewhere a Japanese leader
would make a face and let out a
fierce, belligerent yell.
• • •
Those atomic energy spies in Canada
were on a “fission” trip.
• • •
How about striking frem the coin
“E Pluribus Unum” and substitut
ing “I gotta get mine.”
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Increasing Japs
Between 1880 and 1940, the num
ber of Chinese in the United States
decreased from 105,465 to 77,504 ol
22 per cent, while the number ol
Japanese increased from 148 to
126,947 or 845 per cent.
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broom handle and it will not slip
when stood broom end up.
—•—
House plants look and even
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sponged occasionally with a soap
solution.
—•—
Pictures of the articles behind
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cabinet and cupboard doors for a
lively air.
—•—
Instead of using a trowel to work
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lings, try using an apple corer.
The sharp point and small size of
the corer will not be likely to in
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—•—
One-foot squares of burlap may
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