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:#wzm THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1955 WANTS BIG LEAGUE JOB . . . Bob Lennon, who hit 60 home runs for Nashville last year, is at Phoenix (Arizona) training camp with New York Giants to try to land an outfielder's post. Our national parks are de teriorating for lack of funds to maintain them.—Sports Afield. Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning Licensed Gas Fitters CAROUNA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCaughrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115 "Well, Purcells helped me buy a new car. I found two rabbits the first day I went driving. And now Fm in business.” Like I always say, a good financing plan helps business grow...and just look at mine. u l l r c e i i 3 “Your Private Bankers” 1418 Main St. Newberry STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! $5,500.00 CASH PRIZES offered weekly on WKDK Nothing To Buy Nothing To Write Just Match the Numbers We Broad cast With The Numbers On Your Dollar Bills WKDK 1240 ON YOUR DIAL TOUR LUCKY BUCKS STATION THE NEWBERRY SUN This an' That Red Seal, an Il-year-old jump er scheduled for the Grand Na tional Steeplechase didn’t make it. The horse split an Achilles tendon In his hock and had to be destroyed . . . Among baseball players back for a second try in the major leagues this year are Joe Black of the Dodgers, Emory “Bubba” Church, with the Cubs, Gns Nair- hos, Phillies, and less familiar names such as Lou Sleater, Harry Simpson, Owen Friend, George Spencer and Jack Phillips . . . When Ice hockey referees repre senting East Europe played a friendly game with other referees froih the Western side of the Iron Curtain (during the World Ice Hockey Championships) they took any possible political effect out of the game by playing under the slogan, “Vodka vs. Whiskey” . . . i%. basketball team composed of players from the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball squad won the majority of its games while barnstorming through the east . . . The Wash ington Senators are expecting a top performance from shortstop Bob Kline who hit .319 for Birmingham of the Southern Association last year. RADAR BLIMP . . . U. S. navy's newest “early warning'* radar blimp, first to combine radar with anti-submarine detection, flies over Akron, Ohio' Sports Afield (By TED KESTING) Last November in Caracas, Venezuela, the chosen riflemen, pistol shots, and shotgunners of many countries competed in a great sporting event. The Amer icans were swell in skeet com petitions; we also made a good showing in the pistol matches. The rifle matches—we might as well face it—were pretty much dominated by Russia. Why? Pete Brown ,arms ex pert for Sports Afield magazine, explains it this way. Competi tive shooting in the U. S. has been predominately prone. Our shooters are selected in time- limited tryouts; they have little chance to practice as a team or in the international type of shooting. The funds are not available for selecting and prop erly training a team. Russia has been preparing for this match for the last couple of years. It has encouraged local target shooting and training. Reportedly it selected 500 of the best shots and they received ex tensive training. Those chosen for the team were given the (best of everything in time and equip ment. We can’t blame them for going all out to win. Neither can we help but won der why our government is not doing more to see that Americans, and particularly our ytfungsters, are not better trained in the use of firearms. Now some argue that modern weapons eliminate the need for skilled riflemen. In spite of many theories in this direction, they never have and there is no pre sent evidence or proof that they will. Congressional appropriations for training civilian shooters and for national rifle matches for service and civilian competitors used to be more than $300,000 annually. During recent years appropriations have been cut to $130,000 or less. Dewey Short, former chairman I REMEMBER SY THE OLD TIMERS From Mrs. Routb Pickett Brad ley, Albion, Idaho: I rerftember back at the turn of this century when newspapers weren’t just to be read and clutter up the living room. We only got the Semi- Weekly Dallas News back in Texas then. After a careful reading my grandmother clipped the poems and recipes. Then in the evenings I would help my grandfather roll little thin rolls of paper for candle lighters. You started at one corner of an 8 or 10 inch square, rolled it. then pinched each end in. That saved on matches, because you could light one end of the paper at the open fire place and hurry to the lamp or candle with it. Also, the papers made artistic shelf covers when cut in scallops; and for me, lovely rows of paper dolls holding hands. Little wads of paper were stuffed in the toes of wet boots at night. Convenient squares were placed on a nail in the out house. Any remaining, were carefully stored for house cleaning time to lay under the rag carpets. In the summer and fall when fly time came around my mother would cut long strips up to near the center folds and crinkle the strips. Then she would tack them on a long branch from a tree, and while we ate she or one of my aunts would fan this above the table to keep the flies off the food. Fly control was not prac ticed then; it is a modern miracle. Yes, in those days newspapers were a household luxury. (Send eonirlbatlonn to this eolanta to Tbo Old Timer, Comraanlty Press Serv- te«. Box SS. Frankfort, Kentucky.) of the House Armed Forces Com mittee, recently said, “There is no reason why every young man when reporting for active duty for ser vice should not have previously been trained in the use of the rifle. There fore-fathers were and these boys are no different type of breed.” But few other mem bers of Congress agreed with him and the appropriation was almost cut out altogether! General Micl\aelis, discussing the training of his troops, said “We put too much* stress on infor mation and eduoation anil not enough on rifle marksmanship . . . these kids have all the guts in the world and I can count on them to fight. But when they started out they couldnt shoot. They didn’t know their weapons. They had not had enough train ing in plain old-fashioned mus ketry.” The question is: Are we going to permit a government policy that actually discourages civilian rifle practice, while the Com munist governments are promoting it to the hilt? • BOOKMOBILE SCHEDULE Thursday, April 7th Union Community — Mrs. Grady Lee Halfacre. Union Community — Eugene Horton. Jolly Street Community — E. J. Shealy. Midway Community — Mrs. J. C. Wheeler. Little Mountain School. Little Mountain Community — Rev. Hill. Wheeland Community — Mrs. Joe Fulmer. Mount Pilgrim Community — Mrs. G. Y. Cooper. Friday, April 8th Oakland School. Boundary Street School. Prosperity Community — Public Square. Stoney Hill School Old O’Neal Community —• Mrs. Ruth Bowers. Supervoltage x-rays in ranges up to 5,000,000 volts are being used successfully in treating cancer. Aid this work by giving to the Ameri can Cancer Society Crusade. One of the great mysteries of life is how the boy wasn’t good enough to marry the daughter, can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ( Subscribe to The Newberry Sun AUCTION SALE SCHOOL BUILDING & LOT The Newberry County Board of Education hereby advertises for sale, at public auction at 11:00 o’clock on Monday, April 4th in front of the Newberry County Courthouse the following describ ed property: All that tract, of land with the building thereon, In the former Fairview School District; the old Mt. Olive School, consisting of 1 building and 4 acres of land. Terms of sale 10% cash and balance within ten days. The pur chaser to pay for preparation of deeds and stamps. For any particu lars other than listed above con tact the County Superintendent of Education. THE NEWBERRY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Hr- 1 ■ By LYN CONNELLY A FEW months back NBC caipe i up with the final installation of its pretentious television tril ogy.' “Tonight” . . . They had already introduced “Today” for early morning viewers and “Home” for the housewives who j like a break in the morning’s work Like its predecessors, “Tonight” had a rough time get ting off the ground but now it looks very much like Steve Allen has nursed it through its more agonizing momenta to a veritable “must” show for night owls . . . The very least that can be said is that it is bound to be better than an old movie and. happily, there are many more features to make it pleasurable viewing. Steve is of the Dave Garroway relaxed school . . . It’s hard to imagine these boys with ulcers At any rate, he does a fine job of easing the show through its paces . He has a bag of gimmicks all his own, some of which are clever in their very simplicity For instance, one of his most effective bits is turn ing a camera on the outside of the back door and catching the reaction of passers-by . . . Results are usually hilarious and general ly prove there’s a little ham in everybody. 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