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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
IDOL CHATTER
COLUMBIA: — Cute La Ann
Simms does a good job with a
tailor-made song, **I Might Drop
Around In Your Dreams" . . . Re
verse has “I Wanna Hug You,
Kiss .You, Squeeze You". . .“Tell (
it to Me Again" te a new song
destined for big things and Don
Cherry does well by It . . .“Clean
Break" backs It . . . The latest
disc for The Four Lads is “Fve
Been Thinking" with “Pledging My
Love" on the flip side . . . Frankie
Laine comes np with “The Tarrler
Song," a traditional brought up to
date for Frankie's particular tal
ents . . . It's backed by “Bubbles."
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FLIES TO POLE . . . Peggy
Keenan will be first woman ever
to set foot on North Pole when
she goes with air arctic expedi
tion in March as film production
chief.
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