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Show v, Tuesday, March 28, 1950 TOE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TWO g!P3):Di:p;crWn BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET An Old St. Christopher Medal And a Bashed-i- n Ordinarily, knowing what editor expect of me, I dont devote much space in this column to stories of faith, devotion and other such unhep subjects. However, I bumped Into a yarn the other night that did nice things to my spine, and here tis, even though its a3 corny as a chorus of "Hearts and Flowers. . . . Some years ago, a dancer named Jean Armstrong (note to Ed. thats her square monicker and shas given me permission to us it) cam down with a ruptured appendix, and by the time they got her to the hospital, peritonitis had set in and tha doctors didnt give her much chance. The following day, tha handed her a string beads. "A little girl tried to get in to see you this morning, said. "Her was Sylvia, she said her mother was a friend of yours. When I told u.rv HlLDCGAPD&.Cb incomparable) useo jo ec komam;a81e on links. tk HER GOLF GAME WA3 CONSISTENTLY IN THE LOW ANO WOULD HAVE BEEN 603 LOWER WITH REGULAR PRACTICE. . SPORTUGHh Unbandaged Yanlts Ready to Win By RICE- - GRANTLAND into tb palir.a and th Cziey Stengel of 1950 is an entirely different person from the Casey Stengel of 1949. A year age at this time, we found a bewildered, baffled, unYankee certain manager who admitted that be knew few anewere to any questions I a v e 1 v 1 a g bis team. This la new a new Casey. The sun la brighter,' the palms are greener, the birds Grantiaad Bice sing sweeter songs and area the pelicans look mere PEERING year ago. That could mak a big difference. The 1950 Casey may hsve a few Inner twinges but outwardly he fairly exudes confidence. Hes the only manager 1 knew of who la willing to admit openly that ha expects to win. a Till YankuEench At that moment an ancient-lookin- g pelican lighted for a few minutes net so far away. - "I only with I waa half a smart as that bird looks to be," Casey said. "No one could be that smart In tha cours of punching tha bag I asked Casey what ha thought was tha strongest feature of the intelligent Yankees last year. ror Casey's 1950 answer is "That eeiy," be seid. "It waa . all So and Bed "Bring 'em along. our bench. We always had a good the rest. The Yankees will be set man ready for any gap. No other and ready. team had a bench that matched "We are far better off than wa Outside of first base, we ouri. were a year ago," Casey said. had Coleman, Stirnwelss, Rlzzuto, How do you figure that one out," Brown and Johnson ready tor our I asked. "You haven't added a infield. Outside of DIMagglo and alngla player. Henrlch, we had Bauer, Woodling, Mapes and Llndeli tor any vacant "I figure H this way," Caaey acid. "Joe DiMaggle report in . . spot la our outfield. The bench waa the - best condition in many ready to giva us anything wa needed alt good men, too. It make a '"i yean. I never saw Bettttett or Eizzole leek better. Joe Page big difference what sort ofre-serve- s is all set. la addition to Allie you hava, Wa had good one, all tha time Bauer, Mapes, Wood-linReynolds, Vie Baschl, Tommy Brown, ate. Anything hapByrne, Ed Lopat end others, we hsve Bob Porterfield end Frank pened to Berra there was Silvers in S8 games, batting .318. She, two of ear 1949 wounded, beck in harness with their bandOur pitching anything hapages removed. Both expect to pened to Reynolds there was be ready. Paga. Anything happened to Raschi there was Page. Any- - -"In my opinion." Casey conhappened to Byrne or La-pthing to la be a going tinued, "Reynolds or Sanford there was Paga. leading star this year. 1 mean a "1 guess that's our weakest spot," great pitcher. He could also be a relief pitcher close to Page. The Cssey finally said. "Our pitchers had to be relieved too often. No athbig fellow Is a fine lete. Ha waa a backfield star at one pitcher should be yanked out Oklahoma or ona of thost Oklahoma of the bull pen 80 or more times college. Raschi will be among tha In a season. That's almost half our best again. And I hsve an idea games. Too many. Weve got to do Tommy Byrne will loon find where something about that. Raschi wasnt that plat la planted and when he bad that way. But 1 think youll find does, look out Hes got amazing Reynolds and Byrna will need lea g, at help, atuff. "Heres another thing. We've found eat we could utter ever 80 wounds end still win. We've discovered we could hove most of ear teem ea erutebee end still win. Did yes knew that Dt Migglo, Henrtch and Berra,' three of eur top hitters, were only In 19 or maybe H was together all season? "We are bound to have better breaks than wa drew last year. Lightning cant hit the same spot 00 times In a season. This means we should have our best men In action far ottener than we had them "Porterfield Is sure h Is O.K. that his arm ligament has healed. Shea says ha feels fine, with all his aoreness gone. You can't ask a pitcher to show you everything the first day of the spring season. "All In all," Casey concluded, We have no alibis and no excuses tor what happen. I think we'll be better than we were a year ago. Don't forget to mention those two words Yankee spirit Thats what won for us a year ago. I think it can win. again. It will ba a much tougher league this time." and ' IS By Harold IF Pullman Car By BILLY ROSE- - JSSS - ;. Sg Jesus had not walked the earth. Footsore and weary, long ago, Oh, I might be so very tired. And even He could scarcely know The depths of my discouragement, Or juSt how tired I might grow. Arnett IfJesus had not suffered much. And borne the greatest agony, I might have more than I could bear Of pain, and He could scarcely see How great would be my suffering Or what that pain would mean to me. luggtgt tbt ttst was gout. Sbt motifitd tbt dttk and, ubtn that didnt product rtsulls, rtporltd tbt loti to tbt police. But when of Baltimort tbt unit pulltd out on Saturday night, LEVEL BENCH OR TABLE, IF ONE OR MORE LEGS ARE UNEQUAL IN LENGTH, WITH LAS SCREWS.TURN SCREW ntitbtr fast car ADIAH LITTLE OB Thera were plenty That looked bad, or good, dependOwen came In again with Moses. ing on what aids of tha fence you Moses looked important be glad to hear that newt. Thera were on. I lent Owen to hunt up I said, youre a first Mosea, wera a great majority of others Roseoe, and returned to Obadiaha class liar. You murdered, Obadiah!, farm. who didnt ear a rap. Mosea Jaw went slack. How do " Obadiah wa a mean eld man Quit a crowd had gathererd out- Vou figure that Shurruf? who lived alone on a farm 10 miles side. Lights frdra automobiles illuhated minated the houie and grounds. You west of Falrview. Everyone I raid. Easy ai pie, m because he Among the cars I noticed Doc started out after your cow and Orions little coupe. dr0Vt stopped by to talk to Obadiah He waa Inside, and had already about renewing a mortgage, perbargain and fore- closed mortgages begun hi investigation. haps, or something else. Anyway, Ion the minute. you got mad and slugged him with It look? I asked him. "Hows That was the the stove poker. Then you propped "Let you know In about an him situation that confronted Owen and up by the window, lighted the He hour. and returned glanced up ma when w drove up to Investiand put the book in his band. to his work. I scowled. Doc waa lamp gate. "Then you went outside and usually more confident re- Preliminary heaved a rock through the window. Investigation I went back into the bedroom. when you came back with vealed' the following facts: Obad- Doc waa stuffing things back into Later, iah had been killed by a rock your cow you saw that Obadiah his bag. thrown through a window near had slumped, and you went up to "Been dead about fivt hours, which ha waa sitting, reading. Wa look, which is when Oscar Jones knew he had been sitting there he said. came by. How7 reading because Moses Morris, a There was, of course, blood on Some blunt Instrument" neighbor had passed by in the early the poker to prove that part of it, The eh? rock, evening and noticed the light in but it was what the doc said that Could have been. Obadiaha window, and noticed gave me the real lead. Dead five Obadiah sitting beside it Moses Just then Owen earn In. He hours. Well, five hours ago the sun had gone up the road looking tor had a tail, rawboned individual was shining, and a mean old man a cow that had itrayed. He found with him. This is Roseoe, he ' like Obadiah wouldnt burn oil the cow and started back and nosaid. when the sun was out ticed that Obadiah had shifted his position. Something about the way the LAST WEEK'S eld man looked aroused Moses PUZZLE ANSWER cariosity, tad he went np close and saw bleed n Obadiah temple. Mose went ea hem and celled the police. 19 Goddess of ACROSS We corrobrated this by talking to Spar 1. Exhibition discord Serve neighbors who had heard Moses 6. River DOWN (Gr.) cilllng the cow, and by discovering 21. Hawaiian (Belg.) and outside footprints hoofprints 9. Parasitic food the window, and by the fact that 24. Before Breeze insects 10. Seaweed 28. Seize Ftosted 27. Amazon 11. Employed cetacean for wages 29. Insect 12. Skins Chart 30. Expression 14. Part of Toward "to be of sorrow the lee e 40. 15. Skip, aa 31. Having Matured of Charles two a stone, Salt Lamb on water forma marsh 41. Rodents 33. An intimate 17. Prepare for Draw 34. Quick 43. Withered publication Stupefy 18. Custom 37. One -(poet.) 48. Soak flax of a 20. Doze who 48. Flowed 22. Greek ledger paints 3191..,. PROTECTION A SHOVEL USED WHERE THERE ISA CONCRETE FLOOR MAY BE PROTECTED FROM ABRASION FROM CONCRETE BY TWO FLAT IRON PIECES RIVETED TO THE BOTTOM. 16. Time to Part lawyer had a very complicated case to present to the court. He prepared his case with utmost care and presented it with the clearest words he could muster. When he was about halfway through his oration he felt that the judge was missing a few of the finer points. He paused a moment then said:HonI beg your pardon. Your or, but are you following me?" Im right behind you, young fellow, replied the figure, but if I thought that I could find my way back alone, Id try it right now. A young black-robe- d Apples can be baked without cracking and every bit of flavor band is retained if a peeled from the middle of each apple. Stuff the apple and bake in a moderate oven. one-in- ch ,h,P There are seven ways of preparing eggs: cooking in the shell, poaching, scrambling, frying, baking, broiling, and in omelets. Orange juice can be fixed in half the usual time. The trick is to squeeze small oranges by cutting off the stem end only and extracting the juice in one operation. waa dead. who would It works for lemons, too. Odds and ends of fruit juices that clutter your refrigerator, especially orange and pineapple, can make a delicious combination. Simply stew prunes or apricots in the mixture. iEOSCCEEN By INEZ GERHARD BERRY KROEGER, typed on a Hollywood trip as a young Charles is currently on Williams heard "Young Dr. Malona. He got his first radio contract when the narrator of LOuella Parsons show collapsed In the middle of his impersonation of Ronald Colman. back Laughton, as Sam Salty soup is no cause for alarm. Add a sliced raw potato or two and simmer slowly five to 10 minutes. Remove the potato slices before serving the soup. Planning for the Future? Buy U.S. Sayings Bonds! SSWDHB -- Left-hand-si- letter 23. DRILLED FIRST. SHOVEL father. side-swipe- END OF LEG UNTIL BENCH IS AD JUSTED. A HOLE FOR THE SCREW IS DON'T USE SCREWS Yes, sir, replied Cal. Well, since I knew your father so well, I must make it easy for you. Supposing I set my fee at $400?" whooshed Cal, Tn Whew! sure glad you didnt know grand- shop-jewel- MIG LOWER TOO LARGE AS THEY WILL SPLIT THE WOOD. didnt you? nor btadt bad bttn found. But oh, my Jesus understands, In Pittsburgh the next week, the And looks in loving sympathy; show got bad notices and folded, "Like as a father pitieth and as if that weren't enough, the her you couldnt manager skipped with the aalaries. His child, tis thus He pities me. A few days later, down to her last be disturbed, she And I am glad that Jesus knows three bucks, Jean considered herasked me to give self plenty lucky when a local agent you this. It has a When I am walking wearily. SL Christopher medal on it, and the offered her a job in a Miami nightkid thought it might bring you club. She was given a ticket car luck. 16, berth' No. 1 on the 7.22 out of The dancer wasnt a Catholic, Pittsburgh. At 7 o'clock the dancer left the but she was touched by the present And six weeks later, hotel, but a couple of blocks from anyhow. thanks to faith or the new sulfa the depot she noticed something on drugs, she was out of tht hospital. the sidewalk and picked it up. It was a string of rosary beada and, FROM THEN ON, she kept the attached to it, a medallion of SL rosary in her make-u- p box, but a Christopher. couple of yeara later, after a succession of cheap variety houses JEAN DIDNT KNOW then, and and even cheaper hotels, the beads she doesn't know now, whether it no longer seemed very important was the same rosary. rang. It was the stage manager of She did important to get the chain fixed. The Student Prince" which, for And on day, when one of the girls know, however, that It looked coma was then tbt stretl Up the umpteenth time, was playing in her vaudeville unit asked about exactly like the one the little store bination bock girl the Nixon theater. Heard your tha St Christopher medal, Jean had lent her, except for onejthing and, forgetting the 7:22, tbt was stranded, he said. troupe said, "Its nothing at all. Just a in.' worked walked Tbt the chain had. been broken. As jeweler One of our dancers is getting piece of old Junk. I dont know she continued on tp the station, she at fast at bt could, but when be banded tbt rosary back to btr tbt ' married tomorrow, and if you want why I keep on carrying It" got to thinking of the beads how to fill in for a few weeks clock said 7:30, and tbt dancer That Sunday, when tbt troupe , sick she had been when she first And now for aa corny a finish as knew tbt wot out of a job again. tbtcktd into a Baltimort hotel, got Them, and how her troupe had been stranded when ahe had reWith less than a dollar in her ever found its way into a Jean put tbt make-u-p ttst on top ferred to the medallion as a piece purse, she went back to the hotel, hep column. When Jean picked up of btt valise and signed tbt rtgit-tt- r, of old junk. And suddenly It seemed and a few minutes later the phone a newspaper the next morning, she but wbt tbt reach id for btr read that the 7:22 out of Pittsburgh d had been by a freight car. It wasnt much of a wreck nobody, had been hurt because the two berths which were bashed in One of happened to be empty. them, of course, was berth No. 1, Pen-nam- BENCH LEVEL i That Would Have Hurt! For the first time in his life Ca) Smith was in need of a lawyer services. He remembered that his father had known a rathei prominent attorney so he went to see the man. The lawyer agreed to take the case and won it quite handily. Then he went to the lawyer to pay the bill. Lets see now, said the lawyer, you won $500 in that case, Obadiah was a mean eld man , . . everybody hated him. Oscar Jones, another neighbor, had come by while Mosea Was looking in the window. So' we discounted Moses as a possible suspect, and went to work on the others who had hated Obadiah. There was, for example, Roseoe Norbert, who lived a mile away, and who had been helping Obadiah with his haying. A neighbor bad heard Obadiah and Roecoe quarreling over wages that very day. CALLED at Roscoea and struck a snag. Roseoe hadnt been home all night WE SO house, Stringed musical instrument 23j A native of Ionia 28. A native ' of Iran 30 Away 32. Hit (slang 33. Measure (Chin.) 38. Spread grass to dry 38. Constellation 39 Southwest BERRY KROEGER in 1940. Berry picked up the script and carried on. He had broken into radio in 1930, when versatility was a must; in one local half-hou- r show he had carried 11 parts, for which be received $2,501 " When Charles Laughton was being interviewed at luncheon in New Yorks Algonquin the other day, complete silence reigned at neighboring tables; his voice was so beautiful that everybody within range wanted to listen to it. - Stromboli, Property (Law) 44. Part of to be 45 Per. to the sun 47. Kind of cap 49 Ceremony 50. Another name for Persia i 1 costers and'' drawer with PLASTIC WOO0 which quickly leaped from first to second-rumovie houses, is getting bad publicity. People report that it just seemed so dull and tiresome that they walked out before the picture was half over. n word-of-mout- h Debbie Reynolds made her screen debut in Warners The Daughter of Rosie OGrady recently, did Three Little Words at with Fred Astaire and Vera - Ellen, and now has been signed by that studio to a term contract. Next ahell do The Tender Hours. Debby is top Girl Scout of her district, has 42 merit badges. Including on for cooking and one for baking. 42. loo - Walt Disney discovered while doing research for his Cinder ella that the fsmoos glass slipper wasnt glass at all, bnt far. Charles Perraalt, when be wrote the famous story more than 300 years ago, said the slipper was pantouffie ea vair (fur slipper). The trans-lato- r mistook the last two words for en Terre", er glass. So there goes another legend! wind f Jpu!l easily Older People Praise Ml It's So Kind to the System Thousands of older people praise Nature Remedy, Tablets. 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