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Show THE BULLETIN, DINGHAM. UTAH 'Grand Hotel' 1942 Emergency Model Because of insufficient living accommodations, these weary workers In a small Virginia town are forced to sleep around the stove of a general store. This condition exists in many other crowded defense areas. In a Pennsylvania town, jammed with war workers, a pumper and fire fighting equipment were required immediately to reduce the hazard of a possible general conflagration; a Kentucky hamlet had to arrange for an extension of its sewerage facili-ties or suffer the consequences; a Colorado town, a Wisconsin city, and a Texas county were confronted with the need for new schools at once. The patriotism and morale of these workers are high, but so are their American standards of living. For their families, these war work- - f Id of public works or equipment for public works necessary to the health, safety or welfare of per-sons engaged in national defense ex-ists or Impends, FWA is authorized, with' the approval of the President, to relieve such shortage. This au-thorization is conditioned on evi-dence that the necessary works or services could not "otherwise be ob-tained when needed, or could not be provided without the imposition of an increased excessive tax burden, or an unusual or excessive increase in the debt limit of the taxing or borrowing authority." Need for Construction. Assistant FWA Administrator Baird Snyder, acting for Adminis-trator Philip B. Fleming, has point-ed out that: "Inseparable from the lives of modern industrial workers and their families from transporta-tion, education, health and recre-ationare prosaic roads, sewers, schools, hospitals and many other types of public construction." War as an industrial process, says Mr. Snyder, means that community facilities have to be built not only to accommodate expanded armed forces, but to take care of the mo-bile and increasingly numerous ar-mies of war workers. Without such construction, those who have studied the problem de-clare, the efficiency of industry would be seriously impaired and la-bor would float from one town to another in fruitless search for de-cent living conditions. In the last four months, FWA has quickened the pace of work in response to im-perative war needs. Today, through-out the nation, this federal agency Is building or ready to build all the war works that can be provided with $300,000,000 worth of federal funds plus whatever local contribu-tions are available. - A great deal of red tape has been cut in FWA since war was declared. The Man with the shears in the Great Lakes region and Middle West, for instance, is Markley Shaw, former assistant to the director of the old FWA defense housing divi-sion, who casts as personal repre-sentative of the administrator. Full-Sca- le Wartime Basis. "Public works are now being han-dled on a full-scal- e wartime basis," explained Mr. Shaw, whose head-quarters are in Chicago. "My in-structions are to let nothing stand in the way of prompt, efficient de-velopment of war projects. Under new regulations no federal funds will be allotted for the construction of a permanent building under the Baird Snyder, assistant adminis-trator of the Federal Works agency. ers ask for livable quarters, good water and sanitary facilities; there must be classrooms for their chil-dren, recreation, beds in hospitals for them when they fall sick. Congress has recognized both the needs of the mobile armies engaged in war production, and the problems of the localities affected through the enactment of the Amended Lanham act In the hands of the Federal Works agency the legislators have placed a great part of the job of keeping ahead of the vast commu-nity requirements of these industrial legions of Joneses, Cohens, Murphys and Kozlowskis. Title 2 of the Amended Lanham act provides that in any area or locality where an acute shortage war public works program, if a temporary or one will suffice. This applies even though the applicant proposes to contribute the full amount of the difference. "Except where a structure is an addition to an existing facility, ne-gotiations will be opened on the ba-sis of simplified standard plans of the Federal Works agency. Elimi-nation of all building material be-yond absolute necessity in war pub-lic works construction recently has been ordered throughout the nation, and this step is expected to materially reduce the use of critical war ma-terials as well as to free man-hour- s of labor for other war production." Assistant Administrator Snyder has listed the following types of proj- ects directly attributable to war ac-tivities as eligible for federal allot-ment of funds: Schools, hospitals, health centers, detention hospitals! fire department buildings and cer-tain equipment except radio equip-me-recreation buildings, water and sewer facilities, and mainte-nance and operation of schools and hospitals where necessary. In recent months, the Federal Works agency has built or contract-ed to build scores of community facilities in every section of the nation where production wheels turn. The U. S. Public Health Serv-ic- e. in with the state departments of health, is intensify-ing the application of general health plans in strategic localities in the genenl nlan to assist individual localities and provide living facilities for war workers is the National Housing agency. whch is building thousands I of houses and dormitories THIS 1942 season has already a new war between um-pires, managers and ball players especially In the National league. Vou can gamble that the umpires ar npht 95 ner npnt nf thi time. nHere's one set rea-son: No man sit-ting on the bench, and this includes Leo Durocher and Frank Frisch, Is in position to call a pitched ball within a foot of where It travels. Their an-gle of vision is all out of gear and focus. Grantland Rice In our wandering career we have watched the making of over 3,000,000 feet of sports pictures, to discover how much the right and wrong an-gles meant. This goes for a ball game, a horse race, and a stance in golf. It goes for any game. If the camera Is set at the wrong angle, only by a few feet, the pic-ture will tell an untrue story. The same Is true of the human eye. Or the Inhuman eye. At a race track, if you are not dead set on the finish line you can easily disagree by a half lengthor even a length with the testimony of the camera which is aimed directly at the wire. Every horseman knows that. Same in Baseball Trained umpires are supposed to be In the correct spots for a correct decision. They can make mistakes, being only human. Managers and ball players on the bench are not In the right spot to call any decision correctly. If the bench were the right place, then umpires would be sitting on the bench and not standing around on the ball field. Using two examples, Messrs. Du-rocher. and Frisch know this. They may be many things, but they are not dumb. Most of the loud-est squawkers would make poor umpires, even if parked in the proper places. These fiery fel-lows too often think ahead of themselves. h Cr i You'll find that Leo Durocher most of the urn-- plrical explosions are used largely in behalf of the old alibi. They are employed to cover up mistakes or de-feats In connection with critical crowds. There Is a belief also that crowds . like scrappy baseball. Crowds do. But crowds would rather see the battle between two teams the speed and brains of a Ty Cobb, the brains and power of a Babe Ruth or a Lou Gehrig or a Ted Williams thrown against the other team, not against the umpires. A ball player who bats .333 is above the average. Yet, that means he is a flop two-thir- of the time. Umpires make mistakes, but not as many mistakes as managers and ball players make if you happen to look at the dally box scores. The greatest pitcher that ever lived Walter Johnson, never had an argument with an umpire. He was concentrating on the main Job-pitc- hing not on some umpire's de-cision. Among a few other pretty fair country pitchers In this respect I might Include Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Grover Cleveland Alex- - anaicr, cr a waiisn, mmmoruiecai onrowo, I've never seen a great pitcher who was an umpire fighter. No one is great enough to split his co-ncentrationto look out first for the alibi. The Ball Players Pick Ball players know what can hap-pen between June and October. They are not the best guessers in the world but who is? In talking over the two big league campaigns with managers and veterans we'll leave the younger fellows out this is the way they figure the two races: American League The Yankees chased by the Red Sox and the In-dians. National League Another red-h- ot er stretch run between Dodgers and the Cardinals. This was a majority vote, by a wide margin, from the dozen or more respected opinions sought. No one expects Lou Boudreau's Indians to hold the dizzy pace they offered the league through the first few weeks. The material, minus Bobby Feller, isn't that good. But Boudreau has turned In a great job so far. So has Joe Cronin. Yankees, Dodgers and Cardinals began the season with the better teams much better teams. They were the headline entries. I still think either Dodgers or Car-dinals will meet the Yankees In the next World scries providing, of course, there Is a next world scries. But through the remainder of the race it seems to me managers and ball players will show more com-mon sense in concentrating their at- - tack on rival teams, and not on um-pires who are seldom responsible for the mistakes managers and ball davers make. Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHEN the Chicago White Sox to last place In Amer-lea- n lea-gu- standings, they more or less upset the theory that pitching is 70 per cent of a ball team. The strange case of the White Sox Is one of the most widely discussed topics whenever men discuss base-ball. Experts picked Jimmy Dykes' crew for no lower than third place. A scattered few gave them first place rating, quite a few saw them In the second spot, but comparative-ly few entertained any thoughts of a position lower than third. It would be more than silly to say that the Sox haven't a chance. The season is only well under way and a lot of clubs have snapped out of an early losing streak to make things tough for the lead-ers. But, by the same token, the Sox so far haven't lived up to expectations. A team that dropped 18 of 22 starts will Jimmy Dykes be forced to fight all the way to end up in third place. That the Importance of pitch-ing often is overrated Is demon-strated by the fact that the Sox have had better pitching this year than they did last season. They just can't get enough runs. One Answer Jim Bagby Jr., hurler for the Cleveland Indians, knocked off five victories In a rush the early part of this season. Last year he totaled only nine victories. And he states definitely that he Isn't pitching a bit better than he did in 1941. Toward the end of the spring training season, Muddy Ruel, Sox coach, said: "We have a sound, balanced team. Our pitching Is great, our infield dependable, our catching the best and ou" outfield needs only reserves." Muddy was right. The pitching has been more than excellent if not great The Infield has been better than average and the outfield has lived up to Muddy's promises. But the hitting has been weaker than watered milk. It is true that the Sox had to get along without the services of Thorn-ton Lee and Taft Wright. But Lee. who won 22 games last season, couldn't have helped them much be-cause their greatest need has been for hitting, not hurling. If Wright had been in condition, the story might easily have been dif-- ferent One player could have brought the Sox out of their early season lethar-gy by starting to hit. Observers had pinned most of their hopes on Wright, but he was physical-ly unfit However, the cause was not a wsi one. A year Ta,t Wr,M ago Taft was in a hospital with pneumonia the first month. Then he wound up hitting .440 the final month. Inevitable It has been pointed out that the early season fall of the Sox was In-evitable. They have stocked up with more than their share of decrepit players whom other teams no longer wanted. Year after year Dykes has made innocuous trades and pur-chases at waiver prices, gathering a crew of elderly gentlemen with a JUaVfViHT IUmIItVit1V- fOcIi IBnU WHHaaO4. tUiaSfl" No one denies that Dykes has done a marvelous job. He isn't known as a miracle man merely be-cause of his conversational output though that does approach the miraculous. Dykes knows how to get the most baseball out of his men. He is a keen judge of players. Partial and . somewhat obvious proof of this lies in the fact that Dykes called the turn on the current Novikoff-Cu- b situation. When ff was still hitting baseballs out of Pacific coast parks. Dykes brought a warning word back to Chicago that "if Novikoff fails to make the major league grade it will be because of his hitting. There isn't much good pitching In the Coast league and Novikoff still has to prove he can hit smart pitching." Even National league fans will give testimony to Dykes' insight on that particular problem. Dykes still takes his troubles in stride and he's had plenty of them. Though he admits occasional hours of suffering, he hasn't changed the habits that brought him fame as baseball's miracle man. SPORT SHORTS Heavyweight champion Joe Louis has named the war. In a poem writ-ten for a national magazine by Carl Byoir, New York publicist, Joe was credited with naming "God's War." C. The first night game in the major leagues was played in Cincinnati seven years ago. C. A id the name of Man Mountain Dean (grunt and groan artist) to the list of athletes in the armed service. C The Green Bay Packers will begin training on August 16. Boom Towns Struggle With Labor Influx War Industries Tax Normal Facilities in Smaller U. S. Cities. Released by Western Newspaper Union. In the turbulent economic wake of conversion and war production, a thousand patri-otic towns and villages anx-iously seek answers today to a multitude of new problems concerned with accommodat-ing Uncle Sam's mobile armies of war workers. There isn't anything spec-tacular about these problems that are keeping village presi-dents up nights and putting furrows in the brows of town councils and boards. They're as commonplace as dishwater, hos-pital beds, school desks or fire en-gines. But their solution is very im-portant indeed in the nation's fight to smash the Axis. Populations Doubled. Things aren't the way they were before Pearl Harbor In these thou-sand towns. All-o- war production has turned scores of them literally overnight into 1942 versions of boom areas. Crossroads hamlets have had their populations doubled between one sunup and the next. War boom towns in Illinois, Michi-gan, Alabama, Washington, Ohio, California, have had to figure and plan as they never did before to provide the most meager housing, transportation, health and educa-tional facilities for need-ed to man the new machines of war. Even large industrial cen-ters have felt the pinch of provid-ing decent accommodations on the home front for the new legions who are taking their places behind the men behind U. S. guns. From 5,000.000 workers directly employed on war production as of last December 7, the number has risen to more than 8,500,000 today and minimum, requirements by the end of 1942 are expected by federal officials to exceed 15,000,000. American towns and villages are daily demonstrating that they are more than willing to do their part in the all-o- effort to produce the tools for victory for the United Na-tions. But the doing often is beyond the means of an individual locality, and the problems are complex and many. Serious Medical Problems. In a Michigan town, medical au-thorities recently warned that an epidemic of tuberculosis was breed-ing in the very heart of the subur-ban factory district, 10 miles from a huge bomber plant. A report on overcrowding in the area stated that "more than 4,000 patients, 450 of them tubercular, are jammed into hospital space designed for 2,500." Officials pointed out that added to the danger from this source is a lack of suitable sanitary facilities for the mushroom community. The authorities of an Illinois vil-lage suddenly awoke to the fact that many of their wells no longer reached the water table in that area, due to the emergency drilling of nu-merous other wells by war produc-tion plants surrounding the village site on three sides; a village in Minnesota found that the increased number of war workers and their families moving Into the community necessitated the hiring of another teacher, a part-tim- e janitor and the purchasing of new supplies of books and other equipment. All-o- war production has brought living conditions such as these In a midwestern town to hundreds of communities from coast to coast. Many trailer communities lack proper sanitary facilities and a large number of them try to accommodate too many trailers for the space. Washington, D. C. WON'T BE LONG NOW Macon Reed, news-man, now a private in the army, has this to say about the new mili-tary machines which Uncle Sam is so swiftly whipping into shape: "How is it to be in the army? There is a breath-takin- g exhilaration in swinging across a parade ground and seeing and feeling the other col-umns moving in the effortless, smooth, free march step of the American army marching, march-ing, marching to heaven knows where. At such a moment, and only at such a moment, one gets a flash perception of the true strength of America, a boundless sweep of irresistible power and I chuckle to myself and think 'What is everybody in Washington in such a fret and worry about?' Mandalay? LashioT Trifles, boys, mere trifles. We heard the news of their fall with a yawn and got on with our work. Just wait till we get started. It won't be long now!" WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WAR? At six one morning, Henry Wal-lace woke up and began thinking about the speech he was going to make in New York. Ideas kept tum-bling into his mind. Quietly, so as not to disturb Mrs. Wallace, he reached for the dictaphone and be-gan speaking into it. He dictated to the length of one cylinder, Mrs. Wallace still slept. Next morning, he woke again at six, and did the same thing. On the third morning, he woke at 3:30. This time, he dictated the remain-der of the speech, which ran to 3,000 words. Mrs. Wallace slept on. The vice president still had two weeks to spare before the speaking engagement, but the thoughts had been simmering in his mind, and he wanted to get them down. He want-ed to say not in words hurriedly thrown together on the way to New York what he felt about fighting the war to a finish, then making a peace that will stick. People's Revolution. The general applause to that speech is still reverberating in Washington. Because it was one of the most important speeches of the war. Titled, "The Price of Free World Victory," it was a forecast of world freedom after victory. Wallace has turned out more words than any other member of the Roosevelt family, including the President. But none of his words have been more significant than this speech before the Free World asso-ciation in which he said: "Every-where the common people are on the march." It included words of dire warning to Hitler, and also words full of meaning to the future of Imperial-ists, such as: "No nation will have the God-give- n right to exploit other nations" . . . "The march of free-dom of the past 150 years has been a people's revolu-tion." But especially significant were the words: "Those who write the peace must think of the whole world. There can be no privileged peoples." ENEMY ALIENS Some significant things are going on behind-the-scene- s in the justice department. With the savageness of a commando attack, Attorney General Biddle has now launched an offensive against all enemy agents in the U. S. A., has given the green light to Big Hoover to move wherever he wants. one, uiuuie naa oeen prodded by the White House for dawdling. Now, however, he has gathered large dossiers of sensation-al and Incontestable evidence, and it looks as if several U. S. Fascists would end up behind the bars. Biggest problem Biddle now faces is German and Italian nationals along the Atlantic seaboard. Army brasshats have been demanding that everyone born in Germany or Italy and still unnaturalized be moved west of the Allegheny mountains However, this would mean a mass trek numbering perhaps a million. And along the Pacific coast even the movement of 100,000 Japanese proved a terrific headache. Therefore Biddle is working on the policy of picking out the dangerous groups among Ger-mans and Italians, but leaving those whose loyalty seems OK. Many of them are oldsters who left Europe before the days of d.ctators. Many even have sons in the C. S. army. Ilowever, the Job of sorting the loyal from the disloyal is going to be one of the toughest jobs the justice de-partment ever faced. MERRY D farmers ar doing so well ?rt fven,ment cdit agencies taking in more money in mort-gage payments than they are lend-in- g out Also, many farmers are building up reserve funds against debts in the P0st-wa- r period The marine corps has quietly abandoned its high-power- recruit star drive to athletes. Reason: of them d,dn't Many measure up to the high physical standards required of marines; had flat feet, bad knees enlarged hearts. ' B-- pus A chocolate pj. new flavor if substituted for ha? If the surface ofj rough, it probabl, accumulation of J Sandpaper rubbed! face will make it ' when new. When pressing or a damp sponge in ,' by. It can be used I tra dampness to arti ing seams or m and culls. Have a brush bles. Wash and win. careful not to alio,, accumulate in the cr! A stick of cinnam,. the milk beaten h gives the custards i mon color but doei them. The breadbox shot quently washed out thoroughly aired by lid open a little. 3 never will get a mia keep it from becorj place a small washed) box. Moisture is gh potato but not enot mildew. CLASSli DEPART! PERSONA Birth Certificates Hmnrrencj. KolldMWliiiwa. Lwntoy tUiwch.su W. In The problem of wh service man has been; men themselves. Toba list of gifts service from the folks back he ing to numerous sun have a friend or rti armed forces Array, rines, or Coast Guard-- a pipe, or rolls-his-- his favorite tobacco a in order. A big favori service men is Prince world's largest-selli-bacco. Local dealers: turing Prince Albert: can for the men in t Adv. AWAY GO Pain goes quick, corn I speedily removed win I you use thin. soothiM I cushioning Dr. Scholar Ztno-pad- Try theml r, KILL ALL n Si 150JKIM i.Mtvmr DON'T lij CONSTIW, SLOW YOU Whenboweliaraiha Irritable, headachy ui do is an effort, do si m FEEN-A-MIN- the gum laxative. Simply MINT before you tf to out being disturbed-e- n" thorough relief, helpi? again, full of your W FEEN-A-MIN- TaiWf and economical. A ' FEEN-A-- ft "'""IT"' : .or $ f 'Top-Kick- s' Trained in Eight-Wee- k School WASHINGTON. A school which prepares soldiers for the exacting job of top sergeant in the American army has won its chevrons at the Signal Corps Replacement Training center st Fort Monmouth, N. J. Within an eight-wee- k period, this school transforms soldiers into "top-kick-able to cope with the end-lessly varied problems of adminis-tration, supply, and company lead-ership which will face them in the field. Its first graduates are now serving with Signal corps units. For approximately six weeks, the men are trained in Fort Monmouth classrooms and drill fields. Besides company administration, they study infantry drill and physical training, defense against chemical and air attacks, sanitation and hygiene, first aid, training methods, basic signal communications, map read-ing and sketching, and morale and supervised athletics |