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Show I 1 j T"E BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH r. AVI . r v -- J t s ' .J .;,! - 1 1 CANDIDATE. . .Harold E. Staaaen (left), shown here with Sen. Joseph H. McCarthy (Rep., Wis,), paid a surprise visit to sh-in gton in quest of 'most recent' developments in the defense pro-gra- n. "Emergency" Exit TALL, gaunt-lookin- g person en A tered a hotel In a small towi where several fires had occurred and applied for a room at a pric which entitled him to lodging on th top floor of the house. Among hii belongings Uie proprietor noticed I coil of rope, and asked what It wai for. "That's a fire escape," said th man, "I carry one with me so I cat let myself down from the window without troubling anyone." "Good plan," said the landlord, "but guests with fire escapes liki that pay in advance at this hotel." THE BIO BORE The club bore was boasting of hli ability to distinguish between dif-ferent beverages. Finally one of the listeners took a flask from his pocket and asked the connoisseur to taste it and tell hlra what it was. The man tasted a mouthful and promptly spat it out. "Great Scott." he cried. "That'i gasoline!" "I know," came the bland reply. "But what brand?" MISSED An Irishman with the British expeditionary force was telling his friends of his narrow escape at 'Dunkerque. "The bullet went in me chest and came out me back," Pat said. "But," answered bis friend, "it would go through your heart and kill you." "But me heart was in me mouth," came the quick reply. "' h iiwi r t ( S v'n wX' ."Jn v! IFfE DON'T WIN IT'S A S1IAME' . . .EBploying . .tiff-.rme- d H XI V i- - thPnln8 between the New Vork Yankee. thereby officislly opening the 1948 m.jor league IVTt'A t" lhe if,t huurlin the P"d"t done .inci actively seeking Ueuocratic renomination. American Smokers Puff One Billion Cigarettes Daily Per Capita Consumption of Coffin Nails Zooms To 2,324 a Year WASHINGTON. - Smoking dovn-tee- s in the United States are blow-ing smoke rings to the tune of one billion cigarettes a day. The wartime business boom gave a terrific boost to cigarette smok-ing, especially among teen-ager- s and women with good-payin- g jobs. Sales of factory-mad- e cigarettes jumped from 172 billion in 1939 to 352 billion, more than double, in a per capita consumption of 2,324. Thirty-fiv- e years ago the respect-abl- e cigar-smokin- g business man regarded the smoker of a factory-mad- e cigarette as a sort of social outcast. Back in the spittoon era many members of congress were tobacco chewers and proud of it. A typical newspaper advertisement of the period pictured Speaker Joseph Cannon, of Illinois, with the caption: "The thinking men of America chew twist." Today the factory-mad- e cigarette not only has wide social acceptance but is a sizeable item in the na-tional economy. It is estimated that the cigarette tax increases the U. S. Labor Department's consumer price index by nearly one per cent. In 1946 American consumers paid a total of 3.4 billion dollars for to-bacco products and smoking sup-plies. The 1929 expenditure for products was 1.7 billion do-llars. Cigar Use Falls Off Treasury tax experts who re-cently made a study of tobacco use, report that cigarettes in 1946 accounted for 77 per cent of the total tobacco used in production. Back in 1915 cigarettes accounted for only 10 per cent. The use of cigars and smoking tobacco (for pipe and cigarettes) has had a big drop in the past 30 years. The biggest slump has been in tobacco chewing. Con-sumption recently was less than one-thir- d that of 1918. Cigar smoking in this country reached a ptak of 8.1 billion cigars in 1920, the silk shirt year. It dropped to 4.5 billion in depression 1933, picked up some in the years immediately before and during the war. Government research experts say there has been "a significant de-cline" in cigar consumption since February, 1947. They explain that recent increases in the cost of liv-ing may have affected the demand. Price Increases Consumers recently were paying 6 cents apiece for cigars which be-fore the war sold at two for 5 cents, an increase of 140 per cent. Changes in smokers' income or in the price of cigarettes seem to have had only moderate effect on the demand. Between 1929 and 1943, a period which included many de-pression years, average changes in volume of cigarettes consumed were less than half as large as the aver-age changes in income levels. Other government surveys have indicated that in hard times many people cut clothing and even food purchases before reducing their customary purchases of cigarettes and gasoline. The consumption of snuff has been subtantially unchanged for about 30 years. Thirty-fou- r million pounds were produced in 1916, forty-on- e million pounds in 1929 and thirty-si- x million pounds in 1933. The production peak was 43,800,000 pounds in 1945. S J 1 Retailer Weekly, 'S Ijournal of the liquoi k Iiy covered the great-- ,J of the season in tha: :featives of labor. In-- ! pined with IT more than 500 mem-- . of the Whole-S-sale Wine Sales- - men's union, Local is, American Feder-JQO-atior. of Labor, in honoring Benjamin jnf F. Pross, executive Iff business manager of iitv the union, at a great & nner and banquet in j K Jllroom of the Hotel hilt, 'fc'e Retailer said. fc'SPATCHES HAVE ! IKOSS AS A BACKET-- l MAKES DOWN THE 1 e j ITSELF NO LILY, S jDRlZES THE RANK nil J L 1 a dozen New York ,t5 Ja F. of L. He is an ffll" with three old IS I of them for bank-- w iw i But when he ran up ministration of "Turn- - bib' the attorney 6en" being a New Deal :0k, fsily- - . .. . p ' L took place in New-- ljlitical Pr:nciPality of ifthf bcfore old reliable i i a is F. Meaney. the pride Hi' ie Hague mob, and that dir- t- in the front office, rleg (' t Rsssbach, who engi-- t lip l.aney's court the Joe eri u t':A Clark described as d k j ) The Newark thing j was a black - market o. ti ' j jb- - Fross muscled Th 'j 10'500 cases of whiskey n from Schenley and it . ( in the southern army 9 the patriots gouged $25 Oil fn American boys who fj i; to save Pross from et!!( i: was no doubt that c booze from Schenley. c doubt that it went into jfi M p black market, ne- -j outstanding figures X: J e dias witU I'ross had JIJ. jred to make extended l Pi: i'lieeches all were told ed i t talks to a minute or :iou ,elai!er continues. "One 'to the te rule lot i ven to Andrew Edmis- - ;tr jscntative of West Vir-- i stress, and slated to be Kti :vernor of West Vir-- I 011 ,fc?Fn to know anything kd :y? What would a West f',t! :;rcssir.an be doing at ,(-- blowout in New Its a pin in that name. W jfc..stsn. lilt ton explained that he 4 an important meeting ::ce in congress to be on al i personal testimony to 'j 1 Benny Pross. The con-Ia- :j : :!:e of his long - time "I ? with Pross and his "I bwledEe of many kind I p? has done for workers, l-.- d untold charities." J 1 1' i right. Last year K I off his mouth about lltit In ondcrprivileged l :'enbe said 1,1 w Dorn It' sidc' ,vhercas in one ill f bankruptcies In which uiJ f er members of his de-it- tl pytook part, he swore MJ born in Russia and eJ M here until he was 12. it Last year, the first ail year of this great se-i'- ries of charity racket fl y shows for Benny !: fross, another booze fj "1 reported that the mob J Mney to the Damon Run-t- j r fcnd and the University J ut didn't say how much 1 raised. J -- . the Retailer says th&t ' of the testimonial If r the purpose of pre-- J f"0' approximately $5,000 I l' ;TS- he dcelnod and I I moncy e appor- - York Heart nsso-fun- d and the "e't'ement society " there were em--" lhs dinner. Krs give to a "testi- - ror a union racketeer IJ I-y- t CHARITY. bribery. or both. Retailer carries on Z u6 namo of L. V 'I Cli"c M. Black ,YS business manager. i;omethinR strange I! Black writes under head, "Between You'n f IlTy brothc'r o Ben, rc;a;i aLVe iust Purchased !!,X bl' who has a 07 himself. e priest hotels at this 70ur Places-to-stop-- i1 it.iK.&. f imMniiiiftiit wt.iiinn CHILDREN. . .Wearing native Austrian costume, five-year-o- ld Emmy Mattesich prepares to lead the Austrian delegation in gi-gantic children's parade that opened the National American Overseas Aid-Unit- ed Nations Appeal for Children drive in New York. h sf& 5 - . SCROLL OF THANKS TO ITALY... Day after the vitsl Itslisn elections residents of South Philadelphia's Italian colony gathered to offer thanks and to celebrate the defeat of the Lommumsts.. Part of the celebration entailed the signing of 200 -- foot scroll, thanking the Pope for his part in swaying the Italian people to vote for democracy. mmm m ilwlllilllHIIIIIII') mill Y' fVi'f T i" 1'n"r""r H AULD LANG SYNE. . .Cherubic as ever, Winston Churchill shakes hsnds with Mrs. Eleanor Roos-evelt as she leaves his home in London sfter having lunch with him and his wife. A CONTEMPLATIVE corrrspond-- cnt wants to know which is the bigner gamble baseball rookies or race horses. There isn't much difference. Many are called but few ever hit .300 or win big stakes possibly one out of a hundred. Race horses, the good ones, usually cost more money, ranging from $10,- - 000 to $70,000 in the higher brackets. Yet Wakefield of the Tigers came in for a $32,000 bonus and Curt Simmons of the Phillies was somewhere in the $00,000 class. It also is reported that if the young left-hand- had waited a while longer the Red Sox would have gone to $100,000 or more. Simmons is the to Peri-cles, the $66,000 colt who won one race. If Simmons wins only one game, Ben Chapman will absorb at least one keg of cyanide. Simmons, Wakefield and Bob Brown are three of the higher invest-ments. Wakefield has been no part of a bargain at his price tag, while neither Simmons nor Brown so far has drawn a chance. But rookies on their way to major-leagu- e fame are scarce. Last year the Cardinals had only one from big crop Jim Hearn, a pitcher. The Giants caught a find in Jansen the Dodgers in Robinson, to mention two of the best. Few outsiders realize the size of a farm crop. The Dodgers had some-thing like 500 budding phenoms at Vero Beach the Giants over 400 at Sanford, Fla., and the Cardinals over 400 at Albany, Ga. From the 1,200 young ball play-ers gathered at these three loca-tions, the Dodgers, Giants and Cardinals would be highly pleased to have 30 future big leaguers. Some vital statisticians have made it one out of 200. So the percentage of young rookies and promising yearlings who make good is about the same few and far apart. Successor to Joe Louis? In the boxing game about five out of 5,000 or possibly 10,000 make good. They have been looking around for a good young heavyweight to take the place of Joe Louis for six years. Six years and no answer. Not an echo. But Walter Friedman tells me that there is a good young Irish heavyweight named Ray Stevens working out of San Francisco who may be the one. "He's six feet two, weighs 205 pounds," Friedman says. "I know of one offer of $20,000 and another of $30,000 which have been refused for his contract. They won't even listen to $50,000. ne's a good boxer and a good puncher. lie can knock you down with a short punch. He's only 23 years old. "Give him a break, and you might be the first to boost the next heavy-weight champion of the world." Stevens is hereby given favorable mention. And he doesn't have to be too good. Duffers Lead the Parade Too many golf writers are writing about the Nelsons, Hogans, Man-gru-and Demarets in place of the duffers and the average golfers who compose at least 95 per cent of the game. There would be no golf if it were not for the duffer and the average golfer. The few left couldn't afford to keep the courses in condition. They couldn't keep the manufac-turers going. And without the duffer and the average golfer, golf crowds would be under 500, and there would be no teachers and not many caddies. Th stars would be playing for $500 not $10,000. Above all, we love and admire the flaming spirit of the duffer who each year is going to remove at least five or maybe 10 strokes from his game. I was talking about the duffer with Al Cit'ci, the Fresh Meadow pro who has taught so many thousands, in-cluding star professionals, for so many years. "What," I asked, "are the chief faults the duffers or the average players have? And what, by the way, is an average golfer?" "An average golfer," replied Ci-u- "is one who shoots aronnd 100. That's a good average. Some are around 90 or 92. Others well above 110. We can call it 100 and be safe." "What is the most common fault?" 1 asked. "Slicing," said Professor Ciuci. "There are many hookers, of course, but many more slicers. Slicing is largely due to not turning the body enough, to taking the club back out-side the line of flight and bringing it into the ball from the outside. "The club head should be taken back slightly Inside. It should be brought down inside with the club head aiming for a target slightly to the right, not whipped from the inside to the inside. "Most slicers aim to the left of the course in order to allow for the slice. I've seen them do this by. the thousands. A slice usually costs from 30 to 40 yards. Take enough turn and let the club head travel slightly to the right. WANTED TO BUY Wl BUY AND BELL Offlo Furnitur. Fllei, Typewriter!. Add-ing Machine. SafM. 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Here, Virtor C Rivers of the territorial senate of Alaska speaks to in the main street of Anchorage to present s force-fu- f statehood. Anchorage doeW t have the climate outdoor' te. party, but citi.en. there have dug den into WrTcan history for their battle slogan: 'Taxation w ithout representation.' Kemember? EXPLOKER. . .Mrs. Edith Bonne is the first woman to land on the Antarctic continent--no- t that many women ever clamored for that honor. She is wife of Cm dr. Finne Ronne who conducted the Ronne Antarctic research expedition. r i CLOWN... While John L. Lewis vss hiring bis troubles in Was-hington, John (Tubby) Thomes ia Proved tbe shining hour in by looking like John L. Levis having trouble in Washington. Thomes has been an amateur clown for 30 years and says he often has been mistaken for the LMW leader. t PfflABIUTATION... Navs, o Indians Descheenie hRUG SFttS INAVAJO chairman of the Navajo tribal council of (left) and Sam Anei i , of their non.productXTe llwd t0 Shiprock, N.M., ai p 7 hag d t0 ooye 5 0 50 of lntericrecr " H. atrVcken faniliea off their the,12' ?!!.- - .Tt"o --"J. Sroduciive ld... Krug want. 90- - ,on-doH- V appropriation to promote agriculture and mdus- -' reservations. Hangovers in United States Cost One Billion Annually CHICAGO. Hangovers cost the nation one billion dollars annually Each habitual alcoholic costs his employer $550 every year. Therefore: Industrial leaders will confer to find out ways and means of doing something about him. The conference, first of its kind in the nation, is sponsored by the Chicago committee on alcoholism. Dr. Anton J. Carlson, university of Chicago medical researcher, is chairman. Dr. Carlson, who produced the economic cost figures on alcoholism, said that "of the thousands of in-dustrial firms in the country, there are possibly no more than 10 on record who have conducted exten-sive research on the subject of alco-holism in industry." James H. Oughton Jr., director of the Keeley institute, Dwight, 111., added "Alcoholics are sick people. They suffer from a disease just as surely as does the diabetic, a person with cancer or tuberculosis. "They must not be confused with hopeless drunks and bums. This most certainly does not describe tne alcoholic. Not all those with an alcohol problem are hopeless. Many of them have high intelligence, fine, delicate makeups, and are among our community and social leaders " |