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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH YOUTHFUL SINGER Chillicothe Youth Is Nation's First Television Opera Star 1W if-- A boy from Chillicothe, Ohio, has become one of the na-tion's first television opera stars, a personality as well-know- n to the greats of the musical world as to the folks back home. In Chillicothe (pop. 18,340) Chet Allen developed his first taste for singing, along with cartoon sketch-ing, stamp collecting and football line play. When his family shifted to Columbus several years ago, Chet was already emitting the clear soprano tones that recently moved the great Arturo Toscanini to tears and wrung unrestrained plaudits from the nation's foremost music critics. " a His father, a chemical engineer, enrolled the curly haired youngster in the Columbus Boychoir at Prince-ton- , N.J. Under the careful super-vision of Herbert Hoffman, director of the Boychoir, Chet became a star soloist. He accompanied the choir on a bus barnstorming tour of 32 states. He was, In fact, a veteran musical campaigner by the time that opera composer Gian-Carl- o Menotti visited the Boychoir in search of a lead for his television opera, "Amahl And The Night Visitors," commissioned iiir rrt irmrmmrinrtm t m itmmiirmmi m Twelve year old Chet Allen, Ohio's gift to television epers, sings with Rosemary Kuhlman In rehearsal of the Gian-Carl-o Menotti opera, "Amahl And The Night Visitors." Chet, who was born In Chillicothe, Ohio, and now lives In Columbus, had the starring role of a crippled boy In the Menotti opera which had Its TV premiere over the NBC network. two years ago by the National Broadcasting Company. Menotti seized upon the Chillicothe youngster as a natural for the role of the crippled boy whose impover-ished mother was visited by the Three Wise Men. The youth's im-pulsive gesture in offering his crutch as a present to the new-bor-n King in Bethlehem led to his miraculous recovery. CHET MOVED on New York with all the assurance of a widely trav eied adult. He became an over-night hit with the opera's cast at rehearsal. His role was an exacting one, requiring a wide variety of emotions, and eminent musical men like Toscanini, who dropped in on rehearsals, were both moved and amazed by his vocal and acting capacities. So, too, were ordinary folks throughout the nation. The opera had Its premiere Christmas Eve on s national television hook-u- The next day NBC was deluged with let-ters, telegrams and telephone calls praising the young artist. Chet liked what he saw of the big city, but he still feels that a small town has plenty of advantages. "You can get in touch with folks so much easier," he explains. Chet is now back at the Boychoir where Director Hoffman reports with pride 'that all the attention focused on him has not gone to his head "one whit." He makes occa-sional trips to New York to com-plete a full recording of the opera for RCA Victor, and the remainder of his time is devoted to his school and to extracurricular activities. Whether Chet will continue as an operatic performer, or whether he will pick up the old life and perhaps specialize as a cartoonist or become an engineer like his father, depends upon nature. Director Hoffman es-timates that in one year, possibly two, Chefs voice will mature. Whether the Chet will have the vocal capacity for an operatic career is something that neither Chet, Director Hoffman or anyone else will prophesy. In the past, instances of boy sopranos who successfully bridged the change of voice have been rare. But few have been as successful in as young Allen and even few-er have demonstrated his remark-able adaptability for operatic act-ing. TBy JfM RHODYfj Mj Seasonal Delight Just as the home gardener revels in his seed catalogs each year, with their myriad attractions in riotous color and enormous pro-fusion, the angler, too, shares kin-dred thrills and delights as he thumbs ecstatically through the many fishing tackle catalogs which come his way. In fact, it is the arrival of these catalogs which happily bridges the span between the last lingering weeks of snow and ice and the first days of real fishing weather. There are many of us, indeed, who would be hard put to contain our fishing fever to an extent which keeps us out of our home state mental In-stitutions were the fishing catalogs not at hand to keep our minds busy and "wish-bookin- until we can get our casting arms busy. Set Anglers "Wishing" Naturally, space here doesn't per-mit the fine tributes we'd like to pay to all the tackle manufacturers who have sent catalogs, but we be-lieve the industry would bear us no ll for letting the annual Heddon catalog serve as a symbol for them BlL Once again the Heddon people have issued an outstanding catalog, a beautifully-colore- d booklet, with a color picture of a rainbow trout suitable for framing as an added treat As does all the other catalogs', Heddon's instantly sets the angler's mind spinning with themes such as "I wish I had that," and "I wish I had this." Like the others, too, it symbolizes practically everything the angler and his brethern might want or need. Offers Tiny Two We were particularly Interested, however, in the company's offering of a new series of lures for the light-tack- le addict. We liked these be-cause we're planning to do a com-prehensive article here soon on what the industry has cooked up for the fellows who like the long, light rods, tournament-typ- e reels and test lines. This equipment is the plug-caster- 's answer to spin-ning gear, and with it he can handle most spinning-typ- e lures and cast them almost as far. Anyway, as information for those who'd like to know, at least, where some of these light-tackl- e lures may be found, the Heddon folks, who pioneered fishing plugs in the first place, have come up with their "Runt" lure in a 15 ounce weight, a tiny Torpedo, with a spinner aft, and the Justly famed and reliable "Lucky 13" both in the 15 ounce size. We'd like to know how you can beat that for light-tackl- e gear. This tiny trio' of lures, with all Heddon's "know-how- " behind them, will fill the bill for many an angler. AAA Good Deal Here's good news for anglers who have been turning more and more to KentucKy 8 lanes ior record bass catches. The State's Game and Fish Divi-sion has had introduced in the Leg-islature a bill which would provide for the sale of nt fishing license at $2 for 10 days. Hereto-fore, nt licenses were sold for periods of only three days and cost $1 each. That meant that the te angler would have had to pay $4 for 10 days fishing rights, whereas under the proposed legis-lation he can now enjoy that priv-ilege for only $2. This action is but another in con-tinuing steps by Kentucky to capital-ize upon its various attractions to tourists, and chief among these are certain to be the state's many and vastly-Improve- d fishing waters. May Eclipse Others Already such ff lakes as Herrington, Dale Hollow and Ken-tucky have won renown throughout all anglerdom, but coming on even now is another body of water that bids fair to eclipse all the others. And that is the newly-impounde- d Wolf Creek reservoir in the south-eastern part of the State. With impoundment complete less than four months, anglers were re-porting catches of as many as 200 bass in one outing, but with only some six or seven of this number being "keepers." But with Impound-ment almost two years old this spring and summer, the "little ones" should have grown to "keeper" size and thus have put into the making a veritable angling paradise. The State Game and Fish Division is going along farther with sports-men by including in that same legislative measure a provision em-powering the director to remove fish creel and size limits wherever deemed advisable. AAA About Trout Sometimes trout hang In the water at the very tail of a pool, just before it breaks into the next riffle, and take Insects from the surface as they float along. When they are here it usually is possible to sneak up on them from 'downstream, but it is hard to get a natural float from this position. 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Cereal grains SPORTLIGHT Comparison: Football and Baseball ', By GRANTLAND RICE As progress moves along the road there is always a new order of things. You can fight this order just so long. For example professional football met this challenge and made its change. To the old-- mendous strength. I also happen to believe that college football will appeal to just as many people when the recruited element is eliminated or reduced. It will never be re-duced as long as a single alumnus is found breathing. If correct changes are made college football will no longer be er roster of teams, Los Angeles and San Francisco were added. The addition of these teams add-ed Immeasurably to the growth and development of the game and will con-tinue to do so. Recently Dallas largely a battle of scouting, re-cruiting, athletlo scholarship and money against at least a form of sanity. I received a let-ter from Don Faurot, the able coach at Missouri. Don shows that in the recent awards and distribution of deserved prizes at Missouri practically every recipient came from that state. I have seen Missouri teams in the past in which 33 men out of 33 came from Missouri I believe Missouri has more home-grow- n football play-ers than any other big university. Missouri makes no effort to send scouts all over the map, 1,500 or 2,000 miles away in order to bag a passing star, a big tackier or a hard running back. That's the way it should be. Paul Bryant has announced a similar pol-icy for Kentucky. Football players, given their earlier education free in some public high school, too often bolt for the rich bait handed out by some university or college far away. This is unfair to the state that gave-th-e athlete his chance te get start-ed. The Browns Test The Browns under Veeck and Hornsby are dead sure to show im-provement. One question is how much improvement will they show at the gate? Unless the Browns Granttand R. was to J? pro grid map. latest move, will place the Far West well above the East, includ-ing New York's Giants, Philadel-phia'- s Eagles or Pittsburgh's Steelers in the matter of attendance. Big league baseball has made no such changes. It has defied progress. Today Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Balti-more, Buffalo and Houston have larger attendance figures to draw on than some major league cities but they cannot break into the Iron-bou- mon-opoly of the big league game. Baseball has stuck with the 11 cities and 16 franchises it picked up fifty years ago and has made no move since. In spite of the vast changes in population and interest shown, the old game has plodded along, cling-ing desperately to the past with any views of the future completely hid-den. It may be the original setup left no way to handle this situation. There is a big chance a change will come some day in a general revolt of potential major league cities now left out that will tear many of the teams in the two older leagues into shreds. It may not happen. But it could. Football hasn't been too smart In many directions, but it has been smarter than baseball. And base-ball had much the earlier start The point is that a big-leag- franchise means much to a city really de-serving it. One must admit that three big leagues would be upsetting when it came to any world series. It is fairly certain however that one big league for a city is about all the traffic will bear outside of New York and possibly Chicago. They have millions in the way of population to give them a two league chance. About College Football Pro football is building every year. Additions from the Far West and the Southwest have added tre- - move up above the 750,000 er 800,- -, 000 attendance mark, the franchise-ma-be shifted. Baseball expenses have reached the point where no 300,000 or 500,000 crowd ' can pay even part of the way. St. Louis is a hot ball town, es-pecially where the Cardinals are Involved. But this season the Cardi-nal pennant outlook over Giants and Dodgers Is not too keen, unless Cardinal pitching reaches the peak it might find in the distance. I should think any community would take a deep interest in a young ball club building up. But if the Browns' attendance increase doesn't come oft there'll be more than one outside city more than willing to-ge-t the assignment. Hornsby has another fine aid in shortstop Marty Marlon. If Marion is able to work 90 games at short he will be a big help. In any event he will be a big helper. St. Louis, with Stanky and Hornsby, will be one of the most interesting spots of the new season. You'll see a lot better baseball from the Browns. By INEZ GERHARD flLEEN O'FARRELL is the per feet soloist for the "Telephone Hour" on St. Patrick's Day, so she is being announced way ahead of time. This broadcast will be a spe cial event, broadcast from Carnegie Hall, where she scored a brilliant success with her recital in 1950. The daughter of Irish parents formerly billed in vaudeville as "The Sing-ing O'FarreUs", she has fulfilled S . ' V V-- - ' ' I EILEEN O'FARRELL their dreams by becoming one of our outstanding dramatic sopranos. But she is not one of our temperamental prima donnas; she refuses to be glamorized, and will let nothing in-terfere with her home life with her husband, Robert Reagan, and her son, Robert Reagan, Jr. The size of the audience reached by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on television was proved by the result of an appeal for funds to support ' research in muscular dystrophy, which they made recently. The ap-peal brought in more than 7,000 responses. There were scores of letters from dystrophic victims who never knew there was a Muscular Dystrophy association, despite wide publicity. S5 DOUBLE MISTAKE CORNER By Richard Hill Wilkinson IT was convenient thought Martha Sidney that Larry had money. "You see," she confided to Dorlce Merton, who was to be maid of hon-or at the wedding, "Larry could hardly expect me to accompany him on these ex- - cursions into the 3UI.... wuderness. After all he has enough I I money so that this forestry business he's interested in could be classed as a hobby." Dorlce was dubious. "I sometimes wonder, Mart, whether or not you're wise in marrying Larry. Somehow I feel that he expects you'll be eager to follow him Into the woods." "Asburdi How could he expect me to get a thrill out of trees. Besides, there's that little summer home of his just outside of town. I'd much prefer to live there where I can en-tertain my friends and make some good use of his money." It was rather an elaborate wed-ding. Martha's mother, who called her daughter extremely fortunate at making such a catch, went the limit. She didn't want Larry to think Martha was hopelessly poor. The couple rpent a two weeks' "Larry, darling," she said, "please let me stay." Larry looked at her in bewilder-ment. He saw the whiteness about her lips, and knew suddenly that she had never intended to go with him. There was a quality in his voice when he replied that frightened her. "So that's how it is 7 I'm the sea-son's outstanding sucker, eh?" He shrugged. 'Tomorrow I'm leaving for the woods and you're going with honeymoon on Long Island and re-turned to Larry's summer home in Albany in late September. All dur-ing the boat ride up the Hudson, Larry talked of the woods rnd their glory in autumn. That night he said: "Butter get your packing done, honey. We're leaving early." Martha arched her brows In surprise. "My packing! Why, Larry, dear, you don't expect me to accompany yon Into the wilderness! " me wnetner you nice u or not." They departed by tram the next morning. At Saranac they shifted to a power boat, and for hours drove steadily in the wilderness. At the head of the last chain of lakes they disembarked. The power boat sung away. Martha and Larry were left alone, standing on a narrow strip of wilderness that projected out into the lake. There was a log cabin, a canoe and nothing else. Martha felt afraid and very much alone. Larry had been painfully for-mal during the entire trip. The mountains, the stillness, the vast solitude awed and frightened her. She stood quite still until the last faint of the power launch had faded. Then she turned and entered the cabin .hat was to be her home. IN spite of herself Martha could help enjoying her new exist-ence. For the first time in her life she knew sheer joy at just being alive. The cabin was comfortable and home-lik- e. There were books. There was work to be done. Larry made no effort to assist her about the cabin. His eyes still held the same cold glint that bad fright-ened her on the night before their departure. He seldom spoke, was away from the cabin a good deal and spent his evenings bent over drawings and reports. It was a month before Larry let down the barrier. Ha came up from behind Martha as she stood alone on a bluff overlooking the lake. She turned at his step and looked into his eyes. The cold glint was gone. "The power launch is due back tomorrow," be said. "Yon may go back with the driver if you like. I guess I made a mis-take." Martha felt a lump in her throat and swallowed hard. "Larry, darling, please let me stay. I I've been selfish. Can't you forgive me?" Larry's head jerked up. For one brief moment he stared. "Martha, Martha, I hoped, I wanted you to love the woods as I do. I brought you here for that pur-pose, and thought I'd failed." Martha pulled his face down and kissed lt, "Let's forget the past, Larry, sweetheart and start all over again. I really don't feel as if I've had a real honeymoon. Let's begin over again. Nowt Here!" GRASSROOTS When Herbert Hoover Talks, All America Listens 70' s and 80's of the last century, and both parties will Indulge in the same type of Invective. President Truman set the keynote of the campaign in his address be-fore the national Democratic Wom-an's club at Washington in Novem-ber. He Was greeted with applause because he was talking to an audi-ence who have voted Democratic because father and grandfather voted that ticket His generalities did not change any votes, nor will the orators of either party who indulge in the same type of generalities. Those whose votes can be changed want provable facts. to Chile, Mexico, Belgium and Italy; William R. Castle, former director European division department of state, am-bassador to Japan; Hugh Gibson, former ambassador to Belgium; Spruille Braden, former assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Argentine, Colombia and Cuba; Joseph A. Kennedy, former ambas-sador to Great Britain; Arthur Bliss Lane, minister to Estonia, Latvia and Poland; Jesse Jones, former secretary of commerce, chairman reconstruction finance corporation. All of the above endorsed Hoover's statements that the nation should concentrate on the construction of more sea and air power rather than By Wright A. Patterson WHEN HERBERT HOOVER talks, of America listens. When the people of the nation have the opportunity of both listening and seeing, they take advantage of both opportunities. They had both on January 27 when the man whom the people recognize as a national lead-er was on both radio and television. Then millions of Americans, re-gardless of political affiliations, both looked and listened. Those letters that Hoover appreciated most were from the homes of the nation, writ-ten in longhand on plain stationery, nearly 7,000 of them. Those letters indicated a willingness to accept the leadership of the former president on so vital a subject as our national defense. For him, those 7,000 let-ters constituted, a heart-warmin- g experience, but there were many others coming from those recognized as experts in defense lines, and ex-pressing firm approval In what he had said From the army there were let-ters from Lt. General Albert W Wedemeyer, Lt. General Leslie B. Groves. Lt. Gen. Harold L. George. Major General Hugh Knerr and Gen-eral Brice P. Bisque. From the top brass of the navy there were letters of approval and commendations, with the privilege ef quoting them, from such officers as Admiral William V. Pratt, Ad miral William H. Standley, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, and Capt James E. van Zandt, now a congressman From the realm of diplomacy: Henry P. Fletcher, former and ambassador on additional ground forces as a de-fense against Russia, and that we must also protect our economy, and not waste our resources in Europe It was the agreement with and the approval of those statements in the 7,000 long hand written letters re-ceived by Mr. Hoover from Ameri-can homes which he so much ap-preciated. It would be well for those of us who are Interested only in provable facts '.hat we prepare in advance for the storm of invective, mud, filth and generalities that will be showered upon us by political ora-tors of both parties through the pe-riod of the coming presidential cam-paign of July, August. September and October. The coming one will be such a mud slinging campaign as has not been known since the days of the For example, the president charged the Republicans with the expenditure of vast sums contributed by a small minority for purely self-ish reasons in an effort to attain a result, in which they failed. The fact is the Republicans spent in that campaign a total of $1,444,-894.7- 7. In the same campaign the Democrats spent $2,066,372.50. The figures are those submitted to con-gress as required by law, by the national chairmen of the two par-ties. In the Ohio senatorial cam-paign, he charged that Senator Taft received vast sums from "special Interests" in their attempt to in-fluence legislation tor corporate wealth, but he said nothing about the assessments levied against all members of organized labor, and spent to defeat Taft that organized labor bosses might benefit from leg-islation in behalf of a minority. 1 how tomm CLOTH SECURED fsV WITH RUBBER BAND Sv ClSi f ioathamgerV n) I & BENT AS SH0WN w ENDfX I' C-EAMI-NS HIGH WALLS AND CEILINGS CAM B pHtShrJSf ilUG A CHANGES AND END OP A BROOM. THE CLOTH IS HELD BV A HEAVy RUBBER BANR |