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Show " ' ' v -t . ".dr.. -v.. ;. 7.' .. - .. Apartment HpUse Grandstand Proposed FbrKeza Stadlu rn : By ROBERT PRESCOTT, -v United Press Sports Writer . SAN FRANCISCO Jn..?4(U.R) Lifce to live on a- 50-yard line seat to the greatest football game of them all? . .. It's 'nossible. Kezar stadium, home; of the colorful-East-West gridiron classic, is suffering growy ins.'Dains - and an apartment house grandstand is the; bright Idea to squeeze in more cash customers.- '",. At least, the idea Is no zanier than some of the proposals 'for shoe-horning more fans into one of the most popular of all-football games -,-Everv New Year's day some 65, 000 bersons lam Kezar stadium, in San Francisco's Golden Gate park, to- see the all-star- charity tilt Another 65,000 clamoring fans are turned away each year, unable un-able to buy, beg or borrow tickets to the game Since all the proceeds go fe Die Shrine Jbospltal -fr crlpi;. pled children, Tlvie leaders agree that something should -be dene to enable-more people peo-ple J watch "the strong roar so that the weak may walk" end swell the total of the charity fond. Bat th law ' . wont let 'en pile the pay-: j tng clientele on each others' laps. ''''! So Mayor Elmer Robinson wants tor build a spanking-new; 100,000 aeat stadium . to replace! Kezar. That's okay with every-1 one but the taxpayers they don't like to think where . that. money wouia come iiuju. . t: An anonymous genius came' up with, a variation of Robinson's DroDOsal. He'd like to sell his plans for a perfectly circular -stadium which would hold 120,000 persons and revolve around, the playing field. - . .' ' That way; he pointed out, every; customer would have a 50-yard-! line ..seat . four times -during .the! game. He neglected to mention j each ticket-holder would be sit-1 ting in the end zone Just as often. But the big revolving bowl-would; turn so slowly the fans would not; notice the motlon-he said. . Another brain - wave bronght fourth an idea .for double-decking Kezar, adding another 45,000 seats and roofing roof-ing It over so that chill ocean breezes and fogs would be blocked out. Still, another heavy thinker wanted to excavate ex-cavate the stadium 20 feel deeper, eliminating the tuning tun-ing track and adding another uer ei , seats oeiow ne prea- j ent level. i But that apartment house grandstand idea is probably-the j 48-Inch Water ! Line To Be tfut in Use Soon i Provo's new $300,000 48-inch on i ioH 1 ! tftsm rrm Aanvnn urfll II soon.be bringing water from the! city's canyon supply. Waterworks) Superintendent Clark Newell said j Saturday. - ! Valves are now being installed:! preparatory, to starting water; through the line. The line has; not been formally accepted from: the contractors yet, Mr. Newell II said. The contractors have asked that water be run through it' for several days to give them a chance to locate air leaks .which might occur. Whenthese are, sat-1 isfactorily repaired, the line will be accepted. - ral tnlr of eenius. Its' originat or wants to construct' a -circular apartment house right' around Ke zar,.; That would preserve the present stadiunvhe' saidi" conwxve space :and alleviate Jhe housing shorts te. .. i . jbacn tenant on uie. limcr cuiw would: look: down upon the 'grid iron, from tJisown j vomf ortable, warm living room, his friends equally ? comfortable . ana., warm beside him, ;The cost? , The usual apartment rental, plus $5 a month xtra.during the - football season. But' how would - that swell " the Shrine came, funds? Merely 'de tail that hasn't been -worked Tout yet;.. Sub Stays Subiiiergd Several Weeks 5a ?6t -; .'! '?-- fl Vvi.jT-r-1 --.V';'.Si'Kv.;.? - v, - ' - ' - hk .13 :'t4'- .:;-!:-:t.'il SUNDAY HEHA1D Sunday. January 23, 1948 S Trumaii, Republican Aspirants Breathe Easier Vith EisenhpwerQuto my By LYLE C. mLSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (KB)-. If President Truman and all the Republican candidates for this year's presidential nomination would- coniess, an nanas wei- Establishing i.a. record for remaining- underwater, the 1250-ton British .submarine-Alliance stayed submerged for "several weeks" 1 during arecentv cruise ia African . waters. The vessel, which ; carried a crew of 67." is -.pictured on its j return to Its base at , "Portsmouth. England. corned. Gen. Ike's announcement! that he couldn't be bad for politics. poli-tics. "I would not accept nomination," nomina-tion," Gen. Eisenhower said yesterday yes-terday in a statement which tipped his bookers back on their heels. Some of them closed shop right away, but from Oregon and New Hampshire there were Ike-for-president (operators who still thought the general could be drafted. They are expected to close ; shop p ret sbpn,ttooit)e- cause.careful.Teading of Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's long statement does, not disclose any qualifications' war ranting nun m accepting a nontr ination now. . .-- " The: . ; White House opparent- ly was pleased by Ike's statement becaure it seems a lot of Democrats Demo-crats agreed with a lot of Republicans Re-publicans that the soldier with the big smile would have been a pretty, sure bet to "lick Presi dent Truman next November v . Republican regulars generally didn't want Ike in the first place. He was poison to the'Dewey, Taft and. Stassen people. Ike would have been tough for any of them to defeat it he really went after the GOP - nomination. - Hi's departure will whoop up the . pre - convention-campaign considerably. Fence: ;iUersrjind I-don't-know . which -. wfjpp. tb-Jump tb-Jump politicians were the anot confused -by Ike's potentialities. He was 'am unknown potitieal quantity, but they knew.be woura have, made" a sweet candidate. Now the politicians merely "will have to .choose a candidate among their fellow politicians and 'they are : accustomed to doing' that every tour Yars. v -Ike,'a departure will take; some of 'the color out of the prest-dential prest-dential primary voting in the few states which will have contests this year. There probably won t be more than a half dozen, .may be fewer, of real significance. Wisconsin is one. Gov. Thomas X. Dewey -Harold E.- Stassen and Gen. - Douglas; ;MacArthui.- collide there- on April 6. Wisconsin long has been a vital raid-west polity ical testing ground -.Victory ot defeat there sometimes can boom or bust a candidate for keeps. One of the paragraphs of Ike! declination might have been aimed aim-ed at MacArthur. Ike said he thought soldiers should stay out of pontics. 1 BARGES RIGHT IN" j EDINBURG, Tex. 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