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Show THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI. UTAH Thursday. February 26, 1948 ps- - PAGE THREB wrw?.''.M Tinwww CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT TRUCKS & ACCESS. AUTOS, mm I- FN WHAT line of professional sport can the athlete or competitor make the most money? Baseball, football, boxing, racing, wrestling, basketball or what have you? The range in salaries from Joe DiMaggio to Bob Feller, according to recent report, was something like $65,000 to $85,000. At the same time. Johnny Lujack was signed up for an amount approxi- - ? - - . 4 f iNsS'S'J wrf''f?'' iWSuiWSW GOLD STAR WIFE . . . Mrs. Rath OFF THE RUBBISH PILE . . . Boys' club members check a working e Awing of a speedboat model, limited in cost to $1, for the Skipper's Cup contest. Explaining construction details are Guy Lombardo, left, and Uavid W. Armstrong, executive director of Boys' Clubs of America. i START FROM v; t-- IBoys Comb Rubbish Heaps It's a treasure hunt in the rubbish heap for boys all over the United States. They are seeking old tin cans, mother's castoff garters, scraps of wood, paper clips, rubber bands and even leftover paint, all of which will be used for building entries in the first nationwide Skipper's Cup model speedboat contest. To build a swift and sturdy crafts J two-oun- well-know- tee. Local craftsmanship contests will Judging, speed trials. precede which will be on a basis of point competition, will cover basic design, originality, workmanship, finish and over-al- l appearance. Woman Lighthouse Keeper Quits Post As Feet Are 'Tired' TURKEY POINT, MD. Because her feet ar tired and she wants to 'just rest." Mrs. Fannie Salter, the last woman lighthouse keeper on Chesapeake bay, has given up her Job. mlii ri'iiiri inmiM , . , iJ "V'. in Aninrmmiriir 'V-.- . "O'. In Cap and Gown P-4- F-8- P-8- FootbaU with its games a season. including exhibitions, can't match LIVESTOCK baseball with its 190 games, also in FATTEN HOGS FASTER by stimulating cluding exhibitions. their appetites with Dr. LeGear's Hog Pre Also an ideal ionic lor orooa There are not many ballplayers scription. sows and Has increase pigs. helped paid the same as Bob Feller, Ted for millions of hog raisers. Satis, prolHs guar. Williams and Joe Di Maggio. But MISCELLANEOUS also there are not so many football PAN Mlddleby Marshall gas fired oven players paid on a level with Lujack, 4imost new, can oe converted to Trippi and a few more. r Butane eas. three comDarttnent fropane Federal Retarder. 80 quart Hobart Mixer Even as it is, pro football can Dough like new. New Star Popcorn machine, 13 back bar for bakery, 2 six foot show make very little money with its foot National Bread slicing machine, brief season thrown against modern cases. barrel capacity, slow speed mixer, dough, Call or write Bush Super Market. expenses even the winning teams. moulder. 1)05 2ith St., Olden, Utah. Phone 6571. douThe others can drop enough bloons to founder a Spanish galleon. POULTRY, CHICKS & EQUIP. On a general average, baseball HELP YOUR HENS he nrnfitnhl. same the to Stimulate close poor appetites with Dr. LeGear's and football pay Prescription in all their feed. Used amounts, with baseball in front. The Poultry by successful poultrymen everywhere. The ballbest of poultry tonic money can buy. kickback is that any number season a less or $7,500 get players SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. FRUIT 300.000 Western NUT TREES Louis-Walco- AGE OF INNOCENCE . . . Even Carol Ann Coulon of Miami had never seen Flor- if four-year-o- ld VtfAl ida orange she still would be plenty cute. Her own state thought so, too, because she won the "Little Miss Florida" contest. QUICKER cm cv'QM,"eiT" lULLI high-price- REAL Rupture Soft, washable bate. i material give true comfort, provide No aprm strong support. or leather. Haa brought comfortable relief to thou sands. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for free folder Write today: Wrestling Is Steady y. ' i: r rf'! t ..l..M- NEW BILLS FOR OLD . . . Rep. Frank L. Sundstrom (Rep., N. J.) h? submitted a bill calling for issuance of a new series of U. S. paper currency and cancellation and destruction of all existing paper bills. 'I I 1 i " K If r. i W WEB TRUSS CO. DepL , i , . . ' " S- - smarting skin, ys easeandred,hasten return of . comfort, use dependable RESINOUS JUtf A DASH IN WNU - ft ATHtR It will be Interesting to see which teams and which leagues sign up football's leading college stars of 1947. TP I'rras, was reported to be object of the affections of Margaret Tro-ma- n. dauelitor of the President. Said Handy: "If there Is any announcement It will have to come from Marg.irrt." Including afl bowl and games played, the seres leading back of the year were Johnny La-laof Notre Dame, Bab Chappats of Mirhifsn, Bobby Layne f Texas, Ray Evans of Kansas, Charley Con-rrt- y af Mississippi, Doak Walker of VM U. and Harry Gilmer of Ala- post-seaso- n I rk HIS OWN HANDICAP . . . Maimfd war vetrran at Vanghan hospital in Chicago watch with new hope as Walter who lost a leg when he was a child, gives amazing demonstration of high jumping. "If I can do it. so can yon," Haskovirh told the disabled vrts. Show was presented by t'nlversily of Chirac; to illustrate bow dctertninalioa can overcome hani aps. IIIRDLES Ras-kovi- rh, acra-theat- er Dams. j c ' "A4 0843 W lf Ml VJ Lining Up the Stars - TO MAROARET . . . Frank G. Handy, son of G. C. Handy, publisher of the Ypltanti, Mlrh., Mi Hagsfstowit; Rash V) Diaper To cleanse tender parts, ' - I H JLiJlLl J .. What about the wrestlers? Some active says that Camera will collect around $250,000 for a year's activity. This may be too high. But wrestlers do better than many people know about. It might be remembered that u wrestler can operate five nights a week in a rush period. Boxing champions must settle for two or three performances a yeas. Jimmy Londos told me once that he made as much as $20,000 a week. Londos was then an incredible operator, also a very highly intelligent human being. L The only true answer to this sal matter In sport must take in the ary BIG JIM MEETS HIS MATCH . . . James E. "Big Jim" Folsom. number who average the highest governor of Alabama with aspirations toward the presidency, found best pay over the years. m man his size when he entered the conference room for the clo&ed My answer here would be base session of the southern governors' conference. He was surpassed In where so many thousands are ball, physique by C'apt. Reid Cliftnn of the Florida highway patrol, whose In so many leagues. There involved S 305 pounds and feet 6 Inches overshadowed the Alabama governor's not be so many Roths, Fellers, may 250 pounds and 6 feet 8 Inches. r WilDIMaggloa Greenbrrgs, liams, bat there are more than 40t big leaguers who can knock (T from 17.500 to $15,000 a higher average for a greater number. t ...! Pro football can almost match this payroll with the two leagues reaching for a rival windpipe. The football players get all the money. and it will be this way until two strong leagues can play at peace Which reminds us, we almost for got the jockeys. How about Eddie Arcaro, Johnny Longden and a few more? All they have is around million dollars each. You know $100,000 a year is no big overlay. fact-find- 'i d boriously count the number of bites. Franklin is a laboratory technician for a local chemical company. The process is a test of the power of mosquito repcllants. MEN Electrical Engineers with col field work in laboratory lege degree for trucK. bingie men preierrea. Apply P.O. BOX 1210 Casper, Wyoming 0. CANAL ZONE GETS JETS . . . U. S. air force's 36th fighter group, one of the defense units for the Panama Canal zone, has completed 0 its conversion from the wartime 7 aircraft to are shown en route to their home station, Shooting Stars. These Howard air force base in the canal cone, where they will become an Integral part of the canal's defense system. When the library When he finds a hungry community of mosquitoes, he covers his arm with Insecticide and thrusts it in again, giving the insects another opportunity for a vicious bite on his arm. Once again he must la- HELP WANTED WANTED: grown Peaches, Apples, Pears, Prunes, Apricots, Cherries, Walnut trees What about the pro golfers? A Plums, grow best in your climate. Vining and Cane Berries, Strawberries. 700 Varieties, Hogan, Nelson, Demaret or Locke send for 48 page catalog. Agents Wanted. can make from $25,000 to $30,000 a Tualatin Valley Nurseries, Sherwood, Ore. year, but there are not many of these. Only a few stars. Most of the WANTED TO BUY others are underpaid, but it happens WE BUT AND SELL Typewriters, Add to be the stars who draw the Office Furniture, Files,casn bales, ing Machines, itegisters. SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE crowds. 613 South State SC. Salt Lake City. Utah with Golf compares favorably football for the few who must work over 200 days a year to top $20,-00The average pro golfer on tour doesn't make $5,000. Club golfers who are also instructors can do 1A.S-ScwinqA. Bond&- much better. than also last longer Ballplayers football players, although such vet JhsL (BqaL QnvsudmsnL erans as Sammy Baugh, Sid Luck- man, Bulldog Turner and Mel Hein can hang around for better than 10 or 12 years. They are the unbreak- ables. Joe Louis can pick up more money in one fight than any base. ball or football player can earn m a tt big part of his career. The outdoor Jamboree should play to at least a million-dolla- r MO CRISP gate. It will be an interesting fight and psychological along physical lines. 40 Louis gets per cent of the take. This means around $400,000, from Get Well which his manager takes his cut. whatever it is. In any event, at least $250,000 comes to Louis. The only From Ymur Couth kink here is that your Uncle Sam, a Cold Ou losing no time at all, lops off around 75 or 80 per cent. O Couch Compound The morbid facts are that the same collector doesn't leave Feller, d Williams and other play. era enough to start a bragging de Relief D Widowed Mother tower chimes at Cornell university peeled forth their congratulations to mid-yea- r graduates, Jonathan Hartwell Harwood III, aged 4, near burst with pride. Among the young women in aca demic robes was his mother, Vir ginia Oake Harwood. Few fellows have the privilege of seeing their mothers graduate from college. Jonny doesn't know it, but he was the chief reason why his mother finished her course in the college of home economics. Jonny's father fought in the invasion of Normandy June 6, 1944; and be never came back. Jonny's dad graduated from Cor nell, too in 1942. And his mother. whose parents live in Lockport, N. Y., left school in her sophomore year to marry him. They didn't have much time together just a couple of summers while dad was training at Fort Bragg. Then he was sent to England to train as a Ranger and was made a captain. . . . Then came "People thought I was crazy when I decided to take my son to Ithaca with me in the fall of 1945 and continue col lege," Mrs. Harwood admits. "May' be I was a little crazy. But I had to have something to do something to occupy my time and my mind. I could be a better mother to Jonny. I felt, if I graduated from college and was prepared to earn my living." The pension and insurance money made it possible for them to rent a small Ithaca apartment and live in modest comfort. And Jonny went to Cornell, too. Jonny attended the college's nursery school. He also will be graduated this year from nursery school to kindergarten. same u1 a chunk of cash lor Stars Lure Croivds ri1 . . . Earl O. Shreve, president of the U. S. chamber of commerce, put himself on record as endorsing the Marshall plan, but stipulated that it be backed up with "hard-heade- d business experience" and economy in government at home. HARD-HEADE- Stung Daily Dut It's His Living Harold J. Frank-li- n gets stung several times a day but he makes his living by doing it Franklin's job entails thrusting his arm into a cage filled with 3,000 After a minute he mosquitoes. withdraws his arm and counts the bites. If they total about CO, well and good. If not, he repeats the process in another cage until he can get the required number of bites. BALTIMORE. v Proud Son Sees ITHACA, M. Y. ' l.r. long-delaye- d Gets r War Vets Respond To Call for Blood Believed to be the only qualified lightkeeper of her sex in the nation, Mrs. Salter retired from a job she has held for 23 years. She Sale of Loafing Space took charge of the Turkey Point tower on February 11. 1925, under To Restore Old Plaza appointment by Calvin Coolidge. N. M. AppealALBUQUERQUE. She succeeded her husband, who ing to the weaker side of man, Alhad been the keeper for three years buquerque Historical society offered before his death. loafing privileges in the plaza in On sick leave since last Septemreturn for donations in a drive for exwoman tender the ber, light funds to restore the old town plaza. tower the has Results were good, officials of the plains that "climbing given me fallen arches." society report. Although she has no definite plans The scale ran: For $8.55, one for the future, Mrs. Salter, who is square foot of loafing space; for $10, in her 60s, Insists that she will re- plain and fancy loafing anywhere; main near the water. Her Immedi- for $17.10, loafing privileges with ate plans are to "just rest and catch frills; for $25, your child's footprint visits with rela- in concrete, and for $50, your own up on tives." footprint. lie la 1 PLANTING FORESTS BY AIR . . '. Forests are being planted by helicopter now. First Job of this kind was undertaken recently by a west coast paper manufacturing company when 2,640 acres of the company's tree farms in Washington and Oregon were seeded from the air with five species of native forest trees. iFor Boat Contest Materials ATLANTA, GA. For 24 veterans of battlefields extending from Luzon to St. Lo, the call for blood was enough. Many of them gratefully remembered that their ewn lives had been saved by blood plasma during the war, and here was Lawson veterans' hospital appealing for blood donors. All 24, with Purple Hearts shining on their jackets, lined np at the hospital to give blood. NOBODY BUYS MORE PAYS MORE! ... OR 20 ! $1 is the immediate objective of many of the quarter million youngsters who are members ofof or affiliated with Boys' Clubs America. This organization and Eveready Battery comof the nationpany are wide contest. If the "skipper" qualifies lo-- 1 cally, his next aim is to survive regional eliminations so he can race his speedboat in the Reflecting Pool at Washington April 10 and 11 for final honors. The national contest is dated to coincide with annual observance of Boys' Club Week. The contest is limited to boys linger 16, all of whom are supplied with working drawings of model types. The model boat was designed by Douglas Rolfe, who also will serve as one of the judges of the national finals. Instructions covering length, weight and detail- - gov-er- n all series. Hulls must be completed and water speed tests certified to national headquarters on or before March 13. Builders of the best boats locally will receive awards of tiny, electric motors and a supply of flashlight batteries. ' Winners in the seven Boys' Club regions of the U. S. will receive regional Skipper's cups. In the national finals in Washington the seven boys who score top time trials, regardless of region, will compete before U. S. and foreign celebrities under the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. Judges will Include Guy Lombardo, band leader and speedboat n champion; Bill Stern and other sports figures. Former President Hoover is serving as honorary chairman of the national commit- USED CARS & INVEST. OPPOR. mating $20,000 a BUSINESS FOB SALE CAFE Tripyear. Charley One of best spots hi Rapid City. So. Dak. P1 drew down just inqmra vus main er raone 1234. Dutcher of Arlington, Va., is new national president of the Gold Star Wives of America. 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