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Show V I THU! PTPH miTKTV REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH States In These United Little Town in Kansas I Oberammergau of Plains Sunday, April 14, and again on of pilgrims will come to thousands 21, of the Plains, to pay their homage Lindsborg, Oberammergau to The Messiah, just as they have done for the past 64 years, since 1882. So much a tradition has it become that pilgrimages from all parts ofjthe Middle West are made each Easter season to hear the inspired singing of villagers and town folk in Prosser hall, Bethany college. ' LINDSBORG, KAN.r-O- n'' Easter Sunday, April Messiah Handels has been' sung 181 times by the Bethany college oratorio society and will be sung the 182nd time on Palm Sun- -' P-8-0 day and the 183rd time on Easter Sunday. The chorus of 500 voices and orchestra of 65 pieces will be directed by Dr. Hagbard Brase, who has been the conductor since 1915. SABETHA, KANS. Its one It was the Rev. Olaf Olsson, a thing to read about the 0 Shootlover of music, who organized the ing Star airplane and quite anfirst choir in Lindsborg. Later, another to hear one, not be able to other Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Carl see it, and then have one of its Aaron Swenson, gathered an enthufuel tanks come hurtling down siastic group in the Bethany Lufrom the sky and land near you. theran church for a rehearsal under Ask Otho L. Johnstone; he can direction of his wife. That was tell you! in January, 1882, and the first MesAt first Mr. Johnstone was puzsiah was sung the following Easter zled by the sound of the jet Sunday. plane, for it did not sound lie At first, most of the singers were the ordinary planes which fly over farmers, but they all loved music. , Kansas all the time. Unable to see Through the bitter Kansas winter the plane, he picked out the location of the sound, thinking a the singers came in sleds and lumber wagons to the rehearsals. flyer was in trouble. There were many trying times, but Just then he saw an object come the people remained deeply spirit--' hurtling down, end over end. It ual. The Messiah became their landed farther from him than he religion, their faith. And so it has expected, fortunately, and he went remained from generation to genover to inspect it. Made of alumieration. num, it was about 12 feet long and The Lindsborg Messiah had had been crushed on one end by made possible the appearances the fall, but not broken. There was here of celebrated artists. The first about a gallon of fuel left in it. one was Madame Nordica. After her Two of the fuel tanks were recital the Bethany male chorus found in this area. First to report one was Albert. Holthaus, who pulled her carriage to the local railroad station. Since that time Hem-pe- l, lives near Maple Shade school. Since the tanks were just alike, it Elman, Schumann-Heinand many others have is possible that both came from Lindsborg audiences with the same plane. They are auxilitheir solo parts in The Messiah. ary tanks which can be dropped from the plane when the fuel in them isv depleted. rrT , Kansan Watches Fuel Tank Fall Near Farm P-8- . high-altitu- Gal-li-Cur- k, ci, ed de ANNUAL MESSIAH . . . For 64 years the singing of Handels Messiah by the Bethany College Oratorio society has been an annual 'event at Lindsborg, Kan. The 182nd rendition this year will be given on Sunday, April 14, and the 183rd on Easter Sunday, April 21. Dr. Hagbard Brase, who has been the conductor since 1915, will again direct the chorus of 509 voices and orchestra of 65 pieces. Oldsters, Aged 80 to 100, Life may begin at 40, but the centenarians are crowding into the news all over the world. They just wont take a back seat for youngsters any more! Medical science is saying that longevity is increasing, and the news columns bear it out. . Recently a shuffleboard touma-mewas held at Daytona Beach, Fla., for octogenarians. Sixteen players, with their ages accounting for 1,367 years of living, competed. All were over 80 years old. At Caribou, Maine, Jeremiah Campbellton, who will be 107 years old next August, is again fit as a fiddle after falling down a flight of nt stairs at his daughters home NEW TEXAN . . . Johnny Cam- spoms- of the 36th combat infantry, is shown trying on a pair of boots at Waxahachie, Texas. His benefactor is Claren (Curley) Thompson. - four-whe- el Over 200 Officers, Sergeant Left One TURNER FIELD, GA. Few for- mer privates will sympathize with this sergeant, but theyd probably like to see him wear his arm out saluting the officers. The strength at Turner field, which is near Albany, has been reduced to one sergeant major and between 200 and 300 officers! The officers, a civilian staff, and the lonely sergeant keep 550 aire basis. planes on a Incidentally, many of the civilian employes are former servicemen. flyable-storag- -- es . GI Joe (Pony) Is Sold for $20,000 CHICAGO. The price of G.I. Joe has been zooming the last few months. Now hes worth $20,000. Joe is a Shetland pony who e high of $13,500 brought an at the Chicago Coliseum horse show last November. Recently an Indianapolis business man who bought Joe in Chicago sold him to J. L. Valley View farm, Barrington for $20,000. The pony, greatest of his breed in ring competition in the last 10 years, cost an Industry, 111., man $1,500.-- He sold Joe for $10,000 at the show to a Springfield buyer and H. Leslie Atlass of Wheaton. They in turn sold him to the Indianapolis man. all-tim- Young-husban- . , . 4 d, re- cently. From Moorland, Ind., comes a report of a blind man, 99 years old, who operates a farm alone. He is David Rhoades, who guides himself to the carpenter shop, bam and garden by kinky hay wires which he has strung up. I like to be kinda independent, he says, blinded for the past 16 years. Just Like a Woman! Exercising her womanly prerogaJeeps Conquer Mud tive, Miss Siobella Shepherd of Rhud-dla- n in Flintshire, England, ifisists For Rural Carriers that she is only 106 years old. But outside Miss pension officials say When it comes Shepherds hearing JASPER, GA. she' is realthat to good old Georgia mud, Pickens 112. ly county is an unwilling claimant to The Rev. Theodore B. Farry, the state championship. But two totally recently spoke at the rural mail carriers have solved the Joplin, deaf, Mo., First Methodist church mud problem and up to now have on the eve of' his 100 th birthday. been making their trips on almost His subject was A Clean Life as mid - summer schedules. Jeeps by Daniel. turned the trick for the carriers, Exemplified In Ore., modem maWarrenton, W. J. Hamrick and R. E. Williams. downfall of Clarthe proved chinery On only one occasion were they ence who died from autoOHoyt, h doubtful, and that was after a mobile at 102. After being rain had fallen with the mud struck injuries he battled down, however, worse than ever. But the jeeps took for 10 days before giving up. grimly them through. news carries its Each Hamrick had a premonition of a stories ofdays older people who have bad winter, so he. purchased a jeep found that or 90, or even 100 80, in December to serve the patrons not so unusual today as it on Talking Rock Route 1. Early, in years is few was a decades ago. 1 January, Jasper Route got so bad that Williams could not get through with his regular car. So he hired Hamrick to drive him around in the jeep. One trip was enough to con-- , All Daseball Teams vince Williams that jeeping it was the right way to beat Pickens county To Oe 1946 Champs, mud. Throughout the winter the jeeps, Predictions Show with their drive, have been able to travel over every road in the county. And so far neither By Steve Edwards WNU Sports snow, nor rain, nor heat nor night (nor mud) stays these couriers from Theyre all pennant winners and swift completion of their appointed worlds the champions this year rounds. Browns, Cubs, Cards, Tigers, Rural carriers, who have long Yankees, Braves and all the rest. held that the mail must go Anyway, thats what the managers thus found a peacehave through, and players are talking now. time use for the reliable jeep which Charlie Grimm declares the Chiwon so many laurels in war. cago Cubs have the pennant spirit again. He declares hes never seen a bunch of more hustling, aggressive, competitive players than the Cubs are in practice. Mort Cooper of the Boston-Bravsays his wing is in great shape after having 10 bone chips removed from the right elbow. Feels the best it has in five years, he declares. In fjact, the Braves are said to look like a fast, cocky crew in their warm-u- p games. The Philadelphia Nationals have a few predictions too. Were cornin up out of the cellar, Manager Ben Chapman avers. He expects Frank McCormick, his first baseman from Cincinnati, to clout around 20 home-run- s. He figures Jim Tabor, his third baseman frofti the Boston Red Sox, for another 15, and Ron Northy, his right fielder, and Vince Di Maggio, STILL WORKING Mrs. center fielder, for from 15 to 20 Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman homeruns apiece. to be chief executive of a state Naturally, the St. Louis Browns exshe was governor of Wyoming at pect another good year, and the Cardinals are pretty sure of one. James one time is now director of the J. Dykes, manager of the Chicago U. S. mint. She is shown with Edwin H. Dressel, superintendent of White Sox, has. a string of 66 athletes (he says), including pitchers, the Philadelphia mint, as they exwhich will make his outfit a foramine the plaster casts of the new midable ana Roosevelt dime. two-inc- era, Italian war orphan, mascot ... the World Over Make Hews On Broadway Faces About Town: Van Johnson having his sox and undies selected for him (at Abercrombie & Fitch) by his Baby Dalya. . . . Linda Dar-- . nell buying a movie mag at 50tb for and Broadway, the whistle-sto- p wolves. Singapore Sal (at Leon & Eddies) admitting to H. Cushing III, that her name is Jane Bishop and that she once was Jane Katharine Cornell airGale, ing her pooches along Vth Ave. . . . Barbara Hutton dining in the Hapsburg with County Czernin. . . . Russian Princess Stephanie Dorow-sstrolling through Rumpelmay-ers- . Shes in her 70s, but you can see traces of her girlish beauty. . . . Fio LaGuardia reading a Broadway colm while waiting his turn on the Garden rostrum during the FEPC rally. ... ... - ki The Word Weavers: Raymond summed up Churchills Swing speegh (via his microphone) with this: The essence of what he proposes is division, not unity. . . . Mr. Ickes whittled some well sharp- ened opinions around the Chicago Round Table. He admonished that the first step in preventing another is for Americans global blood-bat- h to solve their own puzzles. . . . One commentator noted that the solons who voted against the war vets' are treating housing program heroes like hoboes. . . . Averell Harrimans radioratory fell easy on the ears. Communism, he said, is not a threat, but a challenge STINSON VOYAGER 150 IS and the best way to meet that NOW ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE challenge is to improve our democe Production of the Voyracy. . . . Evidence that surveyager 150 has begun at the Stinson ors . of radio listening are pretty factory, Wayne, Michigan. Exhaus- close: The new Hooper lists this tive tests, including hundreds of Sunday-nightat 19.3. . . . The hours of cross country flying, were Crossley puts it at 19.2. given the plane by experienced Aviation notes four-plac- er pilots. The Cinemagicians: Good to the Among the performance tests given the Voyager 150 prototype was last tear-droSentimental Jour-for high altitude operations in the ney is a misty-eye- d opus that goes mountains in Coloradp. over with a sigh. Lovely Maureen Rocky These tests were made at Creede, OHara heads, the . Shock is another shivery Colo., where the airport is 8,700 which peppers the spine feet above sea level, .the highest CAA designated field in the United with tingles. Edward G. Robinhis talent to a BritStates. In repeated takeoffs carry- son r: ing a capacity load of four passen- ish Journey Togeth--. p, ticker-tugger- s. orb-popp- er ... lend-leas- ed pulse-hoppe- . . ..The No-gers, the Voyager was always air- er. A meller-dille- r. borne in less than 1,350 feet. torious Lone Wolf is a Powered by a 150 horse-pow. . . Riverboat Franklin engine, the postwar Voy- Rhythm has one or two juke-abl- e ager cruises at 125 miles an hour lilts, but most of it is a rhapsody in and has a range of 500 miles. blah. You Cant Do Without Love is a worse advertisement for Will Rogers Field love than Reno. Will Rogers field at ' Oklahoma City has been chosen as the location for several important CAA The Fannies: Speaking of draactivities. Among the units to be matic critics, as some of us have moved there are the standardization all week, one of them was asked center; general aircraft mainte- what he thawt of a new play. . . . nance base for the midwest; and Very refreshing, he said. . . . the signals division school. Will Thats swell, responded one of the You really found .it reRogers field was chosen because of authors. its convenient geographical location, freshing? . . . Yes, said tne regood airfield facilities, excellent fly- viewer, I felt like a new man when ing weather and availability for cen- I woke up! tralization of all CAA training activities, T. P. Wright, CAA administraCritics usually have the last word tor, stated. and the last laugh. But there have been times when have flattened their belittlers. . . . Some years ago a player was roasts ed by a Philadelphia play reporter. He promptly called him and snapped: How do you expect to hurt me with your review' when ' y- s your whole paper couldnt hurt S Roosevelt? er , ... make-believe- rs V-- Quotation Marksmanship: I. Morais: He goes around with a y look in his eyes. . . . Disraeli: The defects of great men are the consolation of dunces.' . . . D. L. Moody: Character is what I. Elin-soyou are in the dark. I spell it ArgenTNTina. . . . Rex Stout: She opened her handbag and dug into it like a terrier. . . . John Moore: A bee was busily far-awa- ... F The Ercoupe was recently declared one of the safest planes to fly because it is certified incapable of spinning by the CAA. SPIN-PROO- Advocates, Folding Wings Folding wings in personal planes would save airplane owners $150 or more a year in storage charges and. at the same time increase the airfield owners income, John H. Geisse, assistant to the administrator for personal flying equipment, CAA, recently stated. With foldingwing planes, the cost of hangar construction per plane would be cut or more, Geisse believes, and the number of planes which could be accommodated at a small airfield greatly increased. two-thir- ds ... ... A childs My memory is the thing forget with. . . . P. Brito: How scolding definition: I a flower. n: about calling it Hunter UNOversity? . . .. Anon: Ignorance and Intelligence both start with I. . . . G. Drake: Of course time flies. You would, too, if someone was trying to kill you. . . . Anon: Experience makes a man wiser but leaves a woman a complete wreck. The producer of a flop once buttonBob Benchley and deWho do you think you manded: -holed Luscombe Silvaire in Service Jimmy ONeill, former vet and now manager of the Fair Haven, Vt., airport, recently flew a Luscombe Silvaire from Texas to place it on display at his field. H in Jtaking off, your ears jop, are? Benchley quietly replied: I am a critic. Which means that like every man and woman I can express an opinion. The difference is that I express my opinions publicly and get paid for it. |