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Show LAYTON JOURNAL, LAYTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 950 BILLBOARDS spepirscrxniPE MAHONEY Road Safety Fight Started By INEZ GERHARD No Wasted Time THE CORNER PLUG STORE whoe Barbara stanwyck, Is "Thelma JorARE to team with is dan," up going Robert Slodmark, its director, to do something which should have been done long ago. They will film the worlds greatest short stories, In featurettes that will run One of the hardest things an avid hunter or fisherman has to face is the lack of activity engendered by WE TO HAVE "horse and comer Mayor ODwyer of New York says the police and taxpayers are left in the stretch in the contest with bookies and that the only answer to the American gambling mania is the state operated "Hunch-enette- " onto which a man may walk and make a bet openly. "plug-stores"- ? bad weather or Improper atream conditions. After the turn of the year, when January crawls by with maddening slowness, February Is speculated upon only dimly and March and April seem so far away as to be entirely visionary, the sportsman is hard put to find anything to interest him or anything to occupy his time. It seems an interminable wait between monthly issues of the outdoor magazine. Tackle and equipment manufacturers havent issued their alluring new catalogues yet and it seems there is absolutely nothing to do. But there is, for here is the opportunity and the time if properly when the sportsman employed Ilia position Is that you can't take away a man's determina- tion to lose money on wrong Information, and that the state might as well take Its cut, to the relief of taxpayers. Civic morals and high standards of character are all right, hizzon-e- r seems to believe, but they break too slowly and seem never In shape for distance events. BARBARA STANWYCK about 23 minutes. "Some of Holly wood's top stars are interested in appearing in them," said "as an experiment in hand roles ling vastly different from the assignments they get In feature films." Some of the worlds best literature is In the short story form; filmed as they should be, as shorts, they can substitute for a second feature on double bills. Slod-mar- NBC Hollywood reported heaviest advance ticket k, Bookies outnumber the police. Before a cop gets one of 'em to the station house the customers have located another through a A raid merely platoon system. gives a horse player a hunch on some skinner named 'The Fincher or "Rockplle." p SPORTLIGHT- Hungry Prizefighters Are too Few -- Judges, prosecutors, police, politicians, city officials, businessmen, professors and people In all walks of life play the ponies all over the land In tremendous numbers. As a cop tosses horse player Into the Is apt to snarl, "Ya he pokey bum, It took me so long to get yon here Im an hour behind In my handicapping." that its request for the Bob Hope show was for Feb. 7, when Fred Allen was booked as guest star. Its rumored that Allen may return to the air on NBC in the fall. The prestige attached to appearing on "Theatre Guild of the Air" waa too great for Eslo Pima to resist, although he had never been heard In a radio drama. Possibly the combination of "Goodbye Again," that delightful play, and Madeline was what won Carroll as him ever. Certainly he does well as an actor In "South Pacific," with Mary Martin. co-st-ar Judy Canova has a rule against having guests on her radio show. But she had to break down and Invite "Hopalong Cassidy" to appear because of his new agents request The "new agent" is Tweeny Canova. five-year-o- ld Monogram will release "Mystery at the Burlesque," most of which was filmed in Londons famous Windmill Theatre, with members of its staff and company. Many servicemen who were stationed in London know the theatre, which became famous during the war years by never closing a performance despite the blitz. Six musical numbers t highlight the film. The crew of the Jimmy Durante Show cooked up quite a welcome for his return to the Hollywood NBC studios recently. One by one the cast appeared with large false noses. Durante tried one on himself it was too small! . Pauline Drake, the "Miss Duffy" of "Duffys Tavern," Is In the peculiar position of not knowing what her next motion picture will be, although It has been filmed. Once called "The Big Cage," then "Locked In," It may be changed again. . .... ... T "The foreign ODDS AND ENDS . . . Elizabeth policy of the United States is determined not on the screen in a Taylor appears by what the state departbathing suit for the first time In merely the President or even the "A Place In the Sun . . . Basil ment, says, but reflects the Ruysdael, the radio announcer, has congress a key role in RKOs "Carriage En- sum total of the activities, thoughts speech of the American people." trance" dean of a medical school and -- Dean Acheson. where Robert Mitchum does reWanna bet? search . . . Rex Koury, CBS "Stars Miami puts on a super air show every winter. But even this doesnt make many folks take their eyes off the beaches. IMPROVISED SAWRUCK TO MAKE IMPROVISED SAWBUCK, DRIVE FOUR MEDIUM-SIZE- D SAPLINGS SHARPENED ATONE EN& AT AN ANGLE RICE- - The old Manassa Mauler is still In fine health. He Isnt so old at that. He moves along with a stride and usually looks to be in a hurry. He Is still reffree-swingi- ereeing wrestling and boxing matches and keeping busy one way or another. What a harvest a Dempsey could reap today as much as he wanted to carry away. Looking Back at Somo Bowls This column feels that millions bet on horses because they love to be furtive. Once they walk Into a Grantland Rice y have deucelette" and make a bet with killed off the smallno trouble, they may decide something is making it so easy there er clubs today. There is no place tor the street fighter to go, since must be a catch In it he isnt ready for the bigger clubs. "I dont think," Jack said Shudda Haddlm, the Egyptian "that you end I are going to "1 more got plunger, says, see another good heavyweight. bookmakers around me than It will be many years before relatives. They get on my another good one comes along. nerves. But I dunno about open eeem to be getting worse They ar betting parlors openly In place of getting better. rived at. If they set 'em np "When 1 came up there were a they should put a tree Inside lot of little clubs where you could each one so a horse player can tight for $10 of less. But you kept sneak behind It to make a bet learning something. There were a and feel natural. lot of fellows around then who could either box or punch. In one "And the state has gotta train the help to develope a larcenous fight I was knocked down nine expression and talk out the side times before I won. There are not 3f their mugs. It won't be no fun enough fellows who are hungry tor me risking my dough with some today. Most of them can pick up government clerk with an honest $80 to $90 a week. You cant go hungry on that. I couldnt tell you tace. Habit Is habit how many times I never had a dol"Also, if the state goes ahead lar or even a half dollar. And with the idea, they should put In there were no good jobs around. easy chairs, sofas, soft drinks, A hungry fighter will fight twice tandwlches and video broadcasts as hard as one well fed. "The middleweight crop Is bf speeches by high turf officials good." Jack continued. "They tellin how they hate gambling and should get some action from wanna anly Improve the breed. L&Motta, Graziano, Villemaln, Didja see what happened the day Robinson and several others. the cops drove the bookies across This Is a pretty fair division. die river? A skinner named JerBut when you talk about heavywon at Tropical in sey Bounce weights you are seemingly talktelephone numbers! And I let It ing about an entirely differgo!" ent group of fighters. They wont vont and train they CAN YOU REMEMBER? learn. They get punch drunk Away back when a new autobefore they learn how to fight. mobile model never came out beIts a funny situation. There fore you had finished a demonstrattre supposed to be 2,500,000,000 ion In the old one? people In the world. If there were Just one good heavy"Win swop canned goods, weight in this bnnch of people amoked meats and fish, prehe could make $1,000,000 easy. serves, etc., for buttons, But there Isn't a heavyweight pressed glass, pins, postcards, tighter not a good one In the bath towels, sachet bags, two lot. Joe Louis Is too old and warm sleeping gowns and pair Ezzard Charles Is too small of eiderdown bed jackets. and too careful." J404" Yankee Magazine. Thats a pretty rigid change In diet, if you ask us. co-sta- rs , GRANTLAND place for nice people. The real fighter Is a street fighter because he likes to fight. He likes brawls. From the street he moves to some small boxing club and if he is good, he begins to always win easily and unextended. When Ronald Reagan went to work in his first movie since he broke his leg in a charity baseball game some months ago he was surrounded by so many cheering fans that he couldnt start until THE REAL NEWS NEWSREEL hed signed hundreds of autograph Rodgers end Uammerstein say there books. It happened at Corona, ii nothing wrong with the theater and if we had their bits we would be even Calif., where Reagan and his Ginger Rogers, Doris Day more positive . . . Fortitude of the and Steve Cochran were doing a Year: Grace George going on with street scene for "Storm Center." The Velvet Glove a few hours after he funeral of her husband, Bill Brady Porter service is so disgracefully in with a public Appear popular movie star and the autograph fans had at Grand Central that its a black is common for will demand your signature. Just eye to the city . on the chance that you may be e train tyth thousands of passengers somebody of note. The RKO press to arrive and not be met by one red agent, . Melrose Gower, who es- tap I . A man 1 02 years old in corted Jane Russell around Chi- Gotham says he is the original lesse cago finally began signing an il- fames and has witnesses to prove it legible scrawl in order to escape. . . . Aw, take your place in line tvitb Later he confessed that he had the rest of us, mister! . . . Cole Brothers f circus has been sold. simply scribbled "Iamnobody. over Hollywood" conductor, has never seen the show; he leads the orchestra In one studio, the actors use another . , . Steve Cochran nursed a black eye after a slapping scene with Gin per Rovers. By TACK DEMPSEY was talking e about the fight game which he now figures is rapidly going to seed and weed. "In the first place," Dempsey said, "the game, so far as the contestants are concerned, Is only for roughnecks, for tough young fellows. It has no Ben Grauer, whose first film for Right or wrong, horse betting Is the U.S. Bureau of Census will be dose to a national pastime. It is used to prepare census takers for the contention we should mayors the work that begins April l..has face facts. And concede that they films. completed two additional His first training film was reviewed in Washington by the Bureau's top executives, who requested supple mentary films to present other aspects of census-takin- - These periods present the oik portunity, too, to clean that gun which has been neglected. can take steps that will insure him many happier hours afield or on the stream. During the long evenings there is time to get rods and reels in order and to check lines, go over the tackle box and fly book to determine the need for new lures, and, in general, plan the coming seasons campaign. These periods present the opportunity, too, to clean that gun which has been neglected, to chart future trips afield as the open seasons wane and to get special shooting equipment in shape for early spring forays after "varmints." It is an old adage that acquiring new equipment Is a major factor in the enjoyment a man gets from hunting and fishing and there is an almost equally great satisfaction in keeping that equipment in good operating condition. To the sportsman, there are few exasperations that can match that of a reel breaking down on a fishing trip, a ferrule loosing on a fly rod, or a casting line breaking just when a good fish is These are some of the things that can be prevented by the sportsman who gainfully occupies the months by seeing that his equipment is maintained in the best possible conditions. Taking a fairly long look forward, it was Bud Wilkinsons Oklahoma Sooners who proved to be the top of all bowl entries. Oklahoma deserved equal rating with Notre Dame and Army this last fall and crushing L.S.U., 35 to 0, confirmed Its high ranking promotion. For after all. L.S.U. had whipped North Carolina, Rice and Tulane, three conference champions. Oklahoma starts 1950 with 21 straight. But the Sooners lose more than a few stars, Including some high grade backs and star linemen, so Wilkinson can hardly expect to keep hla 1949 pace. Just when the West coast Is going to break up Midwest domination Is anybodys hazy guess. It will be Interesting to see whether the Big Ten and the Far West will renew contract on the fading the same basis. It Is well known that the Far West wants only the two champions to meet every year. The Big Ten still wants the three-yea- r clause Inserted. The contract has another year to run. One of the original ideas of the Big Ten entry into the bowl list was to prevent the South from cleaning up at the Rose Bowl year after year. This Idea failed to work on New Years day when North Game laws are made to protect your Carolina. L.S.U., Rice and Ken- Property. Respect and obey them as tucky all took away large bags every good citizen does. packed with gold. North Carolina carried home over $120,000. Ohio State and California got little mon- Firebug Facts Here are some pointers for the ey comparatively. I inveterate "firebug" who isnt happy unless he can start a forest fire The Giants of 1950 somewhere: Being a smart baseball man. Before going into the woods, be Leo Durocher Is Indulging himself should notify the nearest forest in no idle dreams about his pitchranger of the address of his next of ing selection for the next world kin in case he gets trapped in his series. Not with the Dodgers, own fire. Cardinals, Phillies and Braves barHe should tell millions of duck ring the road. hunters to stay home and shoot at "We've lost a little of our punch,' cans and bottles, for waterfowl Leo says, "but after all. the Giants won't nest and breed in. foodless, were not so hot when they were mudholes. breaking all past home run recHe should tell the fishermen, too, ords. WeU have a much stronger that he is doing his best to shrivel defense." their bass streams to dust. He should notify all citizens hoping to have new homes soon that he is burning up their lumber supBy Harold Arnett ply, so they might as well be prepared to wait awhile longer. He should tell resort owners to seek some other business, as he's intent upon destroying theirs by burning up the woods and forests that attract the vacationers. . And, last, he should make a will, bequeathing to posterity and his own children, blackened hillsides, disemboweled farmlands, devastating floods and a wildlife blackfive-ye- ar well-hooke- dead-of-win-t- AAA AAA fire-scarre- d out. These come recommendations from one who has had long experience with the "firebug" type of outdoorsman. They were written by Richard H. D. Boerker, retired Missouri forester ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A LOG AS INDICATED AND TIE WHERE THEY CROSS. AAA THANKS KKK. NtWPOfVt KY. A Lake Trout SHARMNtD HAMMER STUNT TO START NAIL IN HIGH J er WORK, PLACE NAIL IN CLAWS OF HAMMER AS INDICATED AND PUSH INTO WOOD THEN DISENGAGE CLAWS. AND HAMMER IN. Lake trout is the fresh water fish that is most like "deep sea" fish. They have a desire for the deeper waters of the lake and thus taking them has some similarity to the fishing necessitated by those fishing in salt water. There are a few weeks each spring and fall when the lake trout will take surface lures, but the opposite is generally the rule. A salmon spoon is a good lure (or lake long-lin- e trout WASHINGTON. The sporadic war against the nations billboards by Americas nature lovers and others is about to get underway again. It will be sparked by the American Automobile association, with 10 million members, which has decided to launch once again the campaign it dropped when the war started and, once again, outdoor advertising Interests are rallying to buck it. The National Roadside council, one of the oldest organizations in the fight, Is gathering new ammunition through highway surveys. Originally the fight of the groups was just against billboards. Now, billboards are seldom mentioned. The new line is to work for general roadside protection and improvement to promote motoring safety, highway efficiency and to protect property values as well as save the scenery. This is the general theme of the AAA program which seeks adoption by all states of highway zoning plans. Formidable Foes One reason for this is that the outdoor advertising people have put up such a consistently successful fight against any curbs on their business that they are recognized as formidable antagonists. The U. S. public roads administration is taking no part in the contest, although it is providing billions of dollars to help finance the states construction of the national highway network. The viewpoint of the public roads administration is that it has no legal right to insist that states pass legislation designed to restrict outdoor advertising in order to get Federal road aid. The research staff of the public roads administration, however, has provided state highway officials with facts about highway reading matter. One of the research chiefs, David R. Levin, recently reported these sample statistics: (D On U .S. 1 north of Philadelphia a motorist traveling at 50 miles an hour passes one highway sign every second. Between Baltimore and (2) Washington 2,450 commercial sighs and billboards are peppered along 30.5 miles (3) On 300 miles of U. S. 1 outside of towns in Florida were counted 1,000 billboards, 6,000 signboards and 14,000 signs on trees and business places. Danger Cited "In addition to aesthetic considerations, the billboard is a danger wherever it obstructs sight distance below the minimum established standard," Levin said. Many states, counties and towns have adopted some form of restrictive regulations to prevent billboards from becoming a menace. And the outdoor advertising people have often voluntarily cooperated with local officials to prevent erection of signs that would obviously constitute a hazard. Actually, there appears to be no strong proof as yet that highway advertising is closely linked with highway safety. The most recent publication on the subject is a progress report by a Michigan commission. It concluded that, of the advertising signs, "only those which were illuminated, including neon and flashing neon, showed any appreciable association with accident locations." anti-billboa- Explanation negro had been trying for long time to gain membership b, a lodge. They found so many reasons for postponing the indues tion ceremonies that he became suspicious. "Ahm Inclined to th.nk," he said, "dat yo' niggahs doan want me in dis heah lodge." "Well, said the chairman, "nj tell yo how It is. Yo is bald ain't yo? Yeah. But what dat got to di A it?" wid is black aint yo? continued the chairman. Sho' nuff." 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