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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news I BIG LEAGUE PILOT: Mel Ott, manager of the New York Giants baseball club, has been accepted by the army. He is 35 and has two children. chil-dren. Ott joined the Giants at 16 and remained with them for 19 years, a league record. He also holds the league home run record of 465 and for runs batted in with 1,669. He is the first big league manager to be drafted. DRIED EGGS: Profits of the egg drying industry will be somewhat reduced by action of the War Food administration. The WFA will now allow cost of processing and approximately ap-proximately five cents profit per pound of egg powder. Some processors proces-sors had been buying eggs at considerably con-siderably below support prices, and so were obtaining an unduly large profit. |