Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, March 14, 1946, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextGRAIN BINS ARE HOUSES . . . The Shenandoah (Iowa) cham ber of commerce is doing something about the housing shortage. Above are two houses made from surplus grain bins. The top house has three rooms, all shown. The lower house has a utility room in the rear which cannot be seen. Both have bathrooms, two bedrooms, living room and kitchen. The original grain bins were 14 by 16 feet. TOM-PEE-SAW SAYS; Indians Don’t Want Country Given Back; They W ant Cash PARSONS, KAN. —Tom-Pee-Saw, who lives in Parsons and who is secretary of the legislative council, League of American Indians, says the Pottawatomie and Ottawa tribes don’t want a [million and a half acres on Lake Erie, but they do want exactly $1,637,000 in coin-of-the-realm. They don’t care whether it's** jUnited States or British money, just .so it can be collected, for the debt Is 140 years old and getting older. It was back in 1805 that a British ;land company got permission to buy land from the Indians along Lake Wuieoi^ /MEWS OF FLIERS AMD FLYING PILOTS NEVER QUIT! Former army-navy pilots are pep ping up civilian flying all over the nation. Typical of news stories is this one from the Outlook, Law rence, Kans.: “Two Lawrence boys, both World War II vets, Lt. Everett E. Buhler, navy, and Capt. Lloyd L. Ware, army, are now in charge of the air port. They offer charter trip serv ice, passenger rides and flying in struction. The new operators have four ships, three Piper cubs and a Waco advanced trainer, and expect to purchase another one.” * • ♦ HOW BEACHY DID IT Back about 1911, when Lincoln Beachy wanted to take off, he got from 8 to 10 men to hold the plane while he “revved” up the 22-h. p. motor. When the human brakes let go, the plane roared into the air! * • ♦ Tests May Delay Deliveries. | Not all the new models of air jplanes announced for 1946 will be •produced in sufficient numbers to [be seen at all airports. Before a jplane is certified as airworthy by the Civil Aeronautics administra tion, it must undergo rigid tests, of which may dictate changes in design. Consequently some firms that have optimistically advertised their product for early delivery will be obliged to delay pro duction models. * • • The weather man has saved more pilots than parachutes ever did. SHOPPER’S GUIDE FOR 194 G PLANES No. of Engine Cruising Land. Seats Price (hp) Speed Range Speed Aeronca Champion 2 $2,095 65 90 270 38 All American Ensign 2 $3,000 85 112 500 50 Cessna Model 140 De Luxe 2 $2,995 85 100 400 “ Model 120 Standard 2 $2,495 85 100 400 Commonwealth Skyranger 2 $2,750 85 105 700 38 Culver Model V 2 $3,750 85 120 720 50 Funk Bee 2 $3,350 75 100 350 37 Globe Swift GC-1A 2 $3,495 85 125 700 40 “ “ GC-1B 2 $3,995 125 140 600 43 Piper Cub Special J3C-65 2 $2,010 65 73 200 39 Taylorcraft Twosome.,.. 2 $2,295 65 95 385 38 Skycraft Model 246 2 $3,800 115 125 445 43 Johnson Rocket 185 3 $5,000 185 185 50 Piper Cub Super Cruiser.. 3 $2,905 104 103 600 48 Bellanca Cruisalr Senior.. 4 $5,375 150 145 600 50 Fairchild F-24 (Ranger) 4 $8,875 175 118 620 53 “ “ (Warner) 4 $8,500 165 117 639 53 Skycraft Model 446 4 $5,800 190 142 615 50 Stinson Voyager 150 4 $5,000 150 125 500 50 Take-Off Run Cut. Quote of. the Week Controllable pitch propellers for “The CAA is preparing to launch light planes rating from 65 to 250 a full-scale campaign to bring 400,- h. p. are included in plans of the 000 privately owned planes nearer Beech Aircraft corporation. The to reality. ... In conjunction with controllable-pitch prop is reported to the Civil Aeronautics board, we re have provided a 15 to 25 per cent cently simplified vital parts of the decrease in take-off run, and an in- civil air regulations to make it easi crease in rate of climb, making it er I° r H* 6 ordinary man to fly.”—. possible for light planes to use T - p - Wright, administrator of Civil limit areas. Aeronautics, •.• • • * If your town doesn’t have an air- Gasoline weighs 5,8 pounds per port, it should arrange for a land- gallon and is a part of the “usaUil ing strip, well marked. load” of a plane. _ <S> Erie. The Britishers got the land, but the Indians didn’t get the money, Tom-Pee-Saw says. And if any loan is made to Great Britain, Tom-Pee-Saw intends to slap an attachment on it! NEW AIRPORTS Towns everywhere are building new airports or airstrips. A report in the Banner, Belzoni, Miss., for instance, tells of a new airport there. The first runway will be 150 feet wide and 3,600 feet long—large enough to accommodate a pretty fair-sized plane. Belzoni is in the cotton country, and planes are used there for dusting and defoliating cot ton, and aerial seed sowing. * * * The Seabee Amphibian. The Republic Seabee four-seat amphibian sells for $3,995. First de mm SEABEE—Republic’s amphibian. The nose door is a fisherman’s dream! liveries will be made to distribu tors in April, and 400 planes a month are expected to be turned out be ginning in June. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA has an odd way of hook ing up time and space. On one night lately we ran across an Aus tralian sportsman in New York, who felt fairly confident that Jack Brom wich and Dinny Pails could take pretty good care of the Davis cup next December. Next we had lunch with Beals Wright, the famous SU. S. tennis star. Wright defeated both Norman Brookes and Tony Wilding on Aus tralian turf in Da vis cup play back in 1908, when they were considered unbeatable, al though Australia retained the cup Grantland Rice „ Here was a gap of 38 years in time and 12,000 miles in space with the Davis cup the main item of conversation. “I think we have an excellent chance to hold thfi cup,” our Aus tralian friend said. “Bromwich is good but in my opinion 19-year-old Dinny Pails is even better. Or he will be better with the 9 or 10 months of play and training ho has left before next December. Some good advice from Sir Norman Brookes won’t hurt. Bromwich is still in good form, an excellent player and a stout competitor. And we may have others by the cup date. “Against this strong Australian pair the U. S. must bank largely on Frank Parker, Billy Talbot and possibly Kramer and Schroeder if they can get out of service in time to reach former form. You will dis cover no Big Bill or Little Bill in this group—the pair who brought the cup home in 1920 after World War I. But it will be an experienced team that can at least put up a good front.” Beals Wright—and 1908 “Australia and 1908 are a long way and a long time back,” Beals Wright remarked. “We took a fool ish gamble because only Fred Alex ander and myself made the trip. I kept wondering what would hap pen if either of us should get sick or injured. We had no substitute. I had two great matches with Nor man Brookes and Tony Wilding and was lucky to be at my best in both contests. “Unless conditions have changed the U. S. team must be ready to face two important factors. One is the intense heat in December. When we played the temperature was 115 degrees. While it was a dry heat, still 115 is what you might call a bit warm. I recall an intense desire to take a drink of water through the matches, which, of course, I couldn’t do. You shouldn’t drink any water or anything else while the play is on. “The second factor is the turf, Australian turf is quite different from ours and England’s, where the grass has a much lighter or thin ner texture. Australian turf is much stronger, much more rugged. This means your spikes are likely to stick, affecting your ankles and your leg muscles. I don’t think my legs were ever quite as sore. I had to go in for rubber-soled shoes,” Beals Wright is the son of the late George Wright, who played shortstop on the unbeaten Reds of 1869, a team that won 55 games, lost none and was tied once. George Wright played profession al ball until he retired in 1876, the year that gave birth to the National league. He was also a brilliant cricketer and a good goffer late in life. Calls Tilden Greatest I asked Beals to name the great est tennis player he had ever seen in his 40-odd years of competition find observation. ‘T’ve seen many great ones,” he said “The Doherty brothers Brookes and Wilding Lamed McLoughlin Billy Johnston the French stars, especially Cochet the best that have come along since 1900. But the top man is still Bill Tilden in my opinion. Tilden had both speed and power on the court. As far as I could see he had no weakness in his championship years. He had amazing stamina. In addition to this Tilden had unusual court generalship. He was one of the few men I’ve seen in sport who could let down and then pull him self back. He had the art of keep ing his opponent off balance, both mentally and physically. No one ever knew what was coming next.” * • • Honesty Pays Off Several years ago Hurry-Up Yost, Michigan’s famous football coach, made over 200 addresses in one sea son to high school and university gatherings. The theme of his many talks was this—“ Honesty is the best invest ment.” “I wanted to prove,” he told me, “that honesty was not only the best policy—but that it also paid bigger dividends in every way. In other words—that you could make more money being honest.” \ \ FIRST POSTWAR REGATTA ... The National Midwinter regatta, held recently on the shores of Los Angeles, drew more than 75 crack sailing crafts from Pacific coast points, in a three-day meet. Many classes of the trim boats were represented in the colorful sailing event, the first since the start of the war. The event was sponsored by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce and Southern California Yachting association. ST '' v -,-x ; ; .y jui BELIEVE IT OR NOT—IT RUNS .. . Edward C. Hammond, Newton, Mass., did not let auto shortages stand in his way. With a bit of Yankee ingenuity he concocted his own auto which Hammond calls the “Weep.” It has all accessories, including a wicker basket for golf clubs and a series of horns, sirens, bells and light. The builder says that it can go 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Hammond is at the wheel of his creation. * « \ ' \ <* Ifcj, * \ \ ,y/// / > V; jiijjJß COMES THE ELECTRONIC HOT DOG ... The “Radio Chef,” promised for several months, arrived at New York to make life more complicated. The gadget for dispensing the electronically cooked frankfurter is being demonstrated by Sammy Kaye. The frankfurters are wrapped in cello phane and enclosed in an oven-fresh roll, ready for the consumer, who deposits a dime in the inevitable slot. ARGENTINA HOLDS ELECTION . . . Strong man Col. Juan Peron, dic tator of Argentina, right, who appeared by early returns to have been defeated for the presidency by Dr. Jose P. Tamborini, left, democratic union candidate. Antiquated system of vote-counting resulted in several weeks’ delay in the final count. The election of Dr. Tamborini was fa vored by the U. S. state department as an aid in the “friendly neigh bor” policy in Latin America. Sv w ||® £ ■** •■ * : -. v Vk . v.Xßii KRUG SUCCEEDS ICKES . . . Jul ius A. Krug, 38, Madison, Wis., who has been appointed by President Truman as the new secretary of the interior. He was formerly chair man of VVPB and chief power en gineer of TVA. Since leaving gov ernment service he has headed an engineering company. Krug ex pressed his satisfaction in the way the interior department has been administered in the past by Secre tary Ickcs. L- ' ! a '>l®' : MAY RULE ITALY . . . Prince Vittorio Di Savoia, son of the regent of Italy and grandson of the last king of Italy, whose abdication has opened the way to the throne for the boy prince. His father Is Prince Umberto. *5 f DOCTOR CHURCHILL . . . Winston Churchill, former prime minister of Great Britain, as he received the degree of doctor of laws from the University of Miami, at the Orange Bowl, before thousands in a public ceremony. ■■■■ N D R .Shown is James Lynn, left, and Benny War ren, Chicago Cub players who are training on Catalina island, Calif. They took time off to look for wild boar in the hills on Catalina island. WMm mm AID ON FOOD PROBLEM . . . Herbert C, Hoover, former Presi dent and foremost food expert after World War 1, has been invited by President Truman to aid in post war world food problems. He has been active in foreign relief work.