Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, May 02, 1946, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextHOME JOURNAL. Perry, Ga., May 2. 1946 Mon Are Ready to Pilot Any Pianos j Mast Knotv How to Fly AH Type of Aircraft. TERMINAL ISLAND, CALIF. The navy pilot zoomed in over the Held in a little Hellcat, landed, walked across the runway, and took off on a four-engined amphibious job. I “Hey, doesn’t he even get a check- I ride in that thing before he switches over?” “Shove off, Mac," the sailor groundcrewman said. “This is jpa- | val air ferry squadron three. If we I checked those guys out we couldn’t of flown 21,000 planes 20 million miles in two years, could we? Not | with only 3,000 pilots anyway.” “Yeah, but do all these guys know how to fly all types of planes?" “Mac, they can fly 35 different types of naval aircraft." Comdr. Henry S. Blake, USNR, commanding officer of squadron three, walked up and began to ex plain a little of his outfit's far flung operations since its commissioning December 1, 1943. “What the crewman told you was j correct. We laid special emphasis on training pilots to operate the highest number of types of navy | planes so they would go anywhere, j anytime. At one time we had 80 per cent of our officers and men | away on ferry trips to Saipan, Okin- j nwa, Iwo Jima and carriers stand- j ing off Tokyo.” The squadron was started when increased plane production made it impossible for naval activities to dispatch pilots to pick up and ferry each new aircraft, the commander explained. BUTANE GAS AND APPLIANCES NOW AVAILABLE We are now in position to install your tank and appliances W. H. JONES & J. B. BRUCE Representing Central Gas & Appliancs Co. in Houston Ccunty Box 477 Phone 1422 Warner Robins, Georgia Graduation Time Is Near FOR BOYS FOR GIRLS New lot of Botany of and Wembley Ties Handkerchiefs and Underwear HARD STRAWS and PANAMAS EDWARDS-HARPER, Inc. Phone 50 Perry, Ga. TRUCK BODIES - AUTO REPAIRS Wecan build truck bodies to suit your]needs and can handle repairs on all makes ofJjautomobiles and trucks. NEW and USED AUTO PARTS and HARDWARE Portable Welder available at all|times. BELLFLOWERS MACHINE SHOP and GARAGE Phone 42 Perry, Ga. CLEAN YOUR PEANUT SEED BEFORE PLANTING Just installed new PEANUT SHELLER and TREATER. Our cleaner removes trash and splits. Blue Lupine Growers harvest your seed and bring them direct from the combine. Our machine will remove green seed and stems which will avoid spreading. Pritchett Supply Co. Ford-Ferguson Tractors and Implements Phone 245 Jernaghan Street Perry, Ga. We Repair Any Make Tractor Early Treatment Avert* Blindness From Glaucoma Nearly every one blinded by glau ; coma, one of the most dangerous of all eye diseases, could be seeing today if he had gone to a doctor early enough for treatment, accord ing to Jerome S Peterson, M, D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. Peterson, who is district health officer in Brooklyn, says that the reason so many people are caught unawares is because glaucoma is tricky and I manages to sneak its way in without I letting the victim know. “Your eyes cannot work without i the presence of a watery fluid | that flows in and out of the eye, through tiny canals," Dr. Peterson 1 states. “Normally, just the right amount of fluid passes into the eye and out of it. But if ever, for any : reason, there should be too much fluid coming in, or the canals lead ing outward should somehow bo blocked, there may be trouble ahead : —the trouble we call glaucoma. The surplus fluid accumulates within the eyeball, pressing upon the coat of the eye, which turns hard under the j pressure. If nothing is done about ! it, the pressure shuts off the blood vessels nourishing the eye. Without ! food, no organ can live, and the eye i is no exception. If glaucoma is al lowed to progress unchecked, the j victim is certain to become blind." j j The cause of this disease is un- j j known. Physicians treat glaucoma' j by use of drugs which lower j pressure in the eye and contract j the pupil. Wearing glasses does not I relieve the condition. If medical methods fail, it is customary to use surgery to establish proper drain age and to keep the pressure in the eye permanently low. ! New York Pier Town in Itself No Housing Problems There, With Bunks for 6,000; Speeds Discharges. NEW YORK. Nowhere in the world, on sea or shore, in the opin ion of navy men, is there anything comparable {o Pier 02 at 52nd street and the North river, which was turned into a receiving station during the war. It is the only known project in which a large pier in effect was transformed into a big ship billeting as many as 6,000 navy personnel, says the Herald-Tribune. In many ways Pier 92 more close ly resembles a large city than ship. It possesses the varied shops and services of a town. Down the main street of the pier community move j automobiles carrying passengers back and forth. The street is lined with diversified stores and shops and entertainment centers, lias Everything. Like any American town, it has several restaurants (mess halls), a motion picture theater seating 600 | and showing the latest productions, j a sports arena for boxing, a pool j hall, soda fountain with the inevita j ble juke box, library with hundreds ( of books and magazines, barber I shop, cobbler shop, tailor shop, bank 1 (safety deposit cage), chapel, post office, printing shop, ship’s store, small stores, newspaper, beer hall, carpenter and machine shop, hos pital (sick bay), hgtel (bunkroom) and enough busy offices dealing with high finance and varied operations to fill an office building. Probably one million navy men have been handled through Pier 92. As many as 30,000 are processed through the tremendous land-an chored ark in a single month. At present about half of these are sent j to separation centers for discharge i and the others go to ships for new j assignments. Officers in command have received no orders concerning future operations, but it is expected j the pier will be recommissioned as a receiving station. Four ships complement the quar- j ter-mile-long pier in providing space and facilities for thousands of ' navy men to live, work and play. Leased by Navy. | The navy leased the pier, former ly used by the Italian line, from 1 the city of New York in September, | 1941. The navy tied up alongside the | submarine tender Camden, which I had seen service in the First World j war, and used its four big boilers— she is among the last of the coal I burners in the navy—to heat the vast space. The ship produces j enough heat for the ships and the I two decks of the pier, each meas j uring 1,180 by 120 feet. A historic ship built as the battle ship Washington in 1904 and later called the armored cruiser Seattle, I was tied up on the south side of the pier, berthing ship’s company personnel and bachelor officers. The Mercer, the newest type barracks ship designed for Pacific service, ( was tied up at the north side to house an overflow of men. The Mer -1 cer can billet 1,000 men. In addition, the naval receiving I station, Pier 92, has taken over the ship Prairie State, anchored off 135th street and Riverside drive, for merly used as a midshipmen’s school. j New Yorkers, faced with a hous ing shortage and sometimes sleep ing eight to a room, might be en vious if they saw Pier 92’s big bedroom, nearly onb-fourth mile in length, sleeping comfortably 6,000 men in three-tiered bunks at one time. Japan Is Far From Flat, Financial Experts Say HAMILTON FIELD, CALIF. ; Japan can pay “more than we ex pected” in reparations and the amount and extent of the indemnity are soon to be established, H. D. Maxwell, deputy chief of the American Reparations commission, said on arrival here recently. Maxwell and 10 other members of the commission returned from Japan aboard an army transport | plane. i Japan has a surplus in industrial j capacity, despite shattering air j raids, which can be appropriated for j reparations purposes, Maxwell said, j Some of Japan’s 3,300 principal in j dustries are completely undam ! aged. j The intent of reparations is to ; eliminate Japan’s war potential and ! to transfer physically industrial i equipment from Japan to Pacific i nations entitled to indemnity, Max j well explained. i The Japs co-operated in the work j of the commission and “as far as I I know, didn’t conceal anything,” j Maxwell said. He declined to com- I ment on the share which any coun ( try will receive in reparations. I Manila Is Long on Rats But It’s Short on Cats MANILA, P. I. - They’re calling for cats in Manila. Army health authorities say there j are five times as many rats in Ma- I nila as residents, and blame it all [ on the Japanese. During the occupa tion, they explain, the people got so j hungry most of the city’s cats turned up in the form of stew. They asked citizens throughout the islands not to drown unwanted 1 kittens but to give them to the city. AS YOU probably know, it isn’t an easy job to get baseball managers to give out personal inter views concerning the comparative strength of certain K|p| baseball, is that K spot of the diamond guarded by the shortstop and the second baseman. i. While no direct Joe Gordon quotes were avail able we have run across seven managers and scouts quite willing to give out their pri vate opinions. Here is the way the concensus came out— No. 1. Rizzuto and Gordon, Yankees. No. 2. Pesky and Doerr, Red Sox. No. 3. Reese and Rojek, Dodgers. No. 4. Boudreau and Mack, Indians. No. 5. Marion and Verban, Cardinals. This ranking or rating included all-around quality, hitting, fielding and double-play results. There was a close finish between the Rizzuto- Gordon and the Pesky-Doerr com binations. It was generally agreed that the Red Sox pair carried the higher-hitting average, but the de fensive play of Rizzuto and Gordon gave the Yankees a slight lead. In the work they have shown be fore and what they have turned out this spring, it would be difficult to find a more brilliant pair of infield workmen than Rizzuto and Gordon. Both are all over the lot. And both can get the ball away quicker than you can discard a burning package of paper matches. They keep you dizzy attempting to follow their dou ble-play actions or their work on some slow grounder that has to be handled in split-second time. Pesky and Doerr are good and they are likely to rate higher on the hitting side. But certainly on defense the Yankees have the edge over any other combination in ei ther league. The Dodger Ranking I was surprised to see Pewee Reese and Stan Rojek rated over some of the others. But these votes came from scouts who had talked with National League managers. They figured that Reese would be good enough to give either Marion or Miller a stretch run at shortstop and that Rojek would be a big sur prise. Oddly enough they figured that while Marion and Boudreau were two of baseball’s best short stops, their second-base support couldn’t match Gordon or Doerr. And Rojek, with all his bright pos sibilties, is still something of a guess when planted in this able company. This shortstop-second base com bination means a lot to any winning club. Suppose we look back a few years—there were the old Cubs, winner of four championships in five years—and their, entry was Tinker and Evers. How about the Athletics from 1910 through 1914 when they also won four pennants? Their an swer is Jack Barry and Eddie Col lins. Cleveland once had Tuck Tur ner and Larry Lajoie. One .of Mc- Graw’s greatest teams had Dave Bancroft and Frank Frisch. They were factors in winning four pen nants in a row. It might be noted that the clubs more favorably mentioned in the two pennant races are strong at this essential fortress. They are the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Car dinals. ♦ ♦ ♦ Two-Sport Stars A while ago we attempted a rat ing of the best baseball-football combinations such as Frank Frisch, Snuffy Stirnweiss, Lou Gehrig, Ma thewson, Overall, etc. Ray Farnham from Philadelphia writes that we have left out the star bet of the lot. “His name is Mickey Cochrane,” says Ray. “Cochrane is still re membered as one of the great catch ers of all time—one of the best hit ters—a winning manager. But few remember that at Boston university in the early twenties, Mickey was also one of the best backs of many seasons. He was a star triple threater—one who could pass, run and kick with any All-America named that season. He was also a magnificent tackier and blocker. Cochrane was also the strongest part of the offense used by the Providence Steam Rollers.” In addition to this baseball-foot ball argument we have already lo cated the best combined tennis and golf player known to sport. His name Is Ellsworth Vines. In his day tennis never knew a harder hitter. He was one of the best. Vines is now to be listed among the better pros, good enough to break 70 here and there, and usually in the low 70s. The tall and willowy Ellsworth can belt the ball a long way, is a first class iron player and a pretty good putter. His long game is good I all the way. Vines has always been • fine competitor. Here is the Secret Only two w*nli to ’ ber . . . Miroclo-Treod—You'll love them lines designed for ankle-flattery. Call for Lot No. 8521 Moore Dry Goods Co. Phone 140 Perry, Ga. RED ASH COAL High Quality - Limited Amount Watson & Williams Coal Co. Phone 1440 Warner Robins, Ga. TRY FOAM-O-KLEEN^ To Dry-Clean Rugs and Upholstry O’Cedar Perma-Moth, O’Cedar Clean Up for w'ndows; Johnson’s and| O’Cedar Paste and Liquid Wax and O’cedar Furniture Polish. Other items to make spring cleaning easy: mineral spirits, turpentine and linseed oil. Any quantity, prices right, courteous service. Houston Hardware Co. Phone 267 Perry, Ga. Central Georgia Furniture Co. OFFERS CHESTS of DRAWERS Finished or Unfinished Attractive ELECTRIC CLOCKS, Beautiful modern Cedar Chests, Bookcases and What-not Stands Phone 242 Perry. Ga. FOR YOUR VACATION OR l ICNIC THE NEW TRAVEL ICER It will accommodate your party wheyever you go, protecting your food and drinks. Complete $89.50 Also The Chickadee Grill and Broiler $49.50 Moody Motor Co. Phone 40 Perry, Ga.