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It Might Make More Sense ogs 6 The Ponca City (Oklahoma) News Tuesday March 1 1949 itmmwmminMji'jiiuuuiuMimOMMUMiiuiiniiMMmiNNimriPimaRiMmnHMmmwHMi DAILY BRIDGE By WILLIAM McKENNEY Card Authority Written for NEA Service For a number of years Irving Starworth of Elmont has been working on a score totalizer and he has just come out with a dandy It is like a little book with an index on the side After you go over the bidding and play of hand see how long it takes you to figure the correct score South has quite a problem whether to open the bidding with four spades or just one spade North AQ72 J72 None AQJ 10743 A 10 VAKQ10 965 AS 862 AKJ98653 None 1085 K9 A 4 V843 KQJ9 7642 A 5 Rubber N-S vul and South are vulnerable so East and West might well take a good sacrifice in hearts However South does open with one spade and when West bids two diamonds bid of three diamond not only shows support in spades but indicates contrql of the diamohd suit Over bid of three hearts four heart bid also is a cue-bid The bid of six clubs on the part of South is made in the hope of getting to seven but when North goes to six spades and East doubles South redoubles Even though he thinks he can make seven the six contract doubled and redoubled making seven is a better score than bidding seven and making it undoubled INTERPRETING THE NEWS By Dewrrr MACKENZIE (AP Foreign Affairs Analyst) iwiwwphmi wmi hi'wi'm qimnp -c 11 BRITAIN already is getting set for the great political struggle which will determine whether she is to continue along the road of soc'alism or revert to conservatism just over three and a half years since the labor party swept into power under leadership of Clement Attlee and established England's first all-socialist government It was an amazing shift of public opinion It brought the downfall of the great Winston Churchill wartime prime minister who was idolized as the man who had led the empire through its trial of toil tears and England with her imperial trappings and traditions has had a fair initiation into socialism-enough so that she knows what it is Under normal circumstances June of next year will bring another general election Thenrthe country will take stock and decide whether she will stick to her leftist course or swing back to the right The socialists have nationalized numerous undertakings in capitalistic Britain Among them are Overseas Airways the Bank of England cable and wireless communications the coal mines railroad and inland water transport and the electricity supply A steel nationalization measure is now before parliament and the chemical industry is a possibility The government even has dared the political elements by providing universal free medicine This naturally has been met with mixed emotions but it is popular with the man In the street HOW far dare the socialists go with national-ization? The government has been watching general reaction closely and anxiously Socialism is on trial in a big way in England It can make or break itself before next election The party has held that the public reaction seemed fair enough In some 30 parliamentary by-elections since the socialist government came to power tt lost one Then last week came an outstanding teat bjr a by-election at South Hammersmith South Hammei smith normally is conservative but hag been held by labor since the last general election Conseqnentlv it was made a testing ground The greet Churchill himself hurled some of the most powerful oratory into the campaign Labor won and set the conservative back on their heels So with this political gauge to go by find both parties swinging into action to get set for the still distant general election One reaction in conservatWe ranks has been disappointment In some quarter! over the way Churchill handled the Hammersmith camnaign talk of a drastic overhauling of conservative strategy Naturally socialist fortunes will depend heavily on the state of British post-war rehabilitation at election time next year If things are good nationalization will claim credit but it will have to take the blame If conditions are bad The Attlee government is likely to run Into heavy criticism for its handling of the Arab-Jewish imbroglio in Palestine Probably some conservatives also will reiterate their charge that the socialists threw awav part of the empire in the way they dealt with (he Indian situation However it strikes me that this will be hollering down a rain barrel since India was due for freedom in any event On the credit side for the socialists they can cite their program of colonial development This is calculated to give a great lift to Imperial rehabilitation In any event the eves of the world will he on that election It will be one of most important tests thus far in any nation ini mm i' imi'i'i'M 1 i1' i 'i i'' i i 'i" 1 JUST THE OTHER DAY npimfl mrurnn i "iMr'ii1 huht' w'i' Tuesday Feb 26 1929 One of the 11 charges brought against Gov Harry Johnston was dropped as the prosecution closed its case Approximately 250 students had been assisted by Lew Wentz student loan foundation at Oklahoma A 8c college in Stillwater Mr and Mrs Glen Mason of Blackwell (now of Ponca City) visited friends here Nearly 2000 license tags had been sold in Kay county for 1929 as the period for purchasing them closed Elizabeth Cameron was elected queen of the beaux arts at theUniversity of Oklahoma Tuesday Feb 28 1939 Henry Faken Ben Oates jr' and Miss Virginia Lewis were named sweepstakes winners of the Conoco hobby which drew 10-000 visitors A backward dance was held by members of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority Prentice who told Nearly News that he was looking for a lost tooth was offered a replacement by his insurance agent who read the column by chance spirits soared 6 to 17 inches of snow fell to help revitalize the dust bowl area Thirty Boy Scouts were awarded honors at a district court of honor here Tuberculin tests were given 588 persons in Kay county according to the report of TB association Camera fans met at the Chamber of Commerce offices to form a photography organization iriit1 iiii Hnmiiiwii id lit it iii ui i i i Mi i i inn i hth i iw 'trtFi QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS i mwwwupwnpw in it iiwi i mu h'hvpii What causes the clicks heard in an electric iron when in use? A This is the operation of the thermostat When the iron reaches the desired temperature this turns off the current then turns it on again when it has cooled a little and so keeps it from overheating Thus such an iron uses current only part of the time and it costs considerably less to operate than if it were drawing power continually Will there be any solar eclipses in 1949? A Yes there will be two partial eclipses of the sun on April 28 and October 21 the first visible from Europe North Africa and the North Pole: the second from Australia New Zealand and the South Pole Was coal used to any extent in the New England colonies? A Most of the coal used in the northern colonies prior to the American Revolution was imported from England Wood was the prevailing fuel used in our country until about 1840 How long have we had president al inaugural balls? James inauguration on March 4 1809 ushered in the inaugural ball The ball Washington had attended in 1793 was not an official part of the program Where did the ouija board get its name? A It is compounded from the French and German words for yes THE PONCA CITY NEWS ESTABLISHED 1918 A consolidation of the Ponca City Democrat (1893) and the Ponca City Courier (1894) The Ponca City Publishing Co Inc Owner and Publisher An Independent newspaper published each evening except Saturday and Sunday morning in the Interests of the Ponca City community Office and Plant: Third street and Cleveland avenue Telephone 2800 MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entited exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches General Advertising Representative Burke Kuip-ers Mahoney Inc New York Chicago Ill Atlanta Ga Dallas Texas: Oklahoma City Okla All unsolicited articles manuscripts letters and pictures sent to The News are sent at the risk and The News expressly repudiates any liability or responsibility for their safe custody or return Eirors of statement or inference when called to the attention of the edtor will gladly be corrected A THOUGHT And stvare by him that liveth for ever and ever who created heaven and the things that therein are and the earth and the things that therein are and the sea and the things which are therein that there should be time no longer Revelation 10:6 Enternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade the heart withers man grows old and dies the world lies down in the sepulcher of ages but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity Bishop Ileber Natural Question Somehow something seems wrong in the long series of guilty plea9 from churchmen of Hungary and Bulgaria Frankly we did not think there was any torture great enough to cause these men of strong religious and patriotic conviction to plead guilty to such trumped up charges let alone to sing the praises of the red philosophies Can it be thaf the Russians have developed a drug even more powerful than and working in the opposite way from what we call truth serum? Or have Russian surgeons in pursuing the course laid down for them by the twisted minds of red leaders devised an operation that leaves the victim capable only of parroting what he is told to say This is a serious question for such confessions just stand to reason unless there be some trick behind them One recalls several years ago the Russian purge brought forth similar confessions but the victims seemed to be not quite themselves in some instances acted in a zombie-like manner as if they were walking dead That may have been the result of early and not yet perfected drug or surgical techniques is it hypnosis? Whatever the method Russia is using to extort the confessions we should not be fooled And in some way our own propagandists should try to keep the citizens of European democracies from being fooled One confession would be discounted A series such as we have had may create belief Did the Truth Slip Out? A British delegate to United Nations Christopher May hew let slip the other day a statement that economic crisis is over and that the British are ready to embark on new experiments in socializing and nationalizing industry in England This threw the spending advocates who had been working out a new extension of the aid-to-Europe program into a tailspin They hastened to deny the correctness of statement and to soft pedal the mention of further leftish social experimenting Without prejudging it would seem that statement is sufficient evidence at least to delay any final action on granting to Britain the additional $970000000 she would receive under present proposals The delay need not be too long just enough to permit investigation first of the present situation in Britain and second the uses to which a further grant of financial aid might be put We have been underwriting socialism in Britain quite a 4hile now It may be about time to decide whether we want to continue even after we have accomplished our major purpose to start Europe back on the road to normal living Will They Accept? Communist leaders in both France and Italy have gone about as far as they could go under the treason laws in inviting the red Russian army to visit their countries Had only one such invitation been issued it might have been only the mouthing of a typical radical spokesman But when the two top communists in two of the larger western European nations invite an armed visit from Russia one is permitted to wonder if the reds may have decided in advance to accept Safety in Silence The unaniumity with which Bulgarian preachers are condemning themselves suggests that with only four trials out of the way the last chapter in this story could be written now All will be found guilty as charged and other preachers and citizens who have felt aggrieved at communistic practices will no doubt be duly warned If one has ideas and lives behind the iron curtain he doesn't express them Peace Note The government atomic works out in the state of is laying off 3750 employes and cutting back to a five-day work week WASHINGTON DAYBOOK By JANE EADS iimimironiBiimlimflnmnnimimiim'imifflmiiilimfflnifflimiminimi'iiniroHimimiimniitmiiirofflniwtii' WASHINGTON Stuart Robbins says a gentleman who thinks a big shot is Ikie a chocolate eclair Robbins serves many little big shots and many really big shots a dining car steward on the Seaboard swanky vacation trains running from New York to Florida little big shot is like a chocolate eclair because all crust with no says Robbins finds fault with the coffee the eggs and the waiter and loud enough for every one to hear He wants to impress them that important his crusty outside Inside really nothing to back up all that fluster and Robbins who stopped off here to see a friend the other day says made about 20 trips to Florida since the season opened but hardly seen the place He travels around 20000 miles a month 1 the train pulls into St Petersburg or he told me is serviced in a short time and then we pull right out again for New York pretty frustrating Everybody gets tanned but How does he like the scenery? never seen most of it We feed about 175 people three times a day in the dining car and you get much time to look out the windows Going down we always go to bed in North Carolina Coming back we always go to bed in North Carolina I know how many times been through that state but always Robbins is on the Florida run in the winter when business is heavy He really works for the Denver and Rio Grande Western and most of the time travels from Denver to Salt Lake City and sometimes on through to the west coast The railroads their stewards and other dining car employes back and forth to take care of peak seasons which fall at different times in various parts of the country All friends out west he lives in Denver expect him to be suntanned from the Florida sun after his travels But of course he could do like some folks he says only stayed south a week So they buy a sun lamp and while soak-ing up a sun also working the lamp overtime at night to burn themselves BiiiHininm'iiiiiiiiiimi'iiiniiraiuiii! iiin OKLAHOMA OVERNIGHT miiiiiiiimiiuiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiii'iiiriiiiiiiiniii STILLWATER March 1 (P) The junior chamber of commerce will honor the outstanding young citizen of Stillwater at its membership dance March 2 His name will be announced at the dance DUNCAN Stephens County Agent Fred Huffine says the number of men seeking farm jobs and farms to rent is increasing in the county Many are coming from other states he said SNYDER Mrs Lorene McGehee graduated from Warren high school 20 years ago but still trying to fulfill her dream of a college degree Besides doing household work and keeping books for her oil refining business she still finds time to take correspondence courses from the University of Oklahoma DUNCAN It is still a question whether Clear creek lake dam will be completed in time to catch spring or early summer rains Construction crews returned to work after inclement weather but frequent light rain has kept the ground muddy and slowed work City Manager Conger Brown says there are 90 work days left on the dam STILLWATER DeWitt Hunt Oklahoma A safety authority and Powers Stillwater will attend the industrial safety conference in Washington March 23-25 WEATHERFORD Oklahoma City university and Southwestern Tech debate teams Wednesday will debate the subject that the federal government should adopt the policy of equalizing education opportunities in tax-supported schools by means of annual uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiii mi mi mi nn mi iiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiii'iii'iiiiiiiiiin'ii'iiiriiii'iiiniiiiniii iiiiiiii'imi SO THEY SAY iiii'iiii'iiiiiiiihiiiiiii We still think the outlook for farmers in 1949 is good Agriculture Secretary Brannan com-rpenting on recent nos e-dive in commodity prices No country should be brought up to a standard of living that it cannot support itself It would be better to give nations money outright than to make loans to them that they cannot repay Sen Robert A Taft (R) of Ohio I have no love interest absolutely none except music Margaret Truman We coddle people too much these days trying to tell people to submit themselves to exposures in life to get the actual experiences The greatest school is the school of hard knocks Walter Pitkin psychologist author and lecturer So many of our (English) children speak in clipped and ugly speech and American idiom which is very Mrs Leah Manning American-born member of parliament iiir'imr mi i'i iii in mi mi wnn mi'wim BARBS By HAL COCHRAN nrniHii intuit iu ini mi nn iftfiiiriir A Missouri wife worth a fortune i- suing for divorce no small change Man mav return to hut his wife knows he never does it abound the house a wonder all the germs in kisses don't die of colic A Nebraska man of 72 married a woman lawyer Perhaps tired of talking anyway Some folks jhink the pinnacle of success in society consists of being in the height of fash-on It must be rice to be in the spot where neighbors accuse you of allowing wealth to go to your head quite possible that those 15 men on a dead chest were lawyers Chicago bandits robbed one tobacco store four times it about time the cops were smoking them out? I There are times when times change Twenty years ago we were all wondering how long before spring Thieves got $3400 which an Alabama farmer hid in his well Where confidence was not well placed to avoid bloodshed Give me the information Conover and your troubles are over As soon as verified the dope as free as John Henry looked at his wife tensely upright in her chair know you go to the Barselou went on smoothly if you did have to tell Lieutenant Lay that a handprint in blood by the door of Cottage 15 which you occupied last night Gayner saw it this morning We think blood The police would be glad to test it for eyes were big and hopeful and her dark-red tresses swayed back and forth across her shoulders slightly said John Henry talking sense me talk to my wife alone for a minute or two and give you the have to do your talking right here this Barselou demurred firmly get out of my John Henry rose and Sin followed him over to the chuck-a-luck tables along the side of the room Odell had his hand in his coat pocket again Sin whispered what are we going to you remember that combination honey?" guess so You want me to tell John Henry shook his head fiercely on your life Just do as 1 say" He rasped the top sheet off a long tally pad on the next table Then he went back to Barselou Conover said The other man silently produced one John Henry took the equipment back to the corner where Sin was absently turning the wire dice cage The tumbling cubes awoke minute rattling echoes in the still casino he muttered talking Softly" (To Be Continued) TUK STORY I Joha Hears am 81a Ceaorer neatioalas at a awaak resort are deeply eataatclet la a mystery Involving aa elusive They have beea trapped at a gambling ranch operated by Mr Bprseloa where Johnny and Sin protest they know what the mystery In about Then Barselon reveals the Identity of the MQueenn a Spanish treasure ship called Re In the which la 1744 sailed by mistake ap the Colorado River at flood atare and was left hlirh and dry as the waters receded Bane-lea Is searchlnu for the Qneen aad he believes that Johnny and Sla know how to And It here on he says you XXVI 4TT7HAT about John Henry insisted killed Odell flipped away the match-stick His red eyes hooded by puffy lids gleamed He said you did Mr Jones" said Barselou impatiently ignoring the shocked faces across the table a dead issue He interest me any he interests me" said John Henry hotly if it boils down to a mistake in our is not Jones" Sin added Barselou laughed suddenly There was no amusement to be shared in the sound hired Anglin last year to find the Queen I was to pay him so much over expenses A week ago Anglin said he was on the right track The galleon was somewhere in the Badlands and he was figuring out a route I could follow through the canyons to reach her beginning at a fixed starting point whi we agreed Sin clapped her hands up over her mouth The significance of the combination in the mechanical pencil had just come to her John Henry nudged her under the table with a warning knee a ing all his cards over the thought play it smart" Odell muttered and his mouth contracted bleakly had wired to a Mr and Mrs Jones in San Diego telling them that found the Queen What exactly Anglin had in his mind 1 know perhaps he intended to force my price up Or maybe he intended to collect from two people instead of blunt nails punched Into his palms Mr' and Mrs Conover or Jones I will not play parlor games" Sin protested faintly not the tned to get to Anglin before he saw you We So we tried to bluff you out That work either Then he looked at Odell Anglin got himself John Henry said quickly and desperately know we kill him Barselou You were right behind me He was shot in the back and fell into my arms" remember you think we killed Anglin then turn us over to the police Barselou bared his teeth in what was meant to be a grin get the point Conover 1 care who you are or what done All I want from you is the other half of the puzzle Anglin had only one thing that was worth a damn and that was the route I need to find the Queen" After a long silence John Henry spoke He said carefully not saying we have the route Barselou But if we have and hand it over to you what next? The last guy that had the Queen information for you got killed at your TJ ARSELOU and Odell ex- changed glances The big man put a mask of friendliness over his granite features lifelong policy in a rough business has been The opening lead of th king of diamonds is trumped in dummy with the deuce of spades Now there is nothing to the play as declarer cashes the queen of spades picking up the trumps leads a club to his king and returns to dummy by playing the nine of clubs Have you figured out the score for bidding six doubled and redoubled and making seven? The score totalizer shows that it is 1200 above the line and 720 below the line One of the things that many players forget is the 50-point bonus for making a doubled contract Minimi in i hthii' iip mi iiii'iimi ii nil HOLlYWOOD By ERSKINE JOHNSON nmmimnin iiiiiim if in 1 n1 'i' in ''i i ji i nil li Hollywood (NEA) Johnson-goes-out-on-a-limb day again Last year the Academy voters sawed it off Maybe do better this time predicting the 1948 Oscar winners as: Actor: Laurence Olivier in Actress: Jane Wyman in "Johnny Sunporting actor: Walter Huston in of Sierra Supporting actress: Claire Trevor in Director: John Huston for of Sierra Madre" Best picture: Red Best original movie song: "Buttons and Dark borses: Irene Dunne in Remember ery Clift in and for best picture Snake Bob Mitchum went to the Los Angeles county jail and a double for him went to Mexico with Big company shoot his long shots with the double then get the closeups at the studio after Mitchum comes out along with the Easter bunny in April June Havoc is giving up the Hollywood struggle for eastern television and summer stock UI Is talking to Barbara Stanwyck about buying her original as a co-starrer for her and Robert Preston finally got a definition of an all-star cast Bing Crosby explained it 4o Abe Burrows on his air show Burrows: have you got on your program next week Bing: smashing show next week an all-star cast" Burrows: cast? What does that Bing: means that we got anybody Martin Ragaway says getting worried about the bank he does business with He walked in the other day and there was a sign reading: "Have You Joined Our Christmas Pyramid When Greer Garson marries Buddy Fogelson the Texas millionnaire (if she does) she will become the steomother of his three adonted children The eldest is a boy of 17 Leo McCarey always a religious man has become even more so since the death of his brother Ray Leo is now working on plans to film Miracle of the famous incident of the three children in a little Portuguese town who received a visitation McCarey would like to reunite Bing Crosbv and Barry Fitzgerald for the picture Phil Silvers Is still yelling murder over a television test he did in the east for a collar company Phil says he knocked himself out with comedy patter for 30 minutes then asked the prosoective sponsor how he liked it All the would-be sponsor said was shirt was Roy Rogers and Dale Evans will not make their annual rodeo tour this fall Too tough a schedule between films and their weekly air show Howard Duff who gets around got around to Ann Blyth the other night and took her to dinner at Comes now the moon cycle: Currently in preoaration are to the to the of Men Are and Man on the Old earth apparently is running out of movie plots chilly eyes watched the byplay Odell found out that Anglin play say that the stone is the worst pain that they ever had Certainly the pain is terrific sometimes however a kidney stone can be passed without any pain whatever Kidney stones are not really stones at all but are groups of crystals which form into round or jiimiiiiiiiiiidiimiiitiiiiniiiiiiii imiiiiiiimiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM'iiniiiitiiiiiii THE DOCTOR SAYS By EDWIN JORDAN D- mimiiiii ilium: iiiiiiiiiiimi mi mil THOSE people who have passed a kidney stone and have had other painful experiences usually By Galbraith SIDE GLANCES irregularly shaped balls They start inside the kidney in the space just above the passageway leading from the kidney to the bladder When such stones start to move down the passageway or ureter they scrape and irritate the tender walls of the passage This causes painful spasm and the bleeding which is usually present Of course if the stone fills the ureter entirely it blocks the flow of urine from the kidney and causes the urine to back up behind the stone thus producing further complications Some disturbance of unknown cause in the excretion of certain salts are ordinarily carried in a liquid form in the urine is the most probable reason for kidney stones Deficiency of vitamins slowing of circulation in the kidneys and chronic infection seem also to be at fault at least In some cases There are at least two stages in the treatment of kidney stones The first is to care for the immediate pain and other symptoms So far as the pain is concerned this involves the liberal use of pain-killing drugs As soon as possible the stone must be assisted to leave the point at which it is stuck as it may damage the passageway or the kidney itself In locating the stone the X-ray is of course of tremendous value It is not enough simply to get over the immediate effects of a kidney stone The stone should be studied for its chemical makeup When this is done it often becomes possible for the physician to recommend a diet or other measures which will help to prevent the formation of additional stones 0itr Kg To demonstrate the principles of atomic energy for the layman scientists have built an Seven copper spheres mounted on a plastic sheet are driven by the 200000-volt charge of a model atom smasher The wheel spins at speeds up to 100 revolutions per minute COP 1M RV NEA SERVICE MC REO PAT OFF have returned these eggs sooner but bet getting fed 1 1 a i i ma 1 1 4L Mn Vxoelrl.