HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-05-25, Page 5By Pielt' H14 n4#`
NEA Staff Correspondent
It takes Mere than a 'Volpe to,
be 3 Chanter — a big-time male
singer, In fact, a really great
veice is something of ,a
Cap. To. reach the weil-DaYing-
pinnaele of croonin4 success
takes an adequate, distinctive
voice, a good press agent and
mostly, the breaks,
Breaks like these:
BQb Hope happened to wan-
der into a Greenwich Village ,
FRANK SINATRA: Fate smiled on
a singing headwaiter.
broke ttp, in 4.2, he decided he'd
had enough One-nighters and,
long bus rides, He was going to
sign a lease on a new barber
shop—when a call came from
New York. They were offering
him a CBS radio show. He de-
bated a while, then took it (he
could always Open up another
shop),
That was his break. From
then it's been onward and up-
Ward. And now, he's- one of the
tops in the world. He cap al-
ways open up the barber shop, *
„Wank” Sinatra is generally
recegnized as, the best chanter of
them air, ,,put it took a great
big break for him, to get wide-
spread public exposure without
which a singer is just another
unemployment check.
He'd been struggling for
years. He'd won amateur hour
contests,
sung
countless radio
shows, sung night-clubs. In
fact he was a $25-a-week ging-
ing, headwaiter at a New Jersey
club when the fates finally
smiled. This was in June, 1938,
and Harry James had decided
to leave 'Benny Goodman and
start his own band,
While he was. thinking about
sessess. sees"-
TONY BENNETT: First Hope, and
then record .man Miller.
Cultivation Of th'e garden, even
a large one, need not and should
not be a back breaking chore.
It is amazing how much easier
and quicker the job is done with
tool% that have, long handles, Of
course, for getting in close to
tiny flowers or vegetables, for
weeding and a few Other deli-
cate jobs, it may be necessary to
get down on knees or knee pads
but with a little care a great
deal of the ordinary cultivating
and planting jobs can be hand-
led with a Minimum, of stoop-
ing, Spades, forks, dutch' hoes,
spudders and many of the hand
cultivators can be 'purchased
with ;good long handles which
permit operation without any
personal bending at all. All of
these, and other -Weis too, in-
chiding the lawn mower, should
be remembered will work easier
and faster if their cutting edges
are kept sharp and any moving
parts regularly oiled,
KEEP PLANTING
Too much' emphasis cannot be
laid on spinning out ,the plant-
ing. It is much better to plant
a little every week for a month
or so than to try and get every-
thing in at once. There is no
good reason why ,most Vege-
tables and a lot of flowers can-
not be planted for many weeks
yet and this gradual planting
will preduce far more satisfac-
tory results than sowing or set-
ting out all at once. The vege-
table garden particularly, should
be• planted gradually with only
a portion of the carrots, beets,
beans, corn, etc., seem at one
time;
In the flower line, experienced
gardeners 'will sow such things
as zinnias, petunias, asters, cos-
mos and other annuals in little
plots here and there in the flow-
er garden. When these come' up
they will leave only a few plants
in the original position and
transplant the surplus to other
parts of the garden. Handled
carefully, these transplants will
come along almost as quickly
as those left untouched and thus
a large garden can be planted at
trivial •cost.
NOT TOO DEEP
Almost everyone is incline& to
plant far too deeply. With tiny
seed such as that, of lettuce, sar-
coSn1OS, zinnias, poppies,
and alyssum, which are not much
larger than the head of a pin or
shingle nail, it is not necessary to
cover at all. We sow these in the
finest soil and merely press in.
Then, if possible we keep the
soil dampened until germination
starts. With larger seeds such as
nasturtiums, peas, beans and
corn, one should cover lightly,
say a quarter to half inch. With
bulbs or corms of gladiolus, dah-
lias, or potatoes, one plants four
to eight inches deep.
EAGLE V. OSPREY
The osprey, or fish hawk, just
hates old Bald Head! The eagle
is bigger than the osprey, and
is equally able to maneuver in
the air. He occasionally hijacks
a chOice fish from an osprey in
mid-air. .What a show this is!
When the fish hawk lets go its
prize, theeagle shoots after the
falling fish, sometimes seizing
it in. micalr.-. Brother osprey
must resunyeAlling then or go
hungry.
SHORT SNORTS
Home pigeons have been
known to carry messages over
800 miles . . . despite the fact
that they have been prOtected
from hunters for many years,
the quail in Ohio are at their
lowest population point in his-
tory . one pinch of snuff will
kill a fish or snake almost, in-
stantly and will anesthetize a
turtle for several hours . . .
the humming bird makes tip to
200 wing strokes per second,
while the 'wild duck makes only
eight , . male ants live but a
short time in adult State—tile
workers exist only a few months
—average life of a Twee ant is
:twelve months , the iridescent
color of a duck's, wing patehes is
" not due to pigment, but of stib-
micresccipie'PrismS breaking the
light on the surface of the
.teathers.
DIRTY BitIINKB ON "*'
INditiASE
A group of gangsters entered
a country tavern Where Several
fiSherinen were telling 'stories
and enjoying their bear, "We
Want privacy!" the leader di-
vidged. lie drew a piStot 'and
fired tWite. "All you, dirty
skunks, ;et bit herd" The
'.."ctiaterhers rushed ceittill
cept a Tekas' cowboy Whe stood
, watching the seette.
'"Welll" snapped the gengsteto
Waving ;his smoking gith4,
agliere Were a lot..ef 'ems
teattil there, PednertMlie 'cOW-
bey draMail,
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"BREAKS" MAKE FAMOUS MALE SINGERS Running Water
For Rural Homes ill FARM FRONT GREEN
THUMB
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Animal Husbandry Division at
the Lacombe Station, who have
done Mest ofthe work on the
• new breed as follows:— * 4, 4*
It apPears that the litter size
of the new breed, as measured
by number of pigs born alive
per litter, is about the same as
the ;Yorkshire.
The average birth weight of
pigs of the new breed is about
one-half pound 'greater • than for
Yorkshires.
Average weaning weight of
pigs of the new breed is some
five pounds greater than for
Yorkshires.
In rate of maturity the new
breed has a decided advantage.
Average carcass score is very
similar for the two breeds with
a slight adVantage for the York,
shire.
The crossbreds of the two
breeds appear to be equal qr
'superior to either breed in ail
important economic traits.
Pigs of the new breed have
gOod temperament, and the sows
are •good mothers.
Additional co-operative tests
are in progress with commer-
cial breeders by supplying, there
with boars to which half of
their sows are bred, while their
remaining sows are bred to their
own boars. Results from these
tests are not yet available.
ftfi,ich to the, chagrin of the
farmer's wife, only about one*
third ,Of the farms in Caned*
haVe water piped inside the
house, And even the city Wee
man feels the drought when
she spends her summers in a
lakeside cottage dipping water
from a rainbarrel or ,carrying
from a spring.
In the last five years, how-
ever, Prospects for a tap in the
kitchen have brightened cell-
siderably.
Hundreds ofCanadian• farm-
ers and summer cottagers 'have
laid pipelines from wells or
springs — all without benefit of
plumping experience and with
the minimum of time and
:muscle-power. The only tools
they needed were a jacknife,
screwdriver, and a plow Or a
shovel to open a shallow trench:.
AU this was made possible by
the development of a new typo
of pipe fOr cold water supplies
-- polythene piping. Polythene
is the plastic familiar in every
kitchen in flexible tumblers
and ice-cube trays. It has been:
used for years in such products
as dainty cosmetic squeeze=-
bottles. But it is also first-rat•
in a less-glamorous role
heavy-duty piping.
Polythene seems made-to,
order for piping. It is safe for
drinking water. It doesn't rust,
It is Sp: flexible that it can be
snaked around trees and rocks
/ and the handyman installing it
doesn't even have to dig a
straight trench.
It takes a truck to transport
traditional metal piping, 'but
polythene piping is so light a
boy can carry -400 feet of it on
his shoulder.
Even cautious farmers and
cottagers who prefer to wait
until they can find time to dO
their plumbing "properly'
even if it takes 10 years! — ,are
being convinced that modern,
polythene piping is no, tempo-
rary stop-gap. Since it resists
the corrosion which _ruins ordi-
nary galvanized water lines, its
makers see no reason 'why it
should not last "forever".
If science has come tip with
an easier and cheaper way od
getting water to the hoixse,' the
water pail may' be •• banished
'from the kitstien of thousands
of Canadian homes.
the big move he just "happen-
ed" to catch Sinatra's turn, at
that nightclub. He signed him.
They toured the country,,until
the James outfit ran into book-
ing trouble in Los Angeles. And
it "happened" that Tommy Dor-
sey's band was there, too, with
an opening for a singer.
James let Sinatra Out of his
contract. Frank went with Dor-
sey. And he made the records
that turned him, within a „few
years, into' the man who made
swooning a national pastime.
Things have to "happen" be-
fore a chanter becomes a star.
night-club (and thus discovered
Tony' B ennett) .
A phone call from. New York
to Canonsburg, Pa., came at just
the right time (and not three
hours later, by which time
Perry Como would have signed
a long-term lease on a barber
shop).
Harry James, Benny Good-
man's trumpet star, decided it
was time to• form a new band
(and happened to see' a young
singer named. Frank:Sinatra at
the same time)..
Eddie Cantor needed a vaca-
ion (and picked a resort where
skid named Eddie ',Fisher was
ppearing). '
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There are dozens of great
ingers out of work, hundreds
lamoring for auditions, thou-
ands eking out a living singing
n roadhouses and cheap night-
lubs. How come Bennett;
omo, Sinatra, 'Fisher and the
andful of top stars made it and
ese others didn't? They got
he breaks.
This is not to say the chart-
ers on top today aren't talented.
hey have to be ot 'the public
Ouldn't accept them.-But. -many
f the others are just airtalented
-maybe more so. They just
Seven years of thorough test-
eg, selection, and a moderate
tegree of inbreeding, have pro-
lUced a new breed of laacon
bags at the Canada Department
If Agriculture Experimental Sta.-
don, Lacombe, Alta, It is a
Visite breed with flop ears,
vhich distinguish it from the
Yorkshire, and contains the'.
Mood of the Landrace, Chester
?Mite and Berkshire breeds, but
lot of the Yorkshire.
Work on the new breed started
as a result of recommendation
by a committee appointed by the
Canada Department of Agricul-
ture in 1946, to study the swine
breeding situation in Canada
and the work of the Department
in relation to swine breeding
problems.
After investigating the work
then in progress in Canada and-
visiting several leading swine
research stations in the United
States, the committee recoils-
mended extension of research
and the improvement of the Ca-
nadian Yorkshire, and urged
development of a white bacon
breed, with no Yorkshire blood
in its foundation, suitable for
crossbreeding with the York-
shire. The latter approach was
suggested as an effort towards
utilizing hybrid vigor which has
been demonstrated in inany
crosses between breeds differing
in genetic background.
In 1947 the Lacombe Stati
obtained ten high-quality Ber
shire gilts from breeders, in Ox
tario. These were, bred to t
Landrace-Chester White boars.
Offspring of these crosse
were backcrossed in 1949 and
1950 to three other Landrace
ChesterWhite boars obtained
from the gentral Experimental.
Farm, Ottawa. In 1951 two pure
Landrace boars were obtained
.froin the United States Depart-
• ;thent of Agriculture to provide
;0r the inclusion of more Land-
race breeding in the lproject. . *
The foundation of the new
t breed therefore consisted of 10
" Berkshire sows, 5 Landrace-
Cheiter boars, which carried be-
tween 47 and 71 per cent. Danis
Landrace blood and 2 pure
Landrace boars. All animals se
lected were of good bacon type,
* *
Since 1952 the herd has bee
closed and matings have bee
'made from selections based 0
litter, individual, and litter mat
performance. Tests f011eevin.
standard Record of Performanc•
practices were conducted wit,
litter groups of 4 pigs fed in
piggery maintained at Lacomb
for the purpose. These tests pro
vide records of feed used, rat
of gain and an appraisal an
scoring of carcass quality :o
leanness based on rneasuremen
and weight. * *
Through the development o
the breed it has been compare
under identical conditions wit
a high quality strain of inbre
Yorkshires developed at La,
combo. In 1953 the comparativ
testing of the ..Yorkshires anc
the crossbreds of the two breed.
was extended to the Experimen
tal Station at Scott, Sask. I
1954 the test was extende
further by establishing a uni
of the new breed at the Experi
mental Farm at Indian Heac
Sask. * s
From all analysis of the test
made at all three stations, th
present evaluation ofthe bree
is summarized by J. G. Stothar
and D. If. T. Freedeen of th
haven't, been at the right place
at the right time,
Eddie Fisher got his good
breaks, like most of the Stars.,
after a tong string of bad ono, Once, for example, he was sing,
ing on a radio station in his
borne town, Philadelphia, He
got, an audition with a barn-
storming band, led by Ray Be-
duke, He was great. Beduke
liked him, It was all set for
Fisher to join the.1/nd in a few
days,
Eddie sat by the phone, wait-
ing for the call. $. The phone
didn't ring, It wasn't until Weeks
later—sad, depressed weeks —
that he learned the reason. The
band had broken up just before
it reached Philly again.
e *
And then thetre, was the time
be got a record contract, He
was only 18, and he'd just fin-
ieshed a 13-week stint at • the
Copacabana as" a produCtion
singer. People heard him and
there he was where he'd always
dreamed of being—making a
record. It was just a small spot
on Columbia record with the
Marlin Sisters, but it was a re-
cord.
There was just one trouble—
one bad break. It was during
the musicians' strike, and the
record just had a harmonica
background and it went no-
where.
But then, one day, out of the
clear blue Catskill sky, came'
the good • break. Eddie Cantor
came to Grossinger's, a Catskill.
Mountain resort, and 'heard Ed-
die sing. He stookshim with him
on a tour 'and helped him 'to his
RCA cotnract. And that break
paid off.
It was the same sort of good
break for Tony Bennett, when
Bob Hope heard himsingingt,in,
a Greenwich Village night-Chili.
He was just singing one,,xsumber
ber — the production number —
but Hope liked him. .And, like
'Cantor with Fisher; he was ge-
ing on tour and needed a young
male singer.
4* * *
Bennett's break led to another
one. On that Hope tour, Mitch
Miller of Columbia records
heard him and signed' him to a
record contract. Miller just
"happened" to bear him.
Perry Como has had his good
and bad breaks, too, He was
making a pretty good• living--
for Canonsburg, Pa., anyhow--
at barbering. He had his own
shop and netted $125 a week.
And he sang at local affairs.
Then,, more• or less on a dare,
he auditioned for a spot with a
Cleveland band. And he landed
it and decided to give singing a
fling. He could always go back
to cutting hair.'
He sang with bands for nine
years, the last seven with Ted
Weeins. When 'the Weems band
Upsidedown re P-revent Peeking
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his bullfrog in the butter churn,
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Butter Day Celebration. Robert
wanted to drop the frog into the
bucket of cream and let •the
croaker churn it by kicking
around. Might have Worked,
too, but the ludgest thought the
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og-tal ling Pitcher
About fifteen years ago, there
bowed up in the Brooklyn
Odgers' spring,. training camp
I Clearwater, Florida, a.= large
ight-hander by the name of
ea Ridge Day. fie • said he was -
arned after the little hill town
f- Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and he
• claimed to be a great .pitcher.
But he also claimed another
great distinction. 1-4 boasted
that he was the champion hog-
taller of Arkansas and several
adjoining states. And, without
any encouragement, he pro=
seeded to give a demonstration
of his art on the spot. He emit-
ted', a terrific and blood-eurdling
tiogscall .The guests dozing in
lobby chairs tumbled to the
floor in te.i.TOfj others, in
.their rooms, besieeed the
Switchboard with anxious
queries -as to Whether the fire
siren jest heaid ,:•ilidicateci a
blaze` ifi the neighborhood,
tut Pea 'Ridge Day: was a
pitchet after Weaker Wilbert
11,0bitiSdn'S OWri heart. The jo-
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big pitehera partiettlarlYi if their
hetidg weren't as strong ;as their
arniS, And Na ttiage tip tuck
with the . teeth,
D ulking bail gaines, P4ti Ridge
vas behold,,tied listen
to. Vveit tithe he grit* out
nian lie would' ettOtiS hands and
give forth With one of his
btateci hog-tellS that would
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lew-players, the end of Pea
Ridge Day was a tragic one,
One night, with his team mates
fast asleep on a train that was
taking them from Chicago to
Pittsburgh for an important
series, Pea Ridge suddenly, in
the dead of night, let loose with
one of his terrifying hog-calls
that awoke every man, on the
train. No one could sleep the
rest of that night. Weary from
lack of sleep, the team lost the
game the next day. Tile players
blamed the loss oil Pea Ridge
Day. They stepped 'laughing at
his antics and began to avoid
him, Front an amusing, clown
he turned into an annoying
nuisance,
Pea xsiage Da was hurt by
the •scorn of his leant rnateS.
Something seemed to snap
Side him. 11-e turned 'morose and
s id and kept to hibaself: His
pitching fibility 1611 off arid
soon completely vanished. The
Dodgers let him out. Arid, not
long after, Pea Ridge Day coin-
thitted' suicide'.
It was a sad end for a screw-
ball rOOkie who had all the ear -
Marks of becoming a great
pitcher. But the clewri had had
his clay. When they stopped
laughing at him his life •waS
he longer WOrtit 'living, And so
go tied off the Stage-forever,
Who WetteS sicietry imiaibeS
honesty troth' the polSoned
of life. -*WilliaM Bead Benet, etseiVildre'
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cihaVe Shielded'ageing, radleattlee'produett, doctor trees,
pro-Season the Wood; recite it fire retiStatil arid Stale itcr desired
shade while tree is 'growihg. Arlitt's eerieepticiiti.,iS froth a trade
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