Az Ujság, 1951 (31. évfolyam, 25-35. szám)
1951-08-16 / 33. szám
Crappie Lore REDS PLAY HOST . . . Two North Korean soldiers haul a case of beer across the courtyard in Kaesong as the Communists played host to allied delegates at the truce conference. The talks on a cease-fire agenda for the Korean war were in recess at the time until the Reds could get advice from Peiping. The Communists finally acceded on their demand for removal of all foreign troops in Korea. PLEA ON CONTROLS ... In Washington. D. C., Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston declares emphatically <h"t the house of representatives in its. .actipfl.ojj, .coptro)? legislation this (far,, has .kieked the. ,American people in the teeth and in the pocketbook, as welt as the stomach. Johnston told newsmen that congress has passed proposals which would make completely unworkable any plans for controlling living costs. INTERNATIONAL CAMP . . . Leis of welcome are offered by Joan Castroverde of Hawaii to Marilyn Stewart, Oswego, Ore., and Kiyoko Yámanouchi, Tokyo, Japan. These girls are delegates to the international Girl Scout encampment at Home Valley, Wash. There are 96 Girl Guides and Girl Scouts here from 14 countries and territories. The encampment is pioneer in style with all the girls living in tents and cooking their meals over open fires. COSTELLO IN CONTEMPT . . . Frank Costello arrives at federal court house, New York City, after indictment on charges of contempt of the U.S. senate. Charges stem from his refusal to answer questions by senate crime committee. ENLISTED MEN FRATERNIZE ... While United Nations and Communist armistice delegates disagreed over a demarcation line in Korea in, their cease-fire negotiations, two soldiers of opposing sides get together for a little by-play. On the road to Kaesong, Cpl. Early F. McIntosh, Brooklyn, general headquarters photographer, receives a Chinese Mao Tze-Tung emblem from a Chinese Communist soldier. The ceremony was performed in mock seriousness. HUSBANDS NOTICE! . . . Writer Revecca Reyher, back from Africa, says man doesn't pay enough attention to his wife. She cites as example a chief who took 104 wives, but lost 54 of them because they became lonely. ____ It numbers mean anything, one of the more important game fishes in the midwest is the crappie. This is no bait-smashing, rod-bending battler. Old "Spots” is almost gentle. But, make no mistake about it, he is a crowd pleaser. There’s something intriguing about crappie fishing. The crappies are members of that ever-popular family, the sunfishes. And, if they can be compared, they may be easily identified. The white crappie has the shorter dorsal fin, is the longer of the two fish, and has a "dished” forehead. Both fish have deepbodied, much flattened profiles so typical of the panfish. Both are sprinkled with black on a silver background. There is a difference in color patterns, however. The white crappie has its black spots carelessly spaced in loose, vertical bars, while the black crappie is as liberally and aimlessly sprinkled as a piece of Grandma’s calico; whence it gets one of its common names— calico bass. As one might expect, color is the weakest of characters, for the young black crappie are barred as are white crappie. Positive identification requires closer observation. Fishermen commonly separate the two fish by counting the spines of the dorsal fin. Usually the black crappie has seven or, perhaps, eight spines; whereas, the white crappie commonly has six. A combination of color pattern and spine count almost always establishes the identity of one’s fish. Crappies normally spawn in May in most midwest waters. Neither species is a colonial nest builder as are many sunfish. Fifteen or twenty feet usually separate individual nests. Root wads and weed clumps are preferred sites, although depth of water is apparently immaterial. Nesting areas may be found in ten inches or ten feet of water. Throughout the range of these fishes, the black is found in cooler, clearer waters and seems to prefer a hard bottom; the white is well pleased in warmer, more turbid waters and is not averse to mud bottoms. The same preferences are exhibited in choosing nesting sites. Count of eggs taken from ripe females show one-half pound fish producing twenty thousand to sixty thousand eggs. Fish weighing one and one-half pounds may produce as many as one hundred and for'7 th’ousand eggs. Such a reproductive capacity is a veritable dynamo of productivity. White crappie build up populations faster than do black crappie. Since both species readily become overpopulated in small bodies of water, the black crappie is logically the more desirable fish for lake stocking. Neither is suitable in re*-' stricted pond waters. There are occasional reports of two- and three-pound crappies, and larger fish have been caught. None the less, the average good crappie weighs about ten ounces. Although crappie have been kept in aquaria for ten years, a sevenor eight-year veteran is an old warrior. Crappie are school fish and are well traveled. A quarter-mile journey is not unusual during the daily reconnaissance for food. Both species are weed-loving fish and it is not surprising that they take a large variety of aquatic insects. Although a bucket of small minnows is standard equipment for crappie fishermen, food studies reveal that these fish take about ten times as much other food as they do minnows but nevertheless a properly placed minnow approaches the irresistible where crappie are concerned. Fly and bait casting equipment take a respectable number of fish. Small plugs, spoons, or fly and spinner combinations are quite successful when properly used. To insure a full stringer, crappie fishermen should first select a promising location. A submerged brush pile, a fallen tree, a weed bed —these are the reserved sections in the tournament of the spotted sunfish. Once a school has been located, strikes are numerous. But the angler must take advantage of his good fortune; these foraging feeders come and go as quietly as a summer breeze. AAA. The long slender filaments of feathers are indifferent conductors of heat, but retain a considerable amount of air which resists the egress or ingress of internal or external heat, thus keeping birds comfortable in hot or cold weather. AAA Large Spinners The important fact to remember when using large casting spinners is to keep them moving fast enough to make the blades spin freely, whether casting or trolling. It is a good idea to reel the lure through the water close to you a few times to get an idea of how fast it must be worked for best results. These lures, as a rule, must be moved much faster than the smaller spinners to get effective flash and action. JETS FOR ALLIES .... Jet fighters are loaded aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Corregidor at Port Newark, N.J. The planes are for delivery under the mutual defense assistance program to Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France. The Corregidor, a baby flattop, was recently de-mothballed by the Atlantic reserve fleet. The planes are F-84E jets. DULLES BURNED IN EFFIGY . . . John Foster Dulles was hanged and burned in effigy in Manila, while over 5,000 indignant demonstrators denounced the U.S. ambassador as "betrayer of Filipino-American relations.” Organized by the Liberal Youth League, the burning of Dulles reached the climax of the Philippines’ protestation against the "unfairness” of the proposed Japanese peace treaty when it sidestepped reparations to the Philippines for Jap war damages. WAR POSTSCRIPT ... In Berlin, a “monster” is pushed into a truck as the relieved neighborhood, cautiously keeping a distance, peers at the police and detonation experts. The "monsters” are undetonated bombs, droppd by allied planes during the last war. Although dormant for several years, the fuses are still intact and sensitive to the slightest jar. The Heavyweight Division STEPPING into the heavyweight picture we have the feeling that we’ve just invaded a squirrel cage or stuck our features into a revolving fan. Just what is the heavyweight division, anyway? Walcott whips Louis but doesn’t get the decision. Then Louis knocks out Walcott. Ezzard Charles gives Louis a bad trimming. Ezzard Charles then gives Walcott two unhappy evenings by knocking Jersey Joe around. Then along comes Rex Layne and whips Walcott, making it practically unanimous. For r" Jersey Joe is now c*ose *° years In the midst of I confusion Rocky KmÄH. k' I Marciano knocks out Rex Layne, late Grantland Rlc. conqueror of Walcott. Then the aging Walcott knocks out Ezzard Charles. If you can make anything out of this pretzel-shaped situation, you have considerable on us. Louis, Walcott, Charles, Marciano and Layne are all in the jumble. Three of these have given Jersey Joe a healthy powdering—Louis, Charles and Layne. On a matter of percentages Ezzard Charles is still ahead. But Jersey Joe Walcott is the heavyweight champion of the world. He not only holds a knockout over Charles but he beat him six. out of seven rounds by outboxing and outfighting him. On top of this scrambled heavyweight situation we have Robinson and Turpin moving into the scenery shortly. Jim Norris admits that Madison Square Garden can’t handle over two btj fights in one month. This leaves a fkj.: of heavyweights on the outside lulling in. Having won two out of three matches from Walcott, Charles deserves his return bout. But Louis has been training for another shot at Charles for over a year. And Marciano, backed by A1 Weill, says he won’t meet anyone but the champion. If Walcott and Charles meet, a Louis-Marciano contest would be highly important, as well as interesting, since both Louis and Marciano can hit with the impact of a brick at close enough range. It would be more than interesting to see Marciano piling into Joe Louis as he piled into Rex Layne. KING LEOPOLD ABDICATES . . . Leopold III, fourth king of the Belgians, signs abdication papers, ending an unhappy 17-year reign. He abdicated in favor of his son, Prince Baudouin (standing at right) who was formally crowned King Baudouin I in ceremonies before the joint house of the parliament. Controversy over King Leopold's rule caused rioting and near revolution in the nation recently as pro-Leopold factions clashed with anti-Leopold groups on the streets. No Big ^ars <j The heavyweight situation today Is the most highly Involved in many, many years. It is now evident that with a 38- year-old fighter—one who had lost his last four important matches to Louis, Charles and Layne—the new world’s champion, the quality of this rickety division isn’t any Mt. Everest peak. It has to be pretty low. But as long as it is now a big four-cornered matter among old rivals, it has at least taken on a keener degree of national interest than anything we have seen since Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey left us, over 20 years ago. For example, most of the old-time boxers that I talked to after the Marciano-Layne fight were confident Charles could take both Walcott and Marciano. As it developed Charles couldn’t take Walcott alone in his third stab, and Marciano’s status, he man who wrecked Layne who beat Walcott who knocked out Charles, is still a mystery. Where does this lead us? We are deeper in the underbrush than we were at the start of the argument. If the Past Performance Chart means anything at all the four men left are about as evenly matched as one could hope to find. Rex Layne is still two years away, waiting for the day when he can discover what a left hand means. Rocky Marciano might be in the same fix regarding experience, of which he has had little in high-class boxing society. Ezzard Charles was regarded as a good, careful boxer who couldn’t punch. Against Walcott he looked to be in a half daze. He made very little active effort to defend his slipping crown. He must have seen that said crown was skidding rapidly and yet he still wouldn’t make a threatening gesture. It was a sad performance on the part of a defending champion. But there was nothing sad about the way Walcott finally won the big title. * • • Looking Ahead The American League dominance in baseball will never return again by any heavy margin—not while most of us are inhaling the thin breath of life. I mean by that the A.L. won’t again have a Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx and Greenberg operating its salvos. These four hit more than 2,000 homers, if our memory is intact. Babe Ruth had around 714, Lou Gehrig—494, Foxx—534 and Greenberg had 331. & W WAGE ENFORCER . . . The wage stabilization board has named Miss Helen Humphrey, Detroit, chairman of its three-member national enforcement commission. She previously served as attorney for regional offices of the national labor relations board. EDITOR . . . J. Parnell Thomas, former U. S. representative who was convicted of padding his office payroll, will serve as editor and publisher for Community Press Publications, which will operate three small weeklies in New Jersey. RED WRITERS . . . Two British correspondents for Communist newspapers are attending the Kaesong peace talks. Wilfred Burchett (left) works for the Red Ce Soir, Paris, and Alan Winnington corresponds for the London Daily Worker. NEW NAZIS . . , Black-shirted groups are re-forming in Western Germany. This is Heino Goesche, founder of the League of Young Germans (BJD), a group dedicated to the memory and philosophy of the late fuehrer, Adolph Hitler. NEW CHIEF . . . Vice-Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, who automatically succeeds Admiral Forrest P. Sherman as chief of that agency, talks over the telephone. Admiral Sherman succumbed to a heart attack. ♦
