Robin Roberts Signs With
Phillies For Over $50,000
To Be Highest Paid Hurler
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — Robin
Roberts Thursday signed a con
tract reportedly in excess of
$50,000, making the great right
hander the highest paid pitcher
in baseball and one of the top
salaried hurlers in National Lea
gue history.
The 29-year-old Roberts won 23
and lost 14 last year for the
fourth place Phillies in the Na
tional League. It was the sixth
straight year that the Spring
field, 111., native turned in a 20
or more victory season, a feat ac
complished by only four other
pitchers in baseball history —
Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson,
Three Fingers Brown, and Christy
Mathewson.
Roberts, almost a regular on
the National League all-star team,
was the workhorse of the league
in 1955, appearing in 41 games,
completing 26 and compiling an
earned run average of 3.28. He
pitched 305 innings, tops in the
league, allowing 137 runs and
292 hits. He struck out 160 and
issued only 53 wmlks.
Standard Oil Company
Of Californ a Will Sell
New Hi^h-Power Gasoline
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13
Standard Oil Company of Califor
nia today announced the West’s
first automotive gasoline made
with an aviation anti-knock fuel j
formula.
This aviation blend is available
only in Standard’s premium grade
gasoline.
Company engineers say the new
gasoline is designed to meet the
special performanc requirements
. of modern engines. These special
needs are the result of increased
compression ratios, radical cylin
der head designs, and critical
valve operation.
Extensive tests in Standard’s
laboratories and on the road indi
cate the new gasoline lengthens
valve life and reduces combustion
chamber deposits, thus improving
octane performance. A substantial
reduction in wear rate of piston
rings and cylinder walls also is
reported in the tests.
Spokesmen for Standard Oil
say the same benefits improve
performance of older cars as well.
The primary purpose of the new
blend, however, is to make possi
ble all the performance designed
into modern high-compression en
gines.
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Truman, In His Memoirs, Says Demos
Could Have Elected Stevenson In "52 If
WASHINGTON, UP) —Harry SA
Truman’s own version of the 1952
election campaign:
Adlai E. Stevenson would have
gained millions of votes if he had
listened to Truman’s advice—in
particular, if he had accepted
when the then President picked
him in January, 1952, as his
choice to head the Democratic
ticket.
And Dwight D. Eisenhower, in j
Truman’s view, should be j
ashamed of himself for knowingly
permitting a Republican “cam
paign of distortion and vilifica
tion.”
In the final installment of his
memoirs, Truman accuses Eisen
hower of exploiting the Korean
war for partisan gain and of ham
pering cease - fire negotiations
with his famous “I shall go to
Korea” campaign speech.
“No man,” Truman declares, [
“had less right to use this crisis |
for political purposes.”
In his memoirs, as serialized in
Life magazine, Truman says he j
favored the lale Chief Justice j
Fred Vinson at first for the Demo- ;
cratic nomination, but turned to
Stevenson when Vinson declined
it.
Stevenson, says Truman, was j
“flabbergasted” at the offer and j
—even as the nominating conven- ;
tion was opening—was unwilling j
to accept.
“I am sure that if Stevenson
had accepted in good faith the
proposition I made to him on Jan.
30, 1952, and enabled us to make
the proper buildup, there would
have been no convention contest
>
to speak of at Chicago, and I
think he would have received at
least 3 million more votes.”
Stevenson, actively campaign
ing for this year's nomination,
commented in Seattle that Tru
man may be right.
“But I don’t see how I could
have done it—in good faith—even
if 1 had wanted to,” Stevenson
added, “because I had already
asked the people of Illinois to
re-elect me as their governor and
it was too late to withdraw my
petition. You cannot run for two
offices at the same time.”
Too-Low Bids For The Old
Nenana Will Be Rejected
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The old i
sternwheeler Nenana may have a '
lot of sentimental value to Alas- !
kans but the top dollars and cents j
offer received today for it was
S5,101.
General Services Administration ;
offii^ils said the bid and three
other lower ones probably will
be rejected as too low and new
bids called. The Nenana, long,
used by the Alaska Railroad to
handle Yukon River freight and
some passengers, cost $250,000 to
build and $164,000 was spent on
it in 1952-53 for renovations. j
The top bid was from Decatur ]
Mills Corp, of Seattle. Other bids
were Robert Lober, Scarsdale,
N.Y., $4,655; Brant I. Sellick,
South San Francisco, $226.03, and
Theodore Richards, Fairbanks.
$179.79.
None of the bidders said what
they planned to do with the Ne
nana.
British Government
Has Emergency Program
To Stop Inflation
LONDON, —Prime Minister
Eden’s government clamped down
today on free-gpending Britons
with an emergency “stop infla
tion’’ program. It cut food subsi
dies, tightened installment buying
and reduced defense outlays 38
million pounds—$106,400,000.
Announcing the drastic meas
ures to a tense House of Com
mons, the new chancellor of the
Exchequer, Harold MacMillan,
said government spending in other
departments will also be curbed
rigorously.
The nation’s defense bill for
1955-56 is to be reduced to 1,499,
000,000 pounds ($4,197,200,000).
Yesterday MacMillan raised the
nationalized Bank of England’s
rate for lending money to 5Vfe j
percent, its highest level in 24 |
years.
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