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Chicago Youth Talented Musician;
Pete Fischer Gets CBS Press Berth
Pete Fischer, Chicago and New
York’s gift to instrumental music
and arranging, has landed a solid
and responsible spot with the
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem) core of press, radio and tele
vision press corps.
Fischer writes press publicity
for 10 radio shows, and is respon
sible for making up the daily CBS
radio « network calendar, listing
the various programs and details
for the radio editors all over the
country.
The lone sepia in this particu
lar division, Fischer has an im
pressive, business management,
music and communications back
ground. He is a product of Engle
wood High school and Wilson'
Junior college, back in Chicago.
Fischer was hired by CBS as
a writer on the basis of his free
lance radio and magazine work
over a 10-year period,with lead
ing magazines including Down
Beat, Variety, Billboard and other
similar sheets. He handles the
talent agency and newspaper con
tacts and plans and executes pub
licity for the following programs
on the CBS Radio:
“Church of the Air”; “Mr. Keen,
—Tracer of Lost Persons,” “Gang
busters,” “Mr. Chamelon,” “The!
Line Up,” “Garden Gate,” “City
Hospital,” “Saturday at the
Chase,” “Gunsmoke,” “Curt Mas
sey Time,” which recently fea
tured Duke Ellington among a
variety of other duties.
Father of Blues
Continued from Page 1
Miss Gloria Swanson and Mrs.
F. H. LaGuardia—and how he
played the “S(. Louis Blues” on
his trumpet during the occasion,
and how the Elks’ band played |
“Hike With Ike” and the author,
Jack Gould, sang it with them as
he did at the GOP National Con
vention.
He told how he appeared on
television with Vice President
elect and Mrs. Nixon, with Sen
Nixon’s arm around him. Refer
ring to this he wrote—“I thought
that would have been a good story
for the Race papers, but, no!
Then the aged artist unbridled
all his feelings, stating:
“The Press forgets this famous
quotation—‘I care not who make;
the Nation’s laws, if I can write
the nation’s songs.’
“They discriminate in so man}
ways, because I wrote the St
Louis Blues, but forget that
wrote the anthem, ‘They that Sov
in Tears, Shall Reap in Joy,’ anc
hundreds of other sacred compo
sitions that could be sung in choir:
of the nation. They also forget |
that the ‘St. Louis Blues’ makes
me about as much money as if I
were a congressman or a college
president and that his song glori-j
ties our Race around the world,
the celebrated composer wrote.
“So, for ‘rank discrimination* I
wonder at times who is most to be
blamed—the opponents of the civil
rights or some of my folk,” he
continued.
j “Monday before election I rode
in a motorcade. The car carried I
my name on a banner and some
one threw papers from the Newj
York Timesjdated, Oct. 24, attack-'
ing Gov. Dewey with their names
signed, forgetting that New York,
;under Gov. Dewey was the first
I state in the union to wipe outj
race discrimination with an FEPC
> law.
“1 appeared on Television with
Eisenhower at the Astor hotel. He
' introduced me and ’ made, a short
talk telling about our song, “Hike
[ with Ike.’ I am a Republican by
' tradition. I was born in Florence,
I Ala., birthplace of the first Negro
■ elected to congress from the north,
; Oscar DePriest, and the home of
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Question: Can you tell me what
to use on a concrete retaining wall
for color? Should it be oil paint,
waterpaint, whitewash, or colored
cement? Part of the wall was
treated with water-repellent, and
holds whitewash well, but the
other parts did not.
C.J.H., Staten Island, N.Y.
Answer: If you want to stick to
whitewash, and makjc it stick, try
one of these: 1 oz. of alum to a
gallon of whitewash; or, 1 pint
of molasses (or I pound sugar
dissolved in hot water as a substi
tute) to each 5 gallons of white
wash. Both stick well. You may
also use oil base outside paints, or
those with a resin emulsion. You’ll
have more trouble making colored
cement stick to waterproofed sur
faces.
Question: Our middle-aged
house is equipped with half
screens which ride up and down
on a wood molding. These screens
do not fit flush against the bot
tom and small sized insects gain
easy entry. Is there any way we
can seal these openings and still
have the screens work?
C.S., Baltimore, Md.
Answer: You might plane or
sand the lower edges of the
screens to fit the uneven sills by
first drawing a pencil line along
the sill-and-screen joint to dis
cover the points that fit poorly,
then remove the causes of trou
pe. Or, you might apply felt
weather-stripping to the under
James T. Rapier, congressman in
Reconstruction Days. Many times,
my father told me how he helped
lide Rapier from the Ku Klux
Klan on an island in the Tennes
see river until they could spirit
nim away to Washington.
“You will not see that in the
papers, but it’s in my books,” he
wrote.
• Ending on a philosophical note,
The Father of the Blues state:
“This letter is written in the
spirit of Thanksgiving with the
hope we will continue to ‘render
unto Caesar that which is Caeser’s
and render unto God thanks for
the blessings bestowed on us, most
especially, from the day of Lin
coln’s Emancipation Proclama
tion.”
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Question: I plan to cover my
basement joists with ceiling tiles,
and have to set the copper water
pipe and electrical conduits back
into notches in the joists, but havei
been told this will weaken the'
joists. Can you suggest a solution?
D.J.T., Lansing, 111.
Answer: It is a better plan to
disconnect the electrical wiring,
and run BX cables through
drilled holes in each joist it must
cross. If your water pipe is flex
ible tubing, do the same with it.
, If rigid pipe, you may cut notches
to recess the pipe but cover each
I notch with a heavy steel plate the
width of the joist, and drilled with
: holes for at least two screws on
each side of the notch. Best way
is to relocate the pipe along one
wall and box it in.
Question: We are bothered with
ants' in the basement which seem
to appear each time the floor is
washed and waxed. They are dif
ficult to get rid of. Can you sug
gest any treatment?
R.G., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Answer: Chlordane is one of the
most successful poisons in com
batting ants. In liquid or powder
form, spread chlordane around all
| cracks and wall joints where en
' trance is possible. Also, along door
and window sills. This, and other
methods of getting rid of ants was
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order to keep this City in or
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We urge all citizens to purchase
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der that the purpose for which it
is intended will be achieved. Lin
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