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El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
The El Reno Daily Tribune
i Ribbon Newspaper Barling 11
taued daily except Saturday tram 307 South Rock Mud Avenue,
■rt entered u second-class mail matter under the act of March I, 1171.
RAT I. DYER
BUDGE H All LI DEAR WARD
Maaaiiiif Editor Brntaeae Manacar
HARRT SCHROEDEB
Circulation and Office Manager
member of the associated nuns
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Including Sale# Tax
Wednesday. July 1». I*5®
nut of these captive slaves a great people emerged. Their maaters sank
river of Chebar.—FStekiel 3:15. ________
Public Can Be Blamed
A1
S the war in Korea continues to ko badly
criticisms are bound to mount.
for our side,
People will be looking
m
VfOU know about the fellow
1 who, after several unsuccessful
attempts to alrect a traveler to a
certain place, finally gave up and
said “Well, you Just can’t get
there from here.”
A time or two Sunday It look-
ed as If such would be the case
when Charlie. Doc, Deed, Dud,
Lucy. Fay and Ellen were at-
tempting to erect the television
aerial at the SS8 ranch house.
In the first place the wind was
blowing a living gale. Jeopardizing
the life of anyone who mounted
the roof. In the second place.
Bud. the master mind on the Job.
forgot to tiring his superman
shoes and those he had were
new and slick as a greased pig,
rendering the situation well nigh
hopeless as his presence on the
roof was imperative, and should
he, by a slip, have been liqui-
dated, the whole thing would
have been off.
A third most Important item
In the success of the operation
was an accurate geographical
knowledge of the position of Port
Worth from whence stems channel
5. and while that progressive city
of the cow country has long
been the home of the major por-
tion of the participants in the
venture, the meanderlngs of the
trail leading to the SSS seemed
to have destroyed the Instinc-
tive sense of direction and led to
a place known as confusion.
In the morning, while I'm
pecking away at a typewriter
situated tn one of the two dor-
mer windows on the second
floor of the house, I heard an
Insistent rapping on the other
window across the room and di-
rectly behind me. Hating to be
disturbed. I ignored the Inter-
ruption but when I heard a yell
and the window being forced
from the outside, I looked
around. There hanging to the
sill was Bud.
His shoes hnd betrayed him
and in the split second between
the slip and the fall, Deed had
raised the window. Bud hoisted
himself Inside and I went on with
my pecking. Not until midafter-
noon did I again survey the
scene of action. Wandering out
out on the porch I beheld the
Jeep drawn up close to the walk
and on Its flat snout a scatter-
ment of tools and wire with gim-
micks and gadgets appertaining
to the problem at hand. Standing
in a somewhat lepsided geometri-
cal pattern were Lucy, Ellen, and
Charles holding on to guy wires
with Doc in the middle position
giving directions to no one in
sight. Everyone was staring into
the sky. mouths open, distress
clearly written on each anxious
countenance.
Moving to a better observation
post, I see Deed and Bud on the
roof. About Bud's middle is a
stout rope disappearing through
the window. I count noses and
ask "Where Is Fay?" and learn the
Is on the other end of the rope
giving Bud the necessary pur-
chase to hold him In position
against the wind and assurance
that though he fall there will be
no sudden stop at the end. The
men on the roof are certain the
proper pointer is pointing at the
proper point, but this confidence
doesn't extend to the ground
crew. I offer a listening ear to
the guy wire holders and learn
they do not agree with the sec-
ond story workers, nor the di-
rector of ground forces nor each
other as to the exact direction of
Fort Worth.
I go quietly away.
Not long thereafter I hear a
shout of supreme surprise.
"She works!"
"I didn’t think you could do It."
"I was afraid we couldn't get
it from here. Right the first
time.”
But the man on the far end
of the rope wasn't surprised.
He'd measured it on the map
and walked back over the hill to
Judge the height. He knew It was
right all the time.
f Some will blame the administration, or particular parts
of it like the state or defense departments Others will
jump on General MacArthur. or perhaps his field com-
mB Painful questions will be asked. Why haven’t our troops
made a better showing? Why haven’t they got more and
letter equipment to fight with? Where are the planes and
ships we need to dispatch reinforcements to buck up the
outnumbered Yank soldiers?
Superficially, the answers may not seem difficult to tintl,
and thev mav'indeed point to weakness and failure in our
government. ‘ Not alone in the administration but in con-
gress as well. . . , , , ,
If the investigators and critics go back far enough, as
they ought to do. they will find that when World war II
ended we disbanded our huge army and navy with tre-
mendous M|>eed. The war over, we allowed our soldiers to j
cast aside their weaitons and go home.
* * *
INTO the world vacuum created by the swift dismantling
1 of our military might moved the newly jiowerful Soviet
union. In the space of a few short years Russia was reach-
ing out to draw within her orbit nations we had thought
were safely free. When Chechoslovakia slid behind the
iron curtain we became alarmed.
Suddenly the call went out to strengthen our defenses ^ ^ ^ ^ „___________
America’s own military budgets were boosted, and , )o dqj. to have the wound I Dusty seized
dressed, the doctor knew that' PUir>|>ed vigorously,
there was another reason for his
being here.
Toad had witnessed the little
LITTLE DOCJs
Copyright 1950 by NlA Strvics, Inc.
XI
LTHOUOH Dusty Rhodes was
-- wounded, he wasn't hurt badly
and. while lie hud obviously come best there Is, In my book.
Job punching
"Mu.vbe she didn't know till she
,, or our intent ““SS SS "* " * “ “
have not been the man to keep) K]nd that slimy Toad was
again........... .....
soon we began voting money to help arm friendly nations
we thought could share the job of standing off militant
communism.
Yet never in the two years since the alarm was sounded
have we grappled realistically with our defense needs. Big,«-ene fro"t.of ‘^\ °"lce when
as the U S. defense outlay has been, it hasn’t been large ]ume, ** Kit.
enough to qualify as more than
resist.
All these decisions, from the whirlwind disbanding of Ljjent Rt,out it. The story could jytn- when he told me I'd lost my
our World war II forces to the economies of 1949-50, can have been embellished and-related giri” Dusty looked up at Little
lie ascribed either to the present administration or to the to Dusty In such a way that Dusty's j doc again: "Can I borrow a shirt,
congresses that have server! since 1945. feelings toward Uttle Doc would dob? I'm in a hurry."
... .....'— — ......“* "Sure.' said Doe. "But first, spill
the news. What happened to Toad?"
i “Constable Butch Bell found a
I Jail for It. {cabin with a dead man Inside. Me
Dusty eyed Little Doc a moment :and Toad were lookin' for Long
and then stepped Into the office.!Andy and so It wasn't accidental
"Yon beat me bark to town. Doc," when we found him. It turned out
he drawled. "But I'm glad you did. I to be a little gun ruckus. , Long
it had been broken up, because they did not Mieve public I got u little job for you—providin'!Andy hated the sneaking Toad and
opinion would support such a program. President Truman my credit's still good i unit e\en shot him on sight, but Toad lasted
and his advisers and the nation’s top congressional leaders P““* you for the last tune you long enough to put a bullet in Long
make a business of judging what the )>eople will stand for. p“t‘,"'(i 1111 llp
It was their considered view that a really adequate defense I I!,r *irln
was not among those things.
Perhaps these men should have shown the wisdom and uk(. ()ff shlrt and ^
courage to lead public opinion rather than be gUid.nl by it; |whftU wtat„ uttlp Uoi. aaW. „e
but the politicians, generally, do not take that course. They lu,lpcd llu, eoWpunchtr shed his
Dusty. Kit likes you better. She i gambling debts to him and Toad,
told me so. You’re getting a mighty I shot Blackjack that night and
fine girl for a wife. Dusty. The that's partly the reason, but he was
| tryln' to cold-deck me in a game
Doc's band and too. Toad took the I.O.U.’s to Kit
‘Honest? Why, and she gave him the hotel."
I've asked that girl to marry me
so many limes that I've lost count.
• *
ROWN1E appeared Just as Little
Why didn't she say yes?" I Doc found a clean shirt for
Dusty, and added:
"Brownie wants a
not alone in accord with
thorn: they acted in response
measured it.
* *
the world realities as they saw,
. ... » • ,i Dusty shot up Doc and went to
to public opinion as they 11 uai*
AND the inescapable truth is that thev did not keep a big-
■** ger defense establishment in being, or restore it once
Tile gi In remained
mouth but. hts eyes were not smil-
follow the |>eopIe.
It is the American people themselves who have dictated
the present state of our defenses. In the face of a clearly
great menace from Russia, they have chosen to go on living
comfortably, even luxuriously. They have wanted business
as usual and life as usual.
The price of complacency and softness is often high.
We’re paying it now on the bloody battlefields in Korea.
And we’ll go on paying until we wake up to the kind of a
fight we’re in. Russia is playing for keeps, and we'd lietter
learn to do the same.
last time _ _______
Andy's head. During the smoke. I
on Dusty's got nicked in the arm by a stray
chunk of lead. I left Butch to
bring in the two dead men, while
I got patched up. And—” Dusty
paused, "-and I wanted to ask
you a question or two, but I've
got the answers now."
"Toad cheated Kit out of her
Doc said.
'Yes. Butch told me." said Dusty.
"And the deal was a fraud. Kit
will get back the hotel. It seems
that Blackjack Lambert forged
some I.O.U.'s Rnd told her they
We’ll have sunshine for 86,000,000 years, says an astron-
omer—the brightest thing we’ve heard in a long time.
Who remembers when homes were plentiful and
moving man had a load on his mind every day?
Down Memory Lane
shirt. Then he .sponged the bullet
rip below Dusty’s shoulder muscle.
"Not bad." said Little Doc. crossing | hotel,
the room to get hts antiseptic solu-
tion from the medicine cabinet.
"We'll have you fixed up so you
can go back to the round-up."
"I knew it wasn't bad, Doc,"
Dusty spoke again. He eyed the
loom. "Say! You sure got the Old
Whitehousr swamped out, Doc.
Dutch John told me you've been
bu-y as a bird dog, too. Night and
day, he said. You must be makin'
money."
"Not money, but a living,” said
Doc, spilling a little of the anti-
septic on some cotton. "Very few
people pay me In cash, you know.
But I get goods and services
aplenty.” He grinned a little as
he applied antiseptic to the wound.
"But I hadn't thought about the
money end of it. All money Is good
for is to buy medicine and sup-
| still
July 19. 1925
Mrs. Lee Rohde and son, Carter, returned Saturday from
a six-week visit with relatives in San Antonio, Tex. They {plies from the druggist over in
were accompanied by her niece, Virginia Hensley, who will oiaagow. My patients give me
s|>end the remainder of the summer here and in Oklahoma everything else i need. M.v credit's
City.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gardner and family, Mr. and Mrs.!
Ruford Meschberger of Calumet were the guests Sunday of
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Corwin. i . _ .
Mrs. Ray McCormack and daughter, Nedra. will depart and
this evening for |xiints of interest in Colorado, New Mexico
and California. They expect to be gone about a month.
good with the druggist."
• • ♦
USTY RHODES winced as the
antiseptic bit Into hts raw
Hts
If you're a friend of Doc’s you
gol the Job. Brownie," said Dusty.
Brownie shook his head. “No,
Mr. Rhodes. I can't take it. I
throwed in with Long Andy and
Shorty on a horse-stealing deal."
'You must've had a good reason."
"He was broke and he had a
wife and baby in Chinook," Doc
explained.
“But you wouldn't want to hire
a horse thief, Mr. Rhodes," said
Brownie.
(To Be Concluded)
Honest or Dishonest,
Driver Pays Fine
ST. PAUL. Va., July 19 —(U.R)—
Patrolman William McKeand was
listening closely to the testimony
at a court hearing. He learned that
the driving permit of Harry Fair-
baim had been suspended.
When Fairbuim left the court-
house, the officer followed him.
Pair balm climbed Into his car and
hadn't got away from the curb
when he was arrested for driving
without a license.
He was fined 350. He had gone to
court in the first place only to
testify as complainant in a hit-
were given to him by her father for I and-run case.
Feathered Creature
Answer to Previous Puzzta
HORIZONTAL
1.6 Depicted
bird
13 Vegetable
14 Feminine star
15 Goddess of
infatuation
16 Distributed,
as cards
18 Climbing herb Estranged
19 Egyptian sun 17 Q0y<s
5 Within (comb,
form)
6 Fish
7 Hawaiian
goddess
8 Wiles
9 Artificial
language
10 Tear
11 New York lake
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IBI2MI AtZllsJUHll li-liri”
Mr. Brewer
Wednesday, July 19, 1960 1 j
By Dare Breger
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Service Correspondent
GI Insurance Payments Slow;
$230,000,000 Still Unpaid c
WASHINGTON, July 19— i NEA <
—Payment of first OI insur-
ance dividend Is going to run into
payments of the second one, which
will start the first of 1951. TTiere
are still about 3230,1)00.000 as yet
undistributed In the first payment.
The unpaid cases involve policies
with lost record. The second divi-
dend. which will continue into the
future as long as the life of a
policy, will go only to those vete-
rans who have kept Ureir GI In-
surance active.
• * *
U. S. contrlbuUon to the united
nations now costs every American
citizen about 10 cents a year. Of
this sum. three cents goes to Uie
economic and social council, two
cents apiece for the security coun-
cil and general expenses, one cent
apiece for the general assembly
and public information. The re-
maining cent covers the world
court, trusteeship council and pub-
lic administration.
* • *
In this same connection, outlook
for pre-fabricated housing may
pick up. It Isn't that this housing
la much cheaper, or that it can be
produced with less man-hours of |
labor.
But It can be produced centrally,
under shelter, with power tools, by
rapid mass production and at all
seasons of the year. And it is
highly mobile, which Is most im-
portant.
* * •
Governor Lausche says now that
hts governors' conference state-
ment about Senator Taft and his
Democratic opponent. State Audi-
tor Joseph T. Ptrguson. was all a
mistake. The Ohio governor says___
reporters at White Sulphur Springs' 17th century.’’ Say, "This
kept pestering him for an inter- from the 17th century."
view. Merely to accommodate them OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED:
he agreed to hold a press con- Puissant (potent; mighty; forcible),
ference. He didn't Intend to say Pronounce pu-i-sant, n as in use, I
strategy to “stay In Washington
to win the war and save the coun-
try." It also saves campaign ex-
pense for candidates up for re-
election. And it saves wear and
tear of campaigning during the
dog days.
* * *
Honor guest at the Ohio Drive
dedication was Interior Secretary
Oscar Chapman. Senator Robert A. \
Taft was there, too. and quite a
list of Ohio notables. In a slip of
the tongue. Representative Thom-
as A. Jenkins referred to Chap-
man as "Secretary of Agriculture."
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche
then referred to him as "Secretary
of State." As photographers took
their final shot of Secretary Chap-
man. one of them said, “Thank
you, Mr. President." Cracked the
grinning Chapman. "Fastest set of '
promotions I ever had in my life."
* * *
One of those tremendously
wealthy Texas oilmen came to
Washington not long ago to see
his congressman and protest
against the government's allowing
so much foreign-produced oil to
come into the country. It was ruin-
ing him, the oilman complained.
with the story—merely said: "Don't
you know that if the government
puts a limit on the importation of
foreign oil, it will be the first step
towards government control of the
oil Industry?” The oil man thought
this over for a moment, then got
up and left.
The congressman — who doesn't ,
want hts name used In connectionJ
Lesson in English
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do'
not say. “This dates back to the
dates
supimrt a wife besides. Doc?"
voice had lost its drawl.
• Wife? What wife, Dusty?"
"You know what wife. Quit stall-
ing. We're talking about Kit."
Doc took a roll of bandages out
July 19, 1940
Mrs. Hazel Hurst Ricketts, 716 South Roberts avenue,
is one of the authors whose poems are included in the 1940
SttHJas-SMrSJi m£43
volume, but only a few hundred of these were found to write
poetry of sufficient merit to be accorded a place in the book.
I. L. Curry, superintendent of the Canadian county poor
farm charged with embezzlement, has taken additional time
in which to enter a plea to the charge, according to county
court records. His bond has been set at |500.
Paul R. Taylor, superintendent of schools, and five mem-
bers of the board of education have been appointed to serve
on the National Youth administration’s advisory board for
tlw El Reno NYA project, it was announced today by Bruce
Carter, state administrator who made the appointments.
Someone else?" Dusty's voice
was Incredulous.
"Yes. Dusty. She's waiting for
you now. over at her house,” Doc
said, fastening the bandage with
adhesive tape. "There, your arms
fixed. You'd better get over there
right away and see her."
Dusty thumbed back the hat off
his sweat-matted hair. “Let me
get this straight. Doc."
"There's nothing to get straight,
god
20 Deity
22 It is found
- hedges
•3 Dreadful
!5 Burden
27 Poor section
28 Minced oath
29 Not (prefix)
30 Half an em
31 Greek letter
32 Parent
33 Pare
35 Volcano in
Sicily
38 Primitivs
39 Peruse
40 Correlative of
either
41 Sallies ,
47 Italian rlvff
48 Seed vessel
50 Missiles
51 Indian weight
52 Summary
54 French river
56 Regret
57 Nautical cries
VERTICAL
1 Amasses
2 Involve
3 Expire
4 Leave
nickname
20 Small buds
21 Pullman cars
24 Spoiled
26 Akin
33 Correct
34 It is native to
36 Household
linen
37 Worships
42 Scent
43 Male sheep
44 Woody plant
45 Pronoun
46 Spanish river
49 Indistinct
51 River in
Hungary
53 Preposition
55 Exclamation
of surprise
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Look and Learn
1. Will an object weighing 10
pounds fall 10 times as rapidly as
one weighing one pound?
2. What was the first capital to
fall In World war II?
3. Which Is wider at Its widest
point. North or South America?
4. What Is the only prime num-
ber that Is an even number?
5. How many squares are there
on a checkerboard?
ANSWERS
1. No; weight alone has no ef-
fect on the rate of speed of falling
objects.
2. Warsaw. Poland.
3. South America.
4. Two.
5. Sixty-four.
Problem a Day
Tam can mow his lawn In 446
minute* and with the help of his
brother he can do it In 20 min-
utes. How long would It take his
brother alone?
36 minutes. The fractional part
done by Tam In 1 minute la 1/45,
and by both boys 1/30; subtract
1/45 from 1/10; divide Into I.
anything startling about the Ohio
senatorial candidates, one way or
the other.
* • *
YNCREASED demand for rubber
* may get U. S. out of a tough
hole In Brazil, where controversy
over coffee prices has strained re-
lations. During the last war, U. S.
Rubber Development corporation.
as in It unstressed, a as in ant, ac-
cent first syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Phase (a
stage of development). Faze icollo-
qulali; (to disconcert). /
SYNONYMS: Misery, wreehed-
ness, distress, despondency, un-
happiness. affliction.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word
three times and it Is yours.” Let
an RFC subsidiary, encouraged us increase our vocabulary by mas-
Brazilians to grow a lot of natural
rubber.
At the end of the war, U. S. cut
buying from Brazil because price
was higher, quality lower and de-
mand less. This made the Amazon
valley planters sore. Now they're
hoping business may pick up again.
* * *
One reason some congressmen
haven't wanted to adjourn the
present session too soon Is that
they figure it's good
tering one word each day. Today's
word: PROPITIATION; that which
appeases, or conciliates. (Pronounce
second syllable plsh>. “No words of
propitiation could influence him to „
relent." I
RETURNS FROM TRIP
Mrs. Earl Cranmer. 600 North
Macomb avenue, has returned from
Fort Knox. Ky„ where she has
been a guest of her brother. Cap-
campaign 1 tain Lloyd FTsher.
f.
■'Three strike* i> out?”
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