The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 58, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 15, 1949 Page: 4 of 8
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El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
l«Ufd dally except Saturday from *)7 South ~Roek^Tj.l.n^
and entered aa aecond-claas mall matter under the
Friday, April 15, 1949
Champion Flagpole Sitter
Mr. Breger
By Dave Brei
BUDGE HARLE
Manasin* Editor
HARRY SCItROEDER
Circulation and Offlre Manager
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PI
■nie Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the u
or all the local hews printed In this newspaper as v
dispatches.
OAT down to do this daily stint
^ and began with a diatribe on
the demonical persistency ol
people using Red Cross as a'place
to throw the hot potato.
You and I both know the
l>eople ol Canadian county are
not sufficiently generous for us
to take care of all the queer
requests which come to us every
day. but it is easier to send people
to as for us to say "no” than for
Hie approachee to tell the ap-
proacher that he ithe approacheei
will not help him ithe approacheei
and that neither will anyone else
because the request Is unreason-
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Friday, April 15, IMP)
-met, ,u« n,,< understand Paul, lie sincerely laved
very much to help them. They did not undentan.
ef„l not to resent well intention..! help. In perils |»
aen —2 Cor 11:20
King f rjturr*_Stndk-ar*.
WodJ ri»hu
Gadgets Are Taking Over
E'7eR,\/10W .an(i ,hen we K»-t an uncomfortable recline
Hint the robots lire after us. That is old-fogevism, and
mII.v to boot. I eople have probably been complaining about
o\ ci-mechanization since the day when some speed-mad
JJjjJJJ invented lh‘‘ whe‘‘> started the whole thing
- Bllt 'Le •st,il1 >fet that feeling. The latest twinge came
—— —,.t answers the phone for
A wire recorder permits the callers
a message, and also informs them of the obvious
never did figure out what
_t back.
is now an electric brain
. ,, folks who use it say it
Occasionally charges you too little,
«n e|,wliric brain that plays chess. If that is
opponent, it will condescend
sets can choose from a selec-
company and announce their I
i the living room.
*
yilM KE now boiling water, washing clothes and lighting
pifM-s by sound waves. Highway cops are iiinchinir
speeders with the help of radar. More and more evervdav
ac ndies are graduating to the “look-no-hands" categorj
SSMSJ"* '» .............. «3£ ;
No doubht this is all for the best. At least the neonle '
who invented all these things must have been Irvine t,, i' 1
“Now, this $42
June 16 . . . let
you gave a holdup man on the night o
me see the signed receipt for that . . .!’
imd I think is infinitely more
i expressive than •yanked." The
Musketeers will be here Saturday
to see Snow While and the Seven
Dwarls, which performance, I
understand, is top-drawer.
Must go to Tinker field today,
and if the time warrants will
stroll down Main street of Okla-
homa City and look at the window
displays, it will be my first trip
down the avenue since Christmas
and I like to know what the well
dressed gals are wearing even if
they "aint for the size of me."
I could make a suggestion to
advertisers. They portray a line of
dresses, many of which just suit
me. but when I strike that line
"sizes 9 to 15” I stay out of the
store, r am not to be enticed
into an emporium with the flat-
footed statement "this is not for
you," but I might go in and buy
u hanky or even another style
dress if the ad hadn't emphasized
my contour nnd given me the
idea that I should spend my
money with a reducing salon I
rather than trying to buy clothes.
Oh. well, -one man’s meat is
another man's poison." . . . There
are reducing salons that would
just love to get hold of me, X
betcha.
★ WASHINGTON COL linn *
Statehood for Hawaii Cheap,
But Alaska Would Cost Money
after reading about a new device that
you when you are out
to leave __ ...............
fact that you aren’t at home. VVe i,wc.
lifts the phone off the cradle and puts it
Speaking of telephones, there
that figures out phone bills. The
never overcharges
though.
There is also i___________ „in
too deep for the merely human
to play gin rummy.
Chicagoans with television
tion of movies, call the phone t
choice—and there it is li.ri.t
BY PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent J[
AV^.i-COnsidei at‘on taking Hawaii ai
------...j questii
-----more to support Hawi
M r‘t0ries? Wil1 '< ««t ‘he taxpayers
',M,h?,y are i'dnotted to the Union? Will 11
... -------------1 set more for their mone
NEA
WASHINGTON— (NEA)—/ '
jyw ™ St?S MMST ■= ■=
and Alaska as states than — * ■■ ■ M y r
peorfli^oMlf1 'fitor.ies ,r““‘c are nnmitt
regTrdleL h f w ies and of the "lainland
legaldiess of who pays for it9
benefits&wmcnf h C”?ble the »«waii«ms to receive large
sch^l lunch progra^ for intraI Programs. The prose.,
allocated to the terHtoHw AdmU.li"1 f lh? :,™ount that b
Hawaii to get a state’s rmi chAd ^ a to statehood would enabl
io get a state s full share, based on area and population.
Tfifst'pmce^ho 'PjerT* 10 AIaSka iS mo,e complicated. In th.
szstffS ss
^cot4and ^n?^t!h^^ayc^e^:d=
OGER the LODGER
By Elizabeth R. Roberts
COPYRIGHT BY GREENBERG: PUBLISH&Jt
DISTRIBUTED BY NEA SERVICE. INC.
I the pages looking for what
i not there.
Jean wrote that it was all a mis-
| Hike and how lucky thev were to
hnve found it out. before it was
loo late. Theirs was a boy-and-
uirl affair—puppy love, she called
It. She'd met the most wonderful
man, n colonel In the marines, and
it was n case of love at first sight,
I his was a mature passion (the
colonel’s fine Italian hand-ha was
42—showed clearly all the way
through the let ter i.
"Now do be a good boy. dear,”
she wrote, "and forgive me. It's
going to seem awfully strange
keeping house with another man
nnd using all of the things we
THE STORY: Mr. .ml Mrs. Rob-
erts lake in problems along with
lodgers when they do tlieir part to
relieve the wartime housing short-
age ill Great Falls, Mont. Chief
problem Is Roger, wlm Invites un-
expected guests to dinner and
smashes up the Roberts’ ear. Hut
thrre are other guests, and other
(lifrii'iiltie*.
briefed him on what I si
pect of him nnd his wife
wasted breath on such
don't know for I never nt
what a new guest would
what did happen was nev . .......
pattern of what had happened.!
Roger came home as Rollo and 1
wen* finishing out arrangements.
He hung around until “the Little
Hil'dmnn.” as he referred to Rollo.
left; nnd then he advised mp I
was making a great mistake, that
the fellow wasn't of "our class."
I didn't toll Roger that. Rollo was
about to be married and would not
undermine him and his hold on us;
I listened Instead to the click of
his nose a.s it went out of joint,
and watched the brown of his eyes
turn to green. "One thing I hope
for- your sake." he concluded, "is
was
Lesson in English
XVIII
I I RETURNED home one late aft-
ernoon to find an eager, husky
young Air Transport command pi-
lot. waiting to see me. He was Just
hack in this country from flying
lend-lease over the Hump and hr
had been advised at the field that
Sonny was to be transferred, (ft
often happened that new appli-
cants for our rooms would come
to see us before the niwsnnt
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED. Di
not say. "Listen at him singing.
Say, "Listen to Ids singing."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED
Debacle Pronounce de-ba-k'l, e a;
in me unstressed, a a.s in ah
accent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED:
neys; eys, not ies.
SYNONYMS: Dormant, latent,
sleeping, inactive, inherent.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word
three times and it Ls yours." Let us
Attor-
ing one word ear
Word: INUNDATE;
a flood; overflow,
the dam breakage,
inundated."
his trembling hands. He walked
back nnd forth across the kitchen
floor a few' turns. Then he dropped
itmply onto a chair. "I think it
wouldn’t hurt so much." he said,
rubbing his throat. "If I could cry."
Roger stuck his head in the door
to ask if he could—no, to tell me
he would—stay home for dinner.
Since he had been commissioned,
lie ate a good many meals at the
Officers' club.
"Not tonight. Roger." I said.
"Rollo's In trouble. I want him '
prediction was right.
Hut for the wrong reasons.
Cheek and class hnd nothing to do
■■■■■ :,l “ was an nirmail special
stirred Rollo's
and ours with
1 Which i-s
with it; it was r~
delivery letter that
life with n spoon
it. Rollo had wat
letter for a week at
rived, lie wished he’d never seen
it. He brought the letter to the
kitchen to read.
Rollo began by giving off half-
finished excerpts as his eyes raced
hungrily over the pages looking
lor the date he wanted to tell me
As what Jean had really written
bote in on his consciousness, his
voice (altered Quickly ho turned
GETS 99-CENT BARGAIN
BEDFORD. Ind. —(U.R>— Don
Hanneson got more for his money
than usual when he put a dime
and a nickel in a stamp-vending
machine at the Bedford postoffice.
The machine issued 33 3-cent
stamps.
★ WE DELIVER
GROCERIES AND ALL KINDS
OF SMALL ARTICLES
PHONE 541
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as. typ*l 27Spoken
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11 Goddess of the 33 Core
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a 12 Newspaper 36 Dull
>Pe' executive 37 Calm
reply 17 Right (ab> 41 Cover
Problem a
tpachorV of Yu i t'on,,IK'tin«' « Bible class
First Rant f0kl.Hho™ r',ty each evening this week
th'tn -iflo wf* churchJRev. Nichols report*
than 500 weie present for last nipht’s study.
rhe Athenaeum club
Dashiel yesterday aftern
lesson on Robert Brownii
and works.
Frank Rickey has it
lex., where he has been
much improved in health.
Bill ls 2 5 as old as Bob. I
years Bill will be 2 3 of Bob's
How old is Bill now?
ANSWER
Nine years. Take 2 3 of 18;
tract from 18; subtract 2'5
2 3; divide 6 by 4 15: multip!
2'5.
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DON’T GAMBLE
YOUR CROP ON A SMALL COMPANY
... They May Be Wiped Out By A
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COOP INSURANCE IS OUR
noon. Mrs. Glen Ronebrake led the
111 nsr. giving a biography of his life
returned home from Mineral Wells,
42 Principal
43 Sea eagle
44 Falsifies
45 Bone
46 Cape
47 Gambling
game
52 Note of scale
54 On (prefix)
Feed everything you grow with
xvim) put in ills call, but it was
Jean's mother who talked to him.
Tearfully she told him that Jean
had eloped the day before.
(To Be Continued l
u n , APril ,5> 1939
circulation manager of The El Reno
—J llast three years, resigned Saturday
manager of the North American Protect-
1 persons attended the program presented
--------i last night by Roy Scout troop
demonstrations, singing
veteran certificate was
will celebrate progress in the
-j which opens in the
announced by John T. Naylon,
. . ----will take part in
to be given May 5 in an event
was announced today by Miss Etta
smoldering, was found at
. south of El Reno. The
man m Ringling but it has not been
Daily Tribune for the
to become district i
ive alliance.
. ^an 150 ........... al
**' ..If F.rst Methodist church 1_
HH. Hie program consisted of stunts’
and a court of honor. A five-year ,
presented to Scoutmaster Roy Mitchell.
A parade next Friday \ "'
cl*an‘uf; Paint-up.’fix-up week
city Monday, it has been
general chairman.
•m ent' r* t l,a" 2?° pupiLs of Central school
ail entertainment program
observing music week, it
Dale, principal.
n burne‘l automobile, still tl
a. in. Saturday three miles
vehicle was traced to a i...... ;
reported stolen, county officers said
THE COMPLETE PLANT FOOD
Spreader Loaned FREE
Wilh 25-lb. Rag Vigoro!
1-lb. 15c
\\v 5-lbs. 50c
JM 10-lbs. 90c
25-lbs. $1.60
thief loots freezer
KOKOMO, Ind. —(U.R)— Luther
Howell is putting a padlock on his
deep-ireeze unit. While his fam-
ily was away from home, a thief
broke in and stole 40 pounds of
meat from the freezer.
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LATEST MODEL
newest underwood
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