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tY zs, 1944 PAGE
Horning In
it BY JEAN CAMERON
ClUre ttY'adicate--Wlvu Features.
the car came abreast of
girl in the trench
sounded raucously
She hesitated a too-
her hat over her loose
grUrnped in. "So chemi-
afting--thank you," she
man behind the
at her gloomily.
was unfamiliar, he
had been em-
weeks now. "How
highway intersection,
Farnham. I'll be qui-
after another glance
chin. "I know you're
for the Gov-
committee to-
stiffened perceptibly. So
mt committee was
drive was a silent
Donald crawled
the door for his
tween" ru~ ar~oyer'sle'gs and He Ieli
headlong.
He was up in an instant, furious,
his fists lifted, but Donald's look
lowered them. "Can't you take a
joke, McAllister?" he asked feebly,
realizing that his long domination
of the office was crashing and that
the story would soon sweep the
whole plant.
"No," snapped Donald. He
tramped across the room and
slammed the sales manager's door
behind him. "No, Mr. Bentley,
you're not too busy to listen to me,"
he said, and poured out every de-
mand he had formulated during
his drive--better instruments, addi-
tional quarters, storage space, alad
full hearing before the committee.
"I came here to work," he con-
cluded. "If I can't do that here I'll
go where I can. Pay Wilson what
you want for making a general nui-
sance of himself. Give him any title
you like--but let me do a good job!"
"Of course," gasped the sales man-
ager. "Naturally. We thought you
were quite satisfied, Mr. McAllister.
We'll have a new contract for you
in the morning. We . . ." Donald
turned and left.
In the outer office a stenographer
came up to him. "A lady has been
calling," she reported. "Miss Cor-
nelia Adkins, she said."
Smiled. "You're the Donald did not pause. "Tell her
that in two months, I haven't come in."
And--and I am In the lab he pulled on his rubber
that you took me gloves. He was quite calm now. He
realize that the
standing in the street
vanished from sight.
him in the halls and
SOme time.
angry, with a cold,
rage that had
for many weeks.
run the chemical depart-
ran and bullied every-
iust so long as
ster's way; let
would get right at that new solvent.
But first--he pulled off the gloves,
made a notation on his calendar--
"Take girl in drafting room to lunch
after committee report tomorrow."
Nice girl, he thought, arranging
bottles carefully on the sink. He'd
tell her--no, women were funny.
Better not tell her he hadn't meant
to pick her up, that when he bent
over to rescue his fountain pen from
the floor of the car he had acci-
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laboratory, dentally pressed the horn. ~ ~
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right. He o ; PHONE AVA'ON 242 PHONt RICHMOND arT'|
Work overtime, be tin- THIS AND THAT: I AVALON, CALIF. 1719 So. Ft.owK, S .
se better offers--all HERE AND THERE: I " t.os ANaZt~s
J RAY C. WALL, REPRESENTATIVE OF '
experiment succeeded
york it out and it.was. Not only does the bull attack its foe 'i IVY OVERHOLTZER '.
Would be worth all of with its crooked horns, but the injured 9 In
:rs. He'd have done his sheep will fight its assailant. ( FUNERAL DIRECTOR "
,--Propertius .- ~
,C~.vernment inspectors* * *
If all the rail road tunnels in the "
' tOmorrow and not to United States were placed end to end, S P O B T L A N D "
el or his method! Well they would reach from Los Angeles to,~ '::,
lPer at a fine edge, ha San Francisco. : BOWLING ti
It
ended back to the fac-. . ,
Fiftv Indians of northern Wisconsin
his pugnaei6us look, have spent the winter making rustic i s,3 c c t & OTHER AMUSEMENTS Ph
d his square shoulders, direction signs to replace advertising,
~ildness about Donald bv arrangement with the Indian Set:- .~ F~
ha the color of his hair, vice and WPA. .~,t~&~ . ~ . . : ~. .
.""at
is eyes, his general ab- " * * KODAK FINISHING,IS
ess--?which led people Out of 50,000 men attending "refresh- i L, AND VIEWS
er" and pre-emplovment courses to Our Motto---'Quality and Service " i
urnid. He had nevertrain for defense inclustrial jobs, 30,000
believed in attending ~ Island Photo Service
own business. And are from VqPA relief rolls. .~
was Cornelia's treat- A deaf Scotsman in ~lasgow salvages .
helped to produce used batteries from hearing aids to pro
duce copper for shells, carbon for bay- F.A. JOHNSON :---:A. M. PERKINS,Ira:
"~" l
ed in Cornelia first, onet steel and other war goods. ~ Successors to
e was soft, blonde, * * " PETE V. REYES, PHOTOGRAPHER tl
g to big men. She British fliers say that snow falhng
and got them. And on fighter planes may add nearly ~00 il Portraits, Identification, Passports, Commercial, Press
' men were gone pounds to the load, and on a large ~ 702 CRESCENT AVENUE TELEPHONE 454 [
entratir on Don- bomber 1,000 pounds may be added.
. . .
results. Badgers and *ot~er*wildlife may be Some people have a fear of bein~ A big ship is propelled through the
a quick hush as he en- needed as food in British defense plants afraid, which is a condition psychia- water by some of the largest and most
a bending of heads
He glanced toward
lips tightened. "I
You to stay out of
he said slowly,
his private corner.
man swung
a pencil,"
ignoring
Projected from his
Donald controlled
COnscious effort and
top. He felt rather
foot moving the
a tripping position
kicked backward
h~,=lr~t ehnt
but there is no reason whatever for
the United States to weaken its con-
servation of wildlife in order to provide
food as a defense emergency idea.
U. S. A. war expenditures abroad to-
talled $30,362,687,362 as of April I, last,
the Senate was told last week. Of that
anmunt, $19,700,29Z674 went to Great
Britian, $15,640,479,250 in Lend-Lease;
Russia got $4,214,921,439, and Latin
America $2,327,378,789. Lo~ns, military
outl&ys, and investments made up the
balance.
Army inductees, it is estimated, re-
quire a minimum of one and one half
dental fillings.
trists sometimes call phobophobia.
On May 13, 1607, the London Com-
pany Colonists, with Capt. Christopher
Newport, arrived in the James river,
Virginia.
4w * ~l
The Long Wails of Athens are the
two parallel walls connecting Athens
and Piraeus.They were constructed
460-4~ B. C.
Ohio leads the states in the product-
ion of alsike clover seed. It ranks eith-
er first or second in the production of
red clover seed, and is high in the list
in the production of alfalfa seed.
expensive machinery that men have
learned to make.
kin the Dark A~e: Mter the fall of
ome, the rose was cultivated by .Ma-
homet's followers in Spain. Chroniclat=rs
of the time wrote that in the gardens
of Cordova and S~ille, there was
grown a sky blue rose.
i ROLAND THOMPSON
Attorney at Law .
FIRST THURSDA~/ OF
JVERY MONTH
J C~y AvaIoa T