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4 4 Chance Of Lifetime Comes To Scribe: Beautiful, Free Ride To Planet Mars By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK. (.VV Every year or so a man openj his morning mail and linds a pleasant surprise or a real opportunity. That's how lucky I am today. I've got a chance to take a free ride to Mars! Each day I get all sorts of odd I Invltatinni Hna Aax, want me to so over to the wi. P"0.' ' efficient that, when we strike the atmosohere of Man. party for a new tractor. Another I he can aro"nd ,h Planet nstv an nnnnriiintiu jvim. u ka wm mm judge in a contest to "pick the i 'V?.? nouh ,0 on in Ameri-rT '""'"ts. until our make a most beautiful pigeon ra." It turned out to he a com plete waste of time all the pij eons had feathers. But this Is the first time anv. body ever offered me a hitch hike ride to Mars. I would be kusplcious that somebody was ! Pable ot ,ellin8 VU' What Is Mars like ? Here's what the man says: "I'll not go much into the de tails of the conditions that I found there, because it was more won derful than my vocabulary Is ca- Elkton ust pulling my leg except for one nine the man who made the hffer said he had already been there himself. So it must be the C4-karat McCov. The Invitation came In a letter Irom a gentleman in Missouri, nd his first name isn't Harry. "I have just come back from lars, and 1 had a wonderful rip," he wrote. He explained he wanted me to accompany him pn his second trip, because he Wished the people of earth to have a word picture of life on JMars. He said that as a profes sional writer I would be able to tlo this better than he. Sounds Good Anyway The voyage certainly sounded attractive as he outlined, it. "We will be gone only a few days," he wrote, "for the simple reason that our rocket ship be gins to gain speed as soon as it leaves the atmosphere, and we travel about as fast as light. I 'The only hazardous nart of this trip would be in landing 'The planet revolves as ours does, but in place of having a magnetic pole, it also revolves north to south, which makes the temperature uniform the year round. "There are no seasons. It Is all just one glorious temperature. They have no pests, such as flies and fleas. "The food grows on trees. They have innerspring mattresses growing on bushes. There is no rain except just as the sun comes up in the morning. "There Is no work to be done. Everything that man desires is right there at his hand. The springs that come out of the lit tle hills, which they call moun tains, have a flavor with an in toxicating effect." Well, at first I felt tempted to go. But I decided it would put too great a strain on my honesty. If I got to Mars and found food Juice bubbling out of the rocks, I wouldn't want to come back and advertise the place. That'd emp- when we get there. However, our I ty California overnight, depopu- HAKES Cfy, fresh. Nourishing Gfctsome-foJay.' By PHYLLIS A. SMITH Members of the Elkton Boy Scout troop that left Sunday for summer camp on Little river in cluded Gordon Riley, Blllie Binder. John Beckley, Ralph Rust and Scoutmaster Lloyd Smith. Bob Slofensky underwent a minor operation Saturday at the Eugene hospital. Friends of the Art Hardesty'a are building them a new home. The Hardestys were burned out a number of years ago. Roseburg, visitors this week In cluded Mrs. Roy Fisher and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith. ....... Barry Bloom of Sawyer Rapids is spending the summer vacation at the Bill Emil home in Long Prairie, while his parents are on a business trip to California; Mr. and Mrs. James O. Haines and family visited last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Madison of Tillamook, Ore. - Mr. and Mrs. William Binder and daughter Ann, visited for a few days last week at the Ray Hoffman home In Maupin. The Binders drove- home through eastern Oregon and visited all points of interest along the Mo Kenzie pass route. Weekend guests at the Jim Mitchell home included Mr. and Mrs. Bob Farmer and family, Mrs. Sarah Farmer, and Mr. and Mrs. Zenith Butterfield and fam ily, all of Springfield. Mr. and Mis. Arthur Mode and son Bernard, and Mrs. Lester Riley and children visited Bob Slovensky and Dale Mode in the Eugene hospital Sunday. Word has been received of th? birth of a son July 24 to Mr. and Mrs. William Lee Barnholt of Bellingham, Wash. Mrs. . Barn hold Is the former Laverne Gos sage, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Riley of Elklnn. Mr. and Mrs. John Fredrick son of Mapleton were overnight guests at the Thelma Nordstrom home. The Fredricksons came to see the Florence-Elkton baseball game. Ed Mode of Roseburg is visit ing his brother Arthur Mode, of Kellogg. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Colley and daughter Lana, of Seattle, visited this week at the homes of their parents, Mrs. Sally Cheever and "Grandad" Colley. Miss Eileen Dement of Port land visited last week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dement. This week Miss De ment Is visiting her newly mar- late Texas and crowd Mars. No, if Mars was like that I'd stake me out a claim and throw rocks at anybody else that tried to land. Church Bottmtnt It Being RtmodtlccJ Remodeling of the First Pres byterian church basement to pro vide more Sunday school class rooms has been started by John Runyan, contractor. City building permit for Si. 000 has been Issued for the project. A new concrete floor Is being laid, the partition separating the furnace room from the Sunday school room is being rebuilt, and additional class room space pro vided. . Dr. Morris H. Roach, pastor, said two departments will meet in the basement on completion of the project. These probably will be the junior and beginners' de partments. The primary depart ment will meet on the main floor and the nursery in the old manse. Sutherlin School Stts Dates For Registration ' Sutherlin and Nonpareil schools will soon be registering children who are 6 years old on or before November 15. Principal Harold Austin of Sutherlin school said registration for both schools will be held at the Sutherlin school on Thursday, August 4, for children whose last names start with A through L. On Thursday, Aug. 11, children whose last names start with M through Z will be regis tered. Time of registration Is from 1:30-5 p. m. rled sister. Mrs. Clifford (Ardyce) Lowrie at Kent, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dixon and children of Renton, Wash., visit ed at the home of Mrs. Agnes Johnson last week'. Helen Dixon is going to stay on for a few weeks with her grandmother, Mrs. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Nasi of Myrtle Creek visited at the L. E. Dement home Sunday. Tom Myres is driving a new 1949 Mercurv. Harry (Hap) Whitfield re ceived a broken finger at baseball practice Tuesday evening. Three stitches were required to close the wound. Mrs. G. T. Smith who hat been 111 In the hospital in Eugene is home again. Joe Spayde and son Terry Is visiting his sisters, Mrs. Kenneth Madison of Kellogg and Mrs. James Gates of Elkton. Mrs. Braden (Dorothy) and Lenore Gates of Yolo, Calif., came to Elkton for the Richard Gates funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swearln gen and family have been ground ed all month with the mumps. Dale Mode is still in the Eugene hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Mode report that his ankle Is in a cast and he will be there some time yet. Wed, Aug. 3. 1949 The Newt-Review, Rosebur,, Ore. BOYER MEAT MARKET THE PLACE YOU SAVE BEEF ROASTS 35c ib. BOILING BEEF 17c Ib. T-BONES 59c Ib. SAUSAGE 35c Ib. BACON 39c Ib. SPECIALS FRI. & SAT. MATSON'S FRESH PRODUCE GRAPES Thompson Seedless 2 lbs. 25c POTATOES U. S. 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