Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tues., Dec. 16, 1958 Page 5
OUT OUR WAY
By J. R. Williams
With Major Hooplfr
Strange As It Seems
"IP PORTUGUESE MhN-OF-WhR is NCTOME hNNAhL SUTMhNY.I
VARICOLORED PolYPS ORSPNIX& ft FLOftWS COLONY,
PlPN'T VOL) NOTICE IF
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JO PUT UP WITH--YOU
THE SMALL SURPRISES
NEED FOURTEEN EIGHTEENTHS OF
THKFP &LS-- MOW MUCHATUAT
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SEE WHAT YOU'LL
frit KEENS F&ELhNOTST.i
We blues absorb Foot;
THE Pinks reproduce ...
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lb THE MOUTH BUT Bo NOIHhRM THi Titff
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ATSA 12 PCOHOS FOj? 18, DlMlDE-
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, THIRD EYE Binoculars with built-in camera are now beinir
produced in Germany. Called the "Cambibox," it permits the
..operator to zero in on faraway objects, push a button and
snap a telescopic picture.
Cut In Compulsory Education
Smoking Age Limits Suggested
SALEM (UPD The 1959 Ore
gon Legislature will be asked to
lower the compulsory education
age from 18 to 16 years, and to
lower the age limit on smoking to
16.
The Legislative Interim Com
mittee on Judicial Administration
will make the recommendations.
Circuit Judge Ralph Holman,
chairman of the committee's ju
venile code subcommittee, said
strong support for lowering the
compulsory education ago has
Chuckles
In The
News
United Press International
MELTON, England (UPD The
Melton Tally Ho Carnival Band
began practicing Monday in the lo
cal corn exchange, far from Ern
est Lamley's restaurant,
Lamlcy took the band Co court
Saturday to complain that he be
came "quite seriously depressed"
after hearing the band play "Oh
Mein Papa" 42 consecutive times
one evening in its old practice
quarters only. '20 feet from his
dining room.
come from teachers.
Judge Holman noted an anti
social reaction is produced in
some youths forced to stay in an
environment where they do not
fit, such as school for older chil
dren.
He said the committee favors
lowering the age on smoking be
cause the present age limit of 18
is often held up to ridicule. The
proposed law "might get some
enforcement below that age," he
said.
rne committee also has pro
posed to abolish the state curfew
law. He said the present law
"means absolutely nothing."
Another committee proposal de
fines authority to take juveniles
into traffic and municipal courts
but gives juvenile corn-Is discre
tion to handle traffic cases if in
dividual judges desire.
The report on recommendations
was made before Oregon's Su
preme Court and Circuit Court
judges in the closing session of
the two-day state judicial council
meeting in Portland Friday.
Fish, Flesh, Fowl
Answer to Previous Puzzle
CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
LONDON (UPD A Fleet Street
pub was ready for a joyous Noel.
It sported a sign reading:
"Avoid Christmas rush drink
now." '
LONDON ( UPD . Producer
Roger Vadim, who piloted his ex
wife, Brigitte Bardot, to movie
stardom as the "sex kitten," said
here "I only make sex pictures
because it's easier to gel these
past the censor in France than it
is with pictures about almost any
other subject."
TUESDAY
7:30 p.m., Planning Commis
sion meeting, City Hall.
7:30 p.m., South 40 club, Sac-
ajawea.
VFW ,megting cancelled.
WEDNESDAY .
7:30 p.m., Carpenters Union Lo
cal 2019 iri Labor temple, 220H De
pot street.
7:30 p.m., La Grande City Com-
m.ssion, City Hall.
8 p.m., Special Communication
La Grande lodge 41 AF and AM,
Masonic hall.
Institution's
Officer Named
SALEM (UPD Appointment of
Alvin L. (Jack) Frost as guidance
supervisor of the new Oregon
State Correctional institution here
has been announced by Superin
tendent P. J. Squicr.
Frost will be responsible for
operation of the guidance section
of the institution composed of a
trained scientific staff in fields of
psychology, sociology and employ
ment. Upon admittance to the institu
tion a new inmate will first be
processed by the guidance sec
tion. This will include psychologi
cal testing, psychhoterapy, if need
ed, a sociological evaluation and
formulation of an efficient method
of education and training.
During the first six weeks, the
guidance section will prepare
complete rehabilitation recom
mendations for new inmates.
For the past few years Frost
has been director of the family
and child welfare division of the
Community Council in Portland.
He was formerly employed at
MacLa,ren school for boys at
Woodbum.
The institution is scheduled to
open in March.
CONDUCT COMMUNE TOURS
HONG KONG (UPD A Com
munist - operated travel bureau
hero has offered a five-day tour
Communist Chinese people's com
munes just north of the border
for the equivalent of ' $20. The
China Travel Service said the tour
provided the chance to see Com
unism in the making.
Shipping Firm
To Sign Contract
WASHINGTON (UPD Amer
ican Mail Line, a West Coast
shipping firm, will sign a 20-year
subsidy contract with the Federal
Maritime Administration Wednes
day providing for replacement of
eight of the nine vessels in its
fleet. .
A Commission spokesman .said
the replacement would encompass
100 million dollars m shipbuilding
Under the law, West Coast ship
yards will have an advantage in
bidding for construction contracts
West Coast builders are allowed
a 6 per cent differential in bidding
on ships to be operated from west
Coast ports by. West toast com
panics.
American Mail has its principal
offices in Seattle, Wash., and
Portland, Ore.
The 21 countries in North and
South America own the Pari'
American building in Washing
ton, D.C.
ACROSS
1 Female fowl
4 Fish
8 Plateau
12 Fearsome
admiration
13 Indigo
14 Soviet
mountains
15 Legal matters
16 Scenic
18 Art lover
20 Raises
21 Guided
22 Bites
24 "The of
the dog"
26 Network
27 Male swan
30 Pay no
attention to
32 Salty
34 Seal
35 Joined
36 Distress signal
37 Story
39 Russian news
agency
40 Kind of drink
41 Wager
42 Less assertive
45 Short
49 Pauses
51 Poem
52 Seed covering
63 Writing tools
54 Insect egg
55 What a rolling
stone doesn't
gather
56 Swirl
57 Musical
direction
DOWN
1 Rabbit
2 Female sheep
3 Young birds
4 Bound
5 Distinct part
6 Kind of creed
7 High
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9 Pen name of
Charles Lamb
10 European
region
11 Troubles
17 Parentless one
19 Wading bird
23 Come forth
24 Show
disapproval
25 Exchange
premium
26 Mineral
27 Mentions
28 Individuals
29 Sleeping
places
31 Sharp
response
33 Metric
measure
38 Endured
40 Lines the top
41 Managerial
42 Feign
43 Demigod
44 Goddess
46 Mind :.
47 Revise
48 Bristle
50 Monkey
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XXXIV
Paul unfastened the guard!
chain and started down the steps
after the dog. The rod lights
glowed alarmingly. He began
inching his way around the ma-
chinery. Rex stopped, lifted his!
head and watched his proc ess.
Katherine knew what Paul was
doing. She screamed, "You can't."
He got to the back o the
passage, squeezed against the!
wall. Below him, and under the
machinery, Rex waited. For a
bare moment they were all still
together; and then Paul stretched
out his long arm over the machine
directly in front of him, toward
the one farther on, rearing its
,gray head in the gloom.
The master switch for all the
machines together was on the
back wall of the pit, almost out
of reach. Paul, his arms still
outstretched, glared hungrily
around the pit, the white glare
ot the destroyer. Mis glare ligUetl
on the master switch, '
"That'll get him!"
His fury poured out of his
mouth like froth. He began
squeezing his body back into the
deepest corner, craning toward
the master switch, his fingers
bent like an animal s claw. Ho
reached it, and they could hoar
his fingernails grating on the steel
plate. But the switch was stiff
from disuse; he could not manip
ulate it. .
He flattened himself further
against the wall, contorting into
the narrowest crack behind the
machinery, elongating his arm as!
if it were rubber, feeling for a
better grip on the switch. He
had it between his thumb and
forefinger. He pulled it as hard
as he could; his teeth ground to
gether, and his voice dribbled out
of his locked moutn in a low, un
conscious mumble of cursing,
meaningless, unintelligible.
"Be careful! You're too close;1
Ditlribjled by NEA ferric. Inc. I
to it! Paul!"
Aunt Millicent's scream wa;
drowned fn the sudden roar:
there was the momentary click
of the master switch, the rush of
brightness into all those red eyes
at once, and then simultaneously
all the machines began to move,
stirring slowly out of their slum
ber, waking, expanding, growl
ing, humming; the giant wheels
began to turn; the arms lifted
and then descended with a sound
that shook the concrete floor,
The walls trembled. The house
above them vibrated as all the
windows Hew open and shut, the
beds went up and down in their
sockets, the fire screen crashed
over and over onto the hearth,
all the mechanical wonders of the
building jigged and bounced and
pounded in rhythm.
Rex's thin, frightened, Squealr
ing barR was drowned in the
noise, and no one saw him as he
scuttled out to safety on the far
side of the pit. Their eyes were
fixed on Paul, and it was his thin
squeal that penetrated to them.
He had jumped back with all
the red lights gleaming on him,
thrown himself irantically away
from the moving wheels and
arms, but his pocket Vas caught
on the cogs of one of the wheels.
He jerked at it in a frenzy. The
oloth began to rip-one inch,
then two inches but he could
not get it free. The great cogged
wheel turned, slowly, inexorably.1
pulling him with it. He began
screaming, a high, inhuman, bird-
like sound. '
1, .
He rnn'd not Eet away. All the
switches were now oeyond his
i-onrh. Hp could only strueele
hopelessly, still screaming, push-i
ing wildly ai me macnine.
He was sucked in as if the steel
..-o,. r.,iirbcnnd. His clothes were
pulled so tightly in the machine
'by now that his body was held
almost rigid against it, only hii
arms and legs flopping like
hooked fish, while he went on
screaming and screaming.
Katherine tried desperately to
close her eyes, to look away; bul
she could not. She was glued
to those horrors, as if they were
happening to her. She heard Rex
barking somewhere behind her,
heard Aunt Millicent at her side
still tearing at her hair moan,
gag and begin to be sick; and
then she was conscious, with an
odd sense of detachment, that
she, herself, was screaming in
unison with Paul, while the whole
house roared above their heads.
She leaned her body weakly
against the iron railing, watching
while Paul was Inexorably de
liberately fed into the machine,
as if it were a meat grinder.
And then suddenly he stopped
screaming. He stopped wiggling.
His body ran limply on into the
jaws of the machine. '
Just as she had been unable
to look away before, now Kathr
erine could no longer keep her
eyes on it. She sagged, and felt
her strength draining out of hen
She held onto the cold railing,
feeling her stomach thrashing in
side her while she gasped over
and over, unable to breathe, and
tears ran down her face.
And then suddenly the grip on
her hair tightened; the pain re
stored her for a moment. Aunt
Millicent was staggering uncer
tainly back toward the stairs,
dragging her along. She kept her
eyes closed for a moment longer,
and heard her aunt give a mad,
inarticulate howl of rage and
frustration. .
Katherine cracked her ankle
against the bottom step, and only
then opened her eyes. She was
being dragged purposefully up
the stairs not gently, but still
by-the hair; something prompted
her to grab the railings, to hold
on, to delay her fate.
But there was no delaying it.
She saw Aunt Millicent's black
foot coming up; she felt it crush
ing on her fingers; she closed her
eyes again, relaxed her grip, and
stumbled on up the stairs blindly.
(To Be Continued)
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