Observer, La Grande, Ore., Frl., Dec. 26, 1958 Page 9
Backstairs At The White House
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) Back
stairs at the White House:
It was November before sub
freezing weather made golf im
possible for President Eisenhower
at his Burning Tree Club in sub
urban Maryland just outside
Washington.
A man who lives not far from
one of the fairways of exclusive
Burning Tree swears on a stack
of old congressional records that
while he was working Jn his yard,
getting the shrubbery ready for
. winter, he heard a young boy cry
through the trees: ,
"I don't care what you're Presi
dent of that's STILL my ball
Another current . story about
Burning Tree where service roads
run fairly close to some of the
fairways. (This story incidentally
originated at ram springs. Calif.
when the President toured the lux
uriant links there a few years
ago.)
A man was driving along the
road with the window of his car
down.. A golfer hit a powerful tee
shot and hooked badly. His ball
Chuckles
In The
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United Press International
PUELO, Colo. (UPI): The
Junior Chamber.of Commerce re
ported that a Pueblo girl has writ
ten Santa that she will do her best
to stop sucking , her thumb if he
will leave a cigarette lighter and
ash. tray at her house.
The ..reforming miss said she
planned to take up smoking to
break her thumb sucking habit
DROITWICH, England (UPD-
At a carol program Tuesday night
organist Gordon Banner struck
the first chord of "Oh Come, All
xe raitniul" and a big black cat
jumped out of the organ.
! BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)
John (Ellis will, use the same
spruce tree for Christmas this
year.that has brightened the Ellis
living room for the past three
.years.- . - ' v....
Ellis said the secret of . keeping
an old Christmasv tree young is to
hang it upside down in- your base
ment.
.. LONDON (UPI) Bill Crutlen-
den, 52, former champion of Eng
land's town criers, said his voice
began to -fade from crying Christ
mas greetings in American streets
and on TV shows on a recent tour.
of the- United,. States
He was in serious danger of los
mg nis most vamame asset in
Houston, Texas, he said, until he
found a bar selling British beer.
.'After two pints I was back cry
ing as loud as ever," he said.
' -JACKSON, Miss. (UPI). Mis
sissippi issued a unique 1959 li
cense plate to Mary Ann Mobley
today.
It bears her title: Miss America.
VINCENNES, Ihd. (UPI) A
worried lady driver told police she
found a pair of .men's trousers
trailing from the rear of her car.
Police soon found the owner,
. Jack. Todd. ..He reported that he
. had been on his way to the dry
cleaners with the pants over his
arm when a big wind came along.
zoomed into the car, striking the
iiuui iu me temple.
.wnen an interne revived the
man in the ambulance, the poor
fellow fluttered his eyelids and
murmurded, "thank you, Mr. Pres
ident." ;
The President feels a definite
sense oi continement in this chilly
season when the nearby courses
are too frozen for anything re
sembling comfortable or accurate
playing. True, this is his busy sea
sonwhen he puts together his im
portant messages for the opening
Congress, but he really misses the
exercise in being able to get out
i wo, or uiree atternoons a week.
Therein could lie a remote pos
sibility of chanEiiiff Christmas
plans. Right now, his plans are
io remain in me White House for
a family Christmas, thence to Get
tysburg for the Yuietide week and
prouaDly New Year's.
But should the weather contin
ue to keep most sensible people
indoors during their leasure hours,
Augusta, Ga., still is only two
hours away by plane.
They're still chuckling at the
White House about some of the
guests at the recent formal din
ner and musicale given by
the President and Mrs. Eisenhow
er. The guests in nueslinn must
nave been out-of-towners, probab
ly lrom New York, because thev
quietly put down quarter tips be
fore the shocked White House
maids and Butlers when the col
lected their hat and coats after
the musicale.
This is tantamount to tioDine
the- maid in the home after a
cocktail party call.
Thto White House cloak room
aides are proud of their jobs and
their civil service status. As hu
man beings naturally they'd al
ways like to make more money.
But a tip is an insult.
If a Churchill Or a madame Chi
ang Kai - sliek : visits the White
House, it is perfectly proper as
house guests for several days to
bestow gifts on the domestic help.
But a dinner guest and his quar
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14 Cupid '
15 Low sand hill
16 King (Fr.)
17 Ancient ?
Persian
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command
22 Spanish jars
24 Inclines
26 Intelligence
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SO German river .
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pieces
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gravestone t
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42 River valleys
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gateway
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49 Disencumber
50 Mexican coin
51 Encounter
52 Individual
53 Press
54 Icelandic saga
55 Small tumor
56 Domestic slave
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show
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festival season
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34 Made lace
36 Sea ducks
2 Standards of
perfection
3 Well-born
4 Peer Gynt's
mother
5 Distort
6 Above
7 Go by steamer 37 Motive
8 Card game 38 Disgrace
ijreoK letters
10 Rat
11 Large plants
19 Assaulted
20 Weather
conditions
23 Horn
40 Sluggard
43 In a line
44 Contour
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garden
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"iPW,t 1957 h' W Edmunta CUumii. Dirtrlbutad by NEA Service.
TIIR STOnVi Dnve Sknradln.
nmlMiNhrd nnd ben tew hy neuter,
makt'H hlN way buck to the Co lo
rn do river boat which In Inking
him to Ln lnr, Ariz. Sherry Bur
dette, n niyMlerioiin yomiic woni
tin uho yviim u iniMHcnirer on the
bunt lielptt tset him aboard.
CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
FRIDAY
; 7 p.m., Grande Ronde Bow
men, Juniors, Armory.'
7:30 p.m.. Benefit Association
of Railway Employes, KP hall.
8 p.m., Odd Fellows, Odd Fel
lows temple.,.
, I 8 p.m., Grande Ronde Bowman,
Adults, Armory.
, 8 p.m., World War I Vets, VFW
hall. '
SHERRY opened her door with
a touch of her shoulder, drawing
.l)im into the darkness. There he
stood beside her trying to tight
nis weaKness, feeling the sensa
'tion of her hard bunk rubbing
the back of his knees. Her fin
gers pressed lightly against his
chest until he sank downward on
the bunk. A sudden light-head'
edness clouded his mind and he
admitted now the pistol clubbingi
tne Brays had meted out had
been more vicious than he real
; ized.
1 Ho was aware of the low sound
of Sherry brushing a match at
tne' room's end. Then her fea
tures emerged as she lighted her
candle. The yellow rays picked
up the outline of her cheeks and
mouth making her face appear
softer and more gentle than ho;
recalled by daylight. Her black
hair was a vaguely defined mass
closing in behind her white skin;
She smiled faintly as she brought
tne candle forward and placed
it near the bunk. Then she re
turned for a china basin that
stood below her mirror.
"They must have jumped you
in tne goia camp," she said
w nen she hnished removing
the filth from his hair she
washed the blood from . his
swollen hand. All this while he!
watched closely. She glanced up.
"Not broken?" - .. - . ..
He flexed his knuckles to prove
his fingers were intact. But the
gesture sent pain flashing before
his eyes. . .
She returned into the room's
darkened corners and orought a
bottle into the light. He said,
"Ah!" and took a strong pull,
tha whisky jolting against his,
stomach with a welcome warmth.
"Not just the thing," he said
slowly, "I'd expect to 6nd In a
woman's boudoir."
I've tola you I was a nurse.-'
she smiled faintly. "Now, will
you please unfasten your
blouse?" , .1 ,
He opened the shirt. Her gaze
concentrated on the long, dark
bruises and caked blood that had
resulted from young Bray's
boots. Now she lowered herself
beside the bunk's edge and be
gan to bathe his ribs. Her face
had fallen into a sober reDose.
and he remembered she had done
this during the war. He won
dered how often she had nursed
some poor fellow who would
never live to see his home,
How many did this to vou?",
she said low and insistently.
TWO."
."Only two?" Her glance lifted
and she studied him thought
fully. ..
HE lay with his head on her
pillow letting contentment creep
through his bones while the
rough edges of his beating drew
rurtner away.
He asked suddenly, "Where
are-you from? Who are you,
Sherry?"
The : earnestness of his mies-
tion lifted her glance. Then her
look grew serious. "You aren't
the only one to see the brutal
it j" of- war. I've worked ii
cheap eating houses, as well as
dirty rooming places. I've nursed
our wounded in the hospitals. I
suppose I'm a river girl. My
father owned a boat on the Mis
sissippi. One morning my mother
went to the landing to sec him
off. They were both killed when
a boiler exploded. I was 11 yearsi
old."
"Where was this?"
"Natchez."
She was silling so thai her face
was directly above him. There
was a gravity about her eyes
that failed to match the ease
with which she spoke. He judged
that life had not always been
easy, that she had seen her dark
moments and that had fanned
and banked the fires he sus
pected could grow warm within
her. She had known some trou
ble and suffering, but then.
calling what she had already said
about fighting, he knew she was
the kind of woman who never
gave way to tears. She was the
sort who fought back fiercely at
trouble.
He reached, then, nulling her
down lo him. The warm soft
ness of her kiss charged his blood
with Heady excitement.- She re
sisted and then an impatient sigh
fell from her and she returned
his pressure. Then she broke
away.
She said sharply, "It can't be
like this with us."
He was grinning; the male who
has just made a fresh conquest.
liegrels? Not already?"
She answered huskily. M
shouldn't have to tell you. It's
not your business. I'm searching
for my husband. He's some
where yonder."
SHE rose from the bunk, re
treating from him now, reaching
the room's end within a short
step, and turning again to face
him. She stood against the bulk
head with her hands behind her.
"You can't love him," he said
flatly. "I don't think I'll like giv
ing you up."
"It's not what we like."
Ho stared at her a moment.
''Who are you trying to fool
yourself, or me?"
Then, remembering the dark
shade that had touched her when
she mentioned Natchez, he was
sure her marriage was ended.
"You d better leave, Dave. It s
late." -.i ;
It c.-tmc to him that being
alone in Sherry's room would do
her considerable harm. And then
as he stepped onto the narrow
outer deck he knew in spite of
Kains or any other man he would
never give Sherry up. -
(To Be Continued)
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