Thursday. Nov. 21, i«j (sec. i) The Sandy (Ore.) Post
Two 4-H Girls Picked for Trip To Chicago Meet
UP and DOWN the MOUNTAIN
By JOE KIEFER
In the years of 1500 to 1554
Francisco
Vazques-de-Corona-
do’s journey into the American
Southwest remains one of the most
remarkable explorations record
ed in the annals of American his
tory.
It took place 75 years before
the English were able to estab
lish themselves on the eastern
coast of North America.
Coronado’s goal was the fab
led “Seven Cities of Cibola” w’here
he hoped to find much gold. But
he did not discover the riches he
sought.
For the seven cities turned out
to be, it is almost certain the
Zuni pueblos of New Mexico.
Surely Elizabeth Ellen Long
must have had Corondao’s long
journey in mind when she com-
posed this beautiful poem of the
“Yucca:’’
“Seeing them first by full moon-
light.
Tall
as
tapers and waxy
white.
Men of the cross, men of the
sword,
Called them the “Candles of the
Lord.”
Conqulstadores, helmeted, boot
ed,
Dreaming of golden cities loot
ed,
And brown-robed padres, sandal-
shod,
Counting the souls they would bring
to God.
Seeing them first when the moon
was high,
And hills rose tall on the western
sky,
Stood by the trail, their faces
aglow.
Long miles behind them, long miles
to go.
With mountains to climb and can
yons to ford
And called them the candles of
the Lord.’’
The undertaker had difficulty in
keeping the head of the corpse
down in place, as it had a tend
ency to spring upward from the
slab on which he lay, so he anch
ored it down with a long piece of
twine.
Pat and Mike had been engaged
to sit with the corpse.
They had forfeited themselves
It’s a funny world these days; . with strong drink to help pass the
President Kennedy’s advisers long hours of the night, but ran
believe they can lower the na out of spirits about midnight.
tional debt and give the American
Pat volunteered to go to the
people a tax cut at the same time. nearest saloon to purchase some
I thought glue-sniffing was only more.
a teen-age fad.
Shortly after his departure a cat
Laugh this one off. A fellow told meandered into the room and leap
his boss that he hadn’t had his ed on the breast of the deceased.
ten minute a day coffee break for Mike bleary eyed was comfort
three years, so therefore he fig ably seated by the stove and by
ured he was entitled to take a the dim light of the coal oil lamp
whole month off with pay.
attempted “scat” the cat by heav
Remember this:
ing a sharp stick of wood at the
A second hand car often teach Intruder.
es a man how hard it is to drive
The wood hit the taut string,
a bargain.
that anchored the corpes head and
Motto of the day:
broke it, whereupon the head flew
Flattery will get you nowhere— forward.
and there are a lot worse places
This was enough to spook the
to be these days.
startled Mike into yelling, “Lay
And then too:
backdown you so and so--I’ll take
The man who thinks trouble care of that cat.”
will meet him only half-way is a
darn poor judge of distance.
I bet Bob McMahon, President
Now relax,
light, up your
of the Sandy Lion’s club, doesn’t
smoke, and get ready for a good
know that a Scotchman accidently
laugh.
It was customary in early days discovered the bagpipe by stepping
on a cats tail.
for two people to sit up nights
with the dead after they were laid
out for burial until the interme.it
Closing this column by saying,
took place.
I enjoy reading “Beyond Our Hori
A miner who had a deformity izon by Captain I. S. Hartman.
of the back had died and been How true he makes the bell ring
prepared for burial.
in our troubled world of today
Local 4-H club members have
been selected to represent Oregon
at the National 4-H Club Congress
in Chicago, Nov. 28-Dec. 6.
Linda Jenkins of Fairview and
Cheryl Gustafson of Gresham, will
be among the delegation of 25
Oregon 4-H’ers who have been
awarded expense paid trips to
the congress.
Linda, a 10-year 4-H club mem
ber is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Orlo Jenkins of Farview. She at
tends Oregon State university and
and a graduate of Reynolds high
school.
She was picked for her outstand
ing work in the field of bread
baking and her other accomplish
ments In 4-H.
She received the Reynolds 4-H
college scholarship, and the Union
Pacific college scholarship.
Cheryl Gustafson, another 10-
year 4-H member, is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gust
afson, of Gresham. Cheryl is a
graduate of Gresham high school
Jeanne Stewart's
Engagement Told
and works at Gresham General
hospital. As a 4-H’er, she did
Mr. and Mrs. Roger M. Stewart
top notch work In canning and
has also been active in food prep of Sandy, announced the engage
aration. clothing, recreation, dairy ment of their daughter. Jeanne
and many other projects. She was Margaret, to larry D. Large of
named the outstanding Junior Gresham, at their home on Nov. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford D. Large,
Leader in 4-H for 1963.
Portland, are parents of the bride-
groom-elect.
The couple are seniors at Port
About 80 per cent of the nearly land State College and Large is
2.3 billion acres of land in the president of the student body.
U. S. is devoted to agriculture
A June wedding is being planned.
and forests.
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Chaplaincy
Program New
At Hospital
“JACK” FROST
Moms and Dads To Hear A.L. Frost
A. L. (Jack) Frost, executive
director of the Metropolitan
Youth Commission will speak at
the Sandy High School Mom and
Dad’s club, Monday evening, Nov.
25 at 8 p.m.
Frost has served in this capac
ity for three years and has in
side experience having worked on
the staff of McClaren school for
boys and at the new Oregon State
Correctional Institution before
taking this position.
Frost works with a council of
high school students representing
all the high schools in the Port
land-Metropolitan area. From the
questionaires he supplies the youth
council, he gathers Information on
his timely topic “Problems Fac
ing Youth in Our Community.”
Al Gantenbein, president of the
Mom and Dad’s club, urges every
parent of high school children to
hear this speaker, who presents
this factual knowledge in an inter
esting and thought-provoking way.
Prior to Frost’s talk, the music
department’s
“Non-e-tones,”
composed of Nanette McBee, Judy
Jonsrud, Sandra Wolfe, Mardell
Belcher, Martie Hanson, Kathy
Searls, Pat Colson and Loraine
Townsend will sing several selec
tions. Nancy Kitchen and Loraine
Townsend will also play two piano
duets.
Mrs. Harold Kitchen and her
committee will be in charge of re
freshments.
OPEN HOUSE
Tuesday at P.T.A. was open
house for the first four grades.
Refreshments were served by the
6th grade room mothers. Pupils
from Mr. Boothby’s and Miss Pro-
ett’s rooms sang La Cucaracha,
My White Horse, and Camptown
Races.
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Beginning this week the Gresham
General Hospital and the Gresham
Ministerial Association are co
operating in a hospital chaplain
program.
Each week a different pastor
of the Ministerial Association will
be chaplain for the week, calling
on the patients admitted for that
day. The time of the visit will
be shortly before, or after the lunch
hour to avoid conflicting with doc
tors’ rounds.
Each patient will receive a pam
phlet that Includes prayers upon
entering the hospital, for those In
the hospital, a prayer before an
operation, following the operation,
and others, along with other
scrlptual passages.
Rev. Rudolph Johnson is vis
iting patients this week and Rev.
William Tempest will make the
calls next week.
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