TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
_ _ GRANVILLE
_ _ BURST
ONCE
CHURCH
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W.N.U. SERVICE V
Curt thought he detected a sar
Inspecting the job in hand, ques
donic overtone and waited for Gie tioning the capacity of that size
other to go on.
culvert, passing a few more words,
“Then arrived my aviators. They took twenty minutes. Montaya took
showed me that the wind is bad for little or no part in tiie talk. Once
that location. And the wind here Curt noticed the senor looking at
never varies much. So,” Montaya tentively from him to Bill Hender
spread his hands, there was no son, but gave it no thought.
steering, “I built new hangars at
On their way again Curt said,
the upper end of the field, the site "Darn good worker, Bill Henderson.
they selected.”
Only fault is he never could leave
“And the old buildings?”
liquor alone. He can usually handle
“I will tear them down when I it, but it does him out of a future.”
need the materials. Meanwhile, they
Montaya shrugged noncommittal
serve as a bodega. 1 have some ly-
choice stocks of rosewood and hard
They reached Tempujo by mid
mahogany curing there. And cirue- afternoon. From here they’d take a
lillo. Also much pipe and pump power launch up the river to the
machinery which I was able to pick main levee camp. First, however,
up very cheaply in bankrupt sales. Montaya led the way down the
CHAPTER V
One must save where one can. For ridged asphalt footpath to the Tem
the overhead irrigation system we
On his way home to lunch Jeff’s install later. I shall send you the pujo engineering office.
Half of this building, all one side
step was springy as a boy’s. As he inventory for your perusal.”
of it, was a single large room with
let the gate slam behind him. Buddy
Twice on the run Curt stopped
and Chuck jumped from ambush be Montaya to inspect the work of bal almost continuous windows in three
hind the hedge. This brought about lasting in progress. On the second walls. Here was drafting equipment,
a free-for-all on the lawn until the stop, where a crew was cribbing a engineering instruments.
An intelligent-looking native, at
resultant bedlam made Lee, watch section of the roadbed and installing
ing from the screened livingroom- a culvert, he found the engineer in present tracing maps, was in charge
veranda, put fingers to her ears.
charge was a man he'd known pre of the office. Lauriano Duro bowed
stiffly when introduced, then went
“Hey, Man-mountain!" she called viously in Tierra Libre.
on with his work.
to Curt. "You’re worse than the
Bill
Henderson
was
a
lanky,
hap
boys. You know better, they don’t. py-go-lucky individual, with a mop
While Montaya selected a couple
We have neighbors, remember.”
of maps to take along on their trip
of
sandy
hair
burnt
by
tropic
sun.
Curt snatched up the youngsters
he explained, “We maintain
His skin was like leather, his eyes a upriver,
to march inside.
duplicate
set of our important
so straight and pale that they made drawings here,
“Lunch ready? I’m starved.”
Mr. Curtis. This
him
seem
to
stare.
But
for
all
his
“ Yes, but you!" she eyed him sor
serves
two
purposes,
convenience
rowfully. “Look at you. Your only rough exterior, he had a sheepish and insurance against fire.”
fresh whites! You look like a street air in greeting Curt.
Curt nodded approvingly.
“Hiya, fella.” Henderson grinned
cleaner on a rainy day."
The other half of the building was
Curt chuckled and pulled her to amiably, it might have been only further divided. A screened porch
him.
in front was combination livingroom
“Well, you didn’t marry a glam
and outer office. In back of this
our boy. Anyway, I won’t need these
was a small bedroom. Through an
again for a while. I’m making the
open door on the other side of the
first round this afternoon, so get
bedroom Curt could see a shower
out my boots and field clothes. And
cubicle.
pack my old musette bag for over
"This you will find most con
night. Won't be back till sometime
venient when your work holds you
tomorrow."
at this end of the planting,” Mon
During lunch Curt was full of the
taya remarked. “ You use the mess-
job ahead of him, but the meal was
hall for meals.”
nearly over before he realized Lee
Curt grinned. “Good enough!”
hadn’t been listening with the prop
They had thought of everything
er enthusiasm. That pucker had
here.
returned to her forehead and it
The old Tempujo radio shack at
brought back a string of questions to
the river dock now housed the dis
his own mind. He paused to give
patcher and his small switchboard
her a chance.
that served Tsmpujo. Here ended
► “About Zora Mitchell, Jeff,” she
the two telephone lines from San
began.
Alejo, one used by the dispatcher,
“Yes.” Curt set down his glass of
one for general utility. They still
iced tea, carefully. “I saw photo- i
maintained the radio, too, against
graphic evidence this morning. They ,
emergency. Montaya entered this
took pictures when they found her.
office to talk with San Alejo before
I reckon it’s pretty conclusive.” He
leaving for the levee camp. Curt
tried to speak lightly.
strode about outside.
She was silent a moment.
The dock hoist was lifting a huge
“But her child, so little and all
case from the deck of a river steam
alone. I kept thinking all morning
er. It was one of the crated air
what if it were Bud—” Lee bit her i
plane wings Curt had seen in the
lip. “Don’t you think, Jeff, we could j
wharf shed at Cabeza.
take her until arrangements are 1
Rising up over the edge of the
made to send her north?”
wharf, it loomed even bigger than
“A swell idea, Lee! I should’ve
Curt had thought, bigger than neces
thought of it myself. They’re look
sary for the plane he’d seen on the
ing after her at the hospital nursery.
ground at the airfield that after
I’ll speak to Montaya this after
noon.
noon.”
The Negro rolled swift, even at
Curt reached the San Alejo sta
this season, obliging the launch to
tion before Montaya, equipped for
fight its way upstream. When they
the field on this first tour of the
reached the ever-moving camp of
C. A. T. tract.
the levee gang it was too late to go
“
Uh,
no,
Curt,
I
cut
up
a
bit
one
He kept his promise to Lee, rais
out on the job that night. After a
ing the subject of the Mitchell child night.”
wash-up, Montaya and Curt busied
before they set out.
yesterday they last met. “ Heard themselves with maps and progress
Montaya studied the ash forming you were coming.”
reports in the office tent, until the
on the end of his cigarette. Why so
“So, Bill, you finally broke away fast-obliterating darkness drove the
much deliberation, Curt wondered, from Associated. You threatened to construction gang into camp.
over so simple a matter? He often enough.”
Again Curt found an Ud friend
frowned. At length Montaya spoke.
“Well, uh, guess it was the other among these workers.
“I have been unable yet to locate way around. Curt. They broke loose
“Slats!” he called to the bulky
the relatives. According to our rec from me.”
man pushing his feet wearily down
ords there are only two—sisters of
the camp road. “ I’ll be damned!”
“ How come?”
Mrs. Mitchell, and they—ah, travel
“Hello, Curt! Glad you’re on the
“Oh, reckon I went on one too
in theatrical work. It will take time many benders.”
job. It’ll seem like old times again.”
to make arrangements. If Mrs. Cur
“Has all the old guard left Asso
“What! Have they gone Sunday
tis will be so kind, then. The child School on us over there?”
ciated, Slats?”
is not happy at the nursery.”
“No. We’ve got a number over
“Uh, no, Curt. I cut up a bit one
As they rolled down the moun night.”
here, but I reckon you won’t know
tainside Curt had a better view of
many of ’em. Myself and Bill Hen
“Oh.”
the airfield than from the unexpect
Curt surveyed the other. Under derson—”
ed glimpse of it the day before Henderson’s open shirt were spots
“ Yeh, met him.”
Again today Curt noted the length and blotches of dull red forming a
“—and Steve Harvey, and Law-
of the field, but at once realized a solid blemish of the skin, ending son . . . well, only us, I guess,
long runway was necessary for jaggedly at the collarbone. Curt re from the old days.”
heavily loaded planes. His eyes membered that Henderson had al
Slats, naked to the waist, his dirty
traveling down the wide strip caught ways been too lazy to treat this skin shirt slung across his shoulder, a
a glimpse, but hardly more than fungus.
filthy hat pushed back until sweat-
that, of what seemed to be a dupli
But there was something decided soaked hair escaped in a tangle,
cate set of buildings at the far end. ly peculiar in Henderson’s manner, showed strong teeth as he smiled,
They were shaded by the big copse in his careful words. The man didn’t teeth yellow with tobacco stains. But
of trees left standing there, but at have to be on good behavior with for all the friendliness of the grin,
that end of the field the grass was Curt. He’d never been so restrained he seemed uneasy.
grown, there was no runway. Evi in the old days. Perhaps Montaya’s
Montaya stood nearby. Again
dently these buildings were not in silent presence threw a damper on Curt caught a thoughtful look in the
use—at least as hangars.
the meeting. Curt commenced to Spaniard’s eyes. Or was it specu
However, along the barely visible stuff his pipe absently.
lative? At any rate, the look van
front of the buildings ran a plat
“ So you crossed the river! ished as Montaya said, “Mr. Har
form breast high, and serving this Should’ve gone home. How you do vey and Mr. Lawson are on the
platform was a spur track leading ing now?”
drainage laterals.”
from the airfield branch. Curt would
To Monahan Curt said, “Slats,
“Oh, I’ve been off the stuff for
have missed the platform if the some time.”
how come so many of you left As
track hadn’t suggested it.
“Shake on that, Bill.” Nothing sociated?”
“A bodega?” he asked, and be- I wrong with his grip, thought Curt,
“Oh,” Monahan replied hesitating
fore realizing the impertinence he wincing. “Tell you what, when you ly, “they started pinching pennies
was offering, “ Funny place for it." feel the urge again, look me up be for one thing, and Senor Montaya
But Montaya was not offended. fore you start in. I’ll see you pays good wages.” Then, as though
He gave a short, deprecative laugh. don’t go too far. Anyway, we’ll he hadn’t said enough, “Besides,
“ My reason for locating them have to have a get-together soon for this’s a new planting, and you know
where I did was to take advantage old time’s sake. Come up to San how most of us feel about a new
of those trees for the comfort of Alejo. Lie will be glad to see you job. It’s more fun building than
the men. It is so very hot on the again.”
maintaining.”
field. A good idea, no?"
“Sure, Curt, thanks.”
(TO HE CONTINUED)
T H E STORY SO F A R : J ilt Car«!» and
his wife, Lee. are on their way Io Tierra
Libre when Jell rereives a note from
Zora Mitchell warning thrm not to rontr.
Jeff Is to be rhlet engineer tor a newly
organised, fruit company. They arrive
In Tierra Libre to find both Zora M llrh-
ell and her husband dead, and Jeff sus
pects they were murdered. He learns
from Jerry McInnis, a form er associate
who works for a rival fruit company,
that there Is something strange going on
and that Mitchell and Zora were killed
because they knew too much. A con
versation with his employer, Senor Mon-
taya, confirms Jeff's suspicions. Mon-
tava shows him pictures of Zora's body.
Her fingers, bolding a German gun. are
not tightly clasped, as they would be If
she had pulled the trigger herself.
NOW C O N TIN U E W IT H T H E STORY
THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 1942
To keep bread in the best condi
tion, store it when cool in a clean,
well-aired, covered, ventilated
container and keep in a cool, dry
place.
• • •
To protect garden shoes keep
them well greased or oiled with
neat's-foot oil or cod or castor oil,
tallow or wool grease. Let dry
in a warm place.
• • •
Sheets and other linens should
be ironed in different folds each
week so the creuses will not break
through.
Mexican Tea Towels
In Brilliant Colors
Sweet corn, green string beans,
green peas, pumpkins, squash, cel
ery and greens are best vegetables
for home drying. Apples und ber
ries are adupted to drying in the
home among fruits.
• • •
That fish may be scaled much
easier by first dipping them into
boiling water for a minute.
• • •
Rancidity in lard cun be pre
vented by keeping it awuy from
air, light und warmth. Store in
tin or crockery containers in a
cool place.
To save
shopping trips
Buy more oranges at
?
a tim e — they keep
r~\UR good neighbors south of the
border provide these pictur
esque tea towel motifs. So get out
your most brilliant floss and do
these bits of embroidery. Fin
ished, they will give a cheerful
note to your towel rack and thus
to your entire kitchen.
Pancho’s serapes and Ramona's
skirts, the fruits, and the awning
should all be done in vivid colors.
To complete the set, there is a
panholder motif of bright-colored
Mexican pottery.
• • •
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down on fresh foods just
because you shop less
often these days. Simply
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amounts. They're natur
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at a meal, comes the Army's
name “ mess” for its breakfast,
dinner, and supper. Favorite meal
with the soldier is chicken dinner
—his favorite cigarette, Camel.
(Based on actual sales records
from Post Exchanges.) A carton
of Camels, by the way, is the gift
he prefers first of ail from the
folks back home. He’s said so.
Local tobacco dealers are featur
ing Camel cartons to send any
where to men in the armed forces.
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HE’S A “SELF-STARTER a
JO H N N Y
S T IC !» ,
fam ous sp orts p h o to g
rapher, leads a hectic life
chasing action shots all
over the country. He says,
“ Night and day I'm on the
go. And I ’ve found that one
way to help stay on my toes
from early morning to noon
is to eat a good breakfast. I
like a big bowl of Kellogg's
Corn Flakes with fruit and
milk. Tastes swell and what
• Self-Starter I ”