The Willamina times., June 13, 1946, Image 4

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 194«
Gem» of Thought
In These United States
Nine American Women Receive
Camp Fire Girls Silver Medal
NEW YORK CITY. Nine American women who h ive given
outstanding service in the field of girl guiti mce have been .m .11 th >1
silver m edals, it has been announced by Miss M artha I' Allen, no
tional executive of Camp Eire (.¡il ls, Inc.
*
The organisation's silver med
. a l, which bears the Cam p Eire
em blem of crossed logs and
tlame, was aw arded io Mrs. E d ­
w ard Shepter, B altim ore, M d .;
.Mrs. Helen A. Davis, St. Augus­
tine. E ta .; M rs. Eunice Le-
Blane, Beaum ont, Texas; Mrs.
How ard llo o d . B r r k r lr » . ( alif.;
.Mrs. Grace Hawkins, Spokane.
W ash.; M rs. A lm a Hastings,
O verland P a rk , R an.; Mrs. O r­
ville Hanson, H aw ley, M inn .;
and M rs. Alveda llocker, Misha­
w aka, Ind.
V E R Y W O N D E R F U L , . . M rs. Lois B e rnh ardt. w ife of vet, finds
housekeeping ‘ th rillin g ” even a fte r she typed Japanese surrender
te rm s. R obert B ernhardt, husband, attends Iowa State college at
Ames.
HOW A HOMEBODY
From the World Stage
To an Iowa Kitchen
AMES, IOWA.—Stenographer, housekeeper, or farm wife, Mrs.
Lois Bernhardt can always recall the glamorous part she played
on the world stage during World War II, for she can always look
back on these experiences:
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Typed out the Japanese su r­
render te rm s hours before they
were made public.
Typed out the ch a rte r of the
U nited
N ations
organization
when it was being draw n up.
Attended the Potsdam Big
Three conference as secretary
to Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes.
T aviation notes
A irp o rt C hatter
T e rre ll county, Georgia, has pur­
chased 259 acres th re e m iles from
M rs. B ernhardt, fo rm e rly Lois Dawson fo r an a irp o rt. . . . The
Kevans of Schaller, Iowa, who gave Aberdeen F ly in g Service, Aberdeen,
up her e xcitin g career fo r love, is Idaho, presented an a e ria l photo of
c u rre n tly employed in the Iowa th a t c ity to the local newspaper,
State purchasing office, w hile her w hich was published—w ith a c re d it
husband, a childhood sweetheart, line. . . . S ta rr Nelson, age 80, of Del­
studies fo r a degree in d a iry indus­ ta, Colo., a re tire d ra ilro a d engi­
neer, has bought a plane in which
try .
The good-looking Iowa g ir l q u it he’ ll fly to G rand Junction to see
her jo b w ith Secretary Byrnes last his g ir l as soon as the w eather
N ovem ber to m a rry R obert Bern­ m akes it safe to hop Colorado's
h a rd t, w ith whom she attended high c lo u d -ticklin g peaks. . . . B. A. Otte
school at Schaller, and traded duties i of Goodland, K an., rece ntly flew to
o f an in te rn a tio n a l nature fo r the the State o f W ashington. . . . J im
prosaic job o f darnin g her hus­ Eccles, flying in s tru c to r at Wold
band's socks, keeping house and Point, A rk ., m u n icip a l a irp o rt, has
added a F a irc h ild PT-23. . . . Nancy
helping out the fa m ily budget.
F o w le r of G la cie r P a rk was recent­
But the change-over hasn’ t dulled ly interview ed over a radio hookup
the m em ory o f a wedding w here re la tiv e to her h unting coyotes from
Secretary Byrnes gave the b ride |
a plane. H er p ilo t, by the w ay, was
away or of a glam orous job where T ho r Thorstenson of Plentywood,
the secrets o f in te rn a tio n a l a ffa irs M ont. . . . Dewey T a tro o f the Deco­
were everyday routine.
rah, Iow a, a irp o rt has graded three
A fte r graduating fro m the A m e r­ runw ays to provide landing fa c ili­
ican In s titu te of Business in Des ! ties fo r la rg e r planes. . . . Ray
Moines, M rs. B e rnh ardt took a job Lauterbach, an Iow a flying fa rm ­
w ith the w ar d epartm ent in Wash- 1 er, who lives near Sum ner, needed
ington. F ro m there it was ju s t a ! parts fo r his lig h t plane in a h u rry
step to a position as stenographer ! rece ntly and flew over to Decorah
in the state departm ent.
to get them . .
. F o rm e r L t. Ted
“ The firs t job I had in the state C a rro ll of the A A F is now an in­
d epartm ent was the typing of the s tru c to r at Decorah, Iowa.
Japanese surrender te rm s,” she
said.
“ We knew of the surrender before
the announcement was made, but 1
we had to stay in the office. The
halls w ere fu ll of reporters. I f any ’
o f us had gone out they would have
known it the m in ute they saw our
faces.”
P re vio usly she had attended the
San F rancisco conference, where
she typed the c h a rte r of the U nited j
N ations organization.
“ I w orked on it n ig ht and day un- |
t il it was finished,” she said. “ There '
were other secretaries fro m a ll the
other nations doing the same th ing !
in a ll the other languages.”
And when the Potsdam confer- 1
ence was called, M rs. B e rnh ardt
Roger C. Lane, F lo rid a bee­
again was chosen to do the secre­
keeper, and his S ilva ire .
ta ria l w ork. She acted as personal
se cre tary fo r Byrnes.
P L A N E Q U IZ
H er husband is a fo rm e r navy
Q. D id the helicopter see active
flie r who saw service in South
service d u rin g W orld W ar II?
A m e rica on anti-subm arine p atrol.
A. Yes, on A tla n tic anti-subm a­
rin e p a tro l and fo r rescue w ork in
B urm a.
Q. How m any a irp o rts are there
HOT SPRINGS, S. D —Ben Ash,
age 95, pioneer South Dakota In ­ in the U. S.?
A. A t the end o f 1945 there were
dian scout, peace officer and c a ttle ­
m an, died here recently at the State 3,255 a irp o rts . W ith the com pletion
S oldiers’ home. Ash served as wag­ of the C AA program now underw ay
on m aste r fo r General Custer and the n um ber is expected to be dou­
as an In d ia n scout d urin g the M es­ bled.
Q. W hat is “ seat of the pants”
siah w a r from 1889 to 1890 in west­
ern South D akota. E a rlie r he had flying?
A. I t was flying in the old days
been a deputy U. S. m arshal at
there
w ere instrum ents.
P ie rre and was sh e riff of Hughes before
county. He operated a ca ttle ranch When the plane went up or down
on the M oreau riv e r in P erkins or tipped, in e rtia of the fly e r’s body
county fo r m any years. Ash was changed his position in his seat
credited w ith b u ild in g the firs t enough fo r h im to feel the difference
house on the site of B ism arck, and he could sense the position of
the plane a ccordingly.
N. D.
D eterm ined from annual reports
subm itted to national headquarters
in New York C ity, the awards this
year, as in previous years, are based
on
the
im p o rta n t
contributions
made by women volunteers in plan­
ning all-around program s for Iheir
Cam p F ire groups.
T E X A N . . . M rs. Eunice L tK Ia n e
of B eaum ont, Texas, winner of a
s ilv e r m ed al, given for outstand­
ing service in the field of girl
guidance.
Injured While
Shoeing Aged
S hetland Pony
E D G E W A T E R , COLO. -
"Red”
Schaeffer's face is really r-e-d! A
seasoned
villa g e
blacksm ith
in
Golden, and a form er bronco bust­
er, Red doesn't know yet how it
happened.
“ I have a horse I want shod," a
w om an telephoned him . "H e ’s 33
years o ld —a Shetland pony.”
Schaeffer went out and did the
job. A few days passed and Red
began com plaining about a pain in
his chest. The doctor took a look
at h im and pronounced it a broken
rib .
Red fin a lly a dm itted that the old
Shetland pony did "p ress his fo ot"
against Red's chest during the
horseshoeing
The w inners, who represent a
cross-section o f A m e rican woman­
hood, devoted themselves whole­
heartedly to providing for the lei­
sure tim e needs of Cump F ire g irls,
ever, though they themselves hud
th e ir own fa m ilie s and household
responsibilities to care for. In ad­
d itio n to planning health and char­
a cter-building program s fo r th eir
groups, they also uided the muny
social, w elfare and health agencies
w ith which Cam p F ire co-operates.
D uring the w ar the volunteers d i­
rected th e ir C um p F ire gtoups in
m any p a trio tic a c tiv itie s , which in­
cluded selling w ar bonds, collecting
canned foods and clothing fur
U N R R A , assisting in the “ M arch of
D im e s" cam paign, and "a d o p tin g ”
w ar orphans.
’J’ O lt every s o c ia l w r o n g
there m ust be u rem edy. But
the rem edy van be n oth in g less
than the a b o litio n of (he w rong.
H en ry George
T here's a b e tte r m an behind
an honorable (a llu re than there
Is behind a dishonorable sue-
cess.
L /ie
i t « » / / < / null'd
Its
bulb / » " t i n
a m i b i m b l e t ll u e m u ld dn ell un
the i / u t v < > /
t t , u ell s i un
ibe bapittnett ul duly.
We can w e ll a ffo rd a seem ­
ing s a crifice fo r the rig h t, be
cause any o th e r side is a losing
side ,—Ben F ra n k lin .
Everyone excels in some­
thing in w h ich another fa ils —
P u h lillu s Syru».
I
Posies f o r B a th ro o m
F rc m Y a r d o f C h in tz
I T IS m arve lo u s w h a t you can do
1 w ith a y a rd o f flow ered chintz.
Just tr y c u ttin g the posies out and
spreading around fo r d ra m a tic e f­
fect. T in t a faded bath m a t and
a pply a stu nn ing big rose in one
co rn er, use o the rs on to w e ls ; then
m ake show er c u rta in s o f plain
m a te ria l w ith m o re roses applied.
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1 .ic » e In trig u in g id ea » a re fr o m a 33
pag© b o o k le t. ’ M a k e Y«»Uf O w n C u r ­
ta in s “ E v e r y p a g e 1» lllu a t r a t e d so c le a r ­
ly th a t you c a n fo llo w d ire c tio n » w h e th e r
you h a v e e v e r »ew n b e fo re o r n o t. W ith
it» h e lp yo u m ay u»e bo th n e w a n d old
m a t e r ia l» to c u r t a in y o u r house a t b e a u ­
tifu lly a» If yo u h ire d a d e c o ra to r
H ead­
e r» m a y get co p ies of th l» b o o k le t fo r 15c
pc i t pa Id
A w o o d -w o ra ln g p a tte r n . N o.
255. fo r th e spool »he lv e « »now n In th e
o r d e r « w ith
n a m e a nd a d d re « » to:
M R * H I T il W Y R T M APRANB
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Address
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Tung Orchards Are
New South Industry
T A LLA H A S S E E , F L A .- T u n g oil,
fo r thousands of years an O riental
monopoly and closely guarded se­
cret, is back fro m w a r and ready
to lend its m agic q u a litie s to peace­
tim e uses. Known as "Chinawood
o il” in the paint and varnish indus­
try , which takes m ost of the U S.
tung production, th is m agic fluid
is ra p id ly finding new uses in in­
d u stry and a g ric u ltu re .
Grown in a belt along the coast
of the G u lf of M exico from Gaines­
v ille , F la ., through Georgia, Ala­
bam a, Louisiana and M ississippi,
tung orchards are an e a rly in d i­
cation of spring. T h e ir five-petaled,
p ink and white blossoms have come
to mean to the upper F lo rid a penin­
sula w hat the orange blossom
m eans to central F lo rid a .
M arsh a ll B a lla rd J r., secretary
of the Am erican Tung O il asso­
ciatio n, says th a t “ to the south­
ern A m erican fa rm e r, large o r
s m a ll, tung oil today offers a splen­
did o pportunity fo r a good cash
c ro p .”
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4 //-V I O f T A IL !
L A X A T IV !
sei A 25-BOM
nni
llatiïùMfiMJy
de r
Eat plenty yet lose
weight w ith delicious
candy reducing plan
C A L IF O R N IA N . . . Mrs. h e r-
nice Wood, Berkeley, C a lif., hon­
ored by the Cam p F ire G irls for
outstanding service. She was a
m em ber of the AW VS for four
years.
ll»v e » more d e rxlrf, gTarrful fig­
ure N o eicrrw ing N o U cativra.
N o drug* W tth the »implr A
Vitam in Candy K rdut .ng
you d o n 't cu t ou
•ta n hrs.
H o rse, 51, D ie s
M ELBO URNE,
A U S T R A LIA .—
N igger, acclaim ed recently as the
oldest w orking horse in the w orld,
died here at the age of 51. Owned
by John C roker of Footeray, N ig ­
ger died in the harness. He was
s till doing lig h t work, but was too
old and slow to get out of the way
of a bus.
Leading Drug Counters Everywhere
Tear Out this Ad aa a Reminder
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—
euito UP «E0 BIOOD
TO GET MORE
STOCMBTH
If your blood LACKS IRON!
You Klrla and women who aufTer bo from
•Im p le anem ia th a t yo u're pftla, weak,
'‘drugged o u t” — th is may be due to lack
of blood-iron tío try Lydia K lin k h a m ’R
T A B L E T S one of th e beat home ways
to build up rod blood In such case«,
rln k h a m 'a Tablets are on© of th e g re a t­
est blood -iron tónica you can buy I A t
all drugstores. Worst) try ln g l
When Your
Back Hurts*
A n d Y o u r S t r e n g t h fin d
E n e rg y la B e lo w P a r
Indian Scout Dies
Tt may l»e caused by disorder of k id ­
ney function th a t permit» poisonous
wsat« to accum ulate. For tru ly many
people feel tire d , weak and miserable
when the kldncya fail to remove eze«ee
acid» and ofher waste m atter from the
blond.
You m ay suffer nagging backache,
rheum atic pain», headache», dizsinesa»
etting up nighta, leg pain», «welling.
ometimc» frequent and scanty urina­
tion w ith »m arting and burning la an ­
other sign th a t aomething la wrong w ith
tha kidney» or bladder.
There ahould bo no doubt th a t prom pt
trea tm e n t la wlaer than neglect. L'»e
Doan'« P ill» . I t la better to rely on a
medicine th a t haa won countryw ide ap­
proval than on aomething leas favorably
known. Doan'» have been tried and teat-
ad m rn y years. Are at all drug stores.
G et D oan» today.
R
M A ID EN ROCK . . . Childheart, the Indian girl, still looks across the
valley, awaiting the return of Red Hand, her warrior lover, near
3ozeman, Mont.
D oans P ills