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Bit OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, January 22, 1842
(Special to The Statesman)
NEW YORK If you're still op
erating on the horse-and-buggy
theory that cats chase rats, go
slowly, because this week's dizzy
doings derby tended to undermine
the idea.
Officers at Fort Ontario, NY,
bothered by mouse damage, in
stalled a cat, only to discover the
cat blandly playing with the mice
. . . - I
And a Portland, Ore., family,
bothered by rats, got both a cat
and a rat-trap. And right off the
bat, the cat got caught in the
trap . jy.
Discouraging, isn't it?
But cheer up. The human
race is making some progress In
its battle for existence. Aralnst,
for instance, such notable an
noyances as immovable train
windows and women wearing
bit hats in theatres.
There's an old saying that with
train windows, as in poker, it
takes two jacks or better to open.
Well, a Chicago, trolley passenger
didn't even have time, so, after
vainly prying, prodding and pull
ing at a stuck window, he gave up
and with rare courage Just kicked
the window out .
When a freight train blocked
traffic in Bur bank, Calif., for 20
solid minutes you know: back
and forth, back and forth the
police arrested trie trainmen . . .
And a Milwaukee woman was
fined $10 for the fracas resulting
when she refused to take off her
hat in a theatre . . .
E. A. McNamara, a Huntington,
Ind., druggist, distinguished him
self by making the longest golf
shot in history. He hit his ball in
to a coal car of a passing train
bound for West Virginia 500
miles away ...
The St. Louis Archery club
organized an anti-parachutist
brigade . . . Th ebiggest deer
shot at Fort Bragg, NC, was
bagged by a man named Veni
son . . . The Morhead, Ky.,
Teachers college football team
beat Rio Grande college 104 to
0 .
Orange, NJ, decided to abolish
its ordinance against cab drivers
flicking their "whips ... A 76-year-old
Spokane, Wash., man
claimed exemption from jury du
ty on the ground that "I was born
in Missouri and haven't even
gotten my first papers yet" . . .
And a very youthful private at
Fort Des Moines had to have an
officer tie his necktie for him . . .
Seven soldiers on leave from
Camp Hulen, Tex., took a taxi to
Middleboro, Mass., and back (he
charged $262.50 that 50c was
for the last mile) . . . And down
in Camden. SC. three soldiers
thumbed a ride from a freight
train and it stopped and picked
them up! . . .
Oh, Sam!
Continuing in the financial
realm, for Instance, there was
the cryptic case of the army
private in the Asheboro, NC.
restaurant who casually tried
to pay for his meal ' with a
$1000 bill. . . . Then there was
the private at Fort Riley, Kas.,
who, on receiving his $21 pay
for the month, discovered that
one 50-cent piece was counter
feit. ... And an amateur life-of-the-party
guy out in Akron
got his he was trying to
catch a 50-cent piece in his
teeth, and swallowed it. . . .
' Weather notes: A tornado in
Kansas City lifted the roof off
a man's house, jumped two jelly
glasses over a partition, and set
the roof back in place again. . . .
And down in Pennsylvania it got
so dry that some workmen build
ing a concrete bridge had to send
away for l water because there
wasn't any in the river. . . .
A Los Angeles woman made her
debut in the movies at the age
of 102. ... A Greenville, SC. man
discovered, well along in the day,
that he'd absent-mindedly put on
a pair of his wife's stockings that
morning. . . . And a five-year-old
Potsdam, NY, girl got out of bed,
dressed herself and walked sev-
eral mocks aown ine street in a
rainstorm in her sleep. . . .
An unfaseable mail man in
Lynn, Mass delivered a post
card addressed to a couple of
telephone workers in a certain
manhole. . . . Harvard stream
lined its nine-rah cheer down
to seven rahs (national de
fense?) . . . And Memphis,
Tenn.. grave diggers, deciding
to. organize, Joined the CIO
eanners and packers onion. . . .
Two Norwegian sailors bumped
into each other in Brooklyn and
resumed a fight that had been
interrupted by an air raid in Glas
gow last May. . . . Twelve Fort
Bragg, NC, soldiers, going to town
on leave, hired a hearse. . . And
into Edward Banker's barber
shop in Rochester, NY, walked
a man who announced, "You're
Mr. Banker of Rochester, and
you're a barber I'm Mr, Bar
ber from Livonia, and I'm a
banker." . . .
And a soldier in the Carolina
maneuvers, instructed to write
a publicity story about the ar
rival of 4000 bales of straw, la
bored for three hours and wound
up with:
"Four thousand bales of straw
that ain't hay!"
Oh, Sam!
Previous hunting seasons may
have brought forth better game,
but they never brought forth any
better yarns. Pull up that chaise
lounge a little closer to the camp
fire, and well look some over.
We start with the case of Mr.
Hugh Corbett, a conservative
citizen of Seattle who likes
hunting, but figured deer-hunting
was too hazardous, what
with all these amateur shooters
taking wild shots into the foli
age. So he went pheasant
hunting, instead and wound
up with 72 pieces of buckshot,
from a careless pheasant-hunter,
in his figure.
Don't let these big-talking hunt
ers faze you. A lot of them don't
know so much as they make out
A Dawson, Minn., man came back
with a purported bag of 13 ducks
and a wild goose then a veteran
looked them over and found they
were 13 mudhens and a loon!
But anybody's liable to make a
mistake. Sam Arena of Pittsfield,
Mass., out on his first hunting
trip, drew a bead on a squirrel
and brought down four 'coons.
The thing in hunting is never
to admit defeat. Dewey Herfin
dal of Lake Park, Minn., spotted
a flock of wild geese while he
was plowing his field. He ran
over to a neighbor's and bor
rowed a ran, drove to town and
bought some shells, then went
around and picked up a license
and got back in time to pick
off three of the geese!
And Detective Thomas McGavin
ot Grand Rapids shot three times
at three pheasants and missed
every time. So on the fourth one,
he threw away his gun, caught the
bird with his bare hands and
brung it back alive! But Allen
Miller of Boise, Ida., didn't fare
so well. After he shot twice at
ducks and missed, his retriever
dog rather pointedly (off!) swam
out and brought back one of his
decoys.
The governor of Colorado gets
the prize for the deftest piece
of hunting Jurisprudence of the
season. When hunter George
Crowder asked for his license
fee back on the ground that he
failed to bag a deer, the gover
nor ordered the money turned
over instead as a prize to
School Superintendent Charles
Green, who had dreamed that
he shot one.
And remember, in hunting as
in other things, the grass is some
times greener in your own back
yard. John Paulson of Manitou
Springs, Colo., came back from a
long hunt empty-handed only to
find that deer had chewed up his
shrubs ... and Elmer Lemmer of
Manistee, Mich., came home empty-handed
to find his wife cook
ing a partridge that had flown in
their window.
Office Bids Sought
WOODBURN The government
lease on the present postoff ice
quarters is running out and a no
tice has been posted calling for
bids to rent quarters for the post
office for a period of five years,
beginning August 1 of this year.
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submarine 60 miles southeast of Montauk Point, Umg Island, wave
. cheery greeting to cameramen at Newport, R. X where they wera
taken after being rescued, Only two crew members of 40 officer.
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