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The OREGON STATESMAll, Solera 1 Oregon, Sunday Morning, Noremker 8. 1942 pags tuthtzz: i 1 UHSG; L J. pi?' 2EiGiro5se By ETHAN GRA1TT- . I .. .V' ; , Today's column is addressed to Mr. 'Vital Statistics, ol Knoxville, Tenn, whose records should but do not 'include my name among' his native Tennessee citizens- - - ; I AA-- V " -Mr. Statistics.: do you want roof? Alt saJl mi- w w xi& opiuiss,'ia wnton coun ty, across Clinch river from! what once was' Loyston. i .Since ; they built the danvyouTl have to take boat, for most of the communi ty was.; sacrificed to power and progress by TV A Sut In the hills above the water's edge you may stni finda Evidence. Perhaps my scarred Initials a beech, w if not then you may still find a few elderly residents some j of , them placidly wondering "whatever be came of that skinny Grant boy with the shock -of unruly hair. Just say i he was the grandson Of Preacher John D. Walker, at Whose -home he was raised. . Or, in the- event ' you ? haven't : the boat or tires, as most of us haven't these days, you could find , my lovely little grandmother at 1169 LuttreO - street, Knoxville. Only J rather ycu wouldn't bother her. A Job cf . statistics, If prefer to thdnk, ought to be businesslike and free from -sentimentality J At Big Springs yen might even find some ex-school teach . era who remember. Bill Wilson, f or tnstsneeruther nm. or Mary Smithwhose brother Overton parted his hair m the , middle sad. It was alleged, car ried pistol: Ther were the teachers who , at Big ; Springs school taaght' sae smatterings from books and. eenvtnelaiy, that ffl behavior hart the part of the anatomy God.'g-ave a boy' Ami there were two terms at a ichbol called Better Chance, not far from Lost Creek: The teacher there was Leslie HB- a' cousin of Luther's. I He could, and frequent ly diV wear -wife's hose and $et away with It. Not; that he wasn't a he-man. It wis, he who taught us a ame called base ball, which. -he -said, was played fit Knoxville an-d many , other places. ' -I -j. The Union county school terms were shall we ssy-subcaulescent? Vell, extremely short, j But, I think, very fast. You got that brand of hard and ' fast j learning Which sticks. Making it stick was a school teacher's., incontestable prerogative, and he or jshe had the stout support " of your par ents. - " - ..-v. j Yes, Mr. Statistics, those teach ers would convince you of my tight to be. recorded as a native son. And if you -cared.- you would also 'find .some .proof that my grandparents, and perhaps even their grandparents, were all na tive TennesseesaosiThe trail of me would then i lead - you ; back , to Knoxville and 'the Sixth avenue district, where-iUie street car line ended near . the ice " house. You could find my name on the yel lowed payrolls of a nearby knit ting mill, where as a doff boy In Cap Hauthers spinning i depart ment T helped make long under wear for Russian soldiers. . Next you'd find evidence that I delivered packages for Bon ner's drugstore, then at - Depot and Gay. where a eolored porter named Tons andtl nsed to share the leftover lee cream on Sun day Bights. The records might even show that the job ended abruptly one afternoon .when, ' at Gay and Jackson, my bike and I were smashed by an auto mobile. My lawyer, whose name was Ely, got me damages to the scant amount of fit because I was too yooar to know he couldn't hold eoort la his office, with only the defense's lawyer to help idnvHYCCn f Following recovery, I i became i Messenger No. S for - the Postal, tinder. Manager J.- B." Martin, -a chubby man -with a heart of pure gold. He hired me, a. skinny kid without any seat in my pants and nothing to ; eat," out v of ,,-a . Friday afternoon rainstorm. Did I have at bike? No,, sir.' Very well, he called up Greenlee's bike shop and told Greenlee to sell me one,- a brand new- one, ' on ' time. "V J.f B.' himself would, make it good, if I didn't- - - AA.J 1 ; For a man like J. B.I Martin, what else could you do but make ft good? 'A- His bookkeeper told him he was crazy, trusting si Snilfla Season - -, i The first cool mornings of Fall often bring on j "the sniffles.".. ; Dant laugh it off. Get right to work and stop them. ' If serious 'complications' de velop, see your family: phy sician immediately. You can rely on SchaeferV "years - oi experience in the flllln t of prescriptions knowing that the job will be done carefully, quickly, and scientifically. ; Se Your Doctor First I is a s , w ... " phc-s 5127 cr 7023 IZZ IT. Ccrisrclil vagrant kid he'd never seen be fore. But ' the ; bookkeeper was wrong. Go on out on East Fifth avenue and ask J. B. about it He taught: the" kid telegraphy, dumb as the kid was, and sent him across- the street to the ; Western Union j and his first white collar Job,wlM!re he stayed until the war pulled-him into the navy. lAnd5; Mr Statistics, there's a book around- Knoxville, published after the -war, with Ithe pictures of those who enlisted from there. Look me up. And if you can keep from laughing at the picture long enough; to be serious, ask your self, "Is this a native-born; Ten nesseesn or isn't ? - Now don't ask me why I haven't tried getting, a birth certificate from A Maynardville, my ; native county seat For I have tried. I wrote to the county court clerk, a man named Theo Sharp, and he sent me a paper to fill out and have -signed, before a notary," by two people, who were ; willing to swear .they remembered I was born. I did that, and returned the paper, with what I thought was a nice, friendly letter. But it was the last I ever heard from ri Theo Sharp. He doesn't even answer my . subsequent let ters. Not that It makes a lot of difference ' now, - Mr. Statistics, except .for the principle of the thing. But I do want you to know what goes on what, a time some Tennesseeans have trying to prove they're Tennesseeans. It eettU be that I made a mistake my leaving Tennessee. Bat the war, and the post-war period, yen remember besides, when J .was last In Tennessee, few years ago. It seemed there -was sv surplus of newspaper col umnists: er. rather, the brand of columnist I am. Which is how we happened to keep shopping around, until fi nally we found Salem, Oregon. The Colonel Was Generally Overcome -NASHVILLE, Tenn.-(A)-Fhre-y ear-old Jimmy Block, who wears an enlisted man's unifocal at the army air forces classification center here, al ways .saluted his "superior of ficer." Lt. CoL Robert E. Lee, who acknowledged the salute. Then Jimmy's dad, Lt. Melvin Block, gave him a brigadier general's outfit. Jimmy await- d Colonel Lee's salute , which . had diminished into a Hello Jknmy." The youngster ran after the post -surgeon and al most .screamed: "Yon didn't salute sue! You didn't salute met" The startled colonel apologised for the slight and - saluted FIRST! MimipQesn?t ret Army Forn ColoneVs Daughter Suing to Soldier By Radio, ; Reunion - . NEW , YORKr(Wide World) Listen carefully, soldier, to the radio ' voice of . Mimi - Cabanne the next time you hear her sing ing I Remember You.' t . Does it sound familiar? " Think back, then, to the days ' when a p little j army . brat" Jn pigtails the . colonel's' daughter used to brighten the tort with her songs. i She's still ji singing for .you. soldier. Plain Muni Jenkins When she ? Uved with her - father. Colonel John M. Jenkins, In a; half . dosen army- posts J from Fort Bragg, NC to Fort Lewis, Wssh. she's Mimi - Cabanne now that she's with Horace Heldt's band. . And, although she took the more exotic-sounding .name of her, mother; although her dark pigtails are no more, and al though she's j now grown to a svelte five feet,' six inches, she hopes some of the soldier boys remember her. . j They ought to remember Mimi not only as the colonel's daugh ter but for her expert marks manship and horsemanship. She won many prizes on the range and in army horse shows. "It's strange," she says, "that perhaps the song most requested by soldiers, in the very forts I lived in would be I Remember You. I probably remember most of the boys .who send in the requests." i Mimi, bom at Fort Knox, Ky, spent most ot her 22 years in army posts-i-Fort Sill, Okla.; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Omaha, Neb.; Camp ; Livingstone, Lsu, among others and feels that al though grown up now, her voice, at least, is still part of army life as it reaches the boys by radio. Her mother's family, direct descendants. , of Pierre La Clede, founder of St. Louis, Mo wanted Mimi to become an opera slmrer and .she stud ted for both opera and concert to the extent of mastering the music of France, Italy, Ger many, Spain and. Russia In the original languages. But she is glad that now she Is singing with a dance band which often appears at army camps and whose music reaches back via radio to the soldiers she knew. . That Mimi hasn't . forgotten , heV aarmy upbringings Is weH known by members of the Heidt orchestra she's always regaling them with stories of camp life and trying to teach them to shoot a rifle. The army already has four of Heidt's players all good shots because , of Mimi's tutelage. Timely Garden Talk ! , By LDJJE L. MAfcSEN urn Like in the evening of the day, the evening of the year also brings chores. This year In particular we should try to "do up" all the chores , possible.' Time may be even more scarce next spring than it lis now. Our "help" is moving out fast. And there will be a number of things we cannot . 'j get? mat we are still or were still able to get during the present garden year. Because of. this ' it Is even more necessary than usual to 'put away our tools, our hose, jour our mowers with, great care, j All hoes, spades, shovels and metal rakes should be carefully -cleaned and oiled. The same applies to the lawn mower. . , J; ;. T We Should carefully gather up all our leaves and tops of annuals and perennials if they are .dis ease free and put them some place where they can be used for compost. Such composted mater ials will, in many instances, take the place of commercial fertilizers. Look over the Sprays, dusting ma terials and garden materials Jef t and place them in airtight con tainers. If there is any': commer cial fertilizer left, guard this care fully. Do not let it become damp. In the garden itself, remove the stalks of your hollyhocks and your phlox. It may be best to burn these, as nearly always they con tain some rust spores. Remove the tall stalks, from the delphiniums. Cut off the withered flower heads from your hydrangeas. See that your trees are well anchored for the winds of winter or some of them may break or tear loose. This holds particularly true' of the younger ones4 As long as your roses bloom, let them, but keep removing the withered blossoms. It is so easy to neglect all; this when the rains' set in. But there are clear days in : between in which to go over your garden.! In the strawberry bed even if you just have a row used as border to a flower bed! cut out the extra suckers, clean out ex cessive growth, and on the first clear days, put a little slug bait beneath the leaves to catch those which may eat out the heart of the plant during the wanner days of early winter. Cut out your dead berry canes and tie up the others so that theyf wfll not break or be torn out by wind. If you hayeL the opportunity, now is a good -time to set out your new azalea mollis and rhodo dendron. They wfll be came well established and ready for early F ffUV lifllTED STATES OAR BONDS AMD STAMPS Buy them to hasten Victory . t Buy th'em ss often ' '; : - j .If ;." ' and as many as you can 1 For Salo cxt - ) Here's a Bmiriess Generals iFindThey CanBanUUpon - ' . 'Wldo- World reatures -:VlJ' 'phoiM yV. Vou couii hide the old Point National Bank In a corner of the lobby of New .York's Chase c National ' b u t ; dont let the size of the one-story brick building foolr you. ' ; I SituatedJi Jn; Jhis tiny . town near the t tip of ' the Virginia .Peninsiils;. thei llftle bank has - accounts $ scattered; throughout ' the world4-wherever-. the Army of the United States goes. It has more accounts with the coast ar :' tfllery - forces, than any other banki'and when war broke was , third '-. with 7 accounts 'of . a 1 1 - branches of the service, accord ing to " the Army . and Navy Journal. , i Seventy per cent of the bank's 3000 accounts : are j with army men generals, privates and an the- ranks between who have made It their bank of perma nent account, . A Depositors who were taken prisoners In the Philippines dont have to worry about their finan cial affairs; the Old Point Na- - tional does their worrying for them, pays their bills and notes and sees that their fanuTies are suppned with funds. ; j Keeping the bank humming Is a ' staff "of I J," including Kenny, - the . 51-year-old president' whose seldom-used fuU name Is P..Mc Kenny J ohnson. In .person.', and in correspondence the army -calls ; him Kenny and he calls them aa from ; privates to generals4- by their first names. - t i'-' Knows ' Wives' Whereabouts . The adjutant general's v office, spring bloom. In planting these prepare the soil well and you will not have to touch It again foe some years other than to keep a mulch on the, ground around them. If you have it or can obtain it, mix peat moss, with the sou. Save your oak leaves if you have them for a mulch around these shrubs. , i CameUas can be planted now, too. Remember that these shrubs must be purchased balled. No re liable nursery wfll sell them in any other form. Daphne and and- romeu UMur uiiu ue (uiucu uuw. Every garden Should have at least one plant of the fragrant daphne . v . This grows easily and Is a "big interest" shrub in returns. It likes a rather sunny locauon and not too heavy a soiL needing information on the whereabouts of an army man's wife, frequently calls .on. Kenny for the ansVer and most .. al ways gets ItJ AJA-A,'i-V People; told Kenny back) In 1923 there wasn't room in Phoe b u s fcfor Jmothet ; bapkl ;He thought t.differenay; f -however' and with --one eye-on - nearby Fort Monroe, heopened the Old Point .National, as.' iU cashier the f oUowing year. KJHe has beenJts president since 1933 . Kenny says he. has found army peTsonneT thea ChestinvestA ment" orr earth.. He teUs about an officer in Chicagq'who wired lor a i loan. Kenny had never heard of the officer, : but the money was in Chicago by re turn wire.- The debt was paid promptly,- " ; ). f ;''?V Of the thousands of army men to whom, the .'bank has. loaned money in the past twenty years Kenny has had to;"report " only four to the adjutant ' general's office for being In arrears' on loan payments. - Here's a Help Pilots :-PHnADELPraAr5ppA - hew instrument: to take some of the "test" out of a test pUofs Job in ' putting.. America's - new war planes, through their , paces was disclosed here by engineers who started out. to develop It for, in dustrial plants. The portable electronic device described as test pilot's "man Friday" is a flight recorder which automaticaily prints on a chart , motor temperatures and pressure at a rate of 144 read ings every three or four min utes. Engineers said ; this relieves the pflot of scanning dial records and recording data by hand dur ing' power dives and while ca vorting through .the- sky. at seven-mil e-a-minute speeds. Richard P. Brown, chairman of the Brown Instrument com pany which: developed the 128 pound instrument, said it Is be ing used by the army, navy and builders of some of the- big bombers. He declared It "ob tains data in the testing of plane NovCoiiiiiiission : -For This PBK V Starts at Bottom OKLAHOMA CTTV-flHold-' er of a master's degree and with a Phi Beta Kappa -key on his " watch chain; : Melvin H. - Black, - assistant supervisor of education at the El Reno federal reforma- ; tory, walked ; into the navy re ' cruiting office. . . - i'i fTo n suggestion he apply-for a conunission. Black, 48, rephed: iNo, thanks.' Tin a social' serv ice man at heart, apd I want to " go I in : as an. apprentice seaman - and find out what the man ft the bottom of the ladder Is doing.". ' f i,The navy dusted; off the.bot- torn rung. -- - t i and engine performance hitherto impossible t to obtain by means of tesr engineers' hand-recorded notes." MINNEAPOLIS, Oct- . Fifteen watts fifteen doUars. Air Raid Warden Ei W, Jensen appeared In court charged wlLh violating the blackout ordinance. Jensen explained he was so busy seeing that other lights In his dis trict were extinguished he forgot a 15-watt ; light burning irJ his lumbeir office. - . "What, you say IS watts?" asked Judge Wflliam A." Ander son. , ' . " ' 'i. rThatll.be $15.f..: , BROOKFIELD, Mo.-KA') Four teen painters dropped by Herman Wilson's house and worked uritil sundown putting, on ,a new coat of white. y'-T : J 'A' . Wilson has been - so busy" he couldn't get around to it himself. ... xA. . J v.. V iV "mr ne t av painier ,ui m : v much to do he frequently subcon tracted jobs to his competitors. They, figured it would be a nice way to return the favor.':: i. . L2 AS iinn 41 a I C . r 1 Amy Ilelal Inrijnia V fcr All Urahcbcj c! " v ' Scrvico: SERGE TROUSERS SLEEPING BAGS BLITZ AIR BIATTRESSES ' KITS OF ALL KINDS CHEVRONS i ; . FIELD JACKETS ZIPPER BAGS ' OVERSEAS CAP. GARRISON CAPS O. D, SOX TIES GARRISON" BELTS Many Other Items 1 Where Buddies Meet War Department Authorization AG-095 179 N. 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