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The_Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon Thursday, January 13. 1938 T-loyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB H E A D L I N E S FR O M T H E L IV E S O F P E O P LE L IK E Y O U R S E L F ! “ Fear o/ the W ind'* By FLO Y D GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter >1.1. about Magastne Solicitors. ouston , texas . - w h a t has become of all the strug H gling collegians, ranging in age By L. L. S T E V E N S O N up to fifty-five, who used to so licit magazine subscriptions so they could spend another se mester at dear old Bushwah? It wasn't so long ago that Ben iamin Winter, rather short and pudgy and wearing wrinkled clothes The caption of today’s adventure might well be, “Gone and scuffed shoes, was worth $27,- With the Wind.” It fits perfectly Mrs. Lula M. Yoder’s tragic We counted that day lost whose 000,000. His real estate firm had description of the adventure in which she lost her home and her low descending sun didn't find us holdings with an estimated value of $60,000,000. Four hundred million entire family. signing on the dot dollars had passed through his ted line. And some Mrs. Yoder lives in Paxton, 111. Her adventure happened many years hands. Known as the man who times we got the ago. On A pril 21, 1887, as a m atter of fact. But she still remembers it "transformed Fifth avenue," he * wrong magazines with as much vividness as if it happened only yesterday. paid W. K. Vanderbilt $-»,000.000 for I and sometimes we “ I am a grandmother now." she writes, "but the fear of the his gray stone chateau: Vincent As didn’t get any mag wind is just as great in me today as it was on that awful night tor, $2,700,000 for the famous Astor azines at all and fifty years ago.” mansion at Sixty-fifth street: Arthur In 1887 Lula Yoder lived on a farm near Nevada, a small town in . once in awhile we Curtiss James, $4,000,000 for an got the magazines western Missouri, with her mother and dad and her small brother, just apartment house at 988 Fifth ave a baby, seven months old. Lula herself was only about two and a half we’d ordered and nue. When Winter bought, the ' then didn't like years old. wreckers came. Mansions on which them. On that terrible twenty-first of April, the sky began to darken sud millions had been expended were But our consola- denly in the late afternoon. Her dad was out in the fields working, and razed ruthlessly and new structures her mother was worried. She took the baby up in her arms and. lead I tion was that we’d Irvin S. Cobb took their places. It has been said aided all those ear ing Lula by the hand, went out on the porch to watch the gathering of Winter that he knows Fifth nest undergraduates to complete the avenue as a man knows his back storm clouds. education for which they panted as Fleeing Front the Cyclone. yard or a guide knows the trails of the hart panteth after the water- the woods. To deal in millions was Lula remembers that scene as clearly as if it were yesterday. The brook. not at all difficult for him—he mere whole world seemed to be hushed. The clouds, dark and ominous, Can it be that the gallant army ly forgot the ciphers. semed to be gathered in one spot. The rest of the sky had a queer, packed the campuses until vast • • • greenish hue. While mother stood anxiously scanning the sky, dad came numbers got crushed in the jam? hurrying in from the fields, driving a team of horses. Lula remembers Or is it that many of them are Winter reached the peak of his hearing mother cry out to him, "H u rry, John. We're going to have a getting too old to travel around? fortune a little more than a quarter bad storm.” Lately there has been an unaccount of a century after he had come Lula was just about old enough to know what a storm meant. There able falling-off in the business. We to this country as an im migrant boy was a cyclone cellar underneath the house—a sort of crude cave dug are bearing up bravely, since now from Poland with a cash capital of out of the earth. A couple times before, when a tornado threatened them, we have more time in which to lead two worn $1 bills. In the old coun the whole fam ily had taken refuge in this cave until the danger was over. our own lives. try, his fam ily had had money and Her dad was driving the horses toward the barn. He put them inside P. S.—I have on hand a complete he had attended art school. When and, without waiting to unhitch them, he ran back toward the house to file for 1935 of the Northwestern Bee relatives asked his occupation, he So he was Raiser which I would like to trada replied, “ Painter.” promptly apprenticed to a house for a ukulele. painter. Having learned that trade, • • • he became a contractor and from Matriarchy's Approach. contractor graduated into the real C O M E inspired philosopher—and estate business. At first, his opera not a woman either—declares tions were modest. He bought and that within a century women will sold uptown and gradually worked dominate every imaginable field of into the west side. Then came Fifth human endeavor. avenue. By that time, he had es- What do you mean, within a cen- , i tablished his credit. He didn't need . tury? If the prophet will leave out cap„ a, mereIy credit and mort. the ancient science of growing chin- gages. In addition, he had to know whiskers and the knack of making a where to sell at a profit. Thus, the sleeping car washroom look like a millions. { hurrah’s nest I'm -saying that wom e e e en are already away out in front How the former immigrant boy I everywhere. acquired the Astor mansion is an Since Henry the Eighth, the two illustration of Winter shrewdness. greatest kings England had were The property was not for sale. Astor both queens— Elizabeth and Victo didn’t need the money. That didn't ria. Men thought up war and im discourage Winter. He put up the proved the art of war and now are argument that mansions belonged Lula Was Hurled Into the Maple's Branches. hoping to perfect it to the point of to the gay '90s. That difficulties in exterminating the species, but 'twas obtaining and maintaining a staff help his fam ily get into the storm cave. He reached the front porch in the midst of bloody warfares and put a hand out to pick Lula up. Lula let go of her mother’s hand—felt that Florence Nightingale laid the of servants were increasing con stantly. That parties were no long herself lifted in her father’s arms. foundations and Clara Barton built er held in homes but in hotels Astor And then T H E STORM STRUCK! the structure of mercy by method paid no attention. Then Winter Lula was torn right out of her dad’s arms— whirled through and life-saving by skill and tender showed him that as he occupied the the air. There was a curious, roaring din in her ears. She was ness and sanitation. mansion only about 30 days a year, having trouble trying to get her breath. Up— up—up she went, Take this country at the present it cost him $40,000 a night to sleep soaring through the air as high as the house itself. The branches moment: for energy, for readiness there. Astor sold. of a huge maple tree loomed up in front of her. Then, suddenly, of speech, for range of interest, for • • • she was among them. versatility in making publicity and, Benjamin Winter, fifty-six years Wedged Among the Branches. incidentally, acquiring it, for endur old, his hair thinning, his shoes and ance under strain, what man She felt them scratching at her face— bruising her little body. She suits more shabby than 10 years felt a blow at her side, and found herself wedged into those branches, amongst us is to be compared with ago, now lives in a rented Riverside at the very top of the tree. And there she hung, a shocked, bruised, the first lady of the language, M r * drive apartment. His daughter, a terrified child, while lightning tore holes in the sky and thunder crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt? Hunter college student, works in a • • • and cold rain came down in torrents. department store Saturdays to earn Banishing Sectionalism. She could hear a terrible sound of rending timbers—of a building $2 a week. Recently, Winter went being demolished close at hand. The a ir was full of flying debris. The F ) N ONE stretch of road down into bankruptcy court. His debts here— and it is not a main-trav were $8,500.000. His assets, those breath-taking wind, tugging at her little dress, was tearing it to ribbons. To this day, Lula keeps the shreds of that small garment as a memento eled highway and this not exactly ciphers he had disregarded in the the tourist season—I saw cars bear past. Freed from the insistence of of that grim and terrible experience. Lula doesn’t know how long she hung in that tree. Tim e seemed to ing license tags of nine separate creditors, he believes he can come stand still while the wind howled and roared. She screamed until she states, ranging from New Hamp back. More millions, he holds, are was so hoarse she could scream no more. But the wind drowned out shire and Florida to Utah and Ore to be made in the further develop her feeble little voice. At last the wind abated and died out. Again a gon, besides one from Hawaii and ment of the mid-town section of one from Puerto Rico. And next New York. terrible hush fell over the surrounding territory. • • • When the storm was over, Lula's two uncles, who lived in the same summer Texas cars will be boring Speaking of millions, there were community, came over to see how her fam ily had fared. “ They found into every corner of this Union and the house completely demolished,” says Lula. “ Not even the sills were the folks riding in them will be those three youths who tried to gain left. Bedding—dishes—furniture, were strewn everywhere, whirled and getting acquainted with their fellow- admission to the Paramount th< ,,vi They warped into odd shapes by the force of the blast. Even the forks and countrymen and finding out that, without paying the price. when you know the other fellow, climbed a lamppost, got onto the knives from the table were twisted and broken.” marquee and opened a window. One he's not so different, after all. Rescuers Couldn’t Find Lula. Like most evil things, sectional crawled through and presumably The second one ism and parochial prejudices and saw the show. The uncles began searching for the fam ily. They found the with Vermont neighbor to Virginia upset and broke a $250 vase. The bodies of Lula’s dad and the baby. They had been killed instantly. and the Dakotas talking it over with noise brought ushers on the run. lie Her mother was unconscious on the ground with broken legs the Carolinas, there's seed being escaped by taking an 18-foot leap to and injuries that caused her death the next dav. But they COULDN’T F IN D LULA. sown whjch inevitably must sprout the street. The third member of They searched—they called. There was no sign of the child. It a finer yield of Americanism than the trio was caught on the marquee was dark by that time, and they couldn’t see the poor kid hanging way up any our land ever produced—if only and went to jail. • * • • there in the branches of the tree. Lula could see the searchers as we keep the tares of communism Then there were the backers of they moved about below her, but she couldn’t attract their attention. and the chaff of snobbery out of “ I had screamed so long in terror of the wind,” she says, “ that I the crop, only make patriotic service the Mercury theater and a wooden was too hoarse to make a sound. Today, after fifty years, I can still see a thing of elbow-grease and not of platform. To put on “ Julius Cae sar,” they needed that platform. those men with lanterns, walking back and forth calling to me, while I, lip-movements. bruised and torn and chilled to the bone, hung in that tree, powerless to What price, then, the wearers of The owner wanted $125 cash for it. answer. But at last I was located and taken down. I was so ill from my ex the black shirts and the white The actors offered him a quarter in perience that I wasn’t able to be taken to the triple funeral that took sheets; the parlor pinks, the yellow terest in the show. He laughed. So place a few days la te r.” internationalists and the red flag they went elsewhere and got a plat form. "Julius Caesar” turned out The cyclone had played a ghastly and freakish trick on Lula’s wavers? to be a hit and a quarter interest • • e fam ily. It had cut a narrow swath that wrecked the house and would have meant thousands in left the barn intact. No one else in the whole neighborhood Freedom of the Press. stead of $125 to the platform own was hurt. And after wrecking Lula's home the wind jumped TA ICTATORS invariably cancel er. from the ground and traveled several miles before it hit the earth freedom of the press and curb • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. again. freedom of education. Otherwise, “ I t carried some of our belongings with it,” Lula says. “ A farm er, they fail. plowing a field three miles from us found a coffee pot. Inside it he found Although he uttered the words Alaska Boy’s Bellow m y mother’s wedding ring. He knew it by the names inscribed inside over 250 years ago, Governor Berke it and sent it to m e.” ley of Virginia spoke for all the Sends Bear Scooting That’s the tale of one woman’s fear of the wind. And is it any wonder breed of political tyrants when he Seward, Alaska. — Alaskan that Lula has tragic memories when clouds gather and that wind rises? said: “ I thank God there are no bears may be able to out-run © — W N U S e r v ic e . free schools, nor printing, for learn Seward boy scouts, but when it ing has brought disobedience and comes to yelling the louder— heresy into the world, and printing that’s another matter. Spelling “ Coconut” Ancient Forests has divulged them.” During a scout outing on Lost The people ot Trinidad spell cocoa- The sequoias are considered the Foulness in drama or literature, Lake trail, two bears challenged nut without an “ a ” —that is, coco oldest living things, survivals of like a skunk penned under a barrel, the youths’ approach to the cab nut. The original derivation comes that long ago when plants and ani eventually destroys itself by just ins. One bear growled and from the Spanish word “ coco,” ap mals grew to giant size. Once these naturally choking to death on its own charged. plied to a monkey's face, the three trees encircled the globe, as fossils smell. One of the scouts opened his eyes on the nut giving it the appear exhumed in our present era tes Control of the newest medium of mouth and emitted a typical ance of a monkey’s face, the lower tify. They are found only on the publicity, the radio, is easy. But "T arzan ” bellow. 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