Gold Hill news., April 21, 1938, Image 2

The (¡old Hill News. (¡old Hill, Oregon
Thursday, April 21, 1988
THEY WON’T SAY DIE!
Their Friends May Weep
But Courageous Cripples
O vercom e H andicaps
and Carve Useful Careers
in World o f Busi nets ;
By JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Next time you’ re down on ;
your luck and your jaw sags
like an overloaded clothesline,
try swinging your legs and
arms, or blinking your eyes.
And be thankful you have arms, j
legs and eyes.
A lot of people haven’t.
But the disasters that robbed
them of these faculties have
usually inspired them to make '
the best of it. More often than j
not they’ve achieved outstand-
ing success.
Nineteen - year - old -Jessie* 1
Simpson is an example. A few /X
months back she was acclaimed *
Miss New Jersey, a personable y
young lady whose beauty and
talent won admiration every­
where. Then one day she ran &|
for a train, missed, and woke IB
up in a hospital a few days later
T
to find both her legs gone.
Gone, too, were tennis, golf,
dancing and other sports, but
Jessie Simpson didn’t weep
about it like her friends. Disas­
ter brought her a new life, and
today she’s receptionist at the
New York city telephone office.
Moreover, she’s building a ca­
C L A S S IF IE D
DEPARTMENT
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
4ARNESS & SADDLES
H E A D L I N E S FR O M T H E L IV E S
O F f e o fle L I K E Y O U R S E L F I
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By F L O Y D GIBBONS
Famous Headline H unter
IIH A IIIN G A l l «
I J E L L O EVERYBODY.
i 1 Do animals possess ’ ’second sight"? I mean, do they—
I t h ’ V h ' T N»«n th«aa w ho Ih o u g M
• |t h ,petraa l>-ar aaally w ith
’ in.tona l v i «ptruu
W r ite fo r trae
Ni.Ri.lnaa P .'illa a A C o a ie a a r,
because they are closer to Nature— receive mysterious advance
warnings of evil that fail to touch our less sensitive consclous-
ness; Sometimes it seems that way.
the
iriend
mine bad • p*‘ cat Onc
u ,f*
iia n ith L e d lyi Jun\ ped
his ’«p. dw p ictu re o f te rro r. H er fu r was
her
• end ?nd ,?he n'**owcd excitedly and buried her heud in
I,n n «
£ ° ? t-
H *
over. surprised at her strange ac-
,-hntr
* * j ’ Ot wa8 lbe m atte r, and tha next m inute over went the
Pneifle
c? ‘ .!n 0 henp' An earthquake had struck that p a rt of the
AH
, l “ ?d ulhe ca ,~ he 18 convinced—received advance w arning I
F l...h n» i i
» brings us to today’s adventurer, John W Herbst of
A n r.l iu r t 7 ». u h° S 8 do< wbo “ cted 8 ,r“ "K l'ly on a ce rta in day in
f.u.rth ‘ h i ■
l\a* * 3 ^ r,PU8on 10 rem em ber that day—the tw enty-
ids U /e
he lo8t h,a r '« h‘ hund in “ n accident that alm ost took
1:1 r a ilin g lllitg . Portland.
Super Quality ( ’hicks
(V hlle Ix-glu rt»« It I. Iteda and M a rr M
IttH-kn, 910 fo r 1 : N ew i i uniMthlr««.
l i t f'»r Iu o ; W h it« lt«w?k«. W hM « W jr is -
itnl I i f f t »■ I ' i . i g t n i i a , H I M fo r
' II I* »»<■« U
Prom pt ahlp-
tticiiis O rder from thia »«I or •r»»d card
fur CAl.il g end fu ll In funt.gtlon ,
M agHlr« F le r lr lr Ita le h e ry
H I I N K O rv fo n HI , P ortland , Oregon
PERFECT REST
w ith »»«r I b m o ««
H p riiig F ille d M a llrm g
V
,
" hcPherd "» m e d " P a l” - a n d what a name! John
c°? d u cto r ,n tbo~ d«y« a” d Pal WAS his pal. E very night,
h f, ro h h e ; t h n" h^ * ? ’ rcady ‘ ° 80 ,O w ork P'«l would come to 1dm w ith
d ra w e r
Then p " |d d r°,P..
,naa,er'8 bond to he put away in a
draw er. Then Pal would “ shake hands” w ith his master.
John « « «
Dog Wouldn't Go Through His Tricks.
' -
A B O V E : Jessie Simpson, iloboken.
N. J., beauty, whose legs w ere cut
off by a ra ilro a d tra in , but who has
carved herself a new career as com ­
m ercial photographers' model. B E ­
LOW: Bobby Jones, the w o rld 's
greatest golfer, who was weak and
puny as a child.
,
¿!ve ry m orning when John returned, the dog would be w aiting
fo r h im . Joyously. Pal would take the m orning paper up to the
hl*« " h i ’ "!?
UP “ nd bark before ,h e d ra w e r u n til John gave
Hut o * .h *
/ ?Ohl? ! a ,a ’ had
i o ‘ n<
d#Uy f° r years.
for w w V T . h
io
A p n l * ’ la33’ 08 J°bn •‘ taaed his w ife and started
to the kruhheSrUahBn *
w “ 8 ,n,>t
‘°
usu" ‘ , r k ' k s - He Pold n ” a tte n tio n
le rubber ball and instead o f offering his paw, sat g lu m ly
re- !
IM L u * « SUU <*>11 «prlng unit w ith
it on hl« alaal |Mid «ltd J3 lb « oottOB Ila*
tem. A w o nderful m altreea. U . M ()«*«€
•ta n d a rd blue And w h it« or brow « And
whit«, guaranteed |JQ valu«
"Lfl
m e te l for malt onlj
Freigh t |ire|»«ld In I*« rifle N<»rthw««L
M anllar? llrddlA g A r» b ftla t» rl« g
S i l l N . M laalaalpH Av«., i ‘»»rtlAnd. Arw.
F IC K K
M N L A ItG K M B fflr
On« I mm » ui I fu I ft«T A ril« Io IC nl«r««.
F ilm devr|i |w«| nnd p r I « I • d <■
prln l« rub rant rod )
t*«r roll (send coin) o n l y . . , , . ffAr
l(« p rln («
old n«’ ’ a tlv r« . I« *« rb
( nm »| f i l m <’• .
P (> Ilo»
110
r > > r ll« D d
O r ««un
before scientific research found
means o f aiding the p h ysica lly dis­
TANRM— T IIA IL K IU I
abled. Today instrum ents have been
designed w hich provide m echanical
A u to m o b il« d u m p bodl««, lo R g ln g
eyes and ears to youngsters born
t r u ll» '« , « • m l . tr a ile r « , t r a o a i.o r t
w ithout sight c r hearing.
la n k « .
u n d e rg ro u n d
k »«
in g k a ,
w a te r ta n k » • • p i l e ta n k a , c u lv e r t a
Science Takes a Hand.
Ir r ig a t io n Pipe
lle a ll P ip e A te efc t e rp .
In Evanston, 111., five-year-old
1911 C o lu m b ia iilv d
P o r tla n d
Joan H iggins cannot see o r hear but
is le arning w ith the aid of a "phon-
o ta cto r,” devised by D r. R obert H.
KODAK ItK P A IK lX J
G ault o f N orthw estern u n ive rsity.
Whereas Helen K e lle r learned to
A ll ntftkea re p a ire d K o d e k « m a ile d
r o lle r ! . H e tle fn c tIn n « u A ra n te e d
i " h e a r" by placing her fingers on the
í ’neiHiNn A la re
speaker’s lips, Joan H ig g in s' phono-
M W. W a s h in g to n , P o r tla n d
P al W ouldn’t Shake Hands.
ta cto r translates voices into v ib ra ­
tions. She places her fingers on sen­ f n ? ! ? puhzz’ le d ah ^ ,r With dOWnCaS‘ ,0° k8- T h ‘S Wa# ’
un*
(•row P lnnls (lie MM II(A ( |.K
sitive reeds w hich vib ra te fro m 64
P ractica l new way lo grow plants
to 8,000 tim es a second as the in­ a
P“ “ .,ed stiU m ore when, as he sta rte d down the atairs the
w ith o u t soil. In .tr u r llo u sa il pack­
s tru cto r speaks into a telephone dog took hold o f the leg o f his o ve ra lls and P U L L E D H IM BACK
age ( I p o .lt« Id - M lra rle W ay,”
tra n s m itte r.
with him 1 *
Op V ' i head’” .John w ri,e8- " and trie d to shake hands
Ux. 396, Lynwood, C a lllo ia la .
Few jo ys can com pare to th a t of ? „ ■’‘ T ’ but he kicked up a fuss o f b arking and c ry in g and when
the blind person who regains his I pushed h im away he again caught hold o f m y le g ."
signt through surgery. In Asbury
ALTO ANI» TRUC K PAH T4
John s Wife Thought It u Warning.
P a rk, N. J., M rs. E lla Reynolds
was taken home fro m the hospital
m ° 7 sensitive than men ‘ o things bordering on the oc-
IJn«l«f IlM d re < « 1 « H r eri» I mm < • .
to see the three ch ild re n whose n r i n
n
J
W,te was " ° exception. She im m e d ia te ly took Pal's
I j i H a «(u v k good ueed nuli» and
t r u c k p a ri« , e n g ii.e e . | „ ,w «i plA n l« .
faces she had often caressed, but nCt,’ ’i ” . 10 * be a w a rn in g and asked her husband to stay home that day.
• !<• I.o w prlvee A le ll O lder a p ro m p l
whom she had never seen. A fte r But John laughed at the idea and prom ising to be ca re fu l, went to w ork
a it e n ih in
He wishes now he had listened to w hat he is “c onvinced was a real w arm ng
15 years o f to ta l blindness she was
H. K G ra n d a l A la r« « !, P u r I la n d O re.
again made happy by surgeons e itv A H W hours la te r John was taking his fre ig h t tra in out of Long Island
a
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ga
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8
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rtln
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s
ig
n
a
l
to
the
engineer
and
swung
on
board
who rem oved ca ta ra cts fro m her
As the ca rs started to move John heard the sound of a brake scraping and
W E SELL FOR LESS
eyes.
P A IN T , varnish««,
In E l Paso, Texas, tw elve-year-old J°5a tln K ‘ he ca r he clim bed aboard. And ju s t as he released the set
« 5 . n^ rn rl" ....................... • ! . ! • g a l. and up
J u lia n Galindo could only exclaim , brake F a te put a stop to his ra ilro a d career.
Il A UH r.l> W I It K , 10 rod apt» 4 a,
»« low « ■............................................ MJM
“ It's w o n d e rfu l!—b e a u tifu l!" when
Lost His Hand and Almost His Life.
Al«o a com plet« linn u f
he saw the w orld fo r the firs t tim e
K
la
ctrlo M otor«. P ip« and S up plita.
brake .Cuha' n 8naPPed—John »lipped and fe ll under the
in his life . And a grandm other in
W « trr
H y.lcni«,
L ig h tin g
H yg i.m a,
T L 01* wheel# com ing too la t e - h h hand h u it him
W o u ilru tU n g l <|u l|itn m l. I^ ilh .a . K rill
Denver, whose sig h t was restored
r r u M - a . » nil gli hm ,I . ut h ,a» > h a rd -
In th,y h i"d «the nexl second he wa# ’ ytog on the roadbed hold­
a fte r 20 years, could see her three
warn and m nehint-ry.
ing the bleeding stum p of his severed rig h t hand!
>•’ r I ’rh » W ire or Writ«
grandchildren a fte r years of won­
Followed months in the hospital. Blood poisoning set in nnd J o h n ’s
dering w hat they looked like.
ALASKA JUNK ( O
w eight w ent from 179 pounds to 92.
h *
In fa n tile p aralysis, one of m an­
MO M. W. 1.1 Xvr
Hortlaad. <Ww.
Back home Pal was disconsolate. The dog hod not been taken to see
A genn fo r
k in d ’s m ost feared assailants, has
A m e ric a n B ai. m ill M .c h ln .r y ( X
edS oT3 ther flt U t 81111 .hC a8et n ' ed ‘ ° kn° w
The rubber ba» lay unheed-
le ft in its wake m any a crippled od . 2
flOCLr : ln8tead be guarded and nursed John’s w o rkin g cud
v ic tim but m ost o f them have found th a t had been brought to him .
cup
new hope in the jo y o f livin g . The
PATENT ATTORNEY!!
th e v ^ d " « « h " i Uly * J,o hn, came home- **al was so e xrite d that
m ost publicized case is th a t of F re d ­
they had to tie him up fo r fe a r th a t he would h u rt his s till invalid
e ric k Snite, J r., whose m illio n a ire
(J. F . Ila m ilk e r—- l a w t e r
m aster. A fte r a w hile they le i h im go and the dog surprised every.
fa th e r w illin g ly spends $2,000 a day
î i ’îA1?:"'
-"a rk » , In lr n ig r in .r tla
7 f118. act,ons- Instead o f ju m p in g a ll over John he ap­
H
IM
u
u
.r d l.n lil.tg,
I-, fila m i. Or«.
to keep his son a live in the "iro n
proached his idol gently. He sniffed the bandage and licked John’s
lu n g ” w hich m ay be his home fo r
r e m a in in g h a n d .
the next 10 years. S tricken in China
AGENTH W ANTED
I’ al Now a Sober Guardian.
during a round-the-world cruise,
da/ ’ John say8> lhe ch aracter o f Pal changed. Instead
young Snite has live d in the lung a l­ «r th \nd If r °rm i
50 t o r « e
H nP ay/ U |Pa ° f °.thPr days he now became a sober watchdog and
most two years but has never lost
poMago ,1,1 Agonia w anted tor | M
«‘ cnoog and
courage. He jokes w ith his nurses took up a tireless v i g i l at his sick m a ste r’j side
H O 8 U M U N Y , «16 H. VV. *1. r « i u » d
and his parents, keeps up an in ­ c i mi
oneucan ‘,? ich me t0 th is d a y >” Joh" c"d«- " I t aeems as thouah
terest in w o rld news and plays chess P a l blam es h im se lf fo r le ttin g me go to w ork that A p ril day and now thinks
i t his d u ty to protect me as long as I have only one hand "
by c a llin g his moves.
Leu» than h a lf of the O rkney lg-
ou re rig h t, John. “ W hat an experience and—w hat a d o g '“
la n d i off the Scottish coast are In­
F rom C ripple to Athlete.
a n i ^ i 16."1’ - ! 8 *' 1 8u.PP°se- would «ay it is im possible fo r a dog o r any
habited.
I t ’s an accom plishm ent fo r a c rip ­ a n im a l to give such a w a rn in g as Pal did. They would use u lot of biv
ple to regain average health and words p ro vin g th e ir contention, too. Maybe th e y’ re riv h t
I dnn’t u
The average Am erican bom adult
“
" ‘ kn° W'
become n o rm a lly active, but i t ’s A ll I know ,s T H E S E T H IN G S DO H A P P E N I
Japanese goes through 12 yenrs of
am azing when they become out­ ________
C opyrigh t.— W N U B o r v lc .
schooling.
standing athletes! Glenn Cunning­
lh e F a ll of Nassau
ham, the w o rld 's “ fastest hum an,”
D efinition of U n iversity
In 1776, during the w ar between
M etallic corrosion causes a world
f was trapped in a fire when he was
According to a w ell established
economic loss estimated at $3.000,-
' eight years old. What had once been G reat B rita in and the A m erican col­ tra d itio n , James A. G arflcld, in a
000.000 yearly.
a p a ir of legs were g rim , blackened onists, a fleet of eight vessels was W illiam s college alum ni address de
fragm ents. Few people thought he sent by the la tte r to Nassau, capital livered in New Y ork c ity in 1872,
The w orld’s Issue of postage
would ever w alk again but Cunning­ of the Bahamas, w ith in stru ctio n s to said: “ M y definition of a university
stamps totals approxim ately 50.000
ham fooled them . Today if you capture the large quantities of m u n i­ is M a rk H opkins at one end of a
diatlnct varieties.
see h im running around the tra ck a ' tions believed to be stored there
log and a student at the o th e r."
fu ll, hour before his race starts, 1 This force, under A d m ira l Hopkins, The quotation, however, does not
Much of the sand used In m anu­
don’t th in k C unningham is “ stru t- I landed a detachm ent on the eastern occur in the speech os it was re­
facturin g glass In Am erica is im ­
tin g ” fo r the public. He has to ex­ e x tre m ity of New Providence island corded, but a s im ila r line of thought
ported from Belgium.
ercise those re b u ilt legs, to work and m arched on Nassau. F o rts Mon­ was expressed by G arflcld in a le t­
up circ u la tio n by sustained effort. ' tague and Nassau surrendered w ith ­ te r which he w rote the same year
H alf of the more than 5.000 v a ri­
Bobby Jones, the w o rld ’s greatest ; out resistance, and the new "G ra n d M a rk Hopkins (1802-1887), was one
Union fla g ,” consisting of the Union of the ablest and most successful
eties ot chrysanthemums have been
golfer, was so skinny as a youngster (
Jack in the firs t q u a rte r and th ir ­ A m erican educators and was presi­
added to fanciers' list since 1904.
th a t a good sneeze would have top- I
teen red and w hite stripes to repre­ dent of W illia m s college in Massa­
pled h im in the dust.
sent the independent states, was chusetts when Garfield was a stu­
It a kitten reaches the age of two
Modern society is ta kin g a much hoisted over F o rt Nassau. The in ­
G arfield p a rtic u la rly
or three months without any experi­
m ore humane a ttitu d e toward the vaders took 100 guns and a sm all dent there.
ence with mice, It w ill not show a
c rip p le than did our forefathers. Sci- q u a n tity o f other w a r m unitions. liked the stress which Hopkins
placed upon the developm ent of the
mousing instinct Inter.
* entists and the p ublic alike are re- j B ut they le ft the follow ing day.
individual student.
1 a lizing th a t ph ysica lly handicapped I
Tinting the nails wag common
' people can become useful citizens !
G ra n t Once Ready to Quit
This Is a D iffe re n t “ L a w ”
among the Egyptian«, nnd not con­
■ i f given help and encouragement '
D u rin g the C iv il w ar, Ulysses S.
The “ la w ” in "m o th e r-in -la w ”
form ing to the practice would have
Pioneers lik e Helen K e lle r have ! G ra n t once packed his belongings
been considered Indecent.
i opened new fields of a c tiv ity fo r the I and was ready to s ta rt fo r home. and “ fa th e r-in -la w ” is not the same
blind. They have been taught use- | He fe lt, as he told W illia m T. Sher­ word as “ la w ” in the sense of a le­
Out nt a potential electrica l pow­
fu l trades and have gained inde­ m an, th a t he was in the way. But gal m other o r fa th e r, but is derived
from the old English word, “ Jage ”
e r of IB.001),000 kilow atts on the M is­
pendence by using “ seeing eye” Sherman talked him into staying.
meaning "m a rria g e .”
j dogs, h ig h ly in te llig e n t anim als who
sissippi riv e r and its tribu ta rie s,
only 2,000.000 have been utilized.
guide th e ir m asters through every
V a lle y of Oaxaca
Nam ing Days of Week
tra ffic hazard w ith o u t danger.
The va lle y o f Oaxaca, in southern
Days of the week are named a fte r
B
u
t
it
takes
g
r
it
to
face
the
w
orld
around the world
th Th£*?I w ?
™ “ b ,nd ? h; caS” la w ye r, linds no d iffic u lty w alking
M exico, was the abode of the highly celestial bodies and elements in Ja­
thro u g h the W indy C ity ’s crowded streets, guided by his h ig h ly in te llig e n t when the lig h ts go out and you’ve civilize d Zapotec and M ixtec In d i­
pan—Sun, Sunday; moon, M onday;
no
legs
to
stand
on.
Ask
N
ettie
Japan is rich in the production of
seeing eye dog. These a n im a ls have brought new independence to
ans, whose citie s and religious build­ lire , Tuesday; w ater, Wednesday;
Tim onds or Jessie Simpson!
copper.
sightless persons.
ings, covered by the dust of m any wood, T hursday; m etal, F rid a y, and
e. W ta U rn N ew spaper Union.
centuries, have been unearthed.
earth, Saturday.
India was the largest producer of
re e r as a co m m e rcia l photogra­
pher’s model, fo r Jessie's hands are
re m a rka b y b eautiful.
Legless S w im m er.
Speaking o f legless people, there’s
also the case o f Charles (Z im m y )
Zibelm an of New Y o rk who lost
his legs years ago in a Chicago
tro lle y accident. Since then he has
become fam ous as a stunt sw im ­
m er. He was photographed d rin k ­
ing beer and sm oking cig a rs while
s w im m in g “ across the A tla n tic
ocean” —in the s w im m in g pool of
the Queen M a ry . H is m ost not­
able achievem ent is a 144-hour, 145-
m ile sw im down the Hudson riv e r
fro m A lbany to New Y o rk last au­
tum n. L a st w in te r he planned a
s im ila r excursion fro m M ia m i to
H avana, sharks p e rm ittin g .
In Provo, U tah, a high school
student named W ilkin s N u tta ll is a
prize-w innnig lightweigh« w re stle r
even though he has but one leg!
N u tta ll used to stand on the side­
lines u n til he said to h im s e lf one
day, “ What has any other w re stle r
got that I haven’t got?” and pro­
ceeded to give m ore experienced
m atm en a ru n fo r th e ir money. Of broadcast over station K F W B in
course he can’t a p p ly a “ scissors” Los Angeles. She w rite s her own
hold, but i t is equally impossible p ro g ra m and answ-ers countless
fo r an opponent to apply the “ s p lit” le tte rs w hich ro ll in every day. And
e a rly this ye a r she com plained be­
on him .
cause 1938 w o uldn’t have enough
Success on “ S tilts .”
days, weeks and months to p e rm it
In the v illa g e of B ellflow er, C alif.,
accom plishm ent o f a ll she had
lives R alph Veady, a leading busi­ planned!
ness m an and bicycle rid e r who
B lind, B ut Not to C olor!
nevertheless has no legs.
Seven
Helen K e lle r is not A m e rica 's only
years ago R alph was w o rk in g his
accomplished b lin d person. Her re ­
w ay through W h ittie r college by
m a rka b le career is alm ost equalled
d riv in g a tra c to r. One day the tra c ­
by th a t o f Miss N ettie Tim onds,
to r overturned and he regained con­ sixty-three-year-old fa rm m anager
sciousness to find his legs gone. To­
o f Bladensburg, Iowa. When she was
day, seven years la te r, Veady con­
three years old M iss Tim onds was
ducts his je w e lry business, d rives
stricke n w ith dip h th e ria and was
his c a r and even dances, w ith the aid
le ft unable to ta lk . Two years la te r
of a rtific ia l legs. A s ta r p e rfo rm e r
speech returned, but then came
in m any a m a te u r races, Veady is deafness. N or was this the end of
also an expert sw im m e r and a clev­
her bad luck, fo r in 1883 M iss T im ­
er skater w ith o r w ithout his legs.
onds fe ll on her head and went
O nly a few m iles fro m B ellflow er
blind . . .on T hanksgiving day.
in H untington P a rk, lives M iss Clo­
Undaunted, she has become a
ve r K e rr, who lost both legs and one successful fa rm e r, aided by her
a rm in a tra ffic accident la s t year. tru s ty hired man, P e rry Wilson. He
L ik e Jessie Simpson, she refused
w ill te ll you th a t M iss Tim onds is a
to be pitied, o u tlin in g a new career cra n k about her peonies: she in ­
before she le ft her hospital bed.
sists th a t the d iffe re n t va rie tie s and
Today she has found the w ay to
colors be grouped and blended ju s t
happiness and usefulness through
so. And old rose is her fa v o rite
service.
color, used fre e ly to ' decorate the
Miss K e rr is a rtis t, counselor, home w hich she designed personal­
philosopher and fa iry godm other ly-
to hundreds o f crippled youngsters
B ut M iss Tim onds and Helen K e l­
in the F a r West through her d a ily le r both had to learn the hard way.
o il seed In the world last year.
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