Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 21, 1939
Christmas
A Christmas
Trees Are
Saov.’ctcrm
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Cash Crop
The Cave Junction Community
Church will give a Christmas Pro
gram Sunday morning. Dec. 24. at
11:00 o’clock. Besides the exer
cises of the little people of the Sun
day School there will be play, "Al
Peace." It has a lovely devotion
al theme depicting a way in which
Silent Night might have come to
be written.
Also Mrs. Meola will sing a solo.
Everyone in invited to come.
By Sarah Jane Clark
TpHREE hours
the snow-
* bound train reached Chicago.
Mary Lou gathered her baggage to
gether and took the bus across to
the other station, to find her con
necting train had left on schedule.
The folks would drive in to town to
meet the train unless she could head
them off
Her message put through. Mary
Lou sank down on one of the benches
to collect her thoughts and make
her plans until train time. Five
o’clock, and no train until 9:30 the
next morning
“Going out soon?” a cheery voice
near her asked. She looked up to
find the chief usher standing beside
her. A middle-aged, friendly look
ing fellow Mary Lou told him of her
missed connections.
"Here, Eddie, look at this!" a red
cap interrupted her story. He was
leading a three-year-old child, a
dear little girl with big blue eyes
and yellow curls.
"What are you doing with the kid?
Is she lost?” Eddie asked sharply,
turning away from Mary Lou.
"Might as well be. She came In
from Denver, in charge of the stew
ardess They missed the train north,
and the stewardess is celebrating
Christmas by having her appendix
out, emergency case. They told me
to turn the kid over to you.” the
boy grinned as he handed her over to
the chief usher.
Eddie took her clumsily. "See
here, what can a bachelor like me
do with a kid like this?" He looked
appealingly at Mary Lou.
Mary Lou’s eyes filled with tears
Then she held out her arms toward
the youngster. "What is your name
dear?” she asked.
“Annette Pollard. 1 am three
years old and 1 am going from Chey
enne to Rio. Wisconsin, to my grand
ma Pollard. My daddy is there.” It
was a lesson she had been taught.
Mary Lou held her close. "I had
a little girl almost as old as Annette
when she died.” she said brokenly
to Eddie. “Let me keep the child
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Christmas Program To
Be Given by Church
him.
She finally consents, and
they are happy even though Bing
writes songs which won’t sell and
loses job after job.
Watching a group of newsboys
sing and dunce while on his way
to get another job, Bing decides to
organize them into the greatest kid
act ever to hit the stage. The act
gets a tryout, is successful. Bing
hires Ned Sparks as press agent,
launches kid acts all over the
country. Then Laura Hope Crews,
brings Linda Ware to him. Bing
is enthused about her great tal
ent, decides to make her a star,
and piesents her in an all-kiddie
musicai revue on Broadway
The show also consists of the
“Musical Mountaineers” and the
5th chapter of “The Lone Ranger."
Cutting Christmas trees for ex-
port is a substantial forest indus
try in the Douglas fir belt, accord
ing to a statement from U. S. reg
ional forester Lyle F. Watts, Port
land, Oregon. Several million trees
are shipped south and east annual
ly from Washington and Oregon.
------ Merry Christmas
“It is a legitimate industry,” says
Watts. “It helps payrolls and
brings some revenue to the owners
of the cut-over forest land. Un
------ Merry Christmas------
fortunately, a good many abuses
are connected with this industry
FORMER RESIDENTS HERE
and these should be corrected.”
Mrs. Floyd White, her daughter,
Watts suggested that unneces
Marie
and sister, Mrs. Eldon John
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sary waste, the creation of addi
son, just returned to Long Beach
tional fire hazards, and disregard
and Los Angeles, after a visit with
of silvicultural considerations in
Local lovers of the grand kind their parents and other relatives in
cutting young trees can be halted , of entertainment dispensed by
Oregon. They spent their first
by public suport in stopping van Bing Crosby on screen and radio,,
week end with their sisters and
dalism and by the requirement on can look forward to seeing Bing
brothers in Klamath Falls, taking
the part of forest land owners that in a picture which really measures,
their parents with them. The fol
authorized cutting of Christmas up to his talents when Paramount
lowing week another sister, Mrs.
trees be done in accordance with presents "The Star Maker" at the
. Clyde Phelps returned to Cave
stipulated forestry practices.
Cave City theater Wednesday and Junction with them, spending the
To the purchasers of Christmas Thursday, December 27 and 28.
week end here. About 30 of their
trees who wish to get their money’s
The new Crosby vehicle, which relatives were together on one day
worth, it is suggested that setting
might readily be termed a singing at Klamath Falls. On their last
the tree in a tub of water or moist cavalcade of show business, gives
day which was the Lord's day, that
sand will help keep the needles Bing the best role he has ever had.
I these three were in Cave Junction,
from falling.
It casts him as a tin pan alley song they, with their parents, Mr. and
Another method is to set the
writer, a small time hoofer who Mrs. Sherrier, attended the Cave
tree in a wide-mouthed container
believes that he can rise to the top Junction Community church in the
that holds about one gallon. Mix in show business by taking talent
morning and
the Bridgeview
five grams of citric acid and six ed kids from the sidewalks of New
church in the evening. Mr. and
grams of malic acid or pectin with
York, and building them into great Mrs. Byrum Gray and Joanna re
three quarts of water. Later, add
acts.
turned to Los Angeles with them
15 grams of calcium carbonate to
"The Star Maker" presents the in order that they may attend the
the acid solution. As the tree best cast ever to appear with him.
Bible Institute of Los Angeles as
uses up the solution, add more wa
It includes Louise Campbell as his soon as God makes it possible.
ter. These chemicals are not ex
practical-minded wife, Linda Ware John 3:36.
pensive and will give good results
14-year-old singer discovered by
Signed Mrs. Eldon Johnson.
for pratically all kinds of Christ
Charles R. Rogers, as a youngster
mas trees except hemlock.
Bing builds into a star, Ned
Sparks, as Bing's press agent.
------ Merry Christmas------
Laura Hope Crews, as an ex-opera
singer, and Janet Waldo, as Bing's
WPA Writers’
secretary.
Walter
Damrosch
“grand old man" of American mu
Project Tells
sic, will also be seen in the picture,
conducting the Philharmonic Or
Of Oregon Caves chestra of Los Angeles. In addi
tion, the largest group of singing
and adneing youngsters ever as
From the time of Oregon’s first sembled for a motion picture, ap
federal census in 1850 to the ap pear with Bing in the production
proach of the 1940 census the numbers.
state has made an estimated gain
The story of the picture, sug
of 1,003,000 in population, accord gested by the career of that grand
WRIGHT’S
ing to the Oregon Writers’ Project showman, Gus Edwards, starts
of the WPA. The first federal with Bing trying to persuade Lou
WORTHMORE
enumeration in Oregon listed 13,- ise Campbell, a girl who assists the
Newell Wright
294 residents and the 1940 state matron of an orphanage, to marry
population is unofficially estimat
ed at 1,017,000. The greatest
gain during any 10-year period
was between 1900 and 1910, when
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the population jumped from 413,-
536 to 672,765, an advance of
259,229.
For the corresponding period
Portland's population increased
116,788 to 207,214. Portland’s
first federal count was 821, and
the 1940 unofficial estimate is
361,000, making a rise of more
than 360,000.
Following are the nine federal
census reports for Oregon: 1850,
13,294; 1860, 52,465; 1870, 90,
C. H. DEM ARA Y
923; 1880, 174,768; 1890, 313,-
Stationary
and Office Supplies
767; 1900, 413,536; 1910, 672,-
765; 1920, 783,389 and 1930,
Grants Pass
953,786.
"Star Maker”
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CITY
Saturday and Sunday, December 23-24—
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the screen's most heart-stir
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Mary Lou heard the voice of An
nette's father.
tonight, and take her to her home.
I missed the same train she did.”
Eddie studied her face. What he
saw satisfied him Still he hesitated
for a moment. "That sounds good
to me. But I’d better get the con
ductor to authorize it.”
IT WAS soon decided that Mary
Lou should keep her. But she
must not leave the station. "It won’t
be very comfortable for you, ma’am,
but the kid can curl up on a bench
here and be dead to the world in
no time. There are some rocking
chairs in the far room there. Why.
of course there are some cots there,
and baby beds."
“We ought to telephone the child's
relatives,” Mary Lou suggested.
"Of course we should. Here is
the address and telephone number.
You do it for me. will you, please,
ma’am? I've got my last minute
shopping to do. I'm mighty glad
you came in on this train. Eddie'll
take the kid while you telephone to
Rio." and the conductor was off.
after turning over the child's money
to Mary Lou. But not until Mary
Lou had made him promise to send
a big doll back for the child's
Christmas.
"We'll let Annette say hello to
her daddy herself, if she wants to,”
Mary Lou exclaimed. And so it was
done. Mary Lou heard the voice of
Annette's father, tense with concern,
and then joyful as he realized where
his baby was and heard her childish
treble over the phone. "Her moth
er's parents sent her back here to
have Christmas with me. Her moth
er died two years ago,” he added.
The sun was shining dazzlingly
bright the next morning when the
train stopped at Rio. The red-haired
man who was waiting expectantly
on the platform had only time to
thank Mary Lou, and get her ad-
dress, before the train pulled out
leaving him holding Annette as she
waved a good-by to Mary Lou.
But the trip home was much eas
ier. Mary Lou forgot the burning
pain at the loss of her own little
daughter, the aching loneliness since
her own husband's death, as she
remembered the soft kiss of the
baby lips of the motherless child
who had been in her charge the
night before. And the look In the
face of Annette's daddy made her
sure she would see Annette soon.
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