Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, June 28, 1945 ÜA Bell Jbr AdanoWSf1^ Gay Party Dress For Little Girls J o h n H e r s eu w in . u. f b a t u m » •" r ~ - - ' r to me I miss her very much. She “ It was to go to G-one of the D i has a mole on the left side of her vision, sir.” chin, but otherwise she is very pret “ Well, why didn't you send It?" N eed fo r L eg u m e an d ty. She is of Italian parentage, so RETURNING SOLDIER ” 1 put it on your desk for ap she has dark skin like yours. In proval. sir." "Whut a country to get back to! G rass Seed Increases some ways you remind me of her. Captain Purvis huffed and puffed . . . Boy, I could make love to it* Tina had been looking up at the He knew very well he didn't pay mud puddles, not to mention Its rock Good Profit Seen stars. But now she suddenly looked as much attention to his desk as and rills! . . . The firs, peep at that down into the dark valley of the he ought to. “Well, let's send it out statue of Lib. . . The first ltxik For Seed Growers street and said: “Let's go in and of here. I want to personally see the homefront skyline, . . . The sky dance." And she opened up the you put that thing in the pouch for Harvesting legume and grass seed scrapers! . . . The shops, the stores shutter doors and went inside Ma Division." will bring a three-fold return to the houses, even the hotdog stands jor Joppolo went in after her. Sergeant Trapani sat right down farmers: additional income, assur . The first eyeful of signs a guy Captain Purvis had gone to work and addressed an envelope, and put ance of feed for livestock and pro can read, of windows with American on Tomasino's wine, and he was the slip in it. and put the envelope tection for their soil, says the clothes In 'em, and the names ol making a decided nuisance of him in the pouch which was to leave U S D A beers, cigars and people he heard self, so Major Joppolo persuaded Ihe next afternoon by courier for An increase of 67 per cent over of before! . • him to go home. He and Giuseppe Division headquarters. He ad last year's harvested acreage of al- CHA PTER X II led the Captain home. dressed the envelope to the wrong sike clover seed is sought In 1945. a “Sure I seen ’em all before, but When he got back to his own vil person at Division, but then. Cap total of 179.000 acres. One reason now they're in technicolor! ••I thought at first perhaps you • were from Northern Italy.“ the Ma la, and was undressed and in bed. tain Purvis didn’t notice that. for the larger acreage Is the urgent Major Joppolo felt miserable It A perspiring courier brought a call for this seed from liberuted jor said politely. "No klddln', even a ‘No Smoking wasn't until nearly three o'clock that note to Major Joppolo’s oflfice. areas of Europe. In addition to In sign In English Is something beauti Tina laughed. 'T e ll me some he realized why. Giuseppe was It said in English: “ I got to seen creasing home requirements for ful. . , . The words 'llambtfrger and more about yourself,” she said. right. It made a man feel very you in the immediate." And it was hay and soil protection Onions' on a lunchwagon become “There's not much to tell," he unhappy to be as far from home as signed M. Cacopardo. Half again as much alfalfa seed full of poetry. . . . And every dame said. the Bronx, New York, is from Ada Not five minutes behind the couri s needed as wus harvested In 1944. I see becomes llcdy Lamar! “ Did you go to one of those Amer no. Italy. er, Cacopardo himself showed up, all about 100.000.(MX) pounds. ican colleges’ I've seen them in The next morning Captain Purvis dressed for traveling. He had leath About 120,000,000 pounds of red “See all them tenements out the the movies at Vicinamare." sat with his feet up on his desk. He er gauntlets on. and goggles up on clover seed are needed, some 15 car window? . . Okay, to me “ No. not exactly. I went to school was in a bad humor. his forehead, and he carried a green per cent more than was produced they’re palaces, . . . Sec them bill until I was sixteen. Then I lied Sergeant Trapani was out of the parasol in his right hand. last year. boards boostin' tooth pastes, stogies about my age. I said 1 was eighteen office. The Captain spoke to Cor Hay and pasture account for motor grease, the circus and some The eighty-two-year-old man trot so that I could get a driver's license poral Chuck Schultz, who was on ted the length of Major Joppolo's of more than three-quarters of the feed body's brewery? . . . Huby. to me and take a job. I worked as a truck guard. “That Major Joppolo." he C h ild 's P a r t y D re s s fice. leaned forward over his desk, consumed by dairy cows and fur they become the world's ten thou driver until I was twenty, then 1 said. “ I was beginning to like him, looked over his shoulder at Giuseppe nish a major share of the feed for sand greatest masterpieces of art A GAY little purty dress for had an accident, from lifting things but he's a wet blanket. I was just and Zito, then looked at the Major other livestock and literature! . . . Steve's Wayside * * your young daughter of two to which were too heavy.” getting a wonderful buzz on last and said in a loud whisper: " I got In addition, farmers depend on Lunch! . . . I ’ll take it over the Rue six. She'll love the full swinging night, and he descended on me. so-,, “What kind of an accident. Mis legumes and grasses to check soli de la Whoziss! \ t o talk alorit." skirt, brief cap sleeves und simple ber as a whiteflsh. and he made me ter Major?” erosion and maintain fertility For \JVlajor Joppolo asked his interpret shoulder closing. It will be the go home." / “It was a rupture. After the ac example, legumes used as green er and usher to step outside. coolest, prettiest summer frock "Yeah, there's too many guys Corporal Schultz said: “Was you cident I had no job for two months. manure add nitrogen to the soil and " I have received a secret me* when grown in mixtures, they fur around that still got double chins she has. Pattern includes panties getting buzzed on that Dago red?" It is not very exciting to be un The Captain said: "Yeah, there's sages from the Mafia,” the old man nish this essential element to the and deadpans. . . . Too many foul to mutch. employed in the United States Fi o o o nally I got a job as a clerk in a an old fish-hound down here. Giu said, still whispering loudly. “ 1 have grasses in the mixture. When used balls that don't pay no attention to P a t t e r n N o RSM I* d r a iif n r d fo r s iz e * 7. grocery store at twelve dollars a seppe took me to his house because the military secrets of where are in crop rotations, legumes maintain uniforms, service ribbons and deco 3, 4 . S a n d • y e a r s . S iz e 3. ( tr e a t r e rations . . . Too many creeps thal the German troops. You must send week." q u ir e * 1»« y a r d * o l 35 o r 3» In c h f a b r ic : and inrfbase the acre yield of give more attention to a loose dime p a n tie s , •« y a r d : S y a r d s r lc r a c to t r im . your soldiers. Mister M ajor." "How much is that?” D u e to a n u n u s u a lly Isis* d a m s n d a n d in a train aisle than to a DSC on Major Joppolo said: “I have no “Twelve hundred lira .” marine’s chest. . . . Too many punk* c u r r e n t w a r c o n d itio n * , s lig h tly m o r e t im e soldiers. I'm just the administrator 'Tw elve hundred lira! You must Is r e q u ir e d In fillin g o r d e r s f o r a fe w of don’t even know what your division th e m o i l p o p u la r p a t t e r n n u m b e r s . have been rich.” of Adano." insignia means. . . . Yeah, and all S end y o u o r d e r to : “No. Tina, twelve hundred lira is Cacopardo said: “ I got to go to that, but forget 'em! . . . And get a all right for Adano—” the General. I am ready." load of all the faces and smiles and •S W IN G C IR C I.■ P A T T E R N D E F T . “AU right! I should say it is all " I will send you to the Genera, 14* New M onlgomary SU voices and wisecrack* and thing* rig h t Six hundred is high pay. My Mister Cacopardo.” he said, "but I San Francisco. Calif. that spell America, and I don't mean father used to think six hundred want to warn you. The General Is E n c lo s e 23 c e n t* in c o in s fo r e a c h backwards! was a very good week—and he a very impatient man. If your dope p a t t e n ) d e s ire d . _■ • hasn’t been out for a long time." isn’t straight, he’ll be very angry. P a t t e r n N o ...............................S iz e ............ .. "A ll that counts la being back she added sadly. I don't know what he'll do to you, where the papers carry full account* N a m e ......................... .............................. .. “ But that's not so much in the but it won’t be nice. Also, old man. of the ball games, where nobody A d d re s s ....................................................... States.” I ’ve got to ask you not to get me in wreck* houses except house-wreck “ You mean everyone is rich in trouble with him. I'm already in era, where you ran grab any door the Bronx?” Dutch with General Marvin. Prom knob without thinking It could be a ise me that you will be careful, will “ No, I wouldn't say so, Tina. It ’s Dumas Found tunkee [ter booby trap. you?" just that our standard of living is -H- , " I will be careful.” Cacopardo higher than yours.” “Look at that taxi driver beating To Be an Appeaser said, "but the informations is im “What does that mean?” his Jaw* out in a argument with that portant." Alexander Dumas, while travel “WeU, that's hard to explain, too laundry truck driver! . . Boy, i f * M ajor Joppolo made out a pass ing through England, stopped one It's just that everyone has a litUe like long forgotten sweet music! for Cacopardo and sent for a jeep more than they have here. They See that old number In baggy slack night at a country inn for supper. from the motor pool. Gathering Cash Seed Crop. mostly have automobiles, in peace setting out lettuce and tomato plants Unfam iliar with the language, he Cacopardo stepped back, and tried to explain to the innkeeper time. that is. The food is a little in that two-by-four backyard! . raised his hand in a Fascist salute. other crops. Both grasses and in hesitant English that he wanted better, everyone gets orange juice Kid to me It’s the Queen of Sheba Then, as his aged memory func- legume* are valuable as permanent and milk and things like that. They in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon! some mushrooms served with his tioned, the hand wavered over to cover for the land, holding the soil ■ • meat. get paid a little more. They have his forehead, and the salute be against erosion by wind and water to pay more for what they get. Despite the dram atist’s attempt, "America! Of thee I sing, and Good prices and a ready market came m ilitary. And he said: “Ca though." are indicated for legume and grass every rattle, flivver horn and every the latter did not understand. copardo is sulphur and sulphur is “ In other words, it’s just what I yell of 'Sock it out, kid’ makes swell Finally in desperation, Dumas Cacopardo." He turned on his heel, seed in 1945-46. pointing to addition said. Everyone is rich in the al income for farmers from prop accompaniment! . . . Thy woods and drew a picture of a mushroom on as m ilitarily as he could, and Bronx.” erly managed fields The first crop templed Mils! , . . Yowslr, even all a slip of paper. With that the inn marched out. “WeU, have it your own way. fouled up with beaneries, tourist keeper smiled, nodded his head Between the Palazzo in Adano and of many of these plants may be cut Anyhow, I think fate has had a lot camp* and liver pill signs, they understandingly, and withdrew. for hay or used as pasture, and ihr the headquarters of the Forty-Ninth to do with my life, because one make the best scenery on earth! Several minutes later, he re Division, in a villa beyond Vicina second harvested for seed. • night a friend of mine told me that turned and offered Dumas a good- mare, old Cacopardo did not say a they were about to have examina- "The home-town garbage truck sized umbrella. word to the Jeep driver. He sat _tion* for jobs in the City Govern seems like Cinderella's coach and Killing Bean Beetles leaning forward against the wind ment." Mexican bean beetle, left, and four. . . . The cry 'One up. with mus his goggles down over his eyes and “ The C ity of the B ron x? " f “ Hey, Scholls,” he said. Where’s his parasol straining over his head bean leaf beetle, right, can be gotten tard!' gives me a greater thrill than “No, Tina, New York City. He 'Lafayette, we are here!' . . . The Trapani?” The jeep’s windshield was down on rid of by spray or dust with cryo IS NOT AVAILABLE! told me I ought to take them. I white picket fence around my house lite every 10 days until pods begin said I hadn't had enough educa he's got a couple of nice quail, he the hood, with the canvas cover to form, then using rotenone. is a greater sight than all the shrubs BUT p o t i ■ war op po rtunitiat for over it, as all jeep windshields should tion, but he said I ought to go ahead gave me some red stuff.” ■ndcpendrace can h r yo urt! For cryolite spray use 1 ounce to 1 and statues around the gardens of be where there is possibility of ene- T H IS may be to u t B IG C ilA N U E t and try. So I did and I came out Corporal Schultz said: “That gallon of water. For dust, ? Versailles. . . . And I'll swap the WrM* to . my strafing attacks, and so the number 177 >ut of 1,100. That made vino’s bad stuff, sir, you don't want Rhine, the Po and the Thames for “ CEKA" L A B O R A TO R IE S ; wind was very strong. After a while me feel pretty good, as if I knew to get mixed up with that vino no the water running off my sunporcb Sea • * Son M o e s 3 , C a lif o r n ia something after all. They gave me more'n you can help. Had some my old Cacopardo decided that sun was roof after a June rain. ; preferable to wind, and he moved a job as a clerk in the Department self last night.” Captain Purvis said: “ I'm still j the parasol down and held it in of Taxation and Finance." "You can have the Atlantic, the front of him, to fend of? the wind. Pacific, the Mediterranean and the “ Did this make you rich again?” sore at that M ajor.” The villa in which the Forty-Ninth English channel for the brook that He leaned back in his chair, and “No, being a tax collector did not runs through Mulligan’s Grove. . , . make you rich in New York. I put his feet up on his desk again. Division was dug in for the time I'll trade all the words of Churchill, was earning twenty dollars a week. As he did so. he knocked some pa being had belonged to a friend of Cacopardo’s. Cacopardo and this pers on the floor. Roosevelt, Truman, Ktalln and Tony That's two thousand lira." o n r r on to u n e lf! Grotly, m ildly, move “I suppose I might as well clean friend had shared an interest in Ita l Eden and all the music of London G intrwinal ‘Tw o thousand, richer than ever.” le ft-m e n '' out of th * way with a ian furniture, and the old man knew up my desk. Got to do it sooner J and Paris for the sound of a certain cup or two of Garfield T r * . the popular a ll “I did all right, too, only then pounds to 1 pound of talc. Eot herb "internal deanter." Garfield Tea the value of the things in this villa. e* u not party’s voice. . . , You take the ■ "cure-all," but they elected a man named LaGuar or later." it you want g tn llt rotenone spray, use Derris or cube The friend was dead now, but Caco He reached down on the floor and Four Freedoms, I ’ll take her one relief from temporary conHipatinn dia, and since he was a different root powder, 5 per cent rotenone smile. . . . There ain't as much m lh m l drauic drug*. try a cup ol party from the previous man, a lot picked up the stray papers. He be- 1 pardo had a hard time remember tin* fragrant, iittt, thia ‘ IO-hrrl ‘ trb tea, at I directed " of people got thrown out, and I was gan to sort and arrange papers in ing which of his friends had died content, !4 ounce to 1 gallon water meanin’ in the text of the Charters on package. Y o u ’ll /»»/ hatter, Zoo* For dust, use ready prepared dust better, arerA better 1 A l oil drog and which were still living; he there of Quebec, Rretton Woods, Yalta, biollh food H o m , IOt-2ft-V>(. osd one. I borrowed some money from piles, and he threw some away, and ■ he got up and put some away in his j fore thought of them all as living mixture containing at least 1 per Cairo and San Francisco as there FREE1 SAMPLE TAME PACKAGE! my mother-in-law—” cent of rotenone. is in seven little words from my Writ* far imereti* uaiste, *ooo*h "Your mother-in-law? Were you files. He read some of them aloud i It was easier that way. to Corporal Schultz, who was not in | Because he was entering the villa married?’ mom, ‘I ’ve got a homemade pie for 1er 4 tea*. It: Cartel* Taa Co., 41*1 at 3rd, B rm tly* 32, R. V. best 0 -80 you.’ of his friend, whom he considered | Save the T racto r and "Yes, Tina, I'U tell you about the least interested. In due course he picked up a to be living, Cacopardo approached that some time. I borrowed this Conserve Tim e and Life "Well, the train is pullin' In now. money and bought a grocery store purple slip, and he said: “What's the gate in the spirit of a cordial Time, money, injuries and death* Home again! Pardon me if I hug HE m m muu rua iitermi s iiiia iM it in the Bronx, and it was aU mine. this?” And he read: “On July 19, visit, and he expected to be re resulting from tractor accidents a couple of trees and kiss a few Only then about two years later orders were received from General ceived cordially. He was in for may be largely prevented by prop buildings things went badly, we had hard Marvin, Forty-Ninth Division, to surprise. Gangway! Hey, mom! times, and I had to sell out before keep all mule carts out of the town Anyone who has never tried to er operation Avoid holes or ditches Hey, pop! Hey. honey!" it was too late. I went back to the of Adano. Guards were posted at see a general could not possibly that may cause tractors to over- City to see it they’d have me back, bridge over Rosso River and at know what Cacopardo's reception turn. Drive slowly, reduce speed on We expect to visit the place any turn or when applying brake* Nev day now and be introduced to a Vice because they had sent me a couple Cacopardo Sulphur Refinery. Order was like. of notices while I had the grocery carried out. On July 20. guards A sentry stopped him at the gate. er ride on draw bar. Don’t permit Commodores* in Charge of Fancier “Good morning," said Cacopardo, riders. Make all adjustments while Cocktail Glasses and a Chairlady of store, saying they wanted me. They were removed on order of Major LOWER WINDOW as if addressing a butler at his tractor is idle. Stop power take off the Committee to Tie Ribbons on said: ‘Why didn’t you answer the Victor Joppolo. . . . " SHAOES NEARLY Captain Purvis banged the flat of a friend's door, “ is my friend Saia- before dismounting Be sure that all Moorings. Skipper, an old-fashioned notices?’ I said: ‘I never got them, THE SILL. PLACE hand down on the table. tlello here?” power line shielding is in place. I must have been in Florida when cuspidor, if you please! tANGLEFOOT • e • “Hey, Schultz," he said. “ Where’s you sent them to me.’ " The sentry said: "Ain’t nobody Do not operate tractor in a closeo ply p a p h where Trapani?” “Where is Florida?" here of that name as I know of. building. Refuel only when motor is early MORNING The Japs now threaten to launch UGHt WILL cool and dead Be sure the gear shlfi an all-out stratosphere balloon at “I t ’s in the south, I wasn’t there “Said he was just stepping out What is he, an M .P.?" ATTRACT plies at all. That was the second time 1 for a couple of minutes, sir, said “ M ilitary Police, indeed. He is lever is in neutral before cranking tack on the United States. Person TO IT. lied to get a job. Since then I ’ve he'd be right back. Anything I can prefect of Vicinamare and a col the engine ally we think It io a lot of “ba- WORKS LIKE tried never to lie, the truth is much do, sir?” lector of wooden curiosities. He is looney.” A CHARM better and much safer. So they “No. Wait till I get that Trapani." my friend. This is his house. Is • • * E ffe c t o f P re g n a n c y Trapani came in in a few min he here?” gave me a job in the Sanitation What! No Roller Skates? The severe price discriminations Department. Later I took my ex utes. "No," Buck shouted back. “No "L IV IN G room, bedroom, baby “Hey, you, come over here,” Cap one round here with a name like of practiced by market buyers a g a i n s t aminations for advancement to pregnant yearling heifers are not and • '«’■nilurp. Thermo* lunch Third Class Clerk, and afterwards tain Purvis Said as soon as he ar that." I got to be a Second Class Clerk. rived. "No one here that name," the justified when such heifers are mar B,t’ powcr mower; 4 cyl. 16 ht>. out- ■ f l y p a p e r keted by the end of the fifth month ,",ard with 16 boat Selmer saxo- “ Yes, sir," Trapani said. I was earning forty-two dollars a sentry repeated. I* • the old relie b le th a t never («il» of gestation, according to the Illinois pb,,np and clarinet and Kaproni. 120 week when I went into the Arm y." “What's this?" the Captain said, Cacopardo said: “Then where is Economical, not rationed. For tele e< agricultural experiment station base accordion. 274 Sunset avenue, M ajor Joppolo was getting a little and he held out the purple slip. General Marvin?" herdw ere, drug end g ro c e ry t t o r e i Slaughtered tests and caicnss Lnglewood Bergen Record, boastful about his non-existent Trapani took it and looked at it M .P .’s are trained to be mysteri C A T C H fS T H t Q tA M 4 » W i l l A i T H t F I T riches. "That was four thousand "That's the report on the mule cart ous with strangers. "Jeez. I can’t show that pregnant heifers take on Getting Really High two hundred lira a week.” situation, sir,” Trapani said coolly tell you that, Bud," the senlry said. proposal to operate bars in air- Tina said: “The wife, is she pret "You told me to make out a re " I have a paper to see General at this stage ol pregnancy neither the dressing percenlage nor the “ ners >s disturbing legislators, as port, remember?" ty?” M arvin,” Cacopardo said, pulling market grade is lowered. may. We wince at the invi M ajor Joppolo said: “ Yes, she is "You’re right I remember, and out his pass. tation "See what the boys in the very pretty, at least she seems so where did I tell you to send it?” (TO BE CONTINUED) Back-draft will have!" T H R STORY T H I S F A R : The Amerl- ran troop* arrived at Adaao, with M ajor Joppolo. ih r A m *o l officer In c h a rt*. Sersrant Hnrth waa la c h a r t* of securi ty. The M ajo r waa determined to re place the town hell atolea by the N a tl*. He a rra a te d with the aavy to perm it the It b e r u e a to return to the w ater*. De- •p lte order* l«»aed hy General M arvta. barring carta from the city. M ajo r Jop- polo recalled the order to perm it food and w ater to enter the Iowa. Tomaalno. the chief hahermaa. Invited the m ajor to hla home for dinner. When he a r rived he found (.'apt*la Purvla and the two d aathtera of Tomaalao. Captain Purvla to t druak and the M ajo r took him home early. /»NYLON HOSIERY^ DOrrcEimwiritt CONSTIPATION GARFIELD TEA T anglefoo T I