Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, June 28, 1945
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Gay Party Dress
For Little Girls
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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!
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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
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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 .
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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
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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
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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.
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