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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX ME.PFORD fATL TRTBTiyE. rEDFORD. OREOQy. MQyPAT. 'AFGUST 17, 1936. THE WORLD WITH A FENCE WAYSIDE EATING By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Rg. TJ. 8. Pat. 08. A New Novel by Marian Sims BYXOPS1B: Carol Torrance hat shocked her family considerably by announcing that she intends to go to the neighboring town of Ash bcro. Oa., to tench in the high ech'tol But Stilly, her mother, her matter of fact sifter Jill, and her hrolher Pat finally accept the in evitable. It proves a wrench to tell Don Hlchards, u:ho had hoped to marry Carol but even that is man aged. And row there is nothing but the knowledge that shortly she will, hate tett home, and tor good. Chapter Four DEPARTURE FOR almost throe weeks the Tor ranees clung tenaciously to the hope that something would deflect Cr rol from he. plan. And then, when nothing happened to Justify their optimism, they accepted defeat with fatalistic equanimity. They saw her to the train in a body; determined ly casual, determluedly gay, "For Pete's sake don't speak to any traveling men," Pat urged, "or you'll turn out bad." Carol grinned. "If It's bad enough I'll take It." Mllly protested: "Ton children sound like a low Broadway comedy," and the description was apt enough to make them laugh. The train pounded In and panted, anxious to be off. Through trains merely paused at Meredith. Carol clutched her family, one by one; tried to think of something dark felt hat and fall print dresses or even suits, although September in Georgia was breathlessly, dustily hot. Those, she decided, would be long to the out-of-town contingent. The drone of voices faded and died, and she looked at the Sanhe drln. The man who was on bis feet beaming at them must be Mr, Hud son, the superintendent. He reminded her of a sheep-dog; because be was big and shaggy, and because his hair and his clothes were rouzh gray tweed. He spoke, and bis voice boomed heartily over the silent room. "Let's all rise," Mr. Hudson was saying in a coaxing tone, "and sing the first, second and last stanzas of America, after wblcb we will re main standing while Brother Alford of the First Methodist Cburcb leads us In prayer." Carol glanced sldewlse In aston ishment: was this a faculty meet ing? Nobody else seemed surprised, so she scrambled to her feet Which were the first, socond and last stan zas of America, anyhow T One of tho women teachers had taken her place at the piano and was flicking the pages of "One Hundred and One Best Songs." She played emphatically, accenting every chord. and her face was so close to the page that she seemed to be reading the note, by smell. Prefer1! They all smiled, brilliantly, tunny to say, and failed. Nobody said anything, except Pat, who grunted: "Well, kcop your nose and earl clean, sugar." Just as tha train groaned and lurched. Thoy all smiled brilliantly. Mllly's eyes wero drowned, but tba smile was painted on her face and wouldn't come off. Carol rushed to thj nearest window and waved, and tho train brushed them fussily aside. pHB general faculty meeting waa J held at ton o'clock Saturday morning In the auditorium of the Asbboro High School. Carol arrived a tow minute' early and slipped Into a seat on tho outor aisle. She devoted the tew minutes to a survey of the battlofleld, ticking off nor Impressions. The smell of oiled floors, Insep arable, mparently, from Institutions of learning. College had amelled like (this. A subdued soprano buzi Ilka the drone of house fllos, with a deep er overtone supplied by the hand ful of men. Initials J. B. 8. on the seat In front of her, carved by a skeptical youth who had no confidence In footprinle on the sands of time. A red velour curtain concealing the big aiage: warm, glowing red that had In It a quality of reassurenca. The Sanhedrln, seated at a long table facing the assembly. She tried to Identify the superintendent in the group and then gave It up: all the men looked benign and peda gogical. ' That left the faculty Itself. The rows of seats curved, and her place on the aisle afforded an excellent view of hor associates. Thore were about a hundred of them, she esti mated; of varying agea and shapes. The men were oft to themsolves In ,u protective hmldlo, outnumbered a dozon to one by the women. She selected the football coach without difficulty: a blonde giant with long, prohonslle hands and anthropoid features; but the other men were more nondescript. The women, she decided, fell rntiKhly Into two classes: tho Young And llored, who were teaching, as Pat bad sintnosted. until they could got married and tha Intent-And-Earnest, wlu wero forever destined to be hrldes of education. Many of them wore obviously now nlothcs: The song waverod upward, and then strengthened as the tlmlder ones waded In. nROTHKU ALFORD prayod, longthlly, sonorously, and when his prayer was tlnlshod bo and tho faculty sat down. Mr, Hudson rose, beaming, to begin his Addross Ot Welcome. Carol's mind began to drift. She looked thoughtfully at the Intent faces about her, striving to read them, to find In them the basis tor tba friendships she would need so badly. Her eyes mot thoso ot a girl on the end of tha row; a big girl, deep ly tanned, who radiated oven at thla distance an amnzlng vitality. Their glances held tor an Instant, and then without warning and without the least change of expression tho girl's right eyolld drooped. itellet surged over Carol. Tbere'a one, anyhow sha thought. Oravely and almost Imperceptibly she re turned the wink, then with one ao- cord they both faced tho front and bestowed on Mr. Hudson their un divided attention. When he had finished and boon conscientiously applauded, he voiced a desire to hear from tho principals ot the other schools. Again Carol glanced at th' dark girl. This time thoy smiled openly at each other. When tho last principal had "been heard from" Mr. Hudson and his beam arose again. "Now I'd like to Introduce all th new teachers. As your names ara called I'll ask you to rise and lot ua meet you." He began to read from a list before him. "Miss Mary Kllen Sands, Ander son, Qa. Physical education and English." Of course she ought to teach phys ical education. She had tho splendid physique and look of fitness ot one who respect a healthy body aa a priceless gift She looked at the group with a vivid, friendly smile that uncovered dazzling teeth. And then Carol realized that her own name was being called: "Miss Caroline Torrance, Meredith, Gs. History and French." She scram bled to her feet. (Copyright, 1)11. hy Uarlan tlmsl enrol Ukt up ntw sort of lift, tomorrow. NEW DEAL HELPS E YOSKMITE, CM., Aug. 17. (UP) The Roosevelt administration's recon struction policies have had favorable economic effert in Oreat Britain and Canada, according to rrsesrch report an bruited by delegate from those countries tonight t the formal open I IV? here of the sixth biennial sea son of the Institute ot Pacific lie! lion Att-nrtiiiai ihr sfes.on. liwh t.j Jo; 1U uuun object Uw abolition ol : war hftrvutta in the far cost, aro nearly 300 (IclfKBteB and observer Iron. 11 nations located in the Pacific area or vitally Interested in Taciflc altous, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war under President Wilson and chairman of the institute's pacific council, pre sided at the formal openii and de livered one of two main welcoming addrewwa. The other was made by W, U Holland, the institute's national re search secretary. Nations represented at tho session are Australia, Canada, chins, France, Japan, the Netherlands. Now Zealand, Philippines, United Kingdom, United States and Russia, Canada, in a research report which had been prepared by J. D. Gibson of the Bank of Nova rtcotla. and A F. W. Plumptre of the University of On tario, praised the economic effect jn Canada of the recent monetary policy of the Unite-,; mate Ci"ina t.uie iui too Late lo Clas sify Ads is 1.30 p. tn. , anrar r , flmertcstt jockpu- tVioTr-D lAoME 6 WINNER'S OlflbF g MOUNTS . .ate Aous&s kffetJUIUTOH RMT5 fi&i NfYWBS OF "THE MAUW PENINSULA iV,V ... flKKJftCK PERSHING peRiveo his NlCKMRME : THKOUGri C0MMANPIN3 me FftMous coioRep TenTh UACaVftWY nitacfiso I ww! UMKMoWMlNTrteU.?. UHTlU h VOl. OF THEIR WAS UPSET 91 h &PVt fcT MWFORD, ffese IN bb GrtPSI MoTHS HfWE alNCE CRLKey RNNUBLVftNlBuc 1& bMERICftN CROPS COSTING I )L, 1 Wind of IilKiiNter Hoping to develop a hybrid race of Insect that would re&Ut pebrlne, a disease that threatened to destroy the French silk Industry, Leopold . Trou -velot, French astronomer at Harvard Observatory, sought to mate gypsy moths with silk worms. At his home In Med ford, Massachusetts, one day In 1800, Trou velot sought to close his laboratory window against a raging gnle outside. Suddenly a gust of wind seized a box containing a quantity of gypsy moth eggs, blew It out through the window and dumped Ha contents on the ground. Realizing the danger, Trouvelot at tempted to recover the eggs but many of them remained unaccounted for, scattered in all directions by the high wind. Tho French scientist reported the Incident but after several years passed with no 111 results, the Incident waa practically forgotten by man but not by Dame Nature. Nineteen yeara passed and then, In 1889, Medford farmers went out In their fields one day to find huge quantlea of their crojis destroyed, with the leavea of their field and fruit crops being voraciously devoured by enormous swarms of the gypsy moth caterpillar, rrhose were the first ever found in a wild state In the FLWOR iS A L MODEL OF I X VvA PERFECTION !L 1 x mi United States. Soon the Insect scourge swept through the entire state of Massachusetts and between 1806 and 1900 more than a million dollars was spent In an effort to check the pests. Forty-seven different natural enemies of the gypsy moth have been introduced Into the United States In an effort to exterminate them but still they take their annual toll, more than hulf a century after the gale turned them loose on the nation's agriculture, though the constant war ngalnst them has cut down consider ably on their quantity. Tomorrow: The Longest Golf Game. . . . Use Mall Tribune want ads. 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