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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1938)
PXfiE ETOTTT MEDForcn matt, TTCrmrrrF:, medfcvrd, ortEnoy. Tuesday. October 25. 1938, DON'T MARRY THE MAN -By Jesnne Bowmm- The Character Kathleen Oratory! tau(iul and peppery redhead. Angus Gregory: her father, owner of The Golden Girl mine. Bridget: Gregory'! iccretary, Teiterday: Became of a feud between the two families, Mac Donald, owner of The Stubborn Boy. hai refuted the Gregorys right-of-way around hii shaft. Chapter Two Marry The Man? 'TWERE wasn't much Kathleen wouldn't do (or this beloved uncle; anything to show the others she preferred his gentle kindness to the domineering members who despised him. She accepted the letter and started to read, and as she read her shoulders lifted, her -hin lifted nd her brows became angry arcs. The letterhead told her the missive came from the office of The Stubborn Boy. The signature told her it was written by the last of the MacDonalds, nne Donald MacDonald. But it was the content which lent her temper flaming until her iu the admonitions, warnings and4 advice of the clan. Her brown eyes were dark with thought. The nu cleus of a plan was forming in her mind; a very pleasing plan encom passing conditions of which she had dreamed for the last four years. Silence restored she turned to her father. "When dc I start?" she asked. "Immediately," answered Greg ory. "That is, as soon as I can ar range to have our car coupled on a westbound. You'll go as far as Salt Lake City, then the car will be transferred to a short line. At Green River I'll arrange for a work train on the mine spur to take over" "You do this and I don't go," Kathleen interrupted. "I'm the one who has to face the music and I'm not going down there with a forty piece band playing the theme of The Golden Girl. This head of red hair is going to be handicap enough. If I go in as Kathleen Gregory, I'm defeated before I start." "She's right," affirmed Beatrice. "Now this is the way I'll manage It. Kathleen and 1 wil, drive down from Salt Lake City, as tourists" "Oh no we won't," checked Kathleen. "This is my expedition and I'm choosing the personnel. There won't be any Gregorys in cluded. If you trust me enough to ask me to do this favor for the clan, then you're going to have to trust "flurry, Bridget. I want to talk to you where no one can hear us." eheeks rivaled the color of her hair. Angrily she read: 1 wouldn't allow the shaft 0 The Golden Girl to contaminate my prop erty. I wouldn't allow a damned Gregory on my land to dltcuu the matter. 1 wouldn't allow a hypocriti cal, effete, deteriorating offspring of t conniving, double-crossing Gregory within speaking distance. Why don't you come out and see what your remote control Is doing to this country? Why don't you take tome Interest in your miners at men? Why don't you give them a few extra pennies for decent shelter instead 0 spending every cent you can squeeze out of your mine on that vapid, silly flapper of yours? I got to tick of s eeinp her smirking from the rotogravures 0 magazines that I've Quit taking them. So far I haven't strained my eyes with a good look, but some day when I'm ready to go off the deep end over the way the Gregory tide it handled, I'll pin one of her dental displays on the wall and . . oh, what't the use. My answer is no to every favor you've atked, and that It final. Kathleen was tapping her slip per toe on the polished lloor. As the tapping increased in fervor and tempo, the clan relaxed. When the heel came down with a stomp they smiled. They even laughed, but softly, when she strode back cross the room and started pound ing on her father's desk. I'm going out there and mnke that black-browed son of a Mac Donald eat out of my hand. I'm going to mnke him eat every word in this letter. I'm going to cram it down his throat until he chokes on It. Sillv, vapid flapper, am 17 Won't strain his eyes? Well here's where he starts chumming with an ocu list. When I gel through with that Donald MacDonald he'll be so blind he'll sign away his right-of-way and his freedom with the same stroke of the pen.'' "Kathleen, cried Mrs. Gregory In alarm, "don't marry the manl ' Kathleen looked up and her eves seemed flecked with the red flame of her hair. "Marry the man?" she repeated. "That's an idea. . . " No Forty Piece Band ANGUS GREGORY brought or der into his office by sending all but the immediate family on their way. Kathleen had listened, unmoved. " HAPPY DAYS ARE NEAR me enough to let me handle it my way, no questions asked." "I told you how she'd act," cried Beatrice with an air of washing her hands of the whol affair.. "You have a plan, daughter?" queried Angus. Kathleen nodded. "The begin ning of one. This I know: Donald MacDonald is just as much preju diced against the Gregorys as we are against him. I want a chance to meet him and have him know me as an individual before he associ ates mo with his enemies. I don't want to divulge my plan to anyone save Uncle Douglas. If you'll feel better about things I'll take him with me to some nearby point" Take Care Of Yourself "rOUGLAS," spat Beatrice, "h hasn't a brain in his head." "His brains are in his heart," Kathleen snapped back. "And his tongue isn't hinged in the middle and wagging at both ends. How about it, Dad?" Angus paused a moment. "Kath leen, he murmured, "I think you're smarter than the lot of us put together. All I ask is that you take care of yourself." "See you at home," Kathleen cried in triumph, stooped to kiss her mother, patted her Uncle Douglas and whirled out of the room. "Bridget!" She caught the sur prised secretary in her arms. "Hur ry out of here. I want to talk busi ness to you where no one can heat us. Honey, you nnd I are going out to thnt spot you are looking for. And believe me. we're going to find gold in 'them thnr hills.'" Bridget backed away, amazed. "Does it occur to you that I don'l want to go anywhere with a Greg ory?" ''Ah." jeered Kathleen, "some, thing more we have in common. Suppose I'm no longer a Gregory?" "But I won't be a party to this plan. I'm surprised that you, with your spirit, could so demean " "Demean, my eye." Interposed Kathleen blithely. "Come on, don the bonnet. Dan's bringing my car around In five minutes. And I'll bet The Golden Girl against yom Picture of golden hills, that once ve talked to you. you'll be rarin' to go." "That," stated Bridget, ruefully, "is exactly what I fear, therefore the answer is no, in advance." Tomorrow: .Making plans. DFTHOIT. Oct. S4 (API Hfnrj Ford antd this afternoon "dlntlnctly better timet are on the way." He made the statement on the occasion ot a preview of the Ford Motor company's new models. "We plan to atp up pioductlon of 1039 modela well beyond the ncRrrRHte of 183B." he aald. "be. etui' we know aalea generally are i;o;nt to be much greater." He rttd not put hla prediction Into numbers, hut the Ford company thus fnr tn haa produced appro!- ninlt-ly 403.000 uruu. . A new alltlme high record for groa rerelpta of the Honolulu post office wa established Imtt year at ;9...Ji7. OPENED NEAR EUGENE kuokne, on. as. (,-Tn a new stretch of the Pnctflc highway, lx unc, one-half mi let .oni, wm openrd by the MM hlffhwny departtnf nt be tween Eugene and Junction City Monday, The new section. Part of the Pa cific hiithay Improvement program, will materially Minrteu the driving time between Eui'n and Portland. It la claimed. Construction revord were broken durliiR the pouring of the concrete for the htithway during Auicuftt, whrn contractor laid ai much a 2,070 teet of hinhwy in one eltiht-hour shift. v STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX. For further proof address the author, Inclosing stamped eirrelope for reply. Reg. V. B. PL Oft I L L 1 " ' . I-II vi 1 mi icv-o QtttlT- i-s -we my AlJTH&NTlC WORLD HAR RECORD of YftMcy ceuNxy, , North Ca voltnaf Mf?S.W.&Ro&ERl4oH, 5ur,?sWelN,C.t , Vftift rwpcwina MKTilQ? LIDMlUA fUl - e I A. mis I. Jimmi.s 0inE9 pt(.n rvfwrrv rt"-.rSl Most irtfew spbcik in Trie -rfJts ItJOIkN t&ooo plSTlNcT GESTURES m mr ?) A Hearst LwatfjfnAland, rr cm se RoCKBPBV HnNPJ Qui It War Record The only World War record of Yancey County, North Carolina, strange as It seems, Is that stitched Into bed quilt by Mrs. W. J5. Rob ertson of Burnsvllle. For four years Mrs. Robertson mide frequent excursions Into the hills of Yancey County, compiling a complete Hat of Wprld War veterans who serv ed their country two decades ago. These names she stitched into her odd quilt of a beautiful geometric pattern, and today her handiwork stands as the cniy complete and au thentic record of Its kind. Sign Language Strange as it seems, although there were 69 dlffererit language families among the Indians of the United Statoa, and hundreds of different dia lect, all the Indians of North Amer ica were able to converse with each other by means of a common geafurc speech, or sign language. Signs were made with one or both hands; ideas were canveyed with rap Id gestures which often implied whole sentences. The sign language was usually much quicker and more effective than spoken words. In the presence of enemies the method was silent and sure. Strange as It seems, there wore 48.000 combination gestures used In the sign Rnguage, experts aver. While most Indians were able to speak at best only a few hundred words, the sign language contained no less than 85.000 distinct signs. Tomorrow: What famous monu ment -was designed as a teles ope tube? Columbia university reenved a to tal of over 1403,000 In gift during the jM :ut. RAE GIVEN LEAVE FOR EDITORIAL ASSN. POST EUGENE, Oct. 24. (AP) Arne Q. Rae, field secretary for the Oregon Newspaper Publishers' association and assistant professor of Journalism at the University of Oregon, received a year's leave today to become execu tive secretary of the national edito rial association. Rae connected with the Oregon publishers' group since 1929, will depart about January 1. He was for merly co-publisher of the Tillamook Herald and advertising manager for the Oregon City Enterprise. He Is also president of the Newspaper As sociation managers, a national or ganization. Dean Eric W, Allen of the school of Journalism aald Rae's position would be open here should he desire to return. 204? Get Insurance. PORTLAND, Oct. 35. A total of 2047 Oregonlans had received $73, 687.62 at the end of September tin der the federal government's old-age Insurance program, which levies a tax of 1 per cent on the wages of commercial and Industrial workers. 4 Isamu Noguchl, 34-year old American-born Japanese, won the Assoc iated Press nation-wide competition for designing a bronze panel for the main door to the new A.P. building at Radio City, N. Y. HELPFUL By GLUT AS WILLIAMS TV imi OH EP6E Of PB)( CHM1W6 WITH Ftfure WHO )6ffWiM6-ro WRITE A LETTER REMARK fMyf trip KSK WifcfcLES, lOESH'r IT ? SHAKES DESK.SAVIlte . HEPOESNTSEEHOWHE CArf IfVRlfE WHErJ IT VI661ES SO MWH, H'J BEffER Fix if for him FATHER HASflLYSAVSU) HEtER MlMt. REPLIES 6RI6HTLY IT'S HO BOTH ER, ABO TRIES To STUFF WA50T TAPER UNDER LEtj TESTS DESK WHUM NOVO NOT ONLY WI66LK BUT WABBLES 10-Zfi SAYS HE'LL 60 UNDER DESK 1b SEE WHICH LEStflS, AHDSTENDS FiVEWlUUItSOlAWLWS OVER FATHER'S FEET - EMERGES. 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