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PAOE TEN MTTFOTCD MATL THrRTTNTTC, MEDFOKD, -OREGON. THURSDAY, NOYE1MT3ER 10.' 1938. DON'T MARRY THE MAN ' By Jeanne Bowman The Characters Kmthleen Orecor? goes Wtsl incognito to vamp a right-of-way from MacDonald tor the Gregory mine. Shi it thocked by the living condition! of the miners. Donald MseUonrld: young owner of the rival mine, hatet the Gregory!, has improved the lot 0 hie minerf. Bridget: Kathleen' companion. Yestsrdsri Kathleen atkt her family to repair cottaoei, sine medical aid, but get a blank re fusal. She turne her house into a hospital for flu victims. Chapter 16 Magic In The Valley If ATHLEEN was aroused by a quiet cnucKie irom Bridget. "You know, she connded, your Aunt Bee would have had those roofs covered by now. She s a most charitable woman. Only she would have done it her way, regardless of what the miners wives wanted I think, dear, that this letter was inspired oy pique at your reiusai 10 bring her along. Next morning, assured the pa Merits were asleep and the nurse en guard, Kathleen ended her night shift by watching the sun rise. From the veranda, where she Had sat tnat nrst day in Neutrality, the waited for the first tip of gold to appear above the mountain Desk. There was something cleans ing and refreshing in the sight. It seemed to wash away the prob lems of yesterday and give hope of better today. There was the sound of tires moving on gravel. She went to the western edge or tne veranda and looked down. Donald MacDonald was rolling his car down the drive way. She watched him puzzled until -he saw her and motioned. "I didn't want to risk waking your patients," he explained in a stage wnisper. Kathleen was touched by his consideration. Slowly she went down to stand beside him until he adjusted the brakes. "There," he brushed his hands together, then turned to her. Frowning he studied her. "Time you had a break," he observed. "Run back and get into your bib and tucker. You're driving to Canted with me. We'll be back by ten o'clock, you can aleep tbe rest ef the day. Obediently Kathleen went to the house, laughed a little at the wan reflection, and reported to Bridget the was oft on a lark. "It will do vou good," Bridget assured her. And while you re away, forget everything." This was more than Kathleen could do. She drove down to Neu trality, conscious that the Gregory miners, enroute to their work on the day shift were watching her: probably condemning hcjr for be ing in a car with Young MacDon ald She was aware of glances which wanted to be hostile and didn't quite achieve it, when thev stopped before The MacDonald for the breakfast she hadn't had She waved to the men on the Gregory fide and they doffed their hats. Mayme served them and beamed on them like a white-aproned cu pid. "What did I tell vou?" she questioned and Kathleen couldn't retort without revealing to the man across from her that Mayme had prophesied he would "go" for her. And then they were on the lower highway, the astonishing world of green and orange cliffs, scarlet oulders and natural mnnumenti of pearly white about them. ''Why is it the MacDonald min rs manage so much better than the Gregorys?" she queried "1 mean aside from their homes. There Isn't such a tremendous dif ference in their wages, is there?" "There's not enough difference In the wages to account for the difference in their lives," he con ceded. "However, you slipped up when you said 'aside from their homes. It's the homes that make the mator part of the difference I know. The MacDonald miners were very little better oft when I first took charge here. The board of directors thoughi 1 was a 'crack pot' when I told them of the changes I wanted made. They didn't see It, wouldn't see It. so I started with my own money I spent every cent my father left me on the homes and the hotel; the stores and the theater. The town Is paying me back for the homes And the people are paying me a Utile at a time. 1 wanted thorn to have the feeling of Individual ownership." A tighter B'ATHLEEN looked at him curl- ously. Then he had had no more encouragement than she was getting But he was a fighter and a man. Well, she straightened, she was also a fighter. "That still doesn't answer my Suestion." she demurred "1 want le difference In positive terms." 'The main reason is abstract Have you evei lived In a nlace like the Gregory cots." and thought you'd never know anything bet ter?" "Goodness, no." "You'd become saturated with hopelessness and helplessness; es pecially when you realized that generations before you had exist ed in this way without change and generations after you would doubtless continue the same way. Aa Old Balmy would say, "your spirit would don its grave clothes and wait for death.' But given hope and the promise of a different fu ture, you'd And your spirit in sun suits, making the most of every day and the most of every oppor tunity. And there's where the dif ference in dollars and cents comes in. I doubt if you've ever had to buy food for a large family ob a small salary, a large portion of which has to go for illness brought on by poor housing. If you had you'd appreciate the 'jar closet Mrs. Arthur showed you. Every thing in that, excepting the fruit which I had brought in in carload lots and sold at cost, was grown on her own land. You might say that was poor business on my part, but it wasn't I learned in that first year, that the miners had more money to spend on other things." "Too bad the Gregorys don't fol low suit," said Kathleen with a yawn that wouldn't be stifled. "I don't blame them . . . now." MacDonald defended. "They'll have to close down next spring; why waste all of that money on a ghost town?" riatnieen tried to control her start. She'd never before thought of the closing from the Neutrality standpoint; from the miners' view. "What will happen to the fami lies?" she asked. "I don't know: ooor devils. The younger men will probably find work in other mines alter a time, but it's going to be tough on the old ones. This Is their home. How ever, they may be better off In the long run. ir you stay through the winter you'll understand. Well. such is life!" The car shot ahead with a burst of speed and Kathleen sat. hands clenched in her pockets. She had to do something, but what? What more could she do than obtain the right-of-way that would keep the mine open? And with the mine open could she force her clan to see the needs of the miners as she saw them? How much money did she have In her own right? How far, would it go towards rebuilding Gregory? Not far she feared. Interesting Companion SHE must think of something. Another time, she was so des perately tired. "Ill get that right-of-way if I have to marry him to do it." she decided, and closed her eyes. When she opened them she found the car was not moving, that she was lying on the back seat, a blanket tucked around her, a fold ed coat under her head. Had she crawled over the front seat in her sleep? I thought vou were going to sleep all day, said Donald, ap pearing around the car Have a nice nap? How's the appetlte7" Kathleen saw by shadows that the sun was mid-heaven. "A fine nap and I'm starved, but have vou tune tui oiiDa in your pocKcir "No, in the kitchen of The Mac Donald. I had a lunch out uo wnne we were having breakfast Now trot down to that stream and wash vour face and I'll And a pic nic spot" Refreshed by the ice cold water, her hair brought to a semblance of order by a wet comb: her lips fresh ly rubied and a powder puff rubbed across a nose fast freckling without Toinette's care. Kathleen loined MacDonald. Young Donald, appraising her, laughed suddenly. "I'm sorry. I was lust thinking of the way vou looked that night on the road." Kathleen laughed with him. con fessed to her near hysteria when she saw herself In the hotel mirror and admitted she had vowed undy Ing hatred when he'd found the bolts she'd Oeen unable to find "Then vou admit there Is an Im provement?" she asked. "If vou were a blonde or bru nette, I'd call for a chaperone." he assured her. Kathleen stiffened, then relaxed. "1 asked for that. Did vou mention food?" Seated on s boulder in the shade of a cottonwood tree, a stream rushing over colored rocks at one side, the road and high cliffs on the other. Kathleen thought of all of the wonderful places she had dined on two continents and won dered why this seemed more won derful than any of them. MacDonald made an Interesting companion She liked to look at him; liked the quick smile, the flash of white teeth under the small black moustache, the way his hair grew back off a tanned forehead, the heavy dark brows which didn't shade the compelling glance of his Scotch blue eyes. There was magic In this painted valley Pcrhnps it was the passion ate hurry of the stream: the hoi brush of the autumn sun on hei cheek when she ventured from the shade: or the clear, exhilarating air She couldn't name it only fceJ it and thrill to It Tomorrow: home. Another tetter frosj REPUBLICANS TO HAVE STATE CONTROL BOARD SALEM, Nov. !0 pf The Rrpub ticp.n wc?p of the nenatorlnl and jtx'rnitorini rncrii In Tucntlny' :Mon prnbnhly will Rive thf lie "ilicwns nil thr plncrs on th thrw vtvr mnt board of control, which MitiAtem nil Mntr Institution. .'ciN-ury or Hint Eurl 8nll will ;iatn mpnitwr becnuw of ovtr 'vrrlmln victory yrtttrtlnr. Churls A- Bprftguc. na governor, will be another Rnntbllcitn ?iirmber, urrwrdlrifT Oov, Ohnrles Martin. IVmoorat. who retltrs from pollliinl UU la Jauuvy. 8Ut TrcnMiirr Hufiw C. Hotmnn, the third member, will resign when h become senator. If he rrnltfns before taking ht nrnfttorlrtl oath January 3. Oovernor Martin will name hi (mrcMor. Tf he quit alter ftprngue hecomeA povernor on Janu ary P. Rprasue will nnmn the new trennurer. neraurn of Martin close friendship with Sprnmie, It waa considered likely thai he would nppolnt whomever SpntRue wanted. Many state employes breathed more easily today, feeling that their Job were 5te bernu.e of Sprnsue' cam pn:un promise that he would ret.itn eritcli-nt atnte emplnyen rather than clean the atatehoiiAe of LVmocrnta. Mrlpe.i PlR-kln hi ( e NOWATA. Okla. ilT. - Ortd fan nre see-mi something new in fivit ball here tht Mil. It a MrUed plRhkm. Authnrlt . say that the trlM' make the hil more rraiUly .visible undo lluvdligi... STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Ret. TJ. 8. Pat Oft. ...i.trf BSKg 4 Cermel INITIO INTrte 1881 PRINCETON -VALE OftftlC, PRINCETON HELOE ftu. fcu. Sltf IWfc WNUIfc oftHt FIRST HhLP ftNPWtE HEW THE. BftLLTHE ENflr? NEITHER TSA.M SCORtP ft POINT At v 1 , U4W L?.A ill &fojmm WALKING WITH FATHER Oy GLITVAS WILLIAMS Zouth African HtefME $0Vi AND of AN ANTSLOPE; 'fat HEPd of AN OX; The tail of ft H&R$gi uke ft MFFAIO; ft Often CftLLEPtrtE wtW5Kr $uT AcTufiiLt 1$ AN The Gnu This may be new to you, or maybe you knew It: Tho strange South African gnu. first cousin to the hartebeest and often called the wildebeest. Is act ually an antelope. With curved boriu, Its head resembles that of an ox; Its body and legj are those of an antelope; Its tall la that of a horse; at a distance It resembles a buf falo. In the old days there were plenty of gnus In South Africa, but today the true or white-tailed gnu Is almost extinct. Prlneeton-Yale Game Strange as It seema, In the 1881 Princeton-Yale football game, the former team held the ball for all but 4!4 minutes of the first half, and the latter retained possession through the entire second perl:d. Such en occurrence could not hap pen today, but under the 1881 rules the ball was held by the team In possession until lost by a fumble. If the score ended a tie, two extra per iods of 16 minutes each were played. Thus. Princeton and Yale battled on an extra half-hour, and by night fall neither team had scored a point. S1WWS OlK f&R WAJ.K 106K5 BftK.5fES RrfirtR WMft fOU A WILE HAS SfOrTQ? Hftir A AJD frlEtf 60R BPCK BLOCK BEHIKP 16 fftlX fO W HIM LOOSE fo A NE16HB0R. . 6Ef5 HIM STAR-TED OliWARP A6A1N A r"EA MlNirfR LArCHR CALLS io HIM .WAifS Ufi- LOOKS BACK fo SEE WHV DEOPE WHERS CAHf DISCOVERS FAfUER HAS Til H6 5fARS, AMD TrlErJ HE MESUf CftltH UP AND BERWfP 10 WA1.VK fililNS SL6W1V DISCOVERS HE HAS STOPPED A WALK TROrtRLY, Wwfir6 FOR HIM fo TOrtfArJEISHBOR'SDCfc SRASPS HIS HAND AMD; GrTCH UP LEAK HIM AL0N6 FIRMLY SlbPPED-fO EXAMINE NEW CAR PARKED IfJ STREET (Copyright, 1938, by Tile Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Il-C) toi GUSVhS. I iiiRr 3 MATTEE POt Bv C tit PAYNP Blind Street Guide At the' age of seven years. Ja-mes Wilson, born In Richmond, Va., 1779, and early removed to Ireland, was gored by a cow and blinded for life. James soon learned to memor ize the city of Belfast by touch and sound and eirned a living as a street guide and by delivering important letters. Tomorrow: Was the "Lost Battal ion" really lost? Canaday Is Elected In Douglas Deluge ROSEBURG, Ore., Nov. 10. (p) J. Ross Hutchinson was the only Dem ocrat who survived the avalanche of Republican votes In Douglas county. Hutchinson defeated R. o. Thomas. Republican, by 73 votes in the office of county commissioner, according to Tuesday's election. Morrla Bowker waa elected county Judge over Huron Clough. Glenn N. Riddle waa reelected state representative together with H. A. Canaday. who was selected by ihe central committee aa nominee when Bernard A. Young resigned shortly before the general election. Cardinal Arrested By Austrian Nazis VATICAN CITY. Nov. 10. (AP) Theodore Cardinal Innltaer. arch bishop of Vienna, was described to day In the text of an unofficial broadcast from the Vatican radio station as being In "protective cus tody" of Vienna nazls. with his pal ace surrounded by gunrds. The anonymous broadcast, in Eng. ilsh, told of a secret Interview with the cardinal which a Vatlcnn news s,zency said was obtained by two American priests. The broadcast was made last night and the text was made public by the Vatican radio station today. Phone 543 We ll haul away youi refuse. City Sanitary Service. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. r-"Vs' V V VJlTVr- J I OLD TIME.T? sot - IfcOopyrlght, 193S, by Th Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TAILSPIN TOMMY A Olue! By HAL FORREP" ACCORDINC TO THE legemo, captaim barracuda's plan went astray when his two captives managed to escape their drunken guards and pled from SKELETON KEY , IN A SMALL BOAT J bha,c-- yrttt'lffi. :ii ' ' 1 WfvjS ;Mfet;S?Jj7' HURY, bernice! Ill Ufi rLi--i- n-'m Rather we die Wl3-4VTiiL.! IN THE OPE, SEA ,S??'l.''t HANDS OP THOSE NFURIATED. CAPTAIN BARRACUDA ACCUSED WIS "LIEUTENANT OF AIOINS THE ESCAPE OF THE PRISONERS . . A BATTLE ENSUED, IN WHICH ALL OF THE DRUNKEN PIRATES PARTICIPATED.. 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