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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1940. Que Relayed BY LOUISE PLATT HAUCK Chapter 11 Bob's House HELLO, Bobl I was rather tear ing along, I suppose. I'm so darned glad, ' she said childishly, "to get outdoors for a while. Isn't this simply poisonous weather? A good snowstorm, or really cold clear days that make your blood tingle ... but this! D'you think we re ever going to see the sun again?" "Tomorrow," he prophesied. "It's clearing, and there's some color in the west. Where are you bound for. Sue? Any place in particular? If not. may I come along?" He added aggrievedly: "You might say you're glad to see me after my being gone a whole weekl" "I am; ever so gladl" She real ized with a little start of surprise that this was true, witnoui Know atlon enthusiast who had crashed less than a month before his in tended marriage. The house was too rambling and a trifle too iso lated for the average purchaser, so Sue had taken it for granted it bad not been sold. "It's a heavenly site for It, Bob," she said as they entered the curv ing drive. "All these magnificent trees, and so high up ... I believe you'll be able to see the river on clear days!" "That's one of the reasons I bought it," he said simply. "I re member where I saw you first. I knew you'd want a glimpse of your beloved river. Wait till I unlock the door. There! Will you walk into your parlor, Sue? Or your hall, anyway?" He touched a button by the door and the square entrance with its fireplace and its beautiful stair case, bloomed with soft light. "It's furnished!" she gasped. "I didn't know Ted Wilmington had it all ready." "Pretty nearly. There were gaps here and mere wnicn i ve Deen mi- hr Lmh.r.h.S. had been nart ng in. Not that I know anything "ft'iLnn w J "the last ?ewlbut such things, but there's a 21. Htt .Vddenfv' SS- '"end of mine in Kansas City who rowly missing a collision with an old gentleman who carried an um brella. "Bob, I've missed you ter ribly! I thought it was just the rain, and being cooped up so long with Patsy, but I believe your be ing away had a lot to do with Itl" His downward glance was rue ful. "You don't add perceptibly to a man's good opinion of himself, do you, sweet? Have to have it pointed out to you that you've missed himl Well I suppose I'm making progress, but it seems blamed slow. Maybe by the time we're both gray-headed you'll de cide you love me, and then a dec ade later we can rush into mar riage." "You don't have to wait, you know, Bob! In fact, I've rather begged you not to. If you're so keen on getting married, there are plenty of girls " "Yeah plenty of girls. I've met 'em, I've even loved a few of 'em experimentally. But there's only one Sue Davenport, and it's my bad luck to want her and nobody else. Listen, sweetl Let's get my car and drive out to the house. I want to see how the work has gone while I've been East. I want to ask you where you want all the roses put I've ordered." "You've really bought that Elace then? I thought you were luffing." "Tolling the simple and un adorned truth is one of the neatest ways of fooling the public there is ever know that? I've talked so much about buying that house that nobody believes me. They think the caretaker's In old Wilming ton's employ. "As a matter of fact," he went on, striving to adapt his long strides to her shorter steps, "I bought it Just when I told you I did less than a' month after I came here. I thought then you and I'd be married by Christmas time. It's not my fault that we aren't, Sue!" "You won't lose on It," she said primly. "It's a good investment. Property is going up out there." "Investment be hanged! I'm moving out there, sweet! With or without you. This spring." "You are!" The dark eyes came swiftly up, their lashes beaded with moisture beneath the thin scarlet brim of her hat. "I am. I've always wanted a home." "But surely you had one? In New York?" "It wasn't what I called a home," he assured her. "It was a sort of cross between a museum, a baro nial castle and an office building. And at that, I didn't live in it very long at a time. School, and being sent to England to help them sell out the English branch, and estab lishing a few factories over here . . . it's kept me on the jump." "Funny that you'd want to live here. I thought you Easterners despised the Middle West." "Not this one! I love this coun try. A fellow can breathe with all this land about him. I don't care for the plains, but your hills are beautiful. And," he added sig nificantly, "even If it was the Sa hara, there are other attractions." Acute Distaste "IT'S getting dark, Bob. We'd bet- tpr turn hnrk " "You won't drive out to the house? It's worm, you know the lights are on. We can be back be fore dinner time." She was about to refuse when suddenly an acute distaste for the room she had left swept over her; the stale air, the faint disorderly look where nil had been dainty or der months before, Patsy's vague ly hostile gaze meeting her own. "If you'll surely have me back before Allen comes!" she stipu lated. Her heart lightened as he drove swiftly to the city limits: on even beyond thp clustered houses of the Country Club district. It was the first time she had really Inspected the Ted Wilmington house. It had been an extravagant gesture on the part of a rich man's son, an avi- does. She's been picking up odds and ends for me an winter. Line 11, Sue? Here's the living-room. Runs the length of the house, d'you see? These long windows open onto a formal garden that is, it's going to be formal when it's finished. And you can see the river from here, tool" Hardly giving her time to take In the lovely room with its rugs like faintly gleaming jewels, its white marble fireplace, its deep, comfortable couches and big arm chairs, he put a hand beneath her elbow and urged her along. "Across the hall, you see, is a reception room. That's so you won t have to take strangers, or bores into the intimacy of the other one. And here's the dining room. Big enough to have all our friends to dine, eh? You love flow ers so, Sue, that I got the archi tect to design this alcove allair. It can be shut off to be kept at the proper temperature or i. can stand open look!" It's Perfect!' HE FLUNG open the wide doors with a flourish and the girl gasped. The glassed-in nook was already sweet with blossoming plants and even as she looked, a tiny fountain rose under the pres sure of his finger on a concealed button. "Pretty keen, Sue? About what you'd have fixed yourself, if you'd been consulted?" "Bob, I never, never could have thought of such a lovely thing! It's perfect! It's a real winter garden, isn't it, with gravel paths and flow ers growing right out of the ground, and alll It's magic, Bobl" "The flowers are frauds in a way," he chuckled. "I mean growing so casually in the ground. They're still in their pots, you know. Maybe they'd do all right if they were out, but I was taking no chances on having them at their best when you first saw them. Want to inspect the culinary re gions?" Her heart was beating a little fast as she nodded. It touched her, his careful thought for what would or would not please her. Who but Bob would remember how she loved the river, how great a part in her life flowers had always played? ' Oh, why can't I Just let myself go and marry him?" she asked herself despairingly. "I'll be twenty-five next month, and I like him I come nearer loving him than any man I've known in my life. I can't go on much longer with Allen and Patsy. I want a home and this is such a beautiful one! I want children. Bob's everything that most girls dream of. Why can't I ijot all thril'ed and excited about him? Want him to kiss me hold me in his arms? Maybe I'm not capable of fooling like that to ward any man. Maybe I'm one of these fundamentally cold women you read about. If I could be sure of that if I didn't think there'd be danger of meeting the right man after I was married, I'd take a chance!" "What are you thinking, stand ing there in the middle of the kitchen, and not hearing one word I say?" he demanded. "Is any thing wrong, Sue? I mean would you like any changes made? Make em in a minute, you know. You've only to say the word! "It's perfect!" she repeated. "It's only I was only wishing I cared enough for you to to share it with you, Bob, dear!" His face fell like a grieved child's. "And don't you. Sue? Don't you, my darling? 1 thought it seems perfectly incomprehensible to me that I can love you so so utterly, and you not feel as I do. Perhaps you re not the passion ately loving kind, Sue. Perhaps you love me now as much as you can. You said you did say you'd missed me this weekl" He sound ed very young and touching as he spoke; very far removed from the arrogant man who had light heartedly proposed to her the first time they find danced together. She looked at him with troubled eyes. Conltnufd tomorrow On the RADIO CHAINS STATIONS Where to Find Them oi: the Dial: KEX, Portland, list; KFI, 640. Los Anseln; EGA, 1470, Spokane; KOO, 700, San Franclscos KOW 620, Portland; KJK, 970, Seattle; KNX, 1030, Los Angeles; BOA, 830. Denver; KOIN, 040, Portland; KOMO, 026, Brattle; KPO, 630, San Francisco; KSL, 1180, Salt Lake. Monday KPO, KPT, KQW; Sunset Shadows, U-0 HONOR ROLL University of Oregon, Eugene, Jan. 15. (Spl Gyncll Powell and Lcighton Piatt, both of Mcdford, were among 118 stu dents at the University of Ore gon to make the fall term honor roll with a grade point average of 3.5 or better. Grade averages are computed on the bi.sis of 4 points for an A, 3 for a B, and 2 for a C. Miss Powell Is a graduate of Volier high school, Montana, and is a Junior majoring In Ed ucation at the university. She R. A. KJR; , KSL; HOW, KOIN; KOW; KNX, KPO, :0O Party, Sketch, KJR, KEX; KOO. 8:30 Kelsey's Orch., KOO, Voice, KPO, KFI. KOW. 8:00 Civic Orch.. KOO, KEX; Radio Theater, KBL, KNX, KOIN; Quiz Program, KPO, KOW, KPL 6:30 News and Views, KOMO; Temploton Time, KPO, KOW. KFI. 7:00 Little OI' Hollywood, KOO, KJR, KEX; Lombardo's Orch KNX, KOIN; Hour, KPO, KFI. 7:30 Blondle, KNX, KSL, Kays's Orch., KPO, KFI. Forum. KQO, KJR, KEX. 8:00 Amos and Andy, KOIN, KSL; Fred Waring, KOW, KFI; Aloha Land, KOO. 8:151 Love a Mystery, KPO, KFI, KOW; Lum and Abner, KNX, KSL, KOIN: Doe's Music, KOO; Court ney's Orch., KEX. 8:30 La Baron's Orch., KFI, KOW, KPO; Breese's Orch., KEX; Bug Band, KOO; Model Minstrels, KNX, KSL, KOIN. 0:00 Tune-up Time, KNX, KOIN; True or False, KOO. KJR: Sherlock Holmes, KPO, KOW. 0:30 Hawthorne House, KOW, KFI; Howkin's Orch., Mitchell Ayres' Orch., KNX; KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO, KFI, KOW; Heldt's Orch.. KQO, KJR; News, KSL, KNX. KOIN. 10:30 Foster's Orcn., KQO, KJR, KFI, KEX; Music by Woodbury, KPO, KOW; Van's Orch., KOIN, KSL, KNX. , 11:00 Ravazza's Orch., KPO, KFI; Tills Moving World, KEX, KJR: Or ganist, KOIN, KSL; News, KOO, KNX, KQW. KSL, KEX, KFI. KPO, KQO; News. KEX, KJR; Heldt's Orch., KPO, KFI, KQW; Court of Missing Heirs, KNX, KOIN, KSL. 8:00 We, the People, KSL: Caval cade of America. KPO, KFI. KOW; Time and Tempo, KQO, KEX. 6:80 Fibber McOee. KPO, KFI, KOW; Concert In Rhythm, KOIN, KNX, KSL. 7:00 Shield's Revue, KOMO: Drama, KOO; Bob Hope, KPO, KOW. KFI; Miller's Orch., KOIN, KNX, KSL. 7:30 Mammoth Minstrels, KOO, KJR; Dog House, KPO, KFI, KOW; News, KSL. 8:00 Fred Waring. KPO. KFI. KOW: Amos and Andy. KNX, KOIN, KSL; Information Please, KQO, KEX, KJR. 8:15 Jlmmle Fldler, KSL. KNX, KOIN: I Love a Mystery, KPO, KFI, KOW. 8:30 Aldrlch Family. KOO, KEX, KJR; Johnny Presents, KPO, KFI, KOW; Big Town, KOIN. KNX. . 0:00 We, the People, KNX, KOIN; Beyond Reasonable Doubt, KOO, KJR; Garber's Orch., KPO, KFI, KQW. 0:30 Battle of the Sexes. KPO, KOW, KFI; Van's Orch., KOIN, KNX; News, KJR. 10:00 News Reporter, KPO, KFI. KQW; News, KNX, KSL; Heldt's Orch., KOO, KEX, KJR; News, KOIN" 10:30 Foster's Orch., KFI. KOW; Fltzpatrtck's Orch., KOO, KEX, KJR; Drama, KPO. 11:00 Ravazza'a Orch., KPO. KFI; This Moving World, KEX; Gray's Orch., KSL, KOIN; News, KOO, KNX, KQW. Beulah Stephenson, Dolly Age, Dick Smith, Bob Holmes, Dick Morrow, Bob Leonard, Henry Herman, and Bob Mitchell. Members of the claaa of '40 met. January 11. A motion was approved to have the chair appoint a com mittee to look Into securing an out standing speaker for the graduation exercises. President Harry Thurman appointed Paul McOuat chairman, with Betty Hardy and Betty Daugh erty to assist. Ballota were distributed for select ing one of three outstanding senior girls to go on a citizenship tour of Washington. D. C. Alpha Wnll- lock, Mary Shreva and Jackie Flynn were the three candidates chosen by the faculty. The winner will be sent on the tour by the D. A. R. John Eads, program chairman, pre sented Homer McDonald, teacher of piano and accordion, who In turn presented a very fine program of selections of these Instruments. Tuesday. 5:00 The Aldrlch Family, KPO, KFI, KOW: Sketch, KJR, KEX; Sun set Shadows, KGO. 5:30 Information Plooso, KOMO; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, KQO, High School News by STUDENT REPORTERS By Paul McOuat Sophomore class was called to order Thursday morning by Warren Holbrook, president, to discuss class finances. Vice president Don Shanahan pre sented a plan to help fill the treasury which was approved upon motion by Jean Smith. Mr. Holbrook said "If the mov ing picture plan fails to add sufficient funds to our treasury, we can then take up the sale of candy." Two comedy sketches were pre sented by members of the class. "Parted." starred Dot Hayes and Bin Wall, and "The Coontown Wedding," Included Harris Janes, Beverly Brooke, at the school house. L. E. Fran cis had his moving picture ma chine along and showed pictures of the first 4-H club members when Audrey Meyer and Claus Charley were state champion corn raisers in Jackson county. In 1914 there were Just a few members while now there are over 2000. Mr. Francis also had pictures of the 4-H summer camp which la held at Lake of the Woods. Pictures of the 4-H tour of Josephine and Jackson county, showing the largest ladlno clover field In Josephine county, which la also the largest In the' United States. There were 16 members present at this meeting and they signed up as follows; sheep, Harry Hard ing, Jr., Arnold and Marie Ragsdale. Kenneth Vaughn and Kenneth Ben dura: sewing Mary Ann Brill: cooking, Jean Lavtn; pig, Robert Crowl: steer, WendaU Vaughn; wood work, Eugene and Sterling Dltsworth and Howard Wlmer;' chickens, Ken neth Bendure; goat, Harry Harding Jl , and Howard Wlmer. Adults pres env were Mrs. Linda Marvin, Mrs. Clara Dltsworth, Mrs. Scott Brill, Mrs. Carte Harding, Mrs. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Wllmer Ragsdale and O. D. Bendure. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sawyer are the proud parents of a baby girl born January 8 In Community hospital. The little miss has been named Pat rtcla Dagney. Dinner fwMt at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman McFarland Fri day were Mrs. Essie Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Alworth and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Casey. The evening was spent In playing cards. Dinner r.uests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Alworth January 10 were Mr. and Mm. Dean Taw. Mr. and Mrs. McFarland were callers too, so all played pinochle. Cubs of troop 10 will hold theur achievement teat Friday evening. January 19 at Opper Rogue Grange hall. DIFFICULT DECISIONS By GLCYAS WILLIAMS Junior claa met January It, In 1 the boys' gym. President Ray John son presided. Secretary Joan Aya urged more girls to help the class seU candy. She also gave a report on the class' financial standing. One of the more popular boys and also property manager, Joe Ben nett, waa elected to the office of vice-president, succeeding Don Moyer, who moved recently to Orants Put. The program was turned over to Mr. Ed Klrtley, who explained about the boys working for better muscle co-ordination and control. Pour wrestling matches were presented by boys ranging from heavyweights to featherweight. The class unani mously voted to have more of this sort of entertainment for future meetings. Meeting for the second time this semester, the newly -electeii president of the Ski club, Ned Lyman, intro duced an active program of winter sports for members. The club approved the suggestion that they have v a meeting in the snow at Crater lake January 18. New members will be voted in at this gathering. The club also decided to present a motion picture assembly in the future to raise money for Its ture In the annual. plc- McLeod I? J y McLeod, Jan. 15. (Spl) Hill Billy 4-H club held their first meeting of the year January 11 W0NDER1M6 WWl"f0P0 vVHCW VOUR HUSBAND'5 BOSS, AT-fcR BORROWING itfE PEtfC)L OF VOUR CHERISHED DESK SE1, absent-mindedly slips rr iwb his pocke-T Hteliae1 tiy The Ib-tl Synillnttt,. 1m.) TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Selects HIi Menl By HAL FORRES'" MIKE , YOUR. TONGUE HAS PROMOTED A JOB.' YOU, TOO nANUtl....BUT i-r'c A DANGEROUS JOB! WC MAY ALL BE WIPED OUT ON THE FIRST FLIGHT .' Is the daughter of Mrs Butts. Plntt is a graduate of Med ford hljth school and is a fresh man mnjorinK in pre law at the university. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Plntt. Holman Hard to Catch Washington, Jan. IS. (,11 It's nil right with secretary Bob Parkinson If a visitor wants to see Senator Holman (K-Ore.) When a caller asked to sec the busy llolmnn lust week Parkin son replied, "Go nhead, if you can catch him. I can't." Amsterdam, Jan. IS. (,F) Two soldiers were killed and four injured today in an explo sion during army exercises in Croningen province, the govern ment press servirr announced. No other details were given. I GENTLEMEN, I PRESENT CAPTAIN WAIT A MINUTE TAKE MEVAN" ME, IP Y0U YOU'RE I P-TIS MICHAEl V",u.r.r,r u" iwriKliMa, 1Mb -V I I OOINT WANT i IHOrwv... I PLEASE: T5UR.E I NOT AN O MALLY I AM! II MntKicftN ACfc, WHO HAS JOINEDX VAN AKnV,',, I I REM EMBER ITS CRAVIN it ELVANlANJ I SOLDIER OP OUR. AIR FORCE: HE REQUESTS 1 ( I ONLY WANT 1 1 L f FER ACTION FORTUNE. l i wu yuLunittKi iu v.v.unwiNT ft i v-i v. i "w nem: i i f r i rnj i yrr' I I ftN i is mt uim rM A rA wr.coni ic MimM L Hi ' r I fr. - . ' I 1 nonDDiu' rmrinUu ' II 1 I raDcArr oidtiikieI N -J-Z X 7t . )) 1 ABOUT THIS 7VtaSl I TO MEET A TZZ J: ram WMANS WAR.'r N BRAVE LAD GV5lv?T . . y.ls t . 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