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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942. MlfAU ULiyU UUJfB.ROBERIAll YESTERDAY: at c luee Harlow is vtry young, and vary lovely, ana has Ivoed all Hit Hit in cable on the bank, of tha Mil utippt; mow H tends on of th fuvioaltoH lights, sua her only companion Is her erandmother. But in e bad norm she finds on exhausted young man named ftand Hendricks, and now the grandmother Is worried by the Ihouoht that unsophisticated Mo llssa may lots her head over Rand. ' Chapter Four No Crcal Shake TJ ANDY said quietly, "You'rt right, of course. Mrs. Mar lowe. Soma italwart river man will coma alonf torn day and marry her" "There"! a mess of 'em would be glad to now," aaid Gran com placently. "What with her being my heir to the cabin and the land and the livestock and with her Iob with the government ihe can ;ind of pick and choose. "And being auch a raving little beauty, too,'r laid Randy in all Sincerity. . . . .That nleht after aupper Gran asked Melissa to play and aing for Randy. Curious to know what measure of talent she might DOS' teas. Randy added his coaxing to the old lady's, and Melissa, blush. Ing and excited, took down the guitar, strummed It a moment to tune it and tilted back her head, on which the lamplight turned the ruddy-brown curia to a mol ten copper. "I don't know anything except the old songs the ones my mother used to sing." said Melissa apologetically, and lifted her smooth, faintly husky young voice in "The Lonesome ttoaa. The haunting, tragic little old song took 01 a new meaning for Randy as she sang it. Her voice was warm, sweet, faintly husky, with a little note in it that tugged at the heartstrings. But it wasn't an exceptional voice. It would definitely never set the river afire, he told himself, and wondered that he should be sorry about that Her dancing was on a par with her voice graceful as all young things are graceful; but the steps dated, outmoded, unexciting, and It hurt him a little that she looked at him with such eager expec tancy in her brown eyes, auch a pleading, inarticulate nope. He was torn between two de sires. One to tell her what she so pathetically wanted him to say: that she was a beautiful dancer, that her voice waa sensational, that she would have no difficulty In getting a job. The other, the desire to do what he knew Mrs. Marlowe wanted him to do tell her the simple truth: that her small grace and talent was by no means excep tional and that she would not stand a chance. "Was It as bad as all that?" she asked at last, and he aaw the round young chin quiver, the tears that stood in the soft brown eyes. "It wasn't bad at all. Melissa St was swell," he told her swiftly, eagerly, and then saw the look in Gran's eyes and caught himself up. "It wasn't bad, Melissa, but there are hundreds of girls all over the country looking for Jobs who are youriL and pretty and who sing welt, almost as well as you do. So It vould be much bet ter for you to stay here with your grandmother." Melissa lifted her round young chin and said coolly, "I meant to, of course. It's just that well, I was curious to know if anybody else thought I had any talent Mother used to think I was fairly good." She got up and went swiftly out of the room. The Wrong Answer GRAN said ungraciously, "Well, you didn't have to break her heart did you. Just to tell her how terrible she was? Personally, 1 thought she was real good!" And Gran followed Melissa and banged the door behind her. Randy swore, ran his Angers through his hair and then grinned. He should have known better, he told himself grimly, than to have expected Gran to be grateful for his honesty. Gran hadn't wanted Melissa to believe she was good enough to get a job in show-business; but slie furi ously resented the thought that he had not admired Melissa ex travagantly. In the morning when he said goodbye they were both a bit subdued. A passing fisherman had agreed to drop him at the nearest landing, where a riverboat on lis trip north to New Orleans would pick him up later that afternoon. Goodbyes, under the circum stances, had to be hurried. "1 don't know how to thank you both for what you've done for me," he said sincerely, know ing instinctively that he dare not offpr them money for their hos pitality. "It's been a lot of fun and great knowing you both I hope we'll all meet again." For a moment an eager flare of hope blazed in the girl's eyes and she drew a deep, unsteady breath. Gran, seeing it said crossly, "Ain't much liklihood o' that unless you get lost again. I'd say " At the top of the steep, rickety stairs that led down the fare of the cliff to the river where the cockleshell of a boat lay waiting. Randy paused a moment looked down at Melissa and said impul sively, Tve got the darnedest hunch that you and I are going to meet again. Melissa somewhere, somehow, some whyl" Melissa was radiant her eyes blazing. "Do you honestly? May bemaybe some day I'll be in New Orleans and we'll bump into each other" "If ever you come to New Or leans, Melissa, promise you'U look me up," said Randy rashly, and scribbled an address on a card which be put in her fingers. "That's my address, and I'll al ways be glad to see you." She stood for a long tense mo ment there at the top of the cliff, watching until he had stepped into the boat and the boatman had shoved away from the bank toward the middle of the stream. The card one which he had writ ten a New Orleans address was held tightly in her two hands that were clasped hard together. New Life To Come F)R a few weeks Melissa -bought of Rand constantly. She could never quite give up the thought that he would come back; that she would hear from him; that he would write to her or send her a message. But as the weeks passed and he did none of these things the image of him laaea a little. Gran watched her closely, wor ried and uneasy because the ?ayety and laughter was gone rom her. Now and then Gran of fered a word of comfort offered it tentatively, uneasily. "You'll forget all about him, honey, soon's some other fellow comes along," she said one lazy summer afternoon when they sat on the porch above the twisting yellow stream that looked so peaceful and friendly, like a great yellow beast asieep in the sun. "Some other fellow? Maybe Ben Holcomj. the frog-sticker? Or French Pete? Or Joe the Her mit?" suggested Melissa grimly. Gran made a little impatient gesture with a gnarled old hand. "You know I didn't mean none of them." she snapped. "After all, there's some fine boys on the lightship" "All of then, married except Billy, who's engaged," Melissa pointed out drily. "Well. Randy Hendricks alnt the only man that hunts in these parts. There's liable to be another one soon as fall hunting season opens maybe a fisherman from town" Gran paused worriedly. Melissa saia witn a lightness that she and Gran both knew was strictly on the surface, "Thanks, Gran but never mind. I'll stay on here at the Point: and maybe the government'll put up another light or two for me to tend and I'll be rich and powerful and the Queen of the River, with suitors coming from far and near." uran said crossly. 'There kx no call for you to go talking like a fool, just because a good-looking fellow stopped off here a day or two and filled your head with loonsnness." "No, there really Isn't, Is there?" said Melissa, and stood up, draw ing a deep breath. "Well, I think I'll go out and snag a few cats for supper nothing Tike good old ' river catfish for that tired feel ing." uran sat very still, watching her as she went along the path and to the steep, rickety stairs that hung against the face of the cliff, below which her flat-bot tomed, clumsy old skiff was tied up. "Drat the man!" said Grin grimly. "Seems like he ought to have had manners enough to send her a little present or write her a letter saying he was thankful she saved his worthless life. Still and all, I reckon maybe he's right" But summer faded and the mild, rain-swept mist-driven win ter closed In. And in the following spring, when Melissa was iust Dast her seventeenth birthday Gran died quietly, peacefully. In her sleep. Melissa awakened in the night and there was stillness a still ness that was strange and eery and somehow terrifying, before she came to herself sufficiently to realize the reason for that still ness. There was no sound from Gran's bed: the slow, light breath was still. In a swift wild moment of childish panic Melissa bent over the old woman and laid a hand upon the frail thin bodv. The flesh was cool, the heart still. and mere was no Breath. For a long, long moment Me lissa huddled there beside the bed And then she stood up. drew the sheet over the wrinkled old face and whispered very low. her voice shaken, "Goodbye, Gran da ling. If I'd only remembered to tell you enough how much I loved you!" Melissa s return to the cabin after the funeral was the hardest task she had ever had to per form. Just to come back alone. to go out to the light and to re turn to the dark cabin, missing Gran with every breath she drew, completely broke the composure that had held her so that she cried herself to sleep. In the morning she was lust finishing her lonely, tasteless breakfast when she had a caller. Jim Roberts said heavily. "I been wanting to talk to you. Ussy, but I didn t know how your Gran would (eel about leaving the place here. Now 1 reckon you won't mind me making you an offer for the place." Melissa's nrart leaped and thudded hard In her breast and shj said shakily. "You want to e place? buy the Tt be ronltaard SHOP AT NIGHT Barker's are open until o'clock EVERY night Store lor Man 1 Legion Convention Set July 23 To 25 Portland. March 12. lA The American Legion will hold Its annunl state convention at Eugene July 23 25, Joseph K. Carson, Oregon department com mander, announced today. GEN. JONES PROMOTED Washington, March 12 4i - -president Roosevelt today nominated Brig. Gen. Albert M. Jones of Cnrvallis, Ore , for pro nioUon as major general. 00 the Radio Chains STATION!! Cbata affiliation and wbn bey ere oa the dial: KALE MHS( isse, Portland. BEX (MMNBlur) use, Portland. KUA (NBC-Hlua Sj atrial ISI0 Spokane; KllO MM.-Wu SIS. ban rranelaro; Kuw iNHt'.Kadl (20. Portland: kJK (MMMilurl 1 WW. nrattlai KNX H line Lot Ansrlra; ROA (MH'.Rrd) SAO Denver: KOIN cbsi till, Part land: HOMO (SHC-Hrd) (M Seal lie: KPO (MIC-Urn) H0 San rranrtaro; KSL, (CBS) I ICO Bait take city. Time Shown la PT - Thursday 8:00 p. m Adventure Stories, KOO, IUR: Stara of Today, KOW; Don Wlnalow of the Nary. KPO: Death Valley Days, KSL; Advrnturaa In Toyland. KEX; Eyes ri tho World, KOIN; Danoe Orch, KOMO. SO p. m News of tho World. KEX, KOO. KJR; Duffy's Tavern. KSL; Etchings In Brass, KPO; BUI Henry, KOIN; Student Theater. KOW; Streamlined Fairy Tale, KOMO. 8:00 p. m Major Bowes Orglnal Amateur Hour, KNX, KSL, KOIN; Blng Croaby, KPO, KOW, KOMO; Secret City, KOO, KEX; Old Timers, KJR. 8:30 p. m Big. Town. KNX, KSL. KOIN: Blue Horizon, KOO, KEX; Armchair Cruises, KJR, 1:00 p. m Al Paarce'e Oasg. KPO. Friday KOMO. KOW: Rudy V alien Program. SOO p. m Adventure Stories. KOO. KOO, KJR, KEX: Olcna Miller s , KJR; Stars of Today, KOW; Don Orch., KNX. KOW, KSL. Wlnalow of too Nary, KPO; Kate ' 0 p. m. Red Ryder. KOO. KJR. Smith Hour, KSL: Sd Stoker's Musts. KEX; Frank Fay, KPO, KOW. KOMO. . KOMO. 8:00 p. m Amos Andy, KNX. j 840 p. m-BIll Sabranaky, KOMO; KSL, KOirr: Fred Warms. KPO. Cocktail Hour. KOW; Leon F. Drewa. KOMO. KOW; Rlcardo's Rhapsodies, ' KOIN; News of the world. KEX. KJR. KOO. KEX. j KOO. KJR. 8:18 p. m. Lura and Abner, KPO, I 8:00 p. m Walts Tlma, KPO. KOW, KOMO; Lanny Rosa, KNX KOMO. KOW; SacreV City, KOO, KOIN. KSL. KEX: What's On Tour Mind. KNX. 8 SO o. m. Death Valley Days. 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KOW; Northwest Bible In sutute, KJR: War Time Women. KOIN. 11:00 p m. Danoa Orch. KPO. KOW; This Moving World. KEX. KJR: Oene Grounds. KOIN; News. KNX; Reveries. KOMO. HORSE KICKS LAD Pendleton, March 12. Jan, 2 H-y ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Emery of Kimberly, Ore., was in critical condition today with a skull fracture, the result of the kick of a horse early this week. The child's unconscious form was discovered in tha barn. UNFREEZE FOOD Washington, March 13 The war production board to day "unfroze" stocks of canned beer and coffee which It had ordered held subject to the dis position of WPB. Cloning time for Classified Ads S i. m Too lata to Classify 13:30 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN MX BY 8:14 NO OME HAD YET OFFERED ANY CONSTRUCTIVE SU6&E51.0M t) FRED PERLEY, WHO HAD COME OFF WITH THE KEV OF IHE CAR ON A DAY WHEW HI5 WIFE SIMPLY HAD fo USE "THE CAR. & ID HOW HE WA6 60IN6 It) 6Cf "THE KEV PACK -fn HFF? 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A runway of wood, 83 feet long and 24 feet wide, was constructed en the deck of the Birmingham, and Pilot Eugene Ely took off from it in a 50-mile-an-hour biplane. George L. Von Meyer, navy secretary, said: "This experiment and the advances which have been made in aviation seem to demonstrate that it is destined to perform some part in the naval warfare in tha future." A couple of months later Ely landed a plane on a similar platform built aboard the Pennsylvania. A hook on his plane engaged ropes attach ed to loaded sacks, and brought him to a quick halt. Edited by Drew Pearson and Bob Allen ITWITH LUCK I'LL BE IN WASHINGTON! I W A " WHAT'S THAT I I VA SIGNAL IT IS V S I I ' -r rrT , ,r V - 1 . BVPAVLI6HTJ ANPONCETPnivrR 1 I "r J- J THE" SIGNAL! IT lF f rYWWTOMO I MV MEWS ABOUT SECRETARY V AND OFF? LOOKS S V MOM (TIME-- S '-WSTERH IC A,T LIX ABH Smiles! 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