6 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ. Oregon, WedneiJay, August 6, 1958
Texas Man's Ranch
For Boys Pays Off;
Nearly 1400 Benefit
Editor'! note: For almost 20
years, a Texan with an idea and a
love of ebildren has been helping
straighten out "bad boys." To date,
some 1,400 of them have been
helped out and only 37 have
stayed wrong" after the experi
ence. This Is the first of two dis
patches telling the story of Cal
Farley and his Boys Ranch.
By PRESTON McGRAW
United Press International
Amarillo, Tex. CPU A
kid with a scared voice tele
phoned Cal- Farley late last
Christmas Eve from the Am
arillo bus station.
He asked whether Farley
could take him in at his Boys
Ranch. Farley went down to
see what the boy looked like.
He found a 12-year-old in
worn tennis shoes, faded and
dirty jeans, a ragged shirt
and a leather jacket, long
since outgrown. He was cold
and hungry.
The boy told Farley he did
n't know where his father
wasi He had been living in a
nearby state with his mother,
but she had abandoned him.
Sheriff Got Him
So, in desparation, he hitch
hiked to a town 200 miles
from Amarillo where he knew
some friends. But they were
gone when he arrived and the
sheriff picked him up.
The sheriff fed him and
put him on a bus to Amarillo.
"You go see Cal Farley," he
said. "He'll help you."
Farley took him to Boys
Ranch, 40 miles from Ama
rillo. The ranch staff worked
fast and next morning there
were a few presents for him
under theig Christmas tree.
When he got the gifts, he
started crying.
"He has been with us now
several months and he has
gained weight," Farley report
ed recently. "He smiles a lot
and is perhaps one of the hap
piest and most appreciative
boys we have at the ranch."
Only 37 Failures
He also is one of the easier
"problems" among the 238
boys now living there. Farley
has taken in all kinds: thieves,
boys whose only aim in life
seemed to be to destroy, kill
ers. Since Farley started his
ranch in 1939, nearly 1,400
boys have lived on it. He has
failed to make upstanding
citizens out of only 37.
"If my staff and I knew
what we know now and had
the facilities we have now, we
wouldn't have lost that
many," Farley said.
During World War I, Far
ley was middleweight wrestl
ing champion of the AEF. He
also was a professional base
ball player and in 1922 went
to St. Paul of the American
Association for a tryout.
He missed and moved from
his native Minnesota to Am
arillo to play with a ball team
there. He has been in Amarillo
ever since.
Farley didn't stay in base
ball long. He organized a tire
business and when he sold
out in 1947 it was grossing
over $700,000 a year.
Long before that, delin
quent boys and their prob
lems had become a besetting
interest with him. His first
organized attempt to help
them was through a group
called the Maverick club.
But it didn't help the kids
who needed it most. In 1939,
he met Julian Bivins, a
wealthy rancher, and told him
what he really needed.
Bivins offered him the old
townsite of Tascosa, an unin
habited but formerly tough
and bustling Western town,
complete with boothill and 27
graves;
The Boys Ranch layout has
now grown to 30 buildings
and 10,000 acres, in addition
to an irrigated farm where
Boys Ranchers raise their
own beef and pork, feed for
livestock and other crops.
Farley doesn't stand for any
foolishness, nor does he lec
ture his boys. No matter how
bad a boy is, Farley and his
staff show him that they like
him and that he is among
friends.
(Next: Good boys out of
bad boys.)
Portland (LTD Portland
Attorney Lester W. Hum
phreys has withdrawn as a
candidate for the Oregon
Supreme Court.
MOONSHINE RAID County sheriffs deputies wearing cowboy hats muscle Russian
refugee Nikolai Federow away from his home in Goshen, Indiana, after he and his wife
had stood police off for two hours with a shotgun. Officers were reluctant to fire at
the house because of the Federows' six ch ildren, some of whom can be seen in this
picture, and finally flushed Federow and h is wife with tear gas. Action started when
police arrived to serve warrants on Federo w for illegal sale of whiskey and for operat
ing a still. Five officers were required to g et the handcuffs on Mrs. Federow.
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palm grove seemed an un
usual place to see a life-and-
death struggle between a
wasp and a cockroach, but
that is what we saw.
The mahogany-colored cock
roach ran down the palm tree
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ground.
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earth, but the wasp spotted
its hiding place and went for
it. The cockroach fled. The
winged insect was on it in a
matter of seconds.
But the wasp didn't kill.
Instead, she flung her prey
on its back, then carefully
stabbed it in the breast with
her sting. For seconds the
wasp stood motionless inject
ing its poison. When its vic
tim's struggles were over, the
wasp withdrew its sting and
walked purposefully back to
the palm.
What she wanted was a
tomb for her victim, a place
to bury her alive. When the
wasp returned some minutes
later, the cockroach had re
covered somewhat, enough so
that when the wasp pulled it
along to the palm and up the
trunk to the pencil - like hole
it had found, the cockroach
was able to stagger along on
its feet.
It took sometime before the
wasp could manipulate the
cockroach into the hole. When
it had finally done so, it en
tered, too. Then, after a few
minutes more, it emerged,
blocked up the entrance with
a mass of cobweb, leaf and
other material, and disappear
ed. .
Egg Deposited
What it had done while it
was in the narrow hole with
its victim was to deposit an
egg on a part of the cock
roach's body. It walled up the
entrance so the cockroach,
when the effects of the sting
had worn off completely,
wouldn't be able to escape.
Why it used a narrow prison
was that the cockroach would
be unable to remove the egg.
That procedure was vital
to the wasp as a means of
perpetuating its kind. In suc
ceeding days the egg would
grow. In 48 hours or so it
would begin to enter the cock
roach's body. Finally, as a
maggot, it would enter its
host, consuming its vitals
while it grew strong and the
cockroach gradually expired.
Eventually, the maturing
wasp would grow strong
enough so that it could move
forward out of the dead body
in which it was encased, eat
its way through the plug at
the entrance and take off into
the hot sun of Baghdad on a
search for another cockroach.
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4-H Club News
Hayburners 4-H Horse Club
The Hayburners 4-H Horse
club held a meeting July 29
at the home of Linda Smith.
The members practiced horse
manship and trail horse class
es before the meeting, and
were given instructions on the
points to look for when judg
ing horses. It was decided by
the members to participate in
the rodeo parade to be held
in middle August. The next
meeting will be held Aug. 12,
at which time final plans for
the fair, Aug. 17, will be
made.
Marsha Watson,
Reporter.
Nationalist China
Forces on Alert
Taipeh, Formosa (UPD
The government reported that
Communist Mig-jet fighters
deployed only 22 minutes fly
ing time from President
Chiang Kai-Shek's capital to
day. All Chinese Nationalist
military forces were ordered
on "the highest degree of
alert."
The chief of the Nationalist
staff made an emergency
broadcast to Formosa and the
Nationalist-held offshore is
lands urging all precautions
against possible air attacks by
the Chinese Communist jets.
Defense Ministry spokes
man Adm. Liu Hoh-Tu said
"All our armed forces have
been ordered into the highest
degree of alert."
The Defense Ministry an
nounced Tuesday night that
supersonic Mig-17s had moved
into the closest possible at
tacking position to Formosa
since the Nationalists were
driven off the China main
land in 1949.
The ministry said that Migs
were now operating from
Lung Chi Air base, 30 miles
west of Amoy port on the
China mainland. The base is
three minutes flying time
from Nationalist-held Quemoy
Island, 22 minutes from Tai
peh and 19 minutes from the
industrial city of Kaohsiung
in Southern Formosa.
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Alexandria, La. (UPD Or
ville Chellette, convicted of
disturbing the peace at a cafe,
had his sentence doubled from
30 to 60 days when he turned
to the witnesses who had testi
fied against him and shouted:
"That's all right, -the rest
of you' liars can go home
now."
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Suffocation of
Palmer Infant
Told in Report
Montesano, Wash. (UPD
A pathologist said Tuesday a
preliminary autopsy report
showed six - and - one - half
month old Joyce Palmer,
whose body was found buried
beneath a porch of her par
ents home at nearby Porter,
died of suffocation.
Dr. Kenneth P a r 1 1 o w,
Olympia, said a complete re
port would not be made pub
lic until Friday, but the indi
cations were that the child
could have choked on regur
gitated material while she
slept on a couch in the Pal
mer home.
Mrs. Darlene Palmer has
told Sheriff Richard Simmons
she found the baby uncon
scious and when she was un
able to revive her, became
panicky and buried the in
fant. Extensive Search
The 21 - year - old mother
then told neighbors she had
been beaten by an unknown
assailant and her child taken
last Wednesday. Extensive
search evolved, ending the
discovery of the body Sunday
afternoon.
No formal charge will be
filed against Mrs. Palmer
until a complete autopsy re
port is submitted,' James So
lan, Grays Harbor County
Prosecutor said. -
Mrs. Palmer's husband, Ed
ward, 19, has been released
after being held as a material
witness in the case.
A recent tally showed 326
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Marathon Rower's
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Aberdeen, Wash. (UPD Im
migration officials Tuesaay
snatched marathon rower Ray
Farland from his 12-foot boat
at Westport, Wash., abruptly
ending his Seattle to Portland
rowing trip.
A Coast Guard officer said
Farland's identity and nation
ality were under question. Jm
migration agents were mum
on the matter.
Ownership of the boat, in
which he was making the trip
was also in doubt, the officer
said.
He said Farland reportedly
signed on a Grace Lines ship
in South America and had
jumped ship in Seattle about
20 days ago.
Farland was taken ,to Aber
deen by immigration officials.
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