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8 A THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1963 Mb'OKORU MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON Oik Sntll Worldi Arosnd Ut lynn W. Watklnt Utlrter A Tflu lualtatft Lots of Work Goei Into Making Jack-O-Lantern At first it was just a tiny knob at the base of a simple yellow flower, growing on a vine that snaked in and out of young, ten der shoots of growing corn. The blossom fell away; the corn grew higher; and the vine reached farther and farther, its exploring end almost racing away from the parent root. The little knob grew; the pumpkin became as large as a tennis ball, and kept on grow ing, all during its younger days it was watched over Dy a scare crow, an eerie being of no sub stance in tattered rags and un raveled straw hat, whose flesh less arms waved and flapped in the warm, summer breeze. Under the warmth of the sum mer sun, and during the soft, mellow nights, the lonely corn field received the thudding rain and bowed to occasional winds, these agencies were conspiring together to bring about the growth and eventual fruiting of the pumpkin and the corn. When the nights were warm and muggy, the growing pump kin heard the rustle of the corn stalks, for 'tis said the noise of growth in a cornfield is plainly audible, so rapid is the expan sion of the tissues of healthy cornstalks. In the night, too, small animals scurried back and forth through the cornfield, stopping occasionally to look at the expanding green globes on the pumpkin vine, in tne aay. time, birds sang, rains came and the season marched on. What before had been a mur mur of leaves when the wind rustled the corn now became a roar as the corn plants tower ed several feet above the eartn. Along the ground, In the tower ing forest of corn the pumpkin grew. Ridges etched the plump pumpkin - body. The green slow ly faded. A yellow blush spread over the fat sides, tinted with golden streaks. Days and weeks passed; balmy nights gradually turned cooler. The sword like leaves of the corn turned brown; the heavy ears, bowed from their own weight, pointed earthward. Then one night a stranger visit ed the cornfield; a heavy frost came. The morning sun glisten ed on frost crystals. The vine on which the pumpkin grew withered and browned. The har vest moon shone in the night sky. Then came the men with wagons, tractors, harvest ma chinery and determination. The fat pumpkin, along with all its fellows was loaded and carted away. Row after row of corn plants fell to the 1 1 a s h i n g blades; the corn forest was laid low. Off To a Home Far from its home field, where it had matured, the pumpkin folk jounced and moved in the truck body on its ride to market. Finally is, along with others of Its kind, was re moved and displayed in front of a roadside vegetable market, where It was seen by eaijer children who patted Its fat side and imagined what it would look like with holes cut In its rounded body. It was a happy child, the one who finally owned it. Incisions were made in the bulging side. Eyes, a triangular nose, and an inverted new-moon mouth were cut into one side. A round open ing was cut in the top, with the stub end as a handle. The tissue and the seeds were scooped out. It was now a hol low, yellow globe a jack-o-lantem. Inside, the light of a smoking candle danced and flickered, throwing a faint yellowish light out through the fat sides. Much brighter was the light that eerily emerged from the eye, nose and mouth openings. Through the umsterious Im pulse of growth, over months in a lonely cornfield . . . after be ing watched over by a scare crow, drenched by rains and warmed by the summer sun. with its only companions the wild things of the woods and fields and the growing corn . . . the great, yellow pumpkin had at last kept its rendctvous with destiny. It became a jack-o-lan-tern for Halloween. Fire Prevention Advice Presented BOISE (UPI) -RerwntwsK,.. Hons to prevent fuin-s tires like the myvo, h-x-De biaie that :.-.,.. ttvei at Paradise be presented to the sUie Heath Board today. Slate Health Administrator T. 0. Carver said the recommen dalions were made by the Hos pital Advisory Council which met last week at Burley. Seven elderly patients died when flames consumed the Par adise Pines rest home at the Community of Pinehurst in the Little Salmon River Canyon south of Rigglns Sept. 17. 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"Even the phnstu ni- Wilnhrre who are traditionally supposed tO frolic in OravpvnrrU at mid night had better be careful, be cause mere arc slate laws against disturhinp the r!e:iH Inn. pling gravestones, or otherwise being a nuisance in cemeteries," Thornton said. Besides grave markers, there are a preat mnnv r.nnrifir- nK. jects protected by state law irom damage or clelacmg, in cluding buildings, crops, fences, guius, n c a g e s, macmncry, monuments, motor vehicles, shrubbery and signposts, the at torney general reminded. Oregon Said to Have Tremendous Business Future PORTLAND (UPI) - Oregon has a "tremendous business po tential," the operating head ot Dean Witter 4 Co. said Wednes day as the firm opened new electronically equipped offices in the Standard Plaza building. John Witter, managing part ner in charge of operations, said the company was impressed by Oregon's progress in moving from a one-product lumher economy to "a well diversified one which includes an ever ex panding number of highly re puted manufacturing enter prises." Future Prospects He said Oregon has no lop sided dependence on defense business "at a time when some skepticism has been voiced here and there about the future prospects for many defense in dustries." Witter praised the state's "healthy political climate," relatively low per capita public debt, a crime rate far below the national average, and above- average educational levels. He said the Oregon population should grow from 30 to 37 per cent in the 10's. William B. Boone, resident partner, told a breakfast audi ence that shareowncrs in Ore gon had grown in 10 years from 50,000 to 150,000. and were ex pected to reach 225,000 by 1970. The Netherlands bus an area of 15,764 square miles. ad (5) 0 ,
