FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1937.
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OUR SHARE
Climbers
Miraculously
Escape Death
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What They’re
Reading
By Grace Babson
show whom he was called in to at­
tend for an injured wrist.
The sudden death of Mrs. Newcoma
—the imprisonment of the doctor an<l
his young protegee, who are accused
of the crime, make a good detective
story. When the “ little doctor’ ’ and
the little dancer are granted a last
meeting, “ she had the little crushed
smile that he had seen first of all
when he had bandaged her wrist—
she began to cry, and all at once
it seemed to him the whole world was
erving, crying for lost impossible
love. We are not alone.” Don’ t fail
to read this charming story.
And they lived to tell the story.
Just three years ago this week
The opening sentence refers to
there
appeared on the list of best
the
four
young
folk
of
Portland
who
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“ Good-bye Mr.
Sunday morning experienced the selling f i c t i o n
t#,
longest slide ever taken down the Chipps” by James Hilton. As many
of you know it is the story of an
slopes of Mt. Hood.
The slide occurred when one wo­ English school master in a boys’
man in the party of four, which was boarding school, or public school as
roped together, slipped when less they are called in Britain.
The school master was not brilliant
than a thousand feet from the sum­
mit, descending the “ chimney” on nor handsome nor inspiring. But
the north slope. The party was on this short novel of his devotion to
the outside edge of the “ chimney” in the school and its pupils for over
about a foot of wet newly-fallen half a century kept on the best seller
snow. The falling of this one mem­ list for a long time. Alexander
ber apparently started this mass of Woolcott spoke of it as “ a tender
new snow sliding on the crusted old and gentle story as warming to the
snow and ice underneath. Out of heart and as nourishing to the spirit
the “ chimney” onto the big snow as any I can remember..”
Then America discovered that the
field above Eliot glacier they slid,
I ! both men trying desperately to stop years before Mr. Hilton had written
their progress with their ice axes and received the Hawthornden prize
Jr regulars of $1 to U. 35 gualities
for “ Lost Horizon,” the fantastic
but to no avail.
Mi
From Ghost ridge, below Cloud Cap story of a charming and gifted young
could be seen with the naked eye Britisher named Conway, an Oxford-
Sunday the path of the party and its don, a student of oriental languages
ever-increasing load of wet snow. and when the story begins, a consul
Wm. Only because N oM end standards are so
Near the base of the snow field in the Far East. Conway is the cen­
Ä
irv- rigidly high are these classed as "itregu­
may be seen a patch of rock that tral figure in a group of four who
the party apparently was carried are kidnapped in an airplane and
lars" at all. W e doubt if you'll be able to
right over. At the base of the snow taken to a Tibetan Lamasery. “ Lost
detect the irregularities in any pair, and
field is a near sheer drop of around Horizon” j o i n e d “ Good-bye Mr.
200 to 300 feet onto Eliot glacier. Chipps” on the best seller list and
there are none to allect wear. At the
When the members of the party saw both remained there for almost a
Sale price these stockings represent such
they could not stop before going over I year together.
outstanding values they’re bound* to be
this, they threw their ice axes clear
“ Lost Horizon” is now on the
to avoid injury.
snatched up quickly, so better shop early.
screen and is classed as an outstand­
Down this drop they were carried ! ing production.
and out onto the glacier. The vol- j Last March was published Mr. Hil­
ume of snow carried along with them ; ton’s latest book, “ We Are Not
Hood
apparently cushioned the entire slide | Alone” and this too at once became
Hiver
and the final fall, literally “ scoot­ a best seller. It is a wistful, tender
ing” them across a 15-foot crevasse story of a Cathedral town doctor
vm
on the glacier.
married to a smug, strongminded,
Here they stopped and made their well born woman. He was affec­
way to their car parked on Ghost tionately known as “ the little doctor”
nese elm, green ash, Russian olive, ridge. The men, Henry L. Corbett not because he was below average
FARMERS BUY
Norway spruce, blue spruce, and wes­ Jr. and Ralph Calkins suffered minor height, but because his wife was
S73 MILKS OK TKKKS
cuts, bruises and bums. Jean Blake five feet ten.
tern yellow pine.
suffered no injury other than bruises.
Dr. Newcome combined great skill
This year’s tree shipments were the The other young lady, Elsie Hall, as a physician and surgeon with
WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE,
Pullman, July t—More than 250,000 largest ever recorded in the twelve was still in a Portland hospital suf­ great human pity. He feljt that
fering from shock, according to last “ something must happen some day
trees, or enough trees, planted ten years the college has cooperated in reports.
to such a precarious social balance;
feet apart, to make a row 473 miles this work. An average of approxi­
The party had climbed the night Cathedral bells would not always
mately 500 trees to each purchaser
long, were shipped to farmers of the indicates that farmers are planting before by way of the Sunshine trail ring upon an acquiescent world.” His Appearing for Dance and Fluor Show
at
state of Washington last spring by shelterbelts and woodlots of greater (incidentally, they had gone up human sympathy was the cause of
THE DALLES CIVIC ADITOBIUK
through
the
center
of
horseshoe
his
quite
innocent
afair
with
the
the Federal-State Forest Tree nur­ size. Many erosion control plantings
JULY 3rd and 5th
sery operated by the department of made by farmers cooperating with rock) and were on their way down lonely little German dancer in a road
when
the
accident
occurred.
Near
forestry a n d range production the soil conservation service, con­
through coperation with the forest tained several thousand trees each them when they started sliding was
a party of Mazamas under L. S. Dar­
service under the Clarke-McNary for­
Plans for producing a greater ling, who were working their way
est act.
amount of stock in the future are down with an anchored rope. The
The most popular species shipped being made by John P. Nagle, assis party of four was not using an an­
was Black locust which is being tant professor in the department of chored rope, but the climbers were
widely planted for woodlot, shelter- forestry and range management, who fastened to one another.
belt and erosion control purposes. has charge of this work at the col­
Darling dispatched someone to call
Other species widely used were Chi­ lege.
the Crag Rats who met the four and
rendered first aid.
“ Andy” Anderson and Darling es­
timated the distance of the slide as
about two-thirds of the total distance
from the snow line to the summit, or
better than 2000 feet.
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July 3rd and 5th
SA T U R D A Y A N D M O N D A Y N IG H T S
with
MOREY GRAFF and His Dance Band
at
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Hood River
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SPOILED LEGUME H AY
VALUABLE FERTILIZER
Legume hay, such as alfalfa and
clover, that has been spoiled by the
recent rains may be salvaged for use
as fertilizer, says Dr. W. L. Powers,
chief of the soils department at Ore­
gon State college. He points out
that a ton of alfalfa contains about
40 pounds of nitrogen, which in fer­
tilizer, would cost as much as 10
cents a pound. It also contains about
25 pounds of potassium and 7 pounds
of phosphorus.
This spoiled legume hay makes a
valuable mulch, checking evaporation
and loss of soil moisture, and be­
cause of its favorable nitrogen con­
tent for decomposition, does not de­
press growth, Dr. Power says. When
applied in orchards at the rate of
two tons of dry material per acre it
will also earn soil conservation pay­
ments under the 1937 soil conserva­
tion program. It is best to remove
the spoiled crop from the fields
promptly, he says, and if it is not
applied immediately to place it in
ricks for later use as fertilizer.
TOURIST TRADE GROWS
A record of more than a half mil­
lion automobile tourists in Oregon
during 1937 is predicted from regis­
tration of non-resident motor vehic­
les throughout the state during the
first five months. With a 27 per
cent increase in registrations over
the prior year, it is estimated that
some 175,000 motor vehicles will be
cheeked in 1987 snd with an average
of three passengi rs to each car. more
than 500,000 visitors are expected
PARKDALE
THEATRE
Friday and Saturday
July 2 and 3
Presents
“Rainbow on the River”
with
Bobby Breen, May Robson and Charles Butterworth
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday
July 4, 5, and 6
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in
“Shall W e Dance”
Continuous performance Saturday, Sunday and Monday
during Fourth of July celebration. Doors open 3 P. M.
This is Che first showing of these pictures in Hood River oounty.