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By OSWALD JACOBY
Written for
Newspaper Enterprise Asm.
Bobby Jordan is 10 year older
than his partner, Arthur Robin
son, but the maturity of age 36
docs not seem to have made him
the steadier member of the part
nership. Instead it is Arthur who
plays straight man while Bobby
creates the situations in bidding
and play that are most likely to
force mistakes from the oppon
ents.
In a recent duplicate match,
Bobby found himself in a very
. comfortable three no-trump con
tract. Overtricks are important.
in duplicate and at trick one Bob
by w as able to make a deceptive
play that netted him all 13 tricks
and a top score.
There wasn't anything too com
plicated about the play. West had
opened the five of spades and after
East produced the 10 spot Bobby
won the trick with the king, not
the jack.
Then he ran off his six club
tricks and West had to find five
discards. The first three were easy.
There was no pain about let
ting a low heart and two low
spades go. The fourth discard was
the queen of spades. On the last
club, West could not afford to
chuck a diamond and he did not
want to unguard the king ol
hearts so out came the ace of
spades. It looked sale enough.
East surely held the jack since
Bobby had won the Iirst trick
with the king.
Now Bobby's Jack and four ol
spiides were good and he had 13
tricks. His false card al trick one
had really paid of I!
O The bidding hai been:
Sootll Weat Nortfl- Kaat
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Yon, Sooth, bnM:
A!l VAQ7 48 KJII
What do yon dor
A Paw. Te dent eeem to
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elnbe are m lot to haT to try
for. If you do bid you abooJ4
try two no-trump
TODAY'S QUESTION
Instead of bidding two ctabe
your partner has raised row one
heart bid to two. What do JOU
lo now?
Answer Monday
By RUTH KING
Pencil marks on a Rand Mc
Nallcy map cover only a few
inches of paper but they mark
the route hundreds of miles long
from Bloomficld. Neb., to Klam
ath Falls ... a route that brought
a Cadillac touring car and a fu
lure businessman to the West.
The trip proved that neitheri
mud nor snow, rain nor sand
could stall a 1912 Cad or daunt a
driver with adventure in his blood
and a steering wheel in h i
hands.
The businessman who drove and
came to stay was Thomas B. Wat-
tors. The Cadillac belonged to his
uncle, J. K. Elliott, who yearned
to see a brother, E. L. Elliott, a
Klamath Falls attorney.
On a sunny day In September
50 years ago, young Tom Wat
tors was content with his lot,
partner in a one-car garago
the town of Bloomficld. Neb., not
far from the South Dakota line.
Bloomfield was one of the peace
ful small towns of some 900 to
1,000 "wonderful people," who
neighbored along the quiet, tree-
shaded streets and around the
cracker barrel at the corner gro
cery.
The prairie stretching out be
yond was slashed by a stub rail
road, which lclt the main line ol
the Sioux City, Iowa-Norfolk, Neb,
and ended at Bloomfield.
Oldsters smoked their corncob
pipes on the benches by the liv
ery stable and admired Die pret
ty girls under parasols who passed
by. Women wore sunbonncts as
they hoed their gardens . . . trav
eling salesmen who sold pins to
perfumes from Paris, hired teams
and buggies to reach customers in
small surrounding towns after
Uicy left the train. It was that
kind of town anr1. that time in
the century iicfore "demon
speed" caught up with the world
But change was peering ovcri
the horizon. The traveling sales
men could make more money if
they could reach more towns . . .
old Dobbin was no match for the
new "gas buggies," and young
Tom Wallers and his partner.
with an eye on the future, struck
while the iron was hot and opened
a garage with one car for hire.
Few men beyond their firsti
shaves could drive a car in those
days, and fewer women knew a
throttle from a spark plug. Sol
small wonder on Ih'.tf, sunny Scp-I
tcmner dav in 1912 when oppor
tunity knocked, that the forward.
looking young garaccman, Tom
Wattcrs, opened the dour wide
turned his back on Nebraska and
and said, "Uncle Jack, you've
made a deal.
The deal centered around a shl
ny, brand-new Cadillac louring
car, with soft tires, a folding
windshield, collapsible lop, a Kla
xon horn and a tool box on the
running board. Two men were
aboard, a car salesman, the driv
er, and Tom's uncle, J. K. Elliott,
a prosperous farmer and a wid
ower from Cedar County, Neb.,
who yearned for that shiny new
Cadillac. He couldn't drive.
Right then and there he of-l
(cred his nephew T.B. the most
tantalizing proposition ever put to
an eager young man with no ties
except a pretty girl around the
corner, and with a terrific crush
on automobiles.
J. K. Elliott wanted to see his
brother out in Oregon. "If young
or surfaced road stretching to
ward the Pacific Ocean.
By nightfall of the first day
they had crossed the Loup River
and had reached Grand Island,
150 miles away, known as the
eroatest horse market in the
world. The Cadillac had per-
formed "sweetly," navigating the
sandy roads as easily as a cow
horse.
A drift of snow that night came
near changing the course of his-1
torv. but true pioneers never re
treat, and they drove on toward
North Platte. They still had not
used chains. The long, flat plain
stretched endlessly beside the
slueeish North Platte River.
The Cadillac was eased along
age. The underpinnings were built
to sland punishment. With Tom
Wattcrs back under the wheel
Ihey headed for a two-day rodeo
at Cheyenne, and for Medicine
Bow where the "Virginian" was
written.
While mud slowed their pace
at Hawlings, Wyo., the trusty
chains and the purring motor of
the Cad took them through the
crisis. They visited the city where
Brighair Young first saw t h e'
great Salt Lake Valley under a
setting sun and said This is
Ihe place." They pulled a Buick
from a gulley in a red desert
and cruised on to Twin Falls in
Southern Idaho where the Snake
River cuts its great gorge through
River Valley were gold when they
topped the mountain, pushing to
ward Klamath Falls over the oldj
Fort Road around the hill. '
Behind them were the porch
of the railroad station they had
slept on, the only time on the
trip they failed to find shelter. . .
the half-way point between Bos
ton and San Francisco, 2.000 miles
to Ihe east, 2,000 miles to the
west on Highway 30 where iack-
rabbits were more numerous than
guideposts ... the one shot they
had fired at a fleet antelope
the curious admirers along the1
route ... the feel of the wind
on their faces, the sun on their;
heads ... the bunch grass on:
the prairies, the Continental Di
vide that Ihe Cadillac mastered
. . . the black dust of the Wyo
ming coal towns.
It was Oct. 18. 16 days since
they had left Nebraska. The five-
passenger Cadillac, dusty b u t
sound, had passed its exams and
its driver had found a new home.
Many years later members of
a woman's bowling team from
Klamath Falls, sponsored by the
Winema Hotel where Tom Walters
was part owner, made a discov
ery about the driver of that Cad
illac that negotiated the long miles
from Bloomficld to this town.
The team had gone to Omaha.
for tournament play and through
the usual patter of "Do you
know?" it was discovered that
a Babe Wattcrs had gone from
Bloomfield to this city. No one
knew a Babe Walters here, only
a "T.B.," but by putting two and
two together and getting four, the
deep secret was learned. "Babe"
Wallers of Nebraska was the
Tom Wattcrs of Klamath Falls . . .
and now the cat is out of the baj.
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, January 13, 19H3
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"HERE SHE COMES" T. B. Watters, Klamath Falls businessman, drove a 1912 four-
cylinder Cadillac from Bloomfield, Neb., to Klamath Falls half a century ego in 16
days with some layovers for recreation. His passenger and owner of the automobile
was an uncle, J. K. Elliott, who eame here to see a brother, Attorney E. L. Elliott.
Tom would drive that Cadillac toi
Klamath Falls he would buy it."
The deal was consummated with
!i handshake on the spot. There
was certainly nothing to be gained
by procrastination as far as Tom
was concerned. The lure of the
road and the four cylinder car at
the door decided the issue. Tom
would go.
On Oct. 2, the car, packed with
little silk lent, a couple of pil
lows and blankets, a small spike
slove, some canned goods, a kit
of automobile tools, a set of new
tires, a vulcanizer and some ex-
ra shirts and socks, was "gassed"
lor the trip.
Friends gathered to wish them
well, many w ith tongue in cheek.
It was "a mighty long way to
Oregon" and there were the Rock
ies and the flatlamis, unknown to
most of them, ahead. Service sta
tions were practically unknown
and wayside accommodations be
tween towns were certainly not
numerous.
There was not one foot of paved
deep ruts made by the wagons!
that had rolled West across me
prairies. By this time Uncle J.K.
had succumbed to a yen to "get
the feel" of his new prize and to
hold the wheel. The tracks were
deep and he "believed he could
hold her in the tracks.
The men switched scats. The
soft tires gripped the ground send
ing small plumes of sand behind
Ihe wheels. J.K. shifted into a
higher gear and the Cadillac
gained speed. The exhilaration of
guiding the powerful beauty gave
him confidence and he slopped
on Die gas. The car responded and
followed the deep tracks, taster
and faster until the wheels leaped
with the acceleration and power
null, onto unmarked earth.
Examination revealed no dam-
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the lava, where irrigation water
was just then beginning to flow
across the fertile news in tne
shadows of the Saw tooths.
They saw the county fair in
Boise, crossed the Snake at Vale
and touched this state's soil as
the high-wheeled Cadillac left the
last rattling board of the narrow
bridge that linked Idaho and Oregon.
It was at this end of the jour
ney from Burns to Bend, away
from the cushioning sand and the
dust, that the tires took punish
mcnt. The sharp obsidian and the
cinders from spewing volcanoes
of other ages, cut the rubber to
ribbons. Here the vulcanizer came
into use.
They journeyed on from Bend
south. The aspens in the Wood
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Probe Asked
Of Primate
Study Fight
PORTUWD IUPH - A former
legislator who led a drive for ex
panded research facilities in Ore
gon Thursday called for an inves
tigation of Ihe Oregon Primate
Research Center controversy by
the Oregon Legislature.
Former Sen. Richard Giwner,
a .Milwaukie Democrat, said he is
. afraid Hie hassle may hinder the
state's lone range economic
growth.
Dr. Donald E. Pickering re
signed as director of the center
last week in a dispute with Uni
versity of Orccon .Medical School
Ivan Dr. iMvid W. E. Baud and
the board of governors.
Greener was chairman of tlie
legislative Intel im C ommittee on
Small Business which developed
Ihe concept that basic research
is the key lo Oregon's economic
and industrial growth.
"This cnnlroveisv could discour
age grants and funds from var
ions government agencies and pri
vate foundations," tironcr said
"My sympathies at tins point aic
with Dr. Pickering.
"I think there should he a lr:iv
lathe investigation to bring buth
sides out into the open. The situ
ation as it is now could destroy
something so important to our
stale," Gronor added.
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