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6 THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1946
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
I Go Out
Among 'em
RONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKNG W RANCH
I have just returned from asso­
ciating with the intelligentsia.
Never before have I taken time
out to attend any of the writers’
conventions, so I thought the
Conference of Western Writers
was a suitable occasion for me to
"put on the dog” and step out.
I felt it would be interesting and
highly edifying to see real writers
in the flesh, and I hoped I might
even be allowed to listen while
words of brilliance and wisdom
dripped from their lips.
I spent a week in preparation
for the great event. For one
thing, I thought I had better
try to make my bands look more
like a writer’s than a farm­
woman’s, and I al»o practiced
daily in front of a mirror in
order to acquire an intelligent ex­
pression. I also dragged out my
backless dinner gown and pressed
the three-year wrinkles out of it,
but I found that a week wasn’t
long enough to put any fat on
the vertabrae it exposed. Then I
started in cooking food to leave
and putting everything necej-
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power in the old bus and lots
more miles of pleasant driving.
sary for their welfare in plain
sight so my menfolks could lo­
cate them, since I have found that
most sons and husbands are ap­
parently afflicted with total blind­
ness when it comes to finding
what they want in the absence of
their housekeeper. Mine insist
that I hide things, but I don t.
It is merely that I put them
where they belong instead
of
the middle of the floor.
So, as I said, I went out among
’em. I saw some of our famous
western authors; I listened to
them, and was even allowed the
privilege , of talking to some of
them, and I found, to my amaze­
ment, that they are just folks
like the rest of us. I also found
that some of them would do well
to stick to writing rather than
talking. (Maybe they pour all
their wit and wisdom into their
books and have nothing left to
say.) I furthermore discovered
that you can never judge from
his books what the author will
look like.
You read a man’s
books and imagine him a big six-
footer of the he-man type, and
find, when you meet him, that he
is a tiny fragile-looking person
with a nervous manner, or you
read some delicate bit of litera­
ture and picture the writer as a
pale, pensive long-haired poet, and
behold he is built like the half­
back of the winning football
team, and has hands on him like
Joe Louis. Apparently by own
books are just as deceiving, for
when an author, who knew me
only by my writings, tried to
find me in the crowd, he accosted
a husky female who would top
me by six inches and ran, I
should judge, something close to a
hundred and seventy on the hoof.
When he asked if she was the au­
thor of “Just Loggin’ ” and the
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met Thursday of last week at
the home of Mrs. H. M. Reynolds.
Many members were absent ow­
ing to one cause or another. A
delicious chicken dinner was
served. The Circle is giving a
program and sale on Nov. 23 at
the Mist Gym. No charge will be
made for the program but home
mode and fancy articles will be
on sale as will refreshments. Ap­
petising food will be served. Pro­
ceeds will go to our commun­
ity.
Movie visitors last week were
Austin Dowling and son, Ber­
nard and Geo. Jones.
Ernest Kyser did the chores
for Mr. Crawford recently while
he was on jury duty.
LACK OF WORKERS
FOREST GROVE—Harvesting
three important Oregon crops
must be finished before the end
of the 1946 crop season can be
announced, O.S.C. extension serv­
ice farm labor officials have in­
dicated.
The three crops located in
widely separated sections of the
state are: sugar beets centered
around Nyssa and Ontario in
Malheur county; potatoes at Red­
mond and Prineville in central
Oregon and in the Tulelake sec­
tion of Klamath county, and wal­
nuts in the western portion of the
state.
Harvest work is now
underway.
Harvesting of specialty crops
such as bulbs, cranberries and
holly will continue for some time,
but labor demands are being more
easily met.
Sugar beet operators have been
working with undermanned crews.
In the potato districts, growers
are also digging crops under
handicaps brought about by a
lack of workers.
The nut crop has been excep­
tionally good in western Oregon
this year both as to walnuts and
filberts.
FIRE STRIKES HOME,
BUSINESS CONCERN
M MINNVILLE—Two “alarm”
fires have called out McMinnville
fire fighters during the last week.
The department was called to
the Frank Gault home last Thurs­
day morning where a fire start­
ing at the rear of the first floor,
had spread up a stairway to the
second floor and secured a size­
able foothold under the roof.
Considerable damage was caused
before the blaze was extinguished.
Wednesday, firemen smothered
a minor blaze at the Adams Mo­
tor Shop. Fire department re­
ports disclose that an employe
pouring gasoline from a can too
near an electric heater caused an
explosion.
Minor damage was
done.
CREWS RETURN TO PLANT
TREE SEEDLINGS
FOREST GROVE—Winter con­
servation work in the Tillamook
burn region will be resumed next
week when a planting crew from
the state conservation service
moves into the area. Northwest
forest.headquarters reported here
Wednesday.
TURKEY HENS FEWER IN
’47, BREEDERS SAY
M’MINNVILLE—Oregon turkey
breeders indicated they would de­
crease the number of breeder
hens in 1947 by 289 per cent, ac­
cording to N. L. Bennion, Ore­
gon State College extension poul­
tryman.
Bennion stated that further re­
ports disclosed that the average
price for turkey eggs is expected
to be (31.7 cents per egg this
coming season as against lost
year’s average of 26.3 cents. It
was pointed out that these figures
are in line with the 30 per cent
decrease in the number of mar­
keting turkeys raised in Oregon
this year.
Driver Training
Course Prepared
A high school course in driver
training has been prepared and
soon will be available for Ore­
gon high schools with the approv­
al of the state department of pub­
lic instruction, Secretary of State
Robert S. Farrell, Jr., announced
recently.
The course consists of eight
units and was prepared as a joint
project of the secretary of state’s
office, the state department of
public instruction, the Portland
Traffic Safety commission, the
Portland public schools and the
Oregon State Teacher’s associa­
tion.
The course now is in the hands
of the printer and is expected
to be ready for distribution late
in November, Farrell said.
“Traffic authorities long have
believed that driver education and
training at the high school level is
one of the most important fac­
tors in traffic accident preven­
tion,” Farrell said. “The presi­
dent’s highway safety conference,
held in May, listed driver train­
ing programs in high schools as
one of the principal points in its
national program.”
A recent study in tha city of
Cleveland, where high school driv­
er training has been in existence
for many years, indicated that
high school graduates who had
taken the course had 50 percent
fewer accidents than graduates
who had not taken the course.
Oregon high schools now have an
opportunity to offer modern, sci­
entific training in motor vehicle
operation to the young drivers of
Oregon.
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Rocking W articles, she was
highly indignant. I learned later
that she writes charming little
love poems for the ladies’ maga­
zines, so I can’t say I blame
her any. It evidently offended
her sensitive nature to be ac­
cused of writing about anything
so “coarse and common” as logs
and loggers, or ranches and cat­
tle.
Nevertheless, it was a bit of
fun, and a touch of novelty to
TAKE IT EASY
this country mouse. I was warned
Don’t blow your top just be­
by a little gal, who has her future
cause things don’t go right.
mother-in-law’s dignity to consid­
It’s hard on your blood pres­
er, that I must remember not to
sure. Cool down and park
trip over my long trailing dinner
your feet at Dessy’s for a
gown and fall on my face as I
lipful of brew.
made my entrance, and to quirk
my little finger in a refined and
lady-like manner as I drank my
demi-tasse
and
talked
with
“sparkling intelligence.” I here-
ed. De all are prone to lapse
with assure her that I was a “poi-
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fect lady” and I am pleased
AN EAGLE SUBSCRIPTION
to report that I wended my
way through the array of silver
eating implements with never a
slip, and if my carefully practiced
intelligent expression wouldn’t
stay “put” all the time, I am sure
no one noticed for the candle-
lighted banquet hall was very
dim.
However, if you are a
mixture of rancher and logger,
the horrid truth will out, for ten
chances to one you will tind
No need to worry if Johnnie’s
yourself talking about one or the
other before the evening is end-
appetite is lagging as long as he
edo. We all are prone to lapse
into talk about our special jobs;
drinks his milk. Our wholesome,
the professor talks of his classes
and the subject he teaches, the li­
brarians of their work, the so­
cieamy, rich, Grade A milk will
cial service worker of her “cases”
and in so doing they show their
supply him with all the body­
real selves and the deep interests
of their lives. When folks forget
building materials he needs. Be
their “social chatter” and start
speaking of their fundamental in­
terests, you find the real man or
sure to have a quart on hand at
woman. I was talking idly with
a slender elderly woman when we
all times.
stepped past the point of surface
conversation and she confided her
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real desire. She is an editor of
a department newspaper, and
finds her work interesting, but
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her great ambition is to go to
Alaska and start a newspaper of
her own. She is, I would say,
close to sixty-five, but as she
talked I decided that she is very
likely to go to Alaska and start
that newspaper, and what is
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Winter wheat will top 800,000,-
more, I rather imagine she will
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make a success of it, too.
Yes, I met some real folks. It estimate.
is good for us sometimes to crawl
out of our cave and go into the
world of men and women and lis­
ten and learn. We find that we
are not the only ones who have
dreams and hopes, and fears, and
ambitions which may or may not
be realized, but which we think
are worth working for, and we
come back to our days of rou­
tine tasks with a deeper appre­
ciation of the kinship of human­
ity, and a broader vision.
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But it is good to come home.
Since 1878 * E. G. Sick, President
As in Kenneth Grahame’s "The
Wind in the Willows,” the little
Mole goes into the world and has
interesting adventures, but upon
his return to his home he feels
that “it was good to have this to
come back to, this place which
was all his own, these things
which were so glad to see him
again and could always be count­
ed upon for the same simple
welcome.”
Besides, it is always a good
idea for any ranch-woman to
come back before she has to
take a shovel to clean her kitchen
floor, and while there are still
a few clean dishes left in the
cupboard. I must admit my men­
folks did very well, (I think a
week of intensive labor will get
things cleaned up nicely) and
with the food I left plus New-
daughter’s help, they were not
too close to the point of actual
starvation, but I gathered that
they were really pleased to see
me driving in. It is nice to have
folks glad to have you back.
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Rain won’t harm straw hats and
flower bonnets come next season.
Made of plastic yarn that is
water-proof, colorfast, perspira­
tion resistant and impervious to
grease or oil, they will be avail­
able shortly, manufacturers say.
Saves dry cleaning, too—just wipe
them off with a damp cloth.
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