The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1937, Page 5

Ay eee a Rees chee WELDNESD The Characters Nelda, an ambitious, dark-eyed, dark-haired girl, has had to leave college because of finances. feck, blona, dashing and Wealthy, insists on getting a lift from Neida at a filling station. Bilt, tanmed, blue-eyed and dis- approving, is left high:and dry by Reck, after méetiny Nelda. Chapter Two ' Phe Old Estrado Rancho EY drove in. silence for @ space, going past apple orchards, past fields, plowed and sown, past hovels, past’ mariSions: The day was warm for mid-December, and the ride through the sweet, clean, air pleasant. “Why does Bill have to drive that olf wréck?” Nelda askéd suddenly. “Is he poor?” “I guess so,” said teck. “I know very little about him.” Their course row was on & wide, smooth ‘highway through the pine-studded Santa Cruz noun- tains. They fell into conversation about themselves. about their col- legemates and it seemed no time at all before Reck said: “That's our, shack—on the right.” He pointed to a modern " Nelda became aware that _@eibite structure built on the Span- (ish hacienda type with red tile if -and poled balconies. Rose- a + ns hey tired on the ‘ in festoons over A graveled drive be- ‘edges led to the A voard avernaing inthe Lover a pair of scrolled iron 4 ‘entrance of the estate the name Las Roses. At at wis a vrivate golf course P # wich!" Neida comment- @d after she'd taken in its beauty ‘and ~ agnitude [1 was plain to be s€@n that the place belonged to g0me one of means. She'd heard that wealthy “qt Were coming to live in Pajaro Valley because of it, balmy climate. ‘ome in and meet Mother,” k invited here was no resisting his flash- fh sraile and eage: arm at her el- . She found herself in a taste- ¥ ly addressed as Mater I te Reckless rang for tea and Yed it on a table near the fire- _ place Where the rich silver re- at firelight. Out of the ‘Corners het eyes Nelda was 2 aa the woman was study-_! € she was gracious toa point. That point when Reck left them tew minutes. Many plans for. Ear},” Said and allcwed her patrician & test meaningly upon “We want him to travel for steoke of vears before he thinks | Marriage or even hecoming en- / elda knew she was being told | to her hands off the Reckless heir, wanted to shout “1 Lead saw. your son before today "t thitk I'm going to snatch him away from you!” But the rush * of emotion that urged the speech died unde: the older woman's cool seruting and outwardly she ut- a feeble, “Yes?” es. rs. Reckless repeated seemed visibly to withdraw. 3 must be going.” Nelda rose in'viervous tonfusion, hating her- self for losing her poise before this woman. “There's Not Enough Money’ her, racing tum! over eac! Rebellion ran, a piercing through them. Oh why eeeceesccecece Today’s Birthdays Ses eeeeteneteceseeecoses U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, born in West- moreland Co., Pa. 62 years ago. U.S. Senator Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont, born at Londonberry Vt, 86 years ago. Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, born at Hyde Park, Utah, 71 years ago. Dr. William P. Few, president Sports COLLEGE STARS BEATEN BY HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY DER STARS IN CITY LEAGUE GAME did she have to ledve college? She had always done what she wanted from babyhood when her father spoiled her and gave her e.ery- thing she desired. _ d “Why don’t you run away?” one part of her demanded. “Coward!” another part of her scoffed. - There cafe to her a memory of the detached pity she’d felt when one of her classmates was forced to leave coltege for finaricial rea- sons. At the time Nelda couldn’t imagine Such a tragedy ever hap- pening to herself. It didn’t seem possible that the vivid mental pic- tures she’d drawn of the studio in which she would live after grad- uation wouldn't come true. From grammar school days she'd planned to ‘be a commercial artist. A highly paid commiercial artist who ‘could command the luxuries of life. fz But now all. those plans had stopped like . clock. shattered by dynamite. The bad news had come esterday in a letter from Leila, er brother Stan’s wife. It read: Dear Nelda: The High School did it last night against the Key West Col- lege Ali Stars. After a wild first-half in which the High School was throwing its passes in all directions, the prep- pies finally got down under the throws and made brilliant breaks THE KEY WEST CITIZEN : F le evoccvecen 100 LATE T0 By RUSSELL KAY seoe ‘Twas the night after Christmas, | and boy what a house! I felt like the devil, and so did the Spouse. The egg-nog-and turkey and can- dy were swell, But ten hours later it sure gave me hell. The stockings weren’t hung by the chimney with care— The darn things were sprawled ~ DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CITES STATUS DEALING WITH DELAY ON MANY PROJECTS (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 29.—Arno B. Park Service of Washington, D. C., informed -a joint meeting of the Everglades National Commission and Association early + last week that Florida was riot) in her national park project. “Kentucky,” he said, in intro-| duction of W. W. Thompson, ex- ecutive under whom moth Cave project has been de- they carried a torch and kept it burning, and I believe their proj- ect is assured and will be finish- ed in about two years.” “Although three national park projects, which. include Shenan- doah in Virginia, Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina and Mammoth Therevis not ‘enough money to send both you and Jack through college. After talking it over, Stan and 1 decided tt was best for you instead of \\ the woman was. studying her. eck to come home. You know Jack couldn't rut the ranch if some orie held a pistol to his head. Furthermore, he cnuld- n't take care of your mother ‘as you-ran. ~ * ~ ‘Leura ho is supposed to take'care o} is useless and snoopy. ; “i she *s making eyes at le Ham. Beil. F. §. We need the roadster here. Get home with it ag soon as you can. The Fire - ‘O HERSELF Nelda said, “Leila has had & temper like a spanked cat ever since th: fire.” The Barries dated eve! from the fire that had totally de- stroyed Stephen Barrie's large hardware store. BF. and A. F. they called it. Before the fire. After the fire To all of them it was the dividing line between afflu- ence and chaos. By some ghastly oversight tne insurance had lapsed just three days before the conflagration, The business had provided « handsome living for thé entire family, inclujing Stan who had penn eneral. manager. . Stephen jarrie didn't have enough money tari over again. Broken in ealth? and spirit, he moved his Iyato a ranch in the Pajaro Valley fhat had descended to his wife from her parents. It had been slackly run by tenants for nearly half a century. A deep countr. eng rods the rancho as Nelda a proached it. The wind mill turned intermit- tently in a lazy breeze.There was a brooding air about the old adobe house, a relic of a vanished, pic- turesque day. [t was an oblong two-story building with a red tile roof. To Nelda it looked more crumbling than when she'd last seen it. From the cracked chimney Stay plumes of smoke were as- cending. “You'll never be able to clean the | house,” Mrs. Barrie had said from her wheel chair to which she was doomed for life because of an auto~ mobile accident. “TN have it thoroughly disin- fected and overhauled before we move in.” Stephen Barrie had Stephen Barrie lived only three weeks after he moved to the country (Conyright tet, Alice Marte Dodge) Tomerrow, Nelda finds family dis- eord *i promised. of Duke University, Durham, N. C., bern at Greenvilee, S.C. 70 years ago. Clarke F. Ansley of New York, editor, born at Swedona, Ill, years ago. = Chris L. Christensen of the Univ. of Wisconsin, noted agricul- tural teacher, born at Minden, Nebr., 43 years ago. H. L. Beery of Mexico, Mo. on special oceasions dresses up in the Prince Albert suit in which he was married 42 years ago, thing | toward the basket to mark up their points. Bullet throws by J. V. Woodson from one side of the pourt to te other eeners clare But I had a large cake of ice on enech was waiting to flash away iby ‘head with the catch featured the Pie x | est. Domenech. got three; field . oes | ae anda foul ai for: seven And por I finally dozed off in oints, but J, ¥V. Weodson marked | a ‘ i. ten ‘points with pretty popping The Ace, woke, me up when it fell away at the basket, from behind! in my.Jap. : the foul circle. Then ae aes unknown reason | The College boys’ got'in airut? wan! drink, soon after the High School started’S¢,7 started'in feeling my way to | connecting with their passes. Big the sink. ec n, playing a bouncin; aie E 4 postin eel aa four pee | ont gai? fine ‘til I stepped on} kets for an eight-point total to Big | | lead his five. Bobby Dopp, usual! I ont oat just what occurred | | i T-up with after that. | oa ee Be When I came to the house was all) In a nightcap game, the Pinder flooded with light, i Stars pulled a surprise in holding Although under the table I was | the veteran Fellowship Club to a high as a kite. 19-17 score. : Ess Edwin Sweeting, letting loose) While visions of sugar plums} the ball from all -sides of the danced in my head | court and at all angles, dropped | I somehow got up and then back seven amazing baskets for a high) into bed. fi | point total of fourteen. One oth-|Then what to my wanderin; jer basket was made by his team, | mind should appear se and that was by his brother, W.| But a miniature sleigh and eight | | Sweeting. O. Recio sank the only! tiny reindeer. | | foul goal for the Stars. | After trailing the entire game, | | the club woke up at the end and} to a red fire truck, ; \ went into the lead with a basket And each reindeer turned into a) | by Freddie Carbonell and a foul bleery-eyed buck; 2 } | point by Poly Artman, which de-|I knew in a moment*it must bel | cided the game. Old Nick— on the back of a chair. The children were nestled, snug in their bed, all | "Slow and logey after a long Iay-| I tried to cry out but my tongue 4 | off, the Fellowship boys couldn’t} was too thick. | get rid of the ball fast enough to} |start shooting. High man for, Then the them was Poly Artman with only shouted with glee old devil whistled and t seven points. Carbonell and Yates| While the bucks pawed the earth with four points apiece were run-| and looked daggers at me, | ners-up. | Then he called them by name and } | the names made me shudder. | | | When I heard them T felt like a| COLLEGE FIVE T |. ship minus rudder. | | | PLAY LAST GAME 232s, Rosés! and Brandy! | |Now Fruit Cake! Cold Turkey! } Final game which the College Gin Rickey! and Can | All Star baskebtali five will play | To the top of his dome, to the top during the Holidays will be} of his skull, | against the Carbonell Stars to-|Now whack away, crack sca | night at the High School Gym. | with thumps that are dull! | Both teams are ver: werful, | ee | aa composed at | And then in a twinkling I felt on} players. In their last game, the} my roof : | Carbonell five won by a close| The prancing and pawing of each | margin. eleven hoof. | Game will begin at 7:30. | How long this went on I’m sure Tr sce |?" [Oar ay, | | \'Tho!..i¢ seémed an eternity, plus STANDINGS sera Mtg corn }But finally the night after Christ- Following, are..the averages’ sf | mas had passed i the four teams of the City Basket-| And I-found I could really think ball League: } «straight at last, eke Team— W. L. Pet! $6'I thought of the New Year a Carbonell Stars 1 666 few days away, | Fellowship Club -666 And I've made me a vow that no High School -500 tempter can sway. Pinder Stars .000 A aa SSN th |T'm sticking to water, don’t even YACHT ARRIVES 7a sz. For there’s nothing as tasty or Yacht Judy, with owner, Doug- nothing as nice. The night after New Year may las Osborn, on board, arrived in port yesterday afternoon and bother some guys, docked at the Porter Dock Com- Four | 2 «BS | SOS Te | .0 2 You can have your rich victuals and liquor that’s red, be actually completed today. | + \'Then the sleigh seemed to change} But I’ve learned my lesson, and pany, for supplies. brother, I'm wise. Mr, Osborn said that he had en- joyed wonderful success and had on board two sailfish, one of which was seven feet and the oth- er almost six feet. Both were per- fect specimens. LIGHT TENDER RETURNS HERE Superintendent William W. De- meritt, of the Seventh Lighthouse District, who was making regular inspection of the light at Dry Tortugas, and other aids in that vicinity, returned 6 o'clock yester- day afternoon on the Tender Ivy. All of the tenders in this dis- trict are now in port. The Poin- ciana is on the ways undergoing cleaning and several minor re- pairs, and the Poppy is awaiting orders. But what goes to my stomach won't go to my head. So a big Happy New Year to you and to all; I'm back on the wagon, and hope I don’t fall! Twelve famihes living in a block of London tenements have paid no rent for 19 years, the landlord having disappeared. EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Garage Cave in Kentucky, were authoriz- ed by congressional ‘enabling act in 1922, Shennandoah, Mr. Cam- “Great Smoky Mountains Na- Cammerer, director _of National’ ijgnal Park still lacks $700,000 for land acquisition and Mammoth Park Cave still has an additional area to be acquired. : “So no matter what happens alone in the obstacles experienced here,” he pointed out, “you can} look at these other projects and | becatise the State Of Florida has! find something that was worse.” It is the opinion of Mr. Cam the Mam-/merer that backers of the Ever- Park _ projeci veloped, “had plenty of grief but! should procééd as rapidly as pos- glades National sible with appraisals on the land} to be acquired arid once establish- ed, should immiediately launch two campaigns, one to raise the Money within the state for land purchase and later one outside the state to interest wealthy in- dividuals to Whom such a project would have an appeal. “There are still a good many people,” He stated, “who are will- ing to put their money into this merer revealed, is the only one to kind of thing. Many people who | come to Florida can be inspired te PAGE FIVE otex ample funds for achievement! eeeevceseccccsccccoveses [anew Today In History “The Everglades National Past ‘ | Commission executive chairman,' iss? hip “Caroline”, an G. O. Palmer, wie on taking 1) American ship carrying guns and floor, “we are going to look to’ provisions for Canadian rebels Mr. Cammerer as the leading seeking independence, seized and spirit in this movement and if he| burned by armed men on the does half as much for the Ever-| American side of the border. glades National Park as he has, p45 mye Republic sf ‘Texas |done for other projects of its kind, | sqmitted to,Statehodd, in the | I believe that within ‘the next} Union as the 28th-State...: | two Years it will be an establish- rere pee jb First ¥NEC AGIA country “There has been some eriticism crosses 1895.—Historic ride of Dr, Jame- stopped or held up the-appropria-! son ihte'the Transvaal, ‘South tion of $87,760 to the Everglades] Africa”! eee National Park Cos:mission,” hel continued, “but it is my beliet] 1934—Japan ends Washington | that when Govérnor Core has | Naval Treaty by filing written no- mpleted appointing members of | tice in Washington. the Commission there will be suf- ———_——_ ficient funds in the state treasury | in which he says,‘I am 100 per- to go ahead with this work.” cent for the F'ark’.” “In the meantime we are com-| Attending with Mr. Cammerer pleting the abstract work. 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