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a Page 4. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, November 10, 1951 my te ] BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH WHAT SORT 0’ BUGS SOME MORE BUG ENTRIES RHUL RWG JES’ COME IN PASSEL POST, UNK SNUFFY-- tT SENT SUT TATTERSALL DOWN TO -- WUZ THEY, ENNYHOW, MEXICAN JUGHAID ? » JUMPIN’ By Fred Lasswell CALM DOWN. YE FRISKY VARMINTS!! THIS HAIN'T NO TIME TO START DANCIN’ TH’ RHUMBY | said. “But you just PERHAPS THEY MERELY JETTISONED THEIR BALLAST. ON THE OTHER HAND, THEY MAY HAVE THROWN VALUABLE CARGO OVERSIDE. IN ANY CASE WE SHALL INVESTIGATE. I SAW A LARGE OBJECT SEPARATE ITSELF FROM THE STAGE ANO ROLL INTO THE GULLY. [T WAS TOO DUSTY TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT THAT OBJECT WAS. “.23TA KETT MEANWHILE THE “BALLAST 7 PANCHO ite tienes AS icine? HIMSELF, CROUCHES AND LISTENS. UH-OH! HORSE HOOFERS COMING THIS WAY! HE'S ALREADY PHONED THREE Of2 FOUR TIMES MAYBE ITS IMPORTANT WHY DONT you TY To GET en HIM AT THE MiLic BAle 2 ONE OF YOUR BOY FRIENDS HAS BEEN BURNING UP THE WIRE THANKS, DAO. ir MUST HAVE BEEN CREEPY,’ DID HE ee AY = fj ire f Nt 4 : HOW DOES HE BUT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ee KNOW PP HE THE WORST OF IT-SHE NEVER DID WANTS YOU TO GIVE THE [ a POSITION TO MR. Mg WORK WAS TOO [ PARCEL PAKAGE- Tr HARD FOR HIM! 4 YOU KNOW HOW eh ae STUPID HE IS —- b ys WAITING IN HOW z La y THE PARLOR - Le >s SPOKEN TO k, THE PHONE! Br aa evi G it. Init Aus joy a A FINAL 4K GAME. To 1951, King Features Syndicate, Inc, World nghts reserved SG: : a * FE NAILED ON THE EIGHTEEN-YARD . is : RECEIVING! fy LINE BY OZARK IKE £ ay 4 NOT AT A Pay “YOu DONT (wd, ys Qa > Guerrilla | Casualties aes 6 ane |—Communist guerrillas have suf- 7 | YOU ARE MR.JIGGS- I PRESUME -OR AM | I PRESUMING TOO MUCH-OF COURSE YOU COULD EASILY By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly Chapter 3 ‘pee field where Ray kept his| _* plane was not a large one but it had several concrete runways, a radio tower. a revolving beam and floodlights, so it was well equipped. Jan stood by, watching Ray and one of the mechanics wheel the ship from the hangar. “I simply adore this tire of evening,” Jan said. “What a won- derful time to fly! I don't believe I’ve ever been upstairs at twilight before.” “It is the perfect hour,” Ray haven't lived, n, or seen a ything, until “I guess I haven't,” Jan return- | ed. She was all eagerness, how- ever, to be shown. He settled himself beside her. | ‘ The automatic starter sent the big Propeller whirling so that the sound filled their ears, the little world now enclosed within the ship. The dashboard gleamed | ¥ } with its intricate instruments; the interior was as compact and as luxurious as an expensive limousine. The noise gradually settled tol ter was so against what most|even turn out. future, to be —love and a husband, and_of|pretend we are engaged. a steady quieter hum so that they began to taxi, across the field. Jan waited, tensed for that mo-| course a home and children. “But} your mc | ment that never failed to awaken a response in her young breast—| on, “that y mother cannot | quickly, may Let Love Alone By KATHLEEN HARRIS broke the long silence. This time her sigh was one of pure ecstasy. Her whole being was filled with a joyou eace. “T alv keep my promises,” Ray said. He turned his head to look down at her, This caused Jan to remember that he had made ancther prom- ise. And her thoughts had gone back to her mother, back to the earthy things of an everyday world left. below. It seemed you could not escape them for long. “What was the other promise about, Ray?” she asked. “Did you really mean that you had an idea? It will have to be good. You don’t know Eve, my mother. But ” she tacked on cause he still was looking at her in that same odd way, or again for no reason ll, “exactly how I feel about nd marriage ari all that His serious | mouth axed into his/ contagious grin. T’'d like to know your mother,” he said. For he was thinking that all be her mother’s fault. She was to blame that her daugh- girls wanted more than anything e, Jan,” he went AP Newsteaturas she said quickly, with 9 tone never had heard. in her voice. There w anger, a deep should never have been ¢ : This was ous. Somethiy out it, ; Roy de must be done cided. he looked up at him, tien in herz f; your big he really “Don’t ri Ray said, Ags matter of fact his promise hal been one of impulse. He thought he would like to some ¥ to help her. Now knew had to find a way. Jan needed ot for the Teasong she th s it was the big golden m t an inspiration or the w, face looked, lifted towar, golden too, in the dusk. “Al} havé to do i¢ tell your you are going to marry me® “T couldn't t in that: faraway at cat. We: be satisfied. She E married her- ell stop. trying the last swift rushing contact] force you to marry anyone. This} Marry you off to other guys; with the earth, and then that up-| is the atomi ward surge toward the sky as the] age, you knc lumbering mechanical object be- came a graceful competent bird. | said. SHE did not want the magic of| sometime to someone, wort’t you?” this twilight hour spoiled with| There was that little chuckle in} for that later. She did not even want to have to t thing except the pure lovliness}age you mentioned | | around her. torian one when women were He seemed to sense her mood, | not for he did not speak either. They | tere | flew in silence as the twilight] marry. Ni | deepened into night like the un-| thank goodn folding of an exotic strange flow- er. The stars began to blink out] Ray reminded her at them from above and below. Other lights, like awakening fire-} tion to his remark. | to say that ing sequin shawl spread across| something wc the dark land. And finally. the|of things men do, moon, round and golden, appear-| thin. | ed to trail along, sometimes hid- ing behind a fluffy gathering of} laugh, clouds, again popping out to smile| want somone to sit by the fire- at them us though it shared some | side with me. But I might settle secret or knew something that no| even then for a nice cat.” y “You and a cat. The idea is re-| engagement and marriage,” he flies, came out to make a glitte one else knew. “It’s even more beautiful than! pu you promised it would be.” Jani ink about any-| turned. “It was orly in the “Oh, I age, not the stone “You don’t “You'll have to be married “I don’t see why, one ic or the allowed to do anything in- i at a girl had to things are different, | “People much the same,” Jan did not pay much atten- she went on i to do he kind} kind of| ‘thw he ou do, Ra Ppp ve_a little} t en I get old I might e, Jan!” 's “Not repulsive as marriage.” ! felt it w now mother,” Jan| not like to some fellc knew that reason he h: talk. There would be time enough | his tone. {he had had i Jan re-| fallen in lov side. She was cellent plan. ‘Well... grav If only for t last reason a brilliant idea, Hea nk of Jan mary And th an idea, He had with this girl at his the only girl in the Id for him. Yet he also d not let her know, op 5 of such a ¢ Yet. she wag be it Was Notas Tf only they mother believe at that. : d of it now,” me like snag n was considering.» he added.}The more she thought about it he more feasible it seemed.” “Let's shake hands on ‘our } with her, “To our make- agreement,” she said. Ray shook hands aid. (To be continued) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya. —®, fered more casualties in the bloody jungle war against civilians, Brit- ish troops and security forces. | The Reds’ total losses since the state of emergency was proclaim- ed on June 1, 1948, and up to Oct. 1 of this year were 5,069. They} have inflicted a total of 4,994 cas-| ualties upon civilians and security forces. Additionally, 318 British troops have been killed and 465} wounded. This makes a total of 5,777. — > . * 96 You Kiddin’? McALESTER, Okla.—#.— When George Washington, cook at the White House cafe, reported at his draft board, he had troubles. “What's your name?” asked the selective service official filling out the questionaire. “George Washington.” The draft official was nonplused, but continued: “How do you get| your mail?” “Just send it in care of the White House,’’ George Washing- | ton smiled. et authorized by the U.S. Congress was inspired by Benjamin Franklin and said ‘Mind your business.” seria. 5 Resco Sami Fossils of three and _five-toed Eohippus horses are found in the John Day fossil beds near John Day, Oregon. The motto on- the first penny| Rescues Her Dollies FIVE-YEAR-OLD CAROL ALE, ious dolls after she rescued th home in Arlington, Mass. Caro! children when fire broke out in who was next door. While Mi SUBSCRIBE 10. THE CITIZEN fire department, Carol broke ‘ filled house, and rescued her the other children and told her mother, Mrs. Lee Alexandel s From Fire (®) Wire XANDER clutches her two pre em when fire broke out in her 1,was playing house with other the basement. She ran out W rs. Alexander was ‘phoning away, rushed into the smo dolls. to be holding their own. Free-For-All In The Snow HEAVY SNOW that snarled traffic and marooned travelers in Nevada, Mo., didn’t blanket th thusiasm of these ‘teen-agers who staged an impromptu snow fight on the campus of the © school for Girls. Boys from a nearby high school are attacking at the right, but athe: