The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1952, Page 8

A DOLLER BILL IF YE'LL SAY I'M TH’ NEW MAMOR OF HOOTIN' HOLLER J YOU'RE HORRID”’ \ MAKING A BET ABOUT Love’ tS NOTHING SACRED? FER HOU aS ~ SAID IT WAS YOUR ORDERS. LOOKED LIKE HE WAS IN MIGHTY BAD AINY SAID THAR HAIN'T ENUFE FOLDIN' MONEY ON TH' TOP OF THIS GREEN AIRTH TO BUY NO DECISION 0' MINE, YE LOW-DOWN, GOOD-FER-NOTHIN' FEATHER MERCHANT I! OKAY.’ SO ETTA GOES OFF THE DEEP END FOR Duke!’ WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? THE CLERK RELATES, “AND THEY CARRIED HiM OUT ON A STRETCHER.” QUICK, MAN! TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED! AINT MUS SE HOWSOMEVER--(F YE GIVE ME A WALKIN' CANE FER MY BIRFDAY--ALL FRIENDLY AN LEGAL-LIKE--UH-- I COULD SELL IT BACK TO YE By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed bes of Conch Chowder. Finale to the Garcia reception | lepho! HOLY SMOKE: CISCO'S BEEN KIDNAPED! The Nice Long Vacation By William Neubaver * Chapter 10 tain amount of money for you. Bor George wasn’t so . He | Three thousand dollars, no less.” knew @ great deal more about such things than Mr. Thorson did. | { nae pumped Frederick Forsythe’s hand Now the opposition had some real enthusiastically “By daly now . we’! able to expand. We'll of the City Council scheduled for even be able to get aud much late September. It was true that needed machinery, I don’t know not all of the men had made the how to thank you.” ammunition to fire at the meeting grade, that some of them h 4 a em had re- croft had come along to make matters worse. If his memory of | s her was correct, she was a fighter | “I don’t know that i 5 it it would be a poe the word go. He remembered | good idea. Some of the men are - rhein regan are che het suede ety rough. And to tell you the n S e latrine, | truth, 4 inci- trying to shoot a bullet into his dents a head with a revolver. their old ways in Tuttleton, | sythe smiled. “We're all in this stealing an item here, an item jogetiien, in one way or another. | f there. They had all been Teturned}Oh, and about that recreation to prison, but the damage had] business I discussed with Mr. been done. And now Jane Ban-| Thorson yesterday—” Jane smiled as the old man, his back very straight, went nimbly George stared, and for a moment] UP the path. forgot his personal problems. He “I notice you don’t limp any more. As a matter of fact, you look rather well.” He swung his right leg. “Oh, it wasn’t much. I was an awful ery- baby, wasn’t I?” “Not so bad.” She sat down on “No thanks necessary.” Mr. For-| the top sep of the little flight of stairs that ed up to the tent plat- ‘orm. “I'm married, you know.” She nodded, her smile fading. ‘So you were good enough to George, feeling ashamed of him- | write. It was very polite of you to elf, glanced off toward the lake. | remind me.” away!” he had screamed but she hadn’t. Not hesita instant, she’d come chargi: the latrine, dived low and him around the knees, Yes, a fighter, a fighter from the word go, a person who would allow nothing to stand between her and te — she wanted to accom- And she had come for him. Paris, Paris, Paris. ‘is head, feeling afraid very uneasy. If she were to make a fuss, the opposition faction would use that against too, crying that he was hardly sort of man to operate such a school. His backers might run out on him, and then what? He looked up at Mr. Thorson. “Well, we'll e managed to keep haps we'll lick ‘em ‘un out to Camp ell have a chat see. So far we’v going and per! all yet. Pll take ar Joy. Might as w with Forsythe.” By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly benPiNG a*) THAT NOTHING OTHER THAN A DENIZEN |} WELL, DONT SuRE ? I'M } JUST STANG THERE # THE PICTURE'S Seecneno By Roy Gott AW, THEY BUT THERE \/ NACHULLYS...US BUGS <\ HAVE DONE LOST FO SOME BIG \/ STRAIGHT BAWL © PRoBLUM X GAMES, AINT WERT On YO" the steps of his little cottage and offered him a cordial hand. “How’s| the work progressing? | didn’t forget you over ‘the winter. You} glance at his watch. “Well, you have become quite famous since| two talk it over. Come back to thas squib about your work went | t! out “There won’t be any incidents.” competent young lady working for how to handle your students. As a matter of fact, this was her idea. better persons.” alone. Already he could see his worst fears being confirmed. brought back to the moment, dis- that in the opened flaps of the tent I told her about your work one]. " day and she promptly volunteered | ing very close to him. Her scent to give her day off to the cause|came to his nostrils. Carnation. of helping your students to become | Paris suddenly seemed very near. :; + “I’m married,” he said again, “She did?” his face suddenly wet with per- George didn’t laugh hollowly,|spiration. “You understand that but he would have had he been |all the past is forgotten, I'm sure.” covered he was before a tent and| “listen to me. . “Happily married, I should add. But I shall never forget the pice ture you made that day when you dived into the latrine and pre- vented me from killing myself" “To tell you the truth, if I'd Mr. Forsythe took him by the arm | stopped to think about the danger and led him along a dirt path to-|I’d have let you put a bullet into ward Officers’ Row. “I have a very| your skulle How is your wife? There, wasn’t that asked very us this year as recreation director. | nicely? One would never suspec I'm quite certain she will know|I'm sure, that I hate her, that want her dead.” “Jane!” She came down the steps, stand- “You poor child,” she said softly. That doesn’t mean, darling, that ,, Mr. Forsythe clapped him heart- | you must stay married to her for- ily on the shoulder and George, | ever.” “Jane,” he said frantically, But she had waited long enough. was a girl, a lovely girl with curly| She had waited for five long, brunette hair and soft, shining| dreary years. She stepped forward brown eyes. “Miss Bancroft,” he|and her arms went around his heard Mr. Forsythe say as from | neck. And her lips found his. Life “ry vemaee afar, “this is Mr, George Popple- | and the glory of tin “"W ELL, Poppleton, , this is alton. George, this is the girl who Pleasant surprise. can, I'm sure, deal very nicely|arms tightened about her she Frederick Forsythe came down, With your students.” e, warmth, joy. Her heart thudded, and when his cried out, cried out in sheer ec- Jane inclined her head gravely. | stasy, “You see? You see?” “How do you do, Miss Bancroft.” There was another cry then, a Mr. Forsythe turned, after a|cry of horror. “Jane! Mr, Popple- he office when you're through, CONCH Last week when the class of 1952 graduates from CMI and the | .. Key West High School attended a |g. luncheon given by the Rotary Club, Harold Laubscher led the group |o the whole gang of students stood tona Beach, Fla., I remember we | s! sang “Dixie” every morning in- tle fatter,” the little boy across the aisle from me used to pat.his tum- | my and pretend he was doing war- | . whoops. . .but we all thought that ‘; the phrase was “Injun tadder.” Children put funny interpretations | on words which sound alike if not carefully enunciated. Once I got a he note from one of my smail fry re- | latives telling about a house with | _ “blue shudders” on the windows. pets use mistakenly? Write them in Anchor's Fluke. I must add that to my memoirs some day. Teddy | y | Roosevelt's Rough Riders had noth- | a jing on local jolting jaunts. ol | DISA AND DATA: Dottie Wig j j gins, wife of Comdr. Ray Wi ZX-L1, has recovered from a recent |bout with pneumonia. . If Matty Matthews, once attached to the USS Amberjack were in town he'd |; | Probably collapse over a recent | ,, | article in Snorkel Hunter News and pass the item on to a crewman called Alfaifa Al. Latest reports are that Yggy Carbonell is fe better and is out of the hos | after a throat infection. . J Porter Kirke found an apar in New York according passed along by her v ter Carolyn, who says Jeane’s black poodle is recupe ing from the trip she baggage car with TRAVELOGUE bu: the other eve wh hauled out some ran them of cluded shuts of spring and fall, rado, Rockies Arizona, Isle of F vida Everglades. This last s an eight foot alligator underw hyacin ed those two the banks of a Gabies, he and they must have fed “gator beca made ne merasn sequence on the fi something special for Dad’s hair- stay out of it. by RAYMER appeal to the youngest or grayest Dad. It will be as, invigorating to | his tired bones as the strong hands |.of a masseur, as relaxing as a day | well many never notice his handi- i “Dixie” w: he making father happy, lend an ear singing. As ‘Dixie’ was chorded lto some things. all. good: fathers = dream might happen to them some up. I expected them to ask tiat| day pefore Gabriel blows his trum- their iced-tea be served in Dixie ' pet. True-wyapping up these delica- cups. Back in first grade at Day- | cies in one delicious package might stead of the National Anthem, and | ing to take in exchange for these when we got to the part about “‘In- | things which will make his cup of | jun batter, makes you fat or a lit- joy brim over-for one day at least. ing session (which always includes | manicure, shampoo, edicure and | facial to tie up the bathroom for | Su | What odd phrases do YOUR mzp-|need not hunt for the sports sec: | TEEN TALK By VIVIAN BROWN For Father's Day, why not do A “Be Kind to Father” Day will t the circus and as exhilarating 8 a meeting with his poker club. If you're stuck for ides to carry ut an ingenious one-day-plan for ; hock father into a coronary throm- sis, a risk he'd probably be will- Here's the pitch. } 1. Let the poor guy have first | rack at the bathtub or shower, ven if you must forego that scak- | jours.) | 2. Just this once let him have the ay papers intact. (So that he | ion until dinner time.) ton!” Evel Moore, her eyes wide, stare that ied up from the beach to Of- all over the country. I didn’t|George, and I'll fou the} cers’ Row. find it at all difficult to get a cer- | check.” wc at them from the path (Te be continued) Blind Clerk’s Handicap Is Unnoticed SANTA ANA, Calif. —(®).— Rudy Story, 23, proprietor of Santa Ana's Storyland Market, handles customer’s orders so cap. Rudy was blinded when struck by a car years ago while in kin- dergarten. After graduating from high school with honors, Rudy started working in his father's market. Now, as long as every- thing is kept in its proper place, the young merchant has no trouble filling orders or making change. However, Rudy says he still hasn't found a way to avoid ask- ing the denominations of paper money. : Sweptback Wings Coming FARMINGDALE, N. Y. ~(7).— Sweptback wing effect will be standard for every first-line com- bat plane in the Air Force by 955, says Alexander Kartveli, vice-president of Republic Avia- | tion Corp. 3. Instruct your friends not to te u. (And don't hog the the other eve had some mixed-up | ‘phone calling your friends, either, sidelights. Just ask Luke The Duke | in Dad should want to make who sojourns neath the sign of the |or receive a call just once.) 4. Restrain that heckling note in our voice. Flatter him Occasion (Instead of telling him how fashioned he is, or a tight-wad i to other fathers.) ed to play s on the € s day-front rov “It's sweptback , wings that man fly faster than sound,” id. “Sweptback wings cut down on what airmen call drag, For example, a plane with wings swept back 45 degrees flying at the speed of sound (760 miles an he hour vel) reacts to the pile ike a straight- wing p 540 mph Thus a plane with sweptback wings is more maneuverable st can turn, wheel, id dive easier,” he said, If the water in the Great Lakes were spread over continental Unit- ed States, it would be 10 to 18 feet deep. (Borrow from a friend or or dol do wi If you e to carry out these probably find lo at the end you may nurse Dad, a state of ‘STAR * BRAND. anne COPEER -——TRY A POUND TODAY——