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our Tlllllllll. yoimr intro- lenni engineer from Alabama. misses his bus in Texas and Mona Mason. wife of a cattle rancher. gives him a lift. Gary is injured when her car crashes in a ditch and the Masons nurse him back to health. He fails in love with Mona'I daughter Adelaide lint. unwill- ing to propose until he has a loh. Gary plans to leave for Mex- IVO. Meanwhile he suspects there is nil in the property and tells tests of Oliver Kimball. Har- Vey's son-in-law. llii-hey is employed to drill a well. Harvey persuades Gary to re- main until test: are made. Lawyer Slide I-Illis gets an in- junction against. the drilling, claiming a violation of pro- perty rights. Old liughey Firth- ergill. Gary and Adelaide go to see the plaintiffs. When the woman sees Hughey the screams and he demands to be taken away Immediately.
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G-arr walked around the car. "You can come out, now. Hughey. You're safe."
Hughey emerged, p a n t l n g. "Thought sure she had me," he gulped, as he straightened his long legs gratefully. "Mister. I'm e brave man-but I wouldn't tangle up viith that there wo- man, no more'n I would with a wild printer."
050 you know her, do you?"
"Know her”" sqiieaked l-iughey. '!(now her? You git me to town, young feller-where she can't git it me-and I'll tell them law fei- ievra what I know about herl"
It was four o'clock when they gm. back to town. They were tired, thirsty. covered with dust. But
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they last no time in getting to I-Iobaon'a office. They parked old Hiigbey in a big chair and sent out for a bottle of beer for him, promising it. to him when he should have told his story. Adelaide sat on the opposite side of the room, looking weary but triumphant as Hug-hey made his speech, and Gary perched on a window sill. for- getting to be hungry or tired or anything but exultant. Hohson lis- tened respectfully to old Hughey.
"We could take this into court -end make them look like a cage full of monkeys." he said. "but that would delay operations. so Iill call Ellis and make an ap- pointment to see him at his of- fice is an hour. You call your father, Miss Mason. get him in here. and I'll get the pup- era that we need to oonlirm this rather exvraordiniiry story and. Taliman, could you-sort of re- novate the witness, Just a. little?"
"In an hour," Gary grinned, ”he'll be as beautiful and fra- grant as a lily-and a whole lot more useful!"
It was an odd group arranged in Slide Ellis' office a little after five. Harvey Mason was there, grinning. Gary held tight to old I-Iughey Fothergi.ll'a arm. Gary had bought him it bright blue shirt and the most brilliant pair of red
suspenders to be found in the toiin, but the suspenders Siiii supported old Hugheys ancient
and lanky pants. He had refused in go farther in the work oi mod-i ermzation, after his hair was trim-It imed and his beard tamed some-'. what.
I-iobson did the talking. "You weren't quite slick enough, Ellis.” he said biandly. "You can take your case against Mason into court if you want to-but when you do, i-iughey Fothergill here, will go into court and swear that Maggie Wil- liams is still his legal wife. He married her in 1911; he was never divorced from her. Here's a pho- tostatic copy of the marriage re- cord. And this boy. Purdy Wil- liams, whom you claim to repre- sent. was born
law he's Hughey Fothergili'a son
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MONTREAL iOP) - Canadian National Railways Monday re- ported operating revenues for Jan- uary of 546,537,000 and operating expenses of 850,568,000. making an operating deficit for the month of 8l.03l.000. Comparative figures for January. 1953, were 561,651,000 and t.':'l.5'l3.000, for a deficit of 85.916.- 000.
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left by Elihu Plumrner. we're giv- ing you till nine o'clock tomorrow m0I'HlnB. Ellis, to get your clients together and get this injunction removed from Masons drilling op- erations"
They laughed all the way home. Now and men Harvey's chuckles mounted into a cowboy "Yippeel" and dogs and children stared and guniped and scampered. He was out of the car before it had come to a stop, running.
rvve licked '1-m, Mother! The kids and old Hughey did it! Get out the big kettle and put a rose in your hair."
Old Hughey wanted no reward. But he ixanted a new shotgun and H8l'V'P)' ordered the best one to be had, for him.
Harvey iveiit sound asleep at dinner. Adelaide came around the table and squeezed Gary's hand. ”l)h. Gary--we did it! And it was such fun!”
Gary got up impulsively, and put his arm around her. He kissed her swlllly on the forehead. And then he walked away. quickly, his face very red and confused. He lay a long time that night, wondering if she were furious, wondering if ishe thought him a. presumptuous ihccl. And then, with morning, he Horgot it. because the dull-laced igmen in the car appeared again, '.pthe deputy went away-and in half inn hour the viell was going down,
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Auay back from our school- teaching years. we can recall the 'laces of boys and girls of a. fam- ,il,v-circle since sadly depicted as lthey begged a story from their lliiisy and most understanding imothcr, one evening when the ilamplight had gathered them from ltheir outdoor play, into the kitch- an. i "Oh, go on with you!" ahe chid- led kincilv. "I have more to do than .to spend my time telling you-all lold ynriis. Besides are there no school-lessons to learn'?''
The oldest boy, 3. freckle-faced, sandy fellow laughed softly and lwiih some daring said: "Lessons aren't hali...iio, nor is quarter 33 good as one of voiir stories! ITc'.1 us" his eyes shone with the jccrie aniicipatioii." a good ghost ystory and then" he chuckled "the iTeachcr will have to stay with us .all nlzht!'
l We. glanced toward the west nnd ylhe gathering dark of the spring- ldusk. On the sky-line the rose- edge of the ereniiig was dissolv- yiiig iii the silver. But from this nearer window, just beyond a sharlowrd gable. the moon was rising setting the lustre of her smile along the dim farmlands. iShe would be there. a bright al- ilciit light to go with us homing laloiig the dewy night-lanes. l "Do, Mom!" they urged. i "Very well then." we can still hear her say. "bring my mending lbaskct ziml I'll put it patch in pplace while I talk. And remember. when I've told you one al.ory," she nodded with an affectionate ,.smiie to the number of them l"I'm dnne.."as ill this day, so lclnse now to the midnight! l Until tomrirrowEDiary-Good- nlght.....
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Hope To Sellle Argument On Sun Temgralure
OTTAWA, (CF)-Canadian sci. entists hope to settle "next June a scientific argument about the tem- perature of the sun.
Dr. Jack L. Locke of the Dom- inion Observatory here said Mon- day that scientists from three Canadian observatories will work on the problem during the eclipse of the sun June 30.
Parties from the Dominion Ob- servatory here. the observatory in Victoria and the David Dunlap Ob- servatory at Toronto will set up their instruments between Kapus- kasing and Hearst, Ont, roughly 500 miles northwest of here.
Dr. Locke said the estimates of the temperature near the heart of the sun have ranged from 4.000 to 35,000 degrees centigrade. The eclipse June 30 may give scient- ists a clue to the real teniperiiture of this area, known as the chromo- sphere.
This area is visible only for a few seconds at the start and at the end of the eclipse It isn't visible normally because the greater bril- lancy of other areas outshines it. The naked eye usually sees the sun as a bright disc. This disc. called the photosplicre, is really only part of the sun. When the moon blots out its rays it is pos- 1sibls to take instrument recordings of the part not normally visible.
Second Attempt
Froni these recordings of light, scientists can tell the temperature and pressure of whatever is burn- in: and also something about the kind of material.
This will be the second attempt
temperature of the chromosphere.
(By JOHN DUDMANI
XJONDON (Reuters)-Britain has passed the half-way mark in campaign to repair a Low-mile stretch of dikes and re: walls smashed at 1.211 palnil by 13” winter's raging floods.
Months of intense reconstruction work have so far cast the British government 130,000,000. The gaps have been closed. Thousands of workmen have built up and strengthened sea walls prolrecillll densely-populated areas. ,
The program will not be com- plete until later this year. but ex- pelts are confident the defences now will withstand another on- slaught from the North sea.
High spring tides are forecast for March but chances of last year's disaster being repeated I" remote. For one thing. Ch! n00d5v which gushed over the east coast killing more than 3110 people on the night of Jan. (ll-Feb. I last year. were a fluke caused when a North sea gale hurled waves nearly 000 feet long against the sen defences while the spring titles were at their maximum.
160.000 Arrea Covered In one night. l00,000 acres were
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a .94 eclipse except for a few taken from a plane.
The temperature of the photo- sphere has been established for some time at about 5,000 degrees ccntigrade. And the temperature of the thiji area-visible in pho- tographs of an eclipse as a halo
around the moon-is about 1.000,- 000 degrees centigrade.
About 18 scientists will trike part in the observations, spread with
by CPMCUE” 5C"'””-"5 1” lmlll thE'thcir instruments along the 60
miles between Hearst and Kapus-
Clouds blotted out readings diiringlimsing.
Britain Repairs Damage To Dikes And Sea Walls .
covered by the sea. 51,000 homes were aiimued. mo in.-ior indus- trial plants were inundated. 14 major gas and electricity installa- tiom were crippled-
In East Suffolk. Norfolk and Lin- colnshire. sand dunes. which 1154 previously provided a natural de- fence, were washed away and new sea walla, about 10 miles lunt. have had be built in their place.
pram n agricultural point Of view, the darnage is still 11! from repaired. salt water mined thou- sands of acres of fertile Infid- When the floods receded soil an-
alysls showed concentrations ofp
so to 00 tons of salt to the acre in some areas. and it my take ill! to 15 years to get all the flooded land back to normal. The over- salted soil is being dressed with thousands of tons of calcium sulphate.
Mice Make Money For Yorkshireman
SADDLEWORTI-I, Yorkshire (C?) -Mice make nioney for 46- yr-ar-old James Hmlllh - WI Only if they are white. Houzli. Who sells albino mice to scientific re- search laboratories. has 80,000 in his ”mousr-rle" - all descendants of four pairs he purchased 20 years ago when out of work.
He sells youngsters at a shilling each, males at 2s 6d. and "ex- pectant mother" mice for five shil- iiigs. sales are approximately 6.000 R week.
Says Hoiigh:
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taboo here - they bring disease."
Cats? I-iough snys ii number drop in during the summer when thr nioiiserle doors are open. "but they don't cause any trouble."
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OIRAIUION. Ont. (UP) -1110 min; body of a man with a note in his hand accusing a neighbor of poll- oning him has been found in an isolated cabin 42 miles west of this northern Ontario commun-
Tbe body of Ed mimphreyl, 72. a prospector. was reported found in a altting position by police. Po-
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