P180 12. The Guardian IEDTIMI STORIES Some Folks Are Missed By Thornton W. Burgess "It means we've got to go house- liunting this year." said she to Beluly. All too otten you will iind. Out of sight is out of mind. a --Old Mother Nature. Beauty the Wood Duck and Mrs. Beauty had spent the winter in the Sunny South as usual. Now they were back at the pond at Paddy the Beaver deep in the Green Forest. For several years thy had made their home near Paddy's pond. Thy loved it there. They had looked forward to gel- ting back this year. The first thing: Mrs. Beauty had done was to fly straight to the place where she had had her home last year. She was planning to use the same hollow tree. It wasn't there. No sir, that hollow tree wasn't there. l had been cut down during the winer. This was most upsetting. "It means we've got to go house-hunt- inc lills year." said she to Beauty. "You know what that means. Hou- aes are hard to find these days." Now to the Wood Duck folk houses are hollow trees. And hol- low trees were getting more and niure S('&il'('(' all through the Green Forest. They were being cut for iircironti and to make room for more good trees. So it was grow- ing harder and harder every year for folks who like to live in low trees to find homes. Beauty and Mrs. Beauty were on the uaicr near the house oi hol- nest in. And I guess there are Friday. May 25, 1956 (Top record holder in Iluterf You are me dealer. net vulnerable. and have opeuiieglrli '11:: biddlnl with one club) Partner has sESPOI1d9d with one hung What do you bid now, with "en of the following handy; seen them around for a long 1- M90 9-'6 M90 enxmi time," said Paddy. "It really p doesn't seem quite the same not .' .” '5'” .93 QAQJVQ having them about at all." 3' B9" V" OKQ7 "Perhaps they went away for 5 OKQJ 99754 QA6 ;Ax91 the winter and haven't come back Q1 Thr ! yet." said Beauty. card' pow: egg 17"” high "1 w0”'d"'' k"”W iimlli "'33-" tribution are substeantilnilncelihdul replied Paddy. "You see I wasn't at one md the "me timy b "3" out much in the winter. If they three notrump rebid Tl: y . did leave. I don't believe they heart response usu.al! .hol. went far and they should be back range of from 5 to 15 &m '5”: by this time." responder should thereizite rtacof "Perhaps they've gone some- nize the three notrump rebid eg- where else," said Mrs. Beauty. presses in effect that even oppo- ”I've known ever since we not site a minimum one heart re. here there was something mis- spouse 26 points have been ac- sing. but i couldn't think what itg counted for: which in turn mean was. Now I know. It was L0g- the opening bidder mug: have at cock's drumming. That and Qhcileast 20 points. Some players sound of his voice. I do hnpe:h"i'e the false notion that the nothing has happened to them.";thrce notrump rebid is a closing "So do I.'' said Paddy. "I al-ibid. On the contrary. it is one of ways like to hear him drumming. the most powerful wea o . And I like to see that red cap oi able in the arsenal ofpr:bi&?aiIlt his flying back and forth when he puts partner on notice that a slam drumming." lwill result if the responder has "I miss him and Mrs. 1.05:,-L-ork.; 3l'.V”li"3 ilk? ll! 0PellllI8 bid of but I miss still more one of theirl 5 0W"- empty houses. If anything hasi 92- Till" h95l'i5- T119 Oflglllll happened to those two. I don't evaluation Dian opening bid may know what we Wood Ducks are change drastically. depending going to do in the future. There upon the response made by part- are no other nieittbcrs of the "013 Ill illls 0859 the heart re- '.'.'oodpecket big enough and Sponse zooms the value of our strong enough to cut out holloiwsihaflfl "Om I llllle bllztlttir than a minimum opening I o a new big enough for we Wood Ducks to one three or four points better. The double raise urges, but does not command, a further bid by responder. If he has a scrawny sme others that feel the same way.” said Mrs. Beaut). "Listen!" exclaimed Beauty. CONTRACT BRIDGE By B. JAY KER vidual Championship Play) aln the nine. 03. One notrump. What we want to do is inform partner that the opening bid was a minimum. The rebid of one notrump is a sign off showing a balanced hand. A rebid of two clubs. the alternate bid to he considered. is also a sign off, but suggests. unbalanced distribu- tion and a longer club suit. Q4. Four hearts. No risk should be taken that responder will pass under game. In this re- lpect the game bid carries the lune implications as in Q1. Atllin a slam is being invited, and again 1) points are guaranteed. but in this sequence some oi the points may be distributional. Once we grant partner a normal one heart llsponse. it does not look ,like four tricks will be lost. It is bet- ter to take the chance of going down in (our hearts than to bid three hearts. running the risk that partner will pass. The point is that even if he justifiably passes thrcc hearts we should still want to be In game. spade the original value would C DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Burrowing I. More at lea . animal 5. Geansing 1. Rub out agent 3. Title 0! 9. Savor respect 3. A bar of C. Bibhcd silver name I3. Pincer-i 1. on-us and organ lava as Stir g I. or the no! II. Moat service hlrequeli 9. scrawny I6. Greek leltat animal :1. Prague ' New Wave Of ' i Attacks iieporieii NICOSIA, Cyprus. (Reuters) - in a new wave of attacks Wednes- day night. terrorists shot dead I Cypriot policeman and wounded the wile of a British servicemen. The policeman was shot in I village 70 miles west of Nicosia. He was the fourth victim of ter- rorlst attacks in the last two days land the lath policeman killed since Jthe attach began last year. t The woman was wounded wheni .a bomb was tossed into her- 3 home. Three other Brltisli soldiers anti; MW0 CYDl'iots were wounded byf bombs tossed in Famagusta, Li- iniassol and Paphos. 3 British troops stopped a Cypriot from hurling a bomb into a icrowded area in which the com- missioner of Nicosia was con- iductiug an inquiry into an earlier ifilisode" of bomb throwing. 25. Thwart III at in 1i :3 a la :3 .-1 xi name a . . p d h d , - six points he ' p rmitted to p . 5?:g3:,dthEp E283: 1-002; 3' fglngg th:gs'hel:::utz) asgtesadgjt 13:: On the other bin; if the respo?sse 33- NM 5- F”? . y ”' short sunbath. "Have you look. had nothing mmguaf had been one diamond or one '”.m"'”' "' D''3'' ”' """ ""8" e.d for one of the old houses of I ::l;::uNe ZOIPI-tuned d O Logmock the Woodpecker?"'asked V”? b. . a." . T pm,-. Log-cnck is the Pileated nrn nonons Numerous P F I. d ,.. ,,,,,,c'''”,' ”"'”g Woodpecker. the VETY lalge” ”' BONN (R t ) An . . n . 8.1-lolc in an 1:” w””df”2k,i'mS322y in the tion of eyeeiziofllosrs -tormeda5ifioCtll?e 3 'V”'”d" nor crn par 0 - . , emu. Value Unchanged. am he an :5: .. :..."::;:'d..”5 9'23” tr" . new 9'” he madei That remmds 39' to bequeath theireciirnrieaswiviirel-5 B'Fam ! havemlseen ark htialifiarituiiiithlnz death for use in eye-in-ailing S 7&7; nr tVlrs. .oE'('”i' - " - g ' has happened to them. 1 i;::5iltugt;smIhevltgi:ni;p1bslli.:r:3edglxeii OTTAWA (CPi--The wealth of 38. By way I "NW" 3'9" speak at it ! Mun Italian priest Don Gnocchi who he- farmer” ” lncreaslng mid" their ,'o:l qrugedlhh come” to "Va the fegthe bureau of statistics reported B'n"' ""' 'gh -0 No blind chudrem Wednesday the value of occupied H”& - farm land rose in 1955 to a record pp” average of 552 an acre. up from .'C”"ch" 550 in 1954 and more than double wt the pre-war 1935-39 average of 324. "Inn": All provinces. except Prince Ed- in ward Island. participated in the "mm, rise. Th: potggo province of P.E.I. ..-hum" remaine a 9. 3.1-” Averages in 1955 for other prov- a, :30; inces with 1954 averages in brack- -k.,,, e s: Dow Ontario 3107 an acre (3101); Que. ;, Mu: bec 582 (S81); Mantioba 346 (345); due" Saskatchewan S31 1529); Alberta 3.wod,d- 11,... 4". I... "W1, ',,k "d. cm 0 342 (Sui: British Columbia 8107 vm.w-- M! '''--.-'--I- 'w- T.'-i- ;;r1'f:;;vg;ilgv;-5fc(r;g.v2ea)s56 (:54): New Dun cln'r'noQuo'ri-2 .. 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