The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 23, Ed. 1, Friday, February 13, 1948 Page: 2
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FICTION
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MY HEAD wag In the clouds that
warm day In April driving up
Broadway The radio In my Jalopy
wai tuned In on Tom ONeill my
favorite voice of the year I wai lis-
tening to The Songihop Hour when
te sharp blast of a whistle brought
me down to this too too solid earth
Td driven straight through a red
light
As a big burly traffic cop swag-
gered over to my battered coupe
my knees shook I had a deep re-
spect for law and order
Whats the big Idea sister he
bellowed
Im sorry officer X said meekly
1 wis late for school
Better be late than sorry he
aid In an altogether different voice
as he caught ONeills lush rendition
of Irresistible You He jerked his
head and smiled at the radio You
know that guys not bad
Hea simply super I gurgled
He makes mc all goose pimply
The blue eyes of the law flickered
then fell on the volume of Popular
Melodies on the scat beside me
MusicI What do you do for a
Uving
Tlano teacher I replied at
Miss Pollens Day School I gave
him a wan smile
He pushed back his cap and wiped
the moist blond ringlets plastered
to his brow Ever do any radio
work
That made me wince I Just wish
I had a dollar for every audition
Ive had
Pull over he ordered
I obeyed with alacrity At the curb
I became voluble Anything to stave
cfT a ticket I told him that radio
was a snare and delusion for any
ambitious young girl Id got no-
where Sorry we have our own
staff accompanist Sorry noth-
ing right now but if youll leave
your name
He grinned and It was like a
burst of sunshine He leaned against
my car looking at me as If X were a
crossword puzzle Say how about
dinner tonight
You could have knocked me over
with a feather Why I dont be-
lieve I began primly You see
If he thought I was a girl who could
be picked up even by a police-
man
Okay sister he grunted I get
It Then his voice became official
again Well Ill let you off this
timeThank
Thank you officer I said
But dont let It happen again
Remember Im keeping my eye on
you
I looked at my watch 8 43 Id
never make it by nine Not when I
had to pick up that dally cargo of
seven squirming kids and convoy
them to the red brick building that
was my prison Ave days a week I
sighed Art Is long and life Is short
and didnt I know it Id probably go-
on teaching stiaiy brats fivefinger
exercises until the grave yawned
Especially now that Charlie had
gone international on mc Corporal
Charles Brent No 1 heell When I
got his b ombshell of a letter two
months ago telling mc cooly hed
fallen for one of those Aussles I
kissed all hope goodbye of every
marrying an artist Charlie played
the bassoon before the Army made
him play the bazooka
Until today I thought hed broken
my heart But that night In bed
when I tried to picture him all I
could see were a pair of skyblue
eyes strong white teeth and moist
blond ringlets under a policemans
cap I felt a twinge of remorse at
having snubbed him What If he was
Just a traffic cop Maybe something
could still be done about it
ITS THE LAW
By CLARISSA LOItENZ
M tf
HKMPTTIIX COUNTY NEWCANAItAN TEXA8
But dont let It happen again Remember
Im keeping my eye on you
Next morning I wore my new
Easter bonnet a pink flyaway con-
fection On my radio ONeill was
giving deliriously with Time Walts
for No One My heart went boomp
as I approached the crossing on
Broadway There stood my nice
giant In a shaft of sunlight I drove
straight through the red light At the
blast of that tin whistle I Jammed on
the brake He sauntered over twirl-
ing his shiny toy
Well sister he said sternly If
youre gonna make It a habit I have
to take steps Lets see your li-
cense
I looked at him in sheer dismay
ONeill went crooning on but my
traffic cop seemed deaf this morn-
ing Make it snappy So I fumbled
in my Imitation alligator bag and
fished out the license folder Beryl
Thompson he read and took down
the number name and address
handed it to me Here you are
You conceited goon I told my-
self hotly watching his broad back
Serves you right
The low ceiling depression that
hung over me all that day was lifted
at 5 35 when I got back to my room
and found a message to call Mr
Bumham at the radio station I flew
to the hall phone
Be at the studio tomorrow night
at 0 30 sharp he said over the
phone
The next day I was on hand long
before six Its a transcription pro-
gram Mr Bumham explained
Miss Miles the studio accompa-
nist is out sick and her substitutes
having a baby
Whats the program Mr Burn
hamThe
The Songshop Hour Studio B
Heres the music Youll have plenty
of time to run through It before
ONeill gets here
ONeill But he broadcasts
mornings doesnt he
He records at 6 the night be-
fore AS THEgrcenbalze door of Studio
B closed soundlessly behind me
I felt like turning cartwheels A little
before 0 30 a familiar voice broke
up my practicing Hello sister
I looked up and my fingers began
to prickle There was my traffic cop
bareheaded and in shirtsleeves
Pardon the attire he said with
mock politeness Im not supposed
to wear my coat off duty
Are you Tom ONeill
Professionally speaking yes
He came over and began polishing
with his hand the badge on his blue
Try To Remember
Grace Noll Crowell
P0NSIDER your heartacheoldie putIke
pain
You may hive thought could never be
relieved
Recall rone indent sorrow that had lath
For long upon you < ould you have believed
You Mould forget It 1 you have Ah no
We are ao Mind along the road we gol
shirt which read The Singing
Cop Nobody knows about It ex-
cept the gang here I told em It had
to be that way or else IX the boys
down at the station knew 1 was a
crooning canary Hie wouldnt be
worth llvln
I sat still looking slightly gaga
Say he said his eyes twinkling
thats a fine reception considering
that I finagled you a radio job
You did I gasped But Mr
Bumham said
He waved his big hand at me X
know When X heard about Miss
Miles I asked him to give you a try-
out He looked up at the clock
Okay beautiful Lets try that old
number Why Dont You Fall In
Love With Me
X obeyed mechanically As X said
before X have a deep respect for
law and order
WHEN YOU ADMIRE YOU
ARC IIAFPy
A man who was my friend is
gone He was a man everyone
loved He could go into any com-
pany and Inside of five minutes win
every person in that company as his
friend His genius was the genius
for expressing his warm and friend-
ly personality
Last night when I was thinking
over our friendship for each other
and trying to analyze to see if X
could discover the true secret of his
gift I hit upon something that
hadnt ever occurred to me before
His genius was the genius of
knowing how to admire
Ive never known anyone who was
so filled with admiration and enthu-
siasm for everything in the wide
world as he was About things that
you and I take for granted he went
into raptures
In the lowliest and meanest of
lives he saw qualities to praise Yes
Im sure his genius was the genius
for admiration end that that was
what made him liked and popular
and happy for you know what I am
telling you that he was a happy
man How could he be otherwise
when he found all the world end its
contents infinitely beautiful and ex
exciting
As I was thinking about him last
night I couldnt help comparing him
contrasting him rather with an
other friend In his friends this other
friend of mine finds nothing to ad-
mire absolutely nothing He attacks
everything The Institutions which
men have founded are grounded on
stupidity The heads of our govern
ment are crooks Is he happy You
know he is not
I think it probably is easier to be
like the second man I have told you
about than the first for It seems to
be one of the traits of human nature
to like to find fault rather than to
find things that are good
Yet I am convinced that anyone
with a little practice and attention
to the job can acquire part of the
genius of the man I started telling
you about in this little article the
man who had the genius for admira-
tion
Just as an experiment suppose for
one day only you do not criticize
anything or anybody Iook for
something to admire and praise If
you look hard enough for something
to praise you can find It but If
you dont find it right off dont say
a word of criticism just keep still
It you cant praise
Its amazing the effect this has on
your life and on your outlook on the
world
Ode man to whom I gave this ad
vice a short time ago said It was
like going out Into the sunlight after
leaving a darkened room when he
began to see the world at an ad
mlrer rather than a a faultfinder
Consider that an experiment of
this kind will take just one day of
your time and not cost one cent
Dont joulblnk ftat worthwhile
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f HE OBJECT OP THIS GAME IS TO TRY TO
FORCE YOUR OPPONENT TO CROSS OUT THE
LAST OF THE IS LINES YOU MAY CROSS OUT
EITHER ONETWO OJi THREE LINES ATA TIME
PLAYING ALTERNATELY TAKE TURNS STARTING
AKE YOUR OWN DIAGRAMS TO PLAY ON
LV Zf AFTER You HAVE USES UP THESEBY
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DIFFERENT ANIMALS
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Horizontal
1 Match
S Lean to
S At one time
10 A senate
messenger
boy
11 Book of
maps
12 Musical
Instrument
14 Marshy
meadow
19 Total
amount
15 Behold
17 Old
20 Spurt
21 English
novelist
22 Painful area
23 Expert
25 Congenial
23 Schoolbook
32 Possess
33 To soil
with dirt
34 Indefinite
article
33 Pole
33 Get colloq
37 Musical
voice
39 Swell out
41 Mature
42 Smell
43 Hastened
44 Carry
Vertical
1 Mighty
2 Medieval
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3 River
So Am
4 Property
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6 Recite
lna
pompous
nienrier
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7 Incite
8 Distributor
11 Expression
of sorrow
13 Memoran-
dum
19 Scoffed at
18 Persia
19 Terminate
20 Girls
nickname
a Leading
actor
24 Diminutive
of Margaret
23 Water-
craft
28 Proprietors
27 Ahead
29 BUIogual
No 4
30 An emi-
grant
81A plexus
33 Wearied
by tedium
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33 Thick cord
33 Pinch
39 Larva of
botfly
40 Shrub Jap
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frRIDAY FEB 13 1948
Killer Crocodile Slain
Paraded Through City
Australias most feared croco
llle was ambushed and shot to
loath recently near the Gull Of
Carpentaria where during the
past century it had terrorized the
nhabltants and killed and eaten
leveral natives and scores o a ni
nals such as pigs cows horses
tnd wallabies says Colliers
Because of its notorious record
he body of this 18foot oneton
nonster was brought 2000 miles
a Melbourne and paraded through
Jie streets on an open truck
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 10, No. 23, Ed. 1, Friday, February 13, 1948, newspaper, February 13, 1948; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47541/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.