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Show f If 1 as?! LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL UTAH l i "t : " I N Is Known as Badger K ft, THESE UNITED SUTPS v.o-w- p i Bj the It, own of Iowa E. L. K1KKPAIR1CK ES5?.! WKTt ps." to tact name oi me . mtu tm, rf of less than 400 in rflrr."Lowa' . uai nrntrrarr, center oi uiis T.tWQ -- "biuuiiuj WaS xne stock and grain association, bianea aimosx w years ago. ...... rm Wtion k,i ' out' OR f CEi. i A Bank. Another similar development is the co-o-p credit union started in 1939 "out of necessity, to provide the Badger community with needed banking services." Although opposed by the banking interests of Iowa at the outset, this group per sisted wisely, although slowly, until the bank which it operates is one of the safest and most stable in Iowa, according to the state bank sitae :Bc, ' t Finally, there is the food store handling meats, groceries iVsOFITS PEOBE . . . MaJ. ITOIUm U. Porter, retired tf the chemical warfare It, b shown as he appeared I the Senate Mead committee m investigating Rep. A. J. md war profiteering:. Hittt, Ci ' WS- ""7 1Mb! and electrical appliances. Its car p labeled goods rying ABC patrons of quality and safety according to government grading standards. Folks know they aren't likely to get gypped in this or other p trade and relations that characterize Badger. Other possibilities are being considered by Badger- ites. Entertainment for the teen agers and a playhouse for young people are being talked about. That's the way it seems to be done. A few people, get the idea, throw it out to others, and all get to gether and discuss it as a possible development of, by and for the com munity. In this way, the people meet their major needs to the extent that problems and difficulties that spotlight most rural communities are seldom heard of in Badger. When wanting a hunch on how j p a producer or consumer can be made to work in a rural center, write or go to Badger. co-o- co-o- co-o- tdrrfefc latfev v v 4k dvdv PAPA i. 1 , SUMNER. WASH. -- Most toothaches are forgotten in 10 NO JOKE. SON . . . It's reaUy Kenny Delmar, the "Senator CUghorn' f radio, who la waving $100 in Confederate money to get more Smoky Mountain musio eat of Sen. Claude Pepper, Florida, with a harmonica; years, but Dr. C. L. Tolefson, a local dentist, recently received a check from a man he bad treated a decade ago. The dentist had forgotten all about it, when a letter with a money order came. A search into the office records disclosed the name of the patient and the forgotten date. The letter explained that the man had bought a money order several years ago and was going to send it to the dentist At that time the packing plant where he worked closed and he lost his job. He cashed the money order in order to live. But after several years, and attendant prosperity, he had the money to spare, and "hoped the doctor would forgive him for the delay." Mickey Walker, 45, Sure Hell Paint 'Real Stuff . . . WNU Features. It was five years ago that Mickey decided to take up the easel and start mixing the paints. He saw a movie based on the life of Gauguin In which a man In middle age left fame and fortune to become a painter in the south seas. Mickey decided to become a painter in the United States where he is known as 'a tough little guy." And what about bis 45 years? Well, in Mickey's opinion age is the best thing that can happen to a man. It gives him some sense. He no longer wants to sit around in a night club, or think only of blondes and champagne. Age helps a man and ought know what he can do to do. Painting Not Like Writing. Mickey spends a lot of time now in the quiet atmosphere of his ram- - AUBURN, WASH. Jimmy Mar- shall, age 15, operates a farm here without help and intends to build up a good herd of purebred Jerseys. In addition, he's a good athlete and a good scholar in school. Last January an accident brought death to B. L. Marshall, Jimmy's father. There were 12 cows to be milked night and morning and spring work had to be started. Jim- my, though just a curly-haire- d youngster with an engaging grin, took over the farming, the dairying and raising hogs. Yes, he intends to keep right on farming. He likes it. And he is well on his way to success. 1 1 y,V 1 Mdaaa.- Cod Is Shocked By Autoist Who - 5 nM WILL REMEMBER - holding- blood-stainevrom the battle ot d Bastogne fented to President Tru- "mie Mouse by Belgium dor Baron Silvercruys, . . . 111 - .in irom in -, o. ui s. Belgium 5 m r ti ivX ft; -- vX v , ? i Asked for FineThe teleGREELEY, COLO. phone on the police desk rang. It was a Greeley woman who wanted to tell the police that she had just run through a red light at a downtown Intersection. She explained that she had driven into the Intersection before she noticed the light had changed and "had to go on through" even In violation of the law. t "I'm sorry," she explained. "I'll come right down and pay my fine." Desk Sergeant Irl Tlmken got the shock of his life by such a call. He excused her from the fine and commented that "if all drivers were that conscientious we wouldn't have a traffic -- Bicycling Cat Returns with Four Kittens ROYALTON, VT. Abble, Royal-ton'- s bicycling cat is back home again after a year's absence and she brought with her four beautiful kittens. Nearly a year ago Abble, who was accompanying Mrs. Homer Russell and children on a bicycling tour, disappeared near the Russell's summer home in Maine. Through a newspaper story Abbie was located about two miles from where she disappeared. No Wedding Honking MONESSEN, No PA. more "wedding honkings" or other excessive tooting of automobile horns will be allowed in Monessen. It's against tliL law. a new ordinance pro vides. Excessive tooting of automo bile horns henceforth will draw police Dunishment under the new law. which also requests that newlyweds "find a quieter way to display their joy." tssist-an- t ATOMIC SOLONS . . . W. Stuart Symington, E. Millard Tydings, Senator secretary of war; Robert E. Hannegan, MarvW Postmaster-Genera- l i. postmaster-generaassistant and Gael E. Sullivan, arc shown en route w oikh. ?iaiyifQtiEEN...w Itu.. ornU tr, who took I I CaMf i n'and, when she i ' i DB s. 1 , M f Beverly "raignt sets In final. r vv v ''?.yxKp-.f'.-- I Jf ;, f .... .. - ...... 'v i : , AVIATION NOTES J AIRPORT CHATTER , ,11 PRESIDENT GAINING FAVOR . . . Benedetto Croce, famous philosopher, is shown, left, as he congratulated Enrico de Nicola, who was recently named provisional president of the Italian republic President De Nicola enjoys enormous personal popularity in Naples, a monarchist stronghold, and his election by the Italian monarchists over to "De constituent assembly, won some ardent Nlcela'e Republic." ITALIAN - ----- . best-know- n Kills 820 Rats in 24 Hours x1 'Mi hard-surfac- WOMAN . . . Likes to EVERY just like Esther paint furniture Williams, screen star, shown above at her Santa Monica, Calif., home. Esther also enjoys dectrying her hand at interior then. and now orating II. . . . Meat shortage? They evidently never heard ef a meat famine down Rocky Mount, N. C. way where porkers part with giant hams like the one above, which tipped the scale at sixty pounds or three times the weight of Sally, who looks at it with disbelief or "something." Rather a Urge sise ham to put la the ovea, meat shortage or no meat shortage. 40-ac- the start of the war as a lookout post, a lookout for enemy planes. Her husband got the job of spotter. However, it wasn't long before the war department deemed a Japanese invasion of southern Mississippi as unlikely. So Mr. McDaniel went back to railroading and Mrs. McDaniel took over the post for the forestry department. She keeps regular office hours atop the tower, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily. Most of the time she just knits and reads. But a' few minutes every hour she scans her 20 mile territory with binoculars. f 0e car and h'isted it onto Moulders. The idea was 4 from packs broagbt to c by war brides. v 4- Miss Mayme Smith of Monroe, age 7?, was the first passenger to alight from a plane at the new Lan caster, Wis., airport which has been opened by William Brewer, a pilot . Eight Omaha men, Lyle De-Moss, Leonard J. Bussey, Don Mus grove, Henry E. and Walter W. Bennett Davis, Leonard Wendt, Fletcher and Bert Robinson, have organized a hunting lodge some 400 miles from home, on Lake McCon l.i.imll..H-H- . mim aughy, near Ogallala, Neb. . , The Denver Chamber of Commerce, with an eye on the younger 'genera tlon, plans to construct a airfield for model planes only, with v ?Vl runways and a con trol tower. , . Republic Aviation has leased for five years, with op tlon to buy, the government-owne- d plant facilities and airport at Fram Robert and "Mil ingdale, L. I. . dred Entriken, husband and wife, are students of George Smith and Paul Shirmer at the Mount Holly, N. J., airfield and will soon be li censed pilots. . . Harris field, Cape Girardeau, Mo., has been leased by the city and operated by an air port board. . Wynne, Ark., with srf Is i sfrMjii J a class two airport, expects to add further Improvements costing $770,' BOXER? . . . Well, he used to 561 under the federal aid airport be. Mickey Walker, former welact. terweight champion of the world, is shown here working on a canAIR EXPOSITION AT DENVER vas, "Off to School," In New The first Denver International air York. The large painting in the show will be held at Stapleton air background is "Main Street. port August 24 and 25. Homer F Torrey is board chairman for the Directors are Donald B bling Elizabeth, N. J., home, sur show. rounded by canvases and shelves Robertson, Thomas P. Campbell, stocked with books. He paints and Robert S. Mcllvane, John R. Mc occasionally writes. But then he Phee and Harry Anholt. The air worries about his grammar and show is advertised as being under remembers that he was kicked out the direction of Steadham Acker, of school for fighting when he was who is director of annual air car in the eighth grade. nivals at Birmingham, Ala., and Painting is different from writing, Omaha, Neb., and who directed and Mickey is considered by critics air shows at Denver before the war, as one of the outstanding contrib All late planes and helicopters will utors of primitives at the American be on display and the show will fea contemporary artists' gallery, where ture the usual air thrills. he has had two exhibitions. One of his best collections were painted on Noted Kansas Airport his 50,000 mile USO tour through In a western Kansas town of only India and Africa South America, 523 residents can be found one of where he served as a master of the privately operated ceremonies for a sports show. ports in the country The town I Got a Scare Once. and the airport op One day he was painting on Vic- Johnson, Kans., is Forest Walker. The John erator durCentral in beach Africa toria son flying club has 10 members, ing that tour. He had set up his most of them farmers, who have easel on the sand and started paintover $30,000 invested in parts, haning when all was quiet. He painted gar, etc. for a while, when he sensed somehearer When a and thing twig snap. he turned around there were about 2,000 natives standing there watching him, not saying a word. They turned out to be friendly, but curious. Still taking it a little easy because of a touch of malaria he contracted while on the USO tour, Mickey is glued to his studio. He's Fair-chil- d . WINGED BOXCAR serious about his painting. Some which cargo plane, packet of these days it will make him some carries nine tons of pa; load at money, he feels. 200 miles an hour. The fuselage But he's glad that he was a boxIs 38 long and big enough(that er and managed to save some autos feet and trucks can be driven money, he admits. Inside. MWUUMM" foot tower. The tower originally was built at J&orning beach stroll and lending chore are easily com- 3 by this papa at Nag's Head, ,He took the baby's auto seat it 1 WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO MEAT NEW YORK CITY. Although he is 45 years old, he thinks that in about four years he'll be "doing the kind ot painting called the real stuff. That s the way Mickey Walker, former welterweight and middleweight boxing champion of the world, looks at his art career. and Dairy Climbs 273 Steps Each Day-- to Knit i ' THE TOY BULLDOG Boy, 15, Operates A Farm '' Rep. J. Percy Priest, Tennessee, with a ukulele, and Sen. Glen Taylor, Idaho, with guitar. MISS. Mrs. Merle ERRATA, Lucille McDaniel has to climb 273 steps to get up on top of the world, but the quiet she gets for her knit ting makes it worth the long pulL Mrs. McDaniel Is a fire watcher for the forestry department Her of fice is a cabin perched atop a 120 alb. mm J Man Remembers Dentist After Decade Passes fjnd" has recently been Editb fckeo ta honor Urns who hat served the Fire since iU id CmP Fond will carry on her TOD V UI -" Although this organization metV- with difficulties and opposition dur- Ing the first few years, it survived by realizing its advantages of cooperation as a community builder. By 1914, the association had been reorganized as a Farmers Gram Elevator company which has or-aiea emciently and successfully ever since. Another venture of lone standir.e is the Telephone com pany which has been going for more than a quarter century, and then a petroleum organization in 1930 with a capital of $6,000. The latter firm does hundreds of thou sands of dollars worth of business annually, since it deals in farm ma chinery as well as petroleum L nUp FIEE LEADER Ex-- t tyiUi M. Eempthorne 81 ' .i" "ItllLuiM Aided SACRAMENTO, CALIF. by a dog, two cats, a can of poison and a club, Ariolph Bufe counted 820 dead rats after a hectic day and night battle. Bufe claimed the rats invaded his ranch in hordes, grsy droves of them. All day and all night he fought, aided by the cats and dog, meeting wave after wave of rats. He believes the rats were attracted to bis ranch by the amount of feed he had, since the current feed shortage has been acute in this area. VET FLIES At Brigham, Utah, Dean Larsen, war vet of Wales, a Utah, has successfully soloed an air- -- V n - - ; t . , ' 7 ' y tl1 -'- it- flight in a hand-operate- d plane, John C. Weir and his instructors, said. Larsen was wounded in Germany in bullet lodged 1945 when a In bis snlne. Bill Rowe, . ':, v-- - n I'MWiifif L jv? 1 l ,V v.. 1 "''' THE ARMY GOES BACK TO TOE HORSE . . . The horse has come back Into his own with the U.S. constabulary forces now on duty patrollng some 1,600 miles of German border along the Ciech and Russian frontiers. Here Pvt. Manuel Ward, standing, is Inspectinir the pass of a civilian from the Ukraine, while Pvt. Gene Robbins sits Har-maon bis horse. Both GI's are from Troy, Ohio. MaJ. Gen. Ernest unit. commands the who rides a grasshopper plane n, y y 4 "6- ' : ' J .V PARALYZED plane after 5ft hours of instruction, even though he is paralyzed from his hips down. The Bushnell general hospital patient made a ,i ' ' y nOWARD DUGHES'S MAMOUTH PLANE WRECKED . . . Wreckage of Howard Hughes's largest great plane Is shown after It had hit telephone wires, crashed Into a borne and then Into Rosemary De camp's garage, finally hitting another home In Beverly IIUls, Calif. Home Is shown burning In background. Hughes was only one In plane when It crashed. He wss rescued from the fire and rushed to hospital, where It was first reported that he had little chance to survive. |
