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Show PAKOWAN Jul. ' Mf TIMES. PAKOWAN. UTAH like this had ever h.ipjcrei to tier before, nothing so svu . t. mth.rg so urgent. She was so charge i within herself. She was not the J.S1 she had been at 11. not the girl who had come home from coliege with no definite objective, only a few half baked ideas about getting into some kind of service, preferably some tran.h with a keen uniform. Now she ft It ded cat.-somehow, and everything V at had been was trivial and n.t even worth considering unv more She said, "If you get tomaine, 111 "Nell, if youd rather be discovered feeding a ialf, the bucket! are to- in the welMmu-- e But it might have liStrd brf ! a slightly stra.red look, as Foster UP"1 ' T '" b and I fed t! ern all long ago. Why f tom V. ic4 not just real the funnies and te " m" bit Jill. . Gordoa. jiM I.lrul. Span ,lr(J natural? Men tune been known to . ho boul Hie norrlrd admire women who were content to of Inherit! nf hi. la-- '. he who lb I. thcniseRes HU. nd Juliai face , klr..nr. bo- O.U. a lit:!.-- , sobered. "Dont changed marry SP.. go off the deep tid on this, please,1 eoa--Jill. Youre M..1 young." lrl .hr b. endured. Bb. Paltertoa. nurfir. to ! "But Im nut Im not young. ,OV" ""U And ' a war tlures he, ,nd W d"" ,d bp.nf "I know " Juba was gentle. lov ' JJ di.ru.. i. make you a mustard "I jlater. dont want you to te hurt. Im very special on mu-turplas"Im hurt nlriudv. Its no good, ters. IV C l! UTER She said, "What will you do when Dooley. Jill s,,u faintly. "Everyfinish this vv.,r Lusiress, thing you say is tiue. and yet it's -- r.Pt.-1 all the people she they all no good!" Spang Keep on flying , , vp.,rk!tng brightness. She It was a lovtly Sunday, Jill deI dont know," Sp.ing wiped the room, intro-i,r- c if you l.ked lovely Sundays. cided, mustard from his try-Jwith a fingers l h iv. to all the dowagers, The clean very handkerchief. August heat was tempered "All these r.rt tf l "k too terribly proud. kids will be in it then. It will be by a cloudy sky. and all the hills too triumphant. leaned laily against the horizon, the world's most clouded profes"This Is the sion. c . ii fv d meed. Maybe I'll go back to the with smoky hae masking their ' and "Manhattan Soro-- , farm. That of yoms is prt tty drowsy indolence. i. am! then when they passed swell, ar.d a place Stie walked up the lane with farmer is darned indecaught tari stand the leader and Spang and through the meadow pendent." the ' r.t rf Spans's wings, wtiere the late crop of hay had been "Dont mention that to Mother ( into the Air Corps cut, win re elder! ernes shook their "V and Spans stopped dead, and purple heads over femes and quail head .u fanc it with him, tilting her scampered t rough the clover stubher eyelids ble, their brig! t eyes apprehensive. back, tears burning and so At the top of the hill they found becau'e it was so gallant John I. McFarlane. He was sitting beaut, fu!! e go. into the wild blue unde OH yondr r ting Fly.r.g high into the sun!" ing He , I can't bear it." Jill was think-kgsaid, moment sank Grandfutho vi hen the high and cd somebody cut in. leaving Spang man The I l.ttle bewildered till somedahlia-oclored cool and ful! of little wild whiscatre up, dragging a girl in ch.ilon. "I cant bear hav-i- t perings, and paths cut Lv tiny hoofs all go by me, Jill was mourniran through it in every direction. "Like a parade ng to herself. Spang said, "Good timber," and Jill rarchirg past with flags flying, answered, Awfully old, I think." And then they wire at the rail fence leaving me standing on the curb wth tie chewing-gupapers and and the crest, and there below them tre banana peels and all the stupid the lake shimmered, fiat and quiet, t people! Oh, can't he see? reflecting the lavender coloring of Can't he see?" the sky. But though they danced till the Spang asked, "How's the fishing?" And Jill said, "Ask Grandfather. collar was wilted and Hes the fisherman in the family." the trumpet players weary lip "Off to the east where the hills bake, ar.d all the older people had home, though they romped sank, a raincrow began its sad with the rest to eat downstairs crying, and in a great oak overhead a little bird whimpered and i gMly curling sandwiches and dr.rJc punch that tasted flatly of the shrieked sharply, voicing some kiT.p of ice that had melted in the small heartbreak. A leaf fell and bcwl, though struck the back of Jills hand, and Spang gathered her ilose whenever he had the chance she looked at it and saw the yellow rd said, "Now, lets finish this of winter already in its heart, ere! there was no supreme and a fading, a prescience, and she wonderful moment. shivered a little. There They never did finish one. Dogwood, Spang said, smoothwas always some man ing the leaf between his fingers. barging up w.th some girl in tow, and Spang They fall early. smiled politely and surrendered Jill, "What Im thinking about is the "Then it will be winter, Jill who drifted off spoke numbly, "and how are we chewing hate bet- millions of women stuck home. ween her teeth. going to bear it? especially if she has just had a row But at last He looked at her soberly. "The they were tramping with the county agent. back Russians will bear it. And the through the wet grass to the in "Shes done pretty well, spite Greeks. There won't be much to and Spang was help-- g her in and tucking her skirt of her handicaps. eat in their towns and no place to She had to. Jill was loyal. She get warm, but theyll fight through. around her. He climbed up beside her and loosened his tie. "Never had Ric and me and Grandfather So will we. saw so many Four and Three and not any money to speak of. "Im not thinking about things Fs As at a party in my life, he re- Grandfather had some, but Dooley like that. Im not soft. I can take marked. We never did get a was terribly proud, she was deterit. Things like that, anyway. What chance to mined to make her own way. Fm thinking about is millions of try a rumba. I know, "We wont any of us have any women, stuck home alone. Thats Jill sighed, surreptitiafter the war, not for years. the ghastly prospect. ously sliding off a shoe. money But that was your fault. You were the This will be a complete democracy "That's your battle, Spang said. glamour boy. All their dates wanted a then, every man equal, because "It's tough, I agree. But were up whirl with the air corps, so I had every man will be broke. against the same kind of thing. Milto stumble around brush-oflions of men, stuck in the middle of a her Was he fourteen gentle smelling giving different kinds of telling her without words that a war, alone. Every one alone, even shaving lotion and bearing a hundred versions of the life was earnest, that when the war though theres a mob around him. same alibi, how like the devil they was over he was going to need some Nobody to admire us, and nothing all wished woman with a placid nice to look at. Hairy legs in showthey could get into the broad-hippe- d mg middle of this and no more tem- - ers and masculine table manners work for fight. Im starv-tfcapacity and I know a Greek who makes No band uninhibited by feminine presence, cow? a than perament the best in the world, music or parades, no daughter of nothing soft to sit on, nothing soft hamburgers het s get some, shall we? the regiment? Jill wondered as to look at, nothing but sweat and e Swell idea. in her men swearing, whod like to cry You navigate, and I she lay that night Til fly the I but cant. Wet khaki dangling from bed. those all heap. Gosh, and those awful famen are . .... going to hate me. Every . oarn one tigue hats. Now its your turn. gave me some message I Spang and Jill g deliver to "I give up. Jill managed a some fellow at camp, Fntnrps and there At least we can tie our smile. isnt a chance that Ill U ompare 'tr see one of those men. Cant But hes here, she comforted her-tne- y hair back with ribbons and pretend realize that weve got forty self, sharply aware of him beyond somebody cares how we look. thousand men down "Do you tie your hair back with there and that the wall. Pie neednt have come, Jou never have some- - ribbons? his leave could have he spent look to time any up man who Green ones to match my diswhere else. But he did come, and isnt in your squndron I have to be what he position. somehow "They dont know a thing about "How about some brown velvet to army except what they read wants- that match your eyes? She UP early s hear on the radio. early iot heard Ive coffee on the fyas mother tel that when my father Julia- - having her looked at her With a porch, Song leaving for the port of embark- - s,cretn, on some old lady gave him a daughter in surprise. In Her Heart She wrinkled her to deliver to her son, "On Sunday? all she knew Jills heart began to sing again. in bed been was that he was brow. "Or havent you But she held her eagerness grimly mewhere m France at all? wasn't going to read "Of course Ive been in bed, beau- in check. She Daughter of Jill nibbled a piece of toast tenderness into his voice or his tiful. it might be a line, from Julias plate. Spang says eyes;oldafter all line. The But somehow the Regiment army I like my sister, though you look ar W0ldd be a dam tell you because youre she knew that Spang was different. shouldnt sight Not the sort to give a girl complin the army if it wasnt terribly vain already. for the ments that had no meaning, not the 1, civilians, said Spang. "Dont be disturbed, because I sort to smile and kiss, lightly perey Parked at the little lunch feel like your grandmother this haps, and then ride on. Slow, Jill thousand-dollar a We lost and ate two hamburgers morning. McFarlane, warned the adult part Jn,p ul and drank tall bottles of pop, brood animal last night and your of her mind. a 6reat deal into has deep gone over nothing. grandfather Aloud she said, "My eyes are Did you have fun last bemourning. Jil1 Slly du' thouSht black. I hated them when I was hiousv -r I wanted big blue eyes and Pressing the issue, night? ardm",,.. I guess so. Dooley, Ive been small. httle while if Fm not care-b- e down to my wraist. But curls ful h yellow 'now bow I feel, and may- - thinking. Its time I started helpI got eyes like Grandfather and hair me better Youd little. a put e sorry for me or dls ing you like Mother, and my fathers restguned. to work. lessness. Except that Mother says "So he admires milkmaids, does he hated Buzzards Hill, and thought t3kC advantage- tauhe knew. There was a he? that Mother was crazy to want to us reserve about quiet ask him. Its just a sugdidnt "I him Ji live here when her people died. But cu-be trusted. I love the place. gestion, of course. sweet. Red hair "Dont bristle, :rir,tS-.,Vrced herself into a cool e Spang looked down the slope to darned explosive. The dahlias so ,)Ufih a is small ache was the red roofs and wandering white I'ow no , bloom. to Ycucoud an t'Sbter in her are beginning fences, the softening green of the breaq " Spang went away with freshen up the houe a little. rth! great old trees. "It s a handsome " ',JI hen, with "No. Thats the droopy act they place. Your mother toid me the only the corn- r,af(S ()f girl house was a hundred years old. then friendship between always pull in novels. Pretty an :i"ja' good-by- , that pain, discovered m the garden withwant e a,8 They built to last in those days. Ai I uld last foiever. flowers! of armful j ,d to be (TO BE CONTINUED) love because anything as corny as that." rt .4 ditP),r,,d b" I" 1 t or,d Uw M 1 Me '" Me-rarla- I"' m f- , t U r set d ! - . . j to - . Y&- Z, - - 1.. 1 - ! - ... ' I! AMI HUE A Mrildng photograph made a the town of 'IU1IQI Mi! . TIIW. Hiincu, Japan,' burned' after the earthquake and tidal wave had Mrui k parl of Japan. People tied from tlm town to the beach Hat in foreground leaiiiiK the lire to eat the heart out of Miinuu. Hundred died In ioastal communities and lhousamW were rendered hmnelesa by the Japanese disaster. left-ou- s .e DEMONSTRATION IN TOKYO . . .General view of the giant demonstration staged by union in Tokyo to protest government polieies and demand ouster of the Yoshida cabinet. The demonstration, held in front of the Imperial palace, was the biggest in the Japanese capital since the T Japanese labor May day parade that drew censure from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Many Red flags were carried by the demonstrators. station-wago- f, g. wide-awak- coat-hanger- s, I mighty young man of four months, is getting his first haircut. His mother keeps him in good humor with his diet of milk while Terry the barber carries on. Stephen actually was bored with the operation. Terry said Steve was the youngest customer he had ever served and about the hairiest one to c lip. Usually most boys get their first barber shop hair cut after they have reached ripe age of one year. MAN OF THE YEAR . . . Secreof State Janies F. Byrnes, who was recently selected by Times magazine as "the man of the year. The selection was made on the basis of outstanding work done by tary Secretary Byrnes during United tions meetings. Na- - nothing The Toultry and Egg National board MISS SLICK CHICK OF has announced that they will pick Miss Stic k Chick of 1947 at the premiere showing in New York City of "The Egg and I. Selection will be made on charm, personality and sex appeal. Including coquctiisb-nes- s of eyes, contour of figure and aweep of tail. 1947 . . . PRINCES TEACHER . . . Elizabeth G. Lining, Philadelphia, who is serving as tutor for Crown Prince Akihito, also is teaching Japanese teachers on "education for |