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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH 1 NO DOGS LIFE r of Canine Kingdom Old-time- rs Korea a Sore Spot in Far Eastern Politics Boast of Interesting Careers WNU Features. It may be a dogs life, but its still a good life, it is revealed a series of unusual animal stories compiled by Gaines Dog Research center of New York in connection with its quest for the eldest dog in America. Pampered oldsters of the human race command no more attention than do their counterparts in the canine realm and occasionally, too, their owners sadly admit, even doddering old dogs m are inclined to go to the dogs. homesick dog which trav-3-iled 1,800 miles through strange ter- New York led with accounts of 18 ritory to find his family, the talking dogs. log, the dog credited with killing Country Dogs Healthier. more than 600 coyotes, the dog Although city dogs generally are which went to school daily and, after believed to be healthier and longer-live- d his mistress graduation, accomthan their country cousins, by panied her to the office every morn- far the largest number of reports all these and many other on old dogs came from small and ing fams of a sensational character medium-size- d centers. were uncovered by the Gaines cenOne of the most sensational reter in response to its query concerniports came from Mrs. Robert E. ng the oldest dog. McKinley . of Md. In deReports on more than 200 dogs were received from 43 states and scribing her Canada. mixed terrier, Ranks as Oldest. Buster, Mrs. McKinHe can Oldest is Laddie Boy (named ley insists, The Feder-alsbur- g, the late President Hardings actually talk, saying male owned sucb words as Im hungry and I log), a by Mrs. E. C. Baynard of Rocky want to go out. One of the most remarkable feats in the dog kingdom was accomplished by Jiggs, now 21 years old, After Mount, N. C. His ancestry is Mrs. Baynard explains, his mother being a Pekingese and his lather a traveling man. Laddie Boys age is equivalent to 135 years du-Jio- a human being. The exceptional attention and care Which he has received from his mistress for more than a quarter century are credited . with Laddies longevity. Although a dog half his age is considered old, Laddie still r, ;an amble about. He prefers, in how-;ve- to spend long hours in his wicker basket, barking vigorously when he wants his dinner or other Attention. Laddies eyesight is very poor but his health remains good as ae has required no veterinary attention for four years. Despite an almost complete absence of teeth. Laddie has a big appetite. He is devoid of all his hair save for the lead, legs and a narrow furrow on ' lis back. Besides Laddie, there were reports on 19 other dogs 20 years of age or older. The average dog has a span of life of 10 to 12 years. Not all of the owners who submitted data mentioned the sex of their Aged pets. Of those who did, how-;ve-r, 106 reported males and , 78 lemales, indicating that the pnale logs longevity is greater. The North Central states of Mich-.gaWisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio reported the most aged logs 40 in all with the Middle Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania trailing with 19. individual states, Among n, Although 16 years of age, Buddy, a shepherd of the collie type beBy BAUKHAGE longing to Mrs. Stoddard Porte of News Analyst and Commentator. Grahanisville, N. Y., still works for a living. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., followed their activities so closely His main job is to bring Washington, D. C. through all these years. Then Dr. the cows home from pasRhee went on to explain that with WASHINGTON. the Reveal ture every afternoon of the military govcooperation secret Yalta in the clauses agreeand, his owner points at least five attempts had ernment, ment and the out, he has liever come been made to set up a national govAmerican people in without all of them. ernment; that each time the Comwill a demand In addition to his herding duties, he munists had blocked it by refusing has completely eliminated wood- free and indeto join and because of the directives Korea. pendent chucks from the Porter farm. under which the military governThat is what you Follows Mistress. ment was forced to operate no govhear from the Duplicating the story of Mary and earnest ernment was permitted in which the of Algroup her little lamb, Mrs. Martha V. Communists did not participate. bers of Arthur, 111., reports that her Koreans and , They (the Communists) claim who Americans fox terrier, Rex, now 17 years old, they have 20,000 members in the will be waving a two and her her daily accompanied southern area what right have brothers to grammar School and tearful but hopeif there are that many (which ful to farewell AlWhen Mrs. then to high school. to interfere with the rights I doubt), their bers finished high school and went of 18 million Koreans in the southleader and friend to to work, Rex accompanied her ern zone? asks Dr. Rhee. the venerable the office every morning. In the secret agreement at Yalta, Dr. A real Syngman is Foxy, a collie Dr. Rhee asserts: President deRhee as he owned by Capt. William Penn Lodge Roosevelt and Manchuria that agreed for the of land the parts morning of Long Beach Island, N. J. Now 22 Northern Korea be placed in the calm his for second since the time his can credit years old, Foxy zone of the Soviets. This was con40 years ago. Dr. Rhees follongevity to an active youth. Foxy exile trary to the spirit of the Atlantic was found as a young wild dog run- lowers consider him the legitimate Charter and the other agreements head of the provisional Korean govning at large in the woods of Pennup to that time. When the American forernment set those leaders by up sylvania. Captain Lodge captured tunate enough to escape when Japan people realize this, I am sure sentithe dog and tamed him. For years, dealt Korea its final, crushing blow ment will develop that will make it Foxy, grown from a wild puppy in 1905. possible for Korea to become a nainto a dignified citizen, has been tion I am going back to Presidents of the United States Koreaagain. a familiar sight racing along for with that hope. since Theodore of Roosevelts time, his exercise at the side the Lodge 20,-00- beloved old-tim- er owned by Mrs. Oscar Bengtson of Anaheim, Calif. In 1934 the Bengtson family moved from Truman, Minn., to Anaheim, leaving Jiggs, car. Show Motherly Traits. a large crossbreed, half shepherd, half St. Bernard, with a friend. Motherly instincts prevail among Jiggs stayed with the friend eight the queens of the canine world, the Gaines survey discloses. weeks and then vanished. From Mrs. B. J. Blackburn of Two and a half years later Mich., came a picture of Roseville, Jiggs appeared at the Bengtg her purebred . wire son home In California, having fox terrier, Acelona traversed half the continent in Wire Girl (Acie), now covering a distance of 1,800 12 years of age and miles to rejoin his family. Jiggs, still svelte of figure. who was in his 10th and 11th Acie has produced 10 years when this exploit was litters of puppies and achieved, has not been separatraised all of them. ed from his family since. Besides nursing her own offspring, she has Still Active Hunter. A plutocrat is Zippy, acted as foster mother on three difmale toy black and tan terrier. His ferent occasions for other dog mothowner, Mrs. William ers who were unable to care for all r, E. Griffith of Some- their puppies. This Mrs. has still Blackburn reports, the told rset, sporty-lookin- j j super-mothe- Pa.j perfect teeth, hearing and eyesight. Fred Oertel of Keokuk, Iowa, reZippy lates that his white female spitz, extensively, stopping had a litter of three healthy Midgie, counin the at the very best hotels in May, 1946, when she v puppies try. was 16 years old. On other occaAn ardent hunter is Susie, now sions when she has 16, owned by A1 Johnston, governof her had no ment trapper of Logan, Mont. Susie, own, puppies has Midgie who still goes hunting with her own- mothered a litter of er every day, is credited with pull- white rats, some ing down more than 600 coyotes. Her chickens, another major accomplishment, however, dogs four puppies involved helping to capture a wolf and at still another weighing 103 pounds. time simultaneously nursed a puppy At the age of 12, Ritz Rachmaniand a kitten. nov, a purebred Samoyede owned Numerous owners reported 16 and by Mrs. Daniel dogs who are refusing of Vallejo, to act their age by ratting, chasing cats and picking fights wth other Calif., distinguished himself by siring dogs. One bewildered owner rea litter of four marks of her terrier, She plays and rolls on her back, healthy puppies. Twelve years in a chases cats and chickens and belife haves the are disgracefully in general. Perdogs equivalent of 75 in a humans. Ritz haps she is in her second j is now 15 years old. Gaines center that has traveled Houses Crooks Specialize in 'Big' Jobs-Ev- en ' It the m ? light-finger- ed paid dividends, right foot. too, for the foot contained $1,692. These boys held up a man and grabbed his artificial leg, which he had been using as a private bank. Bandits in Newark, N. J., are a nervy lot. Witness the case where two operators robbed a man of all his cash. A few minutes later, after it started to rain, they returned labo- A couple of holdup artists in Washington, D. C., got off with ing. Today Korea is a nation bisected by the 38th parallel. The North, under Russian control, is separated by the Asiatic model of the Iron Curtain and no real Korea government exists in the Southern half, one-legg- ed . ahd demanded an umbrella. The clothing shortage probably was as acute in some localities as the housing shortage. That may have prompted a Nashville, Tenn., place. e, as closely as possible the route traversed by the original Mormon settlers. Each night the 1947 "covered wagons will draw up in a circle at the site of one of the camping spots where in 1847 the original 148 sought shelter. Plans call for the caravan to reach Salt Lake City ' July 22. Prime objectives for the trek, as well as for the entire year of tion. centennial activities, are to bring Starting at Nauvoo, 111., July 14, enjoyment to those participating and the automobiles will journey 1,500 to focus attention on early history ol miles to Salt Lake City, following the state. SALT LAKE CITY. Retracing the route of Brigham Young and the first band of Mormon pioneers just 100 years ago, a caravan of 43 motor cars will carry canvas-toppe- d 143 men, 3 women and 2 children half way across the United States. The journey, extending from Illinois to Utah, will be one of the 69 major events which Utah residents have planned as attractions for the Beehive states centennial celebra- Syngman Rhee Wants to Tell Secrets still administered by the U. S. military government. This is due, Dr. Rhee says, to the same lack of official sanction from the state department which the aging doctor has sought since Pearl Harbor. All we ask is that we be allowed to hold elections to set up in the American zone of Korea a national government just as the Russians have set up what they call a democratic government in their zone. We only ask that the United States do for us what they have already done for Japan. The other liberated countries have been given this privilege. We never fought against the Allies. For more than 40 years we have carried thief to steal a mackinaw, two pairs of boys overalls and a dozen or so diapers from a parked car. Only one piece of loot proved too hot to handle. In Chattanooga, Tenn., a thief grabbed a package from a parked car, dropped it and ran. The package, he discovered upon inspection, contained a Bible. Some thieves still have a sense of decency although one in Potts-villPa., had a warped sense of proportion. He stole an automobile, underground work against our Japbut left the owner a bicycle in its anese oppressors. 12-fo- ot r-saving state department and other government officials have been consistently sympathetic and stubbornly uncooperative with the effort of this unflagging patriot to obtain recognition of his country. They did not frown on his return to Korea when it was liberated by the defeat of Japan. They put no obstacles in the way of his choice as head of the group which set up a provisional government of Korea. They permitted that group to send an observer to the U. N. but when Dr. Rhee returned from Korea in December of last year his efforts to make his voice heard before the international body .were blocked by the state department ukase, No official stand- Mc-Knig- ht HEFTY HAULS Thieves operated in a big way luring the past year, the crop of jrooks finding few jobs too hazard-ju- s to handle. In the line of big jobs, the San Fernando, Calif., valley thief probably rates the years laurels. Undoubtedly cognizant of the housing shortage, that enterprising thief house. stole a three-rooA close second was the thief who but strong-backe- d stole a country schoolhouse at Ques-ne-l, British Columbfa. There may have been a reason (or stealing living accommodations but no one can figure out what ven a thief wanted with a road blade. grader, complete with However, when one was left unguarded a few weeks near Vancouver, Wash., it disappeared. Demonstrate Efficiency. Not only the outside jobs proved ' big, however. In Boston, a thief carefully rigged up a block and tackle to steal a piano from a third Boor apartment. The piano probably was out of tune; police recovered it later in a pawnshop. . Efficiency is the keynote in the burglary realm, it seems. An inenterprising second story man out a San Bernardino, Calif., rigged up electric hoist to steal a safe. quarter-to- n 0, Natives Advanced in Democratic Processes I asked if he thought the people were ready for a democratic government. He paused a moment and said: You may be surprised, as I was, to learn how familiar the Koreans are with the democratic system. The Japanese, it seems, when they made their various levies upon the Koreans found they had to deal with a system that had already been set up, based on the democratic choice of a leader for a group of perhaps 20 homes which, in turn, chose their representatives for larger groups. Dr. Rhee said he found his people were much more familiar with these processes than he thought they could be even though he had Senate Bathed in Mutual Admiration There is a distinctive brand of political humor often buried in that remarkable and largely unread (and frequently turgid) document, the Congressional Record. The Republican recommendation that senators meet in formal session only three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, devoting the other two days to committee work recently touched off a typical exchange between Republicans and Democrats on the senate floor. Both parties conjured lightly with the names of founding fathers. Majority Leader Wallace White of Maine began by opining that an exception to the rule should perhaps be made for Lincolns birthday (which falls on Wednesday this year) so that Republican senators could, as he put it, have opportunity to go to their homes and elsewhere to make their customary, and I think, proper, speeches on Lincolns birthday. He added that provision, too, might be made for Washingtons birthday. Senator White then recalled that the Democrats usually have either a Jackson Day or Jefferson Day dinner, for which they might want to be excused from the senate. Minority Leader Barkley was agreeable. Said he: So far as Lincoln Day absenteeism is concerned, we have no objection to any deviation from this program (the MWF rule) that would permit our friends to get back to Lincoln. The Record records as follows: Mr. Barkley: I think the closer the party gets back to Lincoln the nearer it will come to Jefferson. I think there will be no difficulty about arranging for Washingtons birthday and for Lincolns birthday. So far as Jackson is concerned, the Democrats have always celebrated Jackson Day on the 8th of January, today, which is the day of the Battle of New Orleans. Mr. White: I think the senator from Kentucky is celebrating it now. Mr. Barkley: But in April I think it is planned to have a num-- I ber of Jefferson Day celebrations throughout the country and I am sure that Jefferson and Lincoln and Washington and Jackson will all be maintained upon an equal footing. Mr. Tobey: Id like to say for the benefit of my friend the senator from Kentucky that I hope his statement which I shall designate as Exhibit A, is evidence that the great party to which he belongs, of which he has been majority leader in the senate for so many years, and so successfully will be bound to return to the principles and teachings and tenets of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Barkley: I will say to the senator that we have never departed from them, because Jefferson was the outstanding liberal of his day, and we have always adhered to the liberal policies which were advocated by the original liberal, Thomas Jefferson, which were not altogether dissimilar to the liberality of the founder of the Republican party, Abraham Monday-Wednesday-Frid- Lincoln. ay |