Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH JiU McFsrUne wboss fatbsr Richard disappeared In World War L lDi In love with Spang Gordon a young lieutenant He tella her that her brother Hie is seeing n divorcee sod she goes to camp to investigate Rio avoids her bat she later aeea him with Sandra older hardeaed woman Calvert known as “Old CyaCaptaia Mackey nide" tells her he knew her mother many yean ago Sho feels she has met him before Spang callt to say goodbye Later while riding with Davs Patterson a family friend who has always secretly loved her mother Jolla JIU startlea him by asking "Why don’t you marry my motherT” Dave speaks of her father Jill’i eye and glazed He shouted lift her till she trotted bewiand then he eased aside ldered Jill's legs straight and picked a wild grape bough and bent it over her to keep the aun from her eyes Then tying the mare to the fence he Jumped back to his horse and went pounding down the rocky hill to the red roofs of Buzzard’s Hill Jill opened her eyes and sneezed and tried to push the tickling branch off her face but oddly her left arm would not work She began to cry in a childish way tean running down her temples IX CHAPTER and making wet spots on the earth nickDave gathered up the reins "I The mare lifted her head and know Jill But there’s nothing I can ered shrilling a summons Wheels were corning up the lane do Nothing I can say” and “But— it’s so stupid! With a world an engine labored on the slope her full of unhappy heartbroken people there were voices Jill lifted her and looked Into people who can’t help themselves head painfully John face frightened grandfather’s who can’t change things why f on and I no collar had partly should people make themselves unlather was drying on his When it doesn’t happy uselessly? whiskers sense?” sharply but were senseless He did not at the mare u corps on his sleeve a man with mocking blue eyes and siltemples She did not see Julia McFarlane’a tunned and stricken look as this stranger smiled at her and said “HeUo Dooley!" They stared at each other for a long minute and then Julia gave a choked little cry air cool vered “Richard!” who John I had been in his chair worn out by the and excitement of the day his sagging closed mouth and blinked and said "What say? Who is it?” Julia drew back as the officer advanced Into the room "It’4 Richardl” Her voice was a hoarse strangled breath "It’s Richard — come home I" The old man jumped to his feet and glared “Hello Father” Richard said coolly “So it’s you is it?" John I’s atare was hostile' “It’s you— after What do you twenty-fivyears! Old asleep strain make Dave looked at her then want?” John I I” Julia protest“Don’t you think Dooley is unhappy JiU?” ed She said a trifle flatly "Come “I don’t think she has ever been y in Richard” But she did not hold And so she’s alpne reaUy happy out her hand somehow Even with Grandfather “Nice to see you again Dooleyl and me around and Mamie sputtering in the kitchen and Ric to worry Surprised?" about she’s still so shut in someJulia’s astonished confusion Cashow so separate remote and chiUed to a controlled calm She ual things she can share but real not feelstood stiU poised stony that matter-things — the things ing anything at all never So I don’t even know if she “Naturally R c h a r d Having I’m Just cares about you Dave mourned you for years as one nobly the fool rushing in” dead naturally I’m surprised Will Then Dave said “I do love your you sit down?” mother Jill You’ve seen that io He took the chair she indicated But I there’s no use evading and eased the creases of his smart HISTORY IN MINIATURES Crowded Into the 4000 square feet of Roadside Amerlcs can’t talk to her about it not with world's greatslacks with the old casest Indoor miniature village gabardine Is the panorama of American history: (1) Sleepy Hollow is typical of the the barriers standing that she sets ual gesture that she remembered neer days of the West (2) Shrine church Is a replica of a memorial chapel in the Alps: (3) a pioneer up and defends as she does” His white of 300 years ago Is reconstructed: (4) the John I did not sit down airport laid out like s real field lends note of modern-"- f know She behind that “I retires mustache was quivering like the of the scale on which the miniatures are built Is obtained by comparing Laurence Gierlnger aloof wall and smiles at you across antennae of an angry insect His with the figures he Is placing on a railroad station platform and (6) the village of Fairfield represents the it but you can’t touch her And if modern era eyes snapped fire you present any argument she lev"And to what extraordinary cirels you with that gentle kind of cocumstances are we indebted for the ndemnation to me She does that honor of this sudden visit?" he It afifronts her that other people manded won’t share her mistaken loyalty "Please — ’’ Julia stayed the old My father has always been somman’s fury with a pleading hand ething splendid in my life but I can’t has come home Sit down "Richard belike a pillar of cloud put him John L You're shaking all over tween me and the things I live with Would you like a drink Richard?” the way Dooley does I know that “Not now thank you WNU Features Dooley he wouldn’t want that sort of loyaWhy don’t you sit down yourself?” glass As visitors mill abc He was a human person delty Childhood disillusionment at the shattering of a dream did stained the village She would not collapse into the the lights are dimmer from the few things that finitely not deter Laurence Gieringer instead it embarked him on a and from the open door of the church carelet herself She chair down has let slip when he’s hobby which over a span of 44 years has resulted in creation pours religious music from a tiny or Grandfather fully a bit stiffly feeling suddenly angry at Rlc He liked living and of a picturesque miniature village which has attracted nation gan Outside the church a ragged he wouldn't be as though her body had turned to to know that happy wide attention and lured millions of visitors as though her voice was wood tramp leans lazily against a white anybody took the veil on hi afence With the passionate covetousness dog at his heela something mechanical grinding out ccount" The startled animal flotwdered of child the Laurence words When the organ strains fade he liked living” Dave aaid lost her footing Jumped and scram“Yes used to sit nightly In the window a different type of music Issues “So— you didn’t want to come "and he did a lot of it In the few bled to regain it of his home in a Pennsylvania from s large barn In which an back Richard? All these years— years that he had He was a very valley and gaze longingly at a house barn dance protwenty-fiv"You look years— you’ve let us go handsome boy He had that classic on the mountainside— a toy house It seem on with nothing but silence nothgressing Nearby planes face like Rlc's but he bad blue hoarsely seemed to him as Its lights blinked about to take off from an airThe dim blur of her mother’s face ing but emptiness — because you eyes with a cool direct look" He wantenticingly In the distance was close then very white her eyes wanted it that way?” port while a few feet away peo"I know I’ve got the picture of ed that tiny house wanted to pick ple are packed Into a gran“He didn’t dare come terrified and big back!" And a sort of laughing him It up in his hands and bring it home dstand watching a baseball game “Where does it hurt darling?” barked John I "I suppose you’ve mouth” When his repeated pleas to set out Animation marks “My arm” Jill gasped and lay just found out sir that I’d cleared the exhibits “Amused” In quest of his house were ignored her out Dave helped back again “It’s gone!” There are youngsters up all that mess In Washington? It walking on the little boy finally became desthough the word that had first “It isn’t gone narrow curbstones a boy whose feet flashed It's broken I would have been outlawed aftyway Into his mind was "mocperate and stuffing a banana and are tangled In an electric wire dogs but I paid it all off— every penny” "He was a lot like Rlc He’d think" a few crackers into his pockets king" lift her fire "Don’t at women Lie still Jill” sniffing “Was there something that had to hydrants never been disciplined he had a trudged off up the mountainside voice cut through the hanging oout their washing or gosbe paid off?" Richard asked coolly restlessness that kept him on the Dave's In search of the little house Searchmorass of siping over back fences trolleys move he not stirred not troubled apparently Dave stopped em- ing Jill down pain that was pressing parties were out all night and at and train In operation water wheels off sun the “Keep the electric currents that sparked by barrassed feeling that he had said her face o’clock In the morning the frantic We’ll get some around them in that room Dooley turning grist mills “This too much parents finally discovered the grimy kind of atretcher’’ is the first I’ve heard of it” Receive Wide Acclaim For Jill's face had changed oddbut undaunted the boy “There’s an army cot Go with Old John L snarled It was as if something had The Gieringer exhibits have been ly way up the mountainside Bitter at I— John Dave know where you it her to come but Julia quieted him again with a the boy was comheralded as being overhauled something only the world’s widely is And telephone the doctor” before something forted only when his parents agreed she had gentle gesture greatest miniature village and the "Oh Dooley I don’t want to be to take him to the end of the road “Sit down please John I felt and feared a little and put We most unique and detailed mastersick! I don’t want to be hurt and can talk this over and decorations hanging away evolved ever flags piece quietly don’t you Dream Shattered all the to sore Jill hide think? where it had We can listen to whatever walled up!” "I crippled place A staunch exponent of hobbles Disillusionment clouded Laucan get up You eaten to Richard hat help me" say” as a meant of preventing Juverence’s eyes when he beheld Just an“No don’t move J11L Lie perShe said abruptly “Let’ go nile delinquency Gieringer other ordinary sized house with no Tm chilly” back fectly still till we can have some When Loyalty sists that "hobbles keep children — till lights at all in the bright morning we know whether In aaid “Cold— Dave this aun?” off the street” adding that "If no magic lure do enchantment Tumbled Down "Mamie would say a goose was there’s any other injury or not” hands are busy youngsters’ But Laurence Glertnger’e “What can he say — now? "If you mean Is my back broken eating grass on my grave— Just one they don’t get Into mischief” dream was not ended In fact It years late?” demanded the old of those shuddery things! ” Jill tried It Isn’t I can move my legs and His dream Is to see establishhad only begun Today at 54 he to laugh everything— see? It’ Just this arm man He would not sit down He ment of a national bobby cenewni countless lighted house stood darn it!" From Scraps facing them Built kinds ter where exhlblta of all bristling all But inside she was cold and quakthat be can pick up In Mi hands like a small gray furious dog over "I know baby can be shown to Inspire other Inside somehow now she It’s a rotten of wood discarded tin Scraps ing churches barns along with Julia thought with a small corner but we'U get you fixed cans wire About her father All the shame knew hobbyists of metal pipe pieces up bridge of her mind highways railroads Here they come now” cleaners paper and numerous other Throughout the years both Mr and things that had never been said all quickly lakes fields factgrist mill "There’s really nothing to say" odds and ends have been utilized as Mrs Gierlnger have The worked with the things that her mother had roared back ories and acores of ether minibegan blandly lighting a construction materials for Glering-er’countless children from nearby guarded even in her thoughts when up and the two men got down Richard ature models depicting the cigarette looking around for an asb her children were present Her Intricate models schools and orphanages Dave in one leap and John L architectural and Industrial tray and finding none An idea of the scope of the exhibit twisting been like Ric Not a comhad ther out "allows Although Gierlnger stiffly boys unfolded They the panorama of the America af the fort not some one to lean on some army cot and awkwardly lifted Jill the burnt match In his fingers "I may be gained by noting some of training in his workshop to use melast few hundred years discovered that I missed you slL I the materials which have gone into chanical equipment all of Roadside one to be proud of but a up onto it was Collectively this passing on they are known as its making They Include 9520 feet America has been built completely a military way an unsolved riddle a bewi“You can’t lift her that high mission — so Roadside America which Is situatcame home” of board lumber 4000 feet of buildldering and uncertain element in the John I Let me” Julia ordered hand and with ordinary carpened four miles west of Hamburg "No Pa ing paper 1728 feet of railroad and by amnesia? No wandering ter tools chemistry of her mother’ life between Harrisburg Vnd Allentown Tugging and panting they pushed around Europe for years not knowtrolley track 11080 feet of electric set Christmas up as a Originally the cot Into the rear of the ing who you were? You Just came Roadside America had Its beginwire 813 light bulbs 12000 pounds A Realization display In the Gieringer horns for finally and JIU relaxed and homel" John L was ning four years after Laurence’s of plaster 4000 miniature bitter figures and visitors Leads showing to neighbors giggled a little her wagging Julia’s face was as pale as death to Accident abortive attempt to bring home the 10000 miniature trees and shrubs the miniatures later were exhibited in their faces boots This was a death— 250 lighted house from the mountaintop something dying pounds of nails 42 gallons of in a Reading fire house and in a Suddenly ihe knew that tne look “You’d get zero on an ambuIn her an ember With his younger brother Paid he paint two barrels of green sawdust local a spark had In Julia’s dying all she to glimpsed eyes lance crew you two" she aaid And park earnings going had climbed another mountain near six ton sinking into the spark of stone 8000 pounds of charity The at that Roadside whenever she looked present then she turned her face away and she had tendednothingness so long Reading Far below them Reading sand 145 miniature railroad cars America so stubbornthat Jill kept like a shrine was closed her eyes was established in a looked like a city Inhabited by doll and 1700 feet of tracks for trains ly knowing all the while that it was not really love Not the quivering portion of the proceeds still going doomed to the dry men Fascinated by the sight Lauand trolleys aridness of to charity Although wartime gasoreaching aching kind of love that Richard Returns ashes but refusing to give up That rence said eagerly: "Paul wouldn’t Highlight among the miniatures line rationing shattered attendance she herself had for Spang It was wa what hurt it be swell to build little houses the Is a church with a record number of visitors viewed different Remembering that withdrawn somehow From the Dead foolish same size they look from here?” that loyalty windows tower she had a task that rethe displays last season and still back remem-a little holding something nd dremS Thus was born the idea which was quired months of exacting labor as and decep- Thing that bad S larger cqwds are expected this bering too much rest to grow Into a project enchanting Gieringer sought means of memory-th- at tower built of never been told that never ihe th! jolting ride to town creating summer and nothing upon nothing knew would be told guish of InWnVttaUtony “No I haven’t even a dramatic She whacked the mare auddenly table through the torture of splint atory” Richard aaid “I wasn’t with the rein jerked her head up and the sick confusion of I wasn't even wounded scratched her about aharply She lay in q high The mics I got a little tick of the war after KANSAS CITY MO On Friday he hops a opening of classes Traveling inary here animal floundered mornbed startled lost her and decided in a druggy dazed lvmV I round Tuesday train for his pastorate “ nearly a thousand miles every weekat Locust ing The round trip is 954 miles A footing Jumped -- nd trnWl t Uultud tht tlmh thl w vm d Grove Tex end to preach to his congregation Leaving Kansas City railroad past is a big lift for Mr 1 I at 9 p m Friday he has a the Rev E V Johnson ? would have Johnson’s weekly trip ingly and hurled his horse been awkward former army chaplain ranks as the train trip before reaching Canadian and Locust Grove Is a small commubut too late She did not know cir- Tex where hia wife and two chilmodern version of the they then auddenly the war ended so 1 nity where church services are held Jill went twisting from the saddle never told her about because the cr that didn’t go back” cuit rider A train however sup- dren Sharon 8 end Mary Vesta 4 in a schoolhouse but the young minand landed on her shoulder in the rolled under the “W traced transpyou are of mode the his as that 16 Julia at horse plants mile waiting to take him the ister is spearheading at movement rocky rubble of the lane her bright Buzzard’s Hill that night She did said “Your father wentfar” to Locust Grove by car to Parts ortation to build a church On the return Every week from Tuesday through Before trip Mr Johnson entering the army as a der her The mare Jumped again when she opened the screen door In France—” Friday Mr Johnson attends classes leaves Locust Grove on Monday to chaplain Mr Johnson was pastqr of clearing Jill's legs and then stood and saw a tall officer “And two thousand dollarsl” the at Central Baptist Theological sem catch fi train back in time for the Boswell Okie standing till shivering Baptist church there with silver bars on bia ahoul- - old man put in Dave Jumped down cried "JiUI” er BrK the blue and silver of the V (TO BE Picturesque Miniature Village Depicts History of America b f i ttat“Sii Circuit Rider Travels 954 Miles Weekly To Reach J?arish - “?r" st x ?oV?’xXwd' CONTINUED) 1 v |