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Show All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Nichols returned re-turned home April 23, alter a three week trip to Kansas and Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kirk, and Mr. and Mrs. John Kirk drove to the airport from Goshen Sunday, for a liule visit with Leo and Lola Burraslon. During the afternoon, 9 year old Gordon Kirk, with his father, fa-ther, took his first plane ride in the Bellanca. Ron Morley and his young son, Ronnie flew the Champ to Ephriam Qntirlo.r TU . 1 Democratic- and Republican, to elect el-ect America's presidem?" Another .asked why, since Eisenhower Eisen-hower got the most votes in New Hampshire, that didn't make h.m president of New Hampshire. Europeans must be dumb, indeed if thev can't grasp our pol.ucal system. It's really very simple. They should understand, for instance, in-stance, that our primaries are elections elec-tions that don't count. We just hold them for fun. They are comparable com-parable to training fights for the heavyweight contenders - - just warming up exercises which put the boys in condition for the main event. To make things clear to Europeans, Europ-eans, we should explain to them that we have no system of choos-: choos-: ;jnt Rnnip states hold nosed to elect the men we would have elected had we been permitted permit-ted to vote for for them. So there you have it. First we hold primaries which don't count, because they are eyewash, then we hold conventions which norm- ( nate candidates nobody ever does j vote for, and then we hold the ; election in which we select peo-: p e we never heard of to go and e ect a president for us .And to thmk foreigners can't understand, anything so clear andjnmple! primaries while others hold conventions, con-ventions, and both are eyewash. By now, several states have held their eyewashes, and all sides are claiming victories, either real or moral, particularly those who said they weren't running. After many weeks of this nonsense, non-sense, we hold two main conventions, conven-tions, which don't elect anybody, and several minor ones which don't either. These select party can didates, but they are empty gestures, ges-tures, legally. Nobody ever gets a chance to vote for the men they select, but instead, when we finally get around to iholding the real election, we vote for people we call electors. These are always people nobody ever heard of before. be-fore. Their job is to elect a president presi-dent for us. However, if they actually were to do that, to elect a president of their own choosing, there would be an awful uproar. They are sup- rather rough going because of the stormy weather. Radio ham Morley, Mor-ley, W7CFF, spent the day with his ether-wave friend Oris Hansen, W7RUN. Hansen is a ham, too. Speaking of rough going, the' half inch hail stones that pelted Delta about 3:40 Sunday afternoon indicated extreme turbulence in line upper air. Hail stones are formed for-med in the updraft of the thunder-head, thunder-head, and the higher the velocity of the vertical wind, the larger the stones. TOO GOOD TO RISK ... It may be quite a while before things get back to normal between Rodney Shields and Athena Cook, after what happened last Friday, and the pity of it is that everybody every-body concerned acted with the best of intentions, including the jackass. I am referring to the long eared quadruped as a jackass whether whe-ther it actually was one or not, because I have never been able to grasp all the ins and outs of the strange miscegenation of donkeys, don-keys, mules, horses, etc., and just lump the mixed offspring together in my mind as of the species mentioned. men-tioned. It seems that Rodney read last week of the troubles Athena's brother, bro-ther, Frank, was having trying to run a farm without adequate tractive trac-tive power ,and being of a helpful nature, and having a jackass on his hands for which he had no immediate im-mediate use, Rod loaded the creature crea-ture into his truck and brought it to town. He went directly to the Chronicle with it, with the idea of offering the animule to Frank himself. If Frank had been on the job, as he should have been, he might have accepted Rod's offering with due gratitude, land all would have been well. However, Frank was away somewhere getting his fishing tackle tac-kle in order in anticipation of the opening of the season, and Athena was holding down the office all by herself. Now, Athena has always had a strong aversion to braying jackasses, jack-asses, and particularly to having them in her editorial office. Even though Rod's appearance in the Chronicle with the beast might have made a good news story on the principle that the unusual is ! always news,, she sun aian t like it. There's no doubt about it. Athena Ath-ena is allergic to jackasses. She detests them, news or no jiews. Rod, on the other hand, felt, and still feels, that she could just as well have put aside her own "feelings "feel-ings in the matter, and have taken tak-en care of the flop-eared pet until Frank returned, even if she had to feed it a little hay and perhaps act as chambermaid. He was doing his part and she could at least do hers; and after all, it was for the benefit of her brother. The situation underwent progressive progres-sive deterioration; that is, it went from bad to worse as the argument argu-ment grew heated. Rod said that after bring ing a jackass all that distance, he felt he was entitled to leave it ,and Athena said if either he or it entered her office it would be over her dead body. It looked for a while like an irrestible force had met up with an immovable object; but Athena finally won her point and Rod decided to remove the object. There is nothing quite ias obstinate, -he has decided, as a woman who doesn't want a jackass jack-ass left on her hands. On the way home, Rod had time to philosophize a bit about it all. He felt he was in the right, of course, and yet no gentleman would ever leave his livestock with a lady when she didn't want it. The rule here is that gentlemen will not, and other must not. And not only would leaving the jackass have been ungentlemanly, it would have been risky. Athena, he felt, would probably have called cal-led the sheriff and had it destroyed. destroy-ed. So, since it really was a pretty pret-ty good old jackass after all, he figured it was batter to take it back home than to risk leaving it. In short, he simply decided he had too good an . |