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Show of the gull's wing! We all keep scrap books at one time or another and picture albums are a part of every household, but something I have that, so far, no one who has seen mine has ever seen before be-fore - and that is what I call My Board of No Control. IT'S A SHEET of pegboard, 2 feet by 4 feet, and on it is the greatest assortment of things imaginable - that accounts ac-counts for the name - I have no control over what goes on it! Some things are mine from long ago, some are things folks have given me; there are newthings; some items have great meaning to me and others are purely frivolous. There's my Honorary Delegate's Dele-gate's badge to the National Republican Convention in Chicago Chic-ago in 1960; there's a pair of brass knuckles; a whole row of metal can openers across the bottom - each advertising a different dif-ferent brew. Then there's a little cloth doll identified as having come from the Century of Progress in 1933 in Chicago. A friend was building build-ing an addition to her home and tore a unique hook off the wall "Here", she said "for your Board of No Control!" SOME KEYS (to what, I know not), a mammoth souvenir pencil, pen-cil, the very dull cutting scissors scis-sors . I used as a child are hanging there; there's a brand new corn cob pipe from someplace. some-place. The first time I ever went to Mexico I bought some of those tin masks so common there -one of those hangs on my Board. A couple of button-hooks are side by side with a pair of nose rings to be worn by pigs to prevent them from rooting! You can see, by now, what an assortment I have collected. Something else I've saved may be of interest in the future -pencils from railroad dining cars; - pencils I've used to write my order in diners on the New York Central, the Atlantic Coast Line and the Illinois Central. With' the railroads in their present pres-ent state of flux, who knows how long there will even be any railroad rail-road dining cars? So set yourseli-to remembering remember-ing and if you aren't a collector now, start to amass a fortune in memories for the future. My Board of No Control certainly is an excellent conversation piece! Bits & Pieces By Eleanor Bennett I'M GOING ON a vacation! How 'bout that?! Odessa Nelson will again take over for me at the office as she so capably did last December. Please note that there will be a slight change in office hours -she will be "on duty" till 4 p.m. the one Monday I'm away, two Thursday mornings when the papers come in and then Friday morning. I'll be back in harness on Monday, August 30. AND NOW to my column -a few weeks ago Dan Valentine wrote about "things .saved". I guess we're all a little bit that way - we save things tor no particular reason and months - or years later we wonder to ourselves "WHY?" Why did I save this? We really don't need a reason to save things - it's fun to look back and, remember crazy little happenings! Places we've been; people we've met. I've saved things now for quite a spell and some I can't even remember the where or who or why. But there are plenty others I do recall. THE VERY FIRST time I went to Florida for the winter (we lived, in New York then), I saved miny souvenirs.-pretty, shells and the like and about a month before we were to leave fo'r home I found a beautiful wing of a seagull. I picked it up from the beach and tenderly wrapped it in paper - folded over and over - and put it in the hotel room. Came the day of departure and I brought out this "treasure" to pack to take home I unwrapped un-wrapped it to again view its beauty - and lo and behold -maggots! Hundreds and thousands thous-ands of the ugly things! Needless Need-less to say, that was the end |