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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Washington Monument Receives Its 20 Millionth Visitor- -A Vet S the war the has stairway During Soldier Who Lost Hand in been closed to the public. When it reopened visitors with the suffiGermany Sees Structure is cient hardihood to negotiate the President. 1st stairs will again be able to see the Honoring the , The 20,000,000th visitor to the Washington monument in the nations capital was Pfc. Peter Taormina of 979 42nd street, Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a patient at the armys Walter Reed hospital in Washington. A veteran of the fighting in Belgium and France, Private First Class Taormina lost a hand in the battles for Germany and was returned to his homeland in February. Private First Class Taormina was welcomed by assistant secretary of the interior, Oscar L. Chapman, and given a personally conducted tour. Completion of the shrine in 1888 concluded more than a century of efforts to establish a suitable memorial to Washington. A monument in honor of General Washington was first considered by the Continental congress in 1783, after his armies had been victorious in the Revolution and prior to the establishment of the United States under the Constitution. Although there was considerable agitation for the erection of a suitable monument to Washington following his death in 1799, congress took no action for three decades. In 1833 private citizens took matters in their own hands, organized the Washington National Monument society and undertook the building of a great national monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the federal government. Delays and difficulties, however, beset the project for more than 40 years. Private donations proved to be inadequate for the construction costs, and work was halted in 1854. It was not until 1880, after the federal government had taken over the partly finished shaft, that building was resumed. Work proceeded with greater rapidity under the army engineers than ever before and the shrine was dedicated on February 21, 1885, and opened to the public on October 9, 1888. First visitors had to mount to the top by the iron stairway of 898 steps or use a slow steam hoist elevator. In 1900 the first electric elevator was installed, and the present elevator, which makes the trip to the top in 70 seconds, was placed in operation in 1926. The monument is 555 feet high and the tallest structure in the city of Washington. It was built at a total cost of $1,300,000. At the base of the shaft the thickness of the walls is 15 feet, tapering to 18 inches at the top. Although the weight of the monument is 81,120 tons, it has settled only 2 inches since 1885. many memorial stones set into shaft. These carved stones, contributed by states, territories, foreign nations, and others, include one from the Parthenon at Athens, another from the ancient ruins of Carthage, and still another from the tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena. ML UlLCMUL "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspaper WNU Tke men who work Feature. BY NANCY PEPPER around in case hes not dizzy enough THROWING A PARTY by nature, and set him loose. He off with the first gal he Want to be a smarty and give a pairs touches. party that will really send them? Grab Bag Every gal covers her And we dont mean that it will send She them home. Thats the last place face with a brown paper bag. for holes tears have theyll want to go. Well, youto to think up lots of mixers keep her eyes to look things going and to keep the less sensational gals from being mothballs. Double check these winners. Blind Date-L- ine up gals on one side of the room; boys on the other. Blindfold each boy in turn, spin him First Novel at 22 g Girl Writes About Family Life Over Three Generations Prize-Winnin- UlM .streets paving tWs Hwe work mixed up with pW They det to their et lunch outdoors Just like e. picnic every cfey. through, and with colored crayons draws on the wackiest features she can think of. The boys are then let in to Grab a WNU Features. we mean, Bag pick a partner. The fact that they seldom recognize whos under the bag proves that theyre not too observant of your clothes. And think of all the trouble you went to selecting that date dress! AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS This one's, called Cold Wave Freezing and its hilarious. Every time the music stops which it does very unexpectedly couples must freeze in whatever position theyre in at that second. The three or four couples that look the funniest are selected for the finals; other couples dropping out to watch them. Play hot, jivey music for this one. 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Promises to be one of the very bright g Authors of first novels keep getting younger and younger. Latest is Rene Kuhn, who at 22 has produced a work that has won critics. high praise from hard-bitte- n Her book, 34 Charlton, won the Major Hopwood award for fiction in 1944, and went into three printings prize-winnin- before being released to dealers. This is the second Hopwood award that Miss Kuhn has garnered, however, since she captured the short story prize in 1943. Her poetry also attracted attention during her school years. Way back when she was only 10, she wrote an essay on the old frigate, the U. S. S. Constitution, that won first prize at San Marino Hall, Pasadena, Calif. So writing her way to fame is just a habit for Miss Kuhn. 34 Charlton is a story about a family in New York city. It centers about a girls selfemancipation from a possessive matriarchal household. Most of the action is placed in the Greenwich village section. Miss Kuhn, who lives in the village at present, is the fourth generation of her family to become a part of the famous colony of writers and artists. She knows the background of her story intimately. Her birthplace, nevertheless, was far from New York. It was Honolulu. Her father was then editor of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, her mother, a foreign correspondent for a large syndicate. Soon the family journeyed to Shanghai, China, and she spent her early years in that distant land. She learned Chinese before English. In her travels with her mother, after her father died, she saw a good part of the world. Today she speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese as well as English, but her Chinese is getting rusty from disuse. After attending many schools, Rene matriculated at Swarthmore college. She was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1944. It was during her junior year that she began her novel that has her to nationwide notice. She is now at work on a second story, which she hopes to finish this year while visiting in Brazil. Rene, despite her international experience?, is completely American. She hopes to settle in the West, with an apartment in San Francisco and a ranch in Colorado. I like the West, she says, because. of its Western spaciousness. Somehow, people have time to be gracious. Katherine Brush, brilliant and whimsical newspaper and magazine writer, says, Rene has a fine, new talent. The story is unfailingly interesting. Gene Fowler goes even farther, Rene Kuhn, in her first novel, promises to be one of the very bright stars. three-generati- on ol TRIXIE TEEN SAYS - Do you moon ovpt the glamorous in terior decorating pictures in the magazines? Youre ashamed of your living room, are you? The rugs look threadbare; the couch is lopsided; the tables are scratched; and some of the upholstery is stained. Well whos been cutting the rugs anyway? 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