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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-11-26, Page 23.'he Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated • THIP NEW ERA TERN'S OF, SUBSCRIPTION 61.00 per year in advance, to Can, Iadian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or rather foreign` countries. No paper. diMontinned until all arrears' are paid s unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid 'is denoted on the. labeL ADVERTISING RATES --.Transient advertising 12c per, count line for first insertion, 8c for each subse- q•U,ent insertion. Heading counts 2 lnnen. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as Such "Lott", "Strayed", etc., inserted' once for 35c, eajch subsequent'intention 15c. 'Rates for display advertising made known on application. Cornnyunigation's• intended for pub- lication must, es a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. C. E. HALL. Proprietor H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Argent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor,- Notary Public Suceessor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block .... — , , . , Clinton, Ont. DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 — Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and: Commissioner Offices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdayu and Fridays. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR • Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours --Wed. and Sat., and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales, Licensed in Huron, and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14-661. 06-012 ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Blear Str. W. Toronto Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A. W. McEwing, Blyth; `'Vice -President, W. R. Archi- bald, Seaforth; Manager and See. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth, Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin;. E. J. rewartha, Clinton:• Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McEw- ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: J. Watt, 'Blyth; . J ,E. Pepper, Bruoe- field, R.R. No. 1; R .F. Mc1lsrcher, Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen. Any money to. be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforbh, or at Calvin ' '2utt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion `to any of the above -officers ad. dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by,the director. NMI ,?ATIONAL.BAILwAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: , Toronto and Goderich Division Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart 3.05 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 am. Going West, depart 10.35 pan.' , London and Clinton Div.cr Coming North, arrive ... 11.15 a.m. Going South, leave ..... . , 3.10 p.m. pICoBAC 7'i�eTobacco pyse 'To;o FOR A MILD, COOL, SMOKE by. Helen Topping 'Miller CHAPTER V SYNOPSIS • Gary Tallman, a young petroleum engineer on his way to a job in Mex- ico, gets as far as Texas where he is given a ride by Mona Lee Mason. They have an - accident, and Gary is seriously . injured. ;Mona Lee takes him to her home. Before he has re- covered sufficiently to leave, Gary finds evidence of 'oil on the, Mason ranch and tells Harvey Mason, Mona Lee's husband. Enthusiastic, Harvey begins making' plans to drill. Now Oliver and Grace Kimballs, the Masons'- son -in law and daughter, are .expected for Sunday dinner. Oliver is interested in oil. The Kimballs arrived, Oliver very jaunty in a new spring suit and Grace with all her curls in place and eyebrows arched to look like the latest Hollywood sensation. And immediately Harvey brought out the map and the geophysicists' report and began expansively to tell every- thing that had happened. Adelaide slipped out and clutched at Gary_ in the hall. "Oh, dear! He's telling. Oliver! And I wanted hien not to." "They'll have to know sooner or later." "I suppose so," she sighed. "Go on in, Gary—keep Oliver from ruin- ing everything if you can." But Oliver had already taken com- mand of the situation, abetted and prompted by Grace. , He was advanc- ing arguments against wildcatting an oil well, dilating upon the ad- vantages of selling leases, and for once Gary found himself agreeing with Oliver. "I think Kimball's right, Mr. Ma- son," he said, "Of course he's right," Grace put in. "Oliver knows the oil business— anyway, he ought to. He's worked at it -ever since he left school." Adelaide stood in the door, her eyes blazing. "Why don't you all let Daddy alone?" she demanded, "He knows what he's doing." "I wonder!" Grace was sarcastic, "Well,. you, can all come and eat dinner, anyway," sighed Mona Lee. Adelaide edged' Gary into a cor- ner as the family trooped into the dining room, "That was shabby agreeing with Oliver," she snapped, "I thought you'd stick with. Dad, and Inc." "T agreed with him because he happens to be right," Gary said quietly. At the table, Grace looked across at Gary. "When are you leaving? spoil everybody, Mother•. Mexico, isn't it?" she asked coolly, You got me spoiled and then you "I ho want to fuss about it." Harvey grinned and chucked her under the chin. But he did W. N. U. FEATURES "Look , here," blustered Harvey. "You quit that job in Mexico- to help p me out. ; You can't go around with.. out money," ' "I have enough. Put five dollars down onthe book. That's more than I've been worth to. you so far," Gary sat in the living room that night and played double solitaire with Mona Lee. Harvey was out, he was always out now, roaring around somewhere in his noisy: old roadster. ' In the'' middle of the game, Mona Lee laid ' down her cards and folded her hands. "Gary," she said. "You. like Ade- laide pretty wall, don't- you?" Gary felt the hot blood flare over his face and neck. He smiled, wan- ly. "There's not much use trying to bide anything from you, is there, Mrs. Mason? But -what can I do I haven't a thing to offer a girl like Adelaide—nota thing but love." "You think love is unimportant? It isn't—not to a girl. -Harvey Mas- on had nothing to offer me lut love, either—and a few hundred acres of washed-out prairie land. We made the rest together." "I haven't even :a piece of washed- out land. There--" he threw a few crumbled bills on the table "—lies my fortune!" "You need another shirt, Gary. You buy one tomorrow. Anddon't you .give up. Addie's a little crazy right now—it's the thought of all this money. She'll calm down pret- ty soon." Harvey came in late and tossed: a telegram into Mona Lee's lap. She looked frightened and picked it up gingerly with her fingers' "Oh, mercy!" she gasped when she read' it. "It's from Junior. He says 'Hear we've struck oil. Stop Swell. Stop. 'Just went out and bought myself a new roadster,' Har- vey Mason, you get a wire off to him right straight and tell him you haven't struck oil yet, and to send that car right back," "Ile had a new car . last year," growled Harvey, "That's the way 'then lied proliail stick:you," 0,'H4 JO,B He"oyyes mkeoney," oldnanHarper maThisisithe job', of the Navy --. "I wouldn't talk to too many pea To keep the sea -lanes silear • pie; about` this well, , "Mr Kasen; , T'hat the "ships may ply Gary advised. "."If you, get a wild Neath a cloudless sky, rat down and it turns out to be a Forgetting the shades' of fear; producer, the wise ='thing to do would:That the trade' which is: your life, and be to, shut it down and keep quiet my life, ; about 4t. YouMay :move as the might 'want ' to get , Lord :,ordained leases ;` on the?; other " land 'that On the waters' face touches''your pool." From; place to place,'. "I don't want, a lot of land. All I want isea good oil well. And I've got a fat chance to keep this; well quiet. Everybody in ; the "county knows about it"already. "'., "That's because, you've talked too much" Mona Lee said "You send that wire off to Junior now, Har- vey, right away." "AR right, all•right, Mother,;don't shove .me!" ': "Would you speak to Adelaide' be- fore you go to- Austin about taking me over to the oil fields • in the can Mr. Mason?" Gary asked "My gosh, aren't you kids`speak in$•? Whats wrong with.you?" "Nothing's wrong," Mona Lee put in quickly,, "You knew `how Addie is -always ' tearing around places. Just tell her whatyouwant her to do."' "You want me to go now, sir?" "Why, sure—the quicker the bet- ter. Hey, Addie!" Harvey raised his voice in a whoop as he went down the stairs. Adelaide was- waiting in the car when Gary went down. "All right, mister," she ''Said. "Here's your taxi." - "Thanks a lot. I hope I didn't in- terfere with any of your plans•?" "I was supposed! to be playing bridge at ,Grace's; - but she can just find somebody else. She's being snippy any -way, and Oliver goes around telling people that Dad's crazy and will probably go broke." Gary looked at the prairie and the swampy places where lazy, shallow rivers ran and spiky white Iilies_ turned their faces up to the sky, looking angelic to hide the fact that they wore a thousand .spiny thorns. He looked at the white-faced calves staring over fences, and a pear orchard in bloom—and then suddenly ahead the rolling landscape was punctuated with a hundred steel exclamation points, making a stac cato fringe against the sky. "There she is," he said, "There's your oil." with kids. They think you're made "They always• give me a thrill," of money." • Adelaide said, slowing down as the "I never said a word in my let=' forest of derricks fringed the hori- ter, 'Adelaide must have written zon all around, "Like sailing ships him something. I know you didn't —'or flags waving. They're so dra- write—you never do." matin I know they're just steel "Well, I did write a line or two," and that clown under then' greasy, Harvey admitted, "I had to send black oil is blubbering up out of a him a check and I told him I ,was stage setting." figuring on starting drilling." "That's because they're like sky - You bra scrapers — and bridges — and big bragged, I11 bet, Now you ships. Drama went into the build - can just settle this car business ing of them—�huntan drama. Pride yourself, You're the one that spoils and ambition and greed and cruelty; that boy anyway. I don't," little men working with their brains, You fighting stresses and wind and storm and the untamed power that lies under the earth—untamed and un- predictable." "I didn't know Gary." "Not with words =but there's rhythm in a scene like this! If you climb to the top of one of those hundred -foot boys, you 'feel the sway of the wind and the tremor of the earth' under you. You can almost feel the old earth breathe." At Gary's direction Adelaide, turn- ed into a muddy little road that twis- ted between stumps, over frail wood- en bridges, past leases, each one fenced carefully with good steel fence, past batteries of tanks and little shacks with rickety cars stand- ing in the yards' and dreary looking clothes flapping on lines. Lean faded women came to the doors .of the shacks, looked out hopefully, patiently watched them pass; dirty children scrambled out of the road• pe to get away tomorrow," Gary replied as casually and coolly. "What?" Harvey lifted his voice so that Marie jumped, "You're not going! I hired you. You found this oil. You won't like Mexico anyway, not in summer," "Dad, if Mr. Tallman has a job down there-" Grace was acid. "A man with a job in sight had. better hang on to it," stated Oliver, Mona Lee looked at them all calmly. "Gary's' not going," she. announced with a serene kind of finality, "He knows we need hint, and Gary wouldn't go and leave me when i need him. Would you, Gary?" He was on the spot. There was noticing to do but to agree, to h t o not write or wire to' Harvey Junior: He forgot about it. He had to get ready to go to Austin to get his drilling permit so he rushed around, shouting orders all over the house. Look here, Gary—you. know about this drilling business—you ought to know a good' rig when you see it. You take Addie'' car and she can. go along and drive, and you go over east and hunt me up a goodcrew to get a well down." "You'll, need two crews—riggers to get your derrick up and drillers to get your well down," • Gary re- tmnded hint. And what are you Later, when Harvey hadgone off going to do about water for the boil - the canyon, dragging Oliver with. ers and to run the drill? You im, Mona Lee came, upstairs and wouldn't want to Nunn your well dry apped on Gary's open door. "Gary," the first day—even if your pump she said' as he turned, "I do Want you v'ould lift enough to run the drill stay! I'm. worried—about Harvey —which I doubt. You'll have to ar- dogs Blank into the bushes—the he's so impulsive," range to pipe some in from some- hungry, vague, hopeful fringe of where. Any creeks or rivers near humanity that lingers on the edge "I'll stay, Mrs, Mason." Gary here with much water in them?" of every oil field. The men muscled you were a poet, rued from the window. "If you ask to me ... I can't refuse very well Harvey looked thoughtful, There's and lean' waited for' roughneck jobs, after all you've done for me." a cistern at the barn. And that tank pipe -laying jobs, any scraps from "You mustn't be influenced by out there holds a hundred barrels." the vast, teeming feast of exploitat- that, Gary. But we wouldn't let you "Not enough. It will take a week ion. lose anything, of course . , ;' probably, to get your,. well down, And (TO BE CONTINUED) "Please, Mrs. Mason! I got you You can't run out of water while the • to this:' He smiled ruefully. „I drill's turning*" Vim' • in hope you won't hate the sight of me ' You get the outfits we need and CARTER SCHOLARSHIPS before•t' winners of Y hadn't found the oil, I suppose to fire the boilers, too. Have oil the , Carter "sciholarshipsll- or Huron somebody' would . somebody we tanked in on trucks. `• On a' field couldn't even trust, maybe.. If only, you'd have the county, , cashfoll$100;1:: Miss Mary All, Harvey would listen—takegas from the strip- Goderich, 2nd, Eleanore C. time to per, but out here you'll have to pro- Cason,rWingham, cash $¢0; 3rd, Bri- think things through. Pll be glad vide your own fuel. Pll have.to find tain Saunders, Exeter, cash $40. The if you'll stay -try to protect Harvey an outfit that's equipped with an award is basjd on the highest ten pa - from being too foolish. , oil burner. " - Pers in the upper school. "I'll do that --as much as T can." Weil, it's a good thing you've On Monday night Harvey peeled got Gary, Harvey, to think of 4 V two twenty-dollarthin every - two bills from a . roll g' '"- Mona Lee said. "There's Last year the Canadian National and tossed them across the table to Gary. Gar •gravely; handed them back. "3 haven't, earned this -even if I had I owe you ten times as much," - it's over." I'll see about the water:" "I'd never hate you, Gary, And if "You'll have to arrange The Department. of Education on you had ' for fuel Wedne a announced that little creek over on the Harper Railways System moved more than place, Harvey. But you'd have to 165,000,000tone of mnnitiene ,of war pay 'old inan Harper --and tell him and other'products, of inddistry• and what you wanted the water for=and agriculture.• Unhampered and unrestrained. r• rile i i i 1 •. ' This is the job, of the Navy To; geard the edge of the and To the waters to go And encounter the foe By sea to make the stand, That the sleep of the child may'be- dreamless, And the mother's be deep and sound For the certain fact That no, alien act Shall disturb our country's ground. This is the job of the Navy — To dare the raging gale, To challenge the might Of the storm's height And to follow the raider's trail To hold to the great tradition Of the men who made us free, To sail in the wake Of Nelson, and Drake, On the restless, heaving •sea, • sty: So pray for the men of the Navy, As they fight for your freedom yet; As they guard your life In this time of strife, Cold, and' tired, and wet. Think of the job of the Navy, And as you do so, pray. That the years ahead May be free from dread That the Navy's here ... . to stay! THURS., NOV. 26, 4942 BOY scOU'rs FIGHT BUSH' FIRE Boy spouts of, the 5th Timmins, Ostt:. Troop had an opportunity) to, put •their' seput training into practice recently. when they were.called from their sum- mer camp to assist in fight!ng a bush fire. Every Scout in the camp volun- teered for the work but only old - ex' After boys were selected. A ten old - six hours furious work cutting; ditches and'fell- ing trees in' the path' P of the fire the oo agration was brought under con- trol. Several hectic hours were next day until the danger hail spent ass eck The boys returned to their eamp carry- ing ivith them the highest g commends= tion from F orest"officials. POTATO,PRICF7 CEILING IS ANNOUNCED A new price ceiling for potatoes as set by tllte Wartime Prices andl Trade Board has been announced by W. Harold, McPhillips, regional prices and supply respresentative. Maximum wholesale and retail pric- es for, potatoes in all parts, of Canada. will be the highest lawful 'prices at which potatoes were sold in the periodP November 1—November 10, 1942. Ceremony is the- smoke of friend.- ship. --Chinese. 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