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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1942)
TV A 'Demountable Homes’ And now, under the grim necessity of war, comes the demount able, movable home that can be moved from post to pillar, and which is built on on assembly line as the craftsmen of Detroit used to build automobiles. I nele Sam got his idea from the Tennessee Valley Authority who first used the demountable home. > On the assembly line at Muscle Shoals, Ala. The houses being built here are made in uniform-sized, portable sections, and can be put together in about four hours. Here is the first “slice" of a demountable house being put in place on its permanent foundation. The lady of the house uill be able, to cook dinner in her new kitchen within a few hours. The lady of the demountable house finds that, except for soap and towels, the bathroom is all ready for the master to take a tub when he comes home. Framework of a demountable house of the type built for TV A and now adopted by the govern ment. Wheels enable house to \ be rolled along assembly line. ■* Workers are preparing to load a section of a demountable house on a trailer truck (right) at the end of the assembly line. Everything but pork chops! A few hours after the first section of the "demountable” was put in place, milady enters the kitchen and finds it completely equipped and ready for business. Completeness of the demountable house shoun here. Intelligent Animal cJ By STANLEY CORDELL Released by Western Newspaper Union EZRA POWERS who is Grove ton’s oldest inhabitant and Andy Small, the next oldest inhabitant, are forever argu ing and reminiscing. The other day I found them arguing over the rela tive merits of cats and dogs. "Dogs are the brainy ones. You can’t lose ’em,” said Andy. "No matter how far from home they go they can always get back. There aren’t many cats that can do that.” He paused and smiled dreamily, while those of us who were fortunate enough to be on hand at the mo ment, held our breaths. We feared that the argument might end there, yet we knew somehow that Andy had a story to back up his theory. His next statement, therefore, was something of a surprise. "However,” said Andy, smiling craftily, "I can tell you a story about a dog who didn’t come back.” Ezra Powers, though plainly sus picious, took the statement as an acknowledgment of defeat, and smiled willingly enough. “Go on," he said, “let’s hear you disprove your own theory.” So Andy, as was his custom be fore beginning a yam, filled and lighted his pipe and settled him self comfortably. This here story (began Andy) is about a dog named Tamar. A feller named Dave Cram was Tamar’s owner. Dave lived up near North Falls about 25 years ago. A feller named Dave Cram was Tamar’s owner. Dead now, he is. Killed when a tim ber log rolled off a truck and crushed him. Tamar's dead, too. Died of lonesomeness, they say. Anyhow, this here Tamar dog was about the smartest hound you’d want to see. Dave taught her all sorts of tricks. She would fetch home from the store in a basket. She'd shove Dave’s slip pers under the stove along about dark of cold winter evenings. She’d sit in the bow seat of Dave's canoe and never move a muscle while Dave shot the craft through the Upper Rapids. She’d do most anything, and most of all find her way home alone. Tamar would follow Dave to the woods every morning and most like ly roam off by herself while Dave worked with the boys at Dakins’ camp. Come nightfall, Dave would return alone, always knowing that sooner or later Tamar would show up and yip to be let in. This Dave was sort of an odd stick. Every so often he'd get a restless itch and hie himself off to Boston or Portland for a couple of days' spree. Two years after he got Tamar, such a feeling took posses sion of him, and nothing would do but what he’d have to go. There was, however, the problem of Tamar to consider. Dave couldn't leave the poor brute to starve, and it wouldn’t do much good to ask a neighbor to take her in. For he knew Tamar would come back to the cabin and mope around and whine till Dave got back. And so in the end Dave decided upon a plan. He'd take the dbg with him as far as Gilford and board her there at a public kennel, picking her up on his return trip. Gilford, Dave figured, was far enough away so that Tamar wouldn’t know her way home and, therefore wouldn’t make any serious attempts to get loose. A day or two before Dave was ready to start Tamar began to act peculiar. She seemed nervous and became whiny. Dave attributed it to the dog’s intelligence. He rea soned that Tamar knew he was go ing away and wanted to be taken along. Tamar did, in fact, act more contented when Dave set out and whistled for the dog to fol low. They traveled by stage to Gilford, and Dave had no dif ficulty in locating the public ken nel. He exacted a promise from the keeper of dogs to pay extra special attention to Tamar, and paid the score before departing. At the last moment he noticed that Tamar was acting restless and nervous again, and he sort of hated to leave such an intelli gent animal in the hands of a strange kennel owner. Dave was gone six days. He re turned to Gilford eagerly looking forward to seeing Tamar. But Tamar was gone. The dog had, ac cording to the keeper of the kennel, jumped the fence the second day of her Imprisonment and fled. Dave was disappointed, but he smiled. Tamar, he knew, possessed that sixth sense that would lead her home. He hoped the neighbors had fed the dog. Late that night Dave arrived home. But Tamar was missing. And there were no signs of her hav ing been there. The next morning Dave inquired confidently of the neighbors, only to learn that none of them had seen hide nor hair of good old Tamar. Dave walked into the village to make further inquiries, only to meet with like answers. By now Dave was alarmed. He loved that dog as much as most folks love their children. So he hired a rig and drove about the countryside, stopping at every house he came to. But all to no avail. JTamar had simply vanished, appar ently lost while trying to find her way home. In desperation Dave inserted an advertisement in the North Falls weekly newspaper, offer* ing a reward. When this brought no results, he advertised in other newspapers, and felt help less and lonely while waiting for replies. He had already looked at some 20-odd dogs, only to dis cover that none of them even resembled Tamar. But at length arrived a letter which described a dog that must certainly be Tamar. Dave hastened to Painesville, the nearest town to North Falls, midway to Gilford, and i looked up the sender of the letter. The letter-writer said that a strange dog had been living in his barn for almost a month. The dog was a vicious animal, and no one had been able to approach her. When^he heard that about vicious ness Dave became a little doubtful, but he went out to investigate. And the moment he stepped into the barn, he knew he’d found the lost Tamar. A dull thumping sound greeted his ears. And there was Tamar lying in a corner, her tail thumping a steady tattoo on the barn floor. Andy paused in his narrative, and whacked h's pipe against a rung of the chain on which he was sit ting. “Which proves,” said Ezra Pow ers triumphantly, “that I’m right and you’re wrong.” “Which proves,” said Andy, grin ning, “just the opposite. Tamar, it turned out, was a heap more intel ligent than I gave her credit for. After Tamar escaped from that kennel she set out on a beeline for home, which fact is proven because Painesville lies on a direct line be tween North Falls and Gilford.” “And why," asked Ezra, “didn’t she keep going?” Andy grinned again. “Why, you see,” he explained, "Tamar had been acting queer, and when Dave found her lying there with three small pups to care for, it explained everything, even her viciousness toward the writer of that letter.” Greeting Cards Show a Basic Social Urge Man has always found some means by which to exchange greet ings and salutations upon appropri ate occasions. The papyrus saluta tions used by the Egyptians; the Apostle Paul’s phrase “Grace to you and Peace” in his Epistles; the ex change of symbols such as gloves, garters, handkerchiefs, or bows, in the Dark ages of Europe—all these were manifestations of this basic social urge. This year marks the 100th anni versary of the appearance in Eng land of the first known Christmas Greeting Card. The original card is now in the possession of the Brit ish museum. In the United States the first greeting cards were the work of a Boston lithographer, Louis Prang— j an exile of the German revolution of 1848—who made the public con scious of the value of fine art re productions. His example soon led others to venture into the field—oth ers who first published only Christ mas cards, but who soon com menced to manufacture a wide vari ety of types of greeting cards. Short ly after the beginning of the Twen tieth century, greeting card publish ers began to spring up in increasing numbers. After the early 1920s and continu ing to the present time, the public demand for more and better greet- ■ ing cards has continued to grow rapidly. Today the exchange of greeting cards is the accepted means by which millions of Americans re member their friends and loved ones, not only at Christmas, but throughout the year. And the greet ing card in America, by answering in its own modern way, social needs that are age-old, is rapidly becom ing indigenous to our national life. Big Wheels During the rainy season only ve hicles with two huge wheels six to eight feet high can traverse the pampas. 'After a few days of rain a main road in Paraguay or the Argentine pampas will be more like a muddy river bed than a road, and only oxen are strong enough to drag a wagon through the heavy mud. To keep the axles off the ground, the wheels are made very large, and they leave ruts two feet deep. On such roads automobiles are useless. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. RRY PARKS, young Co lumbia Pictures’ leading man, and eight other lads who are making their first bid for screen fame have tak en over the 26-room house once owned and occupied by the late Thomas Meighan. Larry, who heads the group, has an important role in the Astaire-Hayworth musical, “You Were Never Lovelier.” He says it cost only $14.75 to furnish the house —it cost Meighan more than $9,000! They’ve thrown four rooms together and built a theater in which they rehearse parts for pictures coming up. There is a large portrait of Tom Meighan over the living room fire place—they picked it up in a Holly wood prop house. -* The sponsors who, seven years ago, were farsighted enough to see the potentialities of an obscure radio couple and build them into the famed Fibber McGee and Molly, give radio another innovation this summer; they’re substituting a John Nesbitt and Meredith Willson Metro news commentator and a mu sician in a half-hour replacement program while Fibber and Molly vacation. The commentator is John Nesbitt, the musician, Meredith Willson. The program combines mu sic with snatches of history, litera ture and current events. -* Walt Disney, whose “Bambi” will soon be released through RKO, has acquired the screen rights to Major Alexander P. de Seversky’s “Vic tory Through Air Power,” and will make it into a feature picture for exhibition sometime this fall. —m— Imagine Charles Boyer producing and acting in something called “Flesh and Fantasy.” It will be his first production for Universal; he’ll star in one episode, Edward G. Robinson in another, and let’s hope they change the title! -* Capt. Hewitt Wheless, the army flier who was cited by the President for his exploits in the Pacific war, will play himself in a short subject, “Beyond the Line of Duty,” which Warner Brothers will produce for the army air corps. -* This shortage of leading men has proved too much for Harold Lloyd. He’s produced two pictures for RKO, “A Girl, a Guy and a Gob” and "My Favorite Spy” and has left the studio. His next picture would have been “Butterfingers,” a football comedy. -& Samuel Goldwyn will select six of the loveliest and most talented sec retaries of Washington, D. C., for roles in “They Got Me Covered,” co starring Bob Hope and Dorothy La mour. The story brings out the part that Washington secretaries play in helping to run the government; it’s said that they arrive in Washington at a rate of 5,000 daily! -* The biggest all-star lineup ever gathered for a summer radio show is the one that Bob Hawk’s sponsors have booked for Friday nights; it’s a 60-minute show featuring Xavier Cugat's orchestra, Connie Boswell and Margo, Lanny Ross and a new comedian, Herb Shriner. -* Richard Denning, male lead in “Beyond the Blue Horizon,” has held many of fllmdom’s stars in his arms. He made the test with Veron ica Lake which won her her role in “I Wanted Wings.” Paulette God dard got her Paramount contract after making a test with him; Ellen Drew’s test set her for “If I Were King”; Mary Martin’s put her into “The Great Victor Herbert,” her first film role. A closeup of his chest substituted for one of Bob Hope’s; his back did the same for Bob Burns’. Now he’s getting a chance, all of him, in the Lamour picture. ODDS AND ENDS — Paramount plans to present the Quiz Kids in fea ture films following the completion of their present series of short subjects at that studio . . . Ruth Hussey takes an other step toward well-deserved star dom with the role of Mrs. Andretv Johnson in “The Man on America’s Conscience” . . . Eddie Albert will play opposite Lupe Velez in “ladies’ Day” a comedy of the woman’s side of big league baseball . . . Patricia Morison wants a horse—but don't send her one unless it's a 14-hand Palmino . . . 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