The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 84, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1942 Page: 3 of 10
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Thursday, March 19, 1942
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
CHAPTER VII
“Laugh if you want to—but I’m
right. America is a woman-domi-
nated country—and that’s what’s
the matter with it. Why do men
build up fortunes?—To spend them
_ on women. Who gets the fortunes
“in the end?—The womenl As long
as women will demand luxuries—
and get ’em—the rich will get richer
and the poor will get poorer!” Tony
preached.
“Hooray for our side I” said Gin-
,»ger, with vigor, and clapped her
'“hands.
Tony glared at her.
"It’s women like you that cause
the downfall of civilizations!” he
accused. “Take Rome, for in-
stance—”
$ She glared back at him.
“It’s men like you who make girls
like me do things to keep from mar-
rying men like you I”
“Yoi
fou mean you do your best to
marry men like me!” he snapped.
“That Is—’’
“ “Why on earth should any girl in
her right mind want to marry a man
like you?”
Tony was temporarily speechless.
“Not that you’re so homely,” she
amended, critically eyeing him.
J*“But just for the sake of argument
"what have you got to offer a girl be-
sides a bus you won in a crap game
and a crazy theory about sharing
tiie wealth?” And as he still was
speechless, went on: “No, sir. A girl
deserves everything she can get.
^.Clothes, cars, jewels, good times.
Glamour. Romance. You’re only
young one®, and you’re dead a long
Love. “And Gertrude is a tropical
fish, not a goldfish, young man.”
“What kind of a tropical fish?”
asked Ginger.
“She’s a Mexican sword-tail,”
said Miss Love, proudly. “I’m tak-
ing her to Florida to find her a mate
—a Montezuma Helleri, if I can.
Although I suppose a Siamese fight-
ing fish would make her a better
husband.”
“Why?” asked the lion-tamer,
with professional interest.
“She wouldn’t be able to eat him
as easily as she ate her last mate,”
said Gertrude’s owner. “She’d re-
spect him. Tropical fish are very
sensitive, you know.” She pursed
her lips. “And Gertrude doesn’t
like t r a v e 1 i n g—It affects her
nerves.”
They all stared at Gertrude who
was aloofly preening her scales in
her bowl; her body was olive-green
on top, and bluish below, with a
bright green, red and yellow stripe
extending to the tip of her tall j her
dorsal fin was yellow, too, with a
reddish band near the base. Casa-
nova the cat stared most of all. .. .
“What a beautiful, beautiful
fish I" exclaimed Mrs. Evergreen.
“She’s like a lovely jewel I”
“What’s that?" demanded Mr.
Evergreen, coming out from behind
his paper with a start. He sputtered
warningly: “Jessica, your nose is—”
“Not this time, Mortimer!” his
wife told him, triumphantly. “I’m
talking about Miss Love's fish.” She
bent over the bowl and talked baby-
talk: “Is booful Gertrude safe and
cool in her lovely, lovely bowl?”
Evergreen’s care; told him how
much water to dip out, and how
much fresh to put in its place; how
not to disturb Gertrude in the pro-
cess.
They had reached the filling-sta-
tion now. Carefully Mr. Evergreen
descended with the bowl, while Tony
took the opportunity to check up on
his gas and oil. The others fell into
desultory conversation, as they
watched Mr. Evergreen take the
bowl and the dipper Miss Love had
given him, and make for the water
spigot. Reaching it, he began to
change the water, as directed.
“Do be careful, now, Mr. Ever-
green!” called Miss Love, from her
window in the bus.
He turned and waved to her re-
assuringly with the dipper, and as
he did so, his newspaper fell outj>f
the
his pocket, and upon the ground. He
turned with his back to the bus,
then, and did something very odd.
With a quick movement, he took
from his pocket a large, transpar-
ent, octohedronally shaped object
that glittered briefly in the sunlight,
......the ----- *
T Iged it just
in time, as it came near shearing a
and popped it into the goldfish bowl.
Gertrude indignantly dodged it just
scale off her starboard pectoral fin;
it lay in the shadowed bottom of the
bowl, then, colorless as the water,
and practically invisible to any eye
but that of the bowl’s piscatorial
occupant.
“Say-r-what’s the idea of drop-
ping a piece of ice in the fish’s
bowl?” asked an interested voice.
Mr. Evergreen nearly jumped out
of his skin, and in the manoeuvre.
time.”
Tony found his voice.
“If that’s the way you feel, why
didn’t you marry Ronny Rockaby?
He’s got plenty of money—and he’s
supposed to be Prince Charming in
the flesh, isn’t he? What more do
you want?”
“I told you why, and anyway, I
—don’t like Ronny’s ears.”
' - “What’s that got to do with it?”
“When a girl doesn’t like a man’s
ears—she simply doesn’t, that’B all.
I could never live with a man with
ears like that Besides he’s con-
ceited.”
(+■ “But 1 thought you said a girl
deserved everything she can get?”
“A girl does—and I mean to get
it, for one.” Her eyes took on a far-
away look. “I’m going to get it
through my career if I can—that’s
why that job in Miami means so
fttnuch to me—but if I can’t get it
that way—’’
“Then I suppose you’ll marry it!"
he exclaimed, Bavagely.
“Why not?” asked Ginger. “It’s
just as easy to love a rich man as a
_jpoor one, now, isn’t it?”
- Tony snorted in disgust.
Desdemona Love, interrupted at
this pointy
“Oh Mr. Taylor?”
Vd-v
“Yes, Miss Love?"
“Would you mind stopping at the
flpnext gas-station? I have to change
some of Gertrude's water.”
Both Ginger and Tony turned to
look back at her and saw that the
actress was testing the water In the
fish-bowl with a thermometer she
had taken from her purse. The
"others were watching her.
“Certainly,” said Tony. “Is your
goldfish all right?”
“It’s the water—I have to watch
the temperature," explained Miss
“Safe — and—cool—•” repeated
Mr. Evergreen automatically, and
looked from the bowl to the news-
paper he was reading and back to
the bowl again. For the first time
that day a smile lifted his Chaplin
mustache. Just then Tony slowed
down the bus as it neared a filling-
station. Evergreen coughed, “Miss
Love, I’m a great admirer of tropi-
cal fish. A great admirer, indeed.
Won’t you let me save you the
trouble of getting out and re-filling
the bowl for you?”
Desdemona Love hesitated. She
hated to get out of the bus, but she
treasured Gertrude and Gertrude’s
welfare, above her own comfort.
“That’s very kind of you, Mr.
Evergreen—but really, Gertrude
isn’t used to—”
“Nonsense!” said Mr. Evergreen,
rising to his feet and stuffing his
paper in his pocket. “I once owned
one of the finest aquariums of rare
fish in Europe—didn’t I. Jessica?”
Jessica looked dazed, but rallied
loyally.
“My husband has owned more
lovely things than anyone I’ve ever
known” told M<«» T,nv* “TT*
known,” she told Miss Love. “He
adores beauty—he simply can’t re-
sist beautiful things. If he can’t af-
ford to buy them, why he simply
ste—” Mortimer turned on her glar-
ing, and she choked. Grabbed her
powder puff, and dabbed at her
nose. "As I was saying—he simply
stops doing anything else and justs
spends hours admiring them!”
“Your tropical fish Is safe in my
hands," Mr. Evergreen assured
Miss Love. “Just tell me exactly
what to. do, dear lady. It will be an
experience to treasure in my mem-
ory.”
Conquered, Miss Love surren-
dered Gertrude and her bowl to Mr.
became aware that one of the two
filling-station attendants was
watching him from within the sta-
tion.
“It—it’s not ice—” Mr. Ever-
green stammered. “It’s a piece of
glass.” Then, confused, turned and
strode back to the bus, regretting
he had not admitted that it was ice
and let it go at that.
The attendant scratched his head,
shrugged his shoulders, then picked
up the New York newspaper Mr.
Evergreen had unconsciously
dropped, and took it into his office
to read.
The bus, its crew again aboard,
rolled off, southward.
“Well, I’ll be dumed!” The at-
tendant was staring at the very
page Mr. Evergreen had been perus-
Ther
ing with such care on the bus. There
was a headline, and a large photo-
graph of a diamond: the largest un-
cut diamond in the world, the cap-
tion said. But it was the picture,
not the story, tnat first held the
a story, tha---------
man’s eyes. For the stone was wto-
hedronal in shape, the exact replica,
life-size, of the piece of glass he had
Just seen the man whom the old
woman in the bus had called Mr.
Evergreen, drop in the gold-fish
bowl!
Oscar Smith read on, then—and
whistled.
“Fifty thousand dollars reward!
—Gosh!"
Oscar scratched his head again,
his eyes bright with avarice. It
seemed impossible, but then—he had
read many and many a detective
thriller. At the worst, if he were
mistaken, he might get his name in
the papers!
(To be continued)
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Know Anything About Alaska?
Few"Fads About Far North
(Editor’s Note: The following
account of Elmendorf Field at
Anchorage, Alaska, and the sur-
rounding territory, was written by
Sidney Mayfield, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. S. E. Mayfield of this
city, who is stationed with the U.
S. Army Air Corps there.)
Elmendorf Field, Alaska, is sta-
tioned at the foot of the Chugach
Mountains, approximately four
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the field are as follows: brown ko-
diak and blue glacier, bear, moose,
caribou, reindeer, mountain sheep
and mountain goats. There are sev-
eral types of game birds in the vi-
cinity of Elmendorf field such as
ducks, geese, ptamargin and spruce
hens. Alaska is truly a sportsman’s
paradise.
Anchorage has three women’s
dress shops, two fur shops, two
men’s haberdasheries, four drug
stores, about a half-dozen beauty
shops, three hardware stores, one
variety store which is the nearest
thing to a five and 10 cent store,
and one auto supply store. Choice
in these stores is limited, prices
range from 50 to 100 per cent high-
er than in the stores in the states.
Sears and Roebuck and Montgom-
ery Ward both maintain order
houses and these are heavily pa-
tronized.
It is considered advisable and
convenient to open charge accounts
in Seattle, and arrange for shop-
ping services. Apartments of three
small rooms and bath rent for $65
but none are available. Single ho-
tel rooms run from $3 to $5.
Anchorage has one fairly good
restaurant, one grill and several
other cafes. Neither of the hotels
has a dining room. Prices of meals
run from $1 to $1.50? for short or-
ders 50 to 75 cents and hambur-
gers are 25 and 30 cents.
There are two hospitals In An-
chorage and army surgeons use
both and they are also well staffed
with civilian doctors. Nurses are
difficult to find.
The Pan-American Airlines run
a twice-weekly clipper plane sched-
ule from Seattle to Fairbanks and
the trip by air costs approximately
$250.
Another boy and I bought us an
iron and we do our own washing
and ironing but it never turns out
so good. What we need worse is
some instruction on how to launder
clothes!
Girls, Of Course, But Clothed:
Page Three
Soldiers Want Clean Shows
MISS DOROTHY DIXON
IS SORORITY PLEDGE
Cheer the boys in uniform. Buy
U. S. Defense Bonds.
NEW YORK—What do YOU sup-
pose a soldier wants in the way of
entertainment?
Girls, of course. Lots of them and
pretty. And they want them in a
smart looking but—and this impor-
tant—modestly clothed chorus line.
Harry Delmar, general production
manager of Camp Shows, Inc.,
which presents professional enter-
tainment at all army camps and
many naval bases with War De-
partment sponsorship and USO fi-
nancial backing, lists the soldiers
preference in this order:
1. Pretty girls.
2. Musical revues—with pretty
girls.
3. Swing singers, blues shouters.
4. Down-to-earthy slapstick (but
clean),
5. Legitimate stage plays.
Good Clean Fun
Delmar reports that the soldiers
insist on clean shows, ruling out
strip teases, off color jokes and
skits, much to the pleasant surprise
of chaplains and post morale offi-
cers.
Delmar returned the other day
from a two-month tour of 175 camps
to see how the organization's 24
touring shows were doing, and to
find out from the boys just what
they wanted.
Program Notes
He learned that Jascha Heifetz.,
the violinist, played to standing
room in one California camp. Hei-
fetz insisted (and the soldiers went
for it) that he would not talk or
play down to his audience.
“I'm going to play a piece that
has three movements,” the violin-
ist told the soldiers. “The second
movement comes after the first and
the third movement comes after the
second. This is the first movement.”
Violinist Albert Spalding, Law-
rence Hbbett and other concert ar-
tists are making the grand circuit
for camp shows as are the nation’s
most popular swing bands.
Deanna Is Tops
Rosalind Russell, Linda Darnell,
Joe E. Brown and other movie and
stage stars are sellouts. The sol-
diers’ biggest hand went to Deanna
Durbin, who all but broke up camp
at Fort Devens, Mass.
Camp shows are not open to ci-
vilians, officers’ families or anyone
who does not live and work on the
post.
When the shows start playing out-
doors this spring instead of In thea-
ters and recreation centers, the ad-
mission charges will be dropped.
The 11 big shows that tour the lar-
ger camps, now charge 20 cents
while the 13 smaller units playing
the less populous camps, charge 15
cents.
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Shell, Picnic, Pig, Marrowbone,
Rabbit Hash, and Wishbone.
Canyon—Miss Dorothy Dixon of
Shamrock, a freshman at West
Texas State College, has been
asked to pledge the Gamma Phi
sorority, social club for girls.
Miss Dixon took her pledge at
the home of Miss Edna Graham,
sponsor. The vows were adminis-
tered by Lucille West, president of
the club.
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miles from the town of Anchorage.
It is one of the links in the chain
of air and naval bases that stretch
from McChord Field, Washington,
to Dutch Harbor Naval Base at the
. far end of the Aleutian Islands.
Naturally the climate is always an
1 important factor of any place or
j country. The climate in the vicin-
| ity of Elmendorf Field Is consid-
1 ered by many the best In Alaska
! since it is not as cold or windy as
j more northern areas, nor as rainy
i or foggy as coastal areas to the
! southwest and southeast. Life In the
town and at the Field is not very
I different from the northern sections
| of the United States. The following
are a few facts In regard to the
climate of Anchorage:
Average number of days with
minimum temperature of zero or
below—28.
Average January temperature—
10.1.
Average July temperature—56.9.
Average annual temperature—
34.1.
Annual precipitation—14.5 Inches
Annual snow fall—60.4 Inches.
Length of growing season—109
days.
A feature of winter is the “Willi-
waw,” a violent gust of cold wind
that sweeps off the mountain slopes
with great force. The highest tem-
perature ever reached at Elmerdorf
Field Is 92 degrees, whereas the low-
est Is 36 degrees below zero. The
summer climate is delightful. The
principal nuisances are dust and
gnats, mosquitos, biting flies and
the “white sox”, a small whitish
fly quite poisonous to many people.
Tons of luscious blueberries grow
on bushes one inch to one foot high
in both Tundra and Muskeg, espec-
ially In the former. Many kinds of
berries, most of them edible, grow
in profusion and include the true
cranberry, the Alaskan cranberry,
several kinds of wild currant includ-
ing the high bush cranberry and
the true carrant. Raspberries and
strawberries also grow wild.
Many beautiful snow-covered
ranges can be seen from Elmerdorf
Field and McKinley can be seen
from selected vantage points on
clear days.
Fishing requires no license at all.
The different types of game that
abound in approximate vicinity of
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