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Published t Lomers Ond ( promote Fr · y the Lufki"ends and t':ndship and G n Foundry <'i ~Vanc e the f~d WiJJ With . a chine C n erest of it Jts cus. ~~IOIOIOIOIO~IOIOIOIOIOIO~V:· ~~:~~. P~a~n~y~,~L:u:~~~ P~r:od~u~c~t:s .J' LINE 0~,=: · :~::~:· Sales and Service Offices JULY-AUGUST. 1954 of the Volume XXIX Number 4 LUFKIN FOUNDRY & • MflCHINE COMPANY ••.•...... • BAKERSFIELD. CALIFORNIA 2800 Ashby St., Phone FAirview 3-1766 Carl Frazer CASPER, WYOMING DALLAS NUMBER P. 0. Box 1849, Phone 3-4670 R. S. Miller Bill Holliday FORT GEORGE ISLAND-fl. BEAUTIFUL SPIT OF LAND . 4-6 Roy Lilley, Jr. CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS 1201 Wilson Bldg., Phone 3-1881 Edd Terrill, Jr. DALLAS, TEXAS THE IRON GIANT .. 7 1208 Gulf Stales Bldg. Phone STerling 5127 A. E. Caraway-R. C. Thompson EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA T.M.T.fl.. DIRECTORS MEET IN LUFKIN . 8-9 Lufkin Machin e Co., Ltd. 14321 108th Avenue, Phone 8-6412 Jack Gissler R. D. Dunlop LUFKIN INSTfl.LLfl.TIONS . . ... 10-11 EFFINGHAM, ILLINOIS 210 W. Jefferson St., Phone 667-W P. 0. Box 6 Lewis W. Breeden fl RUSSIAN VILLAGE IN OLD MEXICO- EL DORADO, ARKANSAS J. R. Wilson Bldg. By Jack B. Kemmerer .. 12-15 P. 0. Box 748, Phone Union 3-7606 Harold Bowerman GREAT BEND, KANSAS North Main Street SNAPSHOTS BY THE LUFKIN Cfl.MERfl.Mfl.N ...... 16-18 P. 0. Box 82, Phone 5622 Byron Robbins-Oliver McKay HOUSTON, TEXAS 516 City National Ban k Bldg. Phone CApilol 0108 LET'S Lfl.UGH . . 19 Bill Miner-Tom Bowers­ Val Gallia KILGORE, TEXAS P. 0. Box 871 , Phone 3-875 COVER: fl. Devaney. Inc .. N. Y. W. T. Crowder, Jr.-Vemon Glenn T. fl. Bania LaFAYETTE, LOUISIANA P. 0 . Box 785, Phone 4-2846 INSIDE COVER: David W. Corson From fl.. Devaney. N. Y. B. C. Burnette LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 5959 South Alameda Phone Lafayette 1201 V. J. Fawcett Al McConville Robert R. Spaulding Glenn E. Henderson MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA, S. A. TRAILER DIVISION Sales and Service Offices of the LUFKIN Aparlado No. 90 Ben C. Sargent, Jr. FOUNDRY & MflCHINE COMPANY NEW YORK, NEW YORK 149 Broadway CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS Phone Barclay 7-0562 2838 Willa rd Street 900 Noaalitos Street A. V. Simonson Phone 4-7288 Phone FAnnin 5216 ODESSA, TEXAS Kermit! Gammill Otis K. McCauley P. 0 . Box 1632, Phone 6-5662 Nelson Henze Elvin Read DALLAS. TEXAS R. P. Weaver John W. Swanson, Jr. 635 Fort Worth Avenue Jim Rowe Phone RAndolph 247 1 SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA George Henson Carl V. Wilkinson Modern Motors, Inc. OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA Leroy G reene 201 North Broadway 1219 Colcord Building Glenn A. Foy Phone 241 Phone Regent 6-7480 FORT WORTH. TEXAS George Diddle Charles Dyer 3105 Binyon John D. Mettauer Phone WEbster 940 1 SHREVEPORT. LOUISIANA SEMINOLE, OKLAHOMA Morelle Hicks 2712 Glenwick Street 312 Eighth Street 450 1 Plea sa nt Street Phone 8-4740 Phone 34 Phone WEbster 77 16 Neill Morris Newell Lynch Bill P. Richards STERLING, COLORADO SWEETWATER, TEXAS 515 Elwood Street HOUSTON, TEXAS 711 West Broadway Phone 1459 2815 Naviga tion Blvd Phone 2892 G. W. Nichols Phone ATwood 6407 Sam L Jones TULSA, OKLAHOMA J.C. Lowe George S. Cowan 605 Thompson Bldg. Robert Lee Hamilton Phone 3-0204 Marshall Dailey TULSA. OKLAHOMA D. A. Reid Bruce Bates 1632 South Quannah H. H. Muller LUBBOCK, TEXAS Phone 4-4385 WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS 2108 13th St. Bob Phillips 411 Oil & Gas Bldg. R. L. Graham P. 0. Box 2465 WACO, TEXAS Phone 2-1967 ODESSA, TEXAS 3116 Willowbrook Drive Ernest Slaughter 401-A East Snyder Phone 2-4031 WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA Ph::me 7-6809 Bill F. Mayfield P. 0 . Box 934 Carl J. Couser Phone 3-6128 OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA EXECUTIVE OFFICES AND FACTORY Jack L. Read Modern Trailers Lufkin, Texas EXECUTIVE OFFICES AND FACTORY 16 South Blackwelder Phone 3-4426 Lufkin, Texas, Phone 3-4421 Phone REgent 6-3687 C. W . (Lefty) Alexander, Sales L. A. Little, Vice President & Jess Mallow Manager General Sales Manager Pete Coleman Floyd S. Rogers Cooper Richards Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023

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~ (, ORT GEORGE ISLAND, a spit of land at the smooth beaches on the east. It is a natural setting l~ mouth of th e beautiful St. Johns River near for hunters, fresh and salt water fishermen. \ ~ } ~J ckso nville, has dangled like a lush plum to lure Today, the island visitor sees a large plantation ~A ' inter travelers, slave traders and people of every se ttlement which was Florida's first "White t} tation to Florida for nearly four centuries. House." There are two large club houses, currently A part of the island has been given, literally, to closed, about 10 private cottages, a small Episco­ the birds, as a State Bird sanctuary, during the past pal Church, and the Bird Sanctuary Lodge. few years. Its present tranquility shows little evi­ A winding dirt road tunnels its way under the dence of the noi sy past. Just the same, there is branches of the forest which covers most of the enough left to intrigue the im agination of any who island. The semi-tropical climate has produced a care to stop and see. vast area of incomparable vegetation surpas ing Just 20 minutes drive from Jacksonville over th e anything in orth Florida. The most beautiful for­ Heckscher waterfront drive, or via th e Mayport est tract lies in the John F . Rollins Bird and Plant ferry, Fort George Island looms up as an isolated Sanctuary given to th e State of Florida by Rollins hammock rising above marsh es on the west and College.

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LEFT: These Oriental Gardens on the banks of the THIS is Florida's "First White House" built on beautiful St. Johns River attract Florida guests. the island by John McQueen. It's still livable. Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023

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S.flR.flSOT.fl Jungle Gardens is one of many beau­ tiful parks in Riversi de section of Jacksonville permanent fort on the island. It became one of the significant symbols in the Struggle for world power Ponce de Leon explored in the vicinity of Fort which culminated in King George's War 1739-48. George Island in search of his Fountain of Youth. Spain gave the island to John McQueen in 1791 An adjacent island was the hiding place for the as a reward for the capture of everal British ad­ first Protestant settlers in America in 1562. Amer­ venturers who were annoying the Spanish empire. ica's first white child was born nearby. McQueen developed cotton crops and a large lum­ Guarding the mouth of the majestic St. Johns ber mill on th e island but sold it in 1804 to Hous­ River which was Florida's main travel artery for ton Mcintosh. T h is owner lost the property by centuries, Fort George was a key outpost in the mortgage foreclosure in 1817 to the fabulous slave truggles between the British and Spaniards for the trader, Zephaniah Kingsley. Sunshine State Peninsula. Oglethorpe built the first Kingsley made the island into a den for smug­ gling Negroes into the South. He ruled the island jointly with his Madagascan mistress, or wife, Prin­ cess Anna Madegigine J ai, whose reputation has been a subject of historical debate for years. The little house in which the Prince s lived still stands. The island entered a more respectable era after the War Between the States, when it was bought by John F. Rollins of New Hampshire. Rollins left the old prison room s and flogging posts which Kingsley had built for the slaves but turned to agricultural interests. He developed citrus groves and elaborate gardens. The island dock was the first landing place for coastal steamers entering the St. Johns River. Rol­ flBOVE: The Treaty Oak-more than 800 years old lins and his associates plotted the island for devel­ opment of a Winter resort community and built BELOW: Metrop olitan Jacksonville is only a 20- Florida's first large Winter hotel. It was a gay re­ minute drive from the tourist island. Ft. George sort until the yellow fever epidemic of 1888 fright­ ened the tourists away. Another fine new hotel was built. Both were destroyed by fire, however, and never rebuilt because the tourists were migrating further so uthward to the Gold Coast region. Jacksonville citizens built the Ribault Clubhouse on the island as a favorite weekend hide-away many years ago. A group of retired Army and Navy officers built a private club on the former Kingsley plantation tract at the north end of the island. Grounds of this club are still open to the visitor, though the clubhouse is closed. Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023

VULCflN, fllabam's famous giant, is 50 years old

IRMINGHAM, called the Crossroads of the Finally, he was taken to the Alabama State Fair, B Southeast and the Younges t of the World's but his troubles were not over. Workmen who Great Cities, is also th e home of Mighty Vulcan, erected him attached his right arm backwards and the largest iron statue ever cast. because of improperly connecting his left arm, a Vulcan, who now stands atop iron-rich Red huge timber was placed under it for support. Mountain, has had a stormy and none-too-happy For 30 years he remained in that condition. Then past. But today in his fiftieth year, Vulcan has at he was used in advertising stunts and as a back­ last reached a position of distinction. drop for cheese-cake picture . Just as folks were Although he has to be content as the second high­ talking of melting him into scrap, the Birmingham est statue in the United States, topped by his more Kiwanis Club suggested that he be moved to the famous sister, the Statue of Liberty, he still is a top of Red Mountain, south of the city of Birming­ 53-foot giant standing on his handsome 125-foot ham. pedestal. In his out-stretched hand, he holds a bea­ Seen by visitors to the industrial city, Vulcan con for all to see. The beacon burns red if an auto­ may appear mis-shapen and in bad proportion. But mobile accident causes a fatality within a 24-hour that's because they don't know his history. He is a period, and green so long as Birmingham is free replica of the Roman God of Fire and Metal of traffic deaths. who was a squat, powe rful dwarf according to But it hasn't always been this way. Vulcan was mythology. born in 1904 when Italian sculptor Giuseppe Mo­ Vulcan weighs 120,000 pounds, with his head retti designed him for the St. Louis Exposition. He making up six tons of that total. His thumb, which wa cast in sections in a Birmingham foundry, and is three feet long, weighs 175 pounds and each of even railroad cars were required to get him to St. his seven-foot long feet weighs five tons. A man Louis. After the Expo ition, Vulcan came home­ can easily stand in his massive ear. to lay in a weedy field gathering rust for the lack Some 250,000 people visit the iron giant each of a spot to stand on. year.

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Left to right: JAMES TAYLOR, executive director of TMTA., Austin; L. B. BROWN, Best Motor Lines, Dallas; BILL GRACE, Hobbs Manufacturing Co., Ft. Worth.

Left to right: CARL STOUNE, Central Forwarding Co., Austin; BILL GRACE, Hobbs Manufacturing Co .. Fort Worth; GEORGE HOWARD, Howard Van Lines, Dallas; BILL WISE, Miller Truck Lines, Fort Worth; JAMES T'A.YLOR, TMTA., Austin.

Left to right: BOB POWELL, Red Arrow Motor Freight Lines, Houston; BILL COMPTON, T. E. Mercer Co., Ft. Worth; HARRY BROWN, San Antonio; WALTER W. TROUT, President, Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co.

Left to right: BILL COMPTON, T. E. Mercer Co., Fort Worth; A. E. CUDLIPP, MRS. CARL STOUNE, left, CARL STOUNE, center. Cen­ vice-president, Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co.; HARRY BROWN, San An­ tral Forwarding Co.. Austin; and HORA.CE HUM­ tonio; and WALTER SHOOK, Shook Cartage Company, Galveston. PHREYS. Lubbock. Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023

Left to right: MRS. WALTER W. TROUT, MRS. A. E. CUDLIPP. Left to right: BILL GRACE. C. E. BEAUFORD, Beauford MRS. R. B. POWELL. MRS. C. V. WILKINSON, MRS BILL GRACE. Truck Lines. Hereford, Texas; and BOB BLAIR, Blair Truck and MRS. C. W. ALEXANDER. Lines. Amarillo. Texas.

C. W. ALEXANDER. left, sales manager, Lufkin Trailers; BILL CY WELLER, left, Frozen Foods Express, Dallas; and WISE, Miller Truck Lines, Fort Worth. CHARLIE MATTHEWS. attorney for TMTR. Austin.

Left to right: BILL COMPTON, T. E. Mercer Co .. Fort Worth; L.B. BROWN, Best Motor Lines, Dallas; WAYNE CUDD, Cudd Bros. Trucking Co., Wellington; CY WELLER. Frozen Foods Express, Dallas; CLARENCE SNOWDEN, Snowden Oil Co., Beaumont.

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MUTE evidence that this is Russian burial grounds.

JACK B. KEMMERER

ESTLED deep in the Guadalupe Valley lies the in every way. When it reaches the Pacific, mile N small Russian Village of Guadalupe, an un­ after mile of blue sea is visible, set off by white spoiled settlement almo t exactly like an 19th cen­ andy beaches broken occasionally by a rocky, tury Tolstoian farming hamlet in the time of the cragged shoreline. Imperial Czar. Neither the United States nor Mex­ After passing Rosarita Beach and the Half-Way ico have any qualms about this tiny, peaceful com­ House, about fifty miles below Tijuana, a well munity located only sixty-five miles below the marked road, on the left, leads fifteen miles back United States international border at Tijuana, Baja into Guadalupe Valley and the village. This last California, Mexico. stretch of road is dirt and gravel, but graded and The village is easily reached from San Diego, easily passable for any car in dry weather. This California. After crossing the border at Tijuana, piece of road hasn't always been good, in fact not seventeen miles south of San Diego, Guadalupe so long ago it was only a mule path. When the lies a short distance off the main highway on the Mexican government insisted on cutting the road way to Ensenada. The paved Mexican highway that through, the Russians protested bitterly. They winds around the hills south of Tijuana is splendid thought the mule path was good enough to handle

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.El RUSSiflN home sits behind a large field of grapes planted close to the house so women can tend them.

the traffic of their annual wheat harvest. Besides, the mule path kept out unwelcome visitors, such as government officials and tax collectors. In fact, it was the R ussian tax collectors that had caused them to flee their homeland in the first place. Shortly before the turn of the century, the Czar began to expand hi s empire to the east and south at the expense of the Russian peasants who were forced to furnish both the taxes and recruits for the imperial army. The peasants broke away from th e Russian Orthodox Church in protest and set up Protestant church sects of their own; Mennonites, Dukhobers, Mollicans and Malakans were a few of the many denominations established. They all dif­ fered in minor details but had one thing in com­ mon, the payment of taxes and serving in the army was prohibited by all. Wh en the tax collectors were un able to make th e peasants pay the assessments the Czar sent his Cos­ sacks to take over the job. In 1903, when th e Czar was preparing for the Russo-Japanese war, he re­ doubled his eff orts and brutal meth ods of collect­ ing taxes. In the m eantim e the Protes tants had MEXICflN and Russian children play easily together. heard of freedom across the sea and had sent mem-

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THIS Russian type wagon of early vintage brings in the yearly harvest of these two young Russian farmers.

hers of their groups to investigate and report on government, they settled in the fertile valley of the the possibility of settling in some of these far away Guadalupe Mountains. As their religion forbade countries. Thus, about fifty years ago, the giant the owning of land, they secured long term leases migrations of the sectarian Russians to North and on thousands of acres and settled down to live their South America began. lives in the Russian fashion and raise their chil­ Practically all of the original settlers of Guada­ dren and crops in peace. lupe were literally whipped out of Russia. In 1904 The young men work in the fields and camp by when the Cossacks vi sited a tiny village near the their plows far from the village in the Russian city of Erivan on the Turkish border they found style. The old men hang around the village doing the peasants in revolt and ref using to pay their the so-called skilled labor. If a man has a couple taxes or send their young men off to war. The Cos­ of sons over fourteen or so he never goes to the sacks, whipping all the old men as examples, forci­ fields at all. Instead, he grinds the wheat at home, bly seized the young men and the village's grain works in his small blacksmith shop and putters and took them off to fight for the Czar. The entire around the place until time for afternoon tea with village, all members of the sect known as Mala­ the other " oldsters" of the village. kans, packed their meager belongings and fled the On the women, the same as in the homeland, country. falls the burden of the work. Not only must they They eventually lande d in the United States, raise large families, but must also raise all garden near Los Angeles. After a short sojourn there, the produce necessary for the family table. They bake elders of the sect decided that the section was too their own bread, f eed and tend flock s of geese, immoral for rai sing their childre n and began ducks and chickens, milk the family cows and searching for another retreat. goats, make cheese, butcher the cows and pigs, stuff • Offered an isolated sanctuary by the Mexican sausage and tan leather.

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Until a few years ago the women wove home­ These children are grown now and many of them spun cloth on hand looms after wa bing, combing have intermarried with the Mexicans and left th e and spinning raw wool. They also made all th e felt village. Others have migrated to the United States boots worn by the family. In recent years the men and settled in Los Angeles which now has a large have discovered that clothing can be purchased Malakan colony. Some have also deserted the quite cheaply in Ensenada and Tijuana and this frees the country life for th e modern cities of Tijuana and women for labor in the fields. Ensenada. The Malakans are very religious and in the early Those who remain today are still farming the days all Russian rites were strictly adhered to . The land and living as their fathers did before th em. life of the village revolved around the church and The main crops are wheat, barley, oats and grapes. smoking, drinking and dancing were forbidden. They sell their crops in Ensenada and most of They continued to wear Russian clothes and re­ the young people go there for entertainment. While tained the ancient customs of their homeland. their fathers wore th e garb of a typical Russian Old maids and bachelors do not ex i s t for the peasant, the new generation wears American and famili es arrange early marriages for all children Mexican clothing. between the ages of fourteen and twenty. In accord­ There are still a few memb e r s of the village ance with a centuries-old custom, the bride and alive that came from Ru ssia with the original group and sometimes a new family will arrive from groom must be of the same age. the large Russian settlement of Tampico, near As the old folks died and were buried in the Mexico City. small village cemetery the younger generation Twenty-seven families remain in the village and came into its own. While they still accept the Mala­ as time goes s 1ow1 y by the number of Russians kan faith, they have become much more liberal. grows less. In another half-century it is doubtful They were compelled by law to attend the Mex­ if this bit of "Russia in Old Mexico" will still exist. ican public elementary school near the village. In this school they mixed with the Mexican children and learned Spanish. In 1937 there were 117 Rus­ MOICES Michicoff is 20 and married. His father sian children attending the school. was one of original settlers from the old country.

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ll.. E. Dll.LY. left. and B. E. Rll.YWJNKLE M. V. DH.NIELS. left. and FRll.NK J. MIKESKR L. L. LOMll.X. left. and B. L. ll.TKINS Atlantic Refining Company Gulf Oil Corp. both with Gulf Oil Corp. Gre ggton. Texas Kilgore, Texa s Mooringsport. Louisiana

Left to right: DOUG SEWRRD, FRRNCES DYER. BOB SCHULTE. all with ll.tlantic Refining Com- pany, Greggton, Texas

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R. E. GOLEMRN. left. M. J. De­ laney Drilling Co .• Dallas. Texas. and W. E. THOMPSON , B. G. By ars Co., Tyler. Texas

H. E. BRRUNJG, JR. R. M. HESS MIKE KRll.MER J. B. RUSSELL. JR. Gulf Oil Corp. Shell Oil Company Shell Oil Company Gulf Oil Corp. Kilgore, Texas Kilgore, Texas Kilgore, Tex as Kilgore, Texas Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023

E. fl. JOHNSON E. 0. TABER HOWARD RANSDELL SMITH PENNINGTON Hunt Oil Company B. G. Byars Co. H. S. Moss Co. R. H. Venable Co. flrp , Texas Tyler, Texas Newsome, Texas Turnertow n, Texa s

Left to right: J. T. LITTON. M. J. Delaney Drilling Co., Kilgore; F. M. flDfllR. B. G. Byars Co .• Tyler: R. E. HOHMAN. Union Oil of Cali­ fornia

Left to right: T. E. SELF. E. E. PICKLE, D. B. ROBISON. all with The Texas Company, Oil City. Louisiana

JIM MILES. left. (deceased) and DAVE ALLEN. Cities Service Oil Company. Chapel Hill. Texas

R. H. HURD. left. and M. J. BING­ HAM. Shell Oil Company. Kilgore. Texas

Left to right: S. C. THOMPSON. LEE PRICE. R. R. HANEY. E. McKEE. Left to right: MRS. EMOGENE NABORS. DAVID PIRKEY. MRS . ZOE J. T. BREITHAUPT. all with Shell Oil Company. Gladew ater, Texas. FULLER. J. fl. COX. all w ith Atlantic Refining Company. Greggton. Texas. Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023

Le ft to right: L. R. LITTLE. Lufkin Foundry; BOB BUNGRY. and C. S. PERKINS. both with Union Oil Co. of California, Los Rnge les; W. W . TROUT. p resident. Lufkin Foundry; a . E. CUDLIPP. Lufkin Foundry; MRRTIN MICHRND. Union Oil of California. Los Rngeles: E. S. LOPER, Union Oil of Calif .. Houston; and BOB POLRND and LOUIS FINCHER. Lufkin Foundry.

Left to right: E. C. SMITH. F. R. OLDHRM. JR .• W . P. RRNOLD. T. a. NORMRN. G. B. SCRRBOROUGH. a ll with Gulf Oil Corp .. Kilgore, Te xas

Left to right: J. H. HUGGHINS. Crane. Texa s; LEE RYRES . B. D. McKENDREE. both of Penw ell. Texas; D. M. HRGLER. Golds mith , Texas; GEORGE HINSON, Lufkin Foundry: L. E. BRISTER. Penwell. Texa s. all with Gulf Oil Corp .• and R. N. KNOBLOCK. The Texa s Company. Fairfax. Oklahoma.

R. C. TJSDRLE. left. and J. T. COOPER. both w ith Hunt Oil Company, W right City. Texa s.

RRLPH RKERS. She ll Oil Company. Kilgore , Texa s.

Left to right: Front view . JOHN GOOD­ RICH. CRRL WINGRTE. CHUCK ST. LRU­ RENT. HRROLD PIERCE . Back row. GUFFY TUTTLE. DON PRYNTER. GENE SCHEIRMRN. M. L. REED. an with Shell Oil Company, Kilgore, Texa s.

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wonderful. You ought to get one." Dotty : (who believes the honey­ moon is over when a quicki e before dinner is a dry martini ) ·'Humph, I'd rather have m y hu s band re­ charged."

A foreign dip lomat was sitting be­ side a ve ry beautiful b londe who 0 possessed a ll th e social graces. Dur- ing th e course of the dinner, he put hi s ha nd under the table and sta rted to feel her ankle. ----.::-...____ She gave him a brilliant smile. uEncoura ged, he went a littl e further The census taker was considerabl y it's my op1111on tha t, once they've and reached the calf of her leg with surprised when the mi stress of th e settled down. mo t men remain faith- th e same results. The lady smiled and hoose opened the door and displayed fu I." he, becoming emboldened with this her matronly self in a state of Most of the men agreed with him, encouragement, went above the kn ees. nudism. but an older ma n in the group shook Very soon, giving the diplomat a " Please don't be s ho c k e d ," she hi s head. " I don't agree at all," he lovely smile she leaned and whi s­ said. " I'm a nudist." asserted. ··And if you fellows are pered in hi s ear: " When yo u get far o, fortified by a college education honest, yo u' ll know I am ri ght. I'll enough Lo di scover that I'm a man, which had prepared him for life. he bet any a nd all of yo u men a new don't cha nge th e ex pression on you r asked the routine questions. hat there isn't one of yo u who hasn't face- I'm Secret Agent No. l :-t'" "And how many children do yo u strayed from the straight and narrow have, Ma'am?" he asked, trying not since he's married." A so ldie r just returned from three to look at her and write at the same " I'll take that bet," cr ied one, years overseas, arrived at a camp time. swiftly. near hi s home town. He was li a tu­ "Twenty," she answered. '·How long have you been mar­ rall y very anxious lo see hi s wife, but "My," he s aid, "yo u ' r e not a ri ed ?" asked th e cynic. try as he would , he could not pos­ nudist, lady. You just don't have "Since last Saturday," was th e sibly wrangle over two hour's leave. time to get dressed! " repl y. After s ix hours' absence, he came The crowd roared, of course- and back to camp. '·One thing I have learned in my one of the listeners was so amused " Why th e hell are you four hours long experience with the fair sex." that he could hardl y wait to get home A.W.O.L. ?" barked his sergeant. said the sly looking one to hi s drink­ and tell his wife about it. At the end " Wei I, you see," said the so ldier, ing companion, ·'is that you can't of the story he laughed and laughed. '·when I got home I found my wife trust a woman with brown eyes!" But his laughter died as he noticed in th e tub and it took me four hours "Say," exclaimed th e other, " I've the strange expression on hi s wife's to dry out my uniform." been married for two years and it face. " Don't yo u think th e story very occur to me that I don't know what funny?" The newlyweds booked the honey­ color eyes my wife has." " Very funny," she said quietly, moon u i te in a hotel. The bride wa~ He bolted from th e bar and ··but where's your new hat?" a beautiful creature, trul y statuesque whipped home. His wife was in bed in fi gure, and her husband was obvi­ ously very mu c h in love with he r. asleep. Creeping closer, he lifted her A little country lad accompanied The walls were thin, and two sail ors eyelid. hi s father on an expedi tion to buy a occupied the next room. "Brown. by gosh! " he roared. new cow. The father gave hi s pros­ "My dearest," said the husband. Brown crawled out from under the pecti,·e purchase a going·over from ·'you are so beautiful. Guess I' ll get bed and said. ·'Ho" the devil did head to foot. poking, probing, and a sculptor from 1ew York to model yo u kno'' I was under here ?" pinching the anima I ver y thor­ yo u. " oughl y. " You see, son," he explained, The origin of the sa) in g ··Oh A moment later there was a knock .. when you bu y a cow you want to yeah" has been attributed to th e on the door. " Who's there?" asked be sure it's a sound one." bridegroom "ho, upon hea ring hi s th e husband. The bo y nodded approval. A week bride say, "' O\\ I la) me do" n Lo "T wo sculptors from New York." later the boy came running breath­ Jeep," ~aid Lo himse lf. ··Oh )eah!"' less ly to his father in a di stant corner An insurance salesman tells about of the farm. "Come quick, pa," he A group of men "ere in th e cl uh a valuable wardrobe whi ch hi s firm entreated. ·'A trave lin g salesman's before dinner. The talk. for no good insured for a cli ent during a Euro­ pulled up behind the barn, and it reason turned Lo married life. pean trip. Upon reaching London she looks like he's going to buy Sister." '"We ll ," said one fello\1. ··the real wired: " Gown lifted in London." comfort in life comes when ) ou are After due deliberation he sent thi s ettled down with one woman yo u Lotty : '·My husband gave me one reply: " What do yo u think our po li cy love. You can argue a II you wan t, but of those new electric blankets. It's covers?"

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