The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 24, 1957, Image 7
THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 1956
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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EDDING PRESENT
By F. L Rowley
warmed
He tho
little All
with one
and how
id of a present can
with five dollars?
George Breen sat in his favorite
spot behind^ t ^ ie garage trying to
decide. Lilac bushes flanked his
nook on one side; a rustic fence
protected the other. Sunlight
[bench—and George.
)f the many times
id run to this spot
ler childish problems,
ie, Uncle George, had
Invariably solved it.
Suddenlyf Alice was no longer a
child. Saturday she would become
the wife of Lt. John Farley.
George crushed the flve-dollar-
bill in a waAkled fist.
A car ptuped into the garage.
Alice and her lieutenant had re
turned from their shopping trip.
“But JohmJ.t’8 not fair!” Alice
seemed angiH
John's voibwwas strained: “Col-
• onel Parker Is a fine officer. When
I applied fjir this furlough I made
myself quite clear—about the
wedding and everything. Perhaps
something more important has
come up.”
“More important! MORE im-
iportant?” Alice was sobbing now.
George squirmed on his bench.
“More important to the army,
I mean,” ! explained John. “And
Colonel Parker has never been
known to change his mind.”
George w^ched them thought
fully until tt^jk entered the house.
“Doggone I T he exploded. “No
body can trWt my little Alice like
that! Colonel Parker—bah! Puts
hif name at the end of a telegram
and everybody’s supposed to jump.
Why, I could—”
He chuckled happily as he
boarded the bus for Taylorsville,
ft would take only a few minutes
to tend a telegram and sign Gol
kar's name to it. When
oka cleared Alice would be
l—and he’d be in trouble
for impersonating an officer; per
haps forgery. He wasn’t sure
which. Well, it was the least he
do for Alice.
When George returned home the
sun was setting.
Alice met him at the door: “Oh,
Uncle George, I have the most
wonderful news! Colonel Parker
has just told us to go ahead with
the wedding. He said he made a
mistake in ordering John back
to camp this Friday; it should
have been Friday of next week.”
On the morning of the big day
George decided to visit Lt. John
Farley in his hotel room. The boy
must have the shakes by now;
he’d welcome a bit of assistance.
Besides, George wanted to make
sure that the military police
hadn’t marched off with the
groom.
When he tapped on the door ol
John’s room it was opened by a
gray-haired man in army uniform.
Lieutenant John Farley came for
ward to peer over the older
man’s shoulder.
“Oh, it’s you, George!” he said
pleasantly. “Colonel Parker, I’d
like to have you meet George
Breen—^Alice’s uncle.”
“Colonel Parker?” George
choked on the name.
“Yes, Mr. Breen. Remember
me? You sent a telegram for me
several days ago—^without my per
mission!”
Looking helplessly at the stem
features George was grateful for
one thing: he was too old to be
drafted. “You know about the
telegram?” he groaned.
“Right. I know, Mr. Breen. And
Alice knows; it was she who
phoned me to verify your wire.”
George winced. So Alice had
suspected him all along. He looked
at the coloneL “And now you’re
here to—to—?”
For the first time Colonel Park
er smiled: “To attend a wedding.
At first I was angry with you
you, Mr. Breen. When I cooled
off I realized that your act must
have taken a bit of courage.”
“And Alice says your little ges
ture will be remembered after
all our other presents have worn
out,” added John with a grin.
JpTHS.
‘stars
by Lyn Connelly
L OOK for a temporary drop in
theatre-going what with all
the best movies of the last decade
now running on late television . . .
The films are good with top-rate
actors as opposed to the beat-up
“B” movies with equally “B”
actors that have been the usual
TV fare until this late fall . . .
However, the honeymoon is bound
to end for out of the 700 ocfd films
purchased from MGM only a pos
sible 50 are “must” fare . . .
Must admit it’s comfortable to
curl up to an evening and see an
outstanding film of only five to ten
years ago, especially since that
was the advent of TV when most
people stayed home to watch
wrestling and missed most of
these good movies.
In order to keep up with TV,
Hollywood must go all out to make
movies “better than ever” and
they seem to be answering the
challenge with such fare as “War
and Peace,” “Friendly Persua
sion,” “Ten Commandments,”
“Written on the Wind” and many,
many others ... As long as this
wave of excellent movies contin
ues, the box office won’t need to
worry about television.
Speaking of television, there was
a strange lack of good Christmas
music this holiday season . . .
Carols weren’t in order until the
actual week of Christmas, a sharp
contrast to the old radio days
when they started “White Christ
mas” going right after Thanks
giving . . . On the other hand
there were a great many corny
plays that were almost embarras
sing in their hackneyed dialog
read in stilted tones by actors
that will never see the big time
. . . All in all, with the exception
of Sonia Henie’s ice show and the
marvelous presentation of Han
del’s “Messiah,” it was a sad
Christmas television-wise.
CIVIL DEFENSE ‘KEYPOINT* for Los Angeles is typical of some
200 such communication centers throughout the nation maintained
by local civil defense. In .less populous areas, “keypoints” are
often police or fire stations, where someone is always on duty.
They depend on the Federal Civil Defense Administration's 14,180-
mile warning net (inset) to link them to Air Force air defense division
control centers. Keypoints notify, in turn some 3,500 “sub-keypoints”
which set off sirens and call out civil defense personnel.
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HOVERING PLANE. . . British Short SC 1, jet-powered research
plane designed for vertical takeoff and landing makes first test
at Belfast.
ANTI-AIRCRAFT missile, the Navy’s “Terrier,” is one of a family
of defensive missiles, including the Army’s “Nike,” which could
be put into action if the nation’s warning system indicated the
approach of attacking planes. Primary purpose of these missiles at
such a time would be to protect the nation’s 92 critical civil de
fense targets from as many attackers as possible. The “Terrier”
is shown silhouetted against the booster blast of another missile
during firing practice aboard the USS Mississippi. iu s Navy Photo)
CLEAR CANAL . . . Crew of Italian salvage ship (left) raise
5,000 ton Egyptian LST sunk in Sue* canal during Anglo-French
invasion. «
REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
LIVING SACRIFICES i
B ECAUSE of the mercies of
God, botH as incentive bom
of gratitude and as an assurance
of help, men are exhorted to pre
sent their bodies as living sacri
fices unto God
There is a distinction to be
drawn between dead sacrifices
and living sacrifices. Men who
gave their lives in some great
r work, the engineers whose graves
were made beside the right-of-
way of a transcontinental rail
way. the devoted physician who
gives himself as a guinea pig to
test some saving medicine and the
martyrs who gave their lives on
the bloody sands of the arena and
elsewhere all bring a great stimu
lus to noble achievement.
But the apostle calls upon men
to present their bodies as living
sacrifices unto God, which should
mean the consecration of all their
powers and their talents unto the
Lord’s service.
* And this is their reasonable serv
ice. If it was to be expected that
old Jim Bludson should stay at
his post in the engine room of a
burning boat and shout, “I’ll hold
her nozzle against the bank ’till
the last galoot’s ashore!” should
it not be a reasonable thing for a
Christian to live for his Lord
every day?
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