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THE BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN
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Manager Of State !
Fair Is Forced To I
Work On Horseback I
S U'RAMKN'TO, Cal. 'U.W It
i> tii i.Iit . ul if any major lair of
til'- 1. micii Stttw. can boast of a
chief execulivi- who combines his
work will the hobby of horseback
riding an> better than Kenneth
Haminaker, secretary-manager ot
he California State aFir.
Hamm.ikor used to ride the
Montana ranges as a youth and
fiK>re at home in the saddit
than on foot. Tin n he .went into
new-paper work moved to Cali-
fornia. and found no time or op-
portunity for continuing his rid-
ing. •
• \Wn he was given the top job
of the California Fair, which
ranks as the bigg*St. state fair in
th'- country Hammakor found it
difficult to keep posted on what
tvai going on over the 220 acres
of tlie fair grounds. A car 'vould
he ronfme.i the roafls, and it
took too Uiti!4 to walk. And onl\
a few days remained before the
August 30 opening.
i latrmker finally solved his
problem by purchasing Sweet-
h'art 5-\ ear-old granddaughter
of the once famous Gun Rock.
He makes several daily tours of
the fair plant on horseback,
starting out at 6 a. m. before con-
struction crt as Come to work.
He can leap fences, inspect un-
finished roads, ga'llop through
long livestock barns, cut across
the grand-.tand infield and. most
important, elude pursuit from sec-
retaries and jobseekers and other
persons who might want to in-
terrupt his inspection.
In addition to the advantages
in covering ground, Hammaker
enjoys reliving his days of cow-
punching ami riding the range,
finds it a welcome diversion frt>m
the confinement of his busy of-
fice.
Snowshoes Ordered
For Alaska Troops
NORWAY. Me. Troops in
Alaska are going to get some
streamlined footwear for winter.
A sporting goods firm here
which furnished snowshoes for
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
and his men on two expeditions
has received a government order
for 2,000 modern snowshoes —48
inches long and only 10 inches
wide.
Calling: Bluff Of
Hubby Near Fatal
DETROIT. <U.R> — In all of his
t>5 years William Boussneur never
went near water of his own will
until his wife called his bluff.
The result of the family disa-
greement was that Boussneur,
fully clothed, spent half an hour
in the Detroit river splashing and
shouting: "Help. I can't swim a
stroke."
When he was pulled into a po-
lice speedboat, he explained to of- '
fievrs that his swim had been pre-
cipitated by an argument with his
wife.
"I told my wife," ne said,
"that I was going to jump into
tnc river. She told me to go ahead
I decided to shcuv her and here I
ani."
He told officers that he hasn't
been near a sw imming beach in 40
years and lias always hated the
water. He said he just turned over
on his back and kept shouting un-
til aid arrived.
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It I) \ V1 H*r Mary
tlral mmlx with iflrk.
la a aatall rial aail u.
nry Ma «h frrllagr thai v r -
waa «tacvd to gfl attratlua
NU'fe «■(!>•■• that
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la itellebtrd.
MICK ASKS QUESTIONS
CHAPTER IX
T^ICK was happy. He sat In the
pu.Ior ^nd leaned forward
eagerly asking Sue Mary more de-
\ ails about how she had helped
Vera get the job.
"It's not only that I'm glad she
will have a job for a while," lie
said, holding Sue Mary's hands
between his own. "But it'i that
you dicl this because I asked you
to do it. That's what puts this
warm feeling—this little flame
here in tny heart.
"You're not like other girls—I
mean 1*3 the ones I've known.
I've had a funny life. Tough;
hard. I've had to work and fight
my way. And lately I've had a
cause. I never meant to be one
of the crowd that trails along. I
think. I reason, and I know that
there is a chance for someone
like me.
"Civilization is changing: so-
ciety is taking on a new form,
and I'm going to help. A man
needs someone to work along with
him, though. Someone whom lie
can trust, believe in, love."
Nick's love was becoming some-
thing to deal with. It frightened
Sue Mary. There had been boys
back home in high school days.
Nice young boys who took her to
dances and high school parties.
Then there was Joe, whose love
she couldn't doubt, but whose love
was not like this.
Nick frightened and thrilled her
at the same time. His words left
her with a sense of embarrass-
ment, In her bewilderment she
could only try to steer him back
to workaday matters.
"Nick, please—let's talk -ibout
Vera's job. You know I'll help
her; show her how things work
in the office. It won't be hard."
"But the work there isn't easy,"
he reminded her. "You say there
is much legal work. What do you
mean by that?"
She tried to explain, glad for
the interest that took his thoughts
away from herself. It was filing
ar.d stenographic work, she ex-
plained.
"Orders keep c f.iing in; plans
have to be checked and they keep ]
changing the machines out there
in the plants- all the time now.
it seems, since the plane factory
is working for the government on
pursuit and bomber planes.
"At first, you know, I used to
get sort of sick thinking that ali
those papers — those drawings,
those figures—would eventually
become machines of death. 1
could close my eyes and picture
the sky overhead filled with them
cariying guns and bombs-. But of
course thai was silly. We need
thuse planes for defense—and 1
can't believe we'll ever have to
use them. Not here, Nick. Nut in
America."
* •
XJIS arms about her had relaxed
and he pressed his face
against lier hair and laughed
softly. "Of course not. Only it's
natural to wonder about the
things with which you work. But
certainly you can't understand all
those plans, those figures that you
uaeak about."
"No, silly. Of course rot. At
least not much. And then, any-
way. I don't see them often. The
really important ones never get
out of Miss Giant's hands. She's
Clark's secretary and he has to
put the final signature on every-
thing that goes out of the office,
so naturally she handles them.
"But they're valuable. Why, I
guess they're government prop-
erty. Anyway, they're guarded in
the vault as. though they were
diamonds."
"Diamonds aren't a good com-
parison, dearest," he said. "Those
plans can't be bought. I should
think they'd want to keep them
some place safer." *
"I don't think they do keep
them there very long," Sue Mary
confessed. "Men — government
m n. we girls think—come in
often and have conferences. I
guess they take the plans away
Anyway I hope so.
"Wouldn't it be terrible if some
secret agent stole them? Why,
Nick—I never thought of it be-
fore, but if another country got
them—what VA.uld happen?"
He laughed and kissed her.
"You've been reading G-men
stories, seeing too many movies,
j Don't bother your pretty head
about it. After all, you aren't re-
sponsible. and no one is going to
try such a stunt."
# # ♦
Tf,THILE she was with Nick she
was happy. He had brought
something into her drab, hum-
drum life that it had lacked be-
fore. No longer did she face
empty days, dragging hours, a
sense of nothing ahead. Nick had
picked her up and plumped her
into a world where things hap*
pened. Where there were other
young people—a kind that thought
and planned for tomorrow. ,
I11 a few short weeks Nick
become more than a mere play-
mate. He kept her supplied with
reading material; novels, some of
which she couldn't understand,
but which she read because he
asked her to, and because he dis-
cussed them with her later; maga-
zines with articles about govern-
ment problems affecting the man
0:1 the street; editorials in out-of-
town papers commenting on world
situations.
Constantly 'she was striving to
tlease him. reach a state where
she could talk with him r. though
she were something more than a
child. And yet she couldn't reach
a perfect feeling of ease with him.
Or with Vera 01 Natalie.
At the office Vera was no prob-
lem. She was quiet, self-effacing,
iflivient. Vera had style; there
was a something about her poise,
her carriage, her voice that made
people look at her twice.
Sue Mary wished secretly that
she had some of Vera's assurance.
She would stare at her own round,
tanned face in the office mirror;
at the sprinkle of golden freckles
scattered over her nose; at the
blue eyes fringed in the thick
lashes; at the dark, brown hair
worn in the traditional loose bob
beloved by American girls.
"I'm just another girl," she
would admit to herself. "Just like
thousands in every town and in
offices throughout the land.
There's nothing about me to make
anyone remember me. I'm pretty
as girls go, but I'm not the kind
that stands out. Not like Vera."
* ■ * «
T>UT Vera, for all her attractive-
ness, was also a good worker.
"Miss Oliver is doing very
well," Miss Grant told Sue Mary
a week later. "She's always so
willing *0 learn, and she has a
good grasp on things here once
they've been explained."
Sue Mary told that to Vera
when they left the office and
started toward the hall where
they would talk and gossip with
the others for an hour before
going home.
"I'm glad." Vera said, smoothing
the dark hair back from her
calm, broad forehead. Sue Mar'-^f
thought she already looked rest and
There was a touch of pink in hday
dark cheeks, and she was wear
! a new shade of lipstick '
( brought out the strength of~V
I full lips. I
j ' I'm going to like it here," r—
1 said. "TTiat is, if Kitty does
j make it tough." B
(To Be Continued) "
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