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Reporter(Continued Trom Page 8) She loves them.TAKE SARAH SPUD, an Fndiciti woman who died not long ago, anil Rose Walter, the last inhabitants of the ghost town of Belmont, Nev., where 10,000 persons once lived. Sarah Spud and Rose Walter lived there for years,each by herself—they couldn’tstand to be crowded.Nell Murbnrgcr tells about Belle Moss Roberts, a native of Austin, Nev., who recently won a long battle to save from demolition Nevada's oldest Methodist Church, built in 1860. She tells about SybilHuntington, HO, a widow who lives alone in a shack 45 miles from (lie nearest town, Winnemucca, Nev. And Alice Hutchinson Western who was horn at fort Deseret in Millard County, Utah, and has lived within three miles of her birthplace for 87 years.These women will gladly shoot a jade rabbit or skin a squirrel for dinner when they see Nell Murbargcr coining.Writing is in Nell Murburg-er's blood. She was born in I lie South Dakota Black Hills where her father, Hairy C. Lounsberry, was a newspaper publisher. When she was 12 years old, she sold her first article, a narrative about acouple of wrens building a nest, to Bird Lore Magazine for $2. She says. “I was the richest girl in the United Slates!SHF. AND HER parents visited national parks and she sold articles about their trips to juvenile magazines.In 193G she became a reporter on the Costa Mesa Globe-Hernld, and was its editor for two years. She covered Costa Mesa for the Newport-Balboa Press, and then she was its editor for six years.When World War II ended, I decided from then on 1 would do what I wanted to do: travel and write.”In her 1946 Mercury she drove 200,000 miles in (he West, from Oregon to Guadalajara. The camper is relatively new.Nell Murbarger built n I Ox 10-foot office of pine hoards in the yard of her home. In it are her typewriter, her reference library, rocks, mementos of Hie West.As regularly as if she bad a steady job, she goes to her office at 7 a. m. and works until noon. She takes her portable typewriter on all trips.
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Independent Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Sun, Nov 27, 1960
Page 40
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