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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1946
Page
7
Former boxing champion Mickey Walker at 45 plans a late blooming art career. He started painting five years ago after seeing Gauguin inspired a midlife shift. Walker values age as guiding clarity and aims to create serious, quiet painterly works in the United States.
Elizabeth New Jersey artist Mickey is framed by canvases and books in his home studio. A former eighth grade fighter turned prize fighting veteran, he is acclaimed as a leading primitive in the American contemporary gallery with two exhibitions and a 50,000 mile USO tour through South America Africa and India where he served as master of ceremonies for a sports show. During a Victoria Beach scene in Central Africa a twig snap drew 2000 curious natives who proved friendly. Despite malaria he remains focused on painting and hopes to earn money from his art, noting his boxing years helped him save.
Adolph Bufe reports counting 820 dead rats after a day and night battle at his Sacramento area ranch aided by two cats a dog a can of poison and a club. He says rats swarmed in gray droves attracted by abundant feed amid an acute gadines condition.
Miss Mayme Smith of Monroe was the first passenger to alight at the new Lancaster Wisconsin airport opened by pilot William Brewer. An Omaha group forms a hunting lodge near Lake McConaughy, Neb. Denver Chamber plans a 40 acre model airplane field. Republic Aviation leases Framingdale Long Island facilities for five years with option to buy. Mount Holly New Jersey airfield students plan to become licensed pilots. Harrisfield Missouri leases airport to city with a board. Wynne Arkansas class two airport to receive $770,561 in federal aid. Denver International Air Show set for August 24 and 25 at Stapleton, directed by Steadham Acker. Johnson Kansas private airport run by Forest Walker with 10 Johnson flying club members investing over $30,000.
A fair child packet cargo plane carries nine tons of payload at 200 mph. The fuselage spans 38 feet and is large enough to drive autos and trucks inside, showcasing a practical air freight design.
Paralyzed veteran Dean Larsen of Wales Utah, 25, soloed a hand operated two passenger plane after five hours of instruction. He completed a ten minute flight at Brigham General Hospital with John C. Weir and Bill Rowe noting the feat. Larsen was wounded in Germany in 1945 when a 45 caliber bullet lodged in his spine.
Badger Iowa, a small Lutheran town, fostered multiple co operative ventures over decades including a grain elevator, telephone, petroleum, credit union, and a food store. The community, with under 400 residents in 1940, emphasizes cooperative effort to meet banking, shopping, and energy needs and invites others to explore producer and consumer co op models.
In Sumner Washington a former patient of Dr. C. L. Tolefson sent back a long overdue payment decade later. The man, who lost his job after his packing plant closed, redeemed a money order and, after improving circumstances, sought the dentist's forgiveness amid a remembered debt.
In Auburn Washington 15 year old Jimmy Marshall operates a 60 acre farm with a purebred Jersey herd after the death of his father B L Marshall. He handles milking chores solo and oversees hogs and spring work while maintaining athletic and scholastic achievement and plans to continue farming.
A list of ten knowledge prompts covering US capitals since independence, etymology of Portland cement, origin of spaghetti, the fall of a city’s walls from sonic impact, a former president who served as chief justice, a dog named Old Dog Tray, ambergris origin, Boreas in Greek worship, a rowing steersman nickname, and a note on submarine surface time during wartime.
Errata Miss. Merle Lucille McDaniel serves as a fire watcher for the forestry department from a cabin atop a 126 foot tower. Built as a wartime lookout for enemy planes, the post now serves for fire monitoring as she keeps daily hours from 9 am to 5 pm, knitting and reading between hourly scans of a 20 mile area with binoculars.
The items identify nine in a quiz, origin of Portland stone from England resembling Portland cement, debunking spaghetti’s arrival to Italy by Marco Polo from China, Jericho, Taft, Stephen Foster, substance yielded by sick whales, the north wind, coxswain, and the purpose of a device to conserve and recharge batteries while submerged.
In Greeley Colorado a woman phoned to say she ran a red light and would pay the fine. Desk Sergeant Irl Timken passed on the odd call noting her honesty and saying if all drivers were as conscientious there would be fewer traffic problems.
Royalton Vermont reports Abbie the bicycling cat has returned home after a year away with four kittens. The cat had vanished near the Russell family's Maine summer home while a bicycling tour with Mrs Homer Russell and children. A newspaper piece helped locate Abbie about two miles from her disappearance site.
Monessen adopts a new ordinance banning excessive automobile horn honking to celebrate weddings. The law prohibits loud toots and warns of police punishment, urging newlyweds to express joy without noise.
W Stuart Symington assistant secretary of war Senator Millard E Tydings Maryland Postmaster General Robert E Hannegan and Gael E Sullivan assistant postmaster general are shown en route to Bikini.
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