El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 7

Page 7 PASO HEttALD-POST TOURING WITH PYLE Weather Roamin' Man of Mountains Has Soul Tuned To Nature Wiley Oakley's English Is Spectacular And He Is Naive And Sage At Same Time Conchas Dam Road Row Reaches Court By Axunvinted Prrmt TUCUMCARI Oct Tucumcari's controversy with the Red River Valley Co over a right-of-way for a highway to Conchas Dam through the Bell ranch landed in the courts today Taylor president of the Tucumcari Chamber of Commerce announced that a condemnation suit was filed yesterday in San Miguel County IT BVREAl' FORECASTS (Thursday Ort 311 K1 Pan and Vicinity: Fair tonight and tomorrow: not much change in Icmpera-ature West Team: Fair tonight and tomorrow except partly cloudy with scattered rhowers extreme southeast portion tonight: colder In the Panhandle tonight Saw Mexico: Fair tonight and tomorrow slightly colder southeast portion tonight Arizona: Fair tonight and tomorrow little change in temperature El PASO DATA Airport City Lowest temperature last ivght 32 Highest yesterday Wind direction Velocity Precipitation last 24 houis Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow fessionalism has come to them both But that's all right For what good would the Smokies be or Wiley Oakley either if they remained under a bushel? MOUNTAINEER MUSEUM WELL WORTH VISITING Heavy Absentee Vote In County 537 Are Cast 100 More Are Expected El Pasoans are piling up a big absentee vote for the general election at County Clerk Lowry's office deputies said today The office already has received 537 absentee ballots with two more days to go All ballots postmarked Saturday will be forwarded to general election officials to be tabulated Tuesday Deputy Clerk Tom Duncan handling the absentee ballots said the absentee vote is a little ahead of the 1936 election when Alf Landon ran on the Republican ticket He said the records show around 500 absentee votes in the 1936 election About 100 more ballots are expected to be received by the time absentee voting ends We invite you to attend our Offer Free Trees To Replace Those Disease Killed Agriculture Workers Complete Eradication Work Valley farmers whose orchards have peach mosaic infected trees may get disease-free trees free from the Texas Nurserymen's Assn agents of the Texas Department Agriculture advised farmers today The Department of Agriculture co-operating with the Texas department sent workers to the Valley this week to complete eradication of mosaic infected trees Growers with infected trees are requested to notify Thompson Box 1504 He will also take orders for new trees to be given farmers Mr Thompson is an inspector the Texas Department of Agriculture Crews expect to remove all infected peach trees left in the Val ley The work was started last year but was never completed More than 1000 infected trees are being removed At the Cadwalladcr orchard the Lower Valley 686 trees were removed and destroyed this week The remainder of the infected trees are scattered throughout the Valley in small home orchards Thursday Oct 31 1940 Near Completion Of $30000000 'irrigation Dam Town Springs Up At Big Mexican Water Project Work is nearing completion on Mexico's $30000000 Angostura Dam 100 miles south of Douglas Ariz on the Bavispe River in Sonora Mexico The dam is being erected by the Mexican Irrigation Commission and will form a lake about 26 miles long and 10 miles wide at the widest point About 1000 workers are on the project A community of 4500 has sprung up near the dam as a result of the work Build Power House The dam is being constructed under the supervision of John Frazier who came to the project from the Rodriguez Dam in Lower California The dam is of a mass concrete gravity arcli type with a 300-foot arch The dam is 748 feet long A power house mixing plant shops and warehouses have been built Much of the equipment will be dismantled when the project is corpleted Water from the new dam will be used to irrigate the rich Yaqui Valley about 200 miles south of AngOBjura Water will be stored during the rainy season and distributed during the dry months The first recorded efforts to bring irrigation water to the Yaqui Valley was in 1821 But little progress was made until the administration of President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico Allow No Liquors The camp has no liquor problem Officials do not allow the sale of liquor A police force of 10 members is employed and strict regulation of sanitation problems is enforced each section of the town being required to maintain clean streets and alleys The camp is maintaining a 20-bed hospital with four nurses and BOOK REVIEW FRIDAY Mrs John Barry Kill discuss "White Cliffs" by Alice Duer Miller A poetic narrative of an American grl who married an Englishman who fought in the last war and sees her son row going off to fight another war Radio dramatized recently with Lynne Fontaine! This Friday's Guests will be Dr Edwards Professor of Political Science New Mexico State College Dr Rex Strickland History Professor College of Mines discussing "Velocity of Nazism" Discussion based on of by Herman Rauschnig Sherman To Tell About Demo Projects In Former Mayor Sherman will speak at 7:40 today over Radio Station KTSM on behalf of President Roosevelt and the whole Democratic ticket County Attorney Guinn's Roosevelt speech scheduled for tomorrow night was cancelled because the time conflicted with President Roosevelt's campaign broadcast Mr Sherman said he w'ould speak on the Roosevelt Administration's work for El Paso including Rio Grande rectification Ft Bliss expansion construction of the new Federal Building and compare El Paso today and at the time President Roosevelt took office in Washington Three Trainmen Die In Derailment International Knee Service WINTER HAVEN Fla Oct 31 officials believed today that either an open switch or broken flange caused the derailment of an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train north of Winter Haven yesterday resulting in the deaths of three trainmen Killed were the engineer Frank Gray am 60 Sam Knowles 30 observing fireman and Hibbard Reed Negro fireman All were scalded fatally by escaping steam By ERNIE PYLE Rrrippz-Howard Roving Rroorlrr ATLJNBURG The most famous man in the Smokies as far as visitors are concerned is "Wiley Oakley Hr is called Roamin' Man of the He is 55 and all jhis life he has gjjust wandered a und through the Smokies He is a natural woodsman with a soul that sings in harmony with the birds and the trees and the clouds His English is spectacular and on many things he is naive as a baby But on other things he almost shocks you with his meticulous knowledge He has a house in the hills and a rustic-craft shop in Gatlinburg Most of his life he has made a living as guide to hunters and later to tourists There are industrialists by the score in America who worship at Wiley Oakley's feet after a few days in the mountains with him He is a famous teller of tall tales he won't tell one on Sunday) He has been on the radio and on one trip to New York was offered a contract It scared him so badly he took the train home without saying goodby Throughout his wanderings Wiley has dropped past home often enough to raise a dozen children They are all grown now except one Wiley himself has run the same cycle as his beloved mountains In the beginning they were virginal untouched natural But now they have become public characters both the mountains and Wiley be fore the curious eyes of a million people a year Maybe they have both been changed a littie by it a little pro 25c Size BAYER ASPIRIN 19c F0RHANS TOOTH PASTE 3:00 Shift Meet Speakers Dr Wiggins president of the College of Mines has been called to Austin and will leave Saturday afternoon and will be unable to speak at the Southwestern' High School Press Assn dinner at the Chamber of Commerce Saturday night A Michael city editor of The Herald-Post will speak in his place Ml 7th Floor 99 visitor to Gatlinburg must see is the IVfountaineer Museum This is a collection of some 2000 old-fash-oned mountain articles gathered by Edna Lynn Simms Mrs Simms came'from Knoxville 24 years ago She herself roamed the mountains long before the tourists came She picked up articles and lore and the language of the hills She has a bubbling enthu siasm for everything she sees or hears an enthusiasm that has not begun to simmer down even after 24 years of mountain discovery Mrs museum is the best collection of mountain stuff in the Smokies And in her own head is one of the finest collections of mountain speech and legend Why she has quoted so long that she talks like a mountain woman herself Uncle Steve Cole lives on at old home place right in the park He is a typical mountain man of the old school a good mountain man the kind who lives right and does right I dropped in one afternoon to talk to him Uncle Steve lit a fire and sat down beside it and began spitting in the fireplace He wasn't chewing tobacco but he spit in the fireplace all the time anyhow Uncle Steve has killed more bears than any man in these mountains He says so himself and others say so too He hasn't the remotest idea how many he has killed But he has killed bears with muzzle-loaders modern rifles deadfalls clubs axes and he even choked one to death with his bare hands DOGS TREED A BEAR BEFORE FUN STARTED I GOT him to tell me that story He and a neighbor went out one night The dogs treed a beSr The way Uncle Steve tells it would take half an hour and that's too long for us But the essence of it was that they built a fire the bear finally came down the tree Uncle Steve there until the bear's body whs pressing in the muzzle of the gun and then he pulled the trigger figured I couldn't miss that Uncle Steve laughs He didn't miss but the shot didn't kill the bear He ran 50 yards or so and then the dogs were on him And the first thing Uncle Steve knew the bear had clenched his great jaws right down on a dog's snoot and was just crushing it to pieces Now Uncle Steve's gun was an old-fashioned sawed-dff muzzleloading hog rifle and he didn't have time to reload it So to save the dog he just rushed up to the bear from behind put his legs around the bear and started prying the dog's snoot out of the bear's mouth before I knew what says Uncle Steve bear let go of the dog and got my right hand in his mouth and began a-crunchin and a-growlin and a-catin on my hand "One long tooth went right through the palm of my hand and another went through the back of my hand There wasn't nothin' for me to do but reach around with my left hand for the bear's throat I got him by the goozle and started clampin' down Pretty soon he let go Then I just choked him till he was deadcr'n 4 Uncle Steve spit in the fireplace Mrs Cole was sitting on the bed listening Nobody said anything for a minute Then Mrs Cole chuckled and said o'clock ain't Uncle Steve didn't 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