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ALL EDITIONS Sleeves, Wife Reunited Friday July 5,1957 Page 17 By DON DEDERA Good Morning! "THE PUNGENT statement is my compass," complains a Friendly Friday Forum contributor. "But sometimes I wonder who is getting the needle. 'He's Skinny' She Says After Embrace NEW YORK (UP)-Air Force Lieutenant David Sleeves, who survived a two-month ordeal fn the rugged High Sierra Mountains, was reunited yesterday with his pretty wife for a vacation on "flat land." "How horrible," Mrs. Rita Steeves said when she saw her 23-year-old husband's board. "Take last Monday for example.

"I arose, walked into the bathroom and began shaving. FIRST THINGS FIRST! reminded the slogan pasted on the mirror. This disconcerted me. Maybe I should have showered first. "And when I looked at the other corner of the ing more cheerful until I picked up Doc Dunham's Monday Reveille and encountered this one: AN OPTIMIST IS A GUY WHO TELLS YOU TO CHEER UP WHEN THINGS ARE GOING HIS WAY.

"Epigrams, slogans, proverbs, pithy slogans they assailed me from all sides that day. I finished the afternoon with this one ringing in my ears: THREE DUTIES OF AN EXECUTIVE ORGANIZE, DEPUTIZE, SUPERVISE. "Driving home, I snapped on the car radio to relax. A momentgter, a funeral voice warned: POWER BRAKES MAY STOP A CAR ON A DIME BUT IT USUALLY COSTS ABOUT A HUNDRED DOLLARS TO GET THE REAR END FIXED! "A LETTER was lying on my desk when I arrived home. It concerned a situation apparently calling for an immediate decision.

I looked at the slogan printed on a calendar pad: "LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. "I said, 'Ah, hah, I'll wait a day before "Then I chanced to glance at another Dedera pi mi mi Beard of Air Force Lt. minium Davjd steeves who turned up alive in California Sierras, is fingered by his wife, Rita, as other members of his family stand by to greet him on his arrival in New York. The others, from left, are Mrs. Harold Steeves, a sister-in-law; his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Steeves of Trumbull, and his brother, Harold. The flier's 15-month-old daughter, Leisa, stayed with an aunt. (AP Wirephoto) He said he was not sure when he would be alone with his wife. "I think the air force promised us tomorrow night," he said.

Mrs. Steeves, who had been told her husband had no chance to survive the nigged mountains, said that she was reconciled to his flying again. "I'LL TELL YOU this guy going to have to fly again," she said. "Let's face it. Aviation "is his life.

I guess it's something I'll have to get adjusted to." Mrs. Steeves said that despite the warning that her husband had no chance to survive, "I felt if anybody could, he could." "He has the most tremendous amount of patience and common sense," she added. Steeves used all of his facilities to survive the ordeal. After he parachuted from the plane, he landed in Kings Canyon State Park and sprained both ankles. "I feel fine now," he said.

"I sure have been eating a lot." Steeves said he hoped to vacation in Florida, "around Fort Lauderdale, maybe." "And he feels skinny," she added after they had embraced. The attractive blond mother who came here from their home at Trumbull, to meet her husband when he stepped off a plane was all smiles. Sleeves survived for 52 days in the wild mountain region after his jet plane exploded in the air May about 75 miles east of Fresno. He went 15 days without food and survived the rest of the time on a deer he trapped, food supplies left in a tool shed, and small game he scrounged from the area. HE REACHED civilization July 1 with 50 or 60 pounds lost from his normal weight of 195 pounds.

Steeves said he planned a vacation with his wife and their 15-month old daughter, Leisa, on "flat land." But first he faced a round of press conferences, interviews, and examinations. After arriving at 3 a.m., the handsome air force officer fared a battery of television cameras and reporters at noon. Then he was able to nap for a while. Federal Court To Air Apache Dam Case 'asked that the case be trans-l U. S.

Attorney Jack D. II. Hays Federal district court today will hear arguments whether it should retain jurisdiction on a dam built by the Apaches at their White Mountain Reservation. mirror and read EASY DOES IT, it was with great difficulty that I stifled a temptation to crawl back into bed. "At the breakfast table, I absorbed the various urgings of the various newspaper pundits and left for work with this one fresh in mind: ONCE YOU'VE GOT THE BIG IDEA, IT TAKES A LOT OF LITTLE DEEDS TO PUT IT OVER.

It reminded me of the slogan on my office wall DON'T START VAST PROJECTS WITH HALF VAST IDEAS. "DRIVING TO work, I passed Bert's Paint Shop on East Camelback. His sign bore the admonition: KEEP PHOENIX GREEN, WE NEED THE MONEY. It reminded me that my checking account was low. Somehow, I wasn't too surprised, when I arrived at the office, to find a little card in my mail from the exuberant Andy Chuka.

It said: ULCERS ARE CAUSED NOT SO MUCH BY WHAT YOU EAT AS WHAT IS EATING YOU. "Another axiom in the mail this one from Tal Walker, the sign man: QUALITY IS NEVER ATTAINED OR MAINTAINED BY ACCIDENT. I had just finished a quality job, and began feel- will make certain additions to the brief. Hays has to handle the case as the Justice Department water attorneys arc tied up with the California-Arizona water dispute being heard before a federal referee in California. The Apaches completed the dam despite opposition of the Water Users.

The dam is storing water for a recreational area at Trout Creek in Smith Park. ferred to federal court. Judge Dave W. Ling will hear arguments at 10 a.m. He said if jurisdiction is retained that he probably will set the case for trial in September.

The office of the Arizona U. S. attorney will handle the case for the government. The government brief was prepared by water experts of the Justice Department. The Salt River Water Users want the dam destroyed on the grounds that the Apache's impounding of the water is illegal under state law.

The Water Users claim the state has jurisdiction. The Department of Justice calendar pad. This one reminded me that HE WHO HESITATES IS LOST. "My wife came into the room a few minutes later and found me gnawing at a ruler. 'What's all that she asked.

"REMEMBER," I answered knowingly, LIFE IS HARD BY THE YARD; BY THE INCH IT'S A CINCH." The letter-writer, drat him, left us an inch short today. Just enough room for the sensible statement attributed to Satchel Paige: DON'T RUN, AND NEVER LOOK BACK. SOMETHING MIGHT BE GAINING ON YOU. Voice Of Broadway By DOROTHY KILG ALLEN WORD FROM Madrid has it that Generalissimo Franco has told Prince Juanito Carlos, in rather firm tones, that he favors a marriage with a prin cess or a ruling royal family. This would eliminate Princess Maria Ga-briella of Italy, with whom the heir to the Spanish throne is so much in love.

Victor Borge signed three night club deals within the past few days. His new salarv: $42,500 a week. New York for the Astor benefit and appear on a number of key television and radio programs to plug Bob gave the studio officials a few hours of panic when he sent word from Paris that he might not be able to make any of the dates. The film he's currently shooting, "Paris Holiday," is 'way behind schedule, and comedian Fernandel is giving everyone a hard time. An unconfirmed report from India has it that Roberto Rossellini plans to bring suit against an Indian publication, a move which might compel the authorities to extend his visa until the case could be tried in court.

THERE'S MORE than plenty of life in the old gal. Sophie Tucker is a smash hit at El Rancho Vegas. Oh, to be a glamour girl now that summer's here! Pat Clark Toriel, one of Cafe Society's more vivid members, flew out to Hollywood for just 24 hours because that's where her dressmaker, Elgee Bove, happens to be and she felt she simply had to have a fitting on the dress she's wearing to the Pink and White Ball at the Westhampton Bath and Tennis Club. Kilgallen A reducing diet just off the plane from Hollywood: Eat all you want, but nothing before 6 p.m. and nothing after midnight.

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Although less than 1 per cent of its area has been explored by man on foot, we do know that this is a great land not a series of islands recently believed as and enss crossed mountain ranges. Burns By EUGENE BURNS there is but one direction and that north; but one time zone, because all converge. There is but one "day" a year six months of it being daylight, six months being darkness. Like the ice sheets of our Northland which retreated and left such relics as the Great Lakes, points out Walter Sullivan in Quest for a Continent (McGraw-Hill, N. the Antarctic ice has shrunk, too.

It is at least 1,000 feet thinner than it was. Nonetheless, in the hinterland only the loftiest peaks pierce the blue and white crust which still blankets almost the entire continent. AMONG THESE peaks are a few live volcanoes how many, no one knows. One erupting volcano heats one small section so that it is snow-free in a region of eternal snows. As other continents shed water, Antarctica, which has no rivers, sheds ice.

Snow falls on the ice sheet, adding constantly to its bulk, and then the ice flows to the sea, sometimes flowing distances of more than 1,000 miles. Some of these rivers of comparatively fast-flowing ice, or glaciers, cut through the plains of more immobile ice. In the steep valleys, the ice "rapids" may thunder with the sound of continuous artillery fire states Sulli-peditions to the Antarctic, van, who has accompanied three ex- The great ice sheet does not pour into the sea at certain places only, as do streams of water, but it pushes out in virtually all directions and icebergs break off from the ice front along almost the entire coastline. This process is known as "calving." Where the ice sheet has pushed out over the sea and remains attached, it is known as an ice shelf. A 30-volume set of the Encyclopedia American 1( warded each week to Is That So contest winners.

For judging, send stories of true-life nature adventure, observations, or puzzling juttimi to Is That So, Tha Arizona Republic Box 575. Cilil. The continent of Antarctica differs fundamentally from the Arctic regions at the other end of the world. Where the Arctic is an ocean, covered with drifting pack ice and hemmed in by the land masses of North America, Europe, and Asia, the Antarctic is a land mass surrounded by the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The ice cap covering the Antarctic is more than 11,000 feet thick at the center and the cold air cascades off this ice sheet with such force that it makes the nearby seas the stormiest on earth.

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