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The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 13

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The Courier Newsi
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Blytheville, Arkansas
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13
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1954 BLTrHEVTLtg (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGf OUR BOARDING HOUSE with Major Hooplt fty J. R. Williami PON'T NOU ON TM XXJ CAWT NOTH1N' COVVN IN THAT DOCKE.D OOT HERE FOR THfe PAYMENT rux MAM ALWAYS I TOO MUCH AAAKE MAP TO 'STAMP WTHECMTBE THE 15- R2CTKTEPJ PRICKLES AND HIS FRIINDI Television Tonight Tomorrow WMCT Channel eV WHBQ Channel 13 WMCT Channel 5 9:30 Shopping at 8:30 Theatre 11:15 Love of Life 10:00 Home Show 9:00 Martin Kane 11:30 Search for To'row iinesdav Nilht April 21 H'-OO Bride Groom 9:30 Humko Calling 11:43 Guiding Light nn I 7 11:15 Hawkins Falls 10:00 Playhouse 12:00 Brighter Day 6:00 Evening Serenade 3 Steps to Heaven 10:30 News I2: i5 News TMshPr ter 11:45 Storyland 10:40 Weatherman 12:30 Garry Moore SiSSSfSivan 12:00 News 10:45 George Jessel 1:30 House Party I Married Joan 12 :15 Farm News feature 2 :00 Big Payorf StoS 12:30 Channel Five Club 11: 1I 2:30 Kitchen Magic 8 00 Theatre Homemakers WHBQ Channel 13 3:0 Woman With Past 9 ":00 This is Your Life 1:30 Photoquiz Wednesday Night, April 21 3 .15 Secret Storm 9:30 Playhouse 1:45 Berl- Olswanger 4 3 fro 10:00 2:00 Kate Smith 6:00 Western Theater 3:45 Bot Crosby 10:30 News 3:00 Welcome Travelers 6:30 News vffSSflSSrt 10:40 Weather 3:30 On Tour Account 6:45 Perrj' Como 5.30 ars Pa 10:45 Rocky King 4:00 Pinky Lee Show 7:00 Godfrey and Priend. 6 00 Western Theater 11-15 Film Feature 4:30 Howdv Doody Strike It Rich 6:30 News 11-A5 Sign Off s-nn r-nntain 8 JO I've Got a Secret 6:45 Jane Froman Thursday; April 22 9:00 Blue Ribbon Bouts 7:00 Meet Mr. McNutley 6-50 Meditliion HI weatherman You Why 7:30 Four Star Playhouse no Todav weatnerman 10:00 Weather 8:00 Video Theater 7-25 Weather 5:30 Wild Bill Hickok 10:05 8 -30 Big Town 7 30 Today 8:0 Evenln Serenade iQ i5 Late Show SS 6:15 New Reporter Thursday, April 5JL the kc.

6:30 Dinah Shore 7:00 Morning Show Stathe? S3 JSuTSSES sw 1 sciri? sssnsiw WANTED TO BUY OM, Odd, Unusual Cars Any Kind -Any Condition J. HUIY 879 Washington-Memphis, Tenn. Phone 37-4449 Raven Reminder A raven is kept at Merseburg, castle, near Halle, Germany, as a reminder of a gravt injustice. Many years ago, a servant was executed for the theft of a valuable ring belonging to the Bishop Thilo of Trotha. The ring actually had been stolen by a raven.

When one bird dies, another is placed in its stead immediately. Read Courier News Classified Ads Tnlrpc Onlv 1 Dnv GOING FISHING? See Eddie For Refreshments BEER BY BOTTLE OR CASE Nationally Advertised Liquors FISH TALES TOLD HEBE (Lies Accepted) Eddie's Liquor Stort and Billiard Parlor 122 East Main All Silts Budor Porch Shades 3 FT. to 12 FT. Hubbard Son FURNITURE Lawns Mowed Complete Maintenance Hedge Bedding, Mulching, Pruning, Spraying, Fertilizing. Call 3-8822 Biytheville Nursery For Us To Do Your Roll Film! Wt Specialize In Wtdtting Photoc Graduation Photos Ptrsonaliztd Photos 106 S.

First St. Phone 3-8637 Political Announcement The Courier News is authorized to announce the following candidate for the Preferential Primary July 27. For State Representative Mississippi County H. H. (Buddy) Howard xxxv and Jim followed Mrs.

Hughes into an immaculate nod eoejr Mvteg room which melted of floor polish and rtiowed signs of recent, thorough cleaning. lefs see," Mrs. Hughes said. "This is the last room. Everything's ctean.

I have the notes here to leave to the linen closet husband can find things. And then there's the note for sat down suddenly. land tears came from her eyes. Mm. dried her eyes with a tiny handkerchief.

'Tm she apologized. thought I was ready. I didn't ithink so silly. And I do iappfeeiate your waiting until I get my bouse in order." Naacy darted a questioning at Dunn. nodded.

Nancy over and sat down beside older woman. She said, "Tell about She read the flash In Mm. Hughes' jtyai if not for bublteatkMX Ifi Important to Mn. Hugtvw hesitated, took a deep breatn and began to talk. The words, bottled up tor long time, out to a torrent.

"Some tkne afo, Bd Stone tame to me and said he was wor- iried about bis ton's seeing so touch of Gaylord Mansfield. You toay not know It, but over two pears ago, Mansfield had suggested that Eddie be sent to a home. Ho had only mentioned it once, but Ed Stone never forgot. told me he had installed ml- cropnones to Mansfield's study and bedroom when be baa been doing the soundproofing wort. Mansfield talked to himself whtn Ihe was alone, and be was apt to Italk to hta sleep." Mrs.

Hughes found mall i and pulled it back ana lorUk Utf ouffe "A made my first oxistake then. I didnt believe Ed had reason to worry, and I humored him without saying anything to my TIM DUNN could understand and appreciate the fact that Mayor Stone's life had been worry-ridden since the time it had become evident that Eddie was not normal. Stone could not know whether his son's association with Mansfield was a good thing, a companionship and diversion to be appreciated, or something quite different. Something which made it imperative for Stone to know, even to the length of his installing the eavesdropping microphones, which might warn him if Mansfield was seeking evidence to have Eddie sent away. "Ed put the receiving end of the microphones up in the tower room.

Nash, the upstairs roomer, was always away nights, so there was no trouble about getting tip there, and Eddie wouldn't be curious about contraption. Eddie wanted a television and he'd have believed that was it" Mrs. Hughes looked at her shredded handkerchief. "We still haven't a local television station you Jim realized sbe was putting off a part of her story as long as possible. "I humored him," She smiled wryly.

"1 suppose it was partly because only his son was Involved. And then, I guess It was a month ago, Ed phoned me he'd overheard Mansfield talking about big losses oo the stock market. It was then Mansfield started reciting parti of my SOD'S pity." "I heard him recite Jim said. "When 1 was giving him a tramMon to tbt hospital." She nodded slowly. "It's hard to explain the way we felt.

You sea, it wat only instinct told us something was wrong, The whole play was a great favorite of Eddie's. He sew only the side dealing with magic and wishes granted and fairies. What could we prove wrong in the fact Gaylord Mansfield took the trouble to learn a fairy story to tell to Eddie Stone? told Ed we were fast driving ourselves crazy over nothing, that the listening, the eavesdropping was making worse. He agreed, decided to cut the wires and take the eouinment back to shop: the very next day. "But the next day, there was the wedding.

And there was the murder of Chief Drover. I fainted when I heard the news." She put the pieces of her handkerchief away. "The real nightmare was just beginning. When my husband and left the Holt house and the wedding reception, he was going to drive me home. But the car was not in the same place I had left ft.

Not quite. It was there, the keys in it and the motor warm, but not in the same place. But, you know, our son was here for the wedding and so we thought he had borrowed it. When I got home I found Tony using a ballpoint pen. noticed the initiate G.

W. on it" CHE made a visible effort and pulled her thoughts away, took up the thread of her story. "We might have found out everything, if we bad questioned Eddie. We didnt We did not realize just bow much be was living in a fairy-story world. We talked instead of the microphones, their removal.

When Eddie went to sleep, Kd pried up a piece of molding, cut the wires so they dropped down in a roll be didn't think could easily. 1 waited downstairs while he want up and cut the wires above. I pulled oo the piece but it wouldn't coma loose He cleaned up our traces, but be laft the equipment up tnen for removal later. Too, Mr. Dunn, were on the stairs next night when he started with it" FARMERS We have the Agency For the new WILSON DO-ALL MACHINE.

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I SAY. SOMf MOW-- ME? WMAT A JOUY WW6N ALL OUf FOR A SQUARE we SAY we 016 YOU "Of course I'm glad you found a girl who gives you hitting me for money every night, aren't you afraid of getting overconfident?" by 3.rvto>. int T. -I'M suae nt OBLANDWITU TWM CCANE WHV.TWEV'tZE jrWESWOULD BE IN GOING EIGHT HILLDME ifiC UNJST SW CAEL IS COMING SPON6ES OFF THEN MUST UND, MILLIE LOOS UP TOCTHE CMWJIN COIAIN6 IN IMAG-INE. 1 MAKING A MOBBY OF BERNARD AT THE RACE TRACK AGAIN! IF ONLY I COULD INTEREST HIM IN SOMETHING ELSE! WHAT'S GOT AGAINST HOBBY HORSES WAMT A LEAP ON PNP WJCHBfr LINT SPEAWKkM THOMPSON EVIDENTLY M1YOWE TO FIND IT OUT OOT OUTS- FlflURE HER.

OUT. REPCKTW6 TO PROVIDENCE PELIGHTEP OPPORTUMITV WWTED YES, I KNOW, BUT HAVENT KNEW WAS SEEN FRIEND, SO FOOZY WHEN I SHOWED UP OOPS! UP A MINUTE, ELMER, I WOULD YA MIND THIS DOS OPFATSCHNOOSUE'S IT'LL SAVi ME CE8TA1NLY, OLD FWIEN wot MOCK.

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Years Available:
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