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MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1946 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE NINE T Today's Short Story 'DIMPLES WINS THE FIRST ROUND %y Emmie Bell Porter AMIARY, what would you say, if I were to tell you I saw your band holding hands with a cute tle blonde in the drugstore to- "Rebecca Walton, you're a drip to say such a thing...even as a joke," laughed Mary as she furi- ously brushed her dark cloud of hair. "Dan is still in love wit" me, even though we have been married two whole years." Rebecca thoughtfully studied her finger tips. "Mary, think you take Dan a little too much for granted. Yes, I know I'm stickin my neck out to say so, but consid- ering the fact that we've fought continuously since kindergarten, one or two more skirmishes won't get me down." Mary regarded her friend intent- ly from under blue-black lashes, "Gracious! I do believe the gal is serious!" she exclaimed in mock alarm, Rebecca leaned forward and spoke rapidly, "Since the day Jun- ior was born a year ago, and be- came the centre of this household, you've been letting Dan down pretty baciy, as far as real come panionship goes" Mary was too astonished to be angry, " 'Letting Dan down'?" she repeated, "Where did you get that idea? I run the house pretty effici- ently, even if I do say so myself." Rebecca shrugged, "O.K. but I "Now wait just a minute," inter- rupted Mary, "When you started this highly interesting, but myster- fous conversation, you started it by saying something about my hus- band holding hands with a blonde." Hands on hips she gazed steadily at Rebecca, "Now it's not so bad when my best friend tells me I'm not running my marriage right but when she says my husband is hold- ing hands with a blonde -- she'd better be able to back that little statement up with facts." "Now wait," laughed Rebecca, "Keep your shirt on. I can prove what I said, in fact I think Dan will confess, if you will give him a chance." » For the first time, fear leapt intp Mary's eves, "Rebecca," she whisp- ere", #«ebecca! I can't understand it -- surely you are mistaken -- surely not Dan!" Rebecca's eyes were calm and her voice held a note of truth which Mary could not doubt, "No Mary, it was Dan, all right and he was completely captivated." Mary sat down weekly clutching the hair brush, "Where were they?" she whispered "Where?" "Now, now Mary," soothed Rebecca, 'Don't jump at conclu- sions, this isn't the stone age and you and Junior are not abandoned "Don't try to get me off the track," warned Mary. "Remember I was asking where they were?" "Well, this is the way it was," related Rebecca, "It happened in the drugstore where Dan works. Seemg that the blonde's father is owner of the store. She had come down with him. She was sitting in the booth and Dan was standing by her, holding her hand. In fact all the: men in the store were sy dizzy about her. Her name 'Dimples." "Just when did this happen, Re- a? becca? "Let's + +" Rebecca frowned in concentration, "Mon- jday and Tuesday. . . . You see I £0 in there for a coke about twelve o'clock every day." "You saw this twice?" cried Merv. "Rebecca, whatever shall 1] 07" "OX. You asked me, I'll certainly tell you," Rebecca's voice was very earnest, "Give Dan another break. Don't give absolutely all your time Cra, ~ to Junior . . . leaving Dan to amuse himaalt alogie/s od "I really try to be a good com- panion," Mary defend fry "1 try to--" "Try to what?" inter- rupted Reb "Dan pl a for months 'to go to the fraternity dance--did you gO with him as he wanted you to?" "Well, no," admitted Mary, "But --" "That's right you didn't go," resumed the pitiless Rebecca, "Did Jou go to the Home-Coming foot- all game with him?--the one he umm by Dave C Mary regarded her friend ine tently from under blue-black lashes, "Gracious! I do believe the gal is serious." talked about all last fall?" "No. "Were you or Junior sick?" "No, but Rebecca, don't hound me so, cried the thoroughly aroused Mary "1 don't want to leave Junior with just anyone and gad around!" "Neither did Dan want you to leave him with 'just anyone' " re- minded Rebecca. "You know as well as I, that Mary Brown from the Junior College would always be reliable as a sister with Junior, she was really anxious for the work." Mary's face was flushed, "Per- haps was wrong after all but I've got to do something about the blonde--but what?" Rebecca studied her friend shrewdly, "I'll help you, if you are sure that you are cured of neg- lecting Dan , . . after all, Dan quite a handsome chap to be float- ing around alone . . ." "Oh Rebecca, I'll do anything . +» « but what can I do now?" "Well," smiled Rebecca, "I guess it's up to me to take you down to the drug-store to see for your self." "Oh no!" cried Mary horri- fied, "I'll make no public scene!" "Public scene!" snorted Rebecca, "why they needn't even know you're here. We'll go up on the mezzanine and look down from there, Get your things on. happen to know she usually comes in about twelve-thirty." An hour later sitting in the mez- zanine Mary was looking impat- lently about, "Where is she?" she whispered, "Sh-h-" warned Rebecca, "There she is, with her father, in the booth nearest the door." was straining to see, when suddenly the voice of Dimples' father came clear! ror booth, "Yes sir!" he boomed, "Yes sir!! Give Dimples a double cho- colate malted--or anything else she wants . . . we're celebrating the big occasion . . . she is four years old today . . . Happy Birth- + day, Dimples, Happy Birthday!" Flin Flon Origin Now Lost In Maze Of Many Legends By NORMAN ALTSTEDTER Canadian Press Staff Writer FlinFlon, Man. (CP).--Some say the name was Professor Flin Filon, others that it was Flintabatty Flonatin, but they agree that the name of the Rovel in which he was the hero was "The Sunless City" and that it was appropriate for this rugged mining town perched on the rock and muskeg of the Precam- brian Shield. The hazy history of the naming of this town of some 9,000 miners, fishermen, trappers and lumbermen, 250 miles northwest of Regina is traced by one group of historians to a lonely prospector who found a novel on a Churchill River portage in 1914, in which a Professor Flin Flon was the hero, He liked the name and gave it to the present site of the town, the story goes. But no one today has ever come across a copy of the novel. Partisans of the other explana- tion say the character in the novel was named Flintabatty Flonatin and that he descended in a sub- marine to the Sunless City where gold was used for all construction. A group of prospectors are said to have remembered the story when they were doing early work on a claim which centred on a conical hole. They named it Flin Flon. There are more than 2,000 "Flin- tabatty Flonatins" descending into the mine of the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company here every day now to delve not only for gold, but for copper, silver, aluminum, cadmium and the purest zinc in the world. © Although when anyone refers to "The Company" it is , taken for granted that the H.B.M.S. company is the one referred to, the town is also a big fishing centre. Moze than $1,000,000 worth of fish from Ge pEsining northern lakes were mark- ted through Flin Flon last year. The fish find their way to mar- kets across Canada and in the United States by air or along the Canadian National Railways, the only methods cf getting to the "outside." ! But there is talk now of "The Road"--the 100-foot right-of-way being sliced through rock and muskeg between Flin Flon and Nipawin, Sask., 140 miles southwest of here. The highway will provide a new outlet for fish and a new route for the products of the agri- culturally rich Carrot River valley around Nipawin. The $1,000,000 road which it is expected will be completed in 1948, will open new lumber areas, also important to { Flin Flon's economy. Power comes from the unique wilderness community of Island Falls, 70 miles northwest of Flin Flon where a huge dam on the Churchill River produces the hydro- electric power serving the plant at Flin Flon as well as cheap power to the town. Street lights are left burning the year round as the city believes bulbs last longer when not turned off and on. Only 379 people live on the Sas- katchewan side of Flin Flon but the ore body lies astride the border with most of it mined in Saskatchewan. When mining operations began in the early 1930's the Manitoba gov- ernment signed a 20-year agree. ment releasing the Company from tax obligations. The agreement ex- pires next year. The Saskatchewan government, however, last year obtained $800,000 in taxes from minerals taken out of the mine. Earthquake Drives Natives From Isle Auckland, N.Z.--(CP)--Like Biki- ni, the island of Niuafoou, in the South Pacific, is to be evacuated by its inhabitants, but it is not an atom bomb but an even more powerful natural force that is caus- ing the migration. For 100 years eruptions and earthquakes have rocked the island. The last erup- tion burned out the main village and the 1,306 inhabitants of the island are to be move to another island in the Tongan Group. This will bring to an- end the "Tin Can Island" mail which originates at Niuafoou and is prized by philatelists. The natives of the island deliver their mail by put- ting it in a can and swimming out to sea to put it aboard passing ships, Non-Paying Patient Can't Get Damages Dublin--(CP)--Mr. Justice Waugh ruled in Dublin High Court that Daniel Walsh of Cork suffered loss of the sight of one eye while re- ceiving treatment in hospital but was not entitled to recover damages from the hospital board because he was a non-paying guest. Walsh complained after an oper- ation for varicose veins that the anaesthetic got into his eyes.. The board denied negligence and further pleaded it owed no duty to Walsh. Because he did not pay, Walsh was not entitled to recover from the board even if there had been negligence, said the judge. i I e-- Profit Sharing With Employees Pays Dividends Sydney, Australia--(CP)--Austra- lian industry is making a mild ex- cursion into the profit-sharing sys- tem, but the experiments are too new yet to pass judgment on them. Twenty companies in Australia have undertaken or are working out plans for some form of profit sharing. Those that are operating schemes report bigger output, lower production costs, higher profits and increased returns to the worker. They also report sustained produc- tion and, most important, industrial peace. - Most of the profit-sharing schemes in operation consist of payments of bonuses on increased production. Three companies, of which two are in New South Wales and one In Victoria, are sharing profits ir- respective of production graphs. Outstanding among these three companies for its successful record is a firm making linseed oil in Syd- ney. In 1944, the company was in a had way financially, Preference shareholders met and agreed to cancel $60,000 of lost capital, to reduce nominal dividends from nine to 4% per cent, and to give half the net profits to the workers. In the first year of operation un- der this plan, the company paid a divident of six per cent, instead of the 4% per cent agreed upon, after giving the workers their share of '| the profits, The company maintain- ed peak production all year without absenteeism or disputes. Most Australian employers favor the bonus method of profit-sharing as a basis for co-operation between worker and employer, but do not agree to the sharing of profits. They say that, although it may work in odd cases, it would not work generally because it is econ- omically unsound. The Australian Associated Cham- ber of Manufacturers says that pro- fit-sharing would be more effective in small enterprises than in large concerns, where it could reduce wasls and give greater scope for Si . The workers' view, as expressed by trade unions, is that the bonus method is not acceptable because it could be used as a speed-up me- chanism to make more profit at the workers' expense, They are all in favor, however, of the sharing of actual profits. NOT A MOUSE The titmouse is not a mouse, but a bird, IN OUR TIME by Howie Hunt Released by Naw Era Enterorises "Oh stop beefing, will you! At least we've got a ROOF over our heads!" Memorial Proposed To R.C.E. War Dead " Ottawa--(CP)--A special come mittee of the Military Engineers Association of Canada, headed by Maj.-Gen. G. R. Turner of Ottawa, has been set up to carry through plans for a memorial to the mem- bers of the Royal Canadian En- gineers who died in the Second World War. The memorial will be similar to the Book of Remem- brance, deposited in St. Paul's Ca- thedral, London, England, to com- memorate the fallen of the First World War. The First World War memorial-- a 36-page book of heavy calfskin vellum--was designed, lettered and {lluminated by Miss Grace Melvin, head of the department of 'design of the Vancouver School of Art. It contains the names of 2,004 mem- bers of engineers, signals and ploneers, and was illustrated with quotations from 'Canadian and other poets. Now the engineers association is preparing for a similar type of re- cord for R.C.E, personnel who died in the Second World War and is appealing for funds from former sappers and members of the fam- ilies of those sappers who died in action. The committee plans to be- gin preparation of the new mem- orial in 1947. Swiss Government Gets Rid of Fleet Geneva--(CP)--That old joke about the Swiss Navy came true in wartime and will be true in peace. But it will be 2 merchant navy. In the spring of 1941 Switzerland decided to buy and charter a nume ber of merchantment to ensure del- ivery of vital imports. At its biggest the fleet comprised 18 ships. 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