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SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1951
By
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fi i Coburn
3 Copyright 1950 by NEA Servics, Inc.
THE STORY: John Sand, M. D,,
wins & friend when he treats a
wounded cowboy, Dusty Rhodes,
the night of his arrival in Wolf
Point, Mont. The doctor also
meets the cowbey’s girl friend,
Kit Carson, who is apparently
grieved because Dusty shot a gam
pler named Blackjack Lambert.
Kit, who runs the hetel, invites
Doc to breakfast and as they
leave Doc attacks a prowler near
the house. This prowler is Toad,
a friend of the gambler Dusty
shot. Doc administers a beating,
which makes an enemy.
THOSE first few weeks were
pusy ones for John Sand. It
was as if the entire citizenry of
Wolf Point and the 40 miles of
surrounding cow country had been
hoarding all kinds of ailments un
til a doctor got there.
Kit Carson sent her help over
o clean out the log cabin and give
{ an inside and outside coat of
vhitewash. It was actually a
ree-roomed cabin by the time
hey got the two doors set back in
lace. John Sand turned one room
to an office and the adjoining
;pace into a consultation and oper
iting room, and he slept in the
other room.
The sign over the door read
«Doctor John Sand.” Kit ex
plained that people wouldn’t un
derstand the meaning of “John
Sand, M. D.”
The owner of the livery barn
put a ton buggy and team and
driver at Little Doc’s disvosal, any
hour of the day or night.
Kit Carson showed wup in a
brand new white nurse’s uniform
with a white cap that sat on her
head at a jaunty angle. Little Doc
never took the trouble to explain
that it required a long strenuous
course in nurse’s training before
she was permitted to wear the cap,
ethically a badge of graduation.
“I got rid of the hotel,” Kit told
him. “Lock, stock and the bar
reled goods that went with the
saloon downstairs. I moved to a
little frame house down the road
with a morning glory vine covered
porch and a maltese tomcat called
Bourbon and a little lady dog with
three puppies—"
“Wait a minute!” Doc inter
rupted, laughing. “You’re shooting
so fast I can’t dodge.”
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But Kit shook her head. “I've
got a lot to tell, Doc. Now let's
see ... brought over an old
ledger to keep the accounts
straight, and a new broom and a
mop. A stack of old Police Ga
zettes for the men and some La
dies Home Journals and other
women’s fashion magazines and
books and games for the kids. And
a brass cuspidor.”
Kit had a couple of fat book
volumes she dusted off and put
on a shelf, then went on:
“One is on horse doctoring, the
other for cattle. The ranchers will
always find a sick animal for you
to doctor, We’ll read up on the
Vet doetoring in the evenings over
at my shack when I get the sitting
room fixed up. Dutch John is hav
ing trouble with his feet. He
wants you to cut off a big toe that
swells up so he can’t get a shoe
on.”
“Gout,” grinned Little Doc.
“Painful and nothing to laugh at.
I'll heve to send off to the nearest
druggest for some pilis.”
“11l make a note of it” Kit
said. “I bought you a pair of
overalls to pull on over your pants
when you drive out in the country.
Dutch John has a sheepherder
locked in the snake room with his
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dog. The herder's got the D.T.'s
and the dog won't let anybody
near him.”
“I'll go over. I'll take a pack
age of T-bone. steaks for the dog.”
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An hour later Little Doc showed
up with the bleary-eyed sheep
herder and his dog. When Kit
brought Little Doc’s noon dinner
on a tray, he fed it to the sheep
herder and spread one of the bed
rolls in the woodshed and gave
the gray berded man a pill to
make him sleep,
“You'll wake up with the
shakes,” Little Doc told him. “But
T'll taper you off.” The dog wagged
his tail and licked Little Doc’s
hand. :
John Sand doctored a horse that
had been cut by barbed wire. That
night he was two hours late for
supper. s
Little Doc never let on that
Dutch John had told him how
Toad had cheated Kit Carson out
of her hotel. It had belenged to
her father but he left no will and
Toad produced a sheaf of 1.0.U.’s
he and Blackjack Lambert held
for gambling debts. Kit had been
running the hotel, hoping §o pay
off the gambling debts.
“When Dusty Rhodes shows up,
Little Doc,” Dutch John told him,
“there’ll be a killin’, unless Toad
and his cronies are layin’’ for
Dusty and bushwacked him. Some
body ought to warn Dusty.”
But it was imposible now to
warn Dusty, who was on the
spring roundup, branding his calf
crop.
“Won’t Dusty Rhodes be ar
rested for killing Blackjack Lam
bert?” Little Doc asked Kit.
“No,” she replied. “Dusty has
too many friends around Wolf
Point and when Constable Butch
Bell ain’t runnin’ his butcher shop
he’s out in his buckboard with a
box of two-for-five cigars and a
keg of bad whiskey askin’ people
to vote for him next election. The
law will be glad to see no more
of Blackjack Lambert, but Toad
will bushwack Dusty if he gets
the chance.”
(To Be Continued)
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What The
People Say
From Councilman Wier
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Athens, Banner-Herald:;
I wish to write a letter to be
published in your paper regarding
the charges made against me in
the Athens City Council meeting
Tuesday, August 7th and reported
in the Athens Banner-Herald, Au
gust Bth, . fony
The reference made by Mr. Rog
er Hazen to me when he asserted
“a new technique has appeared in
American politics that is designed
solely to spread confusion, create
distrust and to intimidate public
officials, It is called McCarthy
ism” certainly must have been
made in jest. The “Me Too"” sup
port of the Mayor by Mr. Hazen
certainly brought thoughts of Mc-
Carthyism, and I mean Charlie
McCarthyism, for no man has a
better trained Puppet than the
Mayor has in Alderman Hazen.
Mr. Hazen also brings to mind
that that other well known pup
pet, Mortimer Snerd!
The concerted attack by Mr.
Wells and Mr. Hazen upon myself
acknowledges that my fight for
integrity in the City Administra
tion, for publication of facts of
public interest, and for the return
to the City Council of the right to
debate an issue, is beginning to
bear fruit.
Makes Charges
I pledge to the Citizens of Ath
ens that I will fight with all my
mind and strength for the right as
I see it, and I will fight the forces
attempting to hide facts from the
Citizens of Athens with every hon
orable means at my disposal.
I make the following charges:
THE CITY OF ATHENS WILL
OPERATE WITH A DEFICIT
FOR THE YEAR 1951.
(1) The amount of the deficit
will vary and depend upon the
action of the Mayor and Council
during the last five months of
1951. The money received from
the Georgia Power Company in
the sum of $17,500.00 has been
earmarked by the Mayor and
Council for the erection of a Rec
reation Building at Dudley Me-~
morial Park. The Council last
week has now changed the au
thorization to an “if and when
the funds become available” basis,
as the money has already been
spent for the general operation of
the City.
(2) I maintain that an 8 per cent
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATPENS, GEORGIA
gross yield on water installations
outside of the City will not cover
the costs outlined by Mr, Hazen,
‘and I quote “the cost of making
the water, depreciation and the
plant and distribution system, cost
of meter reading and billing, as
well as to finance the cost of in
stallation.”
I challenge the Mayor to submit
the question of costs to a three
man committee of citizens of Ath
ens, one member to be selected by
the first two men on the Commit=
tee. I further challenge the Mayor
and Council to accept the findings
of the committee as the policy to
follow in the extension of water
maing into rural areas.
Use of Bond Money
(3) THE CITY OF ATHENS
HAS ILLEGALLY USED AD VA
LOREM MONEY COLLECTED
FOR BONDED DEBT FOR GEN
ERAL OPERATING EXPENPE.
1 have introduced a Resolution
in the Council which has been re
ferred to the Finance Committee
for study charging that during the
past three years the Administra
tion has used a sum in excess of
$70,00.00 collected as§ Ad Valorem
Tax for Bonded Debt, Interest,
and Principal for general city pur
poses. I asked in my Resolution
that the Mayor and Council put all
money collected from the current
6 per cent for Bonded Debt into a
special fund for Bonded Debt, and
for that purpose and that purpose
only, and any money collected in
excess of that actually paid out
for Bonded ‘Debt be carried over
in a special fund into the next
yvear. The City currenly has col
lected more than $130,000.00 for
Bonds, and it has paid out through
July 31st, only $83,667.50. As there
was on hand July 31st only sl,-
564.33, the City has already used
more than $45,000.00 of this money
which should be in a special re
serve for Bonded Debt.
I will continue in the future to
study the -operations of the City,
both as an Alderman and as a
private citizen, and any statement
I make will be backed up by facts
that I will be able to prove to the
satisfaction of any interested citi
zen. If Mayor Wells and the
Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee, Mr. Hazen, are afraid of the
Truth and cannot bear to have
facts made public, then it is time
for them to turn the responsibili
ty of the Administration to some
one else,
I represent no person or group
of people. I have np political am
bitions, and I will support the pre
sent Mayor when I think he is
right and oppose him when I think
he is wrong or misinformed.
ALBERT W. WIER, JR.
Alderman 2nd Ward
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1869, it disappeared and has never
been heard of since,
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