Independence, Mo.

 

Big Little Stories
Picked Up in a
Day’s News Run

 

You should have seen the faces
of the Rev. and Mrs. Harold M.
Hunt when they were the cause
for a little fun at the Kiwanis
Club installation party Tuesday
night. The Rev. Mr. Hunt was
presented a “gift” from the club
for his splendid services as presi-
dent the past year. The gift was
beautifully encased in holiday
wrappings, and when Mrs. Hunt
began peeking through the wrap-
ping, Homer Clements, master of
ceremonies, called Buddy Childers
to her assistance in unwrapping
the package. It proved to be a set
of highly colored “Zombie” glasses.
As Buddy was trying to hold the
set up so all the club members
could see he dropped it. As it hit
the floor with a crash the glass-
ware went into a hundred pieces.
It was only when the “ohs” and
“ahs” that would naturally have
followed turned out to be bursts
of laughter that the retiring presi-
dent knew his comrades were
playing a final joke on him. The
“set” was from the “five and ten.”

 

It was a well-deserved tribute
to a grand coach which Dr. “Phog”
Allen received at the Chrisman
football banquet Wednesday night.
When Dr. Allen entered the room
and took his place at the head
table, the Chrisman football boys
joined as one in a mighty cheer
of “Yeah, Phog!” which nearly
raised the roof of the Auditorium.
One had only to look into the

 

eyes of Dr. Allen after this demon-
stration to understand just how
much he appreciated it.

 

Dr. Allen showed his artistry |

as a story teller toward the close
of his address, when he recounted
the tale of an uphill fight staged
by his Kansas Jayhawk basketball
team in winning the national inter-
collegiate cage play-off in Kansas
City a few years back. It had
been an uphill fight after a number
of early season defeats and the
final game of the play-off was with
Southern California. His story
of the contest was so real that
when the winning basket dropped
through the hoop in the last few
seconds the Chrisman athletes and
the older hearers as well heaved
a big sigh in unison very much
as they would have done if they
had actually been witnessing the
championship game itself.

 

 

Group singing at the banquet.

was lead by the Rev. Joseph A.
Houston. A number of those’ pres-
ent got quite a kick out of the
Reverend’s leading the group in
singing a song entitled, “You Can’t
Go to Heaven.”

 

The Rev. Mr. Houston left early
to attend the reception for the
new Presbyterian minister. As
he left he said, “I have been a
minister for eighteen years. All
that time I have been working to
beat hell and I am glad to have
some help, so I feel that I should
attend this affair and help wel-
come him.”

 

J.. C. Johnson, local cleaning
shop proprietor, asks a most sug-
gestive question, namely: “What
will be the value of the Independ-
ence Municipal Light Plant, when
the proposed Missouri Valley Au-
thority, as advocated by the presi-
dent, becomes a reality?

He says that he is watching the
trend of events with the view of
trying to procure a concession at
the light plant spray pond to
use it for a fish hatchery, when
the local plant is shut down.

A friend suggested that a com-
mercial frog farm might be more
profitable.

 

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