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c PAGE 4 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, APRIL 3t, It62 •EARL WALSH" So I Hear Come Saturday and comes the Kentucky Derby.' It is the time to think of horses and mint juleps. Since I had considerable experience with horses in my tender years and wouldn't know a mint julep y a^. sarsaparilla, thoughts turn to the nags known in my life. Sometimes the thought comes of how great it would be to visit some of those Kentucky horse farms. Just a picture of those lanes leading to the buildings seem fascinating. My father had a fast pacer and raised a sassy colt that took over the place. Grandma had a buggy horse named Bird and she let me take the lines from the time I could sit up. Old Bird would shy at every scrap of paper that blew across the road, causing Grandma to utter a few choice words plus a whack on the rump of Old Bird Have always liked horses except one time when I was in the stall and the beast stepped on my foot and wouldn't move. The time came when horses and buggies were being crowded off the city streets so my father's horse and colt were sent out to the farm. Can remember finding an old. dust covered side saddle in the loft of the horse barn. It had belonged to my mother when she was a girl. Seemed like a good idea to give the side saddle a try so tightened the cinch around the fast horse. Rounding a corner on two legs, my Uncle John waved me down and admonished. "You'll be killed riding like that". Horse races at the County Fair in Woodstock always had great appeal. Being taken around by "Big George" Vogel was big stuff George, a man of ample proportions, wore a derby hat and carried a cane. He represented horse racing to J 12.8% Financing Limited Time Offer 91 S. Rte. 12 Fox Lake (312) 587-2555 BUICKS FOR LESS" Service Special Lube & Oil $9.95 "Wouldn't You Really Rather Have A Buick Tm( Drivt The 1982 Regal Or Any 01 The Other Models. Mew At Baber Buick. It Only Takes A Minute To Make A Better Deal. Open Daily 9-9 p.m. & Saturdays 9-5 p^m. Stop In & See Our Large Selection Of Pre Driven Doable Checked Used Cars. It was a favorite trick for boys to cross the lines at­ tached to the bits when teams/ were tied up in the sheds in back of saloons. Teams would gee when they w*e supposed to haw. The late Guy Clemens had a team of Morgan horses which rate as the greatest I ever saw. When a heavy team couldn't pull a heavy load of hay up a ramp. Guy offered to hook his much lighter Morgans onto the wagon. He got the laugh like the fellow who sat down to play the piano. I can just see those Morgans dig in and straighten their backs as they took the load up the ramp. A neighbor, Charlie Page, raised ponies and sold me a snappy black and white one that could run like greased lightning. A spirited one. Being a kindly man, Mr. Page gave me time to pay for the pony. Answering an ad in the Prairie Farmer, I got the agency to sell specially designed racks for ripening seed corn. With a saddle, blanket and bridle tossed in for good measure on my purchase, everything was all set. Hooking the sample rack over the saddle, I covered the area and sold enough to almost cover the cost of the pony. Being short, Mr. Page showed his heart by pur­ chasing enough racks to cover my balance. I looked for a long time at those saddles in the Mon­ tgomery Ward catalogue. Things didn't come easy to kids in those days so I planted a patch of cucum­ bers to earn enough and more for the new saddle. The saddle was a joy, but the cucumbers were a back breaker. Have more memories of horses, but that's enough. Might note that my White Sox have hit the skids after a great winning streak. Just temporary. No worry. Watching baseball teams with some outstanding black players brings back memories of days when the unfair color line caused the black players to form their own leagues Chicago had a team called the Colored Giants that used to come out to the boondocks to play local teams. 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A fight ensued and the southerner was released. I would never- have guessed if Dr. McMahon hadn't shown me some fancy carving done by Francis Wirtz. Thought his hands were too big for such delicate work. After feeding the birds all winter we decided the season had arrived for them to take care of themselves. Now. the ungrateful little devils have deserted our back forty. Present Icarus Story Northwestern university students from the Company, a per­ formance ensemble of N.U. School of Speech students, will present a free performance of Icarus Thursday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in the Lounge at McHenry County college. A free performance of Icarus, the story of the boy who flew too close to the sun, will be presented by Nor­ thwestern university students at McHenry County college April 29. The 8 p.m. presentation by the Company, a per­ formance ensemble of N.U. school of speech freshmen, will be presented in the MCC Lounge. The 12 students in the ensemble will include prose and poetry by James Joyce, W.H Auden, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and John Barth in telling the Icarus story. This is the sixth year that the Company has performed at MCOT The College's Student Life committee is sponsoring the performance. The public is invited to attend the presentation. Richmond Hunt Club Seeks To Form Pond The Richmond Hunting club wants to construct two weir structures and form a pond on the drain from Lake Elizabeth, east of Richmond, the Illinois Department of Transportation has an­ nounced. The department's Division of Water Resources said that it had received an ap­ plication for a permit for such construction from Charles F. Wonderlic of the club, based at 820 Frontage road, Northfield. Plans for the proposal show the construction of two weirs. One would be located some 300 feet upstream from Route 173. The existing pond area extending upstream from the weir would be excavated to widen the pond. The second weir would be located 550 feet downstream from the existing Lake Elizabeth dam And the stream between the dam and a point 465 feet downstream from the weir would be excavated to form a pond some 100 feet wide. Both weirs would have 60 foot-wide spillways. All interested persons are invited to send written statements to the Division of Water Resources' northern area office in the Woodfield Plaza Building, 1000 Plaza Drive, Schaumburg, 111. 60196. The deadline is May 4. Inquiries and requests to review plans should be directed to the Northern area office. The telephone number is: 312-884-4341. Plans may be seen there. Sticky Going When you're using a knife to chop sticky foods like rai­ sins and dates, heat the knife first. If you use scissors, dip them in water occasionally while cutting the fruits. James Fitzgerald Unlicensed Assistant 2uê Um... How can I help my grieving friend? 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