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[Page 1] US ON A BUS Trick Pacification on Of Small Boy Backfires UP WAKE ITS PINK bouncing, and I mean bouncing, children. I can safely say that throughout the trip we failed to see more than one horse. And promise ican currency, coming out of the bush. It worked! With Gregory, who is the younger, that is, as we drove on and on through the Texas land of cowboys, cow ponies and wealthy oil With 9-year-old who was taught poker the day 18-year-old Air who hadn't sh A 6,000-mile trip on a Greyhound bus through the South and Southwest with four of his children is the latest venture of Charles G. Griffo, news editor of The Star. Mrs. G. is staying at home with the other two children. Here is his third story. By CHARLES G. GRIFFO Somewhere, West of the Pecos-a definite solution of how to keep a 4½-year-old boy occupied during a 1,000- mile bus journey across the Lone Star State of Texas has been found! Have him look for pink cows, a four-eared hippopotamus, or a lavender horse. him $1, in Mex- if he finds one Griffo fields. Chuck, a little about before by an Force cadet ved in three days, and it didn't show, and thus became a man of the world, it was a different story. He claims he saw a pink cow. He says I was asleep and didn't see. it. That I should be more alert. I paid off the buck. If he had claimed to have seen the hippopotamus I wouldn't have believed him. That couldn't happen even in Texas. SO THUSLY we spent our time riding from New Orleans to San Antonio, and thence to El Paso, as part of a 6,000-mile tour I am taking as sole chaperon of four Chuck, Greg and Mary expected to see them in herds. Martha didn't care. She wants to buy a new skirt in Mexico. GREGORY tried to fudge once on the plan to keep him quiet. He stood up, after looking for the violently-color ed horse for at least an hour and said: "It is hard for whales to chase crocodiles. . This is a direct quote. No other father can make that statement. You can imagine how the applause meter among the Turn to Page 14, Column 4.

[Continuation] From Page 1 missing Service summarily after another government Cleaners and Dryers, the Alamo Flower Shop. the Alamo Meat Market and the Alamo Bar and Grill. As for the real Alamo, Chuck's natural question was "Where are the holes in it. ..Where did Davy Crockett die?, etc." questions which were answered with prompt accuracy because daddy had a tourist guide in his pocket. IT WAS WEST OF Pecos, which is Paso, and where law of the caste Old West used to be the .45 that daddy laid down a statute of his own. It was the law of the hairbrush, a vital instrument in the travel needs of two girls, and which has been misplaced at least 10 times since the trip began. "We are all now going to sleep. Until El Paso," said father. And so we slept! Us On A Bus Concluded From Page 1 bus s passengers stood on that one. Then the bus driver tried to get into the act. We were coming into a town just east of Pecos for a lunch stop. He said, giving evidence to the statement of another driver that those new-fangled busses with the public address systems are "bringing out the extrovert in all of us," quote: "Put on your shoes, folks, we're going to eat." TO THE KIDS on the vehicle, my four and two sons and a daughter of an Army man whose wife was taking them back to Seattle to see their grandparents, this was the funniest crack since Joe Penner said, "Wanta buy a duck?" We heard it all the rest of the way to San Antonio. It was there that we found the historic Alamo after having been led astray several times by both Greg and Chuck, who were reading signs. They found the Alamo,.