Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 30, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 June 1940 — Ghosts Of Old-Time Wild West T ake Revenge On Auto Tourists [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ghosts Of Old-Time Wild West T ake Revenge On Auto Tourists

ADD to the unusual adventures that auto tourists encounter, the thriller that Mr. and Mrs. Jack Star, young Los Angeles couple, have lived through. Star and his wife, driving from Chicago to California, were crossing the Texas Panhandle country. To the heat, they travelled at night. gChey had left Amarillo for Tucumcari, New Mexico. Star drove and his wife dozed in the back seat. The road was straight, level and deserted. Star made himself comfortable and was sitting back, rolling along at about 65 miles an hour. “Something loomed indistinctly in the distance,” he said. “Whatever it was t k up the best part of the r<- -Idn’t even tell whether it v away from me or not aw what it was. Directly a’ g the road, was a herd of rses. I snubbed the brakes —-L k almost jolted my head off and threw my wife against the front seat. “In the next second we were among them. The ear careened off the flank of the nearest bewildered

animal ft caWftd we would hmm hum* over ff ft hadn’t. “The two I ftft waved and tanged straight at fiw etna, Yh*s landed on the hood, aittttaasd the windshield, j' Others whirled and dtansri in, Bunging and kicking at aftwite and j fenders. j “While I wjas darling hooves, tnf < wife scrambled over toto (he frond seat. She paßed my flashlight oat of the compartment and switched ft j on. The frightened beasts, partially blinded, milled about the car. For a full mmole they gathered themselves far the new attack. Then, quite suddenly, they left the roadway, snorting,ipanting and grunting; “We just sajt there and wondered if it reaUy was aH over. Ottr flashlight batteries were more than a year old, bwt they were fresh when they were put in. We think they saved our lives." The battered ear was stalled almost crosswise in the middle of Route 66, without lights. The pair set to work with the flashlight, changed a tii*e, connected wire* ripped out of the ignition apstem, and got to the next town,

Mr. and Mrs, Jack Star , who nearly lost lives in midnight Adventure in Texas plains country.