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Thurman Smith is one lucky dog!
“That’s what they called me when I came close to being bombed out of the air,” said Smith, a 90-year-old veteran of three wars with the U.S. Army Air Corps, which became the U.S. Air Force after World War II.
Smith, who has lived in Lyons for the past 35 years, still has plenty of stories to tell about his fighting days, his love of horses and his childhood on his family’s northeast Texas farm.
Despite my mother’s best efforts, I refused to write an entire column about homework. She was convinced my articles about excessive travel were tarnishing my image as a diligent student and suggested I devote my spread this month to talk of essays and assignments to prove that I am, indeed, still in college with a mountain of homework.
Stop and look around the next time you walk into the Stayton Public Library. The library is a beehive of activity. Adult and youth computer areas are full.