 Dedicated to the strength of the nation proudly we hail hail starring Dale Evans in troubled waters United States Army and United States Air Force presentation And now here is our producer the well-known Hollywood showman CP McGregor. Thank you Thank you very much and greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen Welcome to your theater of stars. We're the most outstanding talent and stars of the motion picture screen Join us in plays. We know you'll enjoy Our star is lovely vivacious Dale Evans and the title of our story an exciting tale of the West Troubled waters. We'll have the curtain for act one in just a moment, but first here is your announcer with this message Young men the Army Medical Department offers you a future now the Medical Service Corps has openings for optometrists civil chemical and sanitary engineers and men trained in the sciences allied to medicine if you have a degree You may be able to qualify for a commission and the career opportunities it provides pay Alliances and retirement benefits are attractive to see if you can qualify write the surgeon general Department of the Army Washington 25 DC now once again our producer the curtain rises on act one of troubled waters Starring Dale Evans a Sally Barrett In the riotous blood-painted history of the Pekas country of Texas There was a great sprawling range of alternate lush grass and badlands Across which the longhorns moved in straggling lines or gathered in clumps and browsed On their flanks was the iron seared mark of the flying bee The bee was for Barrett for Dan Barrett and his Raven crest sparkling. I daughter Sally Sally and her father were Texans real Texans Many years before Sally's forbearers with courage and foresight had won this land and had held it On the flying bee ranch. There was lots of land, but very little water and that is the measure of this story water One evening Sally alone in the ranch house heard the thunder of hooks and the horse came streaking into the yard It was her father old Dan on his black stallion challenge The stallion was lathered almost white, but there was red in old Dan's eye Well, then what is it what's the matter with you why you've near-run challenge to death. I know I have Wait on Sally wait on can't you hurry up your con son farm and come here and get this horse This is my legs can get me there. You've been riding so long your plum forgot how to walk your legs is worse than her crawling wobbly Pop will you quit that bellowing it curly and tell me what all this commotion's about all in good time Sally all in good time Curly yes, take challenge and walk him down then rub him down and good mind And when you get through doing that rope and saddle walk along bring him to the porch I aim to ride most shortly. Okay, mr. Dan come on boy. Thank you boy. You're done, right? Well, pop look at me I'm a looking Sally. I know you're a pop, but you ain't seeing me. What's happened come on inside and I'll tell you what happened I've never seen you look like this before Sally set. Will you all right? Sally I reckon you know the Swades The Swades here the sneak and coyote and bush whacking water poison and Swades. It's them again. Is it? What are they done? Why don't you ask what they ain't done? They killed your granddad poor of them bush whacked him shot him in the back One night when me and your ma was coming back from Slawson in the rig They set some rattles in the road to scare the horses. They scared them. All right You was about do then and you come along But your ma didn't that's why you ain't got no more Sally She died in a ditch. Oh Pop Sally we're Barrett's you understand this grazing ground out here is Barrett grazing ground We want it. We fought for it We're gonna keep it the water hole again pop. Yes, Sally the water hole again and the Swades What are they done this time oiled it what they poured? Gallons of crude oil all over it a scum so thick it's thinking that no cow critter could or would stick its muzzle in Sally They've been trying to steal that water and hole for long before I can remember What are you gonna do pop? Oh, no pop, please Sally get me them cartridges off the mantelpiece pop No, I won't there's five of them Swades and only one of you Sally Look at me. I'm a looking I'm a Texan Sally And I'm a Barrett There ain't nobody gonna run me off my ground get me them cartridges pop Please you can't win. Maybe not Maybe not Sally But I can sure die a try-in The door opened to calm yellow gleam of the lamp light fell out and through it walked Dan Barrett There were two guns strapped to his sides What is it Sally come here? All right. I'm here Pop Yeah No, you're left cheek It isn't so stubbly Whiskey's never didn't grow much on my far side And look pop listen when you shoot, please don't shoot in hate shoot on the water and you know how rocks skip on water Bye Walk along plenty ready mr. Dan. Yeah, so am I Easy boy. Easy girl. Hey Yes, mr. Dan if I ain't back before morning or if walk-along comes mojian back with an empty saddle right for the Marshal You come back pop. Do you hear me? You come back? I'll do my down just Sally. Take care of yourself girl Tell me nothing miss Sally Betcha to bits against the busted spray row your dad's going gunning for the Swades Yeah, I don't know of any argument that would stop him Curly did you hear what that darn fool Papa mine said to me? He said for me to take care of myself All Dan Barrett his lips set in a grim line rides out into the night Cutting his horse across the arroyo to the smoky Ridge Road the road which leads to the bar X 40 in the ranch house of the Swades all Dan doesn't know it But this encounter is to be without the element of surprise the Swades to our veterans of range warfare As old Dan rides down the cleft of smoky Ridge a figure rises in the shadow of a boulder and Starlight glints blue along the rifle barrel Somebody come around inside there everybody's dead the direction covered with a shotgun, mr. Well bang it all man put that thing down and get a lantern. I've got your dad out here, and he's hurt He's hurt bad. I did not just say so. I thought I said to get a lantern. We don't need the lantern We ain't got time. Let's get him inside. Ain't you got any emails in this place? Listen, I'm just as strong as any we've got around here. Come on. Let's leave him out of this saddle Oh, how I got him up there. Maybe we can get him down the same way without killing him dead And now you take his shoulders and I take his weight on the hips. Oh, right We've got to gentle him the reckon he's lost a lot of blood what happened. I don't rightly know Found him laying face down in smoky Ridge There's like he's been shot in the back. How do you feel pop? Might poorly Sally I'm riding right now for the doctor ma'am. I'll get him here before you can bat your eyes twice Thanks very much. The name's Lance Lance sterling. I've seen you ma'am Pop here's there anything I can get you is there anything I can do for you. Yes, Sally There is something you can do for me If you would what is it pop? Just keep saying to yourself So that you'll never forget it The Barrett's one this land They fought for it And they're gonna keep it They're gonna keep it Sally Even if it means fighting on until doomsday. Yes You're a Barrett Sally and I'm raking it on you Doing the fighting if anything happens to me You will Yes, pop. I will Like you said I'm a Barrett You can just rest easy in your mind now pop You can go to sleep Because briefly from our story troubled waters starring Dale Evans to bring you an important message from our government a Career in aviation offers you the opportunity to follow your aims and ambitions in a wide variety of interesting and exciting assignments Both flying and non-flying careers are open to you if you can qualify and are selected for training When you've completed training you'll receive your reserved commission as a second lieutenant And you'll have the opportunity to earn that regular commission while on active duty Then comes important assignments in the field of your choice as a member of the Air Force team Here's your chance to step up to a career with a future as an officer executive in the United States Air Force See how you can fit into this picture find out about the age educational and physical standards You must meet to qualify get all the facts today at your nearest US Army and US Air Force recruiting station Remember you're sure to find your choice of careers in the United States Air Force The curtain rises on act 2 of troubled waters starring Dale Evans as Sally Barrett Many years ago in the fabulous Pekas country of Texas life was as cheap as land and Water was the great treasure for which they both sought Men killed and were killed in the relentless conquest of cool waters and muddy sinkholes Water was life's blood and when the droughts came Man and cattle and land became parched and dried away into the badlands On the flying bee ranch which lay between Smoky Ridge and the never-never of badlands Sally's father old Dan had been shot shot in the back by one of the suede clan in a century-old feud over water Sally sat beside him as he lay propped up by pillows in his big oak bed She saw his lips sat in a thin straight line in the nation great face And in her face flooded little look that only fear can bring fear for the safety and life of her father Fetch me my clothes Sally and then see if we can help me to get up here pop you a to get not you ain't getting one foot out Of that bed now listen the Barrett's ain't all darn fools I reckon I got a little like a sense even if you ain't Sally did you hear me? Yes, I heard you but you listen to me The Swades have been killing us all for a hundred years or more all on account of that watering hole And they ain't gonna be satisfied till they kill you too. They ain't gonna kill me so they made a fair beginning Pop give them the water hole Give it to them and be done with it a whole ocean of water ain't worth your life What does my life mean against seven thousand head of cattle and saving this range? Well, what about the Swades range their cattle have to drink water to pop I reckon they do But they ain't drinking water on this side of the flying bee French line Oh, I ain't got any more use for the Swades than you have They're low down and they're conniving but they ain't got no water for their critters nor their range either Pop listen, why couldn't we share that water hole with them? Why couldn't you deal with them? I'll deal with them Sally And I've only got one thing I'll share with them and that's the wrong end of a 45 It's them or us Sally It's always has been Your granddad tried sharing water with them, but they didn't want sharing they wanted it all That's why they bushwhacked him Maybe you're right about me not getting up yet I reckon I'm gonna need all the strength I can get before I go after them I'll stay down Sally Until I'm fit and then I Aimed to ride again Well, I reckon he's just about like the old saying the flesh is weak with the spirit strong You know, I had to argue him out of getting up and going out gunning for them Swades again Fuse been going on for quite a spell in it most a century You're riding anywhere in particular Miss Barry. You just right Well, I was aiming to ride over to the water hole to see how bad it is Mind if I ride along with it. I'd be right pleased. That is if you haven't anything else to do My matter of plum fact, I ain't got nothing to do at all. You're new in these parts. Ain't you mr. Sterling? Well, some I reckon I'd be obliged if you'd call me Lance Calling me mr. Sterling makes me turn around to see who you're talking to all right Lance By the way, I didn't thank you for what you did for pop. Oh shucks I reckon he and I just about owe his life to you Nothing man. I just riding along when I see him laying there I I just up and did what any other hombre would have done, but you never did get to where you were going. Did you? Yep, I reckon I did where no where That's where I was going That's why I'm mighty grateful for you. Let me put up at the bunkhouse for a spell Are you looking for a job Lance? Maybe it's the right kind of a job. Oh What do you figure is the right kind of a job? Well, I guess mostly swapping Swapping what almost anything I guess but mostly holes in the ground in particular holes in the ground Yep, there's a heap of difference in holes in the ground miss Barry some are better than others There's something like horses. Oh, you're a good one for talking riddles. Ain't you ain't no riddle about a hole in the ground Now you take that water and hole there of yours. Oh boy. Yeah Now I wouldn't trade much for a hole in the ground for that Sure isn't missing. That's the work of the Swades. That's how come pop got himself shot. Yeah, I know Miss Barrett that water and hole ain't much fit for cattle. Is it nor for anything else? It might be fit for swapping. What are you talking about Lance fit for swapping? Well this morning I took a ride over to the bar X 40 the Swades. Yeah, told him I was looking for a job They didn't have none, but I'll tell you what they did have what they had a well digging rig going to rack and ruin in their backyard Yes, I know they've been drilling all over their property for years trying to strike water But I reckon there just ain't no water to strike water Well ma'am you see seeing that rig sitting there started me to think about what about how you and your dad could put an end to your fuel of the Swades How? Swapping Swapping what holds on the ground? They've got a well digging rig they ain't using and you got a water hole you can't use Might be you could swap this one for a hole in the ground they'd dig for you where you tell them to Mr. Sterling you sound plumb loco. Maybe Miss Barrett, but I've been swapping holes in the ground for a long time And I had never come out loser yet Can you imagine what pop would say to such a darn fool idea? Your pops in bed any but he ain't likely be doing much snooping around for spell Now you could do the swapping and forget to tell him about it Do I look crazy mr. Sterling nope that water hole ain't no more good to you than a dry hole in the ground might be You know what's in this hole in the ground you can't tell what you might find in the one I'm talking about That one there ain't done nothing for you, but get most of your kin folks killed off a few that's lasted a hundred years So far can last a hundred years yet You think on it miss Barrett think on Lance I must be stark staring crazy to let you talk me into this they're down 70 feet, and there ain't a sign of hitting water yet That's right miss Barrett There is sign when pop finds out the state of Texas or the whole United States won't be big enough to hold us all Boy, he's gonna go into a stampede like you never heard off. He ain't found out about it yet Hasn't he ain't likely to for spell that is unless you tell don't you worry about me telling him What do you keep getting handfuls of dirt from the borehole and looking at it? Just looking to see what's in the hole. What else could there be but dirt just plain dirt. Hello, Swade We're down 78 feet miss Barrett our deal only calls for a hundred you know Yes, I know mr. Swade, and I reckon you know the deal don't call for us to strike no water Miss Barrett knows the deal Swade you just keep on drilling. Okay Sterling haven't your own way But let me just remind you miss Barrett this little deal We're making is fair legal and binding And if your par ever comes charging out on account of what you're doing He's gonna find the water hole fenced in and own the borax 40 range In trespasses are going to get themselves shot How did you know I reckon it was only a little bit of knowing a lot of keep my fingers crossed But you knew something Lance you talk so sure my talking with something like whistling past the graveyard You see Sally. Oh, you don't mind me calling you Sally. I'd be right obliged if you would Looking like I do all covered with oil and mud miss Barrett just doesn't seem to fit no ways But you started to say something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well you see for quite a spell I've been messing around the oil country northeast. I've been dogging for them geology hombres so long I sort of caught on some myself Then I took the first good look of smoky Ridge over there. I said myself now that there is oil shale I ain't never seen oil shale The outcroppers like a hundred others I've seen Then I got to figuring about the water hole. It was causing all the fuss And the more I figured and looked and the more I was plumb certain that Jim Swade was telling the truth when he said He didn't pour no oil on it. It was seeping in from underneath that You mean from the earth? Yep That could only mean one thing was shallow basin But there was no way to find out for sure without drilling that had to be done without letting nobody get wise or they'd been a stampede My luck held Sally. I reckon now you and your dad are out of the cattle business and well plumb up to your ears and oil You've got yourselves the first gusher in Pekas County. Oh, Lance. I'm so concerned happy I could just bust I feel like singing and shouting all at the same time Then why don't you make nobody here except me and the cows? You know Lance, I just think I will That was a mighty pretty hippie Sally. I never heard one quite like it. Thank you lads. I was Where are you going? Right where oh Nowhere I reckon same place I was riding before From the way you talk anybody think you owned a bill of sale on that place of nowhere, maybe I do Lance You wouldn't want to do some more swapping. Would you swapping? Swapping what maybe swapping your bill of sale on nowhere from my bill of sale on somewhere Maybe Our star Dale Evans will return for a curtain call after this timely message from Wendell Niles Choose the career that offers all five the U.S. Army offers you these five keys to a successful future One the right job for you Scientific aptitude test determine the right job for you to continuous training in your job Specialized training and educational courses prepare you for advancement in your field three planned advancement under the Army's advancement plan your skill and efficiency will assure periodic promotions for lifetime security You as an army man are guaranteed regular pay and liberal retirement benefits in sickness your medical care is provided without cost And your regular pay continues five travel and recreation in the army You will enjoy the finest recreational facilities and opportunities for worldwide travel Remember you have 30 days vacation with pay each year Yes, choose the career that offers all five Get full details at your nearest army and Air Force recruiting station Now once again our star and our producer Dale I'm very happy that you could take time out from a busy picture schedule at Republic Studios to join us in our theater But since you have just completed your 28th picture with Roy Rogers It's easy to see where most of your time goes Well, we also do a little work in radio now and then quite a little work your weekly Roy Rogers show But seriously Dale, what's all this excitement out at Republic these days? It's over one of our new pictures CP call the Golden Stallion that sounds like a story of a Palomino It's more than that This is trigger junior and he makes his bow to the whole world trigger junior imagine that all CP He's wonderful. We just love him to death and he's really brilliant too. Well naturally look at trigger He could be a great hit in the circus. Just will you see him? Don't worry. I'll see the Golden Stallion twice Your picture I'm glad to see that you're playing more of the real Western girl instead of the shelter type Well, I like it better at least I think it's more natural. I am from Texas. He remembers How could we forget that's one good reason? I like doing a Texas story with you Of course, there was nothing wrong in portraying a city girl and some of my former pictures with Roy But I just didn't feel quite natural You know how it is I like to ride more and I don't like to be treated like a well I might break fragile like I just want the frilly type. They first made me You get my boat right now as the real Western girl the Queen of the West and believe me Royalty was never better fitted for the part. Well, thank you, sir. McGregor. Pardon us, sir Now tell me who's starring with you next week and I'll just saddle up and ride along our star next week Dale and ladies and gentlemen Will be the popular radio and screen actor Jeff Chandler Jeff provides a vivid portrayal in a dramatic story a story of an agnostic who finds his own soul While telling others that it does not exist. Oh, that sounds wonderful, and we'll be listening. Goodbye. See you. Bye. Bye, Dale Be sure to join us next week ladies and gentlemen when Jeff Chandler stars in a dramatic story Once to every man until then thanks for listening and cheerio from Hollywood Which arranges fully appearance of all stars in this program Script was by Kimberl S. Sant with the music of Eddie Dunstead Program is transcribed in Hollywood for a lease at this time Wendell Niles speaking