 P.O.S.T. P.O.S.T. Post. The serials you like the most brings you the Roy Rogers show. Starring the king of the cowboys himself, Roy Rogers. It's round the time on the double-R bar. So sell your hall. The double-R bar ranch transcribed stories and songs of the real west with the whipper-wills. The wisest trail scout of the mall, Jonah Wilde, played by Forrest Lewis. The queen of the west, Dayelevens. And in person, the king of the cowboys, Roy Rogers. Hey folks, this is Roy Rogers. Are you looking forward to breakfast, tomorrow morning, buckaroos? You are if mom has post-serials on the shelf. Because post-serials are good. Mom knows just as we do that you can count on anything bearing the brand-name post. There's a little settlement of people just beyond our mountains. A village called Hideaway nestled in a little valley. The only way of getting to it is through a rough mountain pass on Jake Gallick's ranch. Hey you boys, let me talk to Jake when we get inside. I'm more apt to become about this than the rest of you. A committee, Jake. Can we come in? We won't disturb you long. Your neighbors and I thought we ought to have a little meeting. What about folks at Hideaway? You close the pass that runs through your land to their settlement. I haven't. It's gonna stay closed. I put armed riders at both ends to see that it does. Would you mind telling us why? What's the difference? I'm within my rights. I own the pass. I can do what I want with my own land. Yes, I suppose you can, Jake. But folks at Hideaway want to get in and out of their village. They want to haul produce to the market. They want to carry their supplies in and they can't with the pass closed. There's no other route they can use. That's a tough luck. Now wait a minute, boys. Wait a minute. Let's get Jake's side of this story if he has a side. Why did you close the pass, Jake? I got my own reasons and they don't concern nobody but me. That pass is gonna stay closed as long as I own this ranch. That's all there is to say. That's all I'm gonna say. Now goodbye to you. Oh, Jake. That's not all. Go ahead. Answer the door. We'll finish when you see who it is. I've already finished. How did Jake? How are you? What are you doing, Rogers? Backing up this committee? He has company, Roy. I hope we don't have to wait. I'm sorry, Jake. We didn't know you had visitors. Stop pretending, Rogers. I know you're with him. Come on in. Thanks. I believe I will. I'll just tell you the same as I told them. Howdy, Fred. Hi, boys. Howdy, Roy. Hey, what's everybody look so glum about? Maybe they've heard the news, have you? Jake, the doctor just called. A message came over with a wire from hideaway. Jane Lamprey's little girl is sick. Doc thinks it's a polio. He tried to go over but your writer stopped him at the entrance of the pass. My writers were following orders. Jake, if the little girl does have polio and the doc isn't able to treat her, she may be crippled for life. I'm asking you for her to let the doc come and go. We can settle about everything else later. That pass stays closed. Where are your guns, loose boys? We'll take the doc through. No, no. Wait a minute. That won't be necessary. The doc can make at least one trip another way. It's slow and not as convenient as spaceless for a man of doc's age, but I'm sure he'll risk it. You're within your rights, Jake, but I'd hate to live your life if that little girl is crippled. I'd hate to live it anyway after this. Come on, let's get doc on his way as quick as we can. Fred Papert and his committee gather round Roy, Dale, and Jonah as they prepare the doc for his trip. Towering above them is a ski tow, nothing more than a long line of cable extending up over jagged cliffs to the top of a mountain and an open seat on which the doc will be strapped. He will be carried through the air to the mountaintop. There used to be met by the mayor of Hideaway, ride down the less dangerous slope to the village. Don't bother fussing, Joe Roy. An awful lot depends on you, doc. I figure if I strap you in good, you won't change your mind and get off before you're there. Well, to tell the truth, I might. I don't favor heights much, especially when there's nothing to raise my feet. Yeah, that ought to do it. Feel comfortable? Oh, comfortable, but not very easy. Where's my bag? Here you are. I'll just put it in your lap. Yeah. First time I've gone mountain climbing 20 years. I thought I was all through with that kind of thing. Take care of that little girl, doc. Pull her through. I'll do my best. If there's anything you need or any help we can give, we'll be ready. I know you will. All right, Bob. You can start her. We're ready. The people gathered near the little donkey engine feel a tightness come to their throats as they watch the fragile figure of the old doctor being swung away high over the rough crags. He's on an errand of mercy and his hands and mind and heart may be the difference between life and death for a tiny girl. But Roy and his friends are not the only ones who see the doctor slaying powerlessly on his journey to the mountaintop. Two others watch from some distance away and ride off when the journey has been completed. A sick kid. Everybody in the country will be against us, Jake. We should have let the doc, but nobody else go through. Yes, I'll under hideaway. Rich field under the whole valley and we can't get it until we freeze those people out. They won't sell unless we make them want to sell. We got to do it fast before somebody else discovers that oil. They'll band together to fight us now. We won't shut up. There's only one thing to do now. Go on the same way we've been going, but put on more power. Oh, I'll have to use that ski tow more than once. I want medicine carried over the dock. I want to come back the next trip they make Fox and the cable will snap and get some rest. We'll go to work after dark. Slow. This draw cable is tough. Yes, we're all right. Holding the cable behind your cut like this. They don't feel the vibrations on at the station. Now watch it there. They're still down there. At least one person. I can spot him moving around. Let's see a thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's plenty deep. We want the load to go up a ways before the cable phrase and snaps. We don't want it to break too soon. Easy buttermilk. Whoa, Jonah. I don't see him. Oh, there he is. Hey, what's your next step? Doc wants it for the little girl. Give us a hand, will you? You betcha. She's pretty sick, Jonah. The doc called last night for these things and Roy had to ride all the way to Squaw Creek for him. He just got back at daylight. And I guess you're tired, huh, Roy? I don't care how tired they get as long as the little girl gets better. Well, she will, won't she? We don't know. You must be pretty tired yourself, Jonah. Well, I'm more of what you might call blighted and tired. Blighted? Yeah, literary word, Roy. See, there weren't nobody around here all night and I didn't dare sleep for fear of dark and signal he wanted to come back. So I decided to read the first chapter of my book over. And set this right in the seat, Jonah. We'll put the other things on top of it. I told you, Dorothy May has got the first chapter all typed, isn't it? Why, no. Not on top, Dale. We'll time together. Okay. See, that's why I'm blighted on account of the typing. Didn't Dorothy May do a good job? Well, of course, I guess you can't expect a woman who has long lashes and a fetch me a sandwich smile to have brains too. Why, Jonah? Well, I know, but you see, there's one place there that I put down about the time nightmare Ned dreamed he was a rooster and crowed the general awake. Natural, I says, the general was discombobulated. Dorothy May puts an extra L and a Y on natural. Yeah. And how do you think she spelled discombobulated? How? P E R T U R B E D pertubate. No. Yeah. Yeah. And her school mom, I guess we're all set. The load's tight and it seems to be balanced. Jonah, you want to start the engine and we'll pull her up. Yeah, sure thing. I'm glad now I was careful to keep steam up all night. Roy, say a prayer that this equipment gets to the other side all right and that it helps her. I have deal. I said a prayer all the way back from Squaw Creek. The draw cable tightens and the seat loaded with precious equipment begins this journey up over the crags toward the mountain top. A joyful sight to the three people on the ground. Seat is swung out into the air above the impassable bowlers in cliffs. It travels steadily upward. Roy and Dale can see tiny figures on the peak. Men, the old doc is sent to bring the supplies down to his little patient. Then without warning, the cargo seems to stop. It dangles in midair, pulling backwards. A full second, the cable snaps. The seat starts carrying back downward. Look out, Roy! Stand back! Stand back! The draw cable's broken! No! We'll take it easy, Dale. Oh, Convolution. It was just a draw cable, not the overhead cable. We can splice this all right. Put the little girl. Jonah, get on your horse. Ride for the Squaw Creek Hospital as hard as you can. Tell them to duplicate the equipment they gave me. All right, you charge all the way. It'll be night before he can get back, Roy. Maybe not till morning. You head to the nearest telephone, Dale. Call the doctor. Tell him what the situation is and it will have new equipment here as soon as possible. Sure, sure. And tell him to keep that little girl alive. No matter what else happens, he's got to keep her alive. Say, how about letting the Indians be your guide to heat good eating? Rich nourishing corn was their favorite food. And bet you one bowl full of new improved post-toasties will make those honest Indian corn flakes your favorite cereal too. Packed with sweet kernel flavor, so crisp and fresh they won't mush up in milk. Post-toasties, the heat good corn flakes. Best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. Post-toasties, heat good corn flakes. The best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. Heat good corn flakes. Post-toasties, heat good corn flakes. Yes, everybody is wild about post-toasties, those fresh tasting corn flakes. So be a good Indian mom. Before your band hits the trail, fortify them with big breakfast bowl fulls of flavor packed post-toasties. Heat good nourishment with sugar and cream. Post-toasties, heat good corn flakes. The best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it. Heat good corn flakes. Post-toasties, heat good corn flakes. Bill has hurried away to telephone the old doc so that he will know of the disaster. Jonah is somewhere on the road to Squawk Creek riding for the hospital as no man has ever ridden the trail before and Roy is at the ski tow working to splice the draw cable his hands cut and bruised by the jagged wires. Not far from Roy but hidden by an intervening doll are two men on horseback Jake Gullick and Bill Foxen. Fixing it. Rogers is fixing that cable. If that kids as sick as they say she is they'll never get back with more stuff for her in time. That's not the point they'll try and they'll send it up to the dock. What we got to do is discourage the people and hide away, keep hitting them until they believe nothing can ever get through to them. If we try to cut the draw cable again. That's no good. You used to have a fake Department of Justice badge. I still have. Let's get it and ride Parkway to Squawk Creek. We can use that badge to good advantage there. Good for you. I'll feel better now that the sheriff's here. They've been here sooner. I got a call through the doctor. He said he'd try to hold a fort until the supplies come. Try. The patient isn't doing very well Roy. Table fixed Roy. Yeah I've been sitting here. If I could do something right up the other side of the mountain fight Nothing you can do Roy. I know there isn't. Jonah will be back as soon as he can get here. I'm surprised you didn't drive right on through garlic's pass when this come up Roy. I wish now I had. What stopped you. Two things I guess. First the law. Garlic is within his rights legally. Even if he isn't from any other standpoint. And second. I knew there'd be killings if we tried to drive through. This way seemed better than a killing. I'll just place this cable. Why did you have to cut it off square looks to me as though. All right all right to put the cable down let it be I know. What's the matter. You noticed the same thing there. Yeah. Notice what. The cable didn't break. Somebody used a hacksaw on it. No. They cut it part way through Dale. Enough so the weight of the loaded seat pulling back would break it. I wasn't going to say anything. Somebody would be that. I'm mighty glad you folks and bullies are here. No one is tampered with the toast since you've been gone. But it's good to know there'll be four on guard until Jonah gets back instead of one. Two men wait in a wood area alongside the trail to Squaw Creek. One is masked. The other wears a badge reading US Department of Justice. Both look steadily in the direction of Squaw Creek. Far in the distance they see a rider coming toward them. That's very sad kick I think now you know what to do don't you Foxen. Don't worry about me. Just get him off the trail and keep him off long enough for me to slip this bundle of black powder in with the other stuff he's carrying. That's all I asked. Sure sure but wear your mask just in case. The old boy knows you. Incidentally you haven't got black powder in that package. What I think a dynamite would bust things up better going. I can't say you're not right. Stay here. I'll ride up on the trail and stop him. Bill Foxen rides out onto the trail dismounts and faces the oncoming Jonah waving his arms frantically being careful to display the important badge. Now look Mr. I'm in a hurry. Justice Department Go. You're a government man. Get down off your horse. Look I ain't got no time to sick little girl. Get down off your horse. I'll remember this when it comes time to vote again I bet you. I need a witness to establish that a suspect was in this territory but I have to get on. It won't take long. Leave your horse here. Now these footprints around the campfire I want you to observe. As Jonah and a fake federal man cross the trail and disappear Jake Gullick still masked runs from the wooded area carrying the package of dynamite quickly efficiently he loosens the pack on Jonah's horse places the package in the middle so that it appears to be part of the supplies dispensed by the hospital he rearranges and ties the pack then disappears into the woods. Well can I go now you got my identification once more you witnessed the footprint showing a broken heel they were near the campfire practically in it you're prepared to swear that the fire was still smoldering real hot all right go ahead cornbowl ocean head out of here. Gullick okay everything's all set all we gotta do now is take our rifles and wait when they try to send a load up on that ski tow aim for that dynamite and it'll blow him to smithereens bang a metal on you that was real speed yeah well I would have got here sooner except for a nosy federal man yeah sure a big pack of stuff the hospital give me I'll unbuckle it Roy you get the secret what are you doing here tin star just dropped around to see what a literary man looks like and by dog as tired as I am I won't feel like putting down no words tonight Roy do you want to untie the supplies I think they'll ride like that Dale it'll save time anyway if you hold them on the seat I'll rope them in sheriff all right who's just coming Fred peppered it sure is hey what's your matter Fred you're riding like you got Indians on your trail oh boy did I get your time you haven't set the supplies over yet we're just about ready to have the dock phoned a little girl oh I'm all out of breath come on Fred what about the little girl the doc says she's sinking oh the poor thing he needs help he wants to know if Dale can ride the ski tow over I sure can I don't want you taking a chance boy that little girl all right now you can go but nothing better happened to that ski tow this time well we know the tow is okay this time Roy we've watched it every minute it better be I guess the best way is for me to sit on the seat and hold the supplies isn't it you'll have to tie them on of course Dale seats yourself on the ski tow and the sheriff gives her the heavy bundle of supplies reluctantly almost unwillingly Roy ropes them to the sides so there's no chance of her getting loose and falling he hesitates an expression of apprehension on his face then turns toward the steam engine he signals Jonah to start it the draw cable tightens Dale is whisked off the ground up over the boulders she waves one hand above the great bundle of supplies and is swung higher over the first chasm over the ugly perpendicular cliffs she's in midair if that was a shot they're shooting the Dale where are the bullets do you see them tell them take them boy take bullet boy makes a flying mount on trigger and the rest of them the sheriff and Fred Papert run to their horses to follow he gives an extra spurt of speed Roy is directly between the two men suddenly he flings both arms out grabbing for the outlaws he pulls them both from their horses whom splashing all about them they roll ball fight bullet lunges out grab a gold box and shakes him as he would shake a rat Roy is free to take care of Gullick and take care of him he does get up your Gullick that's it boy stand guard all right now Roy just take it easy everything's okay I'm sorry Sheriff we're shooting at Dale help us on that ski lift I lost myself for a minute I guess you take them will you I want to ride back and see if Jonah got Dale across all right along with Roy Dale and Trigger fans all over the country have been clamoring for another 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very good but I'll swear she was a smiling and she probably was Jonah but you can bet your life she was a mighty scared girl when she was swinging out over those cliffs yeah well I scared for her if the truth be known they'll make it right you bet well 10 star you've done it again I done what are you gone and arrested a federal man federal yes that fella with a swelled up blip sir belongs to the United States Department of Justice now wait yeah he's the officer who stopped me on the way back from Squaw quick and asked me to help him with some clues oh boy if you ain't a mess I never seen one yes soldier boy I found the badge he was carrying probably good enough imitation to fool a literary man but it didn't fool me well again for your fake huh you go back to your scribbling I'll see that you aren't bothered by imposters anymore oh pull pull Jonah come on I want to get to the telephone and find out how the little girl is hmm can't get a connection huh the operator will have it in a minute yes ah Roy friend why are you waiting could you give me some advice well try um what kind of a auto would you get if you was me auto yeah well you see it was like this Roy I said it was like this the other night Dorothy May and me was a talking mm-hmm I'd stop by to see how much of my book she had typed pure business Roy and it was a nice evening the stars and all that yeah yeah so I says uh Dorothy May you know you ought to get out of the house more I'd I'd be glad to take you for a ride nice evenings like this meaning of course a horseback ride oh sure yeah and she says why mr. Wilde I would love to go and when did you get a new car is it a sedan or a convertible yeah just a minute hello is that you Dale you bet we got him Jake Gallick and a fellow named Bill Foxen how are you been out that's good she's hold on let me tell Jonah Jonah hey Dale says that Doc thinks the little girl has better than an even chance she'll live Jonah she'll be all right hey just received a letter from my girl in San Antonio it said that she would be my bride I know she really loves me and her heart is true so I guess I'd better take a ride I'll hop up on my pony and I'll ride away down the trail to San Antonio I can see her standing waiting by the garden gate and she waits for me alone through the hills and or the planes will ride ride ride I won't rest until I have her by my side roll on little pony let that old wind mow I'm heading back to San Antonio down the trail to San Antonio I'll go down the trail to San Antonio I'll go down the trail to San Antonio I can see her standing waiting by the garden gate and she waits for me alone the planes will ride ride ride I won't rest until I have her roll on little pony let that old wind mow I'm heading back to San Antonio down the trail to San Antonio that's all for now folks this is Roy Rogers saying to all of you from all of us goodbye good luck to me the good lord take a liking to you see you next week happy until Roger's show is brought to you by post serials each week at this same time with the whipper wills forest louis dale evans and the king of the cowboys himself Roy Rogers an art rush production transcribed directed by tom hargis stripped by ray wilson music by milton charles featured in today's cast were frank hemmingway herb butterfield bob griffin charles seal and pat mcgee and this is art balance you're speaking for post serials happy train happy train who cares about the clouds if we're together