Mrs. CARRIE WEBERG, " GRANDMA" to all that knew her kept her delicous humor through 78 years of a hard life that began in Sweden, and brought her to Wapinitia Plains, where she spun and knit more than 500 pounds of virgin wool into mittens and socks for sheepherders and their families in the Deschutes country before it was cut up into farms.

"This long wool doesn't spin good. Short wool is better, and makes smoother yarn, but I can show you with this. I can spin as fine as a thread", she smiled, as she threaded the spools. The spools of the old wheel are cracked and the treadle is worn thin and smooth from the hours this little old lady had spent sitting and spinning those countless pounds of yarn. We soon saw, however, that it was still in running order when she put her foot on the treadle and guided the fluffy roll of wool onto the spool on the wheel. Almost magically, it seemed, the roll began to stretch out and turn into yarn under her deft handling.

"Grandma" reminisced about her early days in the country. "My purse had only 60 cents in it when we got here. It wasn't heavy to carry", she chuckled, with a characteristic twinkle in her blue eyes. "Yes, I'll show you my spinning wheel -- I brought it from Sweden with me. I had another wheel but it got so old my pappy got me this one when Ollie, my first baby, was little, and I'm going to keep it. No one can get it until I'm gone," she said with a twinkle as she brought in the old, blue-painted spinning wheel she has used almost constantly for 58 year