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Hi, Neighbor! {Continued jrom page 66) we asked Gene. He smiled in an embarrassed way and said kiddingly, "Now I know how Columbus felt when they named Columbus, Ohio, after him!" Seriously, however, you have to be a pretty good neighbor before people pay you a tribute like that. Gene's ideas on neighborliness are very simple. "II people want to get into fights, they generally succeed in getting into them," he said. "Likewise, if people want to get along with their neighbors, they usually get along fine. "If someone new moves into a neighborhood, I figure it's the place of the residents who've been living there for quite a while to make his acquaintance. "I can't think of any better rule for neighborliness than the Golden Rule — do unto others as you would have others do unto you." And Gene lived up to that in his days as a California neighbor before he left for the Army. During the rainy season, the only way in which the people in the rural, rough countryside near Gene's ranch can get to the paved highways is by crossing his land. If Gene were the kind of movie star who considers his property sacred, he could throw up a fence round his ranch and put up signs forbidding trespassing. After all, the roads on his ranch are built for ordinary traffic, not for the throngs of people who pass through during the rainy season. But Gene has left standing orders for the gates to be opened so they can use his private paths. Under these conditions, it's necessary for Gene to spend more on repairs than he would normally. But he would far rather do this than be unneighborly. In turn, the neighbors are glad to give a helping hand whenever they can. There was the time that Gene lost a new longhorn steer from south Texas. A wild, ornery young steer who didn't want to run with the rest of the herd. 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