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Thursday, May 9, 1940 THE [jm^Si AIN'T WE GOT FUN! After watching Bobby toil long and hard over strips of balsa wood and blue prints to emerge with a small model airplane, we sort of took a notion that we would like to build one ourself. So, with our usual bent of going whole hog or nothing, we purchased ourself a dollar outfit and proceeded to dive into a 36-inch wingspread model equipped with dummy one-cylinder motor and all inconveniences. Thus far, together with gei cutting several fingers with i of our wife's bedspreads, and ] our fast thinning hair, we have* the thing about half constructed. And it looks pretty good, too, even if it probably won't fly when f SPEED WINS IN A RACE, BUt\ SU)W BURNING WINS tAV VOTE IN A CIGARETTE. I SMOKE CAMELS. CAMELS ARE EXTRA MILD, EXTRA COOL. AND THEIR SLOWER BURNING JIMMIE KELLY, Speed Ace of Motor-Cycle Racing In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested slower than any of them. That means, on the av erage, a smoking plus equal to & EXTRA S3S||f SMOKES PACK/ FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR CAMELS Slow-Burning Costlier Tobaccos A POWERFUL "17 EFFICIENT JKBglf DRAPCRIES «. -. ... n I I tka&M VINITIAN Ntw CLEANER 1 / flbl tuNDs • Budtlf UFHOLSTIRY ROYAL /H lAM ' i HAD, » AtllhMfroM || BIDDING RIIEU I ■■ INTIRIORi J HARRIS ELECTRIC COMPANY Phone 250 Elkin, N. C. ;ting all stuck up with cement, l razor blade, messing up two nulling out numerous hunks of > : we get the wings on—if we get the wings on. But for good clean fun you ought to try building one some time when you have a few weeks to spare. It's just a matter of shaping and glueing. You get a whole box full of little balsa sticks and things. The things you have to cut out with a razor blade. If they happen to split in the middle while you are cutting, that's all a part of the fun. And if your wife —if you have a wife— complains about you messing up the bedspread, that's her right. Just pay no attention, dodge the broom if you've been married long enough to acquire the urt, and keep right on shaping and pasting. Our wife doesn't mind us try ing to build a model airplane at all, but she does wonder why we have to use the bed as a table. Personally, we use it because a bed provides lots of extra space in which to scatter things like pins and pieces of sticks, and ex cess glue and other necessary parts. And then a bed sort of lets one relax as one works. And we've found through experience that quite a bit of relaxing is necessary because building a model airplane is a job that can not be rushed. If this one turns out all right we are going to build one with a real miniature gasoline motor. That ought to be fun. In addi tion to littering up the bed with sticks and things, we could also mess it up with oil and gas spots, plus a few spots of soot and grease. We're having lots of fun. * • * MORE GRASS TROUBLES We wrote something here the other week about our grass out home, complaining mightily be cause it grows faster than we can keep it cut. We'd like to report at this writing that it's still growing. Here of late we have to get up early every morning and mow the 1 r • • ■ • - -,« v " :;*1 - ■ • . "S THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA lawn so that the sun can shine In the windows. And Just day be fore yesterday we had to hpnt our children with a lawn mower for two hours. Of course grass Is wonderful stuff to look at and it does make a yard very attractive, but our grass is getting us down. And the lawnmower we've been bor rowing from a neighbor is be ginning to show considerable wear and tear. We've been sort of hinting that he buy a new one, but thus far he seems perfectly satisfied with the one he has. One of these days a wild blade of grass is going to wreck the thing and then he'll be sorry. In case there are any Boy Scouts locally who are trying to win a merit badge for excellence in tracking or plotting a course from the stars, we'll be glad to donate the use of our yard. Of course we don't want to be held THE LYRIC ALWAYS COMFORTABLE H True to SOUND SBm TODAY ONLY—THURSDAY— "SherIock Holmes" News Admission 10c-25c FRIDAY ONLY— ROBERT MONTGOMERY As "The Earl of Chicago" K / Selected Shorts Admission 10c-25c BILL ("ED ELLIOTT "PIONEERS OF THE FRONTIER" ifpp«l ON THE STAGE HHMk Jbjft i fKBH kJDJI Pml-- « m hSm "THE COWBOY RAMBLERS" SINGING - DANCING - STRING MUSIC - COMEDY Cartoon - Serial - Comedy Admission 10c-30c Note: After the close of school all teachers will be admitted for the special price of 10 cents on Monday afternoons only. - ■ ; i ' • ,-t ™imwmmi main responsible in case any scouts get lost. •■ ♦ • THIS AND THAT More dinkuses can be installed on linotypes than you can shake a stick at, and when bigger and better dinkuses are made Ott Laffoon and Smith Williamson will probably be mixed up in it somewhere. The other day a resistance coil, or something, burned dUt on one of the linotypes, and as a result the metal pot wouldn't heat. A replacement wasn't any nearer than New York, so Ott and Smith got busy. Result: Two electric light bulbs lying on the floor. Every time the current automatically turns on to keep the metal at the right temperature, these two bulbs light up, which makes it very bad on our nerves, because every time they come on, we always jump. And as they flash on every few minutes, we jump every few min utes. You try jumping every few minutes and see how you feel. Of course jumping like this is godti exercise, and we must try and keep our weight down. Not that we're growing too fat, but so that our clothes will continue to fit. If we were suddenly to start expanding in every direction we'd be in an awful fix, and with the weather cool like it has been, a barrel would be entirely too drafty. So there you are. Just Opposite Coffee Nerves—When I drink coffee I can't sleep. Playfoot—With me it's just the opposite. When I sleep I can't drink coffee. Down and Out Dzudi—Bilge is down and out, isn't he? Dinocan—Yes, he told me the other day he has to pay cash for everything. Eyes Examined Office: Glasses Fitted The Bank of Elkln Building DR. P. W. GREEN OPTOMETRIST Offices open daily for optical repairs and adjustments of all kinds. Examinations on Tuesdays and Fridays from 1 to 5 p.m. By Appointment Phone 14t \»|f j ßread- Say Holsum MONDAY-TUESDAY—NEXT WEEK— y.JOTUMg?I \ taHWmR I \ Florence RICE • Lyu* CARVER Y ***** "** *T MtM« mi NMM •mHMUMI • Ifttaa «* ■««• %f Cftfe **•» U News - Cartoon Admission 10c-30c WEDNESDAY— "This Is My Heart" Cartoon - Serial Admission 10c to All Reserved Seat TICKETS FOR NIGHT SHOWINGS OF "Gone With the Wind" Go On Sale at Boxoffice MONDAY, MAY 13TH 3 Shows Daily—9:3o A. M. - 1:30 P. M. - 7:30 P. M. ADMISSION MATINEES 75c NIGHT sl.lO Note: Family Show Will Be Shown Thursday, May 23, Due to Showing of "Gone With the Wind" on Wed. REMEMBER—IT'S COMING MAY 20-211-22
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