Roads Be Made Safer
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125 Millions
Will Be Spenl
Survey Reveals Nation
Wide Program Design
ed to Make Travel
ing Safer
Chicago—A hundred and twenty
five million dollars worth of acci
dent prevention will be built in
to the nation’s highways this spring
and summer, a survey has been dis
closed.
Uniting in the country-wide ef
fort to cut down motoring deaths
Federal and State governments have
earmarked one fourth of the cost
of a record road improvement pro
gram to safety measures.
Of an estimated total expendi
ture of $600,000,000, $125,000,
000 will go toward cutting down
automobile crashes by:
Eliminating railroad crossings.
Installing warning signals at dan
ger points.
Widening "shoulders” of high
ways.
Broadening or eliminating curves.
Leveling concrete headwalls of
culverts.
Increasing highway widths.
Flattening slopes.
Laying dustless road surfaces.
Increasing sight distances, to re
move mental as well as physical
hazards of motorists.
Several states planned highway
safety programs along particular
lines. Pennsylvania will paint yel
low lines through the middle of
mountain roads to guide drivers
through heavy fog. Indiana will
divide traffic lanes on the Lincoln
highway from Merrilville to Scher
erville. Oklahoma will survey traf
fic conditions on all main arteries
as groundwork for accident preven
tion. Alabama’s roads will be pa
trolled by a new 74-man highway
patrol. West Virginia will reor
ganize and increase its road patrol.
Colorado will require safety in- 1
spection of all autos and trucks.
Arkansas may bar cattle from the 1
road.
Biggest contributor to the con
certed safety effort was Texas, with
an $11,000,000 outlay. Illinois
was second, with $10,307,184.
Thirty-six states estimated their to
tal would be $80,000,000, with the
Federal grade-crossing elimination
program boosting the same aggre
gate to $125,000,000.
The same 36 states reported they
would spend for all hignwav im
FORT KNOX, Ky. ... Construction work is now well under way on
■Uncle Sam s gold vault here where the U. S. Government plans to store
it s immense gold holdings in the central part of the nation. The vault
proper when completed late ini May, will be 64 x 40 feet and two stories
•ugh, Underground, topped by a building of bomb-proof granite.
provement $456,000,000, approxi
mately one third more than their
last year’s figure, $285,000,000.
California and Mississippi topped
the list with $40,000,000 pro
| grams each. The other 12 States
iwere not ready to give definite
data, but comparisons with other
years indicated they would boost
the nation’s 1936 highway bill to
$600,000,000.
Catawba Plans
For Baseball
Baseball practice is to get under
way at Catawba college this week.
Coach Gordon Kirkland, who pilot
ed the Indians into third position
last year in the North State con
ference race, is expecting 11 letter
men to report for the initial work
out.
The Indians will play a 21-game
schedule as follows:
March 25—Springfield college,
Salisbury.
March 26—John Hopkins, Salis
•ury.
March 28—Appalachian, Salis
bury.
April 1-High Point, High
Point.
April 4—Lenoir-Rhyne, Salisbury.
April 7—A. C. C. Salisbury.
April 9—Guilford, Salisbury.
April 10—Guilford, Salisbury.
April 11—Chatham Blanketeers,
Elkin.
April 13—Lenoir-Rhyne, Hick
ory.
April 14—Appalachian, Boone.
April 15—Davidson, Salisbury.
April 18—High Point, Salisbury.
April 21—Lenoir-Rhyne, Salis
bury.
April 23—A. C. C., Wilson.
April 24—High Point, High
Point.
April 28—Guilford, Guilford.
April 29—Elon, Elon.
May 4—Lenoir-Rhyne, Hickory.
May 6—High Point, Salisbury.
May 7—Elon, Salisbury.
Red Flannels
Are Unearthed
Selma, Ala—The nation-wide
hunt for old-fashioned "red flan’
| nels”—more often talked about
I then seen, even in the old days—
| has brought four pair to light here.
A downtown store has its only
pair on display in a show window
—and residents of this deep South
city stop to stare as they trudge
through snow-lined streets, almost
j as rare in this section as the crim
son-tinted undergarment.
| A crowd marveled at the dis
j play, a veteran railroad man con
I fessed he had one pair on and two
more at home.
"I’ve always worn them in cold
weather,” he said. "But don’t put
| my name in the paper—111 need
| the other two pair, and some of
| my friends might try to borrow
them if this cold wave keeps up.”
A recent survey of Eastern and
Middle-Western communities where
red flannels once were as common
as ham and eggs, revealed a national
scarcity of the articles.
"GIRL OF NORTHWEST”
Another of those striking im
pressions of stuning girls, reproduc
ed in full color from a painting by
Henry Clive. One of many fea
tures in the March 8 issue of the
American Weekly, the big maga
zine which comes with the BAL
TIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN.
Your newsdealer has your copy.
CCC Prepares
Boys For Work
Arts and Crafts Program
Instills Need of More
Education in Youths
Washington—The youth who en
rolls in the Civilian Conservation
corps may or may not find a ;ob
when he comes out but the odds
are a little better than two to one
that he will know how to entertain
himself in his spare time.
And that, said Howard W. Ox
ley, is something. Oxley put this
down along with self-assurance
and good healthy axe swinging
strength in assessing the benefits of
the corps to the youth. Oxley is
the man who supervises the educa
tional and hobby program in the
tamps.
They don’t call it a “hobby pro
;ram” around Oxley’s office, how
ver. To Oxley and those working
vith him, it is "arts and crafts.”
Whatever the name, however, it
is the thing that has had better
than 70 per cent of the CCC en
rollers busy through the cold
months carving woods and weaving
modelling clay and daubing with
brush, struggling with needles and
stewing over stoves, making ash
trays and rugs, pottery and pic
tures, doilies and pies.
Vast heaps of assorted articles
have come out of their work, whole
exhibits have been arranged. Some
of the products are saleable, some
are not. Many of them are works
of beauty rather than utility, but
frequently they are a combination
of the two.
/\na out ox tne noDDies, irequ
ently has come, that which was
needed to stimulate a youth into
seeking education. Oxley explain
ed it this way:
"A man comes into camp. IHe
tells the educational advisor he
doesn’t want to study, never did
like school. The advisor asks
about other things, trying to find
something he is interested in.
There doesn’t seem to be any
thing.
Later the enrollee sees another
man carving a ship, or a butter
mould, or an ash tray. The work
appeals to him. He wants to learn.
So he goes to a class. A little la
ter he finds that to do some of the
intricate designs, he must learn
arithmetic, must learn to read. And
so he goes to other classes.
"I was in one camp on the Pa
cific coast just before the Christ
mas holidays when the boys were
working in two-hour shifts, day
and night a lathe and wood train
ing shop they had built themselves.
The boys were devoting all their
spare time to making Christmas
presents for their families and
friends. One would work his two
hours at the lathe and then wake
up the next man to take his turn.
"The work done in their spare
time varies according to regions.
In the Northeast, they run largely
to wood and furniture work. Along
the Middle Atlantic and Southern
States, the boys make things for
the home. This holds true largely
for the Middle West. In the South
west, they work with stones and
to a lesser degree pottery. In the
Northwest, they run to wood and
stone work.
what is the practical value?” j
"Well, to begin with, a CCC en
rollee has a better chance to get
a job when he gets out than he
would have otherwise. We have
had many inquiries for CCC men.
They are vigorous and their bear
ing is not that of a beaten man.
"But suppose he doesn’t get a
job. There are things that he has
learned to do with his hands. He
can mend things about the house.
He can occupy his mind by keep
ing his hands busy. His morale
is better.”
Officials after a little quick arith
metic said that something like ten
dollars a year remained for each
:amp for hobbies after the amount
illotted for education had gone in
to the salary of a camp instructor,
aooks and administrative expenses.
Minneapolis is exactly midway
jetween the equator and the North
Pole. J
Lady's Painful Trouble
Helped By Cardui
Why do so many women take Cap
ital for the relief of functional pains
at monthly times? The answer is
that they want results suoh as Mrs.
Herbert W. Hunt, of Hallsville, Texas,
describes. She writes: “My health
wasn’t good. I suffered from cramp
ing. My pain would be so Intense It
would nauseate me. I would Just
drag around, so sluggish and ‘do
less.’ My mother decided to give me
Cardui. I began to mend. That tired,
sluggish feeling was gone and thq
pains disappeared. I can’t praise
Cardui too highly because I know
It helped me.” ... If Cardui does not
help YOU, consult a physician.
Stork Stays Away And
Ruins Demonstration
Washington — A long-plannec
childbirth demonstration at George
Washington university was ruinec
recently when the babies failed tc
arrive as scheduled.
Four hundred surgeons and phy
sicians, some of them noted ob
stetricians, gathered in the theatei
clinic of the university’s medical
school for the event, but nothing
happened.
Seven babies were due to arrive,
but mother nature had other ideas.
The scientists had come to wit
ness a demonstration of a new an
mothers to "sleep soundly” through
the pains of childbirth and to awak
en "refreshed.”
After realizing he had been de
feated by nature, Dr. Howard F.
Kane, the university’s professor of
obstetrics and co-discoverer of the
anesthetic, apoligized.
"I’m sorry. We’ve done every
thing we could,” he said, adding
that once before he and his asso
ciate, Professor George B. Both,
also of the university, had been
similarly foiled.
The new anesthetic is a mixture
estnatic wmcn is said to alJcw of paraldehyde and benzy alcohol.
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Gambill Is Appointed
Dougbton’s Secretary
Washington — Representative R.
L. Doughton has announced the ap
pointment of Sidney Gambill, of
Sparta, as his secretary, Gambrill
is an attorney at Sparta and has
been associated with R. A. Dough
ton, brother of the congressman.
Gambrill is a native of Ashe coun
ty and attended Duke University
and University of North Carolina.
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