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YOU don't have to be from ,
Missouri to believe this ;
story. A group of linemen |
wa s stringing wires across the j
Osage River in Missouri and came
to an impasse. The river was filled
with ice not strong enough to bear
a man, but mating it impossible to
use a boat After several efforts
to get t> wire across the river had *
failed, a bright idea struck one of
the party. A pet dog belonging to
one of the men was pressed into
service. A light line was fastened
to the dog's collar and then the
owner got to the opposite bank by
means of a bridge some distance up
the stream. When all was ready
the master whistled from the other
bank of the river and the dog start
ed. She picked her way across the
treacherous ice, but the heavy load
and the rough ice made her prog
ress slow and uncertain. However,
the fox terrier fought on and
finally reached her destination.
The wires were strung without fur
ther incident. Another Rubicon had
"been crossed.
Facts About the Telephone
It is estimated that about 31,400,-
000 Long Distance telephone calls
were made last year in Canada.
The city of Chicago averaged,
last year about 4,070,000 telephone
calls every day, which is an in
crease of 4.2 per cent over figures
in 1927.
Approximately 796,000,000 tele
phone calls were made in the state |
of New Jersey during 1928. This is
an increase of more than 50,000,000
over the preceding year.
The 100,000 th telephone in the:
city of Rochester, N. Y. t was In-j
stalled on April 4, in the residence :
of William J. Lewis, Jr., just fifty!
years after the first telephone was
introduced in the city.
Telephone lines are being extend
ed in the Cherokee National forest
in Tennessee so that they will now
traverse the forest in every direc
tion. These lines are used by the.
forest service in the transaction of
official business and for reporting
forest fifes.
Two new dial telephone offices,
Wickersham and Plaza, were
opened in the Manhattan area of
New York City early this summer, i
They contain 10,000 terminals each
and when fully loaded, they will
take care of the equivalent of tele
phone service for a town of 114,000
population.
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n this section. Farmers Hardware Co.
•'/atch the Label on youir paper.
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Xf. S. Boys To Model
With "U" Schola
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Newly formed FisHer Body Crafts
man** Guild offers $50,000 in
awards to youths
Detroit, Mich Four university!
scholarships of $5,000 each_ area
offered to the boys of America in ang
announcement today of the forma-1
tion of the Fisher Body Craftsman sg
Guild, an organizatipn dedicated g
to a program of education in manual!
arts and to perpetuate the ideals of
the ancient craft guilds.
The scholarships and more tnan
900 other awards having a total |
value in excess of 150,000 will be j
given to the boys who build tn© best;
miniature models of a Napoleonic
coach. The contest is open to every i
boy in the nation between the age 6
of 12 and 19 inclusive. _ Owing to the
wide age range, there will be two class
divisions: juniors aged 12 to 15 years,
and seniors aged 16 to 19 years; with j
equal awards to each group.
The Fisher Body Craftsman s Guild
and its educational program are spon
sored by leading educators and indus
trialists. Dan Beard, national com
missioner of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, is honorary president of the Guild,!
and William A. Fisher, president of)
the Fisher Body Corporation, is
active president. The honorary
board of judges of the Guild is com
posed of the following nationally
known educators: I
Thomas S. Baker, president, Car
negie Institute of Technology; M. L.
Brittain, president, Georgia Institute
of Technology; M. E. Cooley, dean
emeritus, College of Engineering and
Architecture. University of Michi
gan; G. J. Davis, Jr., dean, College of
Engineering, University of Alabama;
W. F. Durand, Stanford University;
E. A. Hitchcock, dean, College of
Engineering, Ohio State University;
D. S. Kimball, dean, College of
Engineering, Cornell University; P.
R. Kolbe, president, Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn; Robert A.
Millikan, California Institute of
Technology; R. L. Sackett, (dean of
engineering, Pennsylvania State Col
lege: Rev. T. A. Steiner, C. S. G.,
dean, College of Engineering, Uni
versity of Notre Dame; and S. W.
Stratton, president, Massachusetts
Institution of Technology.
The Fisher Body Craftsman s
Guild has been organized for the
purpose of encouraging and stimulat
ing craftsmanship and the develop
ment of manual skill among the boys
of America. It was felt that with the
present trend toward highly developed
machinery, there was danger that the
next generation would grow to man
hood unskilled in any cra-ft and that
the extinction of real artisans might
result
"It is our endeavor to foster, inso
far as we are able, that spirit of fine
workmanship which permeated the
i craft guilds of bygone centuries,
i said Mr. Fisher in explaining the
aims and purposes of the Guild.
"The boys eligible to become mem
bers of the Guild and compete in this
contest soon will be knocking at the
doors of industry seeking their start
in their life-work. We believe_ that
• they will come better equipped
! NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION, j
! OPENING OF REGISTRATION J
} BOOKS, ETC.
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Town of Forest City, N. C.
I NOTICE IS HEREBY -jiv£:\j
That a special election will be heHj
:j.i the Town of Forest City on the j
i(-.th day of September, 1930, for,
;
] the purpose of voting on the qu«s- j
Ition as to whether or not the Town 1
jOl Forest City shall sell its electric j
transmission, distributing and light-;
ing system to Southern Public Utili
ties Company for the price of Three
•Hundred and Fifteen Thousand
j ($315,000) Dollars in cash, and for
| the purpose of voting on the ques-
Iticn as to whether or not the Town
lot' Fonst City shall sell its water
! works system to Southern Public
■ Utilities Company for the price Oi.
jOne Hundred Thousand ($100,000)
| Dollars in cash. Four ballots shall
• THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930.
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Model of Napoleonic coach boys of
nation will make in educational contest
fostered by the Fisher Body Craftsman s
Guild. Inset, Dan Beard, national com
missioner of the Boy Scouts of America
and honorary president of the guild.
through the training received as Guild
members, and thereby be enabled to
achieve greater heights."
A comprehensive plan has Deen
devised so that it will be easy lor
every boy in the age limit to enter tne
contest. To obtain this nationwide
accessibility, the entire dealer organ
ization of General Motors, of which
the Fisher Body Corporation is a
division, has been drafted into serv
ice. Each of these 20,000 motor car
dealers has been supplied with en
rollment blanks With which to enroll
the youthful entrants. In addition
they will advise and assist the con
testants in any questions which may
&ris6*
At the conclusion of the contest;
coach models made in each state in
the country will be judged separately
and according to junior and senior
groups. The boys adjudged the best
craftsmen in both groups and m each
state will be given a trip to Detroit
as guests of the Guild and SSO in
g °The four first awards of 85,000
scholarships may be used at; any
university selected by the fortunate
young craftsmen. These scholarships
cover a full college course of four
years. In the junior division, where
the winners may not have reached
college age, the scholarships will be
held in trust by the Guild until the
winners are prepared to enter the
university of their choice. .
In addition to these /principal
awards and the Detroit trips for the
96 boys, there will be cash awards
for builders of the second best coach
model in both divisions in each state
and other cash awards for individual
merits on particular parts of the
model building, 6uch as woodcraft,
metalcraft, trimcraft, and paintcraft.
These special awards will be equally
divided among the junior and senior
groups in each of the states.
ji._ Ufted, one reading "For Sale of
lE.ectric System to Southern Publi?
| :lilies Company." one "Against
f Sale of Electric System to Southern
.Public Utilities Company," one "For
!sale of Waterworks System to South
jein Public Utilities Company", and
j one "Against Sale of Waterworks
[System to Southern Public Utilities
I Company." The election shall be held
! from 8 o'clock a. m., until sunset on
I the said 16th day of September,
i 1930, the polling places for said
! election shall be at the City Hall ;
j North Powell Street and J. E. Cald-j
well appointed registrar of voters. Aj
! new registration of the voters will}
,be held for said election and the
(registration books shall be opened
'at nine o'clock a. m., on the 16th day
!of August, 1930, (being the fifth
' Saturday before the election), and
shall be in the posssssion of J. E.
Ci* I dwell the registrar, at his place
cf business on North Powell Screen
!at the City Hall for the registration
■ t.vctf-rr; the said books shall re
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op;n until closed at sunset on
" September 61 h, 1030, (the second
'Saturday before the election.) The
Registrar will keep said registration
books open for registration of vot
ers between the hours of nine o'clock
. a., m., and sunset on each day during
- the period when said Registration
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| Louise Rice, world famous graphologist,
C3n positively read your talents, virtues ,
c.r.d faults in the drawings, words and
what nots that yea scribble when "lost
! in thought". ;
Send your " ccribblings " or signature
for anclysis. Enclose the picture of the Mikado
head, cut from a box of Mikado pencils, and
ten cents. Address Louise Rice, care cf
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PRITCHARD WINS. |
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Candidate George M. Pritchard i
warned state election officials Satur- j
day that any attempt to print the:
senatorial candidates on the state t
ticket would be carried to court. He '•
said Judge Biggs, state • chairman, (
had told him the state could save i
5}3,000 in printing bill if the sena- j
torial and congressional tickets were j
printed on the state ballot. I
Saving $3,000 in printing doesn't j
mean a thing in the world to Mr. |
Pritchard in that instance. What in-1
terests him is giving the people a}
chance to vote between him and Mr. j
Bailey, without any connection j
whatsoever with the state ticket. His
one hope of election is that some of
the factional bitterness of 192§ still
lingers and he wants his race to be
as closely identified with the national
situation as possible.
It is perfectly good politics on the
part of Mr. Pritchard, and our -feel
ing is that he * will get the ballots
printed just as ha v/ishes them to be.
We only wish there was some way
of tell how many votes it will bring
him.- —Lenoir News-Topic.
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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
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This is to notify the public that
J. C. Ellen, on August 8, 1930, sold
his interest in the Model Chevrolet
Co. The above mentioned firm will
not be responsible for any debts I
contracted by retiring party after!
publication of this notice.
MODEL CHEVROLET CO.
\ugust 12, 1930, Forest City,
N. C. 45-41.
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Screen wire, fly go, fly swatters
and other hot weather supplies.
Farmers Hardware Co.
books are open, and on each Sat-;
urday during the period of registra
tion, the Registrar shall attend with
his registration books at the poll
ing place of his precinct or ward be
tween the hours of nine o'clock a
n., and sunset for the registration
of voters.
By order of a resolution passed
by the Mayor and Board of Com
missioners of the Town of Forest
City, on the 14th day of July, 1930
V. T. DAVIS, Mayor.
Attest:
J. E. CALDWELL,
41 -9t clerk -
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VI
Road Hogging (
THE dangerous, unexplainably selfish and unsportsmanlike prao*
tice of road hogging undoubtedly is responsible for more traffic
accidents on American highways than any other single factor
entering into the scheme of motoring conditions. That the road hog
should be smitten with a vengeance similar to that exercised in stamp*"
ing out any other common or garden «
variety of pest, is a foregone con
clusion. Any motorist will agree wit&>':
that.
Highway facilities in the United
States are inadequate despite the :
rapid progress demanded by the re
quirements of the twenty-six million
motorists who are trying to use them
in the interest of furthering their in
dividual needs. They would not be
nearly so inadequate if the road hog
could be abolished and if highways
could be used a* a means of accom
modating an expeditious movement
of traffic instead of the hodge-podge
that exists today.
A number of progressive cities have
declared war on the road hog. Chi
cago is a notable example. In that
city, the person who attempts to drive
slowly on a high speed boulevard is
treated with the same degree of in
tolerance as the driver who attempts
to break speed records where slow
and careful driving is necessary.
Michigan has discarded the old fash
ioned method of regulating speed and
has established in its place a law
which permits the individual motorist
to govern his speed in accordance
with the width of the road, traffic
conditions and sane driving policy.
This law was enacted on the theory
*fcat thirty or forty miles an hour may
oe perfectly safe under certain condi
tions while, under other conditions,
fifteen or twenty miles an hour may
be dangerous.
The motorist who causes an acci
dent in Michigan through careless
ness or recklessness, loses his license
and is otherwise dealt with severely.
Undoubtedly, other states will follow
TRY OUR CLASSIFIEDCOLUMN FOR RESULTS
SECTION TWO—
these examples in time. When they ,
do, a welcome relief from the road
hog should be closer to accomplish
ment. In the meantime, the best way
to work on that type of driver is to
show him how unpopular he is. _
The ; road hig has been defined as
"that type of motorist who takes his
half of the road from the middle."
He is noted for his persistency in pok
ing along on a high speed boulevard,
forcing those who would pass him
to endanger their own lives and the
cars and lives of those who may be
approaching from the opposite direc
tion.
Deliberate road hogging is pure sel
fishness and those who engage in it
should be made to pay the penalty.
Automobile manufacturers are doing
their best to make the automobile as
safe as possible.
Four-wheel brakes, all-steel full
vision bodies and a hundred and one
other modern ideas have been adopt
ed in an effort to reduce traffic acci«
j dents. But accidents we will always
have so long as motorists engage in
unsafe driving practices, and partic
ularly that one known as road
hogging.
Personal experience has taught me
to drive with my head as well as my
feet and hands. And this is partic
ularly true when I am in unfamiliar
territory. I have found it both wise
and safe to get my err in one lane of
traffic and keep it there. It saves
me vhe bother and expensa of buying
new lenders and of paying doctor and
hospital bills. Besides, it preserves
my nerves for speed-way driving.
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