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"Wild" Jim Lynch To Be Here Saturday !n Parade Saturday Has Been Set Aside As Safety Parade Day And Trade With Safety In Roxboro Capt. John J. “Wild” Jim Lynch here on July 3, in the Safety Pa rade, would rather turn hand springs on the front bumber of an automobile traveling a mile a min ute on a race track, than risk his neck on a highway with some of our modern drivers. “There 1 ? less chance of getting killed,” was the terse comment of the. dare-devil cowboy, turned Safety Crusader and intimate friend of the late Will Rogers. His collar bone was crack ed bulldogging steers from a speed ing motorcycle. His left leg was almost torn off performing the handspring stunts on bumpers. He has busted wild broncos as ever was feared on the plains. He has zoomed to safe landings on dark bumpy improvised airports with out any landing lights on field or plane. The tall blond-haired blue eyed Safety Crusader will chart the “Magic” car through the full route of the Safety Parade, which is being sponsored in Roxboro by local concerns and with the endors ment of the State Highway Safety Division, State-wide campaign against “Murder on the Highways and City Streets.” Capt. Lynch, who was weaned on the backs of unbroken wild horses, on the plains of western Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana, will carry his messsages to drive safe and slow, as the “magic” car weaves in and out during the parade. His daring adventures have on him plaudits from the White House and royalty. Teddy Roosevelt ruled Washington, when “Wild” Jim was tending cattle on the range at fourteen. Years later, in 1918, the first Roosevelt saw Lynch at action at Billings, Montana. It was the last rodeo wit nessed by the fighting President, who died shortly" afterwards. To day, “Wild” Jim is a little subdued, but he still had the ruddy complex ion and hardened muscles of the plainsman. His tours in 1918 brought him the bulldogging crown at Miles City, Montana, and one year later won it again, as well s the Cana dian championship for both steer bulldogging and brosco riding. The Pendletin, Oregon, bulldogging crown also tumbled before his at tack, as others did throughout the west. “Then I took to promoting rodeos and managing them, in be tween competing at others.” “Trying to give the folks a real thrill, is what gave me the idea of bulldogging a steer from a motor cycle,” he said. Seems everything went along fine, until the last day of the rodeo at McCook, Nebraska, in, 1926, “I jumped clear of the motor cycle and caught my steer, but just about that time, one of my hazers rode over the top of me and the steer with his horse and piled up the whole works.” When I got to the hospital, they told me I had a broken collar bone and a shatter ed shoulder blade. Well, they kind of shoved things back where they belonged, and within an hour, I was back at the Rodeo grounds, manag ing it to the finish. I put in several years as railroad special agent, for the Northern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads, and learned a lot about safety from the numerous railroad crossing acci dents I investigated. In 1928 I fig ured out away to get killed with a thrill, by doing acrobatic stunts xm Dusters and Sprays The Vermorel Dusters and Sprays are the best manufactured to-day. They are outstanding in their line. You can spray or dust your tobacco easi er, better, and more economical with these machines than any we ever saw. We carry both liquid and dust sprays. Come in and let us show you. Long, Bradsher & Co. B&fcv « tv «gjg c mm g|||| \ <•".■ •>? © NEWS-WEEK ANCIENT HOPI RITE Because Hop! Indians are forbid den to hold snake dances, white members of the Smoki People carry -. on the ceremonial. the front bumper of an automobile doing 60 past the grandstand at fairs, headstands, sumersaults, and all that sort of thing. The act went over big, until one day at Riverton, Wyoming I got my left leg under a front wheel and nearly tore it off. Four women fainted. I stayed in the hos pital three months and couldn’t walk good for a year. So that would up the new idea. When I got out of that, I decided that I would make a darned good endurance driv er. so I made seventeen successful endurance drives of ohe hundred and one hours each, five days and four rights within a year’s period. “They’d handcuff me to the steer ing wheel, ard tell me to go lose myself for a few nights,” and believe me, says Lynch, “you sure learn me, says Lynch, “you sure learn a lot about traffic safety on such drives.” Back in 1919 and 1920. he was a “stunt” man of the silent films for Lasky, Goldwyn and other stu dios and producers. But I am enjoying Safety Crusad ing more than thrilling people with daring stunts, he said, because I feel that I am helping to save lives rather than taking chances on des tioying my own, and I know that the people who witness the safety parade, will long remember it, as one of the most interesting events they ever witnessed. o STEEL MILLS REOPEN Youngstown, O.—lncreasing num bers of steel workers are returning to the mills of the Republic Steel Corporation and the Youngstown sheet and Tube Company, and offi cials estimate that within the week the rate of production will reach 73 per cent, at which figure it stood whent the strike was called just a month ago. The Ohio National Guard is preserving order as the loyal workers go to and fro through C. I. 10. picket lines. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXHORO, N. C. —— * U >l»s-»nii Matters of the gravest national importance were threshed out during the three-day weekend at the Jefferson Island Club in Cljesapeake Bay, to which Presi dent Roosevelt invited Democratic members of Congress for a get to-ethcr party oi fishing, trap-shooting and conference. The President, a Wh«e House secretary informed the press in advance of the party, “will he available for all Democratic Congressmen to talk over any question they desire. What was talked over awaits official announcement. Scientist Forecasts Dust Storms Return o Farmers Os Drought Area Will Catch It Again In 40 or 50 Years, He Thinks Washington.—The farmers of the great drought areas and the south western dust bowl will catch it a gain in another 40 or 50 years if a Carnegie institution scientist has si zed up mother nature correct "y. Dr. Frederick E. Clements, an ex pert on plant distribution, the weath er and cycles of growth, said today that droughts return after fairly regular intervals. FOR EXAMPLE Tread contains hundreds 4.40-21 Only *s§§ dep_th'o*fthetread i OTHER SIZES PROPORTIONATELY LOW traction. This f**an exclu- jl i| sive Fisk feature. Tom's Battery Company, Roxboro, N. C. Durham Tire Exchange, 126 Morgan St., Durham, N. C. Watkins Tin & Battery Co., Cor. David ft lllcDouiell, Raleigh, 11. G. “Having learned that drought re - ws. it is natural to assume that dust storms likewise return with the [ cycle,” he asserted. He added, however, that ‘long- , range forecasting of rainfall and l drought should prove to be a big help to farmers in planning crop and insuring production. Dr. Clements declared that the : great plains are “an unrivalled res . ervoir” of soil fertility, throughout much of the recent drought, many ! experiment stations and progressive farmers continued to harvest good crops. It is a misconception to think tha‘ there was any great exodus from the area, he said, adding that th population of the states concerned “has remained virtually stationary.” IF THESE WALLS COULD ONLY SFEAK HUGE GIFT TO CHARITY New York City—Disposing of an estate conservatively estimated at $65,000,000, the will of George Fish er Baker, president of the First Na tional Bank, who died while on a Pacific cruise in his yacht, allotted $15,000,000 for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, including the encourage ment of art and the prevention oi ; cruelty to children and animals.’ The remainder goes to his family. Some estimates of his wealth we;, as high as half a billion dollars. For Immediate Results Advertise In The “Times.” TIIURCDAY, JULY 1, 1937 HITLER DEIFIED Berlin, Germany—Legal authority has finally settled Chancellor Hit ler’s deification. In a decision up , holding the Nazi anti-Catholic Drive, the Brunswick Court of Appeals held that “the Fuehrer is an envoy whom God has charged with a great mis sion for his people and for the ! world. It is therefore the duty of the church not to oppose, but to obey the will of God of which the Fueh rer is the expression.” Prompt Service, Reasonable Prices, Good Work.
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