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Thursday, October 30, 1930 McCURMJUA at&SSENGE/t, McCORMICK, Soul* CsrtTtn*. Page Number Thf«i Ford Digs Two Mile Tunnel for , A Billion Gallons of .Water a Day EARLY a billion gallons of water a day—more than is used by the cities of Detroit, Philadel phia, Cincinnati and Washington com- hined—will be the capacity of a huge tunnel now nearing completion at the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Com pany. Dearborn, Michigan. The tunnel will replace the present water intake system which supplies the Ford plants with 500,000,000 gal ions a day. At the same time the com pany is remodeling its power house to greatly increase the power output. Doth improvements, costing several million dollars, are being made to en large the production facilities of the Ford plant. Sixty Feet Under Ground £n constructing the waterway, the largest of its kind ever undertaken by a single business concern, the engi neers are burrowing sixty feet under ground for a distance of two and a fifth miles. They have gone under main highways, railroads, street car tracks, bridges, a cemetery and a creek. One of the most difficult tasks was that of tunneling under Baby Creek at a point which is crossed by a railroad bridge and where also a large sewer is under construction by the city of Detroit. The piles that provide the foundation fdr .the bridge and those driven by fhe company constructing the sewer formed a network on each aide of the creek. It was the task of the Ford*engineers to burrow under the creek, sewer and bridge, going between the piles without striking or wealfOning them. Boeing of the tunnel is accomplished hy means of • shield—ft large steel cylinder fourteen feet long and twenty- The head of one of the sections of the Ford tunnel showing the machinery used to burrow through the ground. In the foreground is one of the concrete blocks used to line the tunnel which has an inside diameter of fifteen feet. ono feet in outside diameter with a solid steel shell or skin two and a fourth inches thick. This shield has a bulkhead which is made fast near the front end. There are four openings through whic^ the mud streams, like toothpaste..^rom a tube, as the shield Is shoved forward by twenty powerful hydraulic jacks. When the. shield has been pushed forward sufficiently concrete blocks two and a. half feet wide and five feet long, each weighing 3,420 pounds, are placed to form a ring around the cir cumference of the tunnel. One of them acts as a keystone so that the lining of concrete, which is eighteen inches thick, withstands the pressure of the earth. After this steel forms are set up and filled with concrete to form a solid inner lining which is also eight een inches thick. The present intake system of the Ford plaut has a capacity of 500,000,000 gallons a day. The new tunnel will be able to carry 913,600,000 gallons. McCormick Public . Schools News OIRLS' BASKETBALL PRACTICE. We have prospects for a good basketball team and hope to be very victorious. We practice on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and have a large number out for practice each time. The regular has not been selected and we art! anxiously waitjftg to see who make it. soon to ar- ranaeJPor a ga^rwlth Washing- If This Had Been Your Property GItATiTCDE. Civilization is a grateful fellow. It always shows its appreciation if you give it something of value. If you contribute something to civ ilization, a thing that helps people enjoy themselves, or live more com fortably, or work more efficiently, it does something for you in re- turftu There are people who are always kicking, saying that civil- ization is unfair and unjust. We /agree. The fellows who do of the kicking are those who no contribution and conse- ly enjoy none of the practi cal gratitude. Use your head, give something to the world, and you'll find you have little to complain about. —The American Boy Magazine.V quel COMMERCIAL CLUB. Twenty-one members of the tenth and eleventh grades, who are taking commercial work, have, or ganized a commercial club under the supervision of Miss Louise Corbin, the commercial teacher. Could you have said “cover ed by insurance?” Could you promptly begin replacing what had been destroyed, as well as paying the bills with your pres ent insurance? Every property owner needs adequate and reliable insur ance if he is to be free from worry of loss. t Our advice has saved many a property owner from loss. May we help you, toq? Frank C. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 McCormick James Willis. PianisWEva Coleman. Directed by—Miss Corbin. EVA COLEMAN, Reporter. SOCIAL NEWS. Miss Sarah Bowles spent the week end ’at her home in Columbia with her parents. Miss Grace McCord attended the Clemson-Carolina game. , Mr. J. B. McCrorey,. Billie Britt, James Patterson, William Dowtin Milton Walker and Welboume Schumpert attended the fair at Columbia. Miss Louise Collins spent the week end at her home in Columbia with her parents. JOKES. Dan McGrath: “Between me and you what do you think of her?” John Morrah: “Between you and me, not so much—but alone, oh boy!” Larkin Fooshe: “May I hold your hand?’'’ Miss Reid: “No thank’s it’s not heavy.” we should be useful wherever we may be, if that be at home,’ at school, or in our daily work, all for the glory of God. We should, as explained by Mr. The aim of our new club is to Bledsoe, do all we can with our en- develop a closer contact with our dowments that God has bestowed work here and the outside world, upon us. We hope to secure the interest! We may not have the talent of of each member and make a club | others but we must be content that is really worth while, also one with what we have and use them which will be beneficial to those to the very best advantage, who plan to enter work in the com- j It is with much regret to the mercial field. student body, as well as to the The following officers were elect- members df the community that |Mr. Bledsoe has to leave us. Wo president—Ruby Cothran. i shall miss his visits to us and his Vice-president—James Furqueron ! inspirational talks. Secretary and Treasurer—John ' HELEN TALBERT. Thomas McGrath. Miss Kennedy: “Do you know anything that is smaller than my foot?” Nick Bradley: “Yes’m! Your shoe.” William Dowtin: “I forgot my umbrella this morning*' Miss Corbin: “How did you re member that you had forgotten it?” William: “Well, I missed it when I raised my hand to close it after the rain had stopped.” “Billie, said Miss Bowles, “Tell what you know about the Mongol ian Race.’’ “I wasn’t there” exclaimed Billie hastily. “I went to the Clemson- Carolina game.” • Club Reporter—Elizabeth McAl- jzfcer. Chairman Program Committee— I^ouise McAlister. HONOR ROLL OF McCORMICK SCHOOLS. ELEVENTH GRADE ~ Ruth Banks Walton Burkett Annie Belle Langley Mabel Lyon Helen Talbert Carl Winn CHAPEL PROGRAM. Members of the eighth and tenth ! TENTH GRADE grades entertained with a musical Miirirpri Rritt program in chapel October 24. We Our regular meetings will be held hope it was enjoyed by the entire twice a month. ELIZABETH MCALISTER, Reporter. student body. The following program was rend ered: March—Eva Coleman. Devotional—Benzie Rankin. Chorus—Kettle McGrath, Elsie Udt 0LEDSOE TALKS j |N CHAPEL. jyfr. Bledsoe brought us an inter- Langley, John Thomas McGrath, lesting message Wednesday mom- Eva Coleman, Louise Davis, James He read a portion of the Willis, Helen Brown, Lillie Mae Robinson, O'Neal Strom. Pianist—Betty Workman. Instrumental Solo—Star of Hope. fourth chapter of II Timothy, gy the comparison of the banana g’with htt&afl life he illustrated it love might be used in many Sweet and Low-tHettie McGrath, QOf one common purpose, is that Elsie Langley, Betty Workman, Eva Coleman.'' Margaret Burnside Eva Coleman Roy Callison Minnie Dunlap Edna Mayson Hettie McGrath James Willis Betty Workman James King . NINTH GRADE— Annie Mae Bledsoe Sara Bracknell Kathryn Brown Eula Caudle Helen Crawford Gladys Deason Annie Sue Graves Elizabeth ."jake Eugenia Langley Maggie Lou Parks J’.ilian Reames Wilbur Reames Sara Schumpert Nyiena Strom Lorenzo Sturkey Sara Walker EIGHTH GRADE— ■lohn Bradley Icba Bi’adley W i.« con Browne Martha Major Gladys Price Sara Louise Smith Isabel White Claude Workman SEVENTH GRADE— Sara Leu Bledsoe Josephine Bowick Henrietta Brown Doris Charles Juanita Chamberlain Bernard Creswell Ralph Creswell Mary Ellen Edmunds Mary Fuller Billie Morrah Jack Patterson Annie Laurie Sturkey John Nixon Talbert Matilda Williams Betty Walker SIXTH GRADE— William Bradley Elizabeth Brown Helen Cheatham Mae Coleman Effie Lee Crawford Rebecca Drucker William Fooshe. Sara Frances Franklin Elizabeth Harris Belle Hester Mary Ruth Price Eunice Rush Margaret Smith Wilbur Strom Elizabeth Talbert Sara Lou Wideman FIFTH GRADE— Louise Blackwell Morton Dorn Billie Dukes Mary Elizabeth Giles Louise Jennings Louise Lovelace Tommie Parks Catherine Price FOURTH GRADE— Evelyn Bowick Charles Henry Williams Herbert Sturkey Margaret Holloway Charles Edward Fooshe Oscar Cooper Thomas Patterson Billie Henderson Charles Morgan Carl Faulkner John William Bledsoe Thelma Brown Alley Blackwell THIRD GRADE— Aurelia Caudle Jim Bradley Chiles Maizie Ellison Maggie Franklin John Harris Leoray Johnson Lawrence Lovelace Thomas McComb Eula Mae McKinney Harold Pinson Imogene Sanders Frances Schumpert Robert Smith Lawrence Strom James Neal Workman SECOND GRADE— Douglass Bradley Natalie Brown Ella Bradley Faulkner Elizabeth Fooshe Lois Freeland Betty Fuller Wistar Harmon Selma Rush Marjorie Seigler Virginia Wilkins FIRST GRADE— Christine Brown Minnie Beth Brown Robert Corley Vivian Chiles Mildred Creighton v Lena Dorn Virginia Fooshe Orene Furqueron Thomas Franklin Norma Holloway Sara Frances Jennings Andrew Lovelace Donna Venice Ludwick Helen Pinson Grady Strom Jamie Sanders Rudolph Strom Thelma Stroud m 3E * ft r AC 375-B DRIVE WITH Confidence All Winter • and save Money, too. Bargain Time For Tire Buyers Prices are scrap ing bottom. Now it costs more than it’s worth for punc tures and delays to get the last miles out of old tires. Slippery fall ard winter roads re quire full traction. This is the time to h u GULF SERVICE STATION J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. PHONE 40 McCORMICK, S. C. Guaranteed Tire Repairing JSk a'D 3E N O TICE Cole Grain Drills and Oliver Points, reduced we have both. 1 Come to see us for hardware we have it for you. Thanks for patronage. WHITE HARDWARE CO. MAIN STREET McCORMICK, S. C. eSes ixi Two important rules should be observed in feeding straws, stov ers, and other coarse, dry rough- ages to livestock. Feed with them a succulent, somewhat laxative feed such as pasture, soiling crops, silage, or root crops. Store rough- ages carefully under cover to pre vent loss of palatability and food nutrients from exposure to rain. Make The Garden Ready For Winter After all the crops have been removed from the truck garden, it is a good plan to remove all vines, dead plants, and other trash and sow the ground to rye or some other green crop. This will pre vent the earth from washing, and the green material will improve the physical condition of the soil. If the garden Is not sown to some crop, and if the soil is not sub ject to washing plow'or spade it and let the ground lie rough through the winter. This practice pennits frost to kill insects as well as to lighten the soil by alternate freezing and thawing. Many gardeners plow the ground and apply coarse manure. tXi Sweetgum For Cross ties Until recently sweetgum trees were considered of no value, but now railroad companies buy cross ties cut from sweetgum trees in quantities for use after cresoting treatment, says the Forest Service of the U. S. Department of Agri culture. This wood does not check much after being treated. There is no better material than peeled round sweetgum for treated fence posts or poles, says the Forest Ser vice. Straws and stovers produced an nually in the United States have an aggregate livestock feeding value about equal to that of the hays and fodders, yet 96 per cent of the latter roughages are utiliz ed as feed and only 27 per cent of the former. Good oat straw, ^for example, is equal to com stover and compares well with the poor er grades of clover hay for beef cattle and sheep. Soybean straw, fed with shelled com and linseed meal to sheep, was found to be worth one-third as much as good- quality clover or alfalfa hay. Sweet clover chaff,—a by-product of the sweetclover industry, re duced by 20 per cent the cost of wintering a band of ewe lambs at the U. S. Sheep Experiment Sta tion at Dubois, Idaho, when fed at the rate of 2 pounds of chaff and 2 1-2 pounds of alfalfa hay per head daily. The edible portion of well-cured com fodder compares well with timothy hay as a feed for dairy cows. | — XXX 1 The price that a buyer will pay for a case of eggs In the market is influenced not only by the ap pearance and quality of the eggs but by the soundness and appear ance of the package. Leaflet 64-L, recently published by the Depart ment of Agriculture, describes the construction and packing of an egg case. This leaflet may bo ob tained by writing to the U. 8. De partment of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C.