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Thursday, October 30, 1930
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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
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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
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Buyers
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worth for punc
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get the last miles
out of old tires.
Slippery fall ard
winter roads re
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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.
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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.
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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.