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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICR, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937 - In Luck “I’m glad it’s good form not to wear a watch with a dress suit.” “Why?” “Because I never have my watch and my dress suit at the same time.” Voicing It “Do you ever hear any more about the money you lent to the people next door?” “I should say so. They bougnt a radio with it.” WEIGHTY PROBLEMS “He’s a man of such heavy thought.” “Who? That coal dealer?” “Yes; he’s always thinking in tons.” A little girl said to the little boy who was playing with her: “When I was born I was so s’prised I couldn’t speak for a whole year and a half*” Too Much to Expect “You have a nice collection of books, but you should have more shelves.” “I know, but nobody seems to lend me shelves.” GENERAL^ ELECTRIC MODEL F-96 9 TUBES 3 BANDS Touch Tuning (7 buttons). Silent Tim ing. AFC Tone Monitor. Louver Dial. Visual Volume Control. Visual 4-point Tone Control. Automatic Band Indi cator. 12-inch Stabilized Dynamic Speaker. Bass Compensation. Foreign- Domestic Reception. R.F. f4#«AnC Pre-selector Stage. Hand- }l||(l*>d some Full-length Console. lUw $10.00 DOWN DELIVERS FREE HOME TRIAL GENERAL ELECTRIC ^ ( »;RADI0 PERRY-MANN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. (Wholeaal* Distributor*) Columbia, S. C. FOR REPLACEMENTS SPECIFY 0-1 PRE-TESTED RADIO TUBES WATCH the Specials You can de pend on the special sales the merchants of our town announce in the columns of this paper. They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the mer chants who advertise. They are not afraid of their merchandise or their prices « « « •htoyd- ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Terror in the Air" By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: This is the story of a bunch of young lads who built a homemade flying machine and got Oliver A. Morard, Jr., of Oak Park into more doggone trouble than he’d ever seen in his whole previous life. Back in 1930, a bunch of boys in high school at Lakewood, Ohio, got interested in gliders. Among them was Oliver Morard, whom the lads called Bud. That crowd not only got interested in gliders, but they de signed and built one, and then learned to fly the doggone thing. They came to be known as the Lakewood Glider club. “We flew the glider for almost a year,” says Bud Morard, “without experiencing a single mishap. We thought we were so good that, when the 1931 National Air Races came to the Cleve land airport, we persuaded the management to let us come down and demonstrate our ability to the early patrons.” Well, sir, the air races came along and the Lakewood Glider club got ready for the exhibition. The morning of September 1 was the time picked. It was a clear day, but the air was heavy and a gusty twenty- mile-ah-hour wind was blowing. Several speed planes were circling the pylons, timing up for the big races. Bud Won the Chance to Fly First. The grandstand, even at that early hour, was rapidly filling with spectators. The glider exhibit was about ready, and the boys matched coins to see who would fly the machine first. And Bud Morard won the toss. Well, you know how those gliders operate. You hook one to a car with a long cable and the car hauls it up into the air just as if it were a kite. After it is in the air, the air currents and the operator’s skill do the rest. Some of those lads can make a glider stay in the air for hours on en4 without any motor or anything else but wind currents to propel the ship. They hooked the glider to the tow car. Bud got in, and they were off. The car started and the glider rose gently. It was up to an alti- Bud Was Nearing the Ground Rapidly. tude of 200 feet, and the car was still towing it, when suddenly a plane came cutting in between the pylons, directly in Bud’s path of flight. The pilot saw Bud’s glider just in time and swerved in front of him, but the wash from his propeller and the rough air stirred up by the swerving plane, caused the glider to yaw from right to left. That yawing could be corrected by using the rudder, and Bud did just that. But something was wrong with the rudder mechanism—Bud found out later that it was a faulty hinge—and instead of turning, the rudder jammed the elevators. Meanwhile, Bud was enjoying the ride, blissfully unaware that his steering gear was practically useless. Thought Warning Shouts Were Cheers. “There was a big pylon on my left,” he says, “and on my right, the grandstand, now almost filled with people. Down below me I saw the fellows in the tow car, waving and yelling frantically. And thinking that they were just cheering me on, I waved back. “I couldn’t hear what they were shouting, but everything seemed to be all right. But suddenly the ship began to vibrate and went into a sharp dive. I knew something was wrong then—knew that I had to do something within the next few seconds. “Immediately I detached the tow cable and pulled the joy stick back to correct the dive. A quick workout with the controls told me that the ailerons were the only things that were functioning.” Bud was nearing the ground rapidly, and there didn’t seem to be much he could do about it. He had no parachute. Gliders seldom go high enough to make their use practical. “I had to stick with the ship,” he says, “and at the same time I knew I wouldn’t have to stick with it very long. I was about fifty feet from the ground now, and diving fast at a sixty-degree angle. “I knew I couldn’t avoid crashing. My one idea now was to make that crash as gentle as possible. I moved the stick back into the pit of my stomach—a position that would make the left wing hit first and ab sorb some of the shock. I would hold that position until the last second. Then I’d push the stick forward to prevent its goring me when I hit. The ground was only a few feet away now. I pushed the stick forward, covered my face with my left arm, relaxed and hoped for the best.” Did a Good Job of Crashing. And for a young fellow who had only a few seconds to do his thinking in. Bud certainly did a good job of it. He was all set for the crash now, and he didn’t have to wait more than a fraction of a second before it came. “The thud of the impact lasted only a moment,” he says. “My knees seemed to be where my arms should be and my head and body didn’t have the least idea where they were. “What happened next came too fast for me to record, but I found myself fully ten feet in the air again, clear of the ship and coming down fast. I pulled in my neck, put out my rms, and did a tumble followed by some classy sprawling, landing twenty feet from the glider, which was now a heap of junk. “I got up and tried to walk toward the ship, but at the first step I took I fell over on my side with a numb feeling in my left leg.” And when they got Bud off the field and into a hospital, they put him right under ether. He had a bad compound fracture of the left leg and it looked as if they might have to take his left foot off. But wit nesses state that Bud was more worried about busting up the club’s glider than he was about losing a foot, and I’m glad to announce that when Bud came out of the ether, his foot was still with him. Copyright.—WNU Service. Lemons Source of Electricity Experiments have demonstrated that a lemon is a source of elec tricity. “Spades” of copper and aluminum were inserted in a lemon and attached to instruments, and the fruit yielded a current of about one-half volt, and .0002 ampere. The strength of the current varied in other lemons. A curator of elec tricity and communications at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, estimated, taking into consideration the internal resistance of the lem ons and other factors, it would re quire 800 lemons to light a two and one-half volt flashlight bulb.—Popu lar Mechanics. $2.50 Gold Coins in 1796 The coinage of quarter-eagles, or $2.50 gold pieces, commenced at the Philadelphia mint in 1796 and was continued until 1929 except for a few years, says Popular Mechanics. Other mints, except Carson City, also have produced them at various times. The designs have been of three basic varieties, at first Liberty facing the right, then in 1808 Liberty facing the left, and finally in 1908 an Indian facing the left. Many minor changes of design were made. One of the rarest is that minted in 1834 which shows the mot to “E pluribus unum” over the ea gle. ! STAR I | DUST | ★ jMLovie • Radio * ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ D eanna dubbin wm do a play on Broadway early in the spring if all the experts concerned with her upbringing agree that it won’t be too much of a strain on her. Any decision affecting her wel fare has to be pondered over by her mother, her manager, her vocal teacher, and the physician at Univer sal studios and they are all a little re luctant about adding any further public appearances to her already very public life. Until recently, Deanna could go light-heartedly about her work at motion- picture and radio studios, but lately such crowds have followed her wherever she went that it is a source of worry to everyone around her. —*— All the tumult and hysterical shouting over Fred Allen’s return to his radio program does not mean that Walter O’Keefe is being neglect ed or forgotten. O’Keefe so en deared himself to radio listeners while he was substituting for Fred Allen that he could have walked right into another big program, but he demanded a vacation first. Deanna Durbin When a young newcomer to the screen steals most of the glory away from two enormously-popular stars, you can expect to see her in bigger and better parts right away. So, when you see Loretta Young and Tyrone Power in “Second Honey moon,” be all ready to clap hands for Marjorie Weaver who is the out standing hit of this gay and giddy comedy. When the picture was pre viewed, Marjorie was all set to go back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to make personal appearances with the picture, but so great was the audience response to her perform ance, the trip was called off. —*— Warner Brothers’ dhectors have decided that they just cannot stand the strain of wondering whether their handsome heroes will be able to come to work on Monday morn ing, so they have sent out some pretty stringent orders about what is not to be done over week-ends, or any other time. Fernand Gravet has had to give up steeplechase rid ing. George Brent and Errol Flynn cannot pilot their planes. Out of the hundreds of young ac tresses who daily apply for work at New York radio producers’ of fices, the majority specialize in one type of characterization only. In trying to explain how slim their chance is of getting anywhere, many radio producers point to Helen Claire of the cast of “Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories,” on CBS. A typ ical week’s work for Miss Claire called for her to play the Serpent in “Methuselah,” the character of Adelina Patti at the ages of sixteen and forty-one, a hillbilly girl, and Alice in “Alice in Wonderland.” Russel Gleason thought the Twen tieth Century-Fox studio was kid ding him when they told him he had been cast in “Love on a Budget.” He had just announced his engagement and was taking a keen interest in all bankroll-stretching theories. But very seriously, he had been cast for a role in this latest of the Jones family series. —■¥— By far the gayest and most de- ;htful of the new pictures is “It’s Love I’m After,” featuring Leslie Howard, Bette Da vis, and Olivia de Haviland. It does not sound new, be cause it is that old, old story of the matinee idol, the spitfire leading wom- S||||pr m an who is in love rail" with him, and the moonstruck young she Howard woman who blindly new is the refreshing, witty treat ment the story has been given. Nev er before have the three featured players been so deft. ODDS AND ENDS—Gertrude Berg was fairly snowed under with flowers recent ly when she rounded out eight years as author, producer and star of “The Gold bergs.” Players love to work with her, she is so patient, so helpful, so like the compassionate Molly she plays . . . Dolores Costello makes her comeback to the screen in “Girls on Probation” and according to fellow workers it is a bril liant comeback . . . James Stewart gets the grand role opposite Joan Crawford in “Shopworn Angel.” Gary Cooper played it in the version made years ago . . . George Raft is determined to be a direc tor some day, so he has agreed to work as an apprentice in various technical de partments of the studio in order to learn the business thoroughly. He can only do it when he is not acting, of course, to he is asking Paramount to give him nice, long vacations between pictures . . . John Barrymore is going to make another Bull dog Drummond picture. ® Western Newspaper Union. OP?, SEW 4^" Ruth Wyeth Spears Make This Attractive Ottoman. /^ET a wooden box from the gro- cer. It should be about as long as the width of the chair with which the ottoman is to be used. The depth of the sides should be four inches as shown here at A. The legs should be made of two by two’s. Fasten in place with long screws through the corners of the box as shown here at B. About half a bat of cotton will be needed. Put five or six layers of the cotton on the top, cutting the first layer about four inches smaller all around than the top of the box. Place it in the center. Cut the next layer a little bigger and the others still bigger until the last one is the same size as the top. Now, cut a layer of cotton to go over the top and down over the ends as at C and another to go over the top and down the sides as at D. Cut a piece of heavy muslin to fasten tightly over the cotton. Cut the corners of the muslin as at E. Sew with heavy thread as at F and then tack as at G. Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; restoring and upholstering chairs, couches; making curtains for ev ery type of room and purpose. Making lampshades, rugs, otto mans and other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a copy should send name and address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. A Little Learning Is a Wonderful Thing Many stories, some true, some —well, not quite so true, are told about the remarks of schoolboys. A well - known headmaster vouches for the accuracy of this one. A certain twelve-year-old was about to be caned for some trivial offense. The headmaster asked him how he preferred to receive his punishment. “Well, sir,” said the boy quick ly, “if you please, I’d like it like the Greek style of penmanship.” “What on earth do you mean?” asked the master. “Please, sir, the upstrokes heavy and the downstrokes light.” WHAT A RELIEF! I THAT'S CERTAINLYi GREAT FORA HEAD COLD V * m. BEST OF ALL MR.DEAN, IT HELPS PREVENT A LOT OF COLDS IF YOU. USE IT IN TIME! m m pPi T his specialized medica tion—Vicks Va-tro-nol— is expressly designed for the nose and upper throat, where most colds begin—and grow. Used in time—at the first sneeze or sniffle or irritation in the nose—it helps to pre vent many colds, or to throw off head colds in their early stages. Even when your head is all clogged up from a cold, Va-tro-nol brings comforting relief—lets you breathe again 1 Vicks Va-tro-nol Keep it Handy... Use it Early A Resolution Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight; always to try to be a little kinder than is neces sary?—James M. Barrie. Perfect Virtues Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartette of vir tues that will never be improved upon.—James Oliver. CHEW LONG BILL .NAVY TOBACCO “Looks like the scrub team’s in a huddle.”