Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 301, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 3 of 5
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Friday. August 30,1040.
THE BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN
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•peutic exercises or conducting a
physical education program in Me-
ondary schools. Applicants must
not have passed their forty-fifth
birthday.
.Physiotherapy side. *1,800 a
yfear; also junior. $1,100 a year;
United States Public (Health Ser-
vice, Federal Security Agency, and
Y Veterans Administration. Appli-
cant* must have had study in
physiotherapy or physical educa-
tion. or experience in physiother-
apy work. Applicants must not!
have passed their forty-fifth birth-
day. , j
Senior scientific aide (taxidermy) \
$2,000 a year. United State Nation- |
ul Museum, Smithsonian Institu-
tion Applicants must have had
certain technical museum and lab-
el atory experience. College study
in botany, geology, aid zoology may
be subotitutad for pait of the ex-
perience. Applicants must not
have passed thcrl Yifty-third birth-
day.
Under mimeograph operator, II.-
260 a year, for appointment In
Washington D. C.. only. Applicant*
must have had 3 month* of full-
time experience In the operation
of' mimeograph machines. They
must have reached their eighteen-
th birthday, but must not have
passed their fifty-third birthday.
Closing dates are September 11
and 14. 1940. j
Further information as to the
requirements for these exan
tions, aqd applicants forms, may
be obtained at the post office.
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Poesibilities for effective appli
cation of the club's influence were
suggested at its first meeting, ac-
cording to Rowe. when a man
whose wife suffered from the mal-
ady petitioned the dub to per-
suade municipal officials to have
tb( weeds cut on a vacant lot ad-
jacent to their home. She prompt-
ly was enrolled a* a member.
Such a program has been pur-
sued for some time by some north
em Wisconsin communities which
advertise themselvt* as havens for
hay fever addicts. Tlvre. Boy
Scouts accomplish their daily good
deed by hacking down weeds
bearing pollen Irritants. Rowe
foresaw the possibility of general
extension of this service for super
sensitive noses.
"It's a new organization and
naturally we haven't begun to ex
plore It* potentialities for helping
hay fever sufferers yet," Rowe
explained. "We are convinced that
together we can do more than we
could separately In initiating and
carrying out a program. Th least
we can do is give each other mu-
tual comfort and maybe provide
a few laughs." ,
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LAST DAYS f
OF OUR BIG ^
ANNIVERSARY
firestone
mmmmmmm TIRES
SALE
Other officers of the club are
. Miss Virginia Orolshagen, vice big
sneeze, and Harvey Delser, chief
crier. In private life Rowe pur-
sues a newspaper career, Miss
Drolshagen, secretarial duties and
l.-iaer sells insurance. With them
as founders of the club was Mari-
anne MacRae, an interior decora-
tor who abdicated as big sneexe
because of the press of other dut-
ies. Th- youngest member to date
is 6-year-old Billy Walters. Al-
though of tender years, the club
<yrtified him as a full-fledged
sneezer. Informal meetings are
planned every Thursday, in sea-
son. 4
Memberfh'i costs 25 cents per
pei-son, entitling the enrollee to a
card embellished with a figure in
full t,—The club's official
gr<.e I consists of holding tht
left index finger horizontally ex-
tended under the nose with the
right hand raised in greeting.
Ro'a e warns m'jnbers not to
raise the right hand too high to
avoid international complications.
The club chose as its official
flower the ragweed, reputedly the
most prolific disseminator of irri-
tating pollen.
"Our flower is symbolic of what
\ve hope to eliminate rather than
an aspiration of perpetuation,"
Rowe explained.
Persons afflicted with sinus and
asthmatic maladies also will be
welcomed to the club as cousins ot
the hay fever sufferer. States al-
r< ady represented in the member-
ship are Wisconsin, Illinois, South
Carolina and Louisiana.
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Negro Youths ^
In Dixie Eager ~
"To Join Armjr
Patriotism and Qualities
As Soldiers Win
High Praise ' l
COLUMBIA S. C. (U.PJ — It
doesn't take much flag-waving to
get Negro boys from Southern cot-
ton patches to answer the nation's
call to the color*.
Sergt. Chestei R. Vaughn,
veteran recruiting officer with
more than 2 years service, said'
he could enlist a regiment of Ne-
groes within a month if he were
assigned that many vacancies.
"It's my opinion that almost
half the Negro boys you meet on
the'street would like to be in the
army," Vaughn said. "From 10
to 15 a day come into the office J
here and try to enlist."
What's more, asserted the ser-
geant, 90 per cent of the Negroes
whoft^ilKc will stay In the army
and make it their career.
Negro's Patriotism High
"They like the brass buttons,
the good clothes and food, the
regular pay and clean quarters,"
Sergt. Vaughn said. "And I've
found that after a Negro has
Jci _d c~e Ci two terms in the
army he is much more patriotic
than a white man.
"On many of the application
slip* filled out by Negro recruits
lately the reason "because Uncle
Sam needs me' and to defend my
country* la revealed as prompting
them to Join the service."
Flat feet and the weight re-
quirements keep as many Negroes
out of the servide as anything
else.
Vaughn believes Negroes are
better suited for combat units
than any other place in the aomy.
"Some of the best truck drivers
I've even seen have been Negro
soldirs," he said. "A good Ngro
driver is hard to beat. He is strong
enough to handle his truck and
generally handles it very well.'*
Exports at Drill
Sergt. William R. Crandell, who
works with Vaughan in the re-
cruiting office, pointed out that a
well drilled unit of Negro soldiers
on a parade hai'd to beat.
'They've got a rhythm, a tim-
ing that a white company will
have a hard time bettering,"
Crandell said. ' I've seen several
Negro groups on the parade field
and you can believe me when I
say they put on a snappy show.
"They whip through intricate
marching maneuvers like they
■were mechanical robots."
Most of the Negroes who seek
to enlist are between 20 and 25
years old. although occasionally a
white-haired man or even a bare-
footed, wide-eyed youngster will
climb the stairs looking for "de
place to join the armee."
Although many try to join up,
few of those who enlist want for-
Mighty Fossil
Called Unique
DENVER (U.R) Colorado resi-
dents who constantly hear talk of
drouth and its resultant crop fail-
ures are looking these days at
proof that this area was once ex-
cessively damp.
Of course, nobody remembers
back that far, but there is a rath-
er grisly testimonial at the Colo-
rado Museum of Natural History
that proves what science says.
For the last 10 months Philip
Reinheimer, chief preparateur of
the museum, has been ptting to-
gether the bones of the extinct
Plesiosaur, a monster that inhab-
ited Colorado in the neighborhood
of 1000 million years aog.
The Plesiosaur's respiratory ap-
paratus indicates that it travelled
exclusively finder water, thereby
furnishing proof that the state
probably was "briny" then.
Approximately 5,000 persons
went to the museum to attend the
unveiling of the pre-historic fossil.
The skeleton is 40 feet long and
resembles very much a hog back
mountain range which has hao
the bottom cut out from under it.
The bones weigh 1,400 pounds.
eign service.
The Negro boys are plenty en-
thusiastic about getting in the
army, but they want to stay m
their own backyard" Vaughan
said.
U°" EASY TER • NO MONEY DOWN
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AU TC HJPPL I i SERVICE SfOSES
Likenesses Typed
Out On Machine
EI. PASO — To keep in
practice while he is unemployed,
Jose C. Garcia. l£-year-old typist,
h:is typed iut likenesses of famous
men.
His collection to date includes
King O'-ore, Neville Chamber-
lain. Winston Churchill, Hitler,
Sta'in. Mussolini and Abraham
Lincoln.
His latest effort — a remarkable
picture likenesses of Wendell i^.
Willkie .was printed In a local
daily newspaper.
Garcia said it took him eigbt
hours to "type" Willkie, He uses
the "m's" for the darker shadings,
periods, colons and the letter "V
lor li-jht shades. The eyes are the
haidest. he says.
riEN'O, Nev. <UR> —The Reno
marriage license bureau on a single
Saturday issued 106 licenses in
three hours, or one license in each
minute and 12 seconds. It takes a
minute -to get the names, write
them down, get the signature, but
j the 12 seconds extra delayed the
| rhythm of romance.
Reinheimer said, and when adorn
ed with muscles, fat and epider-
mis It probably tipped the beam
at about three tons. Sixty-two of
the 114 vertebrae are in the neck,
Indicating that the Plesiosaurlan
frightener had a good view of its
surroundings at all times.
Reinheimer, very proud of his
newest construction said the spe-
cimen was found in the flatlands
of Southeastern Colorado, now one
of the driest areas in the nation.
The entire skeleton was in place
and complete.
There has been nothing, Rein-
heimer said, to alter his belief
that Colorado's Plesiosaurian spec
imen is the only one of its kind.
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This is the season when summer's last bargains
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bathing wear and beach robes, white bags and
white suits, straw hats and straw sandals.
Buy them now at big reductions, and tuck them
away for the winter! They'll be brand-new next
summer . . and you'll have more fun with the
money you dont have to spend then!
Watch for uthe last clothes of summer" in the
advertising pages of this paper . •. Sale news in
pictures and paragraphs... The best stocks of the
best stores in town.
Shopping hero first will tell you what and
where and how much - will save you honors of
hfldng and hunting. And both your wallet and
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hundreds such rooms make the Worth
hospitality
Woven into four hundred thousand square miles of
roiling prairie, winding rivers, jagged peaks and sandy
beaches is Texas, an expansive but little known vaca-
tioner's paradise.
So unlimited in its bountiful resources that practi-
cally n > sportsman, whatever his longsuit, fails to find
sufficient outlet for his favored pursuits. Likewise no
pleasure-loving traveler can want for more to fill his
needs. Those who seek discover that Texas has ALL.
From metropolitan areas go teeming thousands to
hills, and streams of West -Texas ... to the ranches
which promise a real taste of the west. Dude ranches
hold hundred promises of thrills and give vent to "ride
'cm cowboy" spirits. They do a thriving business. Fish-
ermen seek the streams. Huntsmen seek the wilds of
wooded lands.
Those of the west and southwest plains find amuse-
ment and entertainment in the cities. There is a big out-
let to be found in town for frolic-bound folks who once
or twice a year deserve to "let off steam." Music and
entertainment, roadshows and colossal outdoor pageants
and reviews which sparkle with wit, with smartness and
fun. Texas has all.
Notable has been Fort Worth's contribution in filling
vacationer's needs. Year after year with summer spec-
tacles like Caaa Manana, Fort Worth has entertained
hundreds of thousands of Texas and out-of-state folks
with musical pageantry and extravaganzas unduplicated
in cities many times more its size. This has been a feat
of accomplishment worthy of praise.
Then there is golf, tennis and even boating, bathing
and fishing on beautiful lakes adjacent to metropolitan
Fort Worth. Bi? name bands and orchestras offer thiir
best and dancers enjoy open air showplaces.
Why then, with such gracious hospitality, is it strange
that so many West Texans seek for their vacations, the
unparalleled charms of the city. Texas is an ALL
AROUND state, a vacationist's mirecle. It is no wonder
that A" People are waking up to the realiration that
"TRAVEL TEXAS" is vacation's BEST BET.
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