Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 220, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 8, 1940 Page: 4 of 4
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TER in
JAKE BENTON was driving
down the street this moraine, and
somehow or other, a raincoat had
managed to get caught In his
automobile .. JAKE 8ANDEFER
stopped to tell him about It .. ..
C. V. WELCH and MILTON DAN-
IEL were having a talk in the
club .. YETTA BELLE" BYERS
was in the club, too, and laughl
abotu something .. s
BETH GIBBS taking all those
steps up to her office la her stride
[ today ..if I iwtre giving orchids
to our top lady golfers, I'd men-
tion MRS. A. A. WEBSTER, MRS.
GLEN VINCENT. MRS. J. D.
SAN DEFER and MRS. ERNIE
MAY .. MR. and MRS. B. R.
McWHORTER, just returned, re-
port good rains through Missouri,
Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma
• • hut that the Texas Pantiandle
•was'dry..
laughiy
ELIZA-
Get 'emp up! folks. It's two-
gun Jack Benny a sho appears
in "Buck Benny Hides Again"
his newest Pui amount picture
opening Tomorrow at the Pal-
ace theatre. Andy Devine, Phil
Harris, Rochester and all the
stars of his air show participate
in the fun.
What Ife
Snooper
... Says
The rain brought forth rejoicing
from everyone, including EUNICE
MOON, who said she about
drowned out, ^ut that she loved it
. .1 noticed the new screen dcora
on the SAGER HOTEL this morn-
ing. and the new wod sbkied like
a silver dollar .. saw MRS. R. F.
KEENER stepping off the curb
bright and early today and thought
how nice she looked In her green
dress and heped she wouldn't pet
it wet .. speaking of looking nice,
MAXYE ANDREWg was hurrying 1
along today with a dark coat overj
her plaid dress . . and I hear that
JACK GUTHRIE, who plays the
part of an Engtiah butler in the
senior class play, 'Your Money Or
Your Wife," is really tap-notch ..
saw EDWIN MILLER three dff-
ferent times today, but never did
close enough to say "hello" .. E.
C. RIKE was smiling absut some-
thing In the club today .. and I
met AL GLENN here on business
from Abilene . ■ and planning to
leave for Woodson .. and a letter
came today from EVELYN BOYD
of the Amarillo Globe-News, urg-
ing the American's support of
MRS. J. W. WALKER of Plain-
view for president of the Texas
Federation of Women's Clubs ..
Norb Burk was holding onto his
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Past Life Of R.A.F.
Members Amazing
LONDON IUJ# — The "previous
occupations'* of some ctf the Do-
minion recruits to the RAF leave
the officials at tha. recruiting da-
pots bewildered.
One man who joined had' been
a housepainter. In Detroit, a tight
rope walhed in a circus, a coal
miner. H%d hitch-hiked 2,800 miles
from Texas to Ontario, worked his
passage in a cattle boat from Mon-
treal to Glasgow, hitch-hiked from
Glasgow to London, got a job in a
shoe shop, hitch-hiked back to
Newscastle, worked for a silk firm
there, and — finally -r- joined the
RAF as an aircraftman.
Deputies Turn Cowboys
SAN RAFAEL, Cal. |HIE> —
Sheri'f Walter B. Sellmer has more
than a white elephant on his
hands. He has 83 head of dairy
cows. They were turned over to
his custody pending legal pro-
ceedings. When the ranch on
which they were being cared for
cculd no longer feed them, the
sheriff and his deputies had to
turn bow boys and herd them six
miles to another ranch.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this method to thank
our many friends and neighbors
who so kindly assisted us during
the recent illness and death of
our dear father. May God bleos
each and every om is our prayer.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
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W. K Turner.
E. B. Durham,
Ben J. Riley.
E. (X WUaon,
F. O. Mask.
Geo. Master,
D. B. Mask.
O. L. Winiger,
J. R Waters,
J. V. Hayden.
Of Ages
To Be Sealed
"Crypt of Civilization**
At Oglethorpe U.,
Is .Complete
ATLANTA, Ga. i<UJ0 — The
door to 30th .century civilisation
will be slammed and locked on
May 25, -not to 'be opened again
until 6,000 years later.
A collection of scientifically pre-
pared evidence on how the world
has lived down through the era of
the cave man to the time of tele-
vision — Oglethorpe University's
"Crypt Uf Civilisation" — will be
sealed in a sunken granite cham-
ber behind .welded steel doors.
The crypt, according to the in-
tentions of Its sponsors will not be
re-cpened at least until the year
8113.
Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president
of the university, originated the
crypt idea four years ago to- pro-
vide later civilisations with an ac-
curate idea of the iwtortil's first
6,000 years of recorded history. He
had a stone-walled room bored
under the university's administra-
tion building and began to put to-
gether an illustrated story of mod-
ern life which he hopes iwill with-
stand the ravages of time and de-
struction whether it be from
bombs or earthquakes.
Noted Archivist Engaged
T. K. Peters, a noted archivist,
wasengaged to direct the scien-
tific aspects of assembling the con-
tents of the crypt. As his work
n eared an end, Peters predicted
that the civilisation (which opens
the crypt will he radically different
from the one of its closing.
"Why, it I Will be just like our
opening an ancient tomb," he said,
comparing it to the 1915 discovery
tif the burial place of the Egyptian
ruler, King Tut, who had been
dead some 4.000 years.
"The crypt may not be discov-
ered for generations after 8113 be-
cause of geographical changes, but
after inspecting the remains of
the Egyptian tombs, we are sure
the crypt .wil endure indefinitely,1
he added. „
Modern objects ranging from a
bottle of soda pop to newsrr.el
shots of the 1940 European war
have 'been sealed in individual vacu
urns of glass and stainless steeL
Translations of ancient Greek rest
beside blue prints of Diesel eng-
ines.
Literature varying from "Gone
With the Wind" to Vergil's Aenekl
has been photographed on Inde-
Htructable microfilm and stored in
hermetically sealed cans for pro-
jection by .whomever should dis-
cover the crypt ii^ ages hence. A
projector with direction! for use
in a number of languages is stor-
ed with the \fllm.
Recorded music — With an
the' dkl
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■ i What iois this mm
in the fina-ar Mi?
rFORE you drive a Mercury a mile you'll
discover why no modern new car over
woo such instant popularity. Good news trav-
eh fasti... and what Mercury had was real
news to America's fine-car buyers.
Here was news in roominess/...Mercury's
new flaring body put width whsro width
makes friends... acroei the seats!
Here was news in big-car rfc/injf ease/... in
big-car flexibility and roudabihtyl
Hore was news in power with economy!...
A big, fine-car V-8 engine with racing get-
away and got %t Mercury's owners every-
where reported, "Mercury's giving up to 30
mflee perflation/*
Hero waa news in swift, freshly modern
atseamliatng... in stunning interior beauty!
Come drive Mercury! Meet America's
kind of fine car! Before it's taken
you a mile you'll want to take it homa.
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Strangers In Photo
Now Married
DETROIT. (UHJ — Mr. and Mrs.
John Schunnan have discovered
that they rubbed elbows three
years before they met and tell in
love.
Kith opening of the 1940 base-
ball season, a local newspaper
published a picture taken at the
first game 33 years ago.
Schurman. who recalled the
photograph and had vainly looked
for it in the paper the day after
it was taken, recognized his pic-
ture. Then he discovered that the
woman standing next to him wear-
ing a pancake hat and blokvlYig on
a tin horn, was the woman he met
three years later and married.
taek ea the British
"Whan Chamberlain said tha
English people do not yet realise
the extent aad imminence of the
threat against England he spoke
the truth" a spokesman said. "We
Wednesday, May 8.1M0.
sssomMemn .
. .. he
do not yet kauw the true i
"They have been lulled lata a
sense of security by assaranee that
their blockade Is iwiaahlg' tha
war."
LAIg PA Y —" VlgtUn The mtfW ^
THUR. — FBI.
and SATURDAY
Nazi-
Carole Lombard appearing in
"VIRGIL IN THE NIGHT"
which ends a two day run at
the Palace today,
companying phonograph — has
been placed in the crypt. The rec-
ords vary from ancient Greek
Chants and Roman hymns to
swingtime of "The Jumping Jive."
Tests Conducted On
New Rectifier
SEATTLE, Wash. — James
Ross, 30, nephew of the late J. D.
Ross, Bonneville dam administra-
tor, is carrying on the family nam,
in public power.
With several associates, he is
conducting tests of a new type
rectifier which would enable power
transmission by direct instead of
alternating current.
The younger Ross lived "with his
uncle for 17 years and absorbed
the tatter's dream of a gigantic
public-power network ever the
country. Ross is employed at City
Light, Seattle municipal system of
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•Weak stuff anid said the fact still
remained that German troops
drove the British out of Norway
and that is all, them is to it.
These leaders admitted that
there might be a great deal Of
truth in Chamberlain's warning of
perhaps an imminent German at- I
V4TI0NAL
MOW SHOWING
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
JOAN BENNETT
MUSICAL COMEDY — TRAVEL
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