Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 191, Ed. 1 Monday, February 13, 1950 Page: 3 of 8
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Moving Gigantic Machinery ‘Camels’
Tli rough Transport ‘Needles’ Eyes’
Just 1 )ay’s Work for Jake Hoover
Joke Hoove, floatt a 400 ion lection el Heel vehicular tunnel down
By JfROMi OftIVII
Crntml Pin I Coiir*i>otulrnt
N4.W 3 tilth Juke H<.,.vrr line
moved virtually vwrylliing bul
heaven ami earth, a ml Riven
enough rolling Hock. tir'd probably
t»4 klv UiONe, too.
A* general freight manager for
a atari company, it i* In* j.,b to
arrange the transfer of vait ton-
■lagiM. no matter how bulky, to
the plate* win ie they will U imetl.
"If we tan make it. I t an deliver
H." Ie hi* burnt
Often the Job U similar to coax-
ing "a camel through the eye o( a
needle Uut lit Jake's i.'ojw very
often it Ie a matter ot either elen-
tn-ruing the ianii-1 or producing a
bigger needle
When there is Mibetandar.l clear*
am e on a railroad. where the load
will dear abutting ■tructure* by
» fraction of an inch, arrange-
menla can be made to imake the
train through at m snail'* pace.
VN hen panaibla, where clearance
la nil, the "camel” may have un
Inch or tw.. shaved from it. How-
ever, If the situalion Is hopeless,
Jake draws on hi* vast knowledge
"f thr nation'* detours m *hurt,
he Hilda a new needle”
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JAKK’fl IMdM ITV paid off
the time he wiui responsible (or Hie
shipment of a load of girder* for
the Ijnroln tunnel between New
Jersey ami Manhattan. When in-
formed they were over 100 feet
long, he det tiled lo use three Hat
cars
The problem WM to keep them
from toppling off when rounding
curves This he accomplished by
fastening the girder* to the middle
cat •*> that their ovri hanging end*
rested on grramd blocks aboard
the fore and aft cars. This per-
mitted the ovrihnngmg ends to
slew fieelv when hitting * curve
There are many places where
the pioducta of Jake's company
are needed hut where there ore no
(rain fatllities. One such spot is a
highway croasmg near Auburn,
' '■!. wherv a tto-ton girder was
ftifiM.
The girder was almost 130 feet
long and. because of that length,
was unable to negotiate some of
the turns in the road. Jake studied
the protilrm for a few minutes and
then went into action.
falling for a crane, he had It
follow the truck and trailer, fame
a sharp curve, the crane hooked
onto the tall end of the trai'er and
lifted it around tha light spots.
When available. Jake favora
transportation by water because
of the low coat, fame a time,
though. When a slnpmi Id scheduled
ike Mississippi te Pasadena, Tas.
to move via water was so big It
would lisve crashed through the
deck of the stoutest bat".
This la the problem that faced
Jake when his company built four
huge lock-gates vitally needed for
the Panama canal. Weighing about
>HK) jam and 14 feet thick, the
mass of steel remained at the plant
until Jake mulled It over and came
up with a solution. He discovered
that the gates were water-tight,
so they were launched ship-like
into the Ohio river and towed down
that big stream Into the Missis-
sippi, across the Gulf of Mexico
and into the Caribbean sea.
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IT WAN DI’KINO this passage
that Jake aged considerably, thanks
to an Inopportune hurricane. Dur-
ing the height of the storm a tow-
ing cable parted and 900 tons of
steel disappeared In the frothing
waters. However, after a few
anxious hours the gate was sighted
anil again taken In tow.
Recently Jake added a third ele-
ment to his modus operand!—ship-
ments by air. Early this yrar he
arranged for an air lift that would
have won the praise of the boys
who operated in and out of Berlin
during the blockade.
It began when a steel mill In
Utah sent out frantic calls for a
six-ton spindle to replace one that
had broken. Slabbing operations In
their rolling mill were at a stand-
still. and they had Important or-
ders to Dll.
Jake had a spare spindle—and a
telephone. Eventually he contact-
'll an airline that had a plane
that could handle a six-ton load.
In a lew hours a C-4A was air-
borne with I2.OU0 pounds of spin-
dle aboard. This is believed to be
the largest single piece of freight
ever flown.
Jake Hi over Is still looking for
the problem that will brat him
Football Star Braves
Hail Of Bullets To
Tackle His Kidnaper
DrivesTo Police
With Assailant
In Car Trunk
ST LOUIS, Feb. 13. -INS'—A
Washington University football
star who braved a hail of bullets
and tackled his kidnaper was cred-
ited today with capturing hi; as-
sailant and saving his co-ed com-
panion from (ros-sible criminal at-
tack.
The hero of the kidnaping which
occurred early yesterday on a
lonely roud 18 miles from St Louis
was James Greig, 23, a senior in
the School of Business Adminis-
tration at the university and a let-
ter winner as an end on the varsi-
ty Football team for the last three
years.
Greig escaped a hail of bullets
anil tackled his kidnaper, knocked
the pistol from his assailant's band,
trussed him up and put him in the
trunk of the car and then drove to
.St. Louis and handed his prisoner
over to police.
Greig'* companion was Miss
Charlotte Obst. 19, a junior in
fine arts and homecoming queen
at the university in 194B
Police identified the kidnaper a* i
Kendall Morris. 28. an ex-convict |
once associated with the St luuii-
gang led by Robert Lee Robertson I
which robbed 17 post office* in j
four stutes in 194ti.
Morris told |>olice he attempted '
to curry out a "imilar kidnaping
earlier In the evening when he ab- |
ducted a young couple, John i
O'Brien. 19. a clerk, and Miss Ethel 1
Kinworthy. Ifl, but desisted on hei
plea of illness.
Police said the young couple
later identified Morris as then
kidnaper.
Creig said he and Miss Obst
MNNNI accosted by Morris in Caron- i
dolet Park and forced to drive at
the point of a pistol to u lonely
road near St Louis. Grcig was or-
dered out of the i.n Mi i
started dragging Miss Obst off to
the side ol the road.
Greig said'
”1 started to think about a low
tackle. I knew it had to be good.'
Morns fired three shots as Greig
dove in on him and they fell in a
heap With tin- aid ol Mil Obst
Greig trussed up Morris and puck- !
ed him in the car trunk
On arrival at the police station. :
Greig put Morris' pistol on the
sergeant's desk and told him to
look in the car trunk Amazed po-
lice dragged Morris out He was
badly beaten up and admitted tin
kidnaping and attempted attack
Students In Prayer In Faith Marathon
campus of ^Lton’coUaqc' IH.TlUr Tt'rtarted spontaneously **ofd h*Y b#,°L* '* b,oke up on ,h*
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P»ftn Tbail
Sammy Snead Fires
Great Final Pound
To Win Texas Open
SAN ANTONIO F. b 13.
It took the greatest final 315 hole*
in PGA tournament tu tory to win
the lib nub TVias l h*en gtdl
i hainpiotr.bip. but the ooe-tlme
tempetairu ntal puma lonrta of the
fairways, Sam Snead, proved he
was tb« man who could lo ,l
The Greenbrier. W Va, long-
ball hitu-t came roaring out of the
puck to fire hit second drutght
•nght-under par 63 yesterday over
Brackenridge Park’s narrow fair
ways and nip Jimmy Demand of
Ojai, Calif by a stroke Snead
'kl with .1 285 for the 72 hole*.
And. except for the elements he
conceivably would have tied or
broken still another l*GA record—
the one of 62 gtroki for an 18-hole
round.
He missed a I*umiu by in< lies
on No 17 an dthi-n found a hail-
torrr, waiting foi bun nn No 18.
A tin bad.' tones faltered most
"f the gallery of ” (MHJ, Snead tried
to iam borne a 41; foot putt for the
!•<•! iblf 81. but "it was like trying
lx putt in a gravel bed," he said,
. rd tie missed it and the next on*'
from two feet (Hit.
The three pi tted green still gave
him a 126 for the final 38 pole*.
1 < ting by three strokes a PGA
mark -et on the "ame 8,400-yard
course in 1!I44 by Sam Bvrd.
Irritation of Ektrrnally Caused
PIMPLES
To gently rleHiuM broken out skin,
then soothe itchy irritation. ami
•*> aid healing line time tested
resinois;
Corny, Slap-Stick Valentines Favorite
Of Girls: Men Prefer Romantic Variety
It Your Diot Is Deficient in Vitamin B
thin great new formula can help you build
RICH RBI RUUD
...help you curb diet deficiency symptoms like
Hy VIRGINIA MscPHTRSON Tomorrow-’* the ilav for lai v Val
1 jsites
d from the cards the gals here
pick out
Hollywood. r»u 1,7 iupt
I hc\ re sending their sent mien Is
j slap stick tin* year And the
j cornier the better
We turned salesgirl behind a
| I'ountei m the Valentine section of
a department store today to find
{out who gets inure devvcv-eyed
come February 14 men or wom-
en
The gents win out
Grady The Cow
Mother Of A Son
YUKON. Oklu . Feb 13. 'UP'—
Grady, the silo COW. is the mother
ol a 110-pound son.
The bull calf, born yesterday. |
has been named Grady II. Owner
Mill Mach said both Grady and the
calf were doing line
The calf was Grady’s fourth,
and her first son The Hereford
cow luui' just given birth to her |
third heifer calf a year ago when
she jumped through a small silo
door on the Mach farm anil could
not get out Four days later,
greased anil dinged, she was pull
'brougli the .-.ime door.
Yesterday's birth was lacking
m such excitement "There just
wasn't any trouble at all.” Macli
said "Grady didn't even look at
the silo all day long But I've |
closed the silo tiooi. just m case
Witness Says She
Didn't Get Scared
Until Storm Over
'Editor's Note: Mr-. C. J. Mc-
Leod. 31. lives near the Slack
Air Force depot in the Cedar
Grove area, one of the sections
hit hardest by the Texas Louisi
ana tornadoes. In the following
dispatch she gives her own ac
count of how the twister looked
and sounded at close range.)
By MRS. C. J. MrLEOD
As Told To United Press
SHREVEPORT |.;i . y, p 13
•UP'—I had just returned from
church yesterday when I heard a
terrible ivoiae—like a freight train
.-nming in my front dour cause the phone at the base was
I hat scared me. I ran to the bed-! ou* "I order
room lo piek up my three-year-old i We didn’t have time to get
I , . . |"oked out of the window scared when all ’he wind and nobe
:•* y,‘,,h ra. hruvy vk»**>**««. B,.t an", *v." m
i J""kt to the front of me and over , over we really gut scared
! ,,u‘ Air Force depot The noise was ___
j terrific.
Suddenly, the cloud of smoke R®®d the classified page in your
w*med to burst, it had rooftuos Da,|y Mirror every day.
a,'d pii'ci ol tiinbei floating in it - -----
I though at lust that a bomb had
{ burst at the Air Force depot.
M.v husband grablmt another of
"ur daughters and all of us ran to!
the front porch
H> that time the rain was com-
ing in gusts — tree limbs were
i'l i wiH're—and the wuter began
to get deep in our house.
We ran out into the road And
net about that time it got calm, j
• \e,'pt for the heavy rain.
, We s.u'. .1 soldui from Slack Air
i-oi., .tepol running across a field '
I toward us lie asked to use our
■ telephone to call ambulances be- I
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CHIROPRACTOR
John F. Farmer.
DOWNSTAIRS «>CAT*OI»
111 EAST OtJITMAN
<Xa«i al MrKaig ClwriulM Co.)
Phone 433
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LISTEN TO
MUSICAL TUNE-0
PRIZES-MUSIC-FUN FOR All
STARTS MONDAY, 9:30-10:30 A. M.
ON K S I J '430
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The Indies
loved ’em. Other
To m_n 1 cards gussied up with fan dunc-
they feiTTike a’tim o7candy hearts * er,‘' ,,'"k M,k blw"’wrs. whistles.
UNDERWEIGHT
WEARINESS
CONSTIPATION
FATIGUE
(or the gooey lomantknl uoncoc
| lions and let the price tags (all
where they may.
I But the ladies- haw' In the first
pin****, they're cheapskates
Mure than 300 women trotted m
balloons, and strip-tease queens
kept the cash registers tinkling like
it was bargain day in the base-
ment
But the men flocked around the
old-fashioned Valentines. The ones
with iN'rfumed sachets, lacy bor
lor \ .dentines^ this morning and , ilers. and lug. reil limited hearts
A regular super-dupe, put out by
Hallmark for $S. went so fast we
were sold out by noon.
tine gentleman ordered three
"To My Sweetheart” cards at $2
each. And another guy was real
put out Ireeause we didn't have anv
BACKACHE
‘NERVES’
l)<> vnu •'imrtinir* wander "dut in
the world ran lie the matter with
you f Noil Amur that y<'« have no
diseases, no inlectkma...yet yon'rn
always ”oiil" on your feel, constant-
ly over fatigued. nrrv«i»«, weak,
irritable, cheriless. ( fhn it <• </»'■•
daf/l Itur of ollirr /"'I'/'/r I Well,
scientists have learned Ilia) such a
condition uiav lw due lo the "imple
lad lhal you do not get enough
It Vilamuis in your diet.
■CXIL SPfCIAL FORMUl A
MAY DO W0N0ERS FOR YOU
Nalnrallv it is wiaa t« consult your
doctor, since such a condition mat
lie doe lo other causes. Hill ll linld
\ ilamhi II and Iron dHMenrtea «rre
the cause of yrour l*'dily di«ltess.
then a great new srienlifc disenv-
ei i. Heael SptTia! Forrnul*. eia\ do
Mom/cM for you! ll may lie ei af/y
whul vou need for glowing, viluanl,
good health.
KvervlHolv knows llie iirpi rtanrr
of Iron in vonr dlij lo h—11> yo-t
Inn III HI''ll. HIP 111 nun Well, just
iiyf. capsule of Rexel Special For-
mula I dial's all you lake a day)
rontains .4 limn the minimum dailv
rei|uirenH'nl of Imth Iron and \ iia-
min II,. Also ( holme, Inosilol md
l.ivi oi supplementary quauiiiies!
VOU MUST FCCl BETTER OR
YOUR MONEY BACK'
Tiv Rexel Special Formula for just
30 days If von don’t frcl lieller . ..
dfiaiiWy, noliceahlv Iwiler...we'll
r'-lurid your money wilhoul ijiies.
lion!
So bxfirv. get Re ye/ Sprrial For-
mii/u II Complex Capsules... prml-
in*, of \trkr»son A llolilnns
not 11 one of 'em splurged more
lliuii 13 cent*
Tile Ih'sI sellers read "To my
Inisluinri on V:ilentine's flay" .it
.1 dime n throw.
They weren't sugureil up with
ii""cv sentiment eithei Nn lot \
•" ' "lAking foi thene gal They that read: "To my second wife
swtH'peil down on the humoroii*: The store buyer, who ordereil
section and elbowed each other for j up I2 1MHI special cards for the
the corniest cards on the rack. j 1950 season, said they d probably
Little ditties that went: bring in around 93A.OOO before to
I wish I wu/ ii cop no I (hhiIiI morrow oifKht.
up and jug ya. I ------------------------------------------------------------------
"Then throw away the keys and
hug and hug and hug ya.”
Or
"I hain't th’ sume—no time, no
place,
"Sence love has kicked me in
the faixv" 1 Decoiaateil with a
mule'.
And' 'decorated with a love-sick
cow'.
“How atMiut pitching a little I
moo—-cud we have fun, woo-woo!"
A prize seller was this one:
"I've never learned to cimk and |
sew and lw* my mother's joy.
"But I've sure learned some oth-
er things- Oh boy, Oh law, Oh
boy!” 1
Cooper Insurance Agcy.
218 W Pacific Phone 402
PLENTY OF ELECTRIC POWER TOR PROGRESS
DuBOSE PHARMACY
214 N. MAIN
PHONE C39
PRESCRIPTIONS
a a a a
AND
THAT SERVE YOU
YOUR DOCTOR
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Your physician is our boss. Ills
prescription for your illness is
the key to our vast store of
phurmaeeuUcals. ready to serve
you and your doctor with in-
tegrity. Hegistered pharmacist
on duty at all times
BALLARD DRUG CO.
100 So. Main
Phone 140
wheels of
New high voltnpe electric tram-
mission lines are fanning out
from our new power plants into
all communities served. These
lines are your assurance of
plenty of electricity for the
progress on the farm, in the home
and in the factory.
Heavy lines carry electricity at high volt-
age from the electric power plant to centers of
distribution. Here voltage is reduced in electric
sub-stations and more miles of smaller lines
take the electricity to homes, farms and busi-
nesses.
Hundreds of miles of new electric lines,
large new electric generating plants and sub-
stations are all a part of the great building pro-
gram we began immediately when the close of
the war made it possible. Another S 10.000.000
or more will go into building these facilities
during 1950. This is your assurance of efficient
electric service for all years to come... electric
service at the lowest possible cost.
)0UTHWgSTg*H UAS AMO Ll£CT*f{ L7m7a»Y
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