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Show Cedar High builds flinf-lock rifles for motion picture The Industrial Arts Department De-partment of Cedar City School is presently involved in an interesting in-teresting project. They are working on the production of twelve . copies of a flintlock rifle. U. N. I. T. (the Utah Network Net-work of Industrial Television) is having the riffles made to be used this spring in a film which they are producing about Jeddidiah Smith. An original or-iginal flintlock was purchased toy U. N. I. T. for $200.00. They must have one rifle that actually ac-tually shoots, the remaining twelve that the high school students are making do not have to shoot, but must look enough like the original that a person would not be able to tell the difference in the film. . Under the direction of Dee Wilcken the students are casting cast-ing various parts of the rifles with aluminum. The stocks and heagonal shaped barrels are being shaped from wood. The students are gaining experience ex-perience in mass production of an item and also will have a feeling of accomplishment when they see their rifles used in the film. Jerry Haw-ley, Director of the Southwest Media Center, ie coordinating the work with the High School and State Department De-partment in three way joint effort. |