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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH Tiny Adirondack Village Leads In Winter Sport Development Garnets Glitter Along Ski Trails At North Creek WNU Features. NORTH CREEK, N. Y. Determined to improve the opportunities nature gave it when it placed a 3,000 foot mountain right in its back yard, this tiny Adirondack vil-lage, long known as a pioneer in New York state winter sport development, has entered an-- 1 other bid for fame this sea-- ; son. It has installed what the village fathers describe as the first electrically operated Constam T-b- ar lift in the east-ern United States. The lift pulls skiers up the entire 3.0(10 foot slope of Gore mountain a labor saving device that adds Im-measurably to enjoyment of the sport and vast popularity to North Creek as a ski center. The new electric lift is an ex- - " w A sip' ... i ww mlBBBfc-aiKSBfc- RRBk. . PBhk PIONKER SKI CENTER ... By snow trains and buses, winter sport enthusiasts flock to North Creek, one of New York state's most popu-lar skiing sites. A wide variety of slopes and trails, ranging from easy novice slopes to expert runs, lure crowds of skiers. cellent example of community spirit in operation. Skiing is a community er.ierprise in the little town of 703 inhabitants, whose pattern of life Is tied up with it. When It was decided to put in the new Alpine lift, the money as on previous occasions was raised by the townsfolk. Form First Patrol. Back of this venture was the rec-ollection of North Creek's record as a winter sports specialist. It was at this little Adirondack town that the first ski patrol In the United States was organized. On Gore moun-tain's slopes the first down-mountai- n ski trail in New York state was laid out and this small skiing center was the destination of the first snow train in the state on March 2, 1934. That train, as the villagers recall, came from Schenectady and was planned to handle a crowd of 500 but 700 took the trip. North Creek also pioneered the famous "Ride Up Slide Down" slogan, when buses were provided to carry skiers from the bottom of the trails up the winding mountain road, which leads to the noted garnet mines and to the beginning of five well-know- n trails. It was this highway that made North Creek the original "down hill" ski center in the East, for it is from the top of the highway that the Gore mountain network of downhill trails radiates. The combined investment in lift, slopes, hut and other facilities pro-vided by the village entrepreneurs aggregates more than $70,000. Community Endeavor. Heading the community develop-ment program is the town physician, Dr. James A. Glenn, who is presi-dent of Gore Mountain Ski club. The manager of the local woodworking mill. Spencer Johnston, is vice pres-ident. Dr. H. I. Braley, the local dentist, is executive member of the club in charge of racing. The law-yer, Philip C. Brassel; the justice of the peace, Kenneth Bennett; and the lumber dealer, William C. Schilds. are directors of the Ski Lift corporation, of which the undertaker, Kenneth W. Swain, Is presidept. At the top of North Creek's "Ride Up Slide Down" Gore mountain are the leading garnet mines in the country. Garnets shine like red dia-monds in the sunlight and the winter sports fan gets an added thrill out of digging small pieces of the color-ful stuff from the snow. From a promontory the skier can look down into the mines and across to the sheer rock walls hung with various hued Icicles sparkling in the sun. Close by ate th high peaks of the Adlrondacks, forming a startling panoramic view of mountain gran-deur in winter dress. At his feet are the headwaters of the Hudson river. Maze of Trails. A city block from the garnet mines is a 1,400-foo- t tow leading to trails rated for the novice, interme-diate and expert. Cloud and Garnet trails, which range the higher slopes on Gore's summit, arc expert trails which intermediate skiers can use In the spring's corn snow. North Creek villagers assert that nowhere else can one ski on such a Jeweled trail with changing vistas of high mountain peaks. Skiers have been flocking to North Creek for years for the simple rea-son that snow lies deep on the slopes and especially on Gore mountain, which rises from the village to an elevation of 3,595 feet. Everything the winter sports fan desires is at North Creek. Children Get Lessons. Firm believers in controlled ski-ing and upholding Otto Schnieb's famous statement that "skiing is a way of life," instruction is offered to children from 5 to 18, who gather on the slopes every Friday afternoon to take lessons. Annually there Is a children's ski race when the Top- - ping trophy is in competition. Special awards are made to winners hut North Creek enter-prise believes skiing should be encouraged and as a result all contestants win a prize for par-ticipation. The Barton trophy race, sanc-tioned by USEASA, Is held annually on the Garnet trail, a mile long and with a drop of approximately 1,000 feet. Eighty-si- x members make up North Creek's ski patrol, which is affiliated with the national ski patrol system, and the ages range from the high school years on up. Bell's Varied Achievements Revealed During Centenary By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Servire, lfllfi Lye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. - Everybody has been talking telephones because of the Alexander Gra-ham Bell centenary. Reading the pounds of publicity, I learned more about Alexander Graham Hell than I ever knew before. I had read of how he dreamed of making the tele-graph instrument "talk" and how and why his dream came true. I didn't know about his father's deep study of phonetics and his own in-terest in "making speech visible," iii teaching the deaf to talk, or that he was an accomplished musician or many other facets of this remark-able man's remarkable history. I already knew a little about the telephone business from first hand observance. It was just about 20 years before I ever used a telephone that Bell, thanks to his harmonically truned ear, found on that day in 1875 that what he thought could be done, had been achieved in his own laboratory on Court street, Boston. From then on it was just a question of re-moving '"the bugs." The next year he was demonstrating his instru-ment before audiences with conver-sations over several miles of wire. Before he died at the age of 75, people were talking over an under-water cable from United States to Cuba. I doubt if the great inventor were to return to earth today he would their wires it was worse. Stray cur-rents left power wires or the rails of electric railways and took a short cut back to the power house. (4) Wherever they found a good conductor like a lead cable, that was like thumbing a ride for the wander-- ing volts and amperes. So far so good. But eventually they had to leave the cable, to find their way to a better conductor or just to say "se long" and struggle back to the dynamo. (5) When they did that, "electro-lytic action" set in. The lead in the cable sheath followed the cur-rent as far as it could (like the sub-stance in the bath) and left the sheath porous. Dampness and de-struction came In and soon your telephone line was out of order. My job consisted of sitting by the hour watching the face of an am-meter (which registers the direction and (low of electric current) and discovering where the current was escaping. Then I had to get the power company to do what it could to stop leaks and the telephone com-pany did all it could to keep stray current out or to provide a safe exit for what got in. In the process I learned much more than I earned not much about electrical engineering but I had a fine worm's-ey- e view of several Mid-dle Western cities bird's-ey- e views, too, for I worked in cable boxes up on poles, as well as down in man-holes, and also learned that it isn't only newspapermen who "meet so many Interesting people." When I ponder on my electrolyt-ic age and also when I "address the mike" Mondays through Fri-days now, I am deeply and doubly grateful to Alexander Graham Bell, a I Jones Finally Gets Official Birthday One day recently I received a tele phone call from my friend Capt. E. John Long, USNR, who is assistant curator of the United States naval museum at Annapolis. I detected exultation in his voice and, sure enough, when I joined him at the club he was wearing that "Eureka-- i expression which blooms only on the face of a Bell discovering the telephone, a Lord Carnarvon (and-or- ) Howard Carter exclaiming as he leans over the mummy-case- : "King Tut, I pre- - '" Iffr jfr A study of Alexander Graham Bell In later life shows how he spent manv hundred "man-hours- " of his time tabulating statistics concern-ing the deaf. At one time he pro-duced a "Memoir Upon the Forma-tion of a Ueaf Variety of the Human Race." be greatly surprised at the strides in telephony which have been made since his death, great as they have been. He may not have considered, however, one of the temporary prob-lems (electrolysis) which created many a headache for the telephone companies and which helped, indi-rectly, to provide the writer of this column (who was to be a future ex-tensive user of telephone facilities) with a part of his education. To explain the above remark: (1) 150.000 miles of program trans-mission circuits now are provided by the Bell system for use of radio networks. (It's "wireless" to your home from your radio station, but it's "wired" between stations.) (2) The writer has been using a lot of these circuits five days a week for most of the last 14 years. (3) He worked two college vaca-tions as "electrolysis inspector" for the telephone company. To explain further: (1) You know how electroplating Is done? The object say it's a spoon to be plated is suspended in a "bath" containing the material with which the spoon is to be plated An electric current is passed through the substance in the bath into the spoon. The substance follows the current as far as it can, which is the surface of the spoon. Anyhow it moves. (2) You've seen the cables containing telephone wires being pushed through the manhole into conduits that lie under the pavement. The sheath on the cable protects the insulated wires that carry the current which rings your phone bell and carries your voice. (3) But other electric currents get loose and run all over the place. You'd be surprised but almost every foot of earth or anything that will conduct an electric current in a city has some electricity flowing through it. When the power companies were careless about preventing leaks in sume r or possibly you or me when we finally get a firm hold on the end of our vanished pajama cord. What happened to Long was com-parable. He had recorded the con-firmation by his chief, Capt. H. A. Baldridge, chief curator, of the but never-prove- d date of birth of John Paul Jones, father of the navy. And it was fortunate he had, for the post office department was demanding It for the next memorial stamp. Baldridge already had a letter of Jones' containing this sentence: "America has been the country of my fond election from the age of 13." Since it was known he sailed from Whitehaven, England, in 17(i0 that would make the birth date (1700 minus 13) 1747. But the birth date was not actually recorded in any authentic writing, not even the early Jones biography by Charles Sands. However, there came into temporary possession of Captain Baldridge a copy of that work, upon whose margins Janette Taylor had written some caustic comment. Miss Taylor was a niece of Jones who had been a cltise and meticulous student of her uncle's life and many of his papers which she possessed. One of her holographic statements re the picture of Jones in the frontis-piece was this: ". . . it is'even too old, making every allowance for his mode of life, for a just representation of his ap-pearance at the time of his death, he was then only 45 years and 12 days." (His death. 1792, is of record.) That tied it. No wonder the cap-tains tossed their scrambled eggs in the air like graduating midshipmen. John Paul has an official birthday only two centuries late and his face on a stamp for a present. In an attempt to end mess hall griping, the army aims to make kitchen police a respected and re-spectable army chore. We'll have to wait on the critical judgment of the g mess lines be-fore we really know; but meanwhile we'll offer a toast of powdered lemonade to General Ike and his staff just for trying. !!Hlfi?I Keep the heels of :,M 6cuffed by pairing themB colorless nail polish. Ri Save small glass jarJ tops. Use them to JR the refrigerator. ThoyR room than dishes, andR covers keep odors 'from R Use a stick ard not aR stirring paint. ForcingBR into the corners will bristles. R WW Reinforce bath ioW(.sR sides with heavy tape. 9 shower addicts in the (R give themselves the usu rubbing without pulling iR towels apart. IB Do you lose your patJ you sew with a doubletB the thread tangles? TieR the end of each thread R tying the two threads toil Rinse milky glasses iR cold w ater ti j .'fver.:B rings. !?Dli Rf Select a shelf in the iM which to store waxed t kins, individual cups, scissors. When prepariiuR you'll find this a wondtR venience and time-saver?- Onions can be used ' I a strong flavor in lambR soups or stews. RK WWa Few foods contain suchR of vital nutrients as peaR them in cookies, cakes afl ings, also with meat andR dishes. Ra New York Heartbeat: Man About Town: Mrs. FDR now regrets having signed a live year contract for her col'rn. . . .Music lovers can Add the tbaM Bs in the Manhattan phone tome. Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. However,, Beethoven is Bach sells chemicals. a lawyer and Brahms is in adver-tilin- g One of Oklahoma's back-- i ers is Columbia Pictures, down for $15 000. The firm to date has netted a million dollars from that small wager. . . .The Mrs. Fay Ehlert (who is suing MGM for 250 Gs for of the alleged misappropriation title. "Undercurrent") is the wife of the Chilean consul in Chicago In the first paragraph on page 13 of "The Man Who Was Not There" by Ethel Lina White (pub- - lished about 1943) it says: "If Rich- - ard isn't there to open the door. .' Could that have inspired the "great Inspiration" and can you suggest something to do to Miss White? Beginning of the End Dep't: One of the owners of "21" is taking sing- - ing lessons! . . . Mary Kirk's new Floridaddy can handle his dukes, so don't be a dope, you dope. . . . Pals say the reason visitors break and weep Is that The Babe is down to 90 pounds. . . . One of the Powers models seeking a divorce is IS years old and the mother of a year old baby. . . . Barney Ross, the champ, settling a fist-fig- between two kid bootblacks on 52nd street. . . . The ditty that made them famous ("If I Didn't Care") has to be played by Billy Kenny's Ink Spots to hush the persistent applaudience. . . . You'd swoon if you knew the various male screen idols who wear special-mad- e gir-dles to fight their personal battles of the bulge. . . . Iz Elinson (mended after an operation) re-ports that Sinatra Is trying to get a permit to carry two gats. One gun tilts him! Grace Moore was one of the few stars who believed in helping other talented people scale the heights. Her boosts aided many unknown singers . . .But when one of her success-ful protegees allowed fame to turn her head and complained about the size of her part in a show, Miss Moore reminded her: "A famous singer once told me that to a great artist there is no such thing as a small part. And to a small artist there are no big parts." Coincidence: In 1942 General MacArthur presented the Silver Star to a civilian for the first time. He was AP correspondent Vern Haugland, who made his way to safety after being lost 42 days In Jap territory. . .A year later Haug-land was shifted to the Central Pa-cific, where he covered Admiral Mitscher's Task Force 58. . .Re-turned to the U.S. he married and (after the war) joined the AP staff at Washington. . . . The Hauglands' baby girl was born January 26. The birthdays of MacArthur and Mitscher! Manhattan Murals: The little old lady who hangs around stagedoors and cusses like a trooper. . . The scantily clad chorine plodding through Central park slush in open-toe- She leads a durg whose paws are covered with specially made red rubbers. . . . The 59th street buses that congest traffic more than the trolleys did. . . . That blimp which hovers over midtown Manhat-tan (with illuminated ads) a la Times building electrics. . . The spellbinder in Columbus Circle, who demonstrates the atomic bomb by dropping a bag of water. (He oughta use it with soap on his neck). . . . The little old woman who peddles good luck charms on 14th street to make enough dough for a night's lodging on the Bowery. Heroine: This, we believe. Is the very first mention of her great-est role. . . It didn't come to the col'rn from her, either. . . It came from an admirer in gov't service, who thinks it is about time future historians knew about it. . This brave American woman started the first underground activity against Mussolini. . . While the world's capitals were receiving Mussolini's ambassadors (like social lions) this American gal was urging the com-mo-people of Italy to fight like tigers for liberty. . . Rickety planes (flying over the Alps at night) show-- I ered pamphlets on Italian cities. And the lone American darling, who defied the Duce (at the height of his power), is our magnificent actress, Ruth Draper. Quotation Markmanship: How-ard W. Newton: If money grew on trees, man probably would have stayed in them. . . . Anne Britten: She saw to it that they went through life . . J. Lee: It was so cold even the traffic lights were purple. . . . Mary C. Da vies: Since you went away, dear, a curi-ous thing I find. The world is like a clock that God forgot to wind. E. Brandeis: There are two kinds of women. One is the kind men cheat on; the other Is the kind they cheat with. 1 MOST MOTHERS H"Afl HOBB AT BEOTIMErii throat, chest, bark while c :S with VapoRub. Re- - to relim action muscular sB starts instantly .. . and tijhtnaJHl home roR Best-know-n can use to zmk distress of children's coM comforting Vicks VapoM" Even while you rub VapoRub starts toJ ease distress . . . and itiU on working duringtheiaj No wonder most motaB always do ftR this when ti tlvM coldstrtkes. w VapoB Gas on Stoma Relieved in 5 minutes or double yowB WhenexcttMfltomkeb k Xnggma, Hour ntmari ami iieai mirn. dortBf pr.'t.-nb- the faiiteBt-grtin- mlfcin ymptomatie relief metf fines nke trweBB Thletj. 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"The proprietors of the tele-phone, the invention of Alexan-der Graham Bell, for which pat-ents have been issued by the United States and Great Britain, are now prepared to furnish tele-phones for the transmission of articulate speech through in-struments not more than 20 miles apart. Conversation can be easily carried on after slight practice and with the occasional repetition of a word or sen-tence. On first listening to the telephone, though the sound is perfectly audible, the articula-tion seeins to be indistinct; but after a few trials the ear accustomed to the pecu-liar sound and finds little dif-ficulty in understanding the words." That picture of the telephone, as depicted in the first telephone ad-vertisement of May, 1877, represents a marked contrast to the instrument of today. The advertisement is recalled in connection with the observance of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, on March 3, 1847. Although born in Edinburgh, Scot-land, Bell was an American by choice, coming to Boston at the age of 24 to teach the use of "visible speech," developed by his father for training the deaf to speak. A deep and scientific interest In the mechanics of speech, an inven-tive streak and the challenge of making the telegraph "talk" led to his experiments which produced the telephone. On June 2, 1875, he first succeeded in transmitting sound over a wire and one of his experi-mental telephones transmitted the first complete sentence on March 10, 1876, "just a week after his 29th birthday anniversary. In addition to being a great sci-entist. Bell was a man of remark-able vision, which led him only two years after the telephone was in-vented to foresee the day "when a man in one part of the country may communicate by word of mouth with another in a distant place." The fulfillment of that prediction has revolutionized communications in the United States and throughout the world. Progress has continued uninterruptedly ever since Bell cre-ated the telephone. In the United States alone, there are now more than 32 million telephones in use, more than double the number in 1940. Since V-- J Day four and a half mil-lion Instruments have been installed. A major phase of the telephone company's postwar program Is to extend and improve farm telephone service. The telephone, it is point-ed out, always has been the farm-er's "good friend and loyal assist-ant" in business, in time of sick-ness or emergency, or as a means of keeping in touch with relatives and friends. These benefits will be extended to more rural families under the 100 million dollar rural expansion pro-gram with its objective of a million more farm telephones. jjj RECOGNIZE THIS? . . . This scene of a pioneer rural home shows what the farm telephone looked like in 1914. Long recognized as a boon to farm areas, telephone service will be extended and improved throughout rural United States during the postwar period. House Sprouts Hidden Gash after Storm Victims Leave DE FOREST, WIS. Although Mrs. Clement Wolfe doesn't believe in fairies, she insists that she has been finding money under a pillow, behind a mirror, under a vase and in other hidden corners of her home. Dollar bills in cupboards, little stacks of silver on shelves, half dol-lars tucked every place imaginable have been retrieved by Mrs. Wolfe. There is an explanation, however. The cash, Mrs. Wolfe is certain, was secreted by more than 60 unexpected guests who spent from two to three days with her during a storm. The guests started coming in pairs, then in carloads, finally in bus-loads. When the house started fill-ing up. Mrs Wolfe was glad she had just brought five loaves of bread from town. She also had several pails of eggs she had been unable to send to market and she served them fried, scrambled, boiled and t poached. It wasn't long, however, before only crackers and mayon-naise were left. Two of the guests struggled two miles to the village, carrying back all the food they could. By that time Mrs. Wolfe was g cof-fee grounds. By noon of the third dy everyone had been rescued after the mayon-naise had given out and Mrs. Wolfe was passing out dry crackers. BARBS . . . by Baukhage An Alaskan amphibian wouldn't recognize a Hudson seal if he met him on the Palisades. A survey of 3,000 G.I.s" heads re-veals that they come in five sizes, according to the Army Times. That doesn't account for the oversize specimens possessed by some sec-ond lieutenants I have known. The disease schistosomiasis is spread by snails and it has taken science only three thousand years to catch up with them. a Congress' unwillingness to spend money to prepare for war is rivalled only by the country's unwillingness to spend money to prepare a gen-eration smart enough to prevent it. |