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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Good Farm Wiring is Held Essential The Broadway Scene: The Late Watch: Hollywood nighl spot men have solved the puzzle or. why biz took a slump: No more army officers who blew a months pay in a night. . . . Prices have come down so low that theaters offering two-b- it values now are charging only 85 cents. . . . School teachers and nurses attention: Dishwashers in .Broadway hotels now rate $15 daily plus meals. . . . Secy, of State Marshall is the only World War II vet in the U.N. council. . . . Marion Hargrove is working on idea with an Ernie Pyle flavor. . . . Alf Drake and Bernice Parks of Beggars Holiday are feudin. When hes supposed to kiss her, he merely hugs her. (The silly!) . . ..The state seal of Georgia motto is: Wisdom, Justice and Moderation. Expensive to Pay for Preventive Power Loss Anything less than good wiring on the farmstead is not only a serious bottleneck to successful use of electricity, but usually causes dissat- - There seems to be a race between the British and American armies to see which one gets out of Berlin first. We felt safer when they were racing to get in. Ballad: (By Don it down and add the total up. . . . And find if it was worth the final cost. . . . There were the inns that held the jeweled cup. . . . There were the songs that now are strangely lost. . . . And there were girls to feed the flame of youth. . . . Girls who were touched with moonmist and delight. . . . There was the quest for certainty and truth. . . . There was the throb of So we whispers in the night will add this gossamer of mine. . . . Knowing full well the terror we will find. An empty heart an empty cask of wine. . . . The futile whimper of an eerie wind. . . . Yet, who am I to mourn a sinners wake? Broadway Wahn) : Lets set ... ... . . . There was no other road that I could take! The politicans have suggested legislation to keep crookedness out of sports. Now if someone will only suggest something to keep it out of politics. Manhattan Murals: The desert ed trolley tracks on 59th St. with the Columbus Circles under their eyes. . . . The Riverside drive milkman who does his chores in the frigid weather with no coat. Just undershirt and trousers. Exhibition. The lad in the NBC newsist room named Bonaparte, who says he is a descendant of Napoleon. . . . The gal ticket seller at Pennsy station, who went to school with Movietowns Marie McDonald, still her closest chum. The walls of the ticket booth are lined with Maries photos. . . . Dunhill, famed for making pipes, has exactly five of them in its huge window' space (on Vth near 50th). Everything else from ladies pocketbooks on up. . . . Sign in a 42nd St. stationers: Our fountain pens just write. .. HISTORY IN MINIATURES . . . Crowded into the 4,000 square feet of Roadside America, worlds greatest indoor miniature village, is the panorama of American history: (1) Sleepy Hollow is typical of the pioneer days of the West; (2) Shrine church is a replica of a memorial chapel in the Alps; (3) a pioneer village of 300 years ago is reconstructed; (4) the airport, laid out like a real field, lends note of modernity; (5) an idea of the scale on which the miniatures are built is obtained by comparing Laurence Gieringer with the figures he is placing on a railroad station platform, and (6) the village of Fairfield represents the modern era. Picturesque Miniature Village Depicts History of America With the passionate covetousness of a child, the two-thir- coin-raisi- ng e vice-preside- nt creating stained glass. As visitors mill about the village, the lights are dimmed and fro mthe open door ol the church pours religious music from a tiny organ. Outside the church a ragged tramp leans lazily against a white fence, a dog at his heels. When the organ strains fade, millions of visitors every year. a endifferent type of music issues with into venture their Delving from a large barn, in which an thusiasm, the boys scoured the libarn dance is probrary for books on American architecture from the pioneer days gressing. Nearby planes seem to modern times. A kindly art teachabout to take off from an airer gave them drawing lessons at port while a few feet away peothree cents for plain sketching, five ple are packed into a grandstand watching a baseball game. cents for pastel work, the fees Animation marks the exhibits. covering only the cost of material. Early difficulties soon induced There are youngsters walking on Laurence to adopt an arbitrary scale narrow curbstones, a boy whose feel of of an inch to a foot, are tangled in an electric wire, dogs a scale he has employed through all sniffing at fire hydrants, women the intervening years. hanging out their washing or gossiping over back fences, trolleys Pictures and stories of the and train in operation, water wheels way the early settlers in Amerturning grist mills. ica had lived induced Gieringer to build history into his miniaReceive Wide Acclaim. tures. His models, he decided, The Gieringer exhibits have been could show the development of heralded as the worlds widely American home and business miniature village and the greatest , life as exemplified in the strucmost unique and detailed masterture of homes and business piece ever evolved. buildings. A staunch exponent of hobbies As a result, there now are three as a means of preventing juveseparate sections, one depicting the nile delinquency, Gieringer inlife of the early settlers, another sists that hobbies keep children that of Pennsylvania at the turn of off the street, adding that if the century and a third showing a hands are busy, youngsters modern setting. Gieringer plans a they dont get into mischief. fourth eventually his version of the His dream is to see establishvillage of tomorrow. ment of a national hobby center where exhibits of all kinds Built From Scraps. can be shown to- inspire other of tin discarded wood, Scraps hobbyists. cans, wire, pieces of metal, pipe Throughout the years both Mr. and cleaners, paper and numerous other odds and ends have been utilized as Mrs. Gieringer have worked with construction materials for Giering- countless children from nearby schools and orphanages. ers intricate models. An idea of the scope of the exhibit Although Gieringer allows boys may be gained by noting some of training in his workshop to use methe materials which have gone into chanical equipment, all of Roadside its making. They include 9,520 feet America has been built completely of board lumber, 4,000 feet of buildby hand and with ordinary carpening paper, 1,728 feet of railroad and ter tools. Originally set up as a Christmas trolley track, 11,080 feet of electric wire, 513 light bulbs, 12,000 pounds display in the Gieringer home foi of piaster, 4,000 miniature figures, showing to neighbors and visitors, 10,000 miniature trees and shrubs, the miniatures later were exhibited 250 pounds of nails, 42 gallons of in a Reading fire house and in a paint, two barrels of green sawdust, local park, all earnings going to The present Roadside six tons of stone, 8,000 pounds of charity. sand, 145 miniature railroad cars America was established in 1941, a and 1,700 feet of tracks for trains and portion of the proceeds still going to charity. Although wartime gasotrolleys. line rationing shattered attendance, miniatures the Highlight among d church with beauti- a record number of visitors viewed is a fully handpainted windows, a task the displays last season and still that required months of exacting la- larger crowds are expected this bor as Gieringer sought meani of summer. Childhood disillusionment at the shattering of a dream did not deter Laurence Gieringer; instead, it embarked him on a hobby which over a span of 44 years has resulted in creation of a picturesque miniature village which has attracted nationwide attention and lured millions of visitors. Laurence used to sit nightly in the window of his home in a Pennsylvania valley and gaze longingly at a house on the mountainside a toy house, it seemed to him, as its lights blinked enticingly in the distance. He wanted that tiny house, wanted to pick it up in his hands and bring it home. When his repeated pleas to set out in quest of his house were ignored, the little boy finally became desperate and, stuffing a banana and a few crackers into his pockets, trudged off up the mountainside Axis Sally Sudden Thawt: in search for the little house. Searchprobably will travel first class ing parties were out all night and at to the U. S. A. on a ship that 6 oclock in the morning the frantic will bring dead American troops parents finally discovered the grimy in steerage. the but undaunted boy way up the mountainside. Bitter at Man About Town: The water-fille- d being overhauled, the boy was comtrough on Broadway at 106th, forted only when his parents agreed now a terminal for the new busses to take him to the end of the road. that replaced the street cars that Dream Shattered. replaced the horses. . . . The Lauclouded Disillusionment steeples at St. Patricks emerging rences when beheld he eyes just anfrom their scaffolding cacoon as other no with sized house ordinary wings of faith stretching into the at all in the bright morning, lights . . . tot The little her sky. spanking no enchantment, no magic lure. dolly for falling into the 3rd avenue But Laurence Gieringers . . The Chinese Salvation gutter. . not in fact, it was dream ended; officer cold the in Army preaching had only begun. Today, at 54, he A at 46th and the Main Drag. owns countless lighted houses reader who saw it happen suggests that he can pick up in his hands, it for a poster. A cripalong with churches, barns, pled mendicant putting a dime in bridges, highways, railroads, a March of Dimes container. lakes, fields, grist mills, factories and scores of other minBob Hawk believes that,-oniature models depicting the archibig reason we find it hard to tectural and industrial panosell democracy is because of rama of the America of the last the poor sample case we are few hundred years. showing. Collectively they are khown as Roadside America, which is situatMidtown Novelette: One of ed four miles west of Hamburg, Pa., the realty firms in between Harrisburg and Allentown. town promoted a simple-minde- d Roadside America had its beginoffice boy to four years after Laurences ning at $25 per week. . . . When any abortive attempt to bring home the of their apartment houses lost lighted house from the mountaintop. money theyd pnt it in his name With his younger brother, Paul, he from . . the firm. . as a present had climbed another mountain near The happy youth, however, disFar below them Reading Reading. covered that he wasnt so lucky cooked like a city inhabited by doll as creditors foreclosed on him. men. Fascinated by the sight, Lau. . . The realtors repeated this rence said eagerly: Paul, wouldnt trick a dozen times. . . . Our be swell to build littlfe houses the it Hero recently died. . . . The top same size they look from here? salary he ever made was $40 a Thus was born the idea which was week. . . . But the obit pages to grow into a project enchanting said he died owing S2.000.000. ... - WNU features. ds isfaction and needless expense in the use of electricity for anything beyond lighting and minimum power uses, William A. Ritt, Minneapolis, Minn., declared at the national farm electrification conference. In planning the wiring for a farm, Ritt declared, the average farm must be considered as an industrial plant, a production and procThe essing plant for products. greater the degree of processing performed on any farm, the greater ia the return in terms of farm income, he explained. No matter what efficient equipment the farmer may employ to arrive at more complete and profitable electrification, its successful operation depends upon a good wiring installation. Larger capacity service entrances, heavier conductors to farmstead buildings and also for serving the higher horsepower motors now being used, an increased number ol circuits and more attention to balancing loads among the various circuits, are among the outstanding needs of farm wiring systems today, Ritt said. MISS SUCK CHICK OF 97? ed three-eight- hs high-spire- WE ARE RESENTFUL . . . Hens, resentful and envious of the Slick Chick designation, which with utter abandon has been bestowed upon human femmes, at long last have come to the fore and demanded their equal rights. The Poultry and Egg National board, realizing the justice of their claims, is conducting a nationwide search for the most beautiful hen in all America, who will be crowned Miss Slick Chick of 1947, and will be guest of honor at world premiere of The Egg and I. Planting Trees -- r- Ease in planting trees at uniform distances in straight rows may be secured by the board marker shown The length of the In illustration. board will depend on the type of tree and distance to be spaced. |