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Show At the Wright brothers anniversary anni-versary celebration at Kitty Hawk -just about the fanciest air show ever staged in the United States -a grizzled old-timer who was unaccustomed un-accustomed to such modern air shenanigans watched with opened mouth as four Sabrejets thundered toward the Wright Memorial Monument Mon-ument in a diamond formation at several hundred miles per hour. They flew in such a steady pattern that they seemed to be attached to one another. Just as they got over the monument the jets zoomed staight upward, then suddenly off they went in four different directions. direc-tions. At this the old-timer paled and exclaimed, "Dern, I knowed that thing was gonna come apart!" The Reader's Digest. Labor Day Safety First Your chances of staying alive will be greater if you make this Labor Day a stay-at-home holiday, holi-day, J.M. Smith, president of Farmers Far-mers Insurance Group Safety Foundation, declared. "National Safety Council statistics sta-tistics show that about 440 persons lose their life immediately during the annual three-day holiday, a total that grows to between 580 and 600 as the injured succumb. If you go out on the highways you may be one of them; so plan a holiday at home that the entire family can enjoy.' . There are many activities that the family can engage in at home such as games, backyard picnics or the whole family might help in a home clean-up project to get ready for the fall months. All these activities contribute to family cooperation and solidarity, Smith pointed out. Naturally a stay-at-home holiday holi-day calls for observing safety rules in handling of barbecue equipment, garden tools, and play apparatus, but there won't be any tired, cross children and parents with frayed nerves driving along on a traffic -choked highway in the September heatjust the sort of situation that makes tempers flare and spells death and injury on the highway, Smith concluded. |