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Daily Times-Gazette, 21 Oct 1948, p. 16

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Smee LIL LG RTL TEL PAGE SIXTEEN ' THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Entertains To Teach Safety Rules Lexington, Ky. Oct. 20.--(AP)-- A policeman who pulls safety slo- gans and rabbits out of the hat is applying magic to saving lives in Kentucky streets and highways. State Police Lieut. Lee Allen , & master magician and ven- uist, tours the school circuit /with a truck load of tricks that carry home his safety warnings. i De putas on the théory that ] must be heard to be learn- ed, As a county patrolman 12 years @go, he watched children yawn through a safety lecture. He con- ;vinced his chief he could make the 'words stick by demonstrating them * with a trick. Lieut. Estes is more than a suit- case magician. He carries his show in a two-ton truck. The lecture comes first in his ool program. He times it to last _ only as long as little ears will list- en to admonitions. that children should not double up om a bicycle, snitch rides on trucks or outos, or put their arms or heads out the window of vehicles while riding. Just before the Houdini of the " highways "loses" his audience, he 'digs into his tricks. His favorite , trick. involves a chalk-drawn pig on a small slate. He draws the pig and then makes it turn its head from side to side, the idea being that children should always look both 'ways before crossing a street. During his talk, he tears to bits & pAper cone. When the operation is completed, he drops the remains, and a banner'with a safety slogan is' formed. After emptying 'eight trunks loaded with similar stunts, Lieut. Estes brings om a pop-eyed, big- mouthed dummy wearing a state police uniform to fihish the show. The dummy is Willie Talk, who sasses like Charlie MeCarthy but jabbers Jfatety talk the kids listen to with/glee, . Lieut. EStes estimates he has car- ried his magic story show to more than a million kids and adults in travelling 120,000 miles. Kentucky's record for accidental C.LO. Leftists Get Quizzed A board of C.I.O. union presidents opened hearings in Washington on a complaint asling revocation of the charter of the left-wing New York C.1.O. council. The charges were filed by a right-wing group which contended that the council has violated national C.1.0. policy by support- ing U.S. presidential candidate Henry Wallace and opposing the Marshall | Plan. Members named to defend the leftist-led council are, left to right: Saul Mills, secretary-treasurer; Ewart Auiner; Sam Durt; James Durkin, president of the New York City C.LO. council; Ruth Young and Aaron | Schnieder, --Central Press Canadian death of children on highways is at the bottom of the list for all states and he likes to feel he has played some, part in that, the police lieutenant-magician says. DEATHS INCREASING Ottawa, Oct. 21--(CP) -- Births and marriages in Canada are de- creasing while deaths are on the increase, the bureau of statistics re. ported Tuesday in the first of a: new series of 'monthly reports covering vital statistics for all sections of the country, The report showed 6.1 per cent fewer births registered in of- fices of provincial registrars during the first half of 1948 than in the similar period of 194% Marriages de- clined by 8.2 per cent while deaths rose three per cent. v KRESGE'S SPECIALS | POINT THE WAY, Come in Tomorrow... epi vari Retail ne Sat ol By St Ee LE RR 4 CHILDREN'S FLEECE LINED SLEEPERS Buttoned down back. Blue or Pink SIZES 2-4-6 89 y ee PG re mw. Manufacturer's Clearance! MEN'S TIES Satins, Jacquards, Stripes and Checks, Silks and Foulards. Regular $1.50, $2.00 and $3.50 Ties. SALE PRICE . Isfos THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948 | Regina, Oct.. 20 -- (CP) -- Two. year-old Freddie Atherton plays with his toy engine, looks at pic- tures of trains and says he likes tem. But when he goes for a walk widar his parents near the railway line, he draws back and says: "I'm scared, Mommie." About a month ago, Freddie wan- dered from his home to play in a field near a railway line. He and two playmates saw a horse on the other side of the tracks. | Railway Lines Scare Tot After Close Call with Death Freddie ran up the embankment to the tracks just as a train was ap- proaciaing. Signal operators in the nearby tower had just set the ap- paratus in motion to close the de- rail mechanism to allow the train to poss through. At the moment the mechanism was closing on the track, Freddie placed tis hand down to climb over. His hand was caught, The train kept coming. Freddie began to cry and his play- mates, screaming, ran to pry him Ir 'se. His mother, watching from their home hurried to the scene. She, too, tried to get him loose. Neighbors gathered. Then an uni- dentified youth ran toward the sig- nal tower, He yelled: "A kid's caught in the derail!" The operators moved quickly. The signal was thrown against the approaching train and the engine f . .o a stop a short distance from the child, _ When his hand was released, Freddie was taken to hospital where it was found the fingers were crushed but the bones were not b= ken. Freddie Atherton apprehensively eyes his fingers, on which the fin- gernails now are growing back, when he goes near the tracks now, and he says: "I'm scared, Mommie." Returning $1,300,000 To Michigan Residents Detroit, Oct. 21 -- (AP) -- A new type of give-away specialist is L. L. Laing. He wants to get rid sof $12,300,000. The money Laing is trying to pass out is not his own, either | He was picked by a Federal court to supervise the refunding of $12,- 300,000 to natural-gas users in 10 Michigan cities. The funds became available when the court made a retroactive cut in gas rates charged by the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company to Michi- gan Consolidated Gas Company, Consumers Power Company and other Michigan firms. The court further ordered that householders and other actual users land--(CP)--A piglet, one of a first litter of 12 born to & young sow, forehead with two pupils adjoining, jaws like a rhinoceros. of the gas should, gét the money. Laing, after figuring 'out a fair system of distribution, has returned about $11,000,000 to morg than 154,- 000 users. The remainder is due. to persons who used gas between the fall of 1942 and the end of September 1945. 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