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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1930
Page
3
Lucian Hurd, hailed as the world's fastest scenic artist, will install a 20 by 30 foot landscape on the quarry wall at Speers Ferry today. The project is sponsored by Dobyns Taylor Hardware Company of Kingsport as the first in a series of quarry-face artworks by the local firm.
Rev D Edgar Allen will use The Old Rugged Cross as the sermon topic at the First Baptist Church this morning at 11 o clock The evening message at 5 o clock will discuss So Plain Things on the Plan of Salvation Sunday school starts at 9 45 a m with B Y P U meeting at 7 p m
President Hoover fished the Rapidan on June 7 and hauled a 16 inch rainbow trout weighing nearly two pounds with a single early cast using a black gnat ball. He also kept 14 brook trout on his string, leaving five under state limits, while Mrs. Hoover improved from a back injury as the party of 15 guests arrived after breakfast at Rapidan Lodge.
A rock fall at the Climax Molybdenum Mine 13 miles northeast of Leadville after a drill vibration triggered a cave-in as the night shift prepared to blast. Four miners were killed Louis Barton Sherman Frazier Ralph Port Frederick McMahon and Archie Wilson plus E. C. Parker and Mick Baron injured. Rescue teams reached the trapped crew about 2,000 feet from the entrance within an hour.
In St Paul the agricultural research center at the state college tests assert that hogs fatten five times faster under cultivated feeding. Swine specialist FE Ferrin explains hogs’ appetite surges due to man’s demand for rapid growth, noting hogs grow only about one fifth as quickly in the wild.
A student loan fund to aid farm girls in North Carolina has been established in Raleigh to honor Mrs. James S. McKimmon. Sponsored by the North Carolina Home Demonstration Agents Association and the State Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, each group will contribute annually and public subscriptions will be accepted.
Athens Ga AP Georgia farmers spend 10 percent of their income for commercial fertilizer according to extension economist John L Anderson at the Georgia state college of agriculture. The 1929 cash value of Georgia crops was $262 million, up $29 million from 1928, with fertilizer costs about $26.2 million. Anderson urges supplementing fertilizer with soil improvement through legumes and livestock on farms.
Not content with stealing only the chickens, thieves at Salina Kansas carted away a henhouse too, leaving behind damaged fencing and unanswered questions about motive and suspects.
W L Stanley of Atlanta and his wife were injured when their Studebaker sedan skidded on loose rock and overturned 30 feet down an embankment at Rotherwood while en route to Emory Virginia. Stanley suffered a broken arm and cuts. his wife endured broken ribs and minor cuts. Chauffeur Willie Bender had a strained back. The couple received hospital care. scouts nearby aided them.
Tennessee voters hear two more candidates enter the gubernatorial contest as George W. Dunn Johnson City attorney qualifies against Governor Horton and L. E. Gwinn. Knox county petitions add Harry T. Burn for railroad and public utilities commissioner. Bruce and Burn discuss withdrawal, while four Democrats seek the Senate short term and Paul E. Divine vies for Brock seat. Primary dates set for August 7 with adjusted filing deadline.
Dublin June 6 Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and three comrades delayed their proposed flight to America due to weather. They returned to Baldonnel Airdome from Curragh Camp to await better conditions for the takeoff. The plan, in the same Southern Cross aircraft, aimed to cross the Atlantic after a Pacific-spanning 1928 voyage.
The Naval Observatory seeks a method to relay readings from a magnetic compass. Gyro compasses locate true north and repeaters transmit readings, but magnetic compasses can’t be moved without re adjustment and are affected by nearby metals.
Middletown Conn.Electrical tension in the body as a measure of emotion has little verification says Dr Carney Landis of Wesleyan University in a report to the AAAS Many psychologists have been deluded into believing too much he says.
Frank Wykoff, 20, USC, sped 100 yards in 9.4 seconds to break the world record at the national collegiate track championships in Chicago. He won the event without starting blocks, defeating Ohio State’s George Simpson and helping USC seal the team title with 57 27 70 points. Stephen Anderson of Washington tied the 120 yard high hurdles world mark in 14.4 seconds.
Eugene Germain, serving as consul to Switzerland under Cleveland, is credited with bringing Casaba melons to the United States, expanding fruit varieties available domestically. The note highlights his role in introducing the exotic fruit during that era.
More than 2,500 North Dakota farm men and women attended nine economic outlook conferences from Cando to Jamestown, reflecting strong farm sector turnout and interest in agricultural economics.
Montgomery Alabama. Six tenths of Alabama cotton is grown by tenant farmers. Seth P. Storrs commissioner of agriculture says this could hinder reduction of cotton acreage. The figure cited reflects the share of cotton produced under tenant farming arrangements.
Alabama motorists paid 14,511,359 in state taxes last year according to official revenue figures. The data highlight tax contributions from drivers across the state, reflecting regulatory impact on vehicle ownership and travel costs.
J W Buchanan a Taylor county farmer convicted slayer of two federal prohibition agents had his death sentence halted by Circuit Judge A Z Adkins. An order restrains superintendent J S Blitch from carrying out the electric chair and remands Buchanan to the penitentiary to serve a life term. Attorneys argued for life sentence after mercy was recommended and a murder charge connected to the agents' deaths.
The report notes there was no mercy recommendation for killing the other agent and the death sentence followed.
The annual R O T C training camp for students from the University of Alabama Tennessee Georgia Auburn and Georgia Tech opens at Fort Benning Monday and runs through July 19. More than 245 students attend with Auburn sending 37 engineering and 75 field artillery students Alabama 13 engineering Tech 39 ordinance and 13 signal corps students Tennessee 13 engineering and Georgia 38 ordnance and 17 signal corps students.
The Japanese silk industry will maintain a production curtailment of 20 percent for another year. Laws in eleven states prohibit marriage between Mongolians and white persons.
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