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THE SINGLETON ARGUS. WEDNESDAY.AUGUST 2. 1050U.S. MARBLES CHAMPIONNegro Boy’s TitleSaucers are Good NewsSINGLETON MARKI’NICN SALESLETON:henr BUNS nd JAMPLATTS. S TEA UNS. andturdayORDERSS.JYJ99D8CCaixitbBCilNE 48roThe internationally knowngame of marbles is taken very seriously by many Singleton youngsters, and news from the United States of a national tournament in this game would possibly interest enthusiasts in conducting a similar competition here.A steady-nerved. 12-year-old Negro boy recently became 1950 marbles champion of the United States. Tilton Holt, of Wilmington. in the State of Delaware, gained this distinction by winning the national marbles tournament in Eaton Rapids, in the State of Michigan The contest is sponsored each year by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a leading veterans’ organisation in the nation.Most of the contestants in the national tournament previously have won city and State elimination contests in which thousands of boys participated. A few boys were sponsored by units of the armed forces.GREEK ENTRANTThey Come From U.S. Not MarsW. Bailey and Sons Grainger FA medium supply of fruit and I On Tuesday vegetables, a good attendance [submitted to of buyers operated and the other heavy oThe flying saucers are real: they are made not in Russia or in Mars, but In the United States: and when the U.S. Air Force sees fit to release information on them U will be good news.declares Henry J. Taylor, ‘well-known Journalist and radio commentator, in the Aug-One contestant. 15-year-old Costa Satarha of Athens, Greece, happened to be in Eaton Rapids when the tournament was held and was permitted to enter. Although he lias only one hand—he lost the other in n landmine explosion in Greece shortly after the war—Costa made a good showing before he was eliminated in the middle of the contest.To win the tournament. Tilton had to eliminate all other contestants in a three-day series of matches. In each match, two players would see who could knock seven marbles out of a 10-foot clay ring first.In addition to being named 1950 marbles champion. Tilton was awarded a 3-foot gold trophy. a motor bicycle and a threc-day trip to New York City for his victory.ust Reader's Digest. The article is condensed from a brondcast.The saucers vary in size. Tay- j lor says, from small white discs 20 inches wide to big ones 250 feet across. Nearly all arc . round: some are flat and edged up like saucers, others are raised in the centre like a pie. I Some are guided, others are not. | They emit no stream of light or smoke, have no indication of a propelling mechanism and no sound. They can stand stationary in the air. then dash off to right or left with increasing speed. Their function is an important military secret.Nine out of ten reports of flying saucers are due to imagination or confusion. Taylor states. But several have been substantiated. Nine flying discs sighted over the Pacific Coast of America by United Airlines Captain E. J. Smith, were real. Five seen over the Cascade Mountains of Oregon were real. So were a hundred-foot saucer observed over New Mexico in April. 1949. and a 250-footer sighted over Mndisonville. Kentucky. on January 7. 1948.BIG PROJECTSYNTHETIC WOOL IS NEXT ON THE USTEffects On Export Trade“Natural wool is next on the list to be replaced by a synthetic product made from petroleum.” Prof. T. G. Hunter said on Monday night in an address before the Australian Institute of Engineers.Professor Hunter, who holds the Chair at Sydney University said the Du Pont group in America and the Imperial Chemical Industries group in England were perilously close to perfecting artificial wool.• The exact progress they have made is a closely-guarded secret. Professor Hunter said In a statement after the meeting.Artificial wool would certainly equal natural w'ool in its qualities.The same thing lias happened with silk. he said. “The Japanese silk industry was killed by the invention of nylon and rayon from synthetic materials. No young woman in Sydney to-day would dream of wearing silk stockings if sheThe saucer development is a big and expanding experimental project which has been progressing in the United States for three years, Taylor says. It has gone through three stages, reaching peaks in public observation in July 1947. January 1948 and April 1950. The saucers have grown bigger with each phase.A flaming, cigar-shaped object nboul a hundred feet long,” reported over Montgomery. Alabama. by two reliable Airlihes pilots, was real too. the author states But it was not cigarshaped. nor was it a flying saucer It was a U.S. Navy experimental fighter, a great jet airplane of incredible speed. Though nearly round, its extremely fast flight (another military secret made it appear elongated and cigar shaped to the human eye.Chances of finding a flying saucer are slight, because most arc made of material which disintegrates in the air. If you find one. however, you will read the following message stencilled on it:Military secret of the United States of America (and a number'. Anyone damaging or revealing description or whereabouts of this missile is subject to prosecution by the United States Government. Cali collect at once 'Telephone number and address of a U.S. Air Base. Non-explosive._market held firm.Poultry: A medium couping and late high rates were maintained.Hides and Skins: A fairly heavy supply of rabbit skins, the quality being only fair with mildewed and damp skins predominating. Values held firm.A good number of hides, sheep skins .in lighter supply and values held firm. Horse hair and hare skins showed a slight rise over late rates.Following are the prices realised at auction:Fruit: Mandarines 1/3 to 3 6: oranges 3/ to 3/6; grapefruit 2/ to 2/3: lemons 1/ to 2/3.Vegetables: Pumpkins 6/ to 24/: grammas 12/ to 18/; cauliflowers 6/ to 12/: cabbaRe 8/ to 9/; beetroot 8/ to 9/; turnips 4 to 6/; lettuce 6/.Poultry (per pair): cockerels 17/6 to 27/; roosters 8/ to 12/; hens 9/ to 17/6; pullets 8/ to 14/6: drakes 20/ to 23/; ducks 7/6 to 12/; bantams 2 6 to 4/: turkeys 2/ lb live weight.Hides and Skins: Hides 12/ to 26/; calf skins 3/6 to 4/; sheep skins 3/ to 35 ; hareskins 9d. to 2/6: rabbit skins 1/6 to 6/6; fox skins 2/6 to 7/3; horse hair 7/6 to 8/.Pigs; 64 sold; a very lightyarding made up of about equalnumbers of bacon pigs andporkers witli a few backfatters. Competition was spirited and values held firm at last week’s improved rates and in places a shade dearer.We sold for Andrew Stern-beck 2 at 14 10/. 1 at Y8; D. M. Hungcrford 1 at 11/13/6; H. J. Gardiner 2 at 10/11/6, l at 5/4/6; Colin Wake 2 at 10/1/6; B. Becker 2 at 10/0/6; Mrs. Ruby Brooker 1 at 9/19'6; L. lime, 2 at 9/6/6, 2 at 7/ 18/6; P. Howard. 1 at 8 15/6; J. West 1 at 8/4/6; N. C. Graft am No. 1 dairy 1 at 7/19/6; H. A. Bell. 1 at 7/18/6. 5 at 7/17/6, 4 at 4 19/6; R. Thomas 3 at 7/11/6. 1 at 6/19/6. 2 at 5/18/6, 1 ul 4/9/C; P. Thomas 1 at 6/19/6; R. Prior 2 at 6/ 15/6; L. Williams 1 at 6/8'6; P. J. Cooper 2 at 5 15/6. 5 at 4/15/6; H. Langsford ana sons 12 at 5/10/6; C. L. George 1 at 4/18/6; J. E. Langdon 4 at 3/18'6.Calves: (266. i The penningwfas a fairly heavy one considering the weather conditions, the majority comprising light bobbies and the usual percentage of weedy sorts with a few pens of medium quality vealers and light weights. A full attendance of buyers operated very freely throughout. The market again being a good one with values holding firm for alllt;lasses at last day’s good rates. We sold for: R. H. Andrews at 15/8/6. 7 at 12/18/6, 6 at 9/8/6; Miss G. H. Andrews 2 at 15/8/6. 2 at 12/18/6; W. A. McGregor. 1 at 13/18/6: H.Moore. 3 at 10/1/. 3 at 6/10 6. 1 at 5/4/6. 4 at 3/12/6; C. C. Moore 1 at 10/1/, 1 at 5 3/6: T. I. Capp. 1 at 7/13/6; T. Keegan 1 at 6/8/6. 6 at 4/15.6: C. L. George 1 at 5/11/6: J. Farmer 1 at 5/0/6; W. Freer 1 at 4/8/6. 1 at 2/14/6; Colinables were in also citrus fr in large atter tlon throughoi and very sati ces were effect Poultry: Tin very heavy, d continued we1 the market wi tory one and sales.Rabbit Skii was a fairly 1 proportion w* d it ion and a consignments quality, and scarce. Comp active with with late impiited number 5/6 per lb.Hare Skins and the marl best skins mt Fox Skins: lor skins aval 5/3 each.Hides were numbers as market ruled best lines to Sheep Skin: than of late wools of inf woolled skins Horse hair forward, but late rates wi 7/31b.The followi alised at auc* Horse hair hides 29/3 28/9 each: r hare skins 25 3 each.Vegetables: 36/ doz: cau doz; turnips 4/ to 9/ bag per doz. bch. doz. bch.; gr doz; pumpkii Fruit • per to 22/6; grap es 1/6 to 7/9 to 2/6; mane Poultry «i 3/6 to 5/: best pullets fowls to 23. fowls 15/ tc to 116: M23/6; Musce 12/9; pigeon lb. live weig: Pigs: Supp and made v. baconers and of stores, baconers was in advance o with stores 1 prices.We sold flt; 10/19/6; R. 15 6; B. Bro L. Morris. 6 Calves: Ru tinue to re* the offering one and cc of bobbies medium weig Competition very strong t heavy bobb weights whic dearer at ret were in strc there was a
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