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ShortageUnpreparedNow IhiU tire arms are going llio *way of all civilian luxuries, into \the Irenjuirr cheat nf the nation's ( armed forces, squirrel hunters and . duck-decoy enthusiasts arc search- . ins attic and barnloft for grandpas old rifle to replace the modern .no calibre rifles they have already . ^ contributed, nr arc planning to do- i ;f nate. to State Guard units for thoduration. ,11Ore man Likely to feel the early £ effects of a return to pioneer fire ^ arms Is Hacker Martin, who npcr- § ates the Did Cedar Creek Mill and G n n s h o p. rnuto 4. Jonesboro, j Stacked up in the workroom of h\r. mill arc scores of guns, of every : make and model from a piece : dating back to the late lfiOOs to ; the rifle ho finished making for himself a month or two ago.Martin cleans and repairs guns | for his neighbors and when his . mil! isn’t keeping him too busy, he finds lime to fashion Iris own nflcs.He never has much of a chance tn use these latter himself, for there is Aiwa vs a customer whn has heard nf his skillful work and wants tr buy his rifles as soon as thev have been completed, At present Martin is making a rifle for an author-friend in California. tMost dramatic piene in Martins stack of firearms is a :ong shm musket that Is old cnoiipi tn have*11 N l i % i , ■ l t. * »- ▼ - -seen service in the war nf IB*2.Of the flint-lor.li tvpr, it fires with an ear-deadening roar nno * cloud of gunpowder a moke.One nf 1 ho first Col! revolvers to be made w tho most valuable cun Martin possesses. It hears the Patterson. N. J.. address of i s maker, Col. Samuel Colt, with he date 18.17, just two years after the famous first Colt revolver was produced. and Is worth several hundred dollars.Several pislota of Civil W nr vintage mav also be seen in Martins More room, but the t\\\c*r*st ptceo i5 a gun mnde about Ifift*. It ulnrt-• a aFully as interesting as the collection 0/ firearms in Hacker Martins mill is the mill itselj. almost 100 years old. and said to oe the oniy one i?i the United States operated, by wooden coy wheels. Seen here arc the cops themselves, in just as pood working order as when tney mere first installed in the mill of sometime between 1637 and JSsO. The bins are filled at all times with flour and corn meal, and Miller Martin has enough work to keep the mill going day ana night.Gunman ah.ip of more than a century ago is demonstrated by Hacker Martin, mill rmd gun shop owner of Jonesboro, who is shown here ramming home the charge in an 1SJ2 musket with a Tennessee hickory ramrod. A powderhorn can be seen in the pouch slung over his shoulder, ana the hand large at which he heats hij.metals stc/ids by th.e ziicrH at his bc.dc,|C c !fcStephen Foster To Be Honored1tickh\vtttli5 a gun inn tie about Aomeiime between the years 1837 1*d out to bn the wheel; ock type ^ R tfl ho the only;but wa.n chanRCo by its ^cgo ^ h United States operatingowner to tho flint- ock vane * and on %voodencog wheels, and thewas well on the way to becoming, oriRinni oops are ati|j jn use, grinc-stjjl a third style when Usu,g ttour nnd uor„ meal day and . -i..v,c.gave up in disgust and left his gin ^^ during the busiest, seasons. | Baras to v n, K\-T . tn rust. ^ 'rate ooasMo-coast radio BroadcastOld Cedar Croak Mill, whrro ^ ^ Vatican City is only tomorrow will honor tho memoryMartin maintains hi* shop, . Stephen Fokin?; Foster, famousan unusual item m itself. Built at __lt;—--------!. . „ i-Happv” Chandler of Kentucky,,American compose., 'who will lead the singing of My!”'The program will no tame ■iiq]cJ Kentucky Home,” a compoai-jfi ■ the Mutual Broadcasting System.:tjon by Fester. ip•from 3 to 4 p. m.. Eastern Via;:! |ViTime, and will feature Bing Crosby,! * «I Dinah Shore, General S. G. Henry! 1•of Fort Knox, Ky., an unnamed Sales of new motor vemcles in ecolonel in the ASF speaking from iCanada during April 1942, tntnUed. 0a foreign shore. Gov. Keen John-pSJfi units, compared with 28,*,, iqa or. of Kentucky and Senator A. B.-April, 1941.__•____________
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Sun, Jul 05, 1942
Page 15
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