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Ziegler: "It comes out like water from a fire hydrant...
...fire hydrant, an electric power pole, and a tree on Soldiers Field Road combined in succession to stop a car and two College students returning from a formal dance in Boston early yesterday morning...
...Awful?" The Apalachee School in Morgan County had only two teachers for all seven grades. Its floors were so rough, said the principal, that "the boys & girls are always getting splinters in their feet. It had no lavatory and no running water, only a hydrant in the yard and two primitive outdoor privies. "Isn't it awful?" demanded the principal. "I won't go down there." The rickety Ola schoolhouse in Henry County was not much better. Plumped in the middle of "an almost treeless field of pale dust," it had only four rooms and four teachers...
Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...
Citizen's Reward. In Columbus, Ga., after civic-mindedly cropping the two-year growth of grass which had been hiding a fireplug, Horace Gordon was the first to pay a $6 fine for parking near the newly exposed hydrant...