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...advertising by booming the arms & ammunition industry, a new U. S. sport named skeet was created 13 years ago. An offshoot of trapshooting. its procedure of firing from eight different stations around a semicircle appealed to tony country-club members because it did a pretty good job of simulating upland game shooting. Five years ago there were 800 skeet clubs in the U. S., 20.000 registered skeeters. This year there are 2.500 skeet clubs, 100,000 skeeters...
Last week mountain folk from near & far gathered on the hills near Ashland, Ky. for Ashland's 8th annual American Folk Song Festival. Local roads were choked by the unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman...
...response was so immediate in the case of Mrs. Schroeder's contribution or offer to contribute to Noel Burnet's koala farm that it is possible your Letters column might awaken a similar response on behalf of America's greatest and, at one time, most beloved upland game bird. In fact, Rex. king of grouse, truly depicts what would be so lacking in our woodlands, if allowed to go the way of the passenger pigeon and heath...
...places the water was 150 ft. deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels. It was forseen that for ten hours a day. between tides, turbines could not turn, but while they were operating it was planned to use their power to pump seawater to an upland reservoir, whence it could return creating auxiliary power during Quoddy's idle hours...
...Maine as a whole was apathetic to President Roosevelt's expenditure of relief millions within its borders. The Maine legislature had failed to set up a Quoddy Power Authority, which was part of the agreement with the Federal Government. The ground for the upland reservoir proved to be so sandy that it would not hold water, and plans had to be made for a steam plant to operate during Quoddy's ten idle hours. Critics contended that for $16,000,000 a steam-generating plant could be built which would produce just as much electricity as the whole...