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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, June 27, 1973
Cap shooters animated with small figures are late
19th-century products. Examples of toy guns and
bombshells have delicate triggering mechanisms.
(From the Frank Laughlin Collection, Wichita, Kan.)
Yesterday’s Discards--
TODAY’S TREASURES
by Jean Barnes
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Cap gun's rare
Cap guns of today are real
istic toys but the cap shoot
ers of the 1880 s and 1890 s
were devised primarily for
entertainment —a noisy but
safe way to celebrate the
Fourth of July.
Many cap shooters of that
day were animated with
small figures. When the trig
ger was pulled the pressure
might send the small figure
into action to explode the
cap.
Cap shooters evolved from
the toy cannon that was used
in Fourth of July celebra
tions in the 19th century.
These cannons used powder
and a fuse and were con
sidered quite dangerous.
In the 1860 s caps were in
vented and toy cannons were
made to fire them. From
there it was just a step away
from cap pistols and the ani
mated cap shooters of the
late 1880 s.
As with all other toys, they
reflected the times in which
they were manufactured.
For instance, “The Chinese
Must Go” shooter is a reflec
tion of the agitation against
the Chinese coolie in San
Francisco and other Califor
nia cities at that period. The
cap is put in the figure’s
mouth and when the trigger
is pulled a kick in the pants
explodes the cap.
Another type of cap shoot
er was the bombshell. This
was a small, palm - sized
head molded in the likeness
of some famous person of
that day — Admiral Dewey,
George Washington and com
ic strip character The Yel-
Buses rolling again
ATLANTA (UPI )-The Metro
politan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority (MARTA) resumed
limited service today, apparent
ly ending a six-day-old walkout
touched off by a contract dis
pute.
Although the drivers were
voting during the day on a new
contract accepted by leaders of
Amalgamated Transit Union Lo
cal 732, more than 50 per cent
of them showed up to work and
MARTA elected to begin bus
service again.
All bus routes were expected
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low Kid were a few. A string
was attached to the top of
the head, a cap inserted in
the mouth and the shell was
then dropped against a hard
surface to explode the cap.
Cap shooters reflect a great
deal of ingenuity in design.
Carved first in wood, the
molds were made in bronze
and-the shooters were cast
in iron. Some of these ani
mated figures were no more
than half an inch in height
so that the triggering mech
anism was delicate and of
ten intricate.
Names of the shooters
were often a part of the de
sign and the word “patent
ed” is usually incorporated
on the handle or barrel. The
shooters have a fine old pa
tina created by a coating of
lacquer over the iron to pre
serve the metal.
It isn’t likely that there
are more than just a few
cap shooters left for the col
lector to acquire. Their scar
city is attributed to the fact
that these were outside toys
and most were damaged or
lost. When new they sold for
a nickel and certainly never
more than a quarter. While
a parent may require that
care be taken of expensive
toys, the cheaper ones have
a shorter life span and are
easily replaced.
Something for a collector
to consider now is which of
today’s toys surviving to the
21st century will be sought
by future generations of col
lectors.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
to be running on time Thursday
provided the 1,100 drivers vote
in favor of the new agreement
which calls for an increase of
66 cents per hour spread over
two years plus fringe benefits.
The walkout was also sched
uled to be taken up in federal
court today. U. S. District
Judge Albert J. Henderson di
rected union leaders and some
of the rank-and-file to show
cause why they should not be
cited for contempt for ignoring
a restraining order which bar
red a work stoppage.
State of the nation by QOL test
By DON OAKLEY
KANSAS CITY - (NEA) -
Nothing may be finer than to
be in Carolina, especially in
the morning
Oklahoma, where the wind
comes whistling cross the
plain, may be an experience
. . . the heart may yearn for
its old Kentucky home . .
Georgia may be on the mind
. . . one’s dying request may
be for carriage back to old
Virginny ... but on balance,
all things considered (and
they have been), when it's a
matter of QOL, it’s California,
here we come — followed by
Colorado, Connecticut. Wash
ington. Oregon and Wyoming.
Those six states alone of the
50 can claim to have an excel
lent over-all QOL — “Quality
of Life" — at least as mea
sured in a study just released
by the Midwest Research In
stitute of Kansas City, Mo.
At a time of great technol
ogical advancement and
growth in material wealth and
Pierce
returned
to Georgia
William “Junior” Pierce, con
victed of four murders includ
ing two in South Carolina, has
been moved to a Georgia prison.
The transfer from the Cen
tral Correctional Institution here
means that Pierce, 40, will not
likely be tried for two other
murders for which he has been
charged in South Carolina.
Pierce was convicted and
given life sentences in the mur
ders of Margaret “Peg” Cuttino
at Sumter in December, 1970,
and in the death of Ann Good
win, a North Augusta babysitter.
Pierce has been charged in
the slayings of Kathy Jo Ander
son of West Columbia and James
L. Sires of Beufort.
Pierce allegedly wrote a letter
dated June 23, the day following
his transfer to a Georgia prison,
saying he feared for his life in
the Georgia correctional sys
tem.
Pierce was transferred to the
Diagnostic and Classification
Center at Jackson, Ga.
“When I arrived here at the
prison yesterday (Jackson) I
had to move out of ‘Big B’
house or be killed,” Pierce was
quoted as saying in the letter.
“They moved me to ‘D 54’ be
cuse of the setup here I walked
into.”
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A PRINCESS for a fiancee
inay be reason for that
broad smile on face of Lt.
Mark Phillips, 24, on
grounds o f Buckingham
Palace in London. His in
tended is Britain's Princess
Anne, 22.
emphasis on GNP. the Gross
National Product (the mone
tary value of the nation s pro
duction of goods and services),
the question of the quality of
life in these United States as
distinguished from its quantity
is becoming of increasing
concern.
The purpose of the MRI
study —a refined and updated
version of an earlier one by
the institute — is to develop a
systematic methodology for
assessing social, economic,
political and environmental
indicators to reflect the over
all “health” of the nation and
its citizens' well-being.
To the extent that the indi
cators used by the research
ers are a valid measure of the
quality of life, the results pro
vide a comparative picture of
conditions in each state at one
point of time — 1970.
Nine indicators were used
to provide the framework for
the QOL assessment:
—lndividualstatus
—lndividual Equality
—Living Conditions
—Agriculture
—Technology
Boy slain
NEW YORK (UPI) - A
group of children were playing
outside a housing project in
Brooklyn when a 14-year-old
boy came by and took one of
them, 3-year-old Darrel Boyton,
to a basement.
Soon afterward Wednesday,
Darrel’s 9-year-old brother
came looking for the child.
The 14-year-old boy, police
said, came out of the basement
and told the brother to follow
him if he wanted to find Darrel.
In the basement, police said,
the child found his brother’s
body floating face down in a
boiler room catch basin. A rope
was around Darrel’s neck.
The 14-year-old was charged
with homicide. His identity was
not revealed because of his age.
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—Education
—Health and Welfare
—State and Local Govern
ments
More than 100 individual
factors were combined to
develop the composite QOL
measures for each of the
above categories. For exam
ple. under Health and Wel
fare. the number of physicians
per 100.000 population was one
of 11 factors. The percentage
of occupied housing units with
plumbing facilities was one of
nine factors under Living
Conditions.
Raw scores were converted
to index form and, after sta
tistical weighting, each state
and the District of Columbia
was given one of three ratings
— excellent, average or sub
standard.
Cautions the author of the
report, economist Dr. Ben-
Chieh Liu. who was assisted
by Robert Gustafson and
Bruce Macy, undue import
ance should not be attributed
to slight variations in state
score or rank Mindful that
comparisons can be odious, he
points out that a very small
difference in a state s score
for any given QOL indicator
or the omission of even one
variable could result in a sig
nificant shift in the ranking of
that state.
For certain of the QOL cat
egories, the variation among
the states was found to be
relatively large. This was par
ticularly true in the areas of
technological development,
agriculture and economic sta
tus.
But for other important
categories, the differences
among states were sometimes
unexpectedly small. For ex
ample, there appears to be lit
tle difference among the
states in the areas of health
and welfare and individual
status. There is much closer
similarity among states in the
social and environmental indi
cators than in the economic
and technological.
Quality of Life is not neces
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State by state, the “Quality of Life” ranking is determined by nine basic indicators.
and material wealth — beyond
a certain minimum level, as
yet undefined, say the re
searchers.
For instance, high income
low QOL cases were found in
Delaware, Florida, Illinois.
Indiana. Maryland and Michi
gan In contrast, such states
as Colorado. Idaho. Minneso
ta. North Dakota, Oregon.
Utah and Washington all had
relatively higher ranking in
QOL than their respective
income rankings.
However, it was found that
states with very low levels of
per capita income also tended
to rank low in all measures of
the quality of life.
How valid are the findings?
The researchers compared the
results with an earlier MRI
study conducted in 1967. and
also with two similar studies
published by Lifestyle maga
zine in 1972 and as far back as
1931.
While there is less agree
ment among the four studies
as to which are the 10 best
states, they are. to a surpris
ing degree, unanimous in
pointing out those which rank
the lowest. The states with
low QOL ratings have held
that position for more than
four decades, primarily be
cause of depressed economic
conditions in those states.
In summary,say the re
searchers, “it may be con
cluded that some minimal
economic well-being is a nec-
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essary condition for achieving
minimum acceptable QOL
Beyond that, an extremely
high income level does not
necessarily represent an ex
cellent QOL ... In other
words. QOL has its own ingre
dients. and material wealth
bears little ascertainable rela
tionship to it."
Which is exactly what the
old songs have always told us.
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