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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, March 3,1976
Pancake champ doesn’t care how she runs
LIBERAL, Kan. (UPI) — Pancake race champion
Sheila Turner doesn’t mind whether she runs in track
shoes on a cinder course or in an apron with a skillet in
hand on main street—it’s still a race.
Mrs. Turner, 22, won the 27th annual Shrove Tuesday
race for the second year in a row, beating the winner of
the Olney, England competition by 1.3 seconds. Her time
of 59.7 seconds over the S-shaped, 415-yard course
compared with the world record she set last year of 58.5
seconds.
“I don’t really think there is a secret. You just get out
Drug runners
find CBs handy
SANTA FE, N.M. (UPI) - New
Mexico State Police say citizen band
radios, a handy tool for motorists trying
to avoid speeding tickets, are also
popular equipment for drug runners.
“It’s become just another tool for
individuals transporting contraband,”
said Sgt. Neil Curran, a state police
narcotics officer.
State police have mixed reactions
about the rapidly expanding use of
citizen band radio. Although they can
be used to assist law enforcement, their
prime use seems to be by speeding
motorists trying to avoid policemen.
Since a large amount of drugs is
smuggled through New Mexico on its
highways, the CB radio is helping drug
runners avoid police for a different
reason.
Curran estimates 75 per cent of all
state police seizures of more than 100
pounds of drugs — particularly
marijuana — have involved the use of a
CB radio in some form.
“About 90 per cent of the traffic on
the CB radios is to find out where
‘Smokey’ (a police officer) is at, and
you don’t know whether the person
wants to know that because he’s
speeding or because he’s carrying a
load of grass across the state,” Curran
said. “The drug runners are getting the
smokey reports just like they would if
they were someone who was speeding.”
Curran said some drug running
across the state involves “convoys,”
several vehicles that are in constant
communication by CB radio.
“They may have someone running
the ‘front door’ (the term used for the
lead vehicle in the convoy) to try to
locate where the police are so that two
or three other vehicles carrying the
drug won’t be stopped,” he said.
Curran also said CB radios are used
in drug smuggling operations by air.
“The ground units and the aircraft
can be equipped with CB radios to help
them locate any police in the area,” he
said.
But Curran and Capt. M. K.
Alexander say there are advantages for
police officers in the growing use of CB
radios.
Alexander said 115 of the state police
cruisers are now equipped with CB
radios, roughly half of the black and
white units on the force.
“I think it actually assists law
enforcement more than it harms it,”
said Curran.
Fight
crime
People who cash checks or make
bank deposits regularly need to take
extra safety precautions. Robbers and
thieves know that elderly people get
social security and pension checks
around the same time each month, they
know when many workers get paid, and
they watch regular depositors.
Don’t always cash your check at the
same place, on the same day of the
week, or the same time of day. Vary
your routine to confuse possible at
tackers.
When going to the bank with business
receipts, vary your route of travel.
Come and go at different times, and
carry money in something that does not
look like an obvious “money bag.”
Don’t approach a night depository
when someone else in standing there,
and watch any loiterers hanging around
a bank or store. These people could be
waiting for you!
This tip provided by ACT Against
Crime Together, statewide crime
prevention program of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation in cooperation
with the Griffin Daily News.
there and run as hard as you can,” said the mother of one
and wife of an oil field worker.
Sheila ran hurdles and relays cm her high school and
junior college track teams and said track is her faverite
sport.
But pancakes are not her favorite food.
“My favorite food is probably Mexican food,” she said,
adding that she eats pancakes “every once in a while” but
more often than she did a year ago when she said after the
race, “I can take ‘em or leave 'em.”
Susan Hillier, 25-year-old wife of an antiquarian
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bookbinder, won the Olney race in 61 seconds. Both
winners received a traditional kiss of peace at the finish
line.
Liberal kept the silver skillet traveling trophy and now
leads the annual competition, 15-11. The 25th race was for
friendship and didn’t count.
About 2,000 spectators lined the race course at Liberal,
including Gov. Robert F. Bennett and a mining prospector
from New Mexico, who made authentic sourdough pan
cakes for the runners. The Liberal race was followed by a
parade. After the Olney race, the hundreds of spectators’
crowded into the village church for a traditional service
conducted by the vicar, the Rev. Ronald Collins.
According to legend, pancake racing began 500 years
ago when a British housewife was fixing pawakes on
Shrove Tuesday to use up animal fat before Lent. When
she heard church bells calling townspeople to services, in
her haste she ran to the church with skillet and pancake in
hand. It became a tradition in Olney and the liberal
women proposed an international canpetition in 1950.