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Centralized Traffic Control
Improves Rail Service
In Savannah, a man with a tele
phone chest transmitter below his
lips and a loudspeaker overhead sits
before a control panel that looks like
something out of “Buck Rogers—
-2000 A. D.” He watches a succes
sion of small white lights, which in
dicate the progress of a train, march
along a miniature track at the. top
of the panel. The white light ap
proaches a point on the panel where
a red light, designating a siding
switch, is burning. White comes
closer to red—closer. The man
watching intently, leans forward. He
turns lever, depresses button. Elec
trically powered relays click in series
and a siding switch swings into posi
tion at a point along a section of
track at Thalmann, Georgia, 65
miles away. The white light on the
panel changes to red and moves
from the main line on to a siding and
stops. A second white light, denot
ing another train approaching from
the opposite direction, stays on the
main line and continues past the sid
ing where the red light is waiting.
The man before the board throws a
lever to another position and again
pushes a button. Immediately a
switch below the siding changes pat
tern and the red light, flashing back
to white, moves out of the siding on
to the main line and continues its
journey. All of this in a matter of
seconds.
That, in brief, is a quick look at
how the Seaboard Air Line Railway’s
Centralized Traffic Control system
works in controlling train movements
over the railroad between Savannah
and Thalmann. This mechanical
brain, that executes its functions
and purposes through a series of suc
cessive step-by-step electrical re
lays, provides a single track railroad
with most of the advantages of dou
ble track but with less construction
and maintenance costs than are ne
cessitated by double track facilities.
No train may leave Savannah or
Thalmann or enter CTC operated
tracks without first obtaining clear
ance from the dispatcher by tele
phone. Accident hazards are reduc
ed to a minimum by the. CTC sys
tem itself and by alert dispatchers
who manage the constant flow of
north and south bound locomotives
as easily as does your young son at
his toy electric train table.
A more careful study of the panel
would show that a miniature track
layout of the entire district under
Centralized Traffic Control opera
tion is reproduced across the top of
the board. This layout traces the
route of main line track and spots
the sidings, signals and switches
along the way. Colored lights indi
cate the progress of trains and
their positions between stations. The
situation of signals and switches is
shown by corresponding lights in
tailed above the orderly rows of sig
nal levers and code starting buttons
that control their functions. An
electrically operated graph in the
shelf of the panel automatically re
cords a permanent log of the trains
that pass over the track. This graph,
in combination with the lights above
it, gives CTC dispatcher a complete
visual record of the passage of
trains.
Out along the track itself, there
are wayside signals at each of the
switch-controlled sidings and rules
specify that the crew of a train
finding a stop signal there must com
municate at once with the CTC dis
patcher before proceeding. A tele
phone is provided at these places so
that the train crews may call in to
the CTC board for instructions or
when manual switching is to be done,
trains stopped due to emergencies
or repairs made to the track. The
voices of these men reach the CTC
dispatcher through loudspeakers. He
talks back to the train crew through
the telephone transmitter below his
lips. ' i
And thus the traffic flows. Freight
trains and passenger trains; troop
trains and emergency trains; back
and forth, north and south, day and
night. As many as thirty-six trains
a day have recently been moved over
these 65 miles of single track, with
sidings spaced every three to six
miles, between Savannah and Thal
mann.
Advantages of the CTC system,
some of which were touched on in a
preceding paragraph, are far reach
ing and are enjoyed by the railroad,
its customers and its employees.
Foremost among these advantages
is the considerable saving of time
made possible by speeding up sched
ules. Delays and waitnig time are
cut to the bone.
Then too, flexibility of operation
is assured and the capacity of a sin
gle track is materially increased.
Accident hazards are practically
eliminated. No train moves without
clearance from CTC whose electric
eyes and arms stop and start this
train or that depending upon tha
THE SOUTHEASTERN WORLD’S FAIR OFFERS SUPREME t
ENTERTAINMENT IN ATLANTA — SEPT. 29 THRU OCT. 8
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BROS. CIRCUS
Minnie Pearl, radio’s coy prima
donna of the hills, whose wailing
laments are No. 1 on Georgia’s
own hit parade of mountain music,
will be one of the dozens of enter
tainers on hand when the great
double-midway of the Southeastern
World’s Fair opens September 28th
for its annual ten-day harvest car
nival in Atlanta.
The Grand Ole Opry cast, led by
Diva Minna Pearl, will play their
git-tars and sing their hill billy
classics six times daily in a tent
staked on the Plaza between the
Livestock and Poultry Buildings.
George D. Hay, Ernest Tubb and
Company, Pee Wee King and Com
pany, the Duke of Paducah, Curly
Fox, Texas Ruby and Company,
and other WSM favorites will sing
their mournful — and popular —
numbers.
There will be entertainment of
every type. The diminutive Del
Rios, who sold war bonds and of
fered post-war advice freely at last
year’s fair, will be back, singing
and dancing as one of the main
features of the Johnny J. Jones
sensational midway group. The
pint-sized Del Rios are known as
three of the tiniest Lilliputian per
formers to have toured America.
The Sun Bros. Circus will present
ten acts, including the comely
Teeter Sisters, Jacqueline and
Jeanne, in their featured All-
American Thrill Girls Aerial Act
each afternoon at 2:30 P. M., and
again at 8 in the evening.
The ten-act circus will give a
spectacular show twice daily in the
grandstand both matinee and eve
ning 11t will include Hill’s edu
cateo elephants, the Tony Town
Terriers, Circus Pony Revue, the
Teeter Sisters, George Royale, the
The FLORIDAN COUNTRY CLUB at Ilowey-in
the-Hills, Florida is located in the beautiful hills and lakes
section of the state. This popular year ’round resort is
favored throughout the summer by delightful, lake
cooled breezes. A special summer and fall rate of SB.OO
single or $14.00 double is being offered. This rate in-
circumstances involved.
Finally, and of inestimable impor
tance, CTC is a morale builder for
the men who run the trains. Under
the CTC method, a few simple rules
governing the observance of signals
and reporting now take the place of
the more complicated regulations
that are required .by the old system
of operation.
And so it comes to pass that
through the magic of electricity and
continuous research, railroading
takes another long step forward.
LOST—Kerosine Ration book
with the name of Wiliam New
kirk If found return to Local
Ration Board
Wheeler County Eagle Alamo,, Ga.,Friday September 22, 19445,
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mad juggler, and the Flying
Rockets on the flying trapeze. Sli
vers Johnson will be headlined
with his crazy flivver, and the
Lovolas, Pat and Willa, will b< on
their high wire along with their
company in a supreme hand-bal
ancing act.
The Johnny J. Jones shows, in
cluding Girl Revue, Glass House,
Monkey Circus, Motordrome, Mys
tery animal. Noah’s Ark, Passing
Show, Side Show, Unborn and Wild
Life, as well as the Chairplane,
Ferris Wheels, Fly-O-Plane, Merry-
Go-Round, Octopus, Rideo, Tilt-A-
Whirl, Rocky Road, and Lindy
Loop will pack the long midway
with laughs and thrills for the
throngs who mill through them
each year.
Each night’s entertainment will
close with a great fireworks dis
play with 28 separate, fiery fea
tures. The show will include n
pyrotechnic display of aerial
bombs, devil spinners, an illumina
tion of the lake, a bombardment
surprise, comedy, geysers, strutting
peacocks, incandescent stars, and
a separate and new finale each
evening. '
On the serious side, the Fair
Management has proudly an
nounced the first southern presen
tation of a National Hereford
Show, which will be sponsored
jointly by the Georgia Hereford
Breeders Association, the American
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GEORGlA—Wheeler County.
Dr. Morris Kusnitz, Jr., guardian
of Joel Samuel Kusnitz and Leland
Warren Kusnitz, gives notice that
।he will apply to the Honorable
Eschol Graham, judge of the Su-
Superior courts of the Oconee Ju
' dicial Circuit, at 10 o’clock A. M.,
.on the 14th day es October.
1944, at Mcßae, Georgia, to sell.
All of Lot of land No. 48 and
j 19 acres of even width carved off
the Southeast side es Lot No. 49,
। all in the 11th land district Wheel
er County, Georgia, and containing
221 H acres, more er Um.
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Hereford Association, and the fair
| management. More than 365 cows.
' bulls and heifers, the champion
stock of the white-faced breed,
have already been entered in com
petition for the SIO,OOO in prize
money.
Many growing Georgia herds
will be represented in the Hereford
■ show, and breeders from twelve
other states will truck their bovine
i specimens into the Atlanta Fair
outdoor arena.
The Georgia Jersey Cattle show
• and the 4-II club calf show will
share honors with the royal Here
fords. Swine from many pens in
Georgia will be entered in the
Georgia Swine Breeders’ Show, and
hundreds of roosters, hens, ducks,
geese,. turkeys and pigeons will
preen in their barred cages as they
are judged in the National Poultry
Show. 4
Another headline attraction and
one that will interest every Geor
gian is the “Million Dollar” War
ner Robins Army Air Service Ex
hibit from Robins Field, Georgia,
with Major Daniel J. Duval in
charge. The exhibit will occupy
more than an acre of ground anil
will be located on the lower plaza
adjoining the main gate entrance.
The Grand Southern Harness
Horse Races will be held five days
on the Lakewood track, for a S4OO
daily purse. Two races will be
held on Saturday, September 30;
Monday, October 2; Wednesday,
October 4; Thursday, October 5;
and Saturday, October 7.
The Fair will be opened with a
spectacular Victory Parade with
many civic and military units join
ing the cavalcade of animals and
entertainers from the Jones Show,
the Circus, and the Grand Ole Opry
cast.
eludes not only room dhd meals, but all activities such as:
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horseback riding, swimming, golf, tennis, and the finest
of fresh water fishing. The Club is readily accessible
to all southern points by rail via Seaboard Airline to
Wildwood, Florida or Atlantic Coast Line to Orlando,
Florida. Guests with reservations will be met at train.
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of reinvesting the proceeds, because (
of the small income of said wards’
' property sought to be sold.
This 12th day of September, 1944.
Moris Kunnitz, Jr.,
; Guardian of Jool Samuel Kusnitz
and Uland Wanan Kuanfts.
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BIRTH CERTIFICATE
GEORGlA—Wheeler County.
Netice is hereby given that
Raiford Harri-on. filed with the
Court of Ordinary, of Wheeler
County, Georgia, a petition to
establish the time and place of
birth
Said petition having been filed
on September IS, 1944
D N Achord, Ordinary
Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-
Spangled Banner Sept. 14, 1814,
during the siege of Ft. McHenry by
the British.
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Cellophane Used M W
Cover Against Gas'
One of the -many war jobs assigned
to the familiar transparent film finds'
cellophane in the form of a gas pro
tective cover for use by our armed
forces in case the enemy should re
sort to gas. Several of these cape
like covers are issued to each man
and woman in the overseas forces
as protection against possible attack
by poisonous gases; and each sol
dier’s cover equipment uses as
much cellophane as is required to
wrap 1,450 packages of cigarettes.
When it is recalled that gas casu
alties in the first World War are re
ported to have reached substantial
totals, it can well be seen why our
government has left no stone un
turned to provide our invasion
forces with every possible pro
tection against the use of gas.
The garment is not a substitute
for a gas mask which, incidentally,
is also wrapped in cellophane until
issued, but is designed to keep the
fine spray of blistering gases, such
as mustard, from touching the skin,
clothing and equipment of the fight
ing men, the doctors, nurses and
other exposed personnel.
A special type of cellophane was
chosen by the army’s chemical war
fare service because it proved to be
more impermeable to the poisonous
gases than any other lightweight
transparent material. The cover is
expendable, is thrown away after a
gas attack and new ones issued.
Many Materials Make
Good Garden Mulch
Besides slowing evaporation of
water already in the soil and keep
ing soil temperature down, mulches
save weeding and cut down on the
harmful packing of the soil when
tramped.
Lack of mulching material need
never cost you a crop If you look
around a bit. Try grass clippings,
straw from oats, wheat, rye, rice,
and beans; slough hay, salt marsh
hay, alfalfa hay; strawy manures;
leaves raked from lawns; shredded
cane, shredded corn stalks, pine
needles, peanut shells, rice hulls,
buckwheat hulls. Also shredded red
wood bark, seaweed, tobacco stems,
ground corncobs, peatmoss, sphag
num moss.. And where plentiful, cot
tonseed hulls, cotton burrs, clover
chaff, alfalfa chaff, spent hops and
pea vines.
Excelsior used in packing makes
a serviceable mulch as does tar
paper (for cool soils), building and
wrapping paper, newspapers, card
board, corrugated paper, wood shav
ings and sawdust. For the benefits
of summer mulch, all these mate
rials are spread between the rows
on top of the soil and not hoed into 1
it. The soil itself should be culti
vated and spread lightly with a bal
anced plaiit food before the mulch
goes on.
Chemists’ Incomes I
A study of chemists’ incomes re
veals that earning capacity reaches
I its maximum at approximately 60
years of age. The central point
I for beginners' Incomes in 1943 was
slightly over $2,200 a year, inclusive
of salaries, fees, and bonuses. Os
this group, 25 per cent were earn
ing less than SI,BOO a year and 10
per cent less than $1,200 a year,
while 25 per cent had annual in
comes in excess of $3,000 and 10 ■
per cent in excess of $3,400. Os those
with eight and a half years of expe
rience, one-half were earning more,
I than, and one-half less than $3,750,
a year. Ten per cent of this group'
earned more than $5,219 a year. Be-:
yond the 10 years’ experience level
the spread in earning capacity be
comes markedly accentuated, tha
report continued. For chemists with
14% years of experience, annual in
comes at the upper level, $7,189,
were almost two and one-third;
times as great as those of $3,019 at j
the lower level.
Garden Irrigation •
Emergency irrigation means dig
ging a six to eight inch hole beaua
each plant and refilling this witH
water at least three times before
leveling the soil again. It do^s many
times the good that spraying the,
same amount over the garden will
do. A canvas hose that lets the
water ooze through its pores to
soak the soil without washing is a
great convenience. Where your gar
den Is level and you have water
tc lead along the rows, use your
hand hoe or wheel hoe to open two
to four Inch furrows out some eight
inches from the crop rows. Then
lead the water into these. Count on
watering your vegetables thoroughly
once a week. Test each time with
your hand trowel to make certain
the soil is wet down the depth of the
blade. . .
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Poultry Feeds
Poultrymen win get the moot out
of a feed when used for the specific
purpose for which it is designated.
Five main classes of poultry feed
Include chicken starters; broiler
mashes or combination starter and
broiler m’aShes; growing mashes;
laying uaafn or combination lay
ing and breeder mashes; and breed
er mashes. Use of specific feed for
the specific meed will conserve the
most critical ingredients, namely
proteins and vitamin supplements,
and permit more efficient use of
grains and their by-products. Even
at a hither price, it is said, prop
erly designed mash not only saves
lead, but usually givsa a greater
wm ever feed Mat j
