McCurtain Gazette. (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 20, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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thrust it throuAft the child .-TBe . .
little arms opened and closed once or twice
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609 SQUARE MILES OP FRANCE ■ constduction to enable them properly
SET ASIDE FOR U. S. FLIERS’ !to care for our machines in the field.
TRAINING. | Men who wtr.- sent abroad to
- learn the flying game while our fac-
And That’s Only One of the Tracts ilities for training were being de-
Our Birdmen Over There Will I veloped are now being supplemented
Utilize While They are 'by men who have had lheir traininS
... ion our home fields,
earning o Aviate. j American planes, while they will
!be ^as^ enouKb and powerful enough
'when|to participate in the regular bombing
^an^ eets i and battle work at the front, are de-
signed ultimately for a specific pur-
pose which may not be dilated upon.
For that reason, as well as to make
possible greater production, the type
and equipment has been standardized
They are not planned for the spec-
tacular work of the “ace" who flies
and fights alone. The work of these
“aces” is not the most important
phase of airplane fighting. Rather
our effort fill be to provide men and
machines able to co-operate in team-
work, to maintain attacks in mass
formation, each man sufficiently
skilled, however, and each machine
fast and powerful enough to meet
any individual emergency that may
arise.
Washington, April
America’s air fighting
down to the work of shooting up
Fritz in France and elsewhere—es-
pecially elsewhere—they’re going to
have a fine shop.
France has set aside several huge
tracts of land for airdomes, flying
grounds and landing places. One of
these alone is 20x30 miles—600
square miles of ground.
And they’ll need space, d’ye mind.
First, for great numbers of ma-
chines. Next, because big battle
planes, loaded with heavy, powerful
engines, pilot gunner, photographer,
wireless equipment, machine guns and
ammunition, must have elbow room,
believe us! Such a load requires great
speed to keep in the air at all, and
when the big bird comes to the
ground, it is going some—60 miles an
hour or so. That means that the
ground must be clear and perfectly
level for great spaces or there’ll be
disaster.
The sector from which the Yank
flyers will operate is comparable, to-
pographically to the Catskill moun-
tain region. Hills and valleys—they
were there first—aryl when Uncle
Sam came he had to give them the
skidoo.
Hundreds of acres of ground had to
be cleared and leveled, ravines con-
creted over, hangars and barracks
and repair shops erected—a great
and involved construction and engi-
neering job.
Much of this work already has been
accomplished—enough to provide for
SCHOOL NOTES.
Mrs. Arden Brown’s room of 4th
grades at the Herndon building is
now 100 percent op Thrift Stamps.
Mrs. Brown’s pupils are very much
alive on every issue. What room is
next.
The boys of the Idabel High School
are going to have their track meet
Wednesday afternoon.
The military boys are going to
have a contest and the best squad
will drink a cup of coco cola. Step
high boys and drink.
Mr. Nash acted as judge in a de-
bate at Durant Friday night, be-
tween North Texas State Normal
of Oklahoma. The question was
whether the government should con-
viiuugn to provide tor wnetner the government should con-
our first aerial forces. And we have i tinue fixing food prices after the war
built in France one of the greatestj Durant won all three decisions for
repiar shops in the world. But our the negative.
facilities in France are not yet suf- Idabel is going to be better repre-
ficient to provide airdome quarters sented at the Durant track meet than
for thousands of machines, even if ever before. There is going to be a
they had been produced on this side "
and shipped across.
For several months we have had
abroad in the airplane factories of
England, France and Italy, more than
16,000 mechanics who have been per-
fecting their knowledge of airplane
large delegation leave Thursday for
that place. Miss Say S tea wo will
represent us in the girls reading con-
test. Miss Melba Lightsey will play
for us in the piano contest. Herb-
ert Chandler will speak for us in the
boys oratorical contest. There will
be a squad, containing eight boys who
will represent us on the drill field.
We will have our track meet here
Wednesday to see who will go to Du-
rant for the various school contests.
There was twelve boys from the
High School and eighth grade who
signed up for the tennis contest.
Miss Birdie Fincher substituted for
Miss Rybum Friday at the Herndod
building. Miss Fincher taught be-
fore enrolling this year in I. H. S.
Herschel Williams of the seventh
grade is the best speller among all
the boys in school.
The way our glee club practiced on
the audiences last week we think
they will surely win some honors for
themselves and I. H. S. at Durant this
week.
Myrtle Hunt spent the week-end
with homefolks at Garvin.
The Sophamore Domestic Science
class has been making posters for
the last few days of the operetta
which the pupils of I. H. S. will ren-
der in the Lyric Theatre April 16th,
1918. This operetta is for the bone-
| fit of I. H. S.
The preliminary contests in music,
reading and oratory were held in the
High School Auditorium last week.
Fay Strawn, Vida Russell and Hattie
Dye were winners in reading con-
gest. Melba Lightsey, Lillian O’Neal,
and Verlie Cobb won in music con-
test. Herbert Chandler, Russell
Herndon and George Herron won in
oratorical contest.
Vida Russell returned Thursday
from a visit to Durant.
Sam Meredith is in training camp
at Great. Lakes, 111.
Pansy Hinton, Grace Bryant, Nel-
lie Montgomery, Mittie Splawn and
Herschel Williams are the champion
spellers in school.
L H. S. Seniors will wear food
conservation uniforms at commence-
went this year.
The boys and girls tennis games
will be played this week. There will
be two boys from Idabel High school
to represent Idabel at the Southeast-
ern Oklahoma tract meet held at Du-
i [ant tbe 18 an,i 20 of this month. We
| hope they will bring back the honor
I of champions.
The Sophomore Domestic Class, in-
stead of having their regular lesson
last Thursday went to Red Cross
headquarters and made surgical ban-
dages. Considering to the number of
girls who went they did exceptional-
ly well.
Miss Holt, our efficient music su-
pervisor, was called to Fort Towson
Tuesday evening to judge their High
School music contest.
We are glad to have Henry Hern-
don back with us after a long ab-
sence o naccount of sickness.
The students of I. H. S. are playing
off their tennis tournament. The win-
ners in singles and doubles are to rep-
resent us at Durant.
Our debate team composed of Ful-
mer, Baird and Smith will probably
debate at Walter, county seat of
Cotton County in Southwestern Ok-
lahoma next Monday evening.
Miss Ritchie was not able to meet
her Friday morning classes on ac-
count of sickness.
Dr. T. D. Brooks, president of the
Southeastern State Nofrmal school,
will deliver the commencement ad-
dress for the class of 1918.
May Day exercises are being pre-
pared for an outdoor program and
May pole drill May first.
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