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Took Him Literally

Britons think we Americans are sort of crazy, anyway. When the announcement was made that the famous Kitty Hawk plane of the Wright Brothers was to be returned to this country from England, one of the big airway systems offered to bring it back. They suggested disassembling it, crating it, and flying it back in one of their big planes.

The Kitty Hawk has been in London,s Royal Albert Museum ever since the Wright Brothers, indignant at what they considered the unfair treatment they were receiving

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here at home, sent their priceless little plane to England for keeping.

So a representative of the airway system called at the Museum to look over the Kitty Hawk, and the situation in general. He said to the curator:

"\Me plan to fy her back to the United States.,'

The curator's face was ablaze with astonishment.

He looked at the little plane whose longest sustained flight was 59 seconds, and exclaimed:

"My word! Do you think she'll make it?"

Old Age Security

A giant Douglas fir on the Calapooya tree farm of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company has been assured a secure old age. The "Big Fellow," as he is called, is estimated to be 700 years old, and is about 11 feet in diameter 4 f.eet above the ground. The split top rears up about 150 feet into the sky. The forest patriarch will occupy a protected sanctuary alongside a Z7-mile logging road which was built around him rather than harvest him.

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