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EXCAVATING FOR
PACKING PLANT
: NEAItLYFINISHED
Material on Ground for Super
structure and Contracts Are
to Be Awarded Next
Week.
Two huge steam shovels that have
been engaged for weeks past iti the
work of excavating the immense ee'.-j
lar space and foundations for the new j
Skinner packing plant on the South
Side have about finished the job.
The first of next week the con
tracts for the platforms and super-!
structure will be awarded and the ac
tual work of pouring the concrete will
be started. , The government' has
recognized the proposed new plant as
an essential war industry and lias
srien aid to the purchase and assem
bling of the thousands of tons of
building 'materials which will enter
the mammoth enterprise. , .
The company has already purchased
and' is assembling on the site 35,000
barrels of cement. 900 tons of steel
rods for reinforcement, 36,000 tons of
crushed rock and, gravel and 4,000,000
brick. . , . .
Add Three Stories.
It was originally planned to erect a
main building five stories in height,
but.-the new specifications will call
for an eight-story main structure.
First plans provided for a-cold stor
age space of 2,000.000 cubic feej. The
new plans will embrace the construc
tion under the entire plant of an im
mense sub-basement with a storage
capacity of 3,000,000 pounds of sweet
pickled meats. ' ' --'
In order to speed up the work of
construction separate contracts will
be awarded for the big cellar and the
unloading and shipping platforms; . .
Most Modern In America. ,
The new Skinner packing plant,
when completed, will be the most
modem plant m America in its ar
rangement. It will consolidate under
one roof every department, each di
vided by firewalls and connected by a
fireproof vestibule. The arrangement
provides for economy of time in the
handling of the products "of each de-
partment and t will bring operating
costs to a minimum and efficiency to
the maximum. "
, The company will have 500 men and
women in its employ at the start and
the comfort of these employes will Tie
conserved with dressing rooms, lava
lories, toilets, shower baths, club din
ing and rest rooms for each of the
fe.xes. each of the dressing rooms
will fbe provided with lockers, lava
tories, shower baths and will be steam
. boated. . ' ' :. . v : . ,
The produce Department of pack
ing' house is a very important one.
The Skinner Packing company is now
operating its produce department in
, ,itj own building at 1116-18 Douglas
t treet, Umaha. I he plant . the 5km
r.er. Packing company will be approxi
mately three times as larpe as the
present plant of the fckmner Man
tactunng company.
Brothers Who Sought to Fly as Team in
Army, Air Forces Are Parted Wheri
Nervous Shock Ends Career of One
By WALTER A. PETERS.
Plans formed months ago by two
brothers, Charles and George Evans,
2552 Manderson street, to form an
"air team" and fly in the same air
plane with one as gunner and the
other as pilot, have come to a sud
den end. The application of George
Evans for a first lieutenancy at Dorr
field. Arcadia, Fla., has been rejected
because of severe nervous shock and
Utttwve eyesight resulting from a
s at cnmonia last summer at
the School of Aercrautics at Austin,
Tex. Twice by a matter sf days he
has missed securing a commission.
The two boys are sons of frof.
Paul V. Evans, formerly of Bellevue
college, but now educational director
and camp secretary of Fort Omaha
for the Young Men s Christian as
sociation. Members of the same foot ball and
basket bail teams at the high school
at Ohiowa, Neb., the two brothers
played on the same foot ball teams at
Bellevue colle'ge. When the United
States entered the war in April, 1917,
Charles Evans, th a junior at Belle
vue, left college to join the machine
gun company, "the suicide squad,"
of the old Fourth Nebraska. George
Evans soon afterwards left his
teaching position at Orleans, Neb.,
and enlisted in the same unit.
As soon as the brothers had formed
the purpose of being together,
George entered the school of aero
nautics at Austin, Tex , and Charles
entered the flying school at Self
ridge field, Mount Clemens, Mich., to
take a special course tn aerial gun
nery. He has recently been awarded
his first lieutenancy and is now doing
coast ' patrol work around Mineola
and Babylon, L. I.
But' George Evans contracted
pneumonia at Austin )2 days be
fore he was to receive his commis
sion. '
Repeated telegrams to his parents
in Omaha warned them to prepare
for Irs death, four days of anti
toxin treatment saved his life, how
ever, but left him in so nervous and
shattered a condition that he was
given leave of absence. After his re
turn he was sent to Dorr field, Ar-
tnuia, r j a.
. uetpite nis extreme nervousness
and the defective sight in his left eye,
he managed to keep his condition i
secret from his commanding offi
cers until two weeks ago, when re
peated accidents to his plane in the
air and on landing and several smash
ups caused a special examination to
be ordered of his case. Confronted
by a special examining board of the
commanding officers at the field he
broke down and with tears confessed
his real condition.
"If you continue to fly thereis but
one end for your career, and that is
death," he was told. His officers have
recommended him for a commission
in the aircraft inspection service. His
decision to resign and to enlist in the
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For some time many indications
have pointed to the rapidly increasing
popularity of the light-weight car.
over- heavier models, particularly in
view of present war conditions, but
not until recent action Dy me Can
adian government has the official
stamo of approval ever been accorded
light cars as a class.
In revising the motor laws to meet
the new tax requirements, Canada
ers are not to fly together, Charles
Evans is making progress as a flyer.
A recent letter to his parents while
he was still at Sclfridge field before
he was assigned to Long Island, tells
of his flying over seven towns and
making sketches of them.
"After two or three hour! i of this," Above-Prof. Paul W. Evans. Belle-
he says, "one is rather tired, but it's
great sport to get up about 7,000 feet
and then side-slip or spiral for about
5,iKX) feet. 1. hen you can surely get
some sensation.
"We were 'shadow shooting this
morning, and even that is a great deal
of fun. Two planes go over the lakes
and one shoots the shadow of the
other. It is a grand and glorious
feeling to shoot and then to see the
old shadow rush right into a burst of
about 20 bullets.
' "Another stunt "we do here is to
shoot at a large canvas bag towed by
another plane. Thursday there were
IS -planes all shooting at the same
target They use 'tracer bullets for
this, These have a compound which
burns and which looks like a small
vue college professor, who re
signed to do Y. M. L. A. work;
father of the two boys.
Below Left Lt. Charles R. Evans,
who won his commission and is
now flying.
Below Kight Ueorge fc-vans, re
fused a commission because of
illness contracted in training
camp.
spring to enter Young Men's Christian
association work at Fort Omaha. He
has been education secretary only at
the fort until recently, when the res
ignation of Camp Secretary Taylor
gave Professor Evans the additional
task of acting as Young Men's Chris
tian association director at Fort Oma
CANADA TAX LAWS
FAYOR LIGHT CARS
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AutomoVles ' Which Make
Smallest Demands on Gas
oline and Rubber Fay
Smallest Taxes.
came to the conclusion that whatever
increase was necessary should fall
for the most part on those cars that
made the maximum demands upon the
natural resources, such as gasoline,
rubber, roads and labor. Following
this principle, officials found that such
demands were in direct proportion to
what a car weighed, or expressed in
other words, directly proportional to
the horsepower of the engine.
In devising a new formula for deter
mining horsepower, factors were in
troduced that favOr those cars whose
weight does not require a large engine
to move it. As an example of the
way the new rating works out, the
typical four-cylinder car must bear
only-a 12 per cent increase in tax,
the light six a little over 20 per, cent,
while the big six may stand fully
33 1-3 per cent larger fee.
When asked as to the effect this
change brought about upon the Frank
lin, Sir. Pelton, Franklin distributor
in this territory, pointed out that the
horsepower rating in this case re
mained unchanged, and as a conse-..
quence the- motor tax the Franklin
owner in Canada is required to pay
is no larger .
Manawa to Close Labor Day. .
Manawa park announces that Labor
day will see the closing of this, its
best, season. Thousands and thous
ands of people have been visitors at
the park this year, enjoying the bath
ing, boating and picnic grounds and
having hilarious evenings in the
amusement section. The dancing pa
vilion has been well crowded all sea
son and not an accident has occurred
to mar the happiness of an occasion.
The park management plans some
extensive improvements for the com
ing season to open next spring and
as indup is going to have a big
time ix-r everyone there today and on
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Omaha Pioneer Eight Hour Store
IRI
AYPEN
H THE CASH STORE
Will Close at 1 P. M. Monday
LABOR DAY
Special Notice to the Public
Appreciating your demonstrated consideration of the peo
ple that work, your hearty response to all requests for food and
fuel conservation induced by patriotic motives, your cheerful
acceptance of the inconveniences of limited delivery of mer
chandise, etc., we announce r
Beginning Tuesday, September 3rd
Continuing Our Eight Hour Dag Plan
This Store Will Open at 9 A. M.
Close at 6 P. M., Saturdays Included
Shop Early Help Make the Short Hour Day a Success
eking company will be approxi- decision to resign and to enlist in the starv so that the gunned can always ha, Fort Crook and Florence field. H , It Dnvio 7Vf ITAVThJPAf'Q UVlHjf C
' three times as larpe as the marines has been overcome by his tell just where his shots are going" Pie is a brother of Mrs. Z. T. Lindsay, ' it UJomA ly JLLCX 1 UUL O 1 It of. I
:t plant of -the, Skinner Manu- parents' persuasion. Professor Evans, father of the boys, head of the Woman's bureau of the !
mgcompany. , ' Meanwhile, although the two brothr resigned his position at Bellevue last Nebraska Red Cross. - -
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BEAUTIFUL LAKE HOME LOTS
This Addition was planned 25 years ago, trees being set out at that time in even rows, land all seeded to fine blue
grass. Lake Manawa is the ideal spot for your summer home. This is the best and prettiest front on the lake. Good
car service year round. , There will never be another plat like it. Plat restricted. You should own onfc.
OFFICE ON THE GROUNDS ADJOINING SHADY GROVE
. . Take Lake Manawa car. Prices from $250 to $750. Lowest Terms. 10 Cah, balance monthly.
: - Sale Starts 10 A. M. Saturday , August 31st, and Will Continue Until All are Sold
FIRS! COME FIRST SERVED FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
WALLACE
BENJAMIN AND COMPANY
Realtors
Lake Manawa and No. 19 North Main St,, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Phone 295
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