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Adocrtislrig Manager Vol. Vlll JULY. 1931 No. 10 Permission is given to reprint with or without credit. in part or in furl, any article appearing in this Magazine Contents of This Issue Pages Pensacnla Rridpe Dedication Attracts 20,000 People ........................................................................ 4-5 General Grant Remembered at Holly Springs, Miss .................................................................... 6-7 Helen Fcllows Is Woman Telegravher at Newburg ............................................................................ 8 Three Conncll Ernthers Serve at Dora, Ala ............................................................................................9 First Pensacola Tour Is Sr~cccss............................................................................................................ 10 Conductor W. L. Heath Ketires June 1 ..................................................................................................11 Snyder, Okla., Employes Entertain Shippers........................................................................................ 12 News of the Frisco Clubs ...................................................................................................................14-21 Tulsa Entertains 2,800 Musicians May 21-23 ........................................................................................22 Ft. Worth Boy Singers Use Frisco Enroute to Washington ........................................................... 23 Pat W. Conley Celebrates Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary ..............................................................26 Herbert Foley of Enid Wins National Oratorical Contest ................................................................28 Frisco Passenger Trains 97.4 Per Cent On Time..................................................... :........................ 29 Locomotive Fuel Performance Records ............................................................................................30-31 Pension Roll ...........................................................................................................................................32-33 Homemakers' Pages ..............................................................................................................................34-35 .I. he Twilight Hour ........................................................................................................................................ 36 A Page of Praise from Frisco Friends ....................................................................................................37 Flashes of Merriment ..................................................................................................................................38 Frisco Mechanic ....................................................................................................................................39-45 Frisco Family News ............................................................................................................................. 46-72 MEMBER THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MACAZINE n The Frlsco Employes' Magazlne Is a monthly pr~blleatlon devoted prlmarlly to the Interests of the artlve and retlred employes of the Frlsco Llnes. It contalns storles. Items of cur- rent news, pemonal notes about employes and thelr families, artleles deallng wlth varlous phases of rallro~d work, poem% cartoons and notlces repardlng the sewlce. Good clear photogral~hssultable for re~)roductlonare especially deslred, and wlll be returned only when retlueated. All cartoons and drawlnm must be In black India Ink. Employes are lnvlted b wrlt8 artlcles lor the magazine. Contrlbutlons should be type- wrltten, on one slde of the sheet only, and sllould be addressed to the Edltor, Frlsco Bulldlng. St. Louls. >lo. Dlnlrlbuted free among Frlsco Employes. To others, prlre 15 cents a copy; aubscrl~tlon rate, $1.50 a gear. Advertlslng rate wl11 be made known upon appllcatlon. BRIDGE DEDICATION ATTRACTS 20,000 IVESTY tl~ousantl 1) c o p l e 'ensacola is Host to Hug promptly at 9 o'clock the next from hlabi~~na.Flo~,ida and le morning, when one of ~ensaro- T Mississippi. with a generous Throng June 12 and 13 la's famous parades marched sprinkling of b~lsiness nleil and down Palafox Street. Headed by industrial leadrrs from Memphis. -$3,500,000 Project the grand marshal. Mr. Julius F. St. Lonis and other mid-western Wernicke, son of one of the orig- cities, gathered in Pensacola, Opened to Public inal sponsors of the bridge pro- Florida, on June 12 and 13 to take ject, the parade contained bands part in the mammoth celebration ar- is a splendid building of reinforced and troops from the U. S. Army post. ranged in honor of the official dedica- concrete and hollow tile structure with bands, bugle and drum corps and tion of the three mile bridge across Ite floors eicvated 18 feet above sea marching sailors from the Naval sta- Pensacola Bay, another more than a level. Its bath house accomrnodaies tion, American Legion units, Spanish mile in length across Santa Rosa 500 persons. Its dining room 300, and American War Veterans, Boy and Girl Sound, and the opening of the luxur- its dance hall 200. A fishing pier 1,200 Scoutu, fraternal and labor organiza- ious $150,000 Casino on Santa Rosa feet long Is in process of completion. tions, and dozens of private cars Island. and reaches from the casino out into carrying officials and visitors. The grand opening climaxed a the gulf where water is 22 feet deep. When the parade reached the Pensa- building project begun early in 1930. The casino cost of construction was cola end of the three mile bridge, it when a q-oyLouis. St. Paul $150,000. halted for the formal opening cere- and Minnea .,s financiers decided on These were the sights which greet- mony. Allan G. Siems, of St. Paul, president of the Pensacola Rridge one of the most ambitlous tlevelop- ed the eyes of the visitors to the pre- Corporation, formally presented the ment programs of the depressibn