The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 29, 1947, Page 4

States of the Union who proteste of. a fiery, disposition; a pure Yankee. lived at Philadelphia. founder of shot, ob g Nieholl was was difficult to decide from th nevertheless, there were compe tent judges who had their doubt on the point, . Matters were at this sta masterpiece the world. The captain had i conveyed to the Polygon a PUBL FJ + | ba eed eee . a 2 a: The following, ‘students have done well abovs a e average work for _ the second’ six iweeks!: ‘period of ".. the second semester of the school year 1946-’47, .as released today by Principal Horace O’Bryant: - 3.00—Anne Doughiry, Lorraine Nottage, Agtonica Smith, Nellie * », Menendez, Marilyn Bennett, Lois Winkler. 2.50—Betty Canova, ~ Judy Doughtry, Giselda Calleja. 2.75—Pauline Hoover, A. C. Evans, Dale Ellis, , Richard Wade. 2.60—Vincent Molina, Blauvelt, Patsy Harrison, Lane, Andre Mumford. 2.50—Nathalie Valdez, Rosemary Kerr, Galey Sweeting, Gerry Al- bury, Clara Bow Bailey, Rose Ma- rie Pinder, Nancy Pickens, Mary Elizabeth ‘Weech. : ; 2.40—Flora Granda, Merili Hil- on. 2.25—Erasto Perez, Ann Wel- lons, Louise Dedge, Conchita Va- rela, Jean Olsen, Edna Jean Gard- ner. Jerry Henriquez, Nancy ancy Junior High School Honor Roll - The following students have done well above average work for the second six weeks’ period of the second semester of the school year 1946-’47, as released today by Principal Horace O’Bryant: _ 3.00—James Cooper, Edyth Hampton. 2.80—Johanna Pickard, Doris | Cowley, Betty Davis, Yvonne Mc- Cardle, Frances Meggs, Lorenzo Murguia: 2.75—Mae Kaplan. 2.60—Beatrice Demeritt, Mil- lard Solomon, Marlene Zorsky, ! _ Jimmie Butler, Grace Fernandez. | 2.50—Lewis Barber, Eleanor | Bruner, Joe Christy. | 2.40—David Henriquez, Bill Saunders, Wayne McFarland, Ray- | mond Rothfuss, Patsy Johnson, ; Charles Wells, Lorraine Bennett, | Fidelio Hernandez, Allene Speer, | Betty Wooldridge. ' _ ~2.25—Zaida Diaz, Alice Johnson, | . Valter Vinson, Jr. { 2.20—Jean Bonner, Edward | Bruner, George Cathey, Gail Wal- | lace, Nellie Garcia, Betty Thomp- son,’ Birmann Klussendorf, James | Pettis, Xavier Sanchez, Betty Con- ant, Martha Gandolfo, Jay Higgs, Gail Sweeting, Jay West. 2.00—Paul Gibson, Shirley Lay- man, Dorothy Miller, Eiena Mon- zon, Betsy Ramsey, Becky Greg- ory, Gary ‘Watterson, Colleen Moore, Jose Sanchez, Gerald Her- | nandez, Betty Portmess, Leonard Salazar, Courtney Sampson, Ot- tilee Aguero, Anthony Perez, Mitchell Appelrouth, Lucilo-Gon- zalez, Frank Roberts, Clayton Sims, Anita Fernandez, Manuel Santa Cruz. 1.80—Lillian ee ae ER oop ate ame | Sawyer, Anne! ~~ Chap “4 Baxbieane; peace having le er; ie took. a} fared, declined to try e experi-| ri t presi Pace ckeettas en ta. Micholl, ‘diagysted. by. this eb- it wo Gun Club. It followed day by day |Stinacy, tried to tempt Barbicane| ting the Columb ‘of the committee. | by offering him every chance: He| in a posed The entire plan of work proposed to fix the plate within} heads of the | the popular excitement to the|two hundred yards of the gun./tors. | ss his we highest pitch. — : Barbicane. still obstinate in re~«| Barbicane continue work The purely scientific attraction | £uSal. A hundred yards? Not even! without regarding these attacks; | was suddenly intensified by the) *yCnty ive GPITE of all his arguments, how-) fo incident: + “At fifty then!” roared the cap-| Y* ** in Misholl «tes 72" e have seen what legions of| ‘2 through the newspapers, “At|“" ever, Captain. pinion. Mons admirers and friends Barbicane’s|!Wenty-five yards! and I'll stand) edid project had rallied“round its au- thor. There was, however, one single individual alone in all the never seen. This riva} was a man of science, like Barbicane himself, 3 against the attempt of the Gun/ "Nicholl could not captain him-|‘ttenchments, and notable to fight. | ub. : self at this reply; threw out hints a cre ages a ag a This perseroring enemy: the! of cowardice. : Ss eed Pt acne Sisigey eg neg 7 r ¥ ‘ daring, and <inlens is name was Captain Nicholl; he. Now if Barbicane .was a great ter forger of plates; the one night and day at Baltimore, . the.other forged day. and night at. Philadelphia. As soon as’ ever Barbioane invented a new shot, _Nicholl invented a new plate; each followed a current of ideas essentially opposed to the other. Which ‘of these two inventors had the advantage over the other it results ohtained. By last accounts, however, it would seem that the armor-plate would. in the end have had to give way to the shot; ge,. and victory seemed to. rest with the - shot, when the war. came to an end on the very day when Nicholl had completed a new § armor- plate: of wrought steel. It was a its kind, and bid defiance to all the projectiles in “Washington, challenging the pres- ident of the Gun-Club to break it. IC SCHOOL. High. School Honor Roll been de-| Barbicane returned for answer that, even if Captain Nicholl would be so good as to stand in front, he would not fire any more, » d Nicholl, dri ven into:his last en- mond Inquirer a series of wage conceived in these terms, and on | an increasing scale: bape No. 1 ($1,000).—That the: nec- essary funds for the @x- periment of the Gun - Club will not be forth-— aa poe} No, 2 ($2,000).—That the op- | eration of casting. a can- — non of 900 feet is imprac- ticable, and cannot possie - ~ bly succeed. . 3 ($3,000).—That it: is. returned no answer; perhaps he never heard of them, so absorbed was he in the calculations for his great enterprise. .. * When his famous communica- tion was made to the Gun Club, the captain’s wrath passed . all bounds; with his intense jealous was mingled a feeling of absolute impotence. How was he to invent]. anything to beat this 900-feet Columbiad? What armor - plate}. could ever resist a projectile of 30,000 pounds weight? Over-| No u im- whelmed at first under this vio- ossible to load the Co- - lent shock, he by and by recov- umbiad, and. that: ie ered himself,: and resolved | to pyroxyle will take. fire crush the proposal by the weight |. - Spontaneously under the” @}of his arguments. . pressure of’ the projectile, " He then violehtly attacked the| No. 4 ($4,000).—That the: 'Co- :- labors of the Gun Club, pub- ee will burst at'the ished a number of letters in the ie se Aaa newspapers, endeavored to prove} No. 5 @5,000).—That the shot - . will ‘not. travel farther . than six miles, and “that it will fall back again a few seconds after its dis. cnarge. . be : Notwithstanding the ‘impor- ; tance of the challenge, on the: 19th of May he received a sealed packet containing the following superbly laconic reply: - bc U.taie “Baltimore, October 19. “Done, eke) “Barbicane.” (To be continued) Barbicane ignorant of the. first principles of gunnery. He main- tained that it was absolutely im-: possible to impress upon any body whatever a velocity of 12,- 000 yards per se€ond; that even with such a velocity a projectile of such a weight could not trans- cend the limits of the earth’s at- mosphere. Further still, even re- garding the velocity to be ac- quired, and granting it to be suf- ficient, the shell could not resist the pressure of the gas developed by the ignition of 1,600,000 pounds t t -_-—— Oe —_—_ Aftermath The closet’s.full of dresses ~- My wife of shapping thrills, 3 The store was full of brand new styles, ; My pocket’s full of bills. ‘ Prehistoric Pueblo Indian laid claim to. New, Mexico lands long oe years before the advent of: the ; 2,20—Celina Machin, Patsy Rus- |'‘Nayaj h i- ell, Bill Albury, - Shirley Tift,| 2.70, 224 Apache. These semi fs nomadic groups are generally re- Thelma Degler, Winifred Cruz,’ ; : ; 2.00—Jack Crouch, Bexnard. garded-as -late-comers to ae. pK Kaplen, James Malgrat, Charles | Southwest. raine Adams, Nancy Sterling, | Oropeza, Cecile Perez, Exiquio Tony Machado, Solita Avila, Mary ;Vidal, Billy Hartmann, Albert Lou_€owley,' Roger Ruhsenberg- ‘Pita, Jacqueline Sheafer, ‘Doris er, Faye Bervaldi, Bill Holmberg, Tyson, Joan Crusoe, Nellie. Diaz, Jéan Knowles, Anne Sawyer, ;Harvey Johnson, Edwin Overlin,. Jack Smith. [Sune Yates. ep Ai ae cag 1.80—Robert Miller, George! 1.75—Barbaia Crusoe, .. Donald Carmona, Beverly eParker, Wil- Kerr, Cynthia Fennander:, liam Freeman, Claude Valdez,! 1.60-—Fay Clark, William ; Hil- ' Roy Giles, Richard Howard, Hil-|ton, George Sharp, ‘ary. 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