The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-08

it last? No could tell but 1t wasn't long before
| the enthusiasm of the members themselves was al
obvious factor toward longevity. Guiding spiri
| behind the organization is ex-serviceman Win Gallup
whose managerial hand has whipped the organization
| into shape, has given the band summer program
is best in the city for number of years. There
is always disinterest to contend with He battered
it down He won the confidence Of the men in the
organization; battled with skepticism. This spring
he set out uniform project. Best indication OF
his own work. that of the band and it's director is
the response he got from the street in contributions
Easiest money collected said Win. Be
cause the business street had so contributed, he
passed up the deal to emphasize the Legion's con-
nection in fatherly way with the band, had his
trumpet banners herald Sank Centre the Main
Street of the Sinclair Lewis piece.
Sunday at the Legion convention in Brainerd,
the outfit its uniforms for the first time,
strutted down the street with its drum majorette,
its four girl fanfare rumpeters leading the 33pece
marching unit. And there is further story OF
service in these uniforms. Several months ago
Gallup sought prices on uniforms. He contacted
usual houses, dug further into the situation FIN
ances were problem. Finally he landed on an idea
that acceptable to the sponsors of outfittng the
band with trousers and shirts in a medley of blues,
offset with gold braid and ties. But the real job
of service done by ten WPA ladies, on the sew
ing circle Interested in the job of uniforming this
hand thew offered the labor to make the shirts That
item saved the band exactly 80 dollars from custom
made shirts. For two months they worked on these
shirts and the girls uniforms, finally made completion
on the project The Legion insignia twins the collar
tabs each shirt. Came the time nearer wnen
the band to go it's first trip to show its stuff
and no pants. 1t looked almost like painless
band until-Friday The Friday before the Sunday
they to go. There was gold braid to tit to So
pairs of trousers. Again the WPA women set TO
work Because their time during the week runs out
on Wednesday, they were called together by Miss
OBrien, in charge, on their own time They re-
sponded gladly shortly after Friday set to work
with fingers flying BY S;sU tnai esen iae a
lars" Gallup pointed out this week, that held the
entire uniforming project under the three hundred
mark . For this fine bit of service the ladies
are to be taken for chicken dinner
There's another little story that may be written
later about this organization Sustained now through
ladies' the hackers of the American Legion the band
by next year is expected to be on pay-your-own-
way basis. :. This year host of playing engage
ments is acquainting the surrounding country with
the unit-next year jobs expected to be easier
to obtain. :. milestone in community service
The band plays on!
A 1929 Bentley racer, that will do 40 miles per
hour, went through few days ago with two Wlnnl-
peg drivers. The paid nine thousand dollars
for it that ten years ago. Irve Nelson, who fixed
a flat for them out here the highway was telling
of it. ut was like going back to horse ana buggy
days-pumping up a tire by hand" Dean Ferry
yelling at Clyde Silver in this manner Hi-yo Sill
ver-r-r-r! Dorothy MCGEE and Archie Lane get
ting on the battle-ground. Look, amt he clever
Just like Winchell!
Condolences are odd, sometimes ironical, Sc
quences of events that pop up in all quarters And
talking with George Conkey the other morning, we
observed that in the condolences few
wears ago it was series of airplane crashes. Today
in the headlines have been three submarine slnkngs
and the practical application of certain rescue
inventions known lungs" to which we Will return
shortly George telling that in his own work,
or in his daily going about he's observed the strange
relation of one incident to another. Faith it's true
You may rarely have flat tire, then OF a sudden
pop goes two three in a successive chain that Is
Irritating. . . He told of one day when man. VINO
had hauled a refrigerator number OF miles, brought
this model to him for repairs to damages made on
the trip. The same day similar model machine
was brought to him after being broken, identicaly
in a haul . The payoff is: They are the only two
refrgerators he ever worked of that particular
model and brand.
And that returns us to the submarine sinklngs.
There's man behind the rescue work whose name Is
by now familiar to most everyone-the inventor
of the Momsen lung. The lung resorts to practice
of eaualzed air pressure artificial breathing for the
stricken men, and halts on the return to the sur
face to eliminate probability of the bends" caused
by bubbles of nitrogen forming in the blood in SWIFT
change of pressure. Lieutenant-commander NOM
sen (known as Swede to his companions), 42-year-
old U. S. Navyman, is the inventor He Is
brother of Sue Momsen who teaches music on the
local school faculty. In charge of the rescue work
Of the Squalls, that went down short time ago,
Momsen is described natural born tnkerer,
whose inventive genius has been utilized by the
Navy department.. He's quite a Fellow TOO as