Evening star., 1947-09-02

The horse Gas long as they can sell new equip
n,ent to go with him). Here. for &240 is an
aI-steel stake wagon with roller bearings and
oversize pneumatic truck tires.
The Ideal farm heresbouts," says an on
locker, will be 100 acres And It will cost
$4,000 to tool It,"
Lady Barkers-With Microphones
The din at the fair is terrible Even the
strongest barkers used to tire. Now the am
plfier Is ubiquitous. Slender girls are taking
ever the barking. They Groom their sales appeal
into the microphone. 1t comes out shril stem
toran.
There's nothing new at the fair, every one
says But Buffalo radio station has come TO
the fair for the first time this year to build its
farm audience. News and sports commentators
are broadcasting from plexi-glass booth on
trailer. Everything at the fair is news to them
The fair brings medicine to the farm The
county tuberculosis society has sent its trailer
to the fairgrounds and both farm and city folk
queued up to enter 1t are getting their chests
x-rayed at the rate of 100 persons an hour
Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Hospital,
which calls itself the Nations oldest institution
devoted exclusively to research and therapy in
cancer Git started in 1899, has large exhibit
on symptoms and diagnosis. The infantile
SJdI SSlS SOClcJv SAIuDlb H y reminder GnaG
Western New York's great epidemic Of 1914
started among the berry pickers in Eden, 10
! miles south of the fair
An Art Show Plus Hooked Rugs.
The womens building still contains the ex-
hibits of needlework, hooked rugs and braided
rugs. But 1t also has an art show now. Most
of the paintings are conventional portraits,
landscapes and still lifes. but the blue ribbon
has fittingly gone to an artist who has painted
one Of Buffalos great scenes-one of the huge
grain steamers leaving an elevator after un-
loading, the red portion of It's hull no longer
submerged.
At p. m. the hordes from the city begin to
arrive-not so much for the midway or the
fireworks but for the biggest box-office at
traction in the history of fairs-the Helldrivers.
There is something macabre in the spectator
delight OF watching automobiles capsize, collide
and do all the things that cause the carnage of
the highways. The announcer on the public
address system becomes staccato as he builds
up the excitement. The automobiles, standard
lower priced sedans Of prewar manufacture,
are braced with steel uprights inside and the
drivers are strapped in. These are Joie Chit
woods Helldrivers, one Of the top aggregatons
in this branch of show business. There goes
Frank Benz down the track at 20 mp.h. and
over a lop-sided ramp that causes him to do
an Immelmann roll (sideways) and get back
on his wheels before crashing through the rail.
But you haven't seen anything yet. Twelve
dilapidated wrecks, all sedans, are parked side
by size behind high ramp in front of the
grandstand. Here comes Joie himself at So
The ramp sends his car clean over the first six
wrecks. His front wheels trip on the seventh.
The car bumps along upside down over the
roofs of the rest and completes the somersaults
by falling off the last one onto its wheels again.
Joie Chitwood is still alive. (ais predecessor
was killed in 1s43) While Helldriving is 10
years old. who can say, There's nothing new
at the fair?'