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Crewe Takes Contest
From BUGS BY 7-3

CreWe railroaders exploded for
six runs in the second inning to
down Buckingham 73 on the
BUGS home diamond Tuesday. Ell
mo Bryant, Buckingham pitcher,
had trouble hitting the corners
with his slow curve, and the Rail
readers had their bats waiting
when he started throwing them
down the middle.
Three walks loaded the bases in
the second inning. A double scor-
ed two runs for Crewe and left
two still on base Another walk
loaded the bases again. Joe Mea--
doWs, CreWe shortstop. stepped up
to the plate and hit for the fence
He connected for a grand Slam
homer and that was Just about
the end of the day. It IS the sec
ond home run pitch Bryant has
served up in his four years of
high school baseball
Buckingham managed to push
across one run each III the fourth,
sixth and seventh innings.
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Comes Wednesday, April "a
The Hub and Leggett's
ia. Mfg. Co. & Standard Oil
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-19
Bucs Take Game
From Amelia 90
By JAMES WARREN

Buckingham swung big bats
against Amelia last Friday to down
the Orioles 90. 1t was the first
game Of the season for Amelia and
six of the nine runs by Buckingham
were unearned as the Orioles COM
mitted ten errors
Elmo Bryant. Buckingham's left
hand ace who has started every
game SO far this year, buffaloed
the Orioles and allowed only three
hits.
Buckingham jumped quickly to a
lead in the first inning and by the
fourth inning had compiled their
nine run lead First baseman Cary
Bryant paced the attack hitting
three for four. Third sacker Roy
Hill. who is hitting $50 for the year,
picked up two for three Friday.
James Warren started on the
mound for Amelia. but was relieved
by Fred Wade in the fourth,
Amelia scored their runs in the
fourth and fifth innings.
Alton Hill drove over the first
run for Amelia with a line smash
over the short stops head scoring
Ashton Edwards from second, who
had walked and hat taken second
on a pass ball. For the other score,
j. B. Flippen drove in Nelson Harris
who had walked and stolen second.
Doug Blankenship collected the only
other hit off Bryant
Jonah Gregg made the defensive
play Of the game for Amelia. In the
seventh inning he scampered way
to his right and made a shoestring
catch of a line drive that would have
been an extra base hit.
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SIDELXVE VIEWS
Rewriting Track Records:
BY JOHN STICK

Gene Nene The Mr. Track Hampden sydney back in the
l950-52 period, 1910 VIII
The young coming along wipe
off the Death Valley books
Freshman John halls from the coorfu com
muniy substituted for Mile
the HSC with Norfolk
the promising frosh second in the
recoGd-shatterng
Divisions Ronne Drmwrght with 2006 race clip
Mleners Of 2026 Graves
just finished at 2:Ol7 to set
the H-SC mark
Aener the Yorker who South for his education
hanging ropes records though
year running three Tiger marks
t0omle the $50 record broken Friday
by DrumWright
the freshman flyer 1lom Richmond had an
meets with "A
points. capturing 220-yard dash % placing
IN the third the low hurdles
pc the 220yard dash tied the HSC mark held by
Robert 1rce M D. who ran his record
The Division which picks lot Of schooboy talent from the
area whipped handy 1916 taking 10
IA the discus the mile relay team Of
Hppenee Alien Bunting Brown produced
the other I-SC first place
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Horsley Putt. junior forward who
prepped at Boonsboro High was
named next seasons captain and
Seniors Warren Carter and Russ
Holcomb won the most valuable
player and craftsmanship citations
during the awards banquet for the
Hampden-Sydney College basketball
squad last Friday.
Claude Pritchard, assistant to the
college president, was POSTMASTER
and Dr. Ben R Lacy, Jr, was
guest speaker for the annual salute
TO the Tiger court squad in the
College Commons.
Coach Miller. who was presented
with a silver tray by members Of
the 1867 squad, awarded nine
letters. Seniors Doug Joyce Carter
and Holcomb won letter blankets as
four-time monogram earners; Jun
iors Ted Shepherd and Bob Humph-
reys. two-time winners, received
certificates. while Putt and Fresh
men Gil Sayres, Leon HaWker and
Vernelle Martin received ] etter
sweaters. Manager Bill Hess also
received the sweater.
Individual Awards
Dr. Ray A. Moore team ply
sician. presented the Moore Key for
most valuable player to carter (.
senior forward from west Folht.
Dr. Moore who with Dr. Kay
Moore. Jr.. this year established the
award key for all sports. also pre-
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SaSs9S assss .3E7F
H-SC Track Squad
Takes isl Win

Weiphtman Jim FraZers rec
ord-breaking shot put and discus
heaves and q triple-frst perform
ance ia The 100. 220 and low hurd-
les by Bill Benson helped Hamp-
den-Svdney's track team build a
7l-51 win over BrideeWater COL
lege Tuesday afternoon on the
EAGLES Riverside Field
Frazer's At feet. q inches effort
with the shot, and l44 feet, : m
ches with the discus, We're new
marks for Riverside Field. Neither
equalled Frazer's own records
which he holds for H-SC.
Larry Pence. BridgeWater cap
tain was the meets high scorer
with 81 points. The three-sport
star took the high Jump, the pole
vault. the broad Jump and added
eight more points with seconds
to H-SC's Bob Capman in the
high hurdles and Frazer in the
discus
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Put Chosen l95758 coptoin
9 Letters, Squad Leadership Awards
Made At H-SC Basketball Banquet

scented the key to Co-Captain Jim
Frazer for his leadership during tile
football campaign
The sportsmanship bowl provided
annually through Interested college
at Farmville, went to
Warren Carter. who Jumped from
Group III to college play as a
freshman. 1t is awarded for conduct
on and off The floor and for enthusi-
astic support Of the squad i'll prac-
ice and games.
Squad Thanked
Dr. Joseph c Robert. college
president. extended his congratu-
lations to the squadmen, while Dr.
Lacy, in his after-banquet remarks,
stressed the value Of athletic com
petition as it serves to weld the
college and students into a team
He said the disciplines and team
work learned in sports serve the
greatest purpose when they ate
carried over into life work
Coach Miller. remembering tho
notable victorie over MT St
Mary's. VMI. Roanoke, the captu-
ing Of the first annual An-Lttle
Eight tournament. and the steady
performances id the Mason-DiXon
and Quautico Marine Journeys told
the squad
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Area High School Baseball Roundup
Smith Gets Two
Wins For Dukes

Cumberland Highs Dukes won
league games over Gochland Cd
and Battlefield Park CID and
dropped 4 l2-4 decision 70 Group
Il NtoloIa-ah = 1iie-i I'D. II II
s1aIIs 70 D+I'-s 'i-eH 'S0i'
cora 70 9-i
Righthander MaFshaA 0illlLL
aooed WINS M ailu + N!l-lG
tosslE2 A ! 2 Y i-llloVel @saii-7o
Gochland tIlday aho SPINNING Z
inc tWo-Et performance ~ vi
~ WHIP luesaay AZ ba1Slellg'o
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POWhatan Blanks
Freeman 10
by JOSEPH LEWIS

Powhatan used three big innings
Friday to sink arch-rival Douglas
Freeman ITO on the Indians home
field
An error, walk, and fielder's
choice after Sophomore Christian
Goodwyn's lead of double. was eli
NAKED by Carroll Palmore's base
cleaning home run giving the In
dams a four run edge in the first
inning.
In the second inning Shortstop
Christian Goodwin was safe on a
fielder's choice Leftfielder Leonard
Walker was hit by a pitched bali,
advancing Goodwin to S e on d.
Archie Goodwyn's double drove in
Christian Goodwin, and John Boggs
hard single to center field scored
Walker and Goodwin
In the fifth inning Freeman Jack
Gary hit a wild streak, walking two
men and hitting another plus giving
up two timely singles to Center
fielder John Boggs and Carroll Pal
more; costing him total Of four
runs and raising the count to ITO.
Archie Goodwin and Sophomore
lefty Gabe Cosby were very stingy.
allowing the Rebels only three hits
over the seven innings.
Goodwin pitched the first five, al
lowing only two Freeman hits while
Cosby was impressive in a two-inn-
ing stint giving but one single.
Goodwin and Boggs have won two
games each this season, giving Pow
hatan a record Of four wins for four
starts
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R-H Statesmen Win
Over Barons 1T

Charlie Harding drove IN two
runs with two hits to play a lead
ing role in neutrality-suspicious. II
to 7 win over Bluestone High S
Barons Tuesday night at Char
lotte C. H.
Ramsey started on the mound
for the winning Statesmen and
was relieved by Gene Gryder IN
the fifth. Wilkerson. Burnett and
Gregory toled unsuccessfully for
the losers.
The Statesmen out-hit Blue
stone nine safe blows to eight,
and both sides committed two er-
rorS.
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DIR. Moore and His Boys:

osev idant with HamD
sydney - vaa tau duo INTO his ohonse of warns to rega
, - me- hayetnan aad At thei, hano,e last FRIDAY night
rbe te I ana COLLEGE doctor who has lost none Of his
ortl,ta ,4 fa, - a,tg ,oo bic o,od,aioo IN, the MN
ln 81 ~ eca5e4 -ffe-fron baseball game in
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FHS SCHEDULE
Powhatan Loses 80

Thomas Dale edged out a 80
victory over Powhatan Tuesday
afternoon in an important Dis
trict II contest
The closely fought battle was
the first district loss for the In
dams.
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Record Now II
H-SC Ayenges
Only Loss With
Sc Richmond Win

Leftflelder Gene Cookies two
out triple, with Bob Humphreys
and Hunter Cox on base with
walks. broke up a IL game in the
10th to give Hampden-Sydney a
81 victory over Randolph Macon
Tuesday at Ashland.
Bob Humphreys. junior right
handler, took the sting out of the
Jackets with a three-hit effort on
the mound for his second pitch
ing win.
Lew Brandt, RIM ace, was the
losing pitcher. Brandt gave up
seven hits while going the lo-inn-
ing distance. His record is now
%.
Hampden-Sydney scored t h e
tight games first run in the fifth
when Wayne Mclean, freshman
catcher from Richmond, walked
and came home on Third Base
man Tommy Davis hit that
bounced over the head Of RIM
Outfielder Bunkie Keeton for q
triple. Davis was in a third re-
placing Humphreys for mound
duty.
The Jackets tied the contest /
and ! in the eighth when they
punched two Of their three hits.
both singles by Marshall Hughes
and Keeton Sandwiched between
an error.
The teams battled through the
ninth with the deadlock dangling
to set the stage for the dramatic
10th inning heroics by grid CO.
captain Gene Cooke. a long-ball
specialist for Coach Vicente Mil
lers Bengals.
The win gave H-SC a 6-1 over
all record. and a SO clean slate
in the Little Eight race
Hampden-Sydney's b Sc ball
players left for Easter vacation in
good spirits A split with Big Six
champions, Richmond, and a to
l win over Randolphp- Macon for
the week Just preceding the spring
vacation saw to that,
Wednesday afternoons 8 to 6
victory against the Spiders re-
suited from a ninth inning rally
for three runs. and duplicated the
come-from- behind method Rich
mond used last week to give H-SC
its only lose in eight starts.
Trailing 6-5 in the ninth. Buck
Dodson, the freshman infielder
from Portsmouth. singled in a
pinch hitting role. moved to sec
ond on a sacrifice and scored on
Tom Davis single to make it &c.
Bob Humphreys also singled
against Pat LAMBERT. who reliev-
ed Spider starter Mel HaroWita,
No. mound ace. Humphreys
stole second, then Carnes walked
Hunter COX to load the bases Just
before Gene Cooke came through
with clutch Single to right cen
ter NJ score the deciding run
Humphreys scored a moment
later to give H-SC an insurance
run on Wayne McLeans fly to
center field
Bill Tynes, senior righthaNder
who lost the dicision to Richmond
last week at Death Valley, came
on in the sixth in relief Of starter
Warren Carter to get credit for
the win Coach Vicente Miller
used pitchers Joe Leafe and Ed
Drew III the ninth to subdue
Richmond and protect the lead
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FHS Wolverines Home Debut Due
Thursday Night With Blackstone
Tri- Captains Will
Lead Veteran Nine
Of II Lettermen

The Farmville High School
Wolverines make their h m e
crowd debut tonight Thursday
with the Blackstone High Rams
providing the diamond competi-
ton under the First avenue lights.
Coach Bob Gilmer reminds fans
that he has moved starting time
I'd a half hour this season to
7:30. The change is an effort to
end games, in their midtown set
ting, earlier.
The Orange and Black squad
will be under the leadership Of
tri-captains. Walker Noblin.
catcher, John Carson. third base
man. and Randolph Lafoon.
pitcher and first baseman. The
squad will be sporting new grey.
pin-stripe uniforms. also
Probable Starters
Coach Gilmer may nominate
Joel Coleman, a junior righthand-
Ell who saw mound service last
campaign. to pitch with Co-Cap-
tain Noblin his battery mate.
Lafoon and Buck Hartley will
divide first base chores, with
Jimmy D. Cox at second, Co-Cap-
tain Carson at the hot corner and
Jackie Mcintosh and Ellis Dun
KUN available for shortstop duty
A letterman outfield of Bob
Fowlkes. in left, Howard Clay
bough. in center, and Garland
Fahrner in right. will patrol the
outer pasture. Earl Fore. John
Hodges and Buddy Smith viii
also be pressed into outfield duty
as needed.
Gilmer will have Hartley. Fore,
Fahrner and Lafoon for use on
the mound, if Coleman starts.
Victoria - FHS 4
A bad sixth inning. when Vic
toria erupted for five runs. spoil
ed the Wolverines campaign OPP
ener last Friday as the PantherS
won 6 to 4 at Victoria
With Randolph Lafoon hurl-
ing six-hit ball. F'HS was ahead
81 when the boil-over occurred
combining walks. errors and the
Painters Curtis Newman's dou-
BILE
Townsend's first inning homer
put Victoria in a 10 lead until
Bob Fowlkes evened the count at
III with a four Dagger in the
fourth. The Wolverines went
ahead 81 in the first Of the sixth
when Mcintosh walked, pilfered
+ second and came home on La
foon's single. Fowlkes' second big
blow a triple, then scored La
foon.
The Panthers broke lose in
their half of the sixth to 60 ahead
G-3. with Farmville closing it to
Ga in the seventh as Buck Hart
i ley got an infield single and came
home on Coleman's single. Amos
went the route for the Panthers
T giving up five hits,
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Bowling League
Summary

Comes Thursday, April rs
Tome Furniture & Taylor Forbes
Aenls nueknin | annue
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the get-rich-quick stun to those
who can afford to gamble and
Just do these few obvious
things and you'll not be gyped.
Copyright. 1857. Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
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crooks are so-called companies
producing" titanium, lithium
other space age" metals.
The stock swindles have
reached the point where the Sc
Icurities and Exchange Commits
sion is pleading for additional
funds to improve enforcement Of
the securities laws.
SEC Issues Guide
In addition, the SEC has is
sued a 10-point guide to helr
you be on guard against "un-
lscrupulous stock operators"
More and more of the leading
securities firms are refusing tc
trade in penny stocks" on the
basis that while they may bt
unfair to some companies, 9
blanket ban will help protect
their customers and their owr
regulations.
AS long as we have securities
we will have fraud in securities
Even If the Government had the
most drastic control powers
there would be swindles. Human
nature is scarcely infallible.
Fundamentally, there is only
one protection for you-yourself
Refuse absolutely to buy any
stock offered to you over the
telephone by a stranger
Swear to yourself that you'll
deal only with a recognized Sc
curities firm whose reputation
you have carefully checked
Make up your mind to leave
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YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
~ SYLVIA PORTER

are the "boiler rooms'-whicf
are nothing more than sales Or
CARNATIONS run by high-pressure
swindlers who use the phones
to tout exceedingly speculative
manipulated or worthless secu.
rites to gullible land greedy
innocents.
Significant Signs
Right now, there are sig
nif1cant signs that the tightly
organized gangs have moved
into the securities field. and, as
United States Attorney Paul w
Williams put it last week, these
"are again going a long way tc
ruin the reputation of the finan.
cial market"
Of course. the swindles rur
into millions, but any estimate
no matter how shocking, il
surely understated, for. in the
words of the head of New York.
Better Business Bureau, Hugh r
Jackson, there is "a natura
reluctance on the part of the
public to reveal they had beer
taken.
Canada was the rallying poinf
OF the gyps until a short while
ago. Now the New York area il
the center from which the boilel
room racketeers are operatint
and tanning out to catch suckers
all over the country.
Uranium stocks were the ia.
vorites also until a short whil'
ago. Now the favorites of tn
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|E. 6. Schofer & Co.
Promotes Owen
To Presidency

Thomas G.. Owen has been
elected president of e. G,
Schafer g. Co. of Washington
and Silver Spring. wholesale
plumbing and heating distribu-
tors of various nationally known
lines, it was announced today.
The new president has been
with the firm for 20 years and
succeeds his father. Claude w.
Owen. who was elected board
chairman after serving as presi-
dent for Al years.
Claude w. Owen, jr., asso-
ciated with the firm for IL years
and sales manager since 1851,
was elected vice president. Will
liam A. Bowman. with 81 years
of service, is treasure and con-
troller. Hugh c. Munro, who
has been purchasing agent, was
named secretary.
The firm was established in
1884 by the late Emil G. Schafer
who died in 1916. The new presi-
dent and vice president are his
grandsons. The main office and
warehouse is at 1921 Fourth
street NE. and a branch office
and showroom are at 1916 Wood
bury drive. Silver Spring.
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'3 RI s',RuszNEss
Metropolis Triples Assets
ToS3OMiIIion in Decade
By DONALD B. HADLEY

Metropolis Building Association has rounded out another
decade with record assets of than $50 million triple
total Of $40 million just 10 years
This disclosed by the Goth annual from Rudolph
w. Santelmann president secretary Martin
Wegand, president, today
The March 81 listed assets of 742
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CHICAGOLWESTOCK

CHICAGO, April up tUSDA1. -
Salable hogs 5000 active and uneven:
generally % TO 80 higher on butchers
and soWs; late and closing trade mostly
80 to 80 higher: early clearance mixed
?-3 l90-270 ID butchers lS.10-lS.bO:
mostly 1925 and above on weights
under ESQ Id; few lots l. g mostly i =
l90-23O ID Is 60 1873: No. 2-3 lots
these weight lacking; limited volume %
mostly. 3 2S0-3l0 ID 17.75-lS.10; larger
lots mixed grade 375-5b0 ID sowS 49, 90
salable cattle 800; calves 800:
slaughter cattle fairly active: steers and
yearlings steady to 25 higher; heifers
steady to strong: cows uneven but aV-
eraging fully steady; bulls weak. vealers
IS adv, stockers and feeders steady: few
loads md lots high choice and prime
steers 24.O0-26.00: load of high choice
and prime lib ID weights % 30: most
ssOSt osds le75ti sS5 G i 90 oS sooSS
10 low choice steers lB.50-2l 80. stand-
ard steers down to around 1850. few
lots. hoice heifers 21.3O-2275: most
good TO low choice 1851 90: utility
and commercial cows 13.00-15.25: can
ners and cutters iO75-13 90: utility and
commercial bulls l5.00-1650: good and
-e vealers 22.00-27. 90. culls down
stockers and feeders 200O-2iG5; load
OF mediums 900 ID feeders 1925.
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Drug Fair Stores
Pays Out SO Pct.
Extra Dividend

Drug Fair Stores has paid an
extra participating dividend OF
SO per cent in addition to the
regular 6 per cent dividend
President Milton L. Elsberg
announced today.
The payment was made
March 81 to holders of record
March is and represented a
share in the company's peak
earnings for 1856. he said.
The company plans to open
nine additional drug stores in
the near future. 1t now oper-
Iates 10.
Mr.. Elsberg said Drug Fair
sales continued their steady
climb in 1856 and net income
after taxes. was up SO per cent
from the previous year.
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Quantity Discounts
Offered on Policies
OF N. Y. Mutual

NEW YORK, April 4 (R.-A
new line of life insurance poll
cies offering quantity discounts
for large amounts of coverage
was announced by Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of New York to-
day.
The purchaser of a $4,000 pol
icy pays SIPS less on the annual
premium per thousand than il
he had bought a smaller policy
On $4,000 insurance, the total
discount is $6.25 a year. A dis.
count Of 50 per thousand pei
year is granted with policies Of
$40. 900 or more.
The company also said it II
reducing premium rates or
whole-life plans at adult ages
for policies with a face value Of
less than $4,000.
Details were announced at q
meeting here of the company's
top United States and Canadian
statesmen.
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per cent from 28,526, 1877 on the
same 1856 date and 68 per cent
ahead Of $18.077. 229 on March
81, 1852. The March, 1947, total
was $10,099,682.
Invested savings on March 81
aggregated $25.657,189. an in
crease of 6.8 per cent from $24,-
038,472 a year earlier and 7C
per cent above $15.227.947 or
the same 1852 date. They also
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ODD-LOT DEALINGS

NEW YORK, April 4 R.-The New
YORK Stock Exchange reported TODAY
these odd-lot transactions by principal
6ealers on the exchange for April 8:
Purchas' OF pa 053. shares: Sales OF
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MUTUAL FUNDS

NEW YORK. April 4 dP.-Nationa,
Association Securities Dealers, Inc
moon Quotations)
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Sears Record
Set in March

CHICAGO, April 4 R.-Sears
Roebuck g. Co. today reported
its March 1857 sales totalec
$269. 815. 498. establishing a new
record for March.
1t said the combined sales fol
February and March totaleo
$493 .565, 283. also a record fol
the two months.
The March sales represented q
1.6 per cent increase compared
with sales of $685.. 612,269 ir
March, 1856. The February.
March increase was 81 per cent
compared with the like period ir
1856, when sales totaled $483,-
239. $40.
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Stock Crooks, Too

The story was overwhelmed
by headlines about labor rack
eteering, but still 1t struck the
eye:
stock Swindles by Phone
Barred" it began, and 1t went
on TO reveal that in March alone
investors were fleeced of SIC mil
lion by racketeers who had sold
them fraudulent securities.
The wave Of stock gyps in the
last couple of years is the
heaviest since the mad '20s and
quite possibly the worst in
history.
Back operating at full speed