The Sidney herald., 1961-12-27
Loretta Petrik
Wins Kiwanis
Essay Contest

Essay Contest
Winners of the Industrial Tour
Essay Contest, were honored at
the Thursday, Oec. 14) meeting
OF the Sidney Kiwanis IN the
Lalonde Hotel. Plaques were pre-
sented TO Loretta Petrik, for her
first place essay, which she read,
and to Karen Larson, and Sharon
Carda. Don Petrik and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lyle Larsen of Savage, and
MIR. and Mrs. Antoine Carda OF
Enid, were guests of Kiwanis to-
gether with their daughters. The
contest is the result of an annual
project of Kiwanis, when students
in the rural schools Of Richland
County are taken on a city-wide
tour of business places and civic
and government buildings, to Sc
cure data for their essays.
Loretta Perks first place win
ming essay follows:
MY INDUSTRIAL TOUR f.
The Sidney Kiwanis club is
|, MART. of a great International or
gauization. Men have banded to-
ather in order n build UP the
community about them by trying
10 do things for other people and
they, in general, just try to make
the world a better place in which
TO live. "KiWanis" is an old In
dian word meaning, W. ouil4."
And this is exactly what these
men are trying to do.
The Kiwanis puts osl an Indus
trial Tour every year for the rural
-igGnth graders in Richband Coun-
ty. This is in order o these yong
people to know more about the
world they live IN.
To start the tour, we first met
at the Richland County Court
House. There were two buses tc
take the young people to the diff
ferent placs on the Industrial
Tour. The first bus started at the
Court House, while the second
BUS started at the Tractor anc
Equipment Company.
The first place we visited wa:
the Court House, the End was tht
county Jail, the 3rd was the Trac-
tor and Equipment Co., the 4tf
was the Frontier Airlines, the ST
was the Holly Sugar Co, the 6tl
was the Pepsi Ccla B0ttling Co,
the 7th was the Sidney Senio
high school and tine last piece o.
the tour was the Mcutana-DaAo
Utility Plant.
Here is what we did on tn,
Tour: At the Court House we Wis
tied the Welfare Office whicl
helps the needy people, the dis
abled, old people over IS, or
phans, children that have parent
but are being neglected, and |
gives financial aid to those out o
a job. They get their helpin.
funds from the county, state, an'
the government. Al hough we wer
supposed 10 visit the entire Cour
House, we only went TO one othe
office. This was the County At
torney's office. That is where tn
Sheriff - Sam Childers = an
his assistants, do their main work
In one room, there is a radi
communications set. One of tn
men who guided the tour CAV
a description on how it worked
Since the Jail was right benin
the Court House, we decided
visit it. 1 don't have a very goo
opinion of it. The facilities ar
rather poor. There is not enoug
light coming into the room, an
the Jail needs a very good ciean
ing. There is one, rather big, ma
cell and a lot of smaller, separat
cells. At the side of the room theI
is a separate cell which IS Sepal
ated from the other cells by
brick wall. It is a small, veI
dark, padded room in which If
sane persosns, or drunkardS, ca
be put. This is so they cams
harm themselves.
The next place we went TO WI
the Tractor and Equipment Con
pany. First, we saw a teletype
work, second, we saw the adve
Using department (where the BIZ
were made) and the places whe
they would advertise was dete
- mined there also. And then v
completed the tour of the pla
by inspecting the protector roo
where the finished advertiser
bills were checked over.
The place that we visited ant
this was very interesting. 1t w
the Frontier Airlines. Althou,
we were supposed DO see a flig
come in, we couldn't because
the foul weather. So, we il
looked over the airport. We fou,
that the runway was Baths of
mile long. There are two ia,
ways, there is a barrel of chen
cal deicer which sprays the a.
planes wings before flights, (tl
is very importantly and there
an air fuel tank consisting
1900 gallons of fuel gas.
The Sugar Beet Factory can
next. We went through the VIII,
factory (Which took us about
hrs.) and looked at the HI
boilers, mixers, grinders, etc. 7