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Vol. 39

FORD TIMES

May, 1947

Contents

Henry Ford-A Symposium.

Opera at the Zoo....

No. 5

C. H. DYKEMAN

Tourists' Guide to Summer Music.... 14

Dope on the Derby.

Hot Rod Tractor. . . .

Vacationlanders.....

Car Carols.

Wilder Trout-Fuller Creels.

Fence Post Poet. . . .

. 40

LILLIAN GRAHAM AND MARJORIE WACKERBARTH

A Rolling Stone Gathers Moss....... 43

V-8 Smithy Stands.

SARA SINGLETON KING

. 48

WRIGHT DERR JACKSON

One-Picture Stories-20, 24, 51; Cartoons-13, 21, 31,

47, 50, 52; Favorite Recipes of Famous Taverns-53;

Games Section-57.

William D. Kennedy......

Irene Cornell......

C. H. Dykeman ....

Arthur T. Lougee..

Burgess H. Scott...

Nancy Kennedy.....

Jane Lahy..

EARL RUBY

JEFF TAYLOR

JOHN GOULD

BERTON BRALEY

CLARK BODEY

The Ford Times is published monthly by the Ford Motor

Company, 3000 Schaefer Road, Dearborn, Michigan.

. Editor-in-Chief

Managing Editor

Literary Editor

... Art Director

.Roving Editor

Games Editor

. Circulation Manager

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DOPE

the

DERBY

by Earl Ruby, Sports Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal

LOUISVILLE, KY.-Sometime dur- folks these capsules of advice are

ing the first two weeks in May intended.

nag-happy citizens from all over

the country will pour into this

town. The event: the first com-

pletely war-free Churchill Downs

Spring Meeting (called by most

folks "the Kentucky Derby" be-

cause of the main race) for which

unrestricted out-of-town reserva-

tions have been allowed.

Don't try at this late date to

make hotel reservations in Louis-

ville. Try Indianapolis, just 312

hours away; Cincinnati, 11

Bowling Green, 22 and Lexing-

ton, 12. For tourist rooms or

camps try Shelbyville, Frankfort

and Versailles on U.S. 60. Also,

there are a lot of tourist accom-

modations in the area of Mam-

moth Cave which does a summer

trade mostly and so should have a

lot of openings. Make reservations

in advance to save trouble and

make them for the return trip.

Bring binoculars and folding

chair and a raincoat with you.

You can rent binoculars at the

track, but you'll wish you had

your own. As for the chairs, there

are 35,000 clubhouse and general

admission seats, and an estimated

crowd of 125,000-you can figure

your own percentage of chances

in catching a place to sit down.

Th raincoat is protection against

Louisville's 71° temperature on

most Derby days-with occasional

wind and drizzle.

One of the most colorful sport-

ing events of the year, it gives

Louisville the equivalent of a

big 19-day fiesta with Derby

Weekend, the Saturday on which

the Kentucky Derby is run and

the following Sunday, as the high

point of the festivities. The Derby

is always scheduled for the second

Saturday of the Meeting, so will

be run off May 3 this year.

If you don't already have a seat

for the Derby, you don't have to

worry-neither do 90,000 of the

125,000 other patrons who plan to

be here. The 35,000 seats avail-

able are sold six months to a year

in advance. Most of the visitors

buy general admission or club-

house tickets at the gate. For these

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NOTI

FOR RENT, but vacant apartments nonetheless.

Living evidence of how the aborigines solved their

housing project centuries ago, these cliff homes are in

Canon de Chelly, heart of the Chin Lee Reservation of

the Navajo Indians in northeastern Arizona. Built as

apartment towns in natural caverns or huge hollows

high in the cliffs, these homesteads provided safety and

shelter to many generations and many tribes, including

the Hopi and the Navajos. The latter tribesmen now

consider the White House, most famous of the group,

as the sacred Palace of the Gods. - HARRIETTE W. PORTER

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TRACTOR

ARRISBURG, ILL.-Cecil forward and reverse in driving the

H Church, enterprising young tractor.

The tractor's rear end came

farmer of Route 4, between here

and El Dorado, is one of the few from an old V-8 truck and added

men who have, figuratively speak- more versatility because it hap-

ing, hitched a race horse to a plow.

Cecil's race horse is his home-

made, hopped-up tractor, an agri-

cultural implement which has

earned the respect and admiration

of local motorists for its prowess

on the highways. Cecil's tractor

can make 65 mph with ease, and

has left more than one motorist

gawking as it zoomed past a

smartly moving line of traffic.

pened to have a two-speed at

tachment. He has the choice of

eight speeds forward and two in

reverse. In super low gear the

tractor growls along at less than

one-half mile per hour. With

everything in high, Cecil gets his

60 to 65 mph speeds.

He made his own large rear

wheels by building up blank trac-

tor rims to fit the truck rear end.

He used old automobile wheels in

front, which, with a liberal sprin-

kling of cast-off Model A spindles

and drums, he has turned into an

amazingly authentic pair of front

wheels, toed in at precisely the

right angle.

HOT ROD

by Jeff Taylor

Cecil built his tractor from the

ground up, out of old car, truck,

and tractor parts. The phenome-

nal speed comes from the engine

he put in it; an 85 hp V-8, more

than twice as powerful as the

average engine for a tractor of its

size. To calm down this rip-snort-

ing powerhouse, Cecil made his

own reduction gear by locking a

'40 V-8 truck transmission in first

gear and bolting it directly be-

hind the engine.

Then he fed this stepped-down

power into a second transmission,

which he got from the carcass of

an old '34 V-8 truck and mounted

on the tractor frame directly be-

hind the first transmission. He

made no changes in the second

transmission, using its four speeds

seat, and a grille from a '46 V-8

An old tractor gas tank and

used parts. He built his frame

truck completed his round-up of

from discarded six-inch channel

will make himself is a hood of

iron. One refinement which he

sheet steel, which will cover the

gap between the grille and the

gas tank.

which, next to the V-8 engine, is

He plans another addition

his greatest tractor innovation. He

will install hydraulic brakes, not

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SKÅL

A Bit of Sweden, Michigan

Collops (Serves 6)

234 lbs. round steak (beef)

4 tblsp. salt

4 tblsp. pepper

2 tblsp. butter or fat

Water or weak stock

Allspice

2 bayleaves

1 large onion, sliced

2 tblspn. flour

7 tblsp. water

Cut the beef in one inch cubes.

Sear on all sides in fat and add

seasonings, onion and enough

stock to cover these ingredients.

Allow to simmer about two hours.

Strain and skim the juice in the

pan, returning a little of the fat.

Then add flour mixed with water

and stir until browned. Add the

meat juice gradually. The milk is

poured in after this and the gravy

is cooked from eight to ten minutes.

Season and pour over the meat.

Noted for its fine Scandina-

vian cuisine this Detroit eating

place is on Griswold Avenue

in the downtown section. Fea-

turing smorgasbord on a nat-

ural ice table the Bit of Sweden

is decorated with native art

pieces and uses authentic old

country dishes.