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A meeting was held Monday to discuss plans for the organization of a proposed college for Lake Placid. The meeting was called by North Elba Supervisor Willis Wells and included Mayor George C. Owens, F. B. Guild, James P. Hurley, Raymond C. Prime, Robert Wilkins and Robert Weenolsen.

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Humane society

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An expression of sentiment is to be ascertained as to whether a humane society should be organized in Lake Placid. Earle Barton, justice of the peace, has been reappointed the special agent for Essex County of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. The society operates under New York state laws and has its headquarters in Albany.

Mr. Barton believes that if a society could be established here, many cases which now escape attention would be reported. A membership with annual fees would also provide a fund for an animal shelter or lost or sick animals and perhaps a lethal chamber for their destruction if necessary.

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Bobsled titles

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The nation’s leading bobsled pilots are feverishly preparing on the wind-swept slopes of Mount Van Hoevenberg for the National A. A. U. Two- and four-man championships which will be staged on the Olympic slide here.

Saturday, Jan. 21 will be devoted to the two-man competition, while the big 500-pound sled in the four-man class will roar down the twisting chute on the following day.

Aubrey Wells, of Keene Valley, will defend his four-man title and will seek to break his own course record for the mile of 1 minute, 5.83 seconds, set in the North American meet last winter. In the 1938 racing, the Keene Valley flier made a clean sweep of all the major four-man titles.

Two more Keene Valley racers, Ivan Brown and A. M. Washbond, who took the Olympic boblet title at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1936, and who last year annexed all the two-man crowns here, will also defend their A. A. U. title.

Other pilots expected to enter the national championships are Donna Fox,of New York, member of the 1936 Olympic team; Robert Linney, of Lyon Mountain, last year’s runner up in the A. A. U. four-man competitions; J. Hubert Stevens, of Lake Placid, member of the 1932 and 1936 Olympic teams and 1932 Olympic two-man champion; Francis Tyler, of Lake Placid, 1936 Olympic driver; and Calvin Pardee III, of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, novice two-man winner last winner.

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Bobsled council

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The appointment of two new members to serve on the advisory council of the Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run was announced by Conservation Commissioner Lithgow Osborne on Tuesday.

John “Donna” Fox of New York City has been appointed a member to succeed the late Fred L. Porter, and Robert Linney, of Lyon Mountain, president of the Adirondack Bobsled Club, will serve as an ex-officio member of the council, Mr. Linney succeeds Francis Tyler, of Lake Placid, who served as ex-officio member of the council last year.

Fox is well known the world over among bobsled enthusiasts. He first took up racing the bog bobs in 1933. In 1936, he was a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and participated in Germany.

Linney, a mining engineer, has been racing since 1937. With his father, J. R. Linney, superintendent of the Chateaugay Ore & Iron Co. Of Lyon Mountain, he constructed an all-steel bobsled. It is the only all-steel sled now used at the Mount Van Hoevenberg run.

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Archives

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