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Dog sledges in this resort not only transport humans traveling the snowy stretches in a search for novelty or convenience but are also used for more prosaic tasks. A million and a quarter whitefish fry in cans were transported to selected spots on Lake Placid and Mirror Lake by a dog team owned by Charles Martin.

As the cans were heavy, there was some speculation as to a means of getting them to the middle of the lakes where there are no roads tracked on the ice. In all, 750,000 fry were emptied through holes opposite the Benson camp in west Lake Placid, with the remainder being planted in the northern end of Mirror Lake by a committee of the Fish and Game Club.

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No German for you

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Paul Patchin, supervising principal of the Lake Placid High School, has announced that the department of German instruction at the central school will be discontinued this year.

Dr. Burton McCormick, of the New York State Education Department, recommended that one of the foreign language departments be discontinued, following an inspection made in January 1932. Since that time, arrangements have been made in the curricula of students who had already started the study of German to finish their prescribed course by June of this year.

Dr. McCormick stated that as few colleges required high school study in more than two foreign languages, “time and money expended in the instruction of a third foreign language might be used more advantageously in another direction.” Mrs. Mildred Buchanan has been teaching German. French and Latin will remain to provide foreign language requirements.

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Lake Placid in Hawaii

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In a letter to his mother, Mrs. Pearl Woodard, Earl Woodard, stationed at Scoffield Barracks, Hawaii, wrote that he recently had seen pictures of Lake Placid in a news reel there. Pictures were of “Bunny” Sheffield jumping barrels and ski jumping at Intervales.

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Arena roller skating

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Open each afternoon to school children, the North Elba Park Commission has arranged for roller skating on the large cement floor of the arena between 3:30 and 5 p.m. No admission is being charged to those who have skates.

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Mt. Whitney winners

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William Swift repeated his win of last week in Saturday’s senior ski race down the side of Mount Whitney to Tom Peck’s pond, making the 2-mile run in 6 minutes, 30 and four-fifths seconds.

Starting from the half-way mark, James “Bud” Colby won the race in the junior division, his time being 3 minutes, 31 and three-fifths seconds.

Helen Jones made the best time in the girls’ race, which also started at the half-way mark, skiing over the course in 3 minutes, 30 and four-fifths seconds.

Next year, according to Ronald MacKenzie, president, the races will start from one of the other peaks of Mount Whitney, making the run about twice the present distance.

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Skater London bound

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Paul Wilson, figure skating instructor at the arena and Lake Placid Club this winter, sailed on the S.S. Majestic for London, where he will compete in the world’s professional figure skating championship for which he has been in training during his stay in this village.

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