The James Logan Courier

By George Dwyer, VOA News

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged three people, including a former employee, in connection with an alleged plot to steal trade secrets from the Coca-Cola Company, and sell the information to Coke's chief rival, PepsiCo.


Coke supplies soft drinks to James Logan High School

Click the picture to view Woody Woodpecker in the classic cartoon "Pantry Panic, " in which Weatherby Groundhog predicts a cold winter and advises all the birds to fly south. But Woody Woodpecker decides to stay, and nearly starves. Animation by Alex Lovy and Lester Kline, story by Ben Hardaway and L.E. Elliott, music by Darrell Calker. Free from the Internet Archive.


Click the picture to watch the Betty Boop cartoon "Snow White," featuring an appearance by Cab Calloway, performing "St. James Infirmary." Free from the Internet Archive.

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828–March 24, 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre. Verne was noted for writing about cosmic, atmospheric, and underwater travel before air travel and submarines were commonplace and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated novelist in the world, according to the Index Translationum statistics. Some of his books have also been made into films.

Read Verne's classic A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, free from Project Gutenberg


View the 1919 film version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, free from the Internet Archive.


Jules Verne Photo by Félix Nadar