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Show CACHE ..!l (Um THE FEATHERHEADS Yo, AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH fanny!! lookit This No YoU SET THAT that followed Pandy dosHOME HERE hear of You aw-- u FAWNY me ? ssen, we TUNIC AND SKIRT Theyre S Good ME ONE Pooch out MP FINE EFFECT IN A Doe Tale PATTERN 9187 Yell THINS-he'- p BE GOOD F OR -- OUSHTA HAVE A DOS AROUfJD- - pf I Jg i FINNEY OF THE FORCE By By Ted OToaghUa Poverty Note WasUra OI WUT YEZ. SEE 'TWAs tOlKE THIS OW- -I YlS-- SEEMS KNOW Jf ALL ABOUT-- it Trt' SUTLER FEU DOWN STAIRS AH THEY "THOUGHT . WAL,THtN-WH- Y Are Yei so 'BOUT fXCOlTEP Stratosphere Balloon Poised for the W by National Oeormphtc Society, tublnglon. U C W NU Service flight hy a huge 1 ANOTHER the stratosphere will be made In the summer of Il'nS, Jointly by the Nutlonul Geographic society and the United Slates army air corps. Cnpt. Albert W. Stevens will be In command Of the (balloon which will be piloted Like bjr Copt. Orvli A. Anderson. the expedition of Inst summer, the flight of lfl'IS will take off from a Batumi basin In the Black Hills, eleven miles west of Itupld City, S. D. Preparation for such a flight Is a stupendous task. From the Inception of the last flight In the fall of 1953, with tiie guidance of the scientific committee appointed by President Grosvenor of the National Geographic society, no pains were Spared to produce the best possible Instruments and equipment for col, lecting scientific data In the The Instruments were to be of full laboratory sbe to In fume Ihe greatest attainable neon racy. This meant that some would be both bulky and heavy. e house these many large In jstnimeuts. It became necessary to design a gondola larger than any Hint hnd previously been sent nloft. finally, It beenme apparent that 'lb lift the gondola and Its cargo of apparatus high Into the stratosphere, a very large balloon would 'be required. Experts were consulted, skilled In such construction. md a contract was given to de Sign and build a larger balloon than any previously constructed a ting which, when fully Inllated, would contain 3,000.000 cubic feet of gas 11 required five months to fashion Oils gigantic hag, and Into It went tjve and a third acres of cloth made from long Staple cotton. While It was being built, work was began on the gondola, a globe of dow metal, lighter than aluminum ; and In a score of laboratories and workshops from New York to California specially designed Instruments were being Constructed. Mennwldle a site for the base camp of the stratosphere fl ght had been cboRen In western South Dakota. Three considerations determined this choice : the point was far enough west to permit the Iml loon to drift even 7iKt or SOI miles to the eastward, and still come to enrth In relatively level, unforest-ecountry; the record of the was promising for cood summer flying weather; and the site was sheltered from surface winds slrato-Sphere- d a Making the Stratocamp." Burly In June a camp was es tabtlshed In the deep, cliff enelr ded natural howT near Rapid Oity. It quickly became known as the stratocamp. ('apt. Orvli A ADderson was on the scene from the start Under his capable dl rectios the camp developed from n almost deserted basin Into a hurtling little village of more than a hundred Inhabitants. Three telephone lines and two radio stations kept the Stratocamp hi communication with the outside World; and there were two telegraph wires leading to teletype ma rtilnes which constantly rapped out weather Information from points as far sway as Alaska, Cuba and Iceland. The special weather station set p at the camp, through the cooperation of the United States weather bureau, the signal corps, and the air corps, rnnked. In of Information furnished, with the half dozen most Important weather stations In the United States. Two weeks after the camp was started Captain Stevens went out by plane from Washington, taking some siieclal Instruments. A few days later MnJ. William E. Kepner flew Into Rapid City, and the flight personnel was complete. Freight car loads and truck loads f the equipment necessary for a Stratosphere flight had been converging on the Stratocamp for weeks. Three railroad cars fillel with heavy steel cylinders containing compressed hydrogen arrived In full-ees- s Take-Off- guess oh-- oi So HAVE THEY DON'T MUCH-W- Ol HIN 'WUZ THERE, Ol SAW THEIR. PRACTISIN' TWO 6URR.LS LIKE INSIDE HAVIMS SO MUCH C MONEY M' ALL J somebody hit -- WANT TER. KNOW WHAT TH PLACE Looks I MUSIC-- AN WUZ - TWO OF EM USIN OWE PIAWERT TH J . Rapid City. Thanks to the generous co operation of the National Guardsmen of Sooth Dakota and their fleet of trucks, these tons of steel were soon neatly piled along one edge of the cump. Collecting the Equipment. The gondola rolled In by truck, after a Journey of more than a thousand from miles, Midland, Mich, and was Installed In the commodious gondola house, the entire front of which could he opened up. A few days later another truck brought In a huge box containing the balloon bag, which weighed two and a half tons. The largest truck of all to traverse the winding road down Into Ihe basin arrived the following week the liquid oxygen generator trurk of the armv air corps. It supplied the essential liquid oxygen used to make breathable air Inside the gondola during the flyers stay In the stratosphere. Several airplane loads of Instruments were flown to Rapid Cltv; and dally freight and express packages arrived, their contents varying from m.H bine shop tools to delicate vacuum tubes. For many weeks the gondola house was the center of activities that started sometimes as early as four oclock In the morning and often lasting until nine o'clock at night. Numerous Instruments and pieies of equipment hnd to he assembled, tested, some of them altered and all of them flrmlv fixed In the places assigned to them on the gondola slievcs or hanging from the gondola roof. The last of the preparatory work wns completed on July 9. From that time on the flight could have taken place any day, so far ns the equipment wns concerned. Rut It was essential tint the flight he made during veiv siieclal and. unfortunately, rare -- weather conditions, covering the area for seven or eight hundred miles east. At last, July "7, on the area hnd high pressure drifted In from the west and promised for the next div the conditions wanted both at the Strntoiamp and to the east. When, at noon Motor Kepner announced nltlrhllv that the weather was satisfactory for the flight and that the inflation would begin that evening, the camp was galvanized Into activity. Off for the Stratosphere. Guests were barred from the floor of the bowl; only men with ilefl t.lte Jobs to perform were permitted In the camp. The balloon box wns opened and the huge, billowy miss of fabric wns spread out on the circular sawdust-coverecanvas protected bed that had been prepared for It. l?ns load after bus load of soldiers arrived from Fort Meade. They were the men of the ground crew who were to hold the balloon In leash while the hydrogen poured a W" BOBBY THATCHER By GEORGE STORM Come! Let Us Be Going rnejin W1UL Its buttoned up the back like Malnbocher's Butcher Boy design, und It's shirred round the neck and the tops of the sleeves like Lanvins peasant blouses. What more could you ask of this gracefully molded tunic? 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I havent found any In Ills trouser pockets for a week. Dilemma Another court astrologer has resaid the vizier. signed, Whats the trouble? asked the sultan. Your rulings. If he brings good news It doesnt come true, and If lie brings bad news he Is shot at sunrise. Too Literal I certainly did wrong when told my girl that I admired her Bill The Associated Newtnspers d 1 chin. Sill By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Self-Servi- ce (Copyright 1933, by The BU Syndicate, Inc ) Into It. On all sides the preparations moved ahpad like clockwork. At dusk the floodlights In the great ring that extended around the floor of the basin were turned on and a lit- tle Inter the hydrogen gas was started through the canvas tabes Into the vast maw of the balloon. Ry shortly after five o'clock there remained only a few last minute tasks to be performed the eareful placing of rope ends for valve and the lashing on of a small mall sack; the loading of warm flying clothes and parachutes. Captain Anderson and Captain Stevens climbed Into the gondola; Major Kepner to Its rope enclosed lop. the better to direct the take-ofThe outer ropes were dropped; only the gondola and ten small hnnd ropes attached to It held the gigantic bag of gns to the earth. Major Kepner directed the flnnl ground activity of the flight before the ascent the weighing off. Ropes were slackened to test the balloons lift. Ballast was adjusted until the upward pull seemed Just right Then came the order. 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