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Show Flit December? jJ HILL TOP TIMES 8 Solid Beat t!3v Device Speeds 'Chufe Assembly Parachute assembly has been greatly speeded and simplified by a new invention, Wayne Blair, Hill Air Force Base foreman reported this week on the completion of a large scale project, the first of its kind ever to be undertaken at the HAFB parachute shop. The new device consists of a connector link which can be quickly and easily adjusted to release the canopy shroud lines from the harness worn by the jumper. Formerly, if either the canopy or the harness were defective, they could not be Interchanged. The whole chute, now worth over $150, had to be discarded. " Now-ia parachute rigger needs to put a new canopy on a harness, or a new harness on the old canopy, all he needs to do is to take out two screws in the new connector links and make the change. Be fore, connector links were sewrN firmly into the harness. To make the change, the fabric had to be ripped open and the connector link an operation that took at least two hours of hard work. The new connector link makes it possible for the government to buy the parts of parachutes, wherever it can secure the best product at the best price. .The three components canopy, harness, and pack can be shipped to a central base "OGDEN'S MILITARY HEADQUARTERS" features - U. 43,' like Hill AFB, and assembled economically. Parachutes belonging to the lot just assembled are made of nylon fabricated to prevent ripping. The color has also been changed from plain white to international orange and white, a combination much more easy to detect than plain white or even solid red. rip-sto- ck HI! 13 $8 PRETTY Dolores Medlin presents brief greeting at Miami Beach, Florida. That's a pretty brief swim-su- it she is wearing, too. ly AF Blue Gabardine Service Uniforms mm Finest 100 WooLFlat Weave gabardine, Skinner Satin lining, AF approved. Also Available in shade 193. Retail Value $79.95. OUR PRICE.... s 1 long-weari- uniform. Regular Retail ng OUR PRICE S48.E0 .... . - S3.S3 . SHOES $5.95 Work or Oxford. well-kno- SOCKS, cushion sole 50 Wool .......... 69c AF Blue Socks 29cup s YelMbiovn Drummer Featured In Percussion Section of Local Band I.t. Bill Moore Twelve years ago Perry Reed was just a kid who was crazy about music."" Today he is a famous "drummer man". When the older fellows rehearsed with the band over at the Wichita Junior High school, Perry would sit around and watch, and keep time to the music with his foot. Perry had a fine sense of rythm, everyone said. One day while the band was at recess the young observer got his hand on a set of drumsticks, and when the gang came back, they found him beating it out in fine style. It was hard to believe that he had never played before. Right then, is when it all started. The Bandmaster and the regular drummer realized that the young fellow really hadut, so they started to work with him and to teach him. The drummer did the most, but he was far from a professional himself. Although the older boy answered Perry's questions and did what he could for the youngster, actually Perry Reed learned to play Rv the drums by the trial and error method. He taught himself. He kept at it. Perry went on to Junior High school and then to High school. He played in the school's, bands and orchestras and in every special musical event that there was. On weekend nights when Wichita's High school crowd jitter-bugge- d to the music of a' pickup dance band there' was always that solid beat from the percussion CAKES MIXERS PUMPKI MINCE MEAT o Everything You Need! JL no TURKEYS ORDER XMAS HAMS NOV! NOV!-- XMAS o tr and nt Finely Tailored....,...... Sgt. Perry Reed, (above) drummer with the 549th Air Force band, that has made him gives out with a sample of rythm two-time winner of the Horace in musical circles. Sal;. Reed is a Heidt talent show and was once featured with the Air Forces' "Operation Happiness." ORDER At 40 AF Blue Shirts, with epulets Need! V I P. U. Fine Value $68.50. Anything t A.TO12. $62.53 Crease-resistaWool 60 Rayon Weave Flat gabardine. Excellent appearing O COOKIES J ml gabardine, comFinest Virgin 100 Wool Satin. Made to reSkinner with lined pletely PRICE.. , OUR $79.50. about tail at Shop Hero ... for Xmas Delights! CANDIES NUTS o FRUITS POPCORN O FRUIT CAKE UNIFORMS RE WAF Blue Gabardine Uniforms f re-sew- n, TAILORED-TO-YOUR-MEASU- ' SUPGB MARKET PAYROLL. CHEGSS fiAR!ir.g ELTVERY PHONE EVERY mm 83-J- -2 BAX2ABA VILLAGE In 1946 Wichita's young.drummer got a break, so did the United States Air Force. Perry joined up. In short order he was a member of the 786th Air Force Band. This turned out to be a bit of luck because the 766th was just merging with "Operation Happiness", a traveling musical talent show which was about to take off on a round robin of nearly every state side air base. Perry did a feature number in the show called "Brushes", and a lot of pretty important musicians got to see and hear him, while Operation Happiness" was on the road. When the show folded, Perry went to Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio. He got his first big break while there. Sergeant Reed was playing drums for a little dance band in Columbus. They were pretty good. They were asked to play at the Musical Forum, at the Ohio State University Audi torium. Drummer Gene Krupa and his orchestra were also scheduled on the program. Krupa heard Reed and he was fascinated with the young Air Force Sergeant's talent La1e that night when all of the had gone, the empty hall rang to the rythm of two trap sets. Reed and Krupa were having a ses sion. T learned more about those buckets that night than I had in five years," Perry said. After working with top drummer Krupa there was no stepping the Airman. He picked up some of the famous Krupa style, and still kept, but polished up much of his own -- technique. Sereeant Reed was transferred tn wngnt-fatterso- n Air Force Base and rierht after he crot there, tm Aa Horace Heidt. Perry was in luck again. Band leader Heidt was tourin? the country present in e a series of youth musical talent programs. This sort or things was strickly Sgt. Reed's line of work. He entered tne Jjayton contest. He won it. The band leader was so enthiiains tic about the young drummer that ne invited him to enter another similar contest at Trnv nv.tr. Perry's Commanding Officer gave him the green light and he was off. Perry leaned over the skins with talent and technique that brought mm anotner first. There were 7.000 people In the live audience and they nearly tore the Diane nnnrt when the drummer from the Air Force made with that solid beat. Next Perrv went to San Vrnn Cisco, .where he appeared with Horace Heidt on his Television OGDEN ARMY & NAVY STORE 324 - 24th Street Phone 10 The ONE Radio - Phonograph with ALL the Luxury Features you have waited for! J HP sSSs ri ft " 11 . debut. Two weeks aeo Sereeant Rer1 was transfered to Hill Air Force Base, and became a member of Hill's 549th Air Force Band. He has alreadv run into hln old frfomi Horace Heidt who played in Ogden recently. It is anybody's guess what other entertainment nntnhioa will hear Perry while he is here. But witn a Bob Hope show due soon, and other name artists on the schedule, drummer Reed is a cinch to Keep going places in music. 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