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Show 'TEST RUN, Friday, May 3, 1968 Tips oil Writing to Our Men in Vietnam ss O t pel-su- re Help Keep Utah Nap-of-Ear- th Your message may get through faster - saving you needless worry aluxit . XEW YORK tI.lS) not gylting a prompt reply if vim heed some expert tips mi how to send mail to servicemen in Vietnam. Put wings on your letters, postage and they'll fly from the lie handled many times liefore it reaches its ultimate destina- Postal authorities estimate that APO or FPO, too. For guaranteed through air tion. Be sure you enclose a slip Air Mail gets to Southeast .Isia in almut five days as against 29 service, and the1 fastest assured of paper with your serviceman's to .11 days by ordinary First-Cladelivery, send your packages Air name, address and a list of the Mail. Domestic-- air postal rates Parcel Post and they'll fly all package's contents, in case the the way. A free Booklet elaborat- - miter wrapping goes astray dr llO cents per ounce) apply here, Be sure to use the APO or ing on these services is available liecomes unintelligible. For add-FPed protection, wrap with sealing number! Postal officials at your local Post Office. Books and magazines may lie tape and strong cord, stress that, in addition to your Mail for 12 serviceman's name, rank, serial sent Fourth-Clas- s number and unit, you must also cents for the first pound and 6 include his unit's address and cents for each additional pound, it What to send. Practicality is the correct APO (Army Post Office) or FPO (Fleet Post the key word in selecting gifts. Office) number. And don't for-- A heavy or cmnliersmne item may return ad-- lie more of a bane than a boon to get the .h un dress - just, in case the letteris hi.mAcding to theUSO, in- - witJ issiX giod rule of thumb found to lie undeliverable. While eluded in many servicemen s sf Want List" are: shaving equip-t- o he may lie Chic or Chuck you, to this man's Army hes ment, aftershave lotion, razor "Pfc. Charles C. Smith, so be blades, face towels, insect re to use his full name. Write lent, writing materials, penlites, all information (and dont forget foam insoles for comliat boots. Fourth-Clas- s Mail, but the Post mark the envelope Air Mail ) small jigsaw puzzles, small cross- tQ office legibly as possible - in indelible word puzzle books, paint 6 cnts posuge brashes (for cleaning nfles), a lhe ,etter (he home-town . Make your letter a morale subscription to his g, wh lhe no. booster. Do keep it newsy, but paper, pictures of families and tatioV"Fi-C,a. Mail Enclosed. save any bad news, if possible, un-- tobacco. Save on sending smokes. You til he gets home. Dont complain e about his not being home or tell can airmail cigarettes. Make sure the package is clearly him how much you worry aliout at less than 13 cents a pack, to marked: Special - Fourth-Clas- s him. Do try to keep ',n posted servicemen in Vietnam or other Books. Such parcels go by ship on whats going on, but be care-- areas of the Far East. For com- - and delivery is within a 29 to e fill not to keep reminding him of plete details on cigarettes 33 day period, All of the rules for address-- , what a great time youre having andor cigars, write to Tax-Fre- e here at home and what hes miss- - Shipments, P.O. Box 1880, Grand ing letters apply to packages with ing Enclose snapshots of family Central Station, New York, New one added caution: address the' York 10017 for your order blank, and friends. package on one side only - the Parcel packing pointers. The Post Office may believe you have Speed your Care' Packages. Make forgotten the postage if they Boxes of goodies will get to their Post Office tells us to: destination faster if you know and sure you use containers strong happen to look on the addressed use the several available classes enough to hold and protect their side that does not contain the of mail. Packages of up to five contents during the course of stamps. . pounds sent by Parcel Post, if handling. Such containers should marked SAM" (Space Available be the proper size to hold and if you heed these tips on Mail) will go by air if there is protect their contents during the writing and sending packages to a space available on a flight to course of handling. Such contain- - servicemen, you will be doing your servicemans outfit after ers should be the proper size to everything possible to help the regular Air Mail has been put hold the shipment and give Post Office make good on its Neither rain nor , aboard. For Parcel Post packages enough space for cushioning ms- - proud motto: Do not overstuff carton. terial. of from five and 30 to nor heat snow nor gloom of night' pounds i ' not exceeding 60 inches in com- - Translated, that means using stays these couriers from the swift bined length and girth, put common sense in packing, realiz- - completion of their appointed PAL (Parcel Air Lift) on ing that your box of goodies is rounds. the label, add $1.00 additional going to go a long way and will five-dig- Helicopters Hug Ground at High Speed, Combat Flying Eye Future - Swift Lockheed developed helicopters, hugging the ground at speeds up BURBANK, Calif. to 2B0 miles (416 kilometers) per hour, have proved that rapid low-levflights are feasible as a com- bat technique. FLiCHTS WERE over flat, control of the rigid-rotIN "NAP of the earth tests airconducted under a U.S. Army rolling and rough terrain in craft were good under all flight research contract, Lockheed- - Cali- Southern California. In this pro- conditions, pilots reported. fornia Company pilots flew the gram, rough terrain included The flight test program was sponsored by the U.S. Army Corn-bi- d helicopters at an average ground ridges, valleys, and mountains. clearance of only 25 feet (7.5 Purpose of the program is Developments Command to increase the effectiveness of (CDC), Fort Belvoir, Va., and meters) during the top (416 km) runs and even lower at future comliat helicopters by under the direction of the U.S. slower speeds. that proving Army Aviation Materiel LaboraNo other rotorcraft has ever flying is possible at high speeds. tories (AVLABS), Fort Eustis, traveled so fast at such a low Flying rapidly , at the lowest Va. altitude. possible altitude, a combat helid Employed in the program copter is an extremely were a Lockheed Model 286 pure and hard-to-h- it O iip) target from helicopter, which flew from 60 the ground troop point of view. to 145 mph (96 to 232 km), This was attested to by Army O and the Lockheed-bui- lt Army ground observers who tracked the XII-51helig Lockheed helicopters compound (winged) O copter, world's fastest rotorcraft, and noted the time available for which flew the high speed runs. weapon firing. 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