Show 9 National News in Brief Air Pioneer Checks Out Wing-Flapping Wing Plane PHOENIX Ariz Jan 21 UP Bill Bill Stout who has been a jump ahead of pioneers for close to a half century now is about to show the world how to build airplanes airplanes airplanes air air- planes with flapping wings If their wings would flap like those of birds and insects private private private vate airplanes would need no airports airports airports air air- ports and Mr 1 Everyman would find flying as simple as driving a car For proof just dust watch a dragonfly This is the next step in aviation aviation aviation avia avia- tion and the one that all the people people people peo peo- can use says William Villiam Bushnell Bushnell Bushnell Bush- Bush nell Stout who built the first metal all-metal airplane and the historic historic his hiss tonic Ford tri tri motor motor passenger plane of 1925 Now a youthful 71 Stout reached the point in the last few days where he is ready for wind tunnel tests and engineering engineer engineer- ing work on flapping wings This follows six years of study and experimentation with copies of bird and insect wings His most recent discovery discovery-a a secret secret secret-is is a means menns of autorotation autorotation autorotation tion by which a landing can be bema ma made e safely wings flapping even if the engine dies Fantastic Some of the things that maybe didn't make sense when Bill Stout did them were an automatic furnace tender in 1899 model airplanes and a forerunner forerunner fore fore- runner of automatic gearshifts in the early a a prototype o of weight light streamlined trains in 1935 a streamlined rear en gine bus in 1934 and a rear- rear engine glass fiber car in 1934 MORE NEVADA SNOW RENO Jan 21 UP UP-An UP An unexpected unexpected unexpected week end snowstorm snarled highway and rail traffic in western Nevada and the adjacent adjacent adjacent adja adja- cent northern California mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain area Monday l and heaped still more snow upon the snow snow- smothered area All roads were closed by snow sno snowdrifts snowdrifts drifts and slides out of Reno except U. U S S. S 40 east of the city and chains were advised on that route IMPEDES CATTLE RESCUE GUNNISON Colo Jan 21 UP Continued UP-Continued Continued snow on Colorado's Colorados Colorados Colorado's Colo Colo- Colorados Colorado's rados rado's western slope Monday 1 threatened to halt any attempt to reach 1500 starving cattle marooned by giant snowdrifts in inthe inthe inthe the mountain country near here The animals valued in excess of half a million dollars are believed believed be- be trapped in a valley 20 miles long and two miles wide Drifts were reported 18 feet deep in n spots More snow was forecast forecast fore fore- cast BIRD RESCUER DIES WILLISTON PARK N. N Y Y Jan 21 I li UP A t-A A year old high school track Irack star fell 40 feet to tolis his lis death Sunday as he tried to climb up a school-building school drain drainpipe drainpipe drainpipe pipe to rescue a bird he thought was injured The youth Parker was as found on the grounds of the Park Avenue elementary school near his home NEW NEV RAIL CONTRACT WASHINGTON Jan 21 UP The The Brotherhood of Locomotive Locomotive r tive Engineers and railroad management management management man man- are nearing agreement on a new contract that may bring a quick end to a record- record length dispute it was learned Monday NO GAMBLING NO FUNDS PHENIX CITY Ala Jan 21 How're l fl How're you going to pay the bills when your chief source of income is shut off City officials in this once wide open community just across the border from Columbus Ga are trying to figure that one out now that gambling operations have been shut down and may stay that way For gambling and the night nightlife nightlife nightlife life that goes with it used to produce much of the revenue for this town of persons which has no other big source of in ins come |