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Show Page 8 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Thursday, October 13, 2005 r x 1 We're , ' fjf'xx ymxrJ 1 Open ; yO I , I & There's I Plenty of A V m Room. J i I . ut i i :. 1 'icarcLos: 224-5999 582 N. State Street i i I 1 I iv - Thursday 1: CMTDrt ' Buy ANY entree at regular price I and net second entree of equal I or lessor value FREE. I Up to '7 dinners Does not include drinks. Dine-in oniy rxoi vanu wun any omer oner, expires nnoU3 I- H 1 s ' k 1 ' ' M J? r w k - With Any fcntree Purchase Dinenn only Not valid with any other offer. Expires 111505 Hours: Mum - I Itu r n .1 in in no ji hi I n-S.it I I 00 ,, 111 II 00 111 Lunch Special . ; 1 1 am 4pm Vjitf j $1 Off Any Entree r. f f Up to '7" dinners. Dine-in only. Not valid with any other offer. Expires 111505 The first jet over Idaho veterans' This column has mentioned, 1 believe, that children typically find war fascinating except when they are separated from or lose fnm ilv. or en hunerv. Those of us old enough to remember , lJLSf3JUW World War II. but not old enough to fight in it, often have vivid memories: newsreels, newspaper headlines, Life magazine pictures, pic-tures, neighbors and relatives going to and coming home from war, rationing, war bonds and stamps the list could go on. One of my most vivid memories happened just post-war the day the first jet airplane flew over Idaho. I was out weeding beans or beets, and suddenly an overhead roar caught my attention. atten-tion. An F-80 jet arrived and did a spectacular display of aerobatics for about 10 minutes, just a few hundred feet above my head. I knew the pilot was my neighbor, Denny Pace (the Pace farm was next to ours), but I've never been able to pin down the date until last week, when Denny passed through Provo, and we spent two and a half hours tape recording his 30-year U.S. Army Air Corps and Air Force career. Here's Denny's version of the Idaho fly-over. Don Norton J ww.couysirEtDDu Ihe F-80 was the first successful jet. There'd been a P-59, top speed 300 to 325 mph in a rainstorm. It had a good turning radius. But it was very short range and had a very inefficient engine 1,600 horses. It was fun to fly, but I don't know why a hundred of them were made. They were certainly never used in combat. The F-80, F-84, F-86, etc., were the next steps up. I flew the F-80 quite a lot. In January 1946, 1 moved to March AFB, near Riverside, Calif. Ca-lif. The ramp was full of P-80s (F-80s). We were the first group to get all F-80s. ("F' stands for "pursuit," "F" for "fighter"). And I finally got permission to fly to Hill Field, in Utah. I have the exact date written in my flight log (I logged a total of CJ v -....... t-... . i . .. t iiiMiiwiwitZ ; ' "Tf r "Tim "-m " lrimmmm&z x One of these instruments can help ensure a better delivery experience. n a uinics to having a healthy baby, the pen is mightier than the stethoscope. Alter all, it's the only instrument that enables you to choose a health plan with access to Itmp.inogtK Regional Hospital. Here you will enjoy the recently completed Women's Center with all private room and eanng and expenenced staff and physicians. Care and technology you deserve with Lk limes vou will think are a 5-star hotel' So now picking a better hospital is as easy as picking up a pen. Ch 0('S( a health plan with access to Timpanogos Regional Hospital. HEALTH PLAN PARTNERS Altius CIGNA First Health Great-West Humana Molina PEHP Summit PHCS Regence BlueCross BlueShield and more. The best insurance is a better hospital Timpanogos Regional Hospital Mcx'NT.mnSiar Healthcare Brigham City Community Hospital Ogden Regional Medical Center Lakeview Hospital St. Mark's Hospital Mountain View Hospital ' Denny Pace (Ret. U.S. Air Force) about 9,000 hours, though a lot of that was in heavy transport): 31 May 1946. To my knowledge, knowl-edge, it was the first jet to fly over Idaho. Burley, Idaho, was my hometown. home-town. I had lied, telling my base commander that I wanted to go to Gowan Field, in Boise, to see if they had any jet fuel there for use in the future. That was my excuse to go through Idaho. I got over Burley at about 30,000 feet and started spiraling down. I could pick out the farm of my brother-in-law, Ray Mitchell, Mitch-ell, because he was on the canal and near the Snake River, and I could see some dust rising from the field. He was on a tractor, and I came in behind him at 610 mph, as fast as I dared to go, and went about five feet over his head, just barely missing him with my wing tank. Of course he was looking down at his work as I went by. As I pulled up, I looked down. He had jumped off the tractor and gone one way, and the tractor trac-tor was going the other way. Then I proceeded to go down Burley's Overland Avenue, and then down Main Street, and then made a sweep around the Pace farm and around Rupert. Then I put my flaps down, slowed down, and flew once more down Overland, just to show the towns folks the F-80. In the meantime, I had called Chuck Higgens at the bank and told him I'd be over in about 30 minutes. He had put the word out: "Pace is coming over in an F-80." My brother George now a resident of Provo says he was in the entrance of the cellar when I came over, though I didn't see him. I'd been to Hill Field several times, in P-38s and P-51s. About a hundred hours out of Hill Field, I radioed in, and pretty soon a major general got on the phone: "This is General So and So. Would you give us a little show?" "General," I said to him, "I'm very familiar with the traffic pattern at Hill AFB, and will comply with your 'square pattern,' pat-tern,' as I always do." He replied, "Give us an altimeter al-timeter check." Then he put the word out to the 20,000 or 25,000 people at Hill that there would be jet over in a few minutes. Of course I set a time record for Riverside to Hill Field. Every Ev-ery time a jet flew someplace, it set a record. These excerpts from local veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories of the veterans will eventually be put on the Orem City Web site, www.orem.org. Readers aware of any veterans who have written about their military service are asked to arrange to have these archives in the Veterans History Project, Library of Congress. Phone Don Norton (225-8050) on how to do this. Mountainland Applied Technology College Looking for a hair salon? Look no further, contact MOUNTAIN COSMETOLOGY for your next salon appointment matc 763-0324 matc wwvJcengarffforcl.com "The Easy Way To Buy" 866-TRY-FORD No two homes alike! 15 great floorplans. Main floor master suites. Just 48 homes in a prime location. Private fenced yards. HOA maintained. Close to everything, far from ordinary. Heirloom Cottages 500 East 50 South American Tork 801-369-0428 Brett G E OR OF. 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