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Show GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Airport Items Don Morris is home again, his stint in the service completed, and he has already resumed his flying course, which was so abruptly interrupted in-terrupted a while back when the draft board took over. Glen Jeffery has taken up flying, his immediate objectives to solo out and then get a private license. Glen took his familiarization March Mar-ch 8. Perry Harritt, of the communications communi-cations crew, was down with the flu most of last week. Leo Burraston and Golden War-nick War-nick did some fancy flying the other day, patrolling the Telluride Power line between Richfield and Fillmore, looking for crow's nests on the cross arms of the high voltage line. Following the line from the. summit, down Fillmore canyon, closely enough to check the poles, called for skillful maneuvering man-euvering of the Aeronca Sedan. The steepness of the slope made it necessary to "slip" the plane in order to lose altitude fast enough. Slipping is a method of "putting on the brakes" of a plane by flying at a sidewise angle with crossed controls. It causes them to come, down fast. More On Maps My statement that there was a shortage of good maps of this area has resulted in developing the fact that there are a number of maps available for special purposes. pur-poses. It seems that no one map can show everything, and people whose work calls for them have managed to obtain the necessary maps. Merritt Floyd showed me the General Highway Maps, which are prepared by the State Highway Planning Dept., at 525 West 13th South, Salt Lake. Whether these are available' to the general public or not, I do not know, but they are available to the Board of Education, Ed-ucation, which uses them in planning plan-ning school bus routes, and to other government units. Being spec ial purpose maps, these show little detail other than location of highways, high-ways, in relation to section and township lines. Of those covering Millard County, map No. 1 shows the district of Oak City, Lynndyl, etc. No. 2 shows Delta, No. 3 and 4 West Millard, No. 5 South Central Cen-tral Millard, and No. 6, Fillmore. While they indicate nothing of topography, they could still be use ful for many purposes. June Hinckley has an , antique map of the 43,000 acres of Carey Act Lands of the Delta Canal System, Sys-tem, which he found in the house his father bought at Sugarville many years ago. This shows what appears to be the original ownership owner-ship plat, with names of the first settlers. Most of these people have moved away, but a few remain. According to this map, the original settlement extended far beyond the present farming district. The land was taken up five miles north, and six miles west, of June's corner. Among the special purpose maps which are available to everyone are the Sectional Aeronautical Charts, which are prepared primarily prim-arily for flyers, but which show a wealth of accurate detail of general gen-eral interest. To obtain them, write the Director, U. S. Coast & Geodetic Geode-tic Survey, Dept. of Commerce Bldg., Washington 25, D. C, and send money order in payment. FULLY AGED for extra ZD o(Mtvorb fps--. St JlTif l; IJJi-W I KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURDON "WHISKEY THIS WHISKEY IS 4 YIASS CL3. 5 tK'J. THE Wll I HILL C3, IKmit KY. Over By Dick Morrison Each chart costs 25 cents, postpaid Ordinarily they are mailed folded, in an envelope, but on request will be sent rolled, in a mailing tube, for those who want to fit them together to make wall charts. Three of these cover all of Utah. They are named for cities on each chart. Order the "Grand Junction" area chart for the mid-section of Utah which includes Millard. "Salt Lake City" and "Grand Canyon" are the titles which cover the rest of the state. These show the locations of the towns and airports, roads, railroads and rivers, as well as the elevations eleva-tions of mountain peaks, and thousand foot contour lines, all with great accuracy. The scale is eight miles to the inch. It was once taken for granted that the owner of any plot of ground held title to a wedge-shaped piece of ground extending to a point at the center of the earth, and the air above to some unspecified un-specified height. Such is not the case. Title to land no longer carries car-ries with it everything under the land, nor above it. Rights to drill and mine land do not necessarily go with the title. Drilling opera tions may result in the draining off of valuable oil, or perhaps water, from under the surface. And you can't prevent airplanes from flying over it, either, although they should observe the minimum altitude regulations. You can't do much about it if a disabled airplane air-plane dives into your house, as the people of Elizabeth, N. J., found out after a series of such accidents. An interesting use of "air rights" is the building of a new forty story office building in Chicago, above the railroad yards. The building will be set on "stilts", so its existence exist-ence will not interfere with operation opera-tion of the trains. The foundations for the stilts will be sunk some 200 feet to bedrock. An insurance company com-pany is financing the building as an investment. In this, however, title to the cube of air space the building will occupy is acknowledged acknow-ledged to rest with the railroad company, and the builders will pay for the right to wall-in forty stories of empty air space above the land with a building. The question of just where such ground rights end and air rights begin has probably not yet been settled. Certainly land owners may usually build as high into the sky as they can. The collision of an airplane with the Empire State Building illustrated the type of legal problems involved. Again, it is an open question just how deep into the earth your farm extends. You can own a little more than a plane surface say, forty acres square, but not much. Does your title extend down as deep as a plow can go, or as deep as plant roots can grow? Most maps show only the surface sur-face of the earth on which your property line is drawn. They don't show how far below or above the surface your domain extends, because be-cause those limits have never been definitely set. Defenders Of An Ideal I recently sent the names of a few local people in for free sample copies of the magazine, Faith And Freedom, which is published by Spiritual Mobilization, at 1521 Wll-ihiie, Wll-ihiie, L. A., with the avowed object ob-ject of defending the ideal of in enjoyment ! .;rr v dividual freedom against the concept con-cept of statism. Intend to send in another list, and if you'd like a copy will be glad to include your name. There is no obligation, and there will be no follow-up on my part. The magazine does not carry advertising, and the cost of sponsoring spon-soring it and the organization back of it is borne 'by public spirited people who think the, concept of government expressed in the U. S. Constitution is worth defending. Faith And Freedom does not reflect re-flect the opinions of Dick Morrison, by any means. In fact, my correspondence corre-spondence with the editor, who took the initiative when one of my letters in the Wall Street Journal Jour-nal caught his fancy, has been more in the nature of squabbling back and forth than anything else. Just the same, I like what it says, and the way it says it. The current, March, issue, for instance, carries a story, "Shooting On South Flower", by Thaddeus Ashby, having to do with usurpation usurpa-tion of power and authority by labor unions; Pause For Reflection, by James C. Ingebretson, a column called Undercurrents, by William Schlamm, "Portrait Of Patrick", by Wm. Johnson, a column of political politi-cal comment by Aubrey Herbert entitled, Along Pennsylvania Avenue, Ave-nue, and 'book reviews by Samuel B. Pettengill and Harry Elmer Barnes. Contributors from the start have included some of the best writers in America. Of those in the March issue, Thad Ashby is a former editorial writer for the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, and a contributor to the Readers Digest, Freeman, Chicago Tribune, and Human Events. Willi Schlamm is a former member mem-ber of the Luce staff of Time, Life, Fortune, who, li'ke John Chamberlain Chamber-lain and Whitaker Chambers, got fed up with the atmosphere of leftist propaganda which pervades that publishing outfit. Here he has some fun tearing into Brooks Atkinson, At-kinson, theatre critic of the New York Times. It always pleases me, these days, to see someone shoot it out with that most eggheaded of once great newspapers, the Times. Highly congenial reading, to me, is the "Portrait Of Patrick", in which Wm. Johnson does a subtle This Famous'Rocket has a New Running Mate ! j Otdtmobiie ? And now, haf takes pi urn it vg'X Mr J'l - !l'"S';.y'ltSg!S..l' , - im.j """ZZxSZSIfc - -: . ...... . ., . , IT'S A HARDTOP WITH 4 DOORS! It's the new Holiday Sedan by 01dmobile the firt completely new body tyje since the introduction of the Holiday Coupe. Here you find all the long, smooth-flowing beauty and charm of a hardtop . . .plus the eay-in-eay-out .'paeiour-ne-s of a four-door. Yes, here's four-door sedan space with hardtop grace! And, lnt of all, only Old-mobile bring you this thrilling new model in all three M-rie "C3", Sutkt "83" and Ninety-Fight! See them at your Old-mobile dealer a. WHO WILL and effective job of painting American Am-erican individualism in a good light by writing a biographical sketch of John Patrick. "Pat", is not only a professional writer of note, having assisted with the fam ous Reader's Digest series, The Repairman Re-pairman Will Gyp You If You Don't Watch Out, but is also a "charac- ter" who makes of his own life a living protest against the encroach I ments of the American Super State I He travelled much of the Orient afoot, then wrote Yankee Hobo In The Orient. He not only wrote the book, but he also bound and published it himself, and, instead of distributing it through regular trade channels, he peddles it wherever wher-ever he goes. He takes delight in annoying bureaucrats the way they annoy others. When a postmaster made a mistake in a money order to him by writing $8.77 instead of $3.77, and asked him to return the difference, he, as he stated it, felt that, "For years and years I have had to conduct all my business bus-iness with the wholly monopolistic monopolis-tic post office in their way. Here was a chance to handle the matter in my way". So, instead of just handing back the money, he decided deci-ded to do it the bureaucratic way. "The result was a series of four letters to the postmaster. The first was a single page; the second was four pages; the third five pages; the fourth and last, six pages. It was intended to be redundantly self-explanatory, ad-nauseam. I wound up by refunding 29 cents out of the $5." He and a friend own a farm at a place called Snohomish, Wash., and when advised that the government govern-ment would give him $100 worth of lime to improve the soil, he refused re-fused to accept it. He has no use for the attitude of "Let's fight other peoples' subsidies, but keep ours". As might be expected, his inventiveness inven-tiveness sometimes gets him into legal difficulties, but, "he has a formula for this kind of trouble, too." What is that formula? Ah, that is what "tickled" me more than anything else in the story. Here it is: "Be meek, act stupid, say 'sir', and pretend a respect and always an awe you do not O I d a m o b 1 1 e HoMday Coup storied the swing la Holiday styling! o you would expect, H is Oldsmobile th next big step in hardtop design. SEE Sunset Chevrolet Company Fhcr.e 311 WIN THE "OSCARS"? DON'T ever feci". On first reading, that struck me as vastly amusing. I not only admired ad-mired the guy's wit and courage, but felt a sympathetic bond of understanding. On sober thought, though, it doesn't seem so funny. It expresses the attitude oppressed people everywhere have had to take toward their masters. Paths Cross Strange how divergent paths can cross. No one would suspect, from reading the above, that it could have any connection with our own C. D. McNeely, but-Some but-Some time ago, I ran a little item here in praise of the book, Southern Crisis of 1952, by Martel McNeely, of New Orleans. His brother, C. D., long time resident, attorney, and participant in political politi-cal affairs, of Delta, had handed it to me. Well, C. D. sent a copy of the review to Martel, and in the course of time, I heard from Martel directly. di-rectly. He wanted me to help him unravel the puzzle of the Watkins Kangaroo Court proceedings a-gainst a-gainst McCarthy. Martel is a McCarthy Mc-Carthy man, even as I am. But that is not the point. The thing that struck me was that Martel's letter was written on the stationary of the Congress of Freedom, Inc., of which he is now chairman. And, the first name on the list of directors of the Congress of Freedom was that of Thaddeus Ashby, who is now associate as-sociate editor of Faith And Freedom. Free-dom. There is not only an indirect tie-in between these outfits, but a bond of interest in a common cause as well. The thing they believe be-lieve in preservation of our form of Constitutional Government is important, and they are a good outfit to know. Something tells me that these people, the dedicated dedica-ted crusaders for preservation of an ideal, are not going to be put down. They are not "crack-pot". They are not "lunatic fringe". They are the political idealists of our day. But I am still slightly astounded at the coincidence which brought Martel McNeely, of New Orleans, to my attention as one associated with the same people as the Los Angeles outfit I have come to like. 8" OLDSMOBILE'S ENTIRELY NEW YOUR NEARIST OLDS.MOE!LE DEALER MISS THE ACADZAV A.'.'M.ZZ Mr. and Mrs. Tony Stapley and . ; l . i v . f'v. . ; t : i rm children, Christine and Bill, from Salt Lake City, visited in Delta Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Taggart. ,,-Hil 111 vbyb tjliiiily is corfains for alfalfa weevils Just one application of dieldrin, in late winter or early spring, gives sure alfalfa weevil control. Kill the adults now, and they can't lay the eggs that hatch into destructive larvae later on. The cost of treatment is low. You need only a small amount of dieldrin . , . 6pray or dust. Get it from your insecticide dealer. SHELL CHEMICAL AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS DIVISION 100 Buih Strut, Son Froncftca 6, Cal. , J f . 1 x . - - - - - - - - - - - -1 IT'S A HOLIDAY . . . with Sedan convenience! IT'S A SEDAN . . . with Holiday .marines.! CD B DELTA, UTAH Z.1ZVS NEC TV AND RADIO MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE i t.. ... . Delta. Utah, Thurs. Mar. 17. 1955. Mrs. Nadine Watts, from Fillmore, Fill-more, spent the weekend in Delta with MrT and Mrs. P. W. Watts. CORPORATION WED., MARCH 30 |