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Show I LEill FREE PRESS, LEHL, UTAH GIRDS FOR PEACE Spectacular Development of AAF Recalled at Anniversary - i . l J, i Developed from a 3 ' "5. I lSLfTAKINJ-- A, highlight of its year', activities the R.cbheld Spring. V V., annually stage, an I Am an Amer can program. The above picture shows members of the high school orchestra and a vocalist in the participating IN THESE fiaquto M- - Slizalde, first of the Bepnblic of the United Philippines to if pictured as he called Utite House to present his lor p UNITED STATES L. By WXV Featarc town with a past can live in the present and look to the future, say young people of A Richfield Springs, upstate New York center with 1,200 population. This consensus of the town's Youth council, started more than three years ago from a panel discussion on "Young Peoples' Present IFIBV.sj;., mm ' ii I tt eonplnl I PACIFIC TON CLERK . . . Mrs. Dustin, Dexter, Me., WOMAN et E. J is become the first enter the senate g a session. Intensely its members' preroga- - of previously barred testate psora I'D woman cham-lurin- was or m1 . LNEOnj j ttu t SB . I . ' ;.i' 1 4zy ftt-h- i S L 7 inly 10 tot wilt TO QUIT. . Pres. Hi- Jlorinigo of Paraguay, who irted to have asked permis-iom the armed forces to re- lad leave the country, fol- 1 1 npheaval in neighboring V ' 4 x1 "nir ONEf swers to them. Under direction of the council sponsor and the high school social science teacher it has quickened new viewinitiative, developed broadened horizons and points, in def brought needed inite community projects. One of these was a community carnival, which was a financial success and a concrete demonstration of how folks can and will work together. Another was the realization of $1,000 through contributions and a community dance for Christmas boxes and men and gifts to 200 hometown women in the service. List Accomplishments. To prove that other communities can "do as well as ours," Youth Council members explain that in their farming section of cash cropping, dairying and poultry raising, a dairy manufacturing plant, two fishing tackle factories and a sports wear mill have been established as a result partially of their interest and agitation. As war clouds lift, the council proposes to improve facilities for tourists at nearby Canadaraga lake, which offers boating, fishing and swimming in summer and skating in winter. "While we are planning for things ahead, we are doing more real living in the present with due respect to the past for cornerstones to build on," say Richfield Springs young Every airplane used In Europe prior to V-Day was designed in this country before Pearl Harbor. From 1903 to 1940 the U. S. built only 40.000 planes but from 1940 through V-- J Day, 295.000 were constructed. For every soldier in the air force, there was a civilian working In an aircraft plant First Bomb in 1911. AAF planes consumed 10,000,000,- 000 gallons of gasoline during the war. In all of 1944 not one aircraft was grounded for lack of fuel. Total air power blitz of the AAF during the war included more than 2,000,000 tons of bombs and two atom bombs dropped and 459,750,000 bullets fired. First AAF bomb was heaved overboard by band in 1911. It was an "blockbuster." The army's first airplane contracts specified that the flying machine had to be transportable on an army escort wagon to be pulled by E nin r ft .1 KLADS AAF . . Commanding army air forces is Gen. Carl Sp&atx, who directed arrangements as 400,000 AAF member and nearly 2,000,000 veterans of air actions on worldwide battle-fronnoted 39th anniversary of unit's founding. gem-ra- . of l ts . . . Dorothea Fa guano, 15, Tonkers, N. 1., schoolgirl, samples some of her own cookies following ber selection as cook ing queen. She disclosed that she now Is working on new recipe for but not too making bread without floura tall order for m teen-age- r, hard for Dorothea, who recently captured first prise in a competition Which attracted entrant from 612 cities. Miss Fagnano Is experiment lng with potato flour as ft baslo ingredient for ber new flonrless bread. COOKING QUEEN two or four mules. They would have a difficult task with the AAF's new super-heav- bomber, y the B-3- which has a wingspan almost twice the distance flown by the Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk. N. C -- ! v - Expand Rapidly. On August 28, 1939. three days before Germany set off World War II by invading Poland, the AAF was regularly using 69 bases. Fifty months later in January, 1944, it had 1,400 bases, of which 800 were overseas. Almost 20,000,000 tons of AAF supplies were sent out of the " - - '' X ; " v "jt- country during the war enough to fill a warehouse 75 feet wide with the front door in Washington, D. C, and the back door in Philadelphia. New AAF developments now permit test pilots to check jet planes safely. The plane is put through its pares while the pilot stays on the ground. The secret is remote control and The U. S. spent television. more money developing radar than was spent on the atom - -- 't4, i.va y?" i vi 7J vi - v bomb. More than 42,000 WACs served in the AAF, 7,000 of whom were over- f - V.te L. r ' 1 , v. - !'- that: ; "; " ' O old-tim- 5"MwwTO'r?s I V ! the winter to formulate questions and work out unbiased an- Day Problems." Some of the charter members as well as their followers were young people. On the present membership list are the names of a beautician, bookkeeper, clerk, farmer, housewife, laboratory technician, machinist, secretary, school custodian, telephone operator, stenographer, and typesetter, so "everybody gets in and pitches or helps play the field. Each works where he fits and is most needed." Stage Annual Program. Chief activity is I Am an American Day program staged annually under the council's direction. Use is made of school band and chorus, American Legion, church groups, town board and boys' and girls' clubs. Highlights of this year's program were demonstrations by Cub, Boy and Girl Scouts, remarks by a new voter and an address by one of the town's ministers. Th-youth group tackles other things as the months come and go. They "dig a bit into the annals of history" for indication of what's happened to Richfield Springs, whicli in the Gay Nineties was New York State's most popular spa because of the healing powers of its people. sulphur, spring waters. "Then, we had "hotels filled ' with .visitors, livery stables of fine horses and all Texas Politicians kinds of carriages that outshone most cars in today's modern ga- Slow in Own Towns recalls. TAYLOR, TEXAS. Two William-so- n rages," an Varied Projects. county politicians, Mr. A. and "So," the group "asks, "what can Mr. B., are running against each we do about what's left with us?" other. Mr. A. went to Mr. B.'s They consider how to clean and hometown and reported jubilantly make use of deserted hotels and that he had contacted 100 voters and other buildings, explore the needs that 90 of them promised .to vote for and possibilities of local industries him. Mr. B. then visited Mr. A.'s homesuch as cannery and dairy. town and reported with deep satisOutstanding project is a fofaction that he had talked to 100 rum to study the creation of people and that 90 of them had ingood citizenship to world affairs, dicated they would definitely vote This reaches 150 youth and for him. adults who meet weekly during s kail program. Youth Council Sets Pace In Developing N.Y. Town E. KIRKPATRICK of ereac-- I its 39th anniversary August 1 w..h a new watchword. "Air Puwcr Is Peace Power." At its wartime peak m March. 1944. army air forces had growi: tu 2.3S3.000 officers and rrsen. 64 31 planes, including 41.848 ccr.Oat planes which flew 108.015, 9e9 hurs during four years of war and dropped more than 2.000.000 tor.s of bombs In crushing the Axis war But the big plaits ! machine. World War II are on their way out of the air picture and tie AAK rap pclled idly is converting to Jet-pr- t aircraft to defend the security of America. ar. Guard Against "Americas best insurance against a future war Is an adequate alert air force, Commanding General Carl Spaatz said. In calling on the nearly 2,000.000 veterans of air actions all over the world and the 400,000 air force men to observe the anniversary occasion. Some interesting and little known facts about army air forces are ! ?i,h r divi- - three-ma- r. lion without an airplane in iSe7 ir.to destructive force unpartlleied v. history, army air forces ctlebra'.id i J L DIRECTS RESERVES . . . Lt. Gen. George B. Stratemeyer, commanding general of air defense command, one of AAF's three operational peacetime major f7 seas in 21 different countries; 1,600 chaplains were on duty in the AAF at all times. Of the 282 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during the war, 34 were won by members of the AAF. Compare Records. The World War I air force had 35 pilots, 1,087 enlisted men, 55 training planes, 7 tactical squadrons with a balloon school at Fort Omaha, Neb. . Eight World War I aces are credited with downing 10 or more enemy planes or balloons; 29 World War II aces shot down 18 or more planes, no balloons. d First trip by an army plane took 174 days in 1924. It took an air transport command plane 151 hours in 1945. It's a small world, with the men and planes of the army air forces a strong bulwark in making it a world of peace and guarding America's future. STAR SPILLS . . . Fred Kerwln rares for a fall la trial run during preparation for the National Aquaplane races to be held off the California coast along Hermosa and Manhattan beacbea the middle of August. Aquaplane races were largely discontinued during the war. Many returned servicemen acquired the art In Pacifio waters and promise to give strong competition in the sport. It has been estimated that several thousand will compete in aquaplane races in various parts of the United States during 1948. AQUAPLANE I ' - . & 1 round-the-worl- jT3T QfntmtP $1011 v MEWS OF o syhv FLYING AMD FLIERS AIRPORT CHATTER The War Asset administration has declared the Arlington airport, Arlington. Heights, 111., surplus, and the chamber of commerce has taken A dusting steps to acquire it. plane operated by DuMac air service did a flipfiop in one of the Love potato farms near LaSalle, Colo. The pilot wasn't hurt, but the plane . . Dean Boyd of Willow Hill, El., purchased a new Taylor-craf- t and then built his own farm runway out of crushed limestone . . . Robert S. Jondahl, World War II pilot, has been placed in charge of the Glasgow, Mont., airport. . j ... I MA Of K mwny 'f 'ft 1 tVf. n... itwuuP . . . George m' ll' 8 future b'S Ieaue ;lW,whoaddsabitof tongue his inlup. George P'Mier in Class C league Playground, Somerville, .Jvn n0 I LAW1"' .1 L W fjf V. f- - - . ,'.1 ' I ;- ' I ' - " : - i!iiiniimiiif " n ! 1 j HEESE" Wisconsin's dairy queen, Cathcr-in- e BIG CHEESE elected Mueller. 21, of Lake, Wis., presents Scldcn F. Waldo, newly Wisconfirst with the of commerce, chamber S. junior president of U. cheese ever offered the public sin natural rindless cheddar (American) Heralded as major develMilwaukee. in convention at national Jaycee chr-rsnot form a hard crust when does the opment in dairy Industry, a texture -- processed cheese with .U and possesses rind no has cut, Waldo Is municipal Judge of Gainesville, the flavor of natural of Pasadena. CallL, outgoing Jaycee FU. To the left Is Henry hearns national president. TO "HK1 ( 'Mfv'- ; - 1 -! rhr-rsc- . v-- i Child Has Unusual Vocabulary ;ht. 9 - 111 "s. tot"1: i at the CRANSTON, R. I. Guests amazed home of Thomas Stabile are his when they are greeted by who daughter. Donna Jean, comtheir about calmly inquires on a fort and continues to cany ld 1 & Eti SflTI l.aM Georg. Bernard "Mre ia war. looks outEnglish at the Ett. '7' 7 . r. 0rld ai tu. thoughts to hlmseJI- -f, lively conversation. examined Psychologists who have that her the pert, blonde child agree is rapidly expanding vocabulary Donna age. her for highly unusual Jean uses 400 woras in sentences whereas average vocabu ranges from lary for 60 to 200 words. In checkers, which is her favorite name of wits, Donna Jean already has, learned a Because she always gets trick. beaten when she plays with her father, Dofifta Jean has contrived a game she" jilrtyg with her doll. Asked who.wifisfjn the contest, she invariably replies: "I do, of course." The "stratoscope," which combines a panoramic radio transmitter-receiver with a sensitive aneroid diaphragm altimeter, will warn a pilot of approaching planes or the height of any ground obstruction. Such a device could prevent planes flying into skyscrapers end mountains during bad weather. Dick Powell, the movie actor, Is so crazy about flying that he wants everyone else to learn too. He rents out his own plane for lessons when he is not flying it himself. Planting Trees by Plane The Oregon state forestry department will soon know whether or not trees can be planted successfully by plane. Two large tracts have already been seeded from the air. One 1,400-arr- e area In the great is Tillamook burn. The other Is an e site In Polk county.About 500 acres 4vere planted with Douglas fir and Port Oxford cedar The remaining area' was planted with Douglas fir, Sitka spruce and Western, hemlock. Regular checks will be made to determiae germination. 800-acr- r ' I ' f l ' 1 . Hot as the weather is. GETS UNDER WAY Lorraine Anderson, 2, and Richard Krat.enberg, 1'4, turn indignant to the rise from five to seven cents in the price of ice cold nhouldi-rcream cones. Being young people of action, they tvi th -- ' kcts around their store in the Glen Hazel housing project, Pittsburgh. l!IG BOYCOTT s city-count- y en!, f 7&si ' ft r - I ' . ,t ' - 5. . GRANDMA FLIES PLANE . on her C2nd wedding anniversary .recently. Mrs. Anna Harlman, KO, of (,lensh;iw. Pa.. aiJ to her husband: "Before I die, I want to go Photo show up in an airplane." Mrs. Hartman at the controls of the plane soaring owr the farm where she lived more than half a century. . Lakeview Now Open to Public The Ldkeview. die. airport is Followagain open to the piblic period of operation ing a by the navy, the port was marie available recently to civilian flyers and the c.eneral public. The p;rt has an excellent hangar, taxiway four-yea- Mij (i ) v- - ' ''"5, r and landing facilities. Tb first organization of Its kind, the Flying Farmers of Oklahoma, was organized in 1941 with 38 members. LEAVE FOR PILGRIMAGE TO CANADA . . y Group of 75 invalids before boarding a train In Chicago on their way to the Holy Shrines of the Saints in Canada, for the first of their yearly pilgrimage. Miss Mary Ellen Kelly, 23, Marcus, Iowa, (third from right, front row), Inspired the pilgrimage and will lead the other invalids to the Shrine, seeking health through fallb. They will be joined by thousands from other parts of the nation. j |