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Show Thursday Final Resting Place for Airships November TOM TIEDE are saved for sentiment - TUCSON Am NEA The apron Monthan Air Force suspiciously like the staging area for World War III Jet fighters are lined in rows for mile after mile Bulky 2 bombers are parked over hundreds of acres Helicopters thev are all cargo ships, seaplanes at Davis - Bast-look- - of the ships in y 8 wood Moreover, some of the mastadons i.ere were never intended for war. They are "celebrity planes," such as the that carried the fabled rocket ship (4,200 mph at 50 miles up), and the prototype for the Boeing 707. airliner in history These ships 2 5 best-sellin- g Army May Adjust for College Men even the speedsters Eagie 5 was stored here that twin-uiieship fastest interceptor in the world, goes from runway to 40000 feet in one minute Whatever their past or purpose the MASDC storage ships rest comfortably at Warm and drv naviri-Mnntha- recruits. Army officials said the plan, to be submitted to Defense Secretary Harold y Brown and the White House Office of Management and Budget, could help atrecruits into tract up to 12,000 two-yetank units next and infantry, artillery year The plan would offer recruits an additional $2,000 in educational benefits, raising the total to $7,400 for two years of service. Women would not be eligible because they are barred from the combat jobs the Army wants to fill. Although the Pentagon officially maintains the volunteer system is a success, officials privately concede the Army has encountered problems recruiting combat soldiers. Combat jobs traditionally are least popular because such training does not help soldiers land civilian jobs when their tour of duty is over. Soldiers recruited under the plan would be required to remain in a reserve "pool" up to four years after ar at- Under the system, recruits now joining the Army have to serve a minimum of three years on active duty. Officials said the plan was not aimed at changing the racial makeup of the Army, which has included an increasingly higher proportion of blacks in recent years. Army Secretary Clifford Alexander, who is black, is opposed to any policy limiting enlistments of blacks, who he says see military service as a means of The their opportunities. increasing number of blacks in the 770.000-membArmy is now around 30 i - Wednesday. Mineola. filed the Village of District Court her civil rights Damon, of Mrs a $500,000 suit against Williston Park, in U.S. in Brooklyn, charging were violated when she 63 d I don't impersonate women he said I'm just plain Bill I get no sexual arousal out of putting on women s clothes He says he shaves his legs because he doesn't like the feel of his skirt swishing on hair They have got used to him on the campus, but Cushing a former construction worker, says he has trouble finding work Twenty-fivsocial work agencies have turned him down including San Quentin prison and Planned Parenthood Some agencies fear he would freak out the and one woman employment officer told public You men haven't gotten that far yet " him Cushing said he began wearing girl's clothes when I he was four just loved it They were so soft I couldn't see anything wrong with it " Later he wore skirts in the closet and concedes thi had something to do with his two divorces Although ashamed of his limited wardrobe of a ha If dozen outfits, he feels liberated I love to wear skirts Thev re comfortable and I like to show off mv legs humidity ENDLESS ROW'S OF war machinery at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition enter constitute MM of the six or seven largest air forces on earth. Some of the plant s art- - ready to be a tnated whenever the need arises. Others are relics. ( FRIGIDAIRE (We Don't Believe It) SALE OUR COMPETITOR GUARANTEES TNAT LOWER THAN OURS - - - We HIS PRICES ARE It"" don't Believe P rial we ? Modal I ECS HEAVY HEAVY DUTY WASHER AUTOMATIC Eielativa Jat Com action cats than tha brand's bast ashar. ashing eloanor adal FPCMITSI FKMTTSI IUTY DRYER CAPACITY elothos Offars timad and not haat cycles. bast-sailin- g 17 Cu. Ft. 20.6 Cu. Ft. REFRIGERATOR REFRIGERATOR BIG Ii to II lb. loads. 289'.? Colors Flawing eold moat tandar, 100 Frast Fraa, ieo makar available at extra ehg. Frast Proof. 4.11 Cm. Ft. 100 Twin Froooior. vagatabla hjdritors. AN Colors 4799?, Colors 4299us Colors it receives scathing criticism from citizens lamenting this undignified end. And yet, this is how it must be at Davis - Monthan. The life of every aircraft is finite, and when the time comes they must be stripped of their remaining value. MASDC is the final resting Elace. Eventually, every proud warship will be sold for scrap, melted down, and alas, turned into soda pop Feel Free to Call Us for Prices on Models Not Shown 973-70- 51 We Are "STILL" the Lowest Priced Appliance Dealer in Town (Happy Refunds) 5 PIECE BEDROOM full size by headboard framed mirror H Barker d) triple dresser frame Night Stand ffj gLaSflbaaW bUES. cans. ANOTHER Fill washing machines but do not overload. Use the "suds saver" if you one tubful of hot water can have one be used for several loads. Don't use too much detergent. Oversudsing makes your machine work harder and use more energy. Rights Suit Filed Over Issue on Breast Feeding For several NEW YORK (UPI weeks in the summer of 1977 Barbara Damon breast fed her baby at a community swimming pool in Williston Park. Long Island She said she always covered herself with a towel while feeding the baby and had not been aware of anyone complaining about her practice But on July 21, 1977, supervisors at the Williston Park community wading inpool asked her to stop and then validated her pass to the pool when she refused Provo. Utah -- Page girls 20 the base was in 1946 as a postwar home for wornout but usable Air Force planes Now the field accommodates $4 7 billion worth of craft from all the armed armed services The vehicles are parked directly on the hard pan caliche of southern Arizona The fly again' ships are purged of oil and gas. washed then sealed with a strip-awa- y thoroughly vinyl coating Under these conditions, says MASDC publicist Lt Linda Triplett. the aircraft can be kept in indefinitely The idea behind the tender care, of course, is to have operable MASDC ships whenever a military need arises During the Vietnam war the Pentagon activated hundreds of AI-fighters that had been stored here since Korea Before that, the United States took scores of MASDC s WWII planes for use in the Berlin airlift. Then too. the hibernating planes are available for sale to foreign countries, or for that matter to any institution in the U.S. Peru, Honduras and the Republic of China are MASDC customers, so is the city of Tucson, which has purchased a pair of Osage helicopters for police patrolling. Besides the sales, MASDC periodically donates storage craft to approved American organizations. Public Law 21 authorizes either the loan or gift of surplus planes for memorial or historical display U.S. museums have received a number of older ships so have veterans organizations and municipalities. And even when the surplus aircraft are not reactivated, sold or given away, they serve a purpose. Lt. Triplett says 60,000 parts were taken from storage planes last year, and used to replace worn counterparts in the active service. Triplett says everything from ballbearings to cockpits have been raided. Usually, the raids save taxpayers money. When the Air Force needs alligator clips, for instance, to fasten wings on a 2 fuselage, it gets them from MASDC planes for less than $600 each, if the service were to have new clips manufactured, Triplett says the per-unprice would exceed $1 million. Of course, there is a drawback when the surplus vehicles are raided for parts: the surgery turns the planes into junk. Such is the fate of thousands of aircraft here; picked apart, they are moved to a remote corner of the field, the "drop area," where they are left among the weeds in unkind disarray. MASDC officers do not like to talk about the drop area. Old pilots who tour the base sometimes weep at the sight of historic airplanes, now gutted, serving as rusty nests for squadrons of pigeons. Occasionally, the Air Force percent created ; WASHINGTON UPI -- The Army is pushing a new plan, aimed at young men who want to go on to college, that would reduce some enlistments from three to two years as a way to attract discharge. They would not have to tend reserve meetings. r Delta-Dagge- d storage would be of no value in modern combat For example there are scores of faded the propellered "Gon-ne?;rds" that date to the last world war Also, there are queues of dive bombers, a long time favorite of children who build replicas with balsa higher-qualit- 2 Recently here, waiting Actually, part of this war machinery is assembled for the next world crisis' Thr! Pentagon stores a stupendous swarm of surplus aircraft at Davis Monthan. 4.300 at the latest count Some of the ships mav never again be used for much but scrap, the rest, however are being held in ready for any eventuality And there is little doubt the Military-Aircraf- t Storage and Disposition Center :MASDC) can meet eventualities Its 3.000 acres of planes represent the largest cache of aerial power ever collected in one place By themselves, MASDC's planes constitute one of the six or seven largest ar forces on earth some for 4 cars. THE HERALD I P! KENTFIEI.D - Bill Cushing 34- Calif divorced father of two. wears skirts all the time He believes he s a pioneer of male freedom Dressed in a shin length blue denim skirt with a fly in the front Cushing no longer causes eyes to turn as he strolls between classes at the College of Mann campus in the suburbs north of San Francisco Hex man I m a macho dude, he told an inter viewer who asked him about his sexual preference You can ask my girlfriend He savs wearing a skirt isn't necessarily transvestism He savs it makes him attractive to vear-ol- fighting But in the main the sleeping hulks on this desert apron are defiruteh warriors Voodoo 101s. flving box- s d Admittedly, not 1978 Man Wears Skirts; Feels 'Liberated' Faded Warriors Await Call to Duty B 16 was forced to stop breast teeding her baby at the pool Mrs Damon, 33, said she had been breast feeding her baby, Michael, at the wading pool for several weeks before she was asked by supervisors there on July 21, 1977 to stop in court papers, Mrs Damon said two lifeguards asked her to feed her baby in a rest room, but she refused to do so because her two other children, then aged 3 and 5. were in the pool and she did not want to leave them alone Officials later informed her that they had invalidated her $85 season pass to the pool. 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