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Show 0 PARADE OF YOUTH S i 12 NOVEMBER U.nDAY I 4 , Mb f Makes 150th Flight in Homemade Glider Boys Back Pilot, 18, Still Thrills at Flying l From Tropics In the Air With Jungle Just Like an Easy Chair I A Pickle! Something like the fellow who built s boat in hi th&n The pilot buckles the safely belt, braces his feet couldnt get it out the cellar, door, is on th rudder bar, signals to the waiting tow car. Thus, Robert Jack Kaspartan Lee Moore starts bis 150th glider flight. Jack grew a cucumber 8 inches so long andSVi inehe, wide m a botThough Robert built his own craft, though hes flown it with a neck less than one mjh often hes as much at home aloft as in an easy chair, ne still tle in , diameter! But Jacjc doesn't want to getsit out Inside the bottle his cucui-i-battracted considerable attention at the hobby show held recently Jty Sutter Junior High School. When Bill Jenkins, 15, and Bva pals took a trip to the tropical jungles of South. America, (her brought back almost as tnuch of the jungle as they had er Saci's-ment- o, r Calif. cen. ell the freighter that i Stepping ook them on a Crulte, the boy had IT humming monanteater, birds, a r, a keys, 8 one of the most poisonous reptiles 3 toads; native bows snd arrows, tropical helmets snd quite a few Interesting atoriys. AU animals but the monkeys were sold to the St. Louis. Mo., zoo. The boys kept th monks tor themselves r, They were glad to be rid of the who' had an aroma he could have 'acquired in no place tber than a South American Jungl Traded Tennis Sails Most interesting to the hoys arts trading with native tor the animals pnd souvenirs Two dozen tennis ball provided the best trading. Tht natives liked to bounce the balls la Clearings near their villages. 'On the wsy.t writes Bill from T408 University drive. University City, Mo.'we, visited Port Au prince, Haiti; Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic; Caracas. Venezuela; Dutch Guiana; Trinidad end pome native villages in the Jungle. The youths made the trip under Che leadership of Peter Trench, SB of Webster amateur naturalist provoa. Mo, who takes annual voyages to the tropic The boys brought Wawafocte hack a tough specimen in the Rattlesnakes and copperbarmleag heads are - practically compared With this king of poisonous American reptiles, found In tropic Jungles A victim of bit doesn't live mors than 13 minutest people sre lucky, however, that the tnske is dry sod lazy, would rather 'run than bit. Truly a master of th bush. It Snd captivity difficult, soon dies I let the vine run into the bottle w hen it blossomed " Jock explains. writing from 2217 streft, Sacramento It took almost a monb for the cucumber to fill the bottle Then I broke it from the me ar.J ' poured in alcohol t) keep it 83-d- bush-maste- anekegH-lnclud- ; Tired Cyclists Set Record For High Climb thrills to the sensation of slipping swiftly and sdendy through the air And theres little wonder he gets kick out of it. Listen to his itory af flight; "As the towing car goes he describes. the ghdi r move. After the car ha speed of about 20 miles the glider lakes off The on the landing gear stops "The wind whistles in 1 fward. begins to reached a were hungry They "froze, pc hour pounding and weary, but Johnny Grunrr., 15, gnd Ray Gorynski, 18, didnt the wires nur.d a bit. They weie the first with an eefte sound and the ground to rids 5,557 feet up the rugged drops sway as the ship balloons up. By the time the car has reached the side of Mount Rainier on bnyclel middle of the field I am four or flve The boy pedaled 100 miles from hundred feet in the air. but the their homes in Seattle, Wash to ths a of seems at least couple ground foot of the mountain, one of tht. thousand feet away "The scene is ortb of great beauty highest In North America. The sky is very blue and clear, the Fr.se All Nlhl earth stretches off for We had,"1 writes Johnny, fou,-miles In every direction looking a kettle for coffee, frying blankets, see I down. green pastures plowed pan, cups, flashlight, potatoes, suga fields, patches of forest and many salt and coffee, plus 50 cents Vty houses. spent the money in Tacoma, Washbf for bread and lunch meat. Undinfi Uncertain AIms, Rebar jHaars Tawra Upward at Ike Stmrt a a Flight. tThat night we made our bed or; By this time the tow ctr has Ha Reata After a Grateful ( Maybe ) Landing. reached the fence surrounding the the ground and froze all night Ncj field. In response to th frantic morning wt started to push ou, COL. ROSCOS TURNER. AmerCut-Up- s waving of a man on the running bikes to ParadiserrlJ miles of hill, board of thf car I cut loose the con- We were 3 557 feet in the air amj ica's speed king of the air, can Uvs didn t have a thing left tp eat necting cable of up to the colorful life demanded Then were wild animals becauatf "Performing a Urge, sweeping a racing pilot H was ones a lkm Uke-ofto I the turn, fly back point and land, perhaps gracefully, pertamer. He started stunt flying wearhaps with a bump ing a gaudy uniform snd carrying a of ont The "cutting-uThe whole thing lasts only a few lion in th other cockpit girl has turned tha whole Eyrt minutes, but Robert and Dili id reds S of a puppeteers! family Into troupe of other enthusiasts think motorTheres Betty, now 13 she started less flight Is the greatest, most exit who Is chief puppeteer, Marjorie, citing most interesting sport In thf n 18, who is chief designer and build-er- ; world s Bill, 17, who does much of the Robert with the help of two stage work, and Jane 19, who, at friends, spent almost a year buildbusiness manager, takes care of ing the glider an open fuselage pri' mary type, with a 3fl fwt wingspan It' took Patricia Spalding. 14, one year to build and furnish booking and transportation Mama and Papa Eyre are m it, too and weighing only 173 pounds her house. Bui she cant hv In It. It a model, 18 inches Mrs. Eyre handles publicity and Wot king carefully the bo a spent long. the scripts Mr Eyie is gen- only $83 for material writes ! the only way Patricia's model differs from eral stage manager Size, however, Built In Yard cozy little home. It is furnished down to the smallest detail. The Eyres pack their show In a Most of the work. Robert writes W trader and give performances from 403 Bernard street, Denton, where and around Bay Citj, With, Tex , was done in my backyard. We they live at 311 North Klesel street kept tht fuselage m the garage, the carfoi on show boots, They put two wings on the back porch and nivals. amateur nights and chibs. the tail assembly and maicrfeils in alSas Mrs Eyre; BUy was my room and all over the rrouse. and dolls ways making pasteboard Mother says she became very tired little stages for her own amusement of living with the ship when she was in the fifth giade She It was fully worth the wo-- k and woked out a piny and took tt to money used to build it Us smooth, school Her teacher was interested silent flight is beautiful and -- alhcr Jehnny Grimm -- Even Cars and had the whole class work on a after on has become A the Curvet. !r used to noisv thundering airplanes puppet project Betty brought her work home Gliding is mi djngetout cither We no one is allowed to shoot them A and we alt became nterc-UBy have made over 300 flights w thout saw a bear and deer Wo co.u this time we were b 'ginning to be a mishap and expect to make many down 19 miles to th paik heard of around the town One da nmre in about an hour .ml a q n. tt r W jj we got a request from the high j IV.vir.di--- 1 There arc thr.-- types even passed a Lw cais cm thw The kibhan and bath are mod- school to show nui act fot one of of gliders the pMma t hen; and curves. ern, vwth built iu cipoiaids. sink the clavscs They w ro so pleaded sturdy used j r Iran mg. the sec- Ffoflted from v Trip we stayed all day and cnlci tamed ondary more graceful in appearlatest stle ntuvo u I an eb'ctuc which i ntum a lofist all the classes made the trip n fin inn i ance and capable of extended flights They Th? hih u ,s by wni king on a f n ,n mj Huami the a Haute I sulpljru fruit mhk uid 'h r fo banns and hu' dnh of way hn-i- c soar tathrou'n iKnrvs Tluit tin tn ft, plater of w c ti apieie I d scn.it mg milt their long parit vthdh ri ud Recot the of J. ist is lives g air at 202j On, s'.r.-- y. 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