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Show Mar Peterson a:-.c! Hai l Yereon oi , Garrison. The plane was tied down in an open field, and the wind broke it loose and caused extens ive damage. FLY TO GAMES ... Last Thursday Gene Peterson and Eldon Sorenson flew m to the basketball tournament and Saturday Satur-day Spence Wright and Dr. Adams did likewise. Leon Theobald and Leo Burraston went along on botn flights, which were made in tne Seita"was on Thursday that the Delta boys lost the only game of the four they played, to BY nign they having won their first game with Roosevelt. Friday the Delta Rabbits beat Wasatch 45-41, thus earing the right to play Murray Saturday for 4th or 7th place. Saturday's Sat-urday's score of 47-32 in Delta s favor gave the local team fourth place in the tourney. The walls of the U Fieldhouse were bulging Saturday, with over 6000 spectators present in the bull ding' designed to accomodate 5500. A good number of Delta people ing this year doesn't have a timid look to be sure. It looks like a ough bunny indeed - - the sort of rabbit that could if it snorted at an ordinary dog, send the poor pup yelping off over the hi 11 with its tail between its legs. Still, its news when a man bites a dog, and when a rabbit scares one, that's rare, too. The .fact remains that most rabbits aren't considered consider-ed very dangerous to anybody. On the other hand, the name Rabbits has a long and honorable tradition to Delta high: one which should not be discarded lightly; and then there remains the question quest-ion of whether a better name could be found. Wingovers . "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON TAKE-OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Dale Johnson and Boyd Allred, USNR, set down at Delta March 13 for a short visit. They were flying fly-ing a Lockheed PV-2 out of San Francisco. They took off for Las Vegas the same afternoon. Dale is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Johnson, and Boyd is son of Mrs. Lulu Allred Their time from San Francisco was 150 minutes. Fred and Betty" Baker made a flying trip to Salt Lake and Logan Lo-gan March 15, in their T-craft, to have their plane re-licensed, and to check the grading of their alfalfa seed. Theo F. Kurth, CAA, was in last week, making the annual inspection inspect-ion of airways facilities, and efficiency effic-iency ratings of personnel. Carl Gieszl, brother of Chris Ward, with Col. Sorenson, flew in from Albequerque Friday p. m.. Gieszl and Sorenson were flying a Beech C- 45. They were in flight to Provo, but the weather conditions condit-ions made a landing at Delta advisable. ad-visable. Friday was the day of the mud storm. Fred R. Achor stopped at Delta airport, March 14, flying .a DC-3 owned by The Texas Co. out of Houston, Texas. A United Truck Lines 5 passenger passen-ger 195 was in from El Paso, Texas March 13, with John Manlowe piloting. pil-oting. Joe Bergin dropped ni March 13, in flight from Milford to Salt Lake Raleigh Franklin and Fred Baker made a recon flight over the desert des-ert Sunday, looking for wild horses hor-ses in the T-Craft. Glen Christensen and I took the Chief up for landing practice Saturday afternoon. PLANE DAMAGED ... ' The March winds brought havoc hav-oc with a T-Craft owned by La The hames usually chosen by ball teams, if we disregard for a moment the old custom of naming baseball teams by the color of their socks, as the Red Sox, the White Sox, the Dirty Sox, etc., usually us-ually carry more than hints of strength, masculinity .courage, and the like. A few names which come to mind are the Cavemen, the Broncs, Mustangs, Cowpokes, Trojans, Tro-jans, Indians, Bees, Rams, and Stags. One of the quainstest names is that of an Arizona team, the Gila Monsters. Gila (pronounced Heela) Monsters are the big lizards liz-ards indigenous to the Arizona desert, de-sert, which were first discovered near the Gila River. Gila Monsters grow to a length of two feet, and are the only poisonous lizards native nat-ive to the U. S. The name may be fitting enough for that particular ball team - - not knowing them, I can't say - - but it does seem strange that any team would want the name of such repulsive crea- were among the 6000. As for the flights, the time to Salt Lake both evenings was 58 minutes; the return flights, made at night following the games, took a few minutes longer. In flight, the party called the tower of SL Airport No. 1 requesting a taxi,, so when they landed transporation to the U Stadium awaited them. The elapsed time from Delta airport to the Field house was 80 minutes. The flight Thursday was Eldon's first. THE WONDER OF IT . . . Two items, which were quite rou tine in this week's report from the airport, could give us plenty of food for thought if we wish to stop and ponder them. First, is the item that Dale Johnson and Boyd Allred flew in from San Francisco in 150 minutes, or 2 Ms hours. We have all been conditioned to accept ac-cept such a thing as quite commonplace com-monplace these days, and so it is; yet when one considers that the whole science of flight with heavier heav-ier than air craft was developed during the lifetime of most of us, and that before our time, through all the ages, man never flew such craft, it seems a modern miracle. Speeds ftftter than sound have been attained, with human pilots, and the new horizon open to further fur-ther exploration seems wider than it ever was before. A second item which calls for comment is the one stating the air party made up of Spence Wright, Paul Adams, Leon Theobald Theo-bald and Leo Burraston, used the two-way radio to call for a taxi while they were in flight, nearing Salt Lake Airport. If this commonplace common-place practice of talking from a private palne, moving through the air at 100 mph, to the people on the ground isn't a modern miracle, what is? The science of electronics which includes radio, was, like the science of flight, developed during dur-ing our time. Today, we accept the two of them, and make use of both of them together, as merely mere-ly routine. The pioneers of 1850 couldn't have believed that either would ever be possible. WHAT'S IN A NAME? ? ? In winning 4th place in the class B hoop tournament, the DHS Rabbits Rab-bits did a swell job and we 're proud of them. The question I want to raise here is where the name Rabbits is the ideal one for the Delta team, or could a better name be found? Most people regard rabbits as timid little creatures, and the Delta boys are anything but timid. The Rabbit insignia they are wear turs. It is discussed only as an interesting example, and not as a possibility for re-naming Delia's team, because it would obviously be inappropriate for any team in this locality. The fact is, I don't have any particular new name in mind for the Rabbits. I only suggest that if anybody can think of one which carries a connotation of more ferocity fer-ocity than is usually attributed to the cottontails, let's hear it. OVERHEARD He: What's he got that I have not got? She: A pilot's license. |
