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Show Win go vers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT ! TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Raymond Finlinson flew his T-craft T-craft in from Cedar City Friday. Bill Toman flew the Chief to Salt Lake Sunday to return Monday. Mon-day. The Communications Station received re-ceived a teletype report Sunday afternoon that Emerson Gonder was overdue at Fallon, Nev., in flight from Garrison. Before even ing, however, Jack Perry received a later message stating that Emerson Emer-son had arived at Fallon about an hour late. Speculation is that head winds may have slowed him down. He was flying his T-Craft. STOLEN PLANE . . . A Piper Cub owned by Eugene Jewkes of Wells, Nev., disappeared disappear-ed Saturday, May 13, and was not reported found until Wed. the 24th when Layton Dewsnup called Jack Bennett to say that Stanley and Richard Dewsnup had noticed an abandoned plane near the Great Stone Face, south-westof Deseret. The Dewsnup boys had seen the plane on May 13, and on subsequent subsequ-ent days, but assumed it had been flown there as a matter of course. After several days they became suspicious, however, and notifed the sheriff. After locating the plane from the air, local airport officials notified not-ified the FBI, and, obtaining per- prop-type engine, actually over 2 hp per pound of weight including shaft and gears. Now considering that nearly all of our material progress and our high standard of living are based on the kind of inventive skill and manufacturing achievement, that GM evemplifies, it would seem worthwhile to ponder GM's official offic-ial attitude toward such progress, past and future. In a widely publicised pub-licised report for 1949, GM, after reviewing its own progress says this. "Progress in other fields over mission to move it, took some gaso line down by auto, and with Nate Ward piloting, flew it to Delta. The following day the owner came to Delta and flew it back to Wells. The plane was undamaged except ex-cept for slight dents near the carburetor car-buretor air intake. The name of the person or persons who made the unauthorized flight had not been learned at the time this was written, Sunday. The pilot's reason reas-on for landing when and where he did was perfectly clear., however. how-ever. The plane was out of gas. GM ON PROGRESS ... The biggest producer of jet propulsion pro-pulsion is not an aircraft manufacturer manu-facturer ,as one might assume, but General Motors. GM is also the leader in production of diesel locomotives, and it is ,as everyone knows, the. biggest producer of automobiles, currently turning out 48 of the total. GM's Allison division is now building turboprop turbo-prop aircraft engines which many airline officials consider offer great promise in providing power for faster passenger transports in the near future. This new GM-AllisonTurbo-Pfop engine is described as consisting of twin turbines driving dual, co-axial counter-rotating propellers so arranged that either can be cut out when full power is not required. re-quired. It produces more horsepower horse-power per pound than any other the past fifty years - - in the mechanical arts, in medicine, in physics, in chemistry - - has been equally miraculous. Three motivating motiv-ating forces have made possible this amazing performance: Expansion Expan-sion of fundamental knowledge through scientific research; Provision Provis-ion of adequate economic rewards for great accomplishement; And exercise of individual responsibility responsibil-ity and self reliance. As we enter the second half of the 20th century, cen-tury, our great need - - second only on-ly to our need for world peace - -is to maintain the strength of these three motivating forces." Incidentally, GM's 1949 annual report gives a lot of other facts and figures which are so impressive impress-ive as to merit brief mention here. Its total sales of cars, trucks and coaches were 2,764,397 units. Cash receipts were over $5,725,000,000.00 Over 10 of this was paid in taxes, tax-es, which totaled $580,000,000. Pay rolls amounted to over 26 of receipts, re-ceipts, or $1,500,000,000 and stockholders stock-holders received $364,000,000 or a-bout a-bout 6 of total receipts. The average number of GM employees em-ployees in 1949 was 401,326, certainly cer-tainly a large group of people, and yet ownership of the company was so widespread that 434,075 people owned its stock. About 33 per cent of the stockholders - - -the largest single group - - owned own-ed between one and 10 shares of stock, on which they received dividends div-idends of $8.00 per share. Not the least interesting item of the report was a picture of a new car . assembly plant near Atlanta. At-lanta. This picture shows three makes of cars, an Olds, a Buick, and a Pontiac benig assembled on the same moving line, a wonder won-der of planning and organization. Some of the complex calculating for such assembly lines is now being be-ing done by the new electrinic "brains." Buick is using one of these to direct assembly details involved in the 14,000 design item combinations available to its customers. cus-tomers. In other words, a Buick built to a customer's specifications on a host of details can come off the line following an Olds and a Pontiac, and the incredible organization organ-ization of parts for the whole work is arranged automatically! This sort of thing provides the American standard of living. If the incentive to such achievement is ever destroyed, the living standard will be destroyed with it. |