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Show f - Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON I TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . The airport's only resident baby, Lloyd Dean Burraston, will celebrate cele-brate his first birthday next Sunday. Sun-day. Lloyd Dean can walk, now, and he takes a great interest in everything. Time surely flies. It seems only yesterday that Lloyd Dean was only a forthcoming blessed bles-sed event predicted in Wingovers. With the end of the crop dusting dust-ing season, Bill Tolman has returned return-ed to his home in Sandy. Ray Dirksen of Cedar was here Monday morning, flying a national nation-al guard plane. Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Crafts, and Charley Crafts, aired in to Salt Lake City Sunday, with Leo Burraston. Bur-raston. Marshall Beeman, assistant regional reg-ional administrator of the CAA, and W. O. Johnson of the educational educat-ional division, set down here Aug. 22 in a Navion, on business. Ray Steele tells us that a crew is starting work this week to clean out the airport well. The water supply at the airport has been inadequate, due to the well clogging clog-ging with sand, and they expect to restore the well to satisfactory quested our county attorney, Milton Mil-ton Mlville, to take legal action against farmers using it. The health hea-lth departmnt advises that Para-thion Para-thion be not used on farms. This report further states that a child at Pleasant Grove died from eating eat-ing Parathion. Apparently, this clears up the questions raised by an earlier report that a Delta child had died from it. No local child is known to have died from this cause, cau-se, so the one in Pleasant Grove must be the child referred to. PIGEON ROOST HALL ... ' Having wondered for some time just why the name Palomar was chosen for Delta's big amusement hall, I am as perplexed as ever after reading a definition of Palomar. Palo-mar. Perhaps the word was selected select-ed because it is pleasing to hear. Palomar is a Spanish word meaning mean-ing dovecote, or pigeon roost. MICROWAVE LINK ... Those concerned with the business bus-iness and science of cowimunicat-ions cowimunicat-ions may be interested in the announcement an-nouncement that longest radio microwave relay system yet built will be in operation September 1, between New York and Chicago. The A. T. and T. Co. built, at a cost of 12 million dollars. Thirty four towers, spaced about 25 miles apart, relay messages along the 834 miles route. The Telephone company expects to open another microwave link condition. DATES . . . Sept. 21 will be Aviation Day at the Utah State Fair. The Utah Flying Farmers will hold their convention con-vention on the State Fair Grounds on that day, also. Sept. 23 and 24 are the days set for the Wayne Wonderland Overnight Over-night Flight, in Wayne County. All flyers are invited. REMARK OF THE WEEK . . . Curt Shields has enjoyed flitting about as a passenger in the Aero-nca Aero-nca sedan, and he says he thinks he will take a private pilot course some day. The other night, as we were sipping root beer, we got to talking about the maneuvers student stud-ent pilots must practice in order to learn how planes behave in various var-ious situations - - stalls, slips, spins and the like. Curt said spins would never bother him a bit. "Why", he said, "if a plane I was flying ever got into a spin, I'd just pull back on the stick and fly out of it." PARATHION . . . The deadly insecticide, Parathion is still making news. An item in the Deseret News Aug. 26 reports ' that Dr. Seth E. Smoot, of the State Health Department has re- between Chicago and Omaha, 438 miles, on Sept. 30, and later a link between Omaha and Denver, construction of which is now under way. The western link between Denver and San Francisco is in the planning stage, and its completion com-pletion is expected late in 1951, thus completing the coast to coast microwave system. The microwave links will supplement supple-ment the present coaxial cables, in transmitting long distance phone ph-one calls, teletype service, and rad io and television program. The com pleted system will serve as part of the main television network. In addition to being capable of handling hand-ling several television programs, it will carry hundreds of telephone conversations simultaneously.Some of the methods usd to transmit many messages at once over a single radio or wire circuit have been discussed in this column previously. pre-viously. Television programs, requiring re-quiring broadcasting bandwidths of 6000 kilocycles, make heavy demands de-mands on such transmitting me'dia Furthermore, the practical uses of such service are increasing rapidly. rapid-ly. One interesting service is the transmission wirephotos for newspapers. news-papers. GUY GILPATRICK . . . Many Post readers were pleased last week to find a story in which two popular characters of fiction were brought together. Tugboat Annie, the character of Norman Reilly Raine, and Colin Glencan-non, Glencan-non, of Guy Gilpatrick, became the co-principals of a single story, on which both writers collaborated. collaborat-ed. No doubt this last story by Guy Gilpatrick , and his collaborator, will prove interesting, thrilling and amusing as it unfolds, but we are here concerned with another story - - that of Guy Gilpatrick himself. him-self. Comparitively few people ever ev-er knew that Gilpatrick, who, in his day, was the world's highest paid writer of fiction, was also an early day flyer of note. He once held the world altitude record. In 1912, when flying was in its infancy, and Gilpatrick not so far past his own infancy at the age of 16, he flew with one passenger to an altitude of 4665 ft. Starting from near sea level, this was quite a feat, and particularly so when you consider the construction of a 1912 airplane. A few months later lat-er he flew 5000 ft .above Los Angeles. Ang-eles. In World War I he was an instructor in-structor with the U. S. Air Force. These pioneering flying achievements achieve-ments are sufficient to make Gilpatrick Gil-patrick one of the famous early day aviators, and such he will go down in history. The tragic end to the story of Guy Gilpatrick came on last June 7, when, at his hand, both he and his wife departed this life. He and Miss Louise Lesser had been married March 27, 1920. They were devoted to each other through the thirty years of their married life. When, last spring, it became known that Louise was doomed to die of an incurable 111-l 111-l ness he dealt her a "mercy death" 'and then shot himself, in their home in Santa Barbara. |