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Show ant improvements in duality during dur-ing the last 15 years. By 1934 the' Popular makes averaged about 90 ! "P. and the general adoption of all-steel tops and hydraulic brakes marked the last important improve ' merits. The trend lately has been toward ornamentation, gadgetryj and extravagance. Performance, I durability and safety have stayed nearly the same. RARE MAGAZINE . . . I might never have saved the old copy of Time, with those ads, except that it contained a picture that was upside down. The picture pic-ture was in the Auto Show section. sec-tion. It showed a Packard frame, and it was rather dark. It would be hard to tell that the X type frame was upside down except that the battery in it hung that way. Noticing this oddity, I wrote the publishers a letter, and they replied, saying that the first proof of the page showed it right. After receiving my letter they made an investigation, and found that the picture had been mysteriously turn ed over, and 6000 copies run off the press before it was righted again. ag-ain. Newton Hockaday, picture editor, ed-itor, said the copy was "practically as a rarity, and maybe some day it will be as famous as the upside airmail stamp". Well, that old copy must be rarer now than 13 years ago, and if rareness increases value, would somebody like to make an offer? I'd consider $1000 for it - - maybe even less. HELEN'S POEM . . . DHS Alumni of about my age may enjoy the following, which I received by mail from a friend of Helen King Durham. Helen, a former assistant editor of the Mo-Del, Mo-Del, is affectionately remembered by many as a red headed girl with ideas, and a brilliant student. This poem is typical of the wit of the contributions she used to make to the school paper. ' ,,r THE NEWS THAT'S FIT MINT FROM THE DELTA TO M2 DICK MORRISON ATTEND AIR SHOW ... . . number of Delta people went i" nish Fork Sunday to attend ! 10 ' t show. This was staged as 'Vnefit to assist those who lost 1 and equipment in the re- ,la han"ar fire. About fifty pri-f'?l pri-f'?l ."fines were flown to the 1 Those flying from Delta 3 CV-i ded Ruth and Jess Done, in Teronca; Frank Pace in his ) ',,e'L Kll tolman in the Stear-: Stear-: and Leo Burraston in the I CU,be0 and Bill gave demonstrative demonstrat-ive of dusting and spraying, and Ter events included two para- I cZe jumps, aerobatics and a ,licler performance. 3 I LADY ON XC . . . When student pilot Violet Pes-iih Pes-iih made her solo XC, she reaaly rnvered some ground. From her home at Banning, Cal., she flew n northern Montana, thence to Delta and home. Pilot Peseth set down at Delta the evening of June 27 and took off the following morning at daybreak. Her Cessna J20 was fully equipped for mstru- ment flying- f t t VISITOR 4 li L P- Rse o Santa Barbara left I Delta Saturday after a week's visit with his son, Art Rose and family. a Mr. Rose is an airways maintain-k maintain-k ence technician, now working on ;,: the LA-SF coastal airway. He was 8 employed as AMT on the Delta- Milford section of the LA-SL airway air-way about 19 years ago. During his visit, Mr. Rose enjoyed en-joyed a flight into Salt Lake in the Sedan with his son, Art, Jack Perrv and Lewis Buffington. GLIDER FLIGHT . . . Communicator Art Rose told me Sunday that the CAA station had received a routine report that a glider had been flown from Palm-i dale, Cal., to a point 28 miles north of Las Vegas, Nev., last week. This would be approximately approximate-ly 225 miles, an unusuallv long glider flight. The name 'of the pilot was not known Jiere Gliders are planes without engines. en-gines. They depend on updrafls, or thcrmals, for lift. Any airplane pilot who has been lifted 1000 ft per minute, unexpectedly, in a thermal, can appreciate their force Glider pilots acquire skill in seeking seek-ing out features of terrain and clouds which cause updrafts. A glider record set in 1939 covered cov-ered a distance of 4G5 miles, and a glider altitude record in 1938 was set at 22,434 ft. . BARGAINS ... Want to buy a new car cheap? Just look at the ads in this magazine, maga-zine, of the new models just announced. an-nounced. Here's the Buick, priced $765 and up. "You can-afford the new Buick", the ad says. It has an aerobat carburetor same used in aerial acrobatics! They must think we're going to loop the loop in it. For those who don't want a high priced car, here's the Willys at $395, and it claims 35 mpg, too. Might as well look farther before making a choice, though. Here Packard advertises a new six from $795 to $910. They also have a 12 at 03420. Next is Caddillac, with prices starting at $1445. Pontiac doesn't advertise a price, but it must be lower than the Cad. No price tag on the new Olds six and eight, either. Hudson has a car .as low as $595, though. Studebaker has a coupe at $665, with easy payments if you want them. The Nash Ambassador goes at $775, believe it or not. Chevrolet Chev-rolet announces a new motor, but doesn't give a price. Neither does Plymouth, but it claims the biggest, big-gest, roomiest car ever. Ford, too, seems reticent about publishing a price tag, but announces an optional opt-ional 60 hp motor to counter complaints com-plaints that the regular V-8 is too powerful. The catch is that we are looking at the Nov. 16, 1936 issue of Time, and the cars are 1937 models. The cover shows a Plymouth worker, big Tony Grebyk, mounting a radiator rad-iator shell. The shell weights 72 pounds, and Tony the biggest man in the plant, has to be pretty husky to mount 85 of them an hour. His wage is 90 cents an hour. I might draw a comparison between be-tween 1937 and 1950 wages and prices, to show that people don't really gain from Inflation, but that is not my present purpose. It's fun to look over the old ads. The cars, while rather old fashioned fashion-ed by 1950 standards, really were good cars. Any of them bought today would give fine service. There haven't been many import- |