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Show Wingovors "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . John Campbell of the CAA dropped drop-ped in last Thursday, in a Beech C-45, to check the VHF Omni Range. Ran-ge. He pronounced the VOR OK and it is no win service. Since the VHF Range was built, about a year ago ,the engineers and technicians have been busy working the bugs out of it. It was necessary to lower the counter -poise from 30 to 15 ft. and make other changes. The VOR system, signals, which actuate the indicat-with indicat-with its omni - directional course or needle o fthe Course Line Indicator Indi-cator on the instrument panel of a plane, and its static free transmission trans-mission of voice messages, is the latest development in radio range systems. Mr. and Mrs. R. Haskins, of Flight Research Eng. Corp set down here Sunday for gas, in their Bonanza. Bon-anza. They were in flight from Den ver to Las Vegas. Bill Tolman returned last week from a dusting job at Burbank. Blaine C. Taylor, of Cal. Cpray Blaine C. Taylor of California Spray Chemicals Corp stopped in stopped in July 19 on business. Lewis Buffington has been trans ferred to Wendover. He expects to leave about August 1st. M. D. Butler, pilot of the Child-ers Child-ers Hatchery, set his C-45 down here Saturday. Pilot Butler, with his wife and daughter visited over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Knight. They were in flight from Minneapolis to Santa Ana, Cal. THE GARGANTUAN JEST . . . The late C. R. Pearsall was a gentleman of the old school. He used to run a column of opinion op-inion each Sunday in a Salt Lake newspaper. I liked his column, and one day several years ago I called at his jewelry store and told him so. After that we wrote a few letters back and forth, and on occasion oc-casion I provided material which he published. So it was that on March 12, 1946 I wrote him a letter in which I gave a quotation from a speech made by our distinguished ex-president Herbert Hoover. On receipt of the letter, Mr. Pearsall sent this reply: Dear Mr. Morisson: Thank you very much for your letter of March 12th. Without ask-i ask-i ing your permission, I am, Sunday, usin gthe quotation from Mr. Hoover's Hoo-ver's 1941 speech. I am also using a few lines of what you had to say, without signature ,of course. Thank you very much for writing and I will be glad to have you come in and see me whenever you are in town. Yours very truly, C. R. Pearsall. That was five years after Mr. Hoover made the speech referred to. More than nine years have passed pas-sed now, and yet it was so prophetic proph-etic that it is more pertinent today to-day than ever. For that reason, I want to give it here, again. Fol-lowering Fol-lowering is the quotation as it app eared in Mr. Pearsall's column on March 17, 1946. "Now we find ourselves promising promis-ing aid to Stalin and his militant conspiracy against the whole democratic dem-ocratic ideals o fthe world . . . We know also Hitler's hideous record of brutality . . . But I am talking of Stalin at this moment ... If we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of Communism on Russia, and more opportunity for it to extend in the world . . ". It makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the four freedoms to mankind a Gargantuan Gar-gantuan jest." Herbert Hoover (1941) Instead of heeding the wisdom of Mr. Hoover's advice, men in our government sponsored a campaign cam-paign of personal vilification against aga-inst such men as Herbert Hoover and Charles Lindbergh, who proposed pro-posed that America use its influence influ-ence to promote a negotiated peace between England and Germany. Even before the end of World War II, the victory won at incredible incred-ible cost by Americans was, in effect, ef-fect, given away in secret conference confer-ence at Teheran and Yalta. I say this in bitterness. We were told by men whose minds seemed strangely warped, that Stalin was a good fellow, and and that Russia was a peace loving lov-ing democracy. Now, with Americans Americ-ans fighting a desperate war against aga-inst communist aggression in Korea, Kor-ea, and with a Red regime in China the men in the Kremlin must be enjoying this gargantuan jest. |