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Show have received word from their sun, Wesley, Jr., that he is now stationed station-ed at the U. S. Air Forces' long range proving ground near Patrick 1 AFB, Cocoa, Fla..He is a staff sgt. ) Young Wesley is a member of the nation's first guided missile ! squadron, which is now being for-' med there. The group is known as ' a pushbutton war squad. The work of the group will cen- J ter, for the immediate future, at least, around a new "'pilotless bom ber", the Martin B-61 Matador.This is a winged jet propeled craft capable cap-able of carrying small atomic bombs which can be exploded either eit-her by remote control by radio, or by impact. It has a speed, judging from its pointed "swordfish" nose and small swept wings, of over 1000 mph. It is capable of high precision remote control operation. sterdam, N. Y. at 50 mph. The Stoddard-Dayton was somewhat slower, although it had an advertised adver-tised speed of 55. The main trouble with the Steamer was that it proved pro-ved to be a water hog. It had to stop and take up every 30 or 40 miles to keep the boiler from run-t run-t ning dry. So the 'copter was pres-I pres-I sed into service to refill Its tanks with water on the fly. Among the Delta visitors last week was Mrs. Leonora Peterson Printz, native of Salina, who flys with the CAP at Hawthorne Airport, Air-port, Los Angeles. Mrs. Printz says she expects to set her Luscombe I Silvaire down at Delta Airport in ' the course of her future XC flights. Don and Bonnie Anderson and their small son, Eddie, dropped in for an easy landing Saturday. After Af-ter a visit with the home folks at Leamington, they took off for Provo Sunday afternoon. Ray X. Anderson, his wife, Millie, Mil-lie, and young son, Roger, aired down from Provo Sept. 18 . While we are reporting the ups and downs of the Anderson family, fam-ily, we want to note the fact that Mrs. Essie Anderson, of Leamington, Leaming-ton, the mother of Don and Ray, is one of the flyingest women we know of. Last summer Essie made a little lit-tle trip to ' Cedar City by air. In August, this year, she flew to Yellowstone Yel-lowstone with Don and. Bonnie, and last week she felw to Idaho Falls and back with Ray and Millie, and Millie's father, Mr. Woodard, of Provo. She said Sunday she felt she'd done enough flying for a while, but she'll be up again. It's in her blood. Leo and Lola Burrastoil, and their young upstart, Lloyd Dean, returned Saturday from a two-week two-week vacation in the northwest. They visited Portland and Astoria, Oregon, and followed the Columbia. Colum-bia. Leo says he wouldn't trade the whole northwest for Delta. The hazy air, among other things, made him feel penned in. Well, there's no place like Delta airport for one who likes wide open spaces spa-ces and clear air. "Don't fence me in." says Leo, and with Delta Airport's Air-port's facilities and a flock of airplanes. air-planes. Leo is as free as the birds when he's home. Ray Steele is on vacation, and will be for the next two or three weeks. Ray intends to emulate Nate Ward, and spend his vacation working on his garage: also farm a little. Says he and Ruth are tired of travelling and will enjoy a vacation vac-ation at home. Leo Burraston is sporting a new custom made 270 caliber high power po-wer rifle. It's a honey. As Leo says ,it is too good to take out hunting, but he's going to take it anyway. A deer should feel honored hon-ored to get shot with such a gun. MISSLE MAN . . . Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Sampson WingovBs j ' ' All The News That's Fit To j j Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison i ! I FLEDGLINGS . . . Oscar Warnick took his first airplane air-plane ride Saturday afternoon, in a Luscombe Silvaire piloted by Don F. Anderson. The report is that Oscar enjoyed the flight very much He was taken by the neat appearance ap-pearance of the world as seen from above, particularly his own ! farm, and says that since seeing the farm from the air he values it more highly than ever before. Lola - - "Mrs. Hatch" - - Farns worth and her little daughter, Carol Car-ol Ann, took to the air in the Champ Sunday evening, on a short flight over town. No doubt they wanted to experience at first hand the sensation Daddy has been getting on those practice fli-'' fli-'' ghts of his. Hatch soloed out re-j re-j cently in the Champ, j-i . j i TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . i OPERATOBS LISTED . . . The CAA last month issued a revised list of aircraft operators engaged in several types of flying fly-ing activities. Copies of the list can be had by writing the General Flight Branch, Flight Operations Division, CAA, Washington 25, D. C. " Names and addresses are given. Among the activities listed are the more familiar ones such as dusting and spraying, and such new or unusual aerial activities as defoliation, coyote hunting, explosive explo-sive carrying, glider towing, banner ban-ner towing, herding livestock, operating op-erating moored balloons, air police, pol-ice, and chasing birds from rice fields. INCONGRUITY . . . There was something incongruous incongru-ous about the picture in the Sunday Sun-day News which showed a helicopter helicop-ter flying above a Stanley Steamer, Steam-er, with a hose connecting the two through which the 'copter delivered deliver-ed water to the Steamer. Certainly Certain-ly here was a stunt that had never been pulled before. About the near est thing to it was the means by which an Aeronca sedan, making an endurance flight at Yuma, Ariz., last year was refueled from a speeding spee-ding Buick. But the Aeronca and the Buick were both modenr. The 'copter is, too, but the Stanley Steamer doesn't seem to belong in the second half of the twentieth century. . Of course a helicopter might never nev-er have used to service a Stanley Steamer if two old men, Jack Brause, 76, and Rube Delaunty, 70, hadn't decided to run a race from Chicago to New York in their two old cars. Brause owned the Steamer Steam-er ,and Delaunty owned a 1910 Stoddard-Dayton, which, as everyone every-one knows, is powered by a gas engine. They decided to settle, once and for all, the question of which was best, the steam or the gasoline car. The Steamer breezed into Am- |