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Show , Wingovers . "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" . DICK MORRISON VERY HONORABLE GUYS ... ' "They are all honorable men. I wouldn't have them if they weren't" were-n't" - - Harry Truman. "But Brutus says he. was ambitious; am-bitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many cap -fives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? ambit-ious? - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, ambit-ious, And Brutus is an honorable man." Marc Antony. "Every man hath business and' desire" - - - Shakespeare. TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS With Shakespearian quotations off our chest 'for the time being, we shall proceed to the matter of flying, particularly that little detail of filing flight plans. The CAA emphasizes .the importance of this, for the pilot's own safety. Too many pilots don't bother. They just take off. They should remember remem-ber that filing a flight plan is the best way of keeping out of trouble, trou-ble, or if trouble is encountered, of getting out of it. i Ray Steele wishes he could devise de-vise some sort of flight plan for crows, to guide them away from the radio towers. The crows just fly the beam, "ght to the top of Ray's 137 ft LF radio range towers, where they build nests. This may be a crow's idea of a good place for a nest but it isn't Ray's. He has to climb up and knock them down, and he's wondering how to stop crows from building homes in his towers. Von Robertson, Veterans' Adm Co-ordinator for Utah, and Harold E. Bemett, acting state aero director, direct-or, landed their Bonanza here Mar. 15. They were on official business of the GI training program. Mr. Bemett was acquainted with Bill Bishop when both were" in the service. ser-vice. Communicator Bob Nichols made a solo XC to Salt Lake Friday. First plotted to include Wendover and Price, his course had to be changed because of heavy weather The Air Force announces that it has succeeded in refeuling its 600 mph B-47 bomber in flight. This will extend the range o'f the B-47, which last year crossed the continent contin-ent in less than four hours without I refeuling. Grant and Dale Workman enjoyed enjoy-ed flying the Bellanca Sunday. FLEDGLINGS . . . Mrs. Tex Searle took her first flight Sunday, with Tex, in the Bel lanca. Burraston piloted. Elmer Robison, taking his second air ride in fourteen years, was among am-ong Sunday's flyers. Three young children of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Nutsch were treated to their first plane ride Sunday, in the Bellanca, by their uncle John Nutsch. They were Robert 7, Michael, Mich-ael, 5, and Rose Marie, 4. The kids loved it, as, for that matter, did their uncle John. CEDAR CITY MEET . . . Mayor Broadbent of Cedar City has designated April 15 to 22 as Aviation week. Cedar's new air -port administration building will be dedicated April 21-22. All pilots and guests are invited for a good time. Draw Your Own Conclusions . . . Little did I expect to be immortalized immor-talized for hauling Frank Beckwith Sr., ninety miles over rough desert roads in my truck one day last summer but that's what happened. happen-ed. The April Desert Magazine has an article called Pedro's Lost Gold Mine, with a picture of Dick Morrison Mor-rison standing beside abandoned shaft sunk to reach bottom of the sink .hole. "No gold was found" explains the caption, which is true. The fact is we had quite a time finding the hole itself. Of course no one should assume from the picture that I am an auth ority on lost Spanish gold mines. I'm not; but that's no reason why I can't have my picture taken look ing at one, is it? The story, which was furnished the Desert Magazine by Mr. Beckwith, Beck-with, is of the mystery surrounding surround-ing the finding of gold in the House Range by a Mexican sheep herder named Pedro, thirteen yrs. ago. Dr. J. E Stains bought some of Pedro's gold for use in his professional profes-sional work. Pedro dropped from sight not long after selling the gold to Dr. Stains, and while the origin of the gold dust has never been confirmed, rumors of the lost mine still persist here in these parts. The article tells of a search 'for the fine by Joe Nielson and Alva Barnes; of a Spanish gold coin found in North Canyon by Tom Watson, who knew Pedro, and of a gold pebble .worth $12.00 found by Barclay John. The Desert Magazine does not voice, but what is that sound in the duet with young Russell Nype that brings them back until the show falls behind schedule? If that isn't singing, it is something that a lot of girls who sing should do instead." Pegler made a point there.' Music naturally, is a means o'f expressing express-ing emotional feeling, and sans em otion it isn't worth bothering with. Take Lena Home doing a sultry rendition of Stormy Weather. Thats music. It makes me tingle just to think of it. On the classical side, this is a good time to blurt that I like Brahms better than Beethoven, and that I really don't care much for string sextets of the more rarifield variety ,and -believe few people do excepting musicologists who who like perfectionism for its own sake. Perfect they may be, but I'll vouch for the existence of the lost mine. '"Here is the story", it says, "and you can draw your own conclusions". Exploratory trips to the site, made both by airplane and by truck, have been described in this column several times in the past year. PEGLER ON MERMAN . . . I'm not the only reactionary com mentator who occasionally goes soft on the point of writing about music. Last week Westbrook Pegler Peg-ler unburdened himself of this appraisal ap-praisal of the art of Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman. "Her voice is less melodious than some. It is even a course, rowdy take the kind that leaves me all stirred up inside. As for the modern mod-ern classicists, either they're too advanced for me or I'm too advan-, advan-, ced for them. Whichever it is we don't jibe. Give me an outpouring like the Love Duet of Tristan and Isolde, with Fladgstad and Melchior at the mike; music which, as Nietzsche Nietz-sche said, tosses human emotions about like flotsam on a stormy sea Someone said that no one can hear the Love Duet without being emotoionally aroused, and if true that's the highest tribute that could be paid to any music. If it doesn't make you want to laugh, or cry, or love, or fight, or march or dance, or pray, it isn't good mus ic. And if it does, it is. |