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Show at Nephi nineteen minutes later because of bad weather. Art Rose tells me that days like last Saturday are busy ones for the flight service specialists. While many planes are always flying our busy airway, they don't all call Delta Radio except when, on such days, as they must fly IFR, they are required to do so. Larry Mijares was awarded his private pilot license last week. Dean Anderson and two guests made a flight over the hills above Oak City last week to spot cattle Bob Nichols piloted. , Russ Knight was out to try to locate a cow and call! by air Sunday. Sun-day. Reed Turner and Ward Johnson John-son accompanied him in the Aero-nca Aero-nca Sedan, and Leon Theobald piloted. Russ' cow was described as black, with one eyelid gone, as a result of which disfigurment she could be easily identiifed. Whether a missing eyelid would make a cow easy to - identifly ' from the ground, it strikes me Russ must think he has an eagle eye himself him-self to spot such a critter from the air. Vance Turner, of Kanosh, got a lively initiation into flying last week when he acted as guide to show Leo Burrasto.n where to go. He took his'first flight as part of his job with the BLM, which completed com-pleted a 1000 acre aerial project of seeding crested wheat in Sage Wiiigovei'S All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison i EPIDEMIC SERIOUS . . . After making the statement based bas-ed on the latest information avail- able last week that the polio epidemic epid-emic at Hanksville was a false I alarm, I hasten to correct the false impression. Either the two doctors who flew to Hanksville Sunday Nov. 25 in j the state-owned Beechcraft made a mistaken diagnosis, or the outbreak out-break occurred after they returned return-ed to Salt Lake. The fact is three or four cases of polio did strike at Hanksville, and some of the patients are in serious condition. Due to the fact that the population popula-tion of Hanksville is very small, only 40 or 50 people, the percentage percent-age stricken was high enough to be disastrous. Theinaccessibility of Hanksville, and the lack of telephone tele-phone service compounded the town's troubles. CAA radio, and state and air forced owned planes with CAP personnel, were of much help. OLD TIMER PASSES ... Word was received of the deach we get. QUESTIONS RAISED .... In a dictatorship, the people are supposed to go along unthinking, unquestioning, meerly doing as they are told by the authorities. This is called "unity", and the use of the word unity of late has been such as to raise doubt in the minds of lovers of freedom. Where the government is of, by, and for the people the people have the duty to question and criticize the authorities who hold high ofi fices. Of course if, as some contend, con-tend, the common people are not KKffininnM.r ? nl 1 1 - ..mil in Valley, NE of Leamington, above Rocky Ford. Henry Paxton, also of Kanosh, assisted, and Nels Bogh directed the job. Turner and Pax-ton Pax-ton acted as flagmen on the job. The flagmen stand as each end df the seeded area and hold flags which serve to guide the pilot of the seeder plane. It was during the preliminary recon flight that Turner got his baptism, of fast, close to earth, rough and ready flying. LECTURE . . . Mrs. Vilate Taylor Greiner was slated to give a talk in MIA, Dec. 4, on the life of Clara B. Davis. Clara has certainly had an interesting inter-esting life since she left Delta after af-ter graduating from Delta high as Clara Bullock. Her present vocation voca-tion is personnel director of the Fededal Reserve Bank in LA, and her avocation is private flying. She is famous for her flying exploits ex-ploits and XC races, and has served ser-ved as head of the women flyers organization, the 99's, as well as director of the annual cross country coun-try air races. I expect to be in Los Angeles by the time this is published, and hope to observe the admonition I have made to others and get an ID card from a CAA office, at Long Beach or elsewhere, this week. Those of use who haven't got them yet should do so the first chance of N. E. (Nate) Wagstaff, an AMT, from a heart attack, in Salt Lake City, last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Steele attended the funeral Monday. Mon-day. Mr. Wagstaff was in Delta last month for the pheasant hunt, as a guest -of Mr. Steele. He was- .a friend of Art Rose's father, L. P. Rose, who is another CAA old-timer. old-timer. He joined the CAA in 1929 or 1930 with a construction crew building buil-ding beacon towers across Nebraska. Neb-raska. Five years ago he was marooned mar-ooned for three days until a search party found him in his trunk on a high mountain east of Salt Lake, where he had been caught in a show storm while on his way to the beacon site. TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Radiation monitor Eugene V. Barry, of the AEC, iflew here again last Thursday and set up his equip ment to check the effects of the latest atomic explosions at Las Vegas. Capt. David Baker set down here last Friday in an air force C-45, out of Albuquerque. He returned re-turned the next day. Pilot J. Eggett set his Cessna 170 down here just as dusk Saturday, Satur-day, as the storm hit. He took off for his home airport of Sky Haven, at Bountiful, at 0931 Sunday morning, mor-ning, but was compelled to land formed to play a constructive part in government, then the theory of democracy falls flat on its face. I have at hand two items which question the wisdom of certain of our government's stratagems for national defense. Both, I think, are constructive ' and deserve ser--ious consideration. First is an article on "Airpower and Morality", by Eugene E. Wilson, Wil-son, who is president of United Aircraft Corp. Mr. Wilson says, "Some of the most brilliant minds in the Department of Defense are reported to be asking: Is our strategy stra-tegy right? They are said to question ques-tion the wisdom of a military policy pol-icy which places almost sole dependence de-pendence upon population bombing. bomb-ing. The article is distributed by SPOTLIGHT FOR THIS NATION, a newsletter of the Committee for Constitutional Government. "In placing sole dependence on the explosive force of an uncontrollable uncon-trollable weapon, we have neglected neglec-ted the most potent force in our posession - - the catalyst of moral principle", writes Mr. Wilson. The second article is by Wayne Thomis, and it appeared in the Chi cago Tribune Oct. 28. Mr. Thomis questions the net value . of the "Matador" guided missile on the basis of its cost in relation to its effectiveness. He describes the Matador as an enormously costly missile, at a quarter million dollars per shot, which is "likelv to miss its target by miles". Of this and other new developments, he says, "The weapons wea-pons were well named fantastic. And the men who are permitting vast segments of the defense picture pic-ture to be diverted to their production pro-duction had better re-examine their evaluations." There is at least some reason to think that many men in government, gov-ernment, who have acquired a vested ves-ted interest in war, are sadly lack-inp lack-inp in the capacity for intelligent discrimination as between the prac tical and the impractical, and who would cover up this lack by a ruthles use o'f destructive power. |