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Show wife of Ambassador Franks: "With a name like that, I'd have just smeared him with mustard and given him a roll." And this, attributed to Alben Barkley: "There was .the case of the farmer far-mer with the beautiful wife", the Veep said. "She was so beautiful he couldn't keep his hands off her" "How hid he solve that problem?" prob-lem?" asked Tmbassador Franks. 'Fired the hands," explained the V-P. The guy who invented the vista-dome vista-dome railway car must have got the idea from a caboose. Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT . TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON FLAG DAY . . . The date of this issue, June 14, is Flag Day. Thirty seven years a-go a-go Franklin K. Lane made an oration or-ation in which were given these words of the Flag: "1 am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become. "I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of your self, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which' makes this nation. My stars and stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant bril-liant with courage, firm with faith because you have made them so out of your hearts. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making." mak-ing." TRAGEDY AT FALLON . . . Word was received last Wednesday, Wednes-day, June 6, of the death ol Wm. E. Done, father of Jess and Hollis Done, at Fallon, Nev. Mr. Done was walking along the highway when he was struck by a car. The accident occurred May 31, but because be-cause of lack of identification, officers of-ficers were unable to notify members mem-bers of the family for several days. Jess flew to Fallon last Wednesday, Wednes-day, with Leo Burraston, immediately immed-iately on learning of the tragedy The body is being taken to the family home at Mecca, Indiana, for burial. Hollis and another brother, Freeman, are making the trip east. Mr. Done has lived at Delta Tor about four years. ITINERARY FLIGHT . . . Nate Ward and Bob Nichols flew the circuit of several Utah airports, air-ports, June 6, to check fields and facilities for the CAA. Among the fields checked were Nephi and Mt. Pleasant. Frederick Baker and his brother, Capt. David Er.kcr, who is here ( from Albuquerque, flew out to Baker, Nev., Saturday. Also mak-1 ing the flight to Baker were Bill Waggoner and Leo Burraston. An excellent aerial photo of Notch Peak was run in the Deseret News Sunday Magazine, illustrating illustrat-ing an article by Frank Beckwith, Sr. The picture is one of many in the fine collection of aerial pictures pic-tures taken by Mr. Beckwith over the past several years. It is a beautiful view of this awe-inspiring scenic spectacle. "The Great White Throne is small compared with Mighty Notch Mountain", yet, as the article tells us, comparetively 'few people have ever seen Notch, even among Millard Mil-lard residents. It is more than twice as high as the Throne. With the completion of Highway Six, Notch will be more accessible to people who like to feel overwhelmed over-whelmed by Nature's mighty works but highway or no highway, if you want a view that is really breath-taking, just circle Notch's peak in an airplane. Ask anybody who has done it. Ward Henkel, formerly of Mil-ford, Mil-ford, set down here Sunday morning morn-ing in a Luscombe. He had breakfast break-fast with Mr. and Mrs. Max Pay; then too koff for Ontario, Calif., by way of Reno and San Francisco. He is now employed as aircraft communicator at Ontario. FRIDAY, JUNE 22 . . . The Aviation Committee of the 'Salt Lake JC's and the Aviation Div. of the Utah Safety Council will be hosts at a pilot's break-'fast break-'fast and meetings at the Newhouse Hotel, June 22. The Breakfast will be free to all who fly in from more than 25 miles; also free transportation will be furnished from the Airport. Afternoon meetings, starting at 2 p. m. will be addressed by W. L. Tubbs, Col., USAS and A. M. Salmon Sal-mon of United Air Lines. Pilots are requested to bring their own tie-down ropes, also to use caution in entering the traffic traf-fic pattern of SL Airport No. 1. Guests may land at the airport whether or not their planes are radio equipped, but those without radio are warned to be on alert for light gun signals. FAST 45,000th . . . North American Aviation last week completed its 45,000th airplane. air-plane. It was an F-86 Sabre-jet, the kind that can 670 mph. ON THE BAWL . . . Having found- the Wall Street Journal a rich source of aviation news, I was pleased to receive its silly contemporary, the Bawl St. Journal this week. The latter is published once a year. Unfortunately, Unfortun-ately, it doesn't run any flying news, and not only that, but it's pretty corny. Witness this remark attributed to Dean Acheson, to the |