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Show Wingovers ' All The News That's Fit To I Print - From The Delta Airport. I By Dick Morrison RECALLS FIRST FLIGHT . . Among the Sunday callers at the Airport were Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Erusii. -Mr. and Mrs. Brush were hoping that their son, Ted, and Ted's oldest son, Ilex, might fly in from San Francisco. They were disappointed, however, because Ted and Rex were unable to make the flight at this time. Rex is an expert pilot. He is in the Air Force, and is stationed in Florida. Ted is manager of a large cooperative grocery store in Palo Alto. He, as well as sevetal other members of the family, now live in the Bay area. was ripe for Communism goes with out saying also. I could be wrong, but I believe be-lieve that much of his professed belief in the Christian God is for the following it will bring him. Too many insincere writers are doing that in this particular eiu. A good review of "WiLness" was in the Atlantic Monthly, Sincerely,, Gertrude Baker. (.Mrs. Fred L. Baker, -1070 West 104 St., Inglewood, ,Calit. ) Certainly .no evaluation of Cham bers, his outlook on life and his work should fail to take note of his background. The abnormi.il childhood which he lived would explain a great deal. The Atlantic's review of Witness was noteworthy, as Mrs. Baker Mrs. Brush recalled her first airplane air-plane ride, which she took three or four years ago at San Francisco with her grandson, Rex, piloting. She said she had seen a lot of San Francisco before, but never such a view as she got that day from the air. TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Lloyd Hoskins spent last week end here, and returned to his home in Ogden Sunday. He expects ex-pects to be back in Delta late this week. Lloyd has been busy overwhelming over-whelming the engine of his black and yellow Fairchield the last while. He believes it will be ready to fly again after a couple more hours testing and running-in. Ray and Ruth Steele drove to the Legion Convention at Price Saturday. Never one to go anywhere any-where or do anything without some sort of incident, ,Ray hit a deer with his car as he was on the way home, just north of Lynn-dyl. Lynn-dyl. Hatch Farnsworth land Leo Bur-raston Bur-raston flew to the State Legion Convention Saturday. Larry Mijares and his young daughter nicknamed Muggins flew to Preston, Idaho in the Champ Saturday. They returned the same day. Jim Nickle piloted the sedan to Salt Lake Friday, with Bob Nichols Nic-hols as passenger. (While their lant namps sound the same, thev suggests. It was written toy Rebecca Reb-ecca West, However, I chose the review by John Chamberalin in the Freeman as the basis for my i own comment because I felt that his past association with Chambers Cham-bers on the staff of Time, Inc. gave it a background most others lacked. Miss West was rather sympathetic sympath-etic toward Alger Hiss while Cham berlain was more favorable to Chambers. Incidentally, I was intrigued in-trigued by a term which occurs repeatedly in Miss West's review. It is "dervish trial". She refers to the Hiss case as a dervish trial-, and says that "it was the most recent re-cent manifestation of a recurrent threat to society - - ". Miss West then goes on to say, "There could be nothing more inappropriate to a court of law than a mob of dancing dan-cing dervishes". With that statement, no one could take issue. But two questions quest-ions come to mind. First, which poses the greater threat to our society, the berayal of trust by high government officials, or the treason trials? Second, what, if any, difference is there between a dervish trial and a witch hunt? Let Rebecca West supply the answers. ans-wers. I appreciate Mrs. Baker's letter. The viewpoints of the Freeman and the Atlantic are quite different differ-ent and thoughtful people owe it to themselves to read and evaluate evalu-ate both. ies. it is truly amazing what happens hap-pens to our voices wnen we talk into the telephone. The sound impulses im-pulses are mouuiated, agregaled, correlated, and segregated. Carrier circuits on difieient rrequencies transmit many voices over tire same wires at once. Automatic devices de-vices compensate xor variations oi signal strength which result from such things as dew and frost formations for-mations on the wires; and even for oreaks in the wires. There is probably no more magical mag-ical science than modern electronics, electron-ics, wmen seems to nave taken over tiie wnoie Held of communications, commun-ications, and nnany other arts ana sciences as well. .1 can give a more complete description of Rui-on's Rui-on's equipment here, but suggest that people who are interested m that sort of thing go and see it for themselves. It is a hobby as well as a business for Rulon, and he likes to show it to interested people. are spelled different, and Jim and Bob are no kin.) . Raymond Finlinson flew in from Cedar City last Wednesday, in his T-Craft. Nate Ward went fishing Sunday. READER'S LETTER A friend writes from California: Dear Mr. Morrison: I was very much interested in your comments on Whittaker Chambers' "Witness". You say he was confused in his thinking. Did you consider athe cir cumstances under which he grew up? In his abnormal boyhood there was no faith, but there was desertion, deser-tion, poverty, insanity, alchololism, suicide and several forms of violence. vio-lence. That he is a literary artist goes without saying; and that his mind COMMUNICATIONS NOTE . . . Thanks to Rulon Callister, my education in the field of modern communications was advanced con siderably Sunday. Before that, I thought I knew quite a bit" of the subject, having seen' the works of the LF radio range, the VHF Omni range, and the INSAC house installation. Now I fell as if I've seen it all. Rulon devoted two hours to showing and explaining the equipment equip-ment in the basement of the phone exchange. The electric and electronic equipment occupies two basement rooms. The larger of the two installations is devoted to reg ular telephone service; the smaller but still impressive set-up to CAA communications. This handles the teletype, interphone and telephone circuits for the airport. It would be futile for me to try to describe all of Rulon's equip ment. Most of it has been installed install-ed since the war. But I was struck by the amount and quality of it. When one realizes that such an installation is needed to serve this small community, one can imagine ima-gine the magnitude of the tele -phone installations in the big cit- |
