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Show Vs2t- Kd Davis u.i visited in Delta on'fL his mother, Mrs. Mabe . family, is now at San Force Base, at San M,f V He is with the Basew P. O. Box 100 eaS Wiugovers All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison HAYLIFT ... With a cycle of old fashioned hard winters apparently staging a comeback, the haylift seems to be getting established as a regular thing. Air force C-54's and C-47'j were commissioned at Hamilton Field, Calif, last week, to pick up loads of hay at Elko, Nev. and fly it to herds of sheep and cattle marooned in northern Nevada. The operation is not as extensive as the first big haylift of January and February of 1949, which covered several states. The 1949 haylift will be remem bered by many Deita people as the thrill of a lifetime. Many flights were made from Delta airport by C-47 planes. Local people were recruited re-cruited to help, and among those who rode the' haylift were the mayor, Golden Black, and his son, Barth, and Spence Wright, to name but three of dozens. When the word got .around town that local people might go along, there were plenty of volunteers. The procedure was to load about fifty bales of hay in the planes, then fly to some snowbound sheep camp perhaps a hundred miles out, circle the area, and each time the plane came over the camp kick out as many bales as possible. A bell, controlled from the cockpit, cock-pit, was the signal for the crew to throw out hay. It was possible to pitch out about ten bales each round, in the few seconds before the plane passed beyond the camp. The side cargo door was removed, and the crew man standing nearest it tied .a rope around his waist. A typical crew consisted of seven men, although on some trips, women wo-men went, too. They were pilot, co-pilot, and two air force men, a spotter, usually an employee of the sheep owner, who rode in the cockpit to tell the pilot where to go and two local helpers. Some of the camps were in valleys val-leys bordered by steep cliffs. The C-47's zoomed and dived to get in, flying close to bleak, icy crags, suggestive of an imaginary Mar-tain Mar-tain landscape. With the hay unloaded, the crew would put down the hinged metal benches on the sides of the plane, Eloomfield College, in New Jersey, fiued I circular to recruit new reading this, Edwin B. Newman New-man of Harvard, replied, m part, " don't believe we have any recent re-cent Ph. D.'s who would ie can-striates can-striates for your position. I should like to express my astonishment on reading your qualifications . I find it very difficult to understand under-stand how you can be engaged in an agressive campaign to reorganize reorgan-ize and strengthen Bloomf.eld College Col-lege when you so blatantly propose to violate the principles on which both our democracy and our educational edu-cational system are founded. From th,:,t, it looks like he thinks loyalty to the American way violates vio-lates the principles of our democracy demo-cracy and our educational system! But how could it? My opinion is that if our schools will teach the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the various political systems sys-tems students will find the American Amer-ican 'way the best of all. As for teachers who demand freedom to back a system that permits no freedom - - well, it looks to me like there are some ivory domes in some of our ivory towers. Mrs. Jean A. Moody, who has been at Wichita Falls, Texas, with her husband, Pfc. Richard Moody, there with the U. S. Air Force, is making a visit of two weeks in Delta with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Charles R. Allen. hv the bad Weather. Larry Miiares flew .h Mil-ford Saturday, to make lepairs on the Milford radio. Pilot Nielson of Leamington set down here Sunday in a Luscombe Silvaire, out of Provo. Tex Searle flew his Cessna to Salt Lake last week. Don Bothwell was scheduled to take his pilot flight test Monday morning, but due to the fact that it is not customary to give such tests in a snow storm, the event was postponed. EASTER SUGGESTION . . Delta families who want an interesting in-teresting place to go on Easter might try Lehman Caves, at Baker, Nevada. Many Deltans have never seen the caves, and would find the sight well worth the 100 mile trp. A small charge is made for admission, admis-sion, and the underground tour takes about two hours. Guides are available. Everyone who has made the tour will testify that first timers tim-ers will gasp in amazement as first sight of the underground fairy land. Visitors are taken through the entrance tunnel, then gathered in a group in the dark, and treated treat-ed to a sight of rare beauty when the guide turns on the lights in the first cavern. The new route of highway 6 can be travelled; this, of course, subject to limitations imposed by construction work. As of last Sun-lay Sun-lay it was excellent. The 31 miles of uncompleted road was smoother smooth-er and better than the old road ever was; and beyond that the black top is a joy to drive on. The new route skirts the north and loll on them during the return re-turn flight. One man would sweep hay leaves out the side door. It was not cold. Even with the cargo door removed, little wind swept inside, and plenty of heat came from the front. Riders were allowed allow-ed to go forward and watch the scenery from the cockpit, or stand by the side opening, and when so doing they were always careful to get a good handhold on some firm object, there being a half mile or more of thin air between plane and ground. A number of local people have prized photos of Notoh Peak, Drum Mountains, and the like, taken through the wind shield of a C-47. It was fun to fly 160 mph while watching bulldozers waging theii hopeless battle against the drifts, 2000 feet below. TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Two Ogden flyers, Dr. Howard L. Call and Dr. D. Lowell Kerr, set down here Sunday in a Bellanca. They had flown from Ogden to Vegas Saturday, making the flight in 165 minutes. On their return flight heads winds slowed them down until it took that long to reach Delta, and a low overcast over ov-er Eureka and snow at Ogden necessitated nec-essitated their spending Sunday night at Delta. They returned to Ogden on UP train 10, early Monday. Mon-day. Pilots Call and Kerr were members mem-bers of the CAP group that participated partic-ipated in a search 'and rescue mission mis-sion operating out of Delta in Dec. 1950, hunting for a lost C-45. At that time Dr. Kerr piloted his own Vultee BT13A, a low wing monoplane mono-plane of 145 mph cruising speed, gine. Dr. Call flew in a CAP ship. The C-45 was not located by the party stationed at Delta, but w.as located a week later where it had erashed on the slope of Mt. Ellen, 30 miles south of Hanksville. Max Gubler flew in from Ely, Friday in an Ercoupe owned by George Swallow. The plane was grounded here for the week end end of Sevier Lake, and the south end of the House Range. It makes accessible parts hitherto reached only by geologists and sheep herders. her-ders. Driving it last Sunday, we could see the remains of Lloyd Hoskins' abandoned airplane in Sevier Lake. There was a mirage effect, and the plane stuck up like a sore thumb in the mirage, if the expression is permissible. While the high south cliffs of Notch are visible from the new road, sight seers may detour a few miles on the old road that takes off just east of Kings Canyon, Can-yon, and get the best view of the Notch from the west. FOR GOD, COUNTRY, AND BLOOMFIELD . . . Can it be un-American to hold definite, positive loyalty to the American ideal and traditions? It seems that some people think so. A while back, Dr. Frederick Schweitzer, president of little |