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Show Wingovers All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison TOURNAMENT WEEK . . . As Mark Twain always said, everybody ev-erybody talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about ab-out it .Last week there were two subjects of conversation in Delta. One was the weather, which was terrible, and the other was basketball, basket-ball, which was terrific. Nobody actually did anything about the basketball either but all who could journeyed to Salt Lake and yelled their heads off, and the rest sat by their radios tearing up their handkerchieves. Darwin Barney, Don Bird, Blaine Taylor and Leo Burraston flew to Salt Lake Friday evening, in the Aeronca Sedan, to see the game between Delta and B. Y. High. That was the only game Delta lost, and according to the grapevine, the Delta team somehow got ptomaine pto-maine that day and were said to be sick as dogs before the game and weak as cats while playing. Not that anyone wants to make excuses, but facts are facts. It seems to me that if one ball team gets ptomaine, it would only be fair to poison the other team so they'd be on an equal basis. MORE FM NEEDED . . . A lot of Delta people were disgusted dis-gusted with the radio reception Friday night. It wasn't possible to hear the game, which was played late without a lot interference. The basic trouble here is that the game was broadcast only by shared channel AM stations, and since AM radio reaches out at night, this type broadcasting station sta-tion can only be heard well within a short radius, because the stations sta-tions interfere with each other. Utah has only one cleared channel AM station. It operates on 1160 KC, and it really serves a large area. With 50 KW power It can be heard consistently from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. There are only about two doezn such stations in the nation. If the FCC would modify the radio set-up, and allot only one powerful AM station to each standard stan-dard broadcast band, and shift the others to FM, we'd all have better radio. The change would be difficult, dif-ficult, but it is overdue. The sharing shar-ing of channels by AM stations is an archaic practice that never should haVe been authorized at all. FIXES VOR . . . CAA engineer Wm. H. Schwartz was in Delta alst week, to arrange for the relocation of some poles near the VOR radiator, by Fred Baker's farm. Pole lines at present lead to the radiator from opposite directions, 180" apart. The creates a possibility possibi-lity of the lines throwing the beam into a 180 "reverse" 'which might not be detected by the monitor. To eliminate this chance, he is having one pole line relocated 10 from its present direction. open, when it's a special job with a pair of planed aluminum heads and an overdrive, and I know darn well it can outrun any other car its age and weight. Second, here he was lecturing me like a law breaker when he'd just clocked me at 25 mph. Fancy that! Looks like it kind of got his goat when he tried to catch me speeding and I didn't speed. Not only that, but we don't drive our car much in bad weather, because be-cause we think it's dangerous, and we know it takes a lot out of the car, and the car has been home locked in- the garage for weeks at a time this winter, and hasn't -run a thousand miles in the last four months, and it's a miracle how any body could see it burning up the Carl Baker, the son-to-be 16 year old son of Fred and Betty Baker hopes to solo out in the family T-Craft T-Craft on March 30, which will be his 16th birthday. A flight was made from Delta to Gandy last Wednesday by J. L. Lindsay, and a friend, on business. Nate Ward arrived home from Los Angeles Sunday night.He spent the week there on CAA business. He reports that it rained there all week, and then really rained Saturday. Sat-urday. WISE GUY IN UNIFORM . . . People unjustly accused of wrong doing sometimes decide that if road much. It would come close to being the least driven car in i Delta. I call this a case of the pot calling the kettle black, when the kettle is really clean and the pot a bit smudged. There's nothing the American . people detest more than a smart : , aleck attitude on the part of their I public servants. I People who live in glass houses ' should never cast the first stone, and officers should know they are very much in the public eye. They should instil respect for law, and they can't do that by telling us off when we are clearly innocent, nor by being 'anything but models of decorum and good behavior themselves them-selves in both their public and their private lives. they've got the name, they'll play the game, and if Delta people should decide they might as well break the speed laws when they feel like it, it could be because they figure Randall Theobald will tell them off whether they do or not. The other day, after I had completed com-pleted the job of installing an army ar-my truck type" generator control on the family chariot, I decided to give it a road test. The job had entailed en-tailed extensive modification of the car's generating system, and the final test involved driving on the road at about 25 mph in second sec-ond gear. Because of this, I am sure of my speed. I'd no sooner started out than I became aware that officer Theobald Theo-bald was following me in that black and white car. After two blocks at 25 mph he turned back. I drove half way to the airport and then returned to my garage. Imagine my surprise when, after af-ter I stopped, Randall drove up and said didn't I know my Mercury Mer-cury could be run less than wide open, and I said say that again, and he said it again, and I said well, you said it. Then he said he had noticed me driving around a lot, always full speed ahead, and I shouldn't do it, etc. etc. His attitude burned me up for two reasons. First, the idea that my Mercury could only do 25 wide |