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Show Archie Searle1 orifie Said he'd never fly solo until he was ready. He was ready last Saturday. No v Archie knows that strange, exul-ant exul-ant feeling that comes only to I those who have taken an airplane up alone for the first time. June Shurtz, fnga Mae Msm-niott Msm-niott and Veola Memmott, took to the air Sunday, escorted by Gene Losee. Ben Bates, a nephew of Rox Bunker, set down here iast week. Ben is a student pilot, and was making his solo XC. Mr. and Mrs. Dee rJluck with their three children, Husse.U, 11, Eelene, 7, and Paula, 1, took a lutle spin in the Aeronca sedan Sunday. They didn't actually spin, of course, but you know what I mean. ND OF A SEARCH ; . Sunday's Deseret News reported the finding of the Cessna 140 in which Capt. Harry Forsyth and his mother, Mrs. Georgia Forsyth, of Provo, had taken off for Sheridan, Wyo. early Tuesday, April 29. A search pilot from Lowry Air Foice Base identified wreckage of the plane. The report indicated that it had crashed into a sheer cliff, r.ear Atlantic City, Wyo. One can only guess the motives which led Harry Forsyth to start his flight in bad weather. Perhaps the fact that his mother wished to visit her other son, at the veterans' vet-erans' hospital in Sheridan, impelled impel-led him to take a chance he would not otherwise have taken. We tan-not tan-not know. He seems to have been flying low, perhaps to maintain visual contact with the ground. Then, suddenly the cliff loomed ah;ad - - there must have been a moment of terror - - then, oblivion. Wingovers All The News That's Fit To Punt - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison RADIATION ... A crew from the Atomic Energy Commission set up radiation detec tors at the airport last Wednesday to check the incidence of radioactive radioac-tive dust from the atomic explosions explos-ions near Las Vegas. The high, dusty south wind carried an unusual un-usual amount of this dangerous stuff over Utah, but there was not enough to do any harm, according to the findings. Speaking of radioactive dust - -it reminds me of the novel, Mr. Adam, in which every man on earth was rendered sexually impotent im-potent by dust from the atomic wars, except one, Mr. Adam, who happened to be deep in a lead mine during attack. The story is chiefly concerned with his life and adventures after it was found that he was the only man living capable of being a papa. For some reason, the radiation rad-iation did not affect the women, they being tougher than men, I suppose. The hero, Mr. Adam, had quite a time. Among other things, tt onwflrnYYiflnt flt tl,at ! oKm.M LONG RANGE WEATHER ... People seldom say a good word for the weather man when he makes an accurate prediction, but when he forecasts a fine Sunday, and it rains, everybody criticizes him. Yet people generally have been asking him to make long range forecasts, because these would be invaluable to agricult- ure, commerce and industry. The U. S. Weather Bureau has been proceeding cautiously along this line. It issues a semi-monthly paper called the Average Monthly Weather Resume and Outlook, which, while not intended for widespread distribution because its data are most useful when interpreted in-terpreted by an expert, gives long range forecasts in a general way. The weather is the result of ah mass movements, not only north' and south and east and west, but tip and down. To forecast fore-cast the weather, the apparent direction of air mass movements must be apparent. Hence the difficulty dif-ficulty of making long range forecasts. fore-casts. The charts in the Resume and Outlook deal not with localized areas, but with more extensive areas, such as might be affected by a major air mass, and they show "anomalies" or departures from normal conditions. Thus people peo-ple familiar with the normal weather wea-ther for any area may judge the kind to expect from the forcast. Reproduction of the forecasts is not authorized, because confusion might result if the lay public were to try to interpret them. However, it may be said that for one recent period, comparison of the forecast with the actual weather indicates that the system is quite accurate. take full charge o ihim, in the interest of preserving the race. For more of this, read the book yourself. What I'm wondering, now, is whether a lot of atomic dust will float over us some day and create some such situation. A rather horrible hor-rible thing to contemplate, don't you think? TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . i Roy Kashner, contractor, of In-glewood, In-glewood, Calif., is in Delta to relocate re-locate power poles near the VHF transmitter, in order to abviate the chance of the VOR getting off the team. Ray Steele is assisting in the installation of new plastic domes to cover equipment of the VOR radios at Delta and Milford. Ron Morely enjoyed some stunting stunt-ing in a Super Cub Friday. He tells of doing snap rolls, slow rolls, and just plain rolls. Bob Nichols flew to Spanish Fork Saturday. Five young ladies got cold feet at the airport Sunday. They were Jean Thomas, Virginia Clark, Carol Sorenson, Ha Fullmer, and Munel Gardner. The girls drive cut intending to go flying, but. for reasons best known to themselves, wouldn't get into an airplane. Well, girls, you can't fly without a plane. I enioyerl a very pleasant Sunday Sun-day oven.ng flight with Rex and Mary Bunker and young Kenny Griner. We flew out over the Bunker Bun-ker farms west of the reservoir and at Sugarville. It was Mary's firs: time up. Don Searle came over from Pio-vo Pio-vo Monday in his Ercoupe. Hdrc'.d Rutherford of Salt Lake sot down here Friday in an Er-couple. Er-couple. His wife, the former Alta Searle, did not accompany him. |