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Show Wingovers All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison "Heresy is what the minority believe" - - Robert Ingersoll. "Conformists die, but . heretics live on 'forever" - - Elbert Hubbard. Hub-bard. "V- NATE WARD TRANSFERRED . . . Nathan E. Ward, long time flight fli-ght service chief at Delta Airport, received word last week that his bid for a position at the Phoenix, Ariz, airport tower has .been accepted, ac-cepted, effective next week. He and Mrs. Ward expect to move to Phoenix soon. Nate holds the all time record among communicators, flight service ser-vice specialists, and chiefs for the length of his service at Delta airport. air-port. He had, in fact, come to be regarded by so many people as a down here shortly after noon Friday. Fri-day. Marc was piloting a sleek Beech Bonanza on a chartered flight which included a stop at Fillmore as well as Delta. He told me he flew the Fillmore-Delta leg in twelve minutes. r We enjoyed a little chat during his stop here. Marc confirmed the fact that his father, Dave Kemp, had soloed out last year on his 75th birthday, and he Invited-me to stop in at K & K next time I get to Salt Lake. At about 3:30 p. m. Mare took off with his passenger pas-senger for Salt Lake, and with a stiff tail wind made excellent time on the flight home. Marc's passenger was one Marriner S. Ec-cles, Ec-cles, a politician who was campaigning cam-paigning for Republican nomination nomina-tion for U. S. Senator. TAKE OFFS ANp LANDINGS . . . We can't say for sure, but the grapevine is vibrant with a rumor permanent iixture -here that news of his transfer came as something of a surprise to Delta people. He and Chris have played a prominent part in social and civic affairs in this community and their many friends will be sorry to see them leave. Nate learned radio while serving serv-ing in the Army. His service with the CAA began on June 13, 1940, and he worked at CAA stations at Humble Field, Nev., Phoenix, Ariz., Needles, Calif, and Salt Lake City during the following 2 years, before being transferred to Delta as Chief Aircraft Communicator, on March 15, 1942. While working at Delta, Nate devised an improved method of checking the operation o'f the alarm al-arm system of the radio range monitor. The improvement he originated or-iginated was adopted for general use--by the CAA, and he was awarded awar-ded official recognition for it in Salt Lake City, on Dec. 14, 1949, when district airport engineer Harold Har-old Bean presented' him with a letter of commendation from the Regional Administrator , a Certificate Certifi-cate of Award and $25.00 cash. Nate holds an instructor's rating as a flier, and he has assisted in flight .instruction at Delta along with his CAA work. We are sorry to see . Nate and Chris Ward move away 'from Delta but since the move will mean an advancement for them, we wish them well. MARCUS KEMP HERE . . . D. M. (Marcus) Kemp, partner ! of Frank Kelsey in Kemp and Kel-sey Kel-sey Air Service, of Salt Lake, set that the job being left by Nate Ward may toe filled by Maurice I. Walters, formerly o'f the CAA station sta-tion at Milford, and presently chief at Cedar City Airport. Larry and Marie Mijares put on a bit of the dog, if you'd say it that way, by flying down to Cedar Ced-ar City for their Labor Day outing. Frederick Baker pulled one of those Riders In The Sky stunts last week. He used his airplane to herd horses, out in the west desert. des-ert. Kay Gardner took the plunge last week, by starting to learn how to fly. He took his familiarization Monday, Sept. 1, and followed up with an hour in the air. That, by all the rules, should mean that by now he can do a 90 le'ft turn and straighten up afterwards. Stalls will come later. ! George Eddie Dutson resumed his flying course last week. A pair of old cow hands from the Rio Grande set down here Sun day; then took off for Albuquerque in the teeth of a headwind. Their plane, owned and piloted by Joe Nelson, rancher, was a Piper Super Sup-er Cruiser with unique landing gear. Tandem front wheels make it feasible to land smoothly on the open range. Joe and his friend proved no sticklers 'for the niceties nice-ties of CAA regulations. They took off by heading roughly south from the gas pit, and rose nearly straight strai-ght up against the wind. Sunday visitors with Max and Maggie Kay were Max's brother, Charley, his wife, Millie, and their daughter, Mrs. Irene Maxwell of Eureka. TORCH OUT . . . As of Sunday evening, CAA communications com-munications had received no word of the fate of the jet plane whose distress call was heard by Bryce Canyon radio at 1320 Saturday. The fast plane had taken off from Hill AFB less than an hour earlier, in flight to El Paso, Tex., with pilot and one passenger. Bryce Canyon picked up its distress call, saying one engine had a "flame-out", "flame-out", and that pilot and passenger might have to bail out. The extremely rugged nature of the terrain, of southeastern Utah makes search and rescue work difficult. dif-ficult. Even if the two men succeeded suc-ceeded in parachuting safely to the ground, it is possible they might get seperated from each other as well as from-the outside world.v SAFETY RECORD . . . The air carriers wound up one o'f the best safety years in history, his-tory, on June 30, 1952. With less than one passenger fatality per 100 million passenger miles, airline air-line travel was three times as safe as automobile travel. |