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Show ! sSfes LOOKING BACKWARD j t iS"vcC Items of interest taken from the VVff V' Kiles of tl,e Milford News of V iwv&f. Fifteen years a;u this week Comint'i'.tiiijr on the irnuze masks t!.:it were in use a-; precaution; :iaint "Spanish flu," is was remarked re-marked that "some of our loeal fjirls wearing these sauze protections look like the sultan's favorite ilancini; trirls.- Notice of intention to nvike final I proof on land claims were beinjr ail-1 vertised for William V. Murray ami j Martin Reismer of Malone; for John" F. Wallen and James Posik of Mil-foul Mil-foul ar.d Charles A. Zilliritt of Nada. There was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Arrinsrton a baby daughter. I Si.ins had Veen put up notifying the traveling public that Frisco had been quarantined. Tl.o Santa Maria, Columbus' flagship, flag-ship, could be placed athwart ships on; the battleship Colorado with four! feet to spare. Very interest fntr are the various; insignia used by the navy's aircraft J squadrons and 'the carriers. These; insignia are remnants of romantic heraldry. TVie use of the ins'gn:a started during the World war to af-i ford the means of determining an, enemy plane from a friendly one. The insignia of fighting squadron: one (YF-1) was at one time a diving eagle, which lost favor because of its similarity to a parrot on the box of a well advertised brand of candy.' While looking for an appropriate insignia in-signia the problem was solved by the1 appearance of one of the .-quadron members wearing a battered old top hat. The "High Hat" became the insignia in-signia of fighting one. The Scouting squadron tsvo (YS-2) has a picture of a pointer dog for its insignia. This can be understood because be-cause the duties of a scouting squadron squad-ron operating with the fleet require the characteristic of the pointer (log-Fighting; (log-Fighting; plane squadron six (YF-t!) adopted its insignia when it was known as Combat Four. Its pri-; mary mission was dive bombing. This mission was graphically shown' by a picture of Pat Sullivan's "Felix! the Cat," with a bomb in his hand-. The squadron has since become i "Fighting Six", bvt the crazy cat was so symbolic of the squadron that it was retained as its insignia. Torpedo squadron two (YT-2) uses a picture of a fire-breating dragon sitting on a bomb to denote its mission mis-sion of destruction. The insignia of the Saratoga is the crowing cock. At the battle of Lake Champlain a chicken pen was broken open by gun fire, allowing a rooster to escape. The bird flew onto one of' the yaruarms, flapping his wings and ; crowing lustily. The turning point of the battle occurred at that time and since then the crowing cock has been the symbol of every Saratoga that has flown the stars and stripes. |
