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Show 14-Year-Old Charleston Boy Builds Flying Saucer CHARLESTON, W. Va. There is such a thing as a flying saucer. Joe Ward, 14-year-old Charleston youth, who has heard so much about the saucers recently, decided he could and would build one. He made it. And it flies. The youth is a model airplane builder of years standing. Intrigued by the thought of a flying saucer, he started out to make one. He had no model to work from. He wound up with a doughnut shaped contraption made of balsa wood and silk. It was equipped with a motor, flaps, landing gear, wheels and propeller. The boys of his gang scoffed at the idea that the contraption would fly. So did his father, who bet Joe two cans of gasoline that the saucer would be a flop. The pay-off came at a large cinder cin-der plant field near the duPont plant. The saucer, attached to 50 feet of wire so that it would not be lost, not only flew but looped, hovered, hov-ered, circled and dipped. Joe now has plans for a larger, radio controlled saucer that would put the last of the skeptics to rout. |