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Show Naval Reserve Officer Speaks To Lions Club In speaking to the Pleasant Grove Lions Club business meeting meet-ing Wednesday .evening, Oct. 3, Naval Commander Dick Eastmond of Lehl, recently elected as National Na-tional vice president of the Naval Reserve Association, said, "Our country's greatest danger is not in being attacked, if we can stay strong, but lies in the fact that youth, when faced with Jet-flying, have a tendency to "Let George do it." He went on to explain that there is a real problem in getting pilots to fly the jets; to keep up full strength of flying units; and to take advantage of the fantastic fan-tastic advantages being made. And he indicated that future strength lies in the jet planes rather than in the old bomber type planes. As an example he cited a class of 20 students at the BYU and stated that of these, only two wanted to consider pilot training, and then they preferred the multi-engine multi-engine type of plane training to the fast jet. According to Commander Eastmond, East-mond, the Naval Air Reserve is the oldest of the Air Reserve Services. He saidi, "The Navy carries one-half one-half the load of National Defense on one-third of the defense dollar. The Navy is responsible for the Marines, which are kept at maximum maxi-mum strength with the money a-vailable. a-vailable. The Navy has the job of protecting our seas and shores. He praised the Naval Reserve, of which he is primarily interested, interest-ed, and stated that this country has enough qualified men in the Resrve ready for action, and continued con-tinued by saying, "They can be kept qualified at a fraction of the cost of a regular active duty man. "Reserve men can be trained in the latest planes and still go about their own private lives andi business busi-ness the major part of the year" he emphasized. Commander Eastmond spoke of his recent active duty tour to Florida Flor-ida with the Reserve, at which time he flew from Salt Lake City to Denver in 25 minutes with a ground speed of 900 miles an hour. In the tour he filled a mission mis-sion to Key West, a large submarine sub-marine base where the Mautilus had visited. In Philadelphia he also al-so saw the first jet plane built. It was a German make and had been captured from the Germans during World War II. He stated that the first jet planes were very costly as the engine hadi to be replaced re-placed after flying only four hours. He also visited Washington Washing-ton D.C. and Cleveland on his tour of active duty. The meeting was called to order or-der and conducted by Lion President Presi-dent George Jaynes, and was under un-der the direction of Dr. D. C. Jensen Jen-sen and William C. Smith. A financial fin-ancial report was given by Secretary Secre-tary Edwin I. Taylor. Hal Haycock Hay-cock of the Boys and Girls Committee Com-mittee reported that the committee commit-tee is considering the buildino- 0f a sleighing runway where school children could sleigh ride without traffic hazard. Junius A. West of the membership member-ship committee reported on a plan for increased membership in the club. The next meeting, with ladies as guests, will be a dinner-meeting when the immediate past president Niels Fugal and Mrs. Fugal will report on their recent European tour. |