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THE WHITE FALCON
Saturday, May 12, 1956
By Sp3 J. T. Lawrie
A relatively unknown Australian, Jim Bailey, surged suddenly
out of nowhere last Saturday in Los Angeles, California to break
the four minute “barrier” in the one-mile run for the first time in
American track history. Bailey, whose home is in Sidney, but who
studies at the University of Oregon, beat his compatriot and world
record holder, John Landy, by one yard. Bailey’s official time was
3:58.6. This was one-tenth of a second faster than Landy’s clocking
and 1.9 seconds under the old American record of 4:00.5 set by Wes
Santee last year in the Compton (Calif.) Relays. The classic event
was viewed by 40,000 spectators in the Los Angeles Coliseum, who
came to witness the special mile run plus the annual USC-California
track meet. Bailey’s best previous race was timed in 4:05.6 and he
was virtually an unknown until he swooped passed Landy in the
final quarter-mile. He ran the final 440 yards in an amazing 55.5
seconds. Lon Spurrier, one of the world’s fastest half-milers, was
favored to give Landy his strongest competition, but the former
University of California “thinclad” tired in the last quarter and
finished last in a talented seven-man field . . .
Needles, an 8 to 5 favorite, bore down heavily in the stretch
to win the $167,550 eighty-second running of the Kentucky Derby
before 100,000 fans in Louisville last Saturday afternoon. Needles,
the first Florida-bred horse to win the “run for the roses”, was
followed by Fabius, Come On Red and Count Chic. The race was
the richest Derby ever run in this famous mile and one-quarter
test for three-year-olds. The new champ, a son of former Derby
winner, Ponder, took $123,450 home to his owners, the D&H
Stable . . .
Parry O’Brien, formerly of the University of Southern California
and now a member of the Air Force, broke his own world outdoor
shot-put mark during an exhibition at the Intermountain Track and
Field meet held in Salt Lake City, Utah last Saturday. He tossed the
16-pound shot 61 feet 1 inch to better by three inches his old mark
of 60 feet 10 inches. O’Brien also holds the world indoor mark of 61
feet 514 inches set last winter and is a definite threat in the Olym-
pics . . .
Mickey Mantle, the Yankees’ blond, fleet-footed slugger is off to
the hottest start in his short career. Mickey is virtually tearing the
American League apart, hitting nine homers in his first sixteen
games, while driving in 23 runs and stroking a cool .433. Ken Boyer,
sophomore Cardinal third sacker leads the National circuit with a
.460 in his first 15 games. The averages include games of last Satur-
day. Don Ferrarese, of the Baltimore Orioles, struck out 13 Cleve-
land batters in his first big league start last week, but lost the con-
test 2-1. The first game record stands at 15 whiffs recorded by Bob
Feller in his 1937 debut against the St Louis Browns . . .
It sounds impossible, but a baseball player stole four bases
in one time at bat. While Olympic College was walloping Skagit
Junior College, 13-2, out around Bremerton, Washington last week,
Don Jacobs, Olympic third baseman reached first on an error,
stole second before erroneously returning after a team-mate on
the bench yelled “No, no”. Jacobs calmly strolled back to first
while the Skagit pitcher held the ball and stared. Jacobs then
proceeded to steal second once more, third and home. He was
credited with four stolen bases in the official scorebook . . ,
The Brooklyn Dodgers, who got off to one of the fastest starts
in National League history last season, are feeling their lumps this
year. The big bats are just not booming. A mediocre 8-8 record is
no surprise after loking at the club’s batting averages. Through
last Sunday’s contests, Gilliam led the team with .302, followed by
Reese with .283, Neal .269, Furillo .264, Campanella .235, Snider .218,
Hodges .196, Amoros .154 and former Cub third sacker, Ransom
Jackson with a “lusty” .100 . . .
The Braves continue to hold on to first place despite very little
cooperation from the weather man. The Braves have already missed
seven games because of rain and cold weather and are off to a very
slow start. Manager Charlie Grimm hopes he won’t have to start
spring training all over again . . .
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Math Problem
When it comes to figures, lovely
Nancy Walters’ is worth studying.
Big prizes are being offered to tel-
evision viewers who can guess the
number of sequins on the bathing
suit Nancy wears in daily appear-
ances on the CBS-TV show “The
Big Payoff.” Some of the gifts in-
clude a mink coat, a trip to Eu-
rope for two, a convertible and a
diamond ring.
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Navy Slates P0
Tests in August
For 3 Grades
Washington (AFPS)—The Navy
has released dates and details of
fleet-wide promotion exams to be
held this August for sailors in
three pay grades.
Third class petty officer tests
will be given Aug. 14; second
class, Aug. 21, and first class, Aug.
28, the Bureau of Personnel said.
All tests dates fall on Tuesdays.
Eligible personnel in all rates
will be examined with the excep-
tion of printers and aviation elec-
tronicsman. Men in those rates
will be permitted to take tests for
lithographer and aviation elec-
tronics technician.
Change of rate exams will also
be given to those desiring to
switch over to guided missileman,
aviation guided missileman, and
aviation fire control technician.
The bureau said that seamen
attached to commands having
photographer’s mate third class
allowances may compete for that
rating if qualified in all other
respects.
The CAA certificate normally
required for advancement to all
pay grades in the air control-
man rating will be waived in the
August exams for those not as-
signed to control tower duties.
As announced earlier, steno-
graphic performance tests for first
class petty officers in the yeoman
rate will no longer be waived.
Promote Gen. Schuyler
Washington (AFPS)—President
Eisenhower has nominated Lt.
Gen. Cortlandt V. R. Schuyler,
chief of staff of SHAPE; to the
rank of full general.
Gen. Schuyler has been chief
of staff to Gen. Alfred M. Gruen-
ther at Supreme Headquarters,
Allied Powers Europe, in Paris
since July 1953.
Gen. Twinning Says Missiles
Are Powerful But Not Magic
General Twining stated on April 25 that missiles in our
Air Force and in the Red Air Force are merely another
potential weapon, “powerful to be sure, but not magic”.
In a major speech at Shreve-
port, La., the Air Force Chief of
Staff said the AF recently has re-
leased the information that we are
giving top priority to three bal-
listic missiles projects—two long-
range, or intercontinental, and
one intermediate range. But he
added:
“No missile can do a job that
cannot now be done with com-
bat airplanes. The missile’s only
advantage is a potentially greater
efficiency—cost wise—than air-
craft. By that I mean that mis-
siles are built to destroy targets.
We now have airplanes that can
destroy targets. It may cost us
several airplanes to destroy a
target. It may take more than
one try. Ultimately, one missile
will be able to destroy a target
in one try. Thus their only ad-
vantage is efficiency.”
General Twining said it is per-
fectly true to state that there is
no known defense against a ballis-
tic missile. “Standing alone,” he
said, “this statement has alarmed
many people. What we must re-
member is that it is equally true
that there is no known ballistic
missile in the inventory of any
armed force.”
The AF Chief of Staff said
offense and defense capabilities
always leapfrog each other. He
said: “I am confident that when
the time comes that one or both
sides have effective, dependable,
accurate ballistic missiles, the
period in which there will be no
defense will be either very short
or non-existent. In fact, the pro-
cesses we go through in learn-
ing to build a ballistic missile
will guide us in building a de-
fense.”
General Twining said he is cer-
tain that an anti-ICBM will be
built, adding: “Furthermore, if,
conceivably, a hostile power were
to perfect a reliable ICBM before
we do, the deterrent effect of our
atomic airpower would still be
effective.”
PLANE FACTS
• Fuel cells of a modern jet
bomber contain 1,500 square
yards of nylon and 3,000 feet
of nylon lacing.
• One of the electronic
tubes used in a modern Air
Force bomber is a foot and-
a-half long and 10 inches in
diameter. Another is only
one inch long and one-fourth
inch in diameter.
• One giant aircraft in pro-
duction in the United States
requires the use of 114 electric
motors (exclusive of the auto-
matic pilot), and its anti-icing
wing and stabilizer equipment
use 2,800,000 BTU’s of heat
per hour—enough to heat 56
five-room houses.
• More than 295,680 feet
(56 miles) of electric wiring
are required to connect the
various electrical systems
used in a current heavy jet
bomber.
• A new turboprop cargo
aircraft, the largest transport
plane now in production, if
parked on a football field
with its nose on the goal line,
would extend to a point just 2
feet short of the 50-yard line,
and the wings would reach 10
feet over each sideline.
Leaving Active Duty?
Army Lists Vacancies
Open to Officers, EM
Washington (AFPS)—The Army
has published a list of civilian
employee vacancies at military
installations in the U.S. which
can be filled by many officers and
EM being relieved from active
duty.
Circular 601-16, dated March
12, 1956, gives civilian employ-
ment opportunities in 38 trades
and 120 classification act jobs.
The skills and professional ex-
perience demanded in many po-
sitions are smilar to the require-
ments of MOSs in the same fields
held by men being separated, the
Army said.
Stateside
Bowling Notes
Buzz Fazio’s phenomenal 257-
268-277—802 on Fred Wolf’s Bowl-
ing Champions stands as the high-
est ever shot on a TV bowling
program anywhere. Bowling at
Maple Lanes, the Buzzer and
Stroh’s teammate Tony Lindemann
blazed to still another record—a
doubles count of 1484. Lindemann
fired a 219-239-224—682.
Don Carter and his wife (for-
merly LaVerne Haverly from Los
Angeles, the well-known “Blonde
Bombshell”) are the first hus-
band and wife ever to win the
St. Louis (Mo.) match game
championships. Don won the
men’s division title with 159.15
points over a 32-game route and
LaVerne won the women title
with 69.33 points for 16 games.
The AAA Ebonite quintet from
Cleveland, Ohio had the unusual
experience of bowling a 1012 game
without the aid of a 200 game.
This sounds like a neat trick un-
til you realize that Fritzie Cieslik
tossed a 300 game. The other
scores were 189-184-184-155.
Long-Range Helicopter
Arrives at Patuxent
Patuxent NAS, Md. (AFPS) —
The first HR2S transport heli-
copter delivered to the Navy was
recently flown non-stop from the
Sikorsky factory, Bridegport,
Conn., to the naval air test cen-
ter here.
The twin-engine ’copter made
the 236-mile flight in two hours,
36 minutes, at an average ground
speed of 101 miles-an-hour.
The Navy said the fuel remain-
ing in the HR2S after the flight
from Bridgeport “was in excess
of military range requirements.”
Even greater performance is ex-
pected from later models being
built, the Navy said.
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