The White Falcon - 23.03.1963, Page 3

Saturday, March 23, 1963
WHITE FALCON
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Drivers License on Way?
Commissary Carts Cause
Commotion, Concern
First the horse and wagon left the highway, then the
pony cart left the play yard, next the hand-pushed (pulled)
golf cart moved off the fairways and now most recently,
a move is afoot to motorize the hand-pushed grocery cart.
Commissary shoppers long have^
feared the daring devil-may-care
cart operator known as the “Pushy
Driver.” She tailgates, turns left
without looking, parks in mid-
aisle .moves against traffic and
rushes toward the least busy
checker with no semblance of com-
mon courtesy.
The same dangerous house frau
may now be armed with a motor-
ized cart. The common cart-
pushers in seeking safety may
have to head for the nearest
parking lot.
To stem this new potential
danger a Society for the Preven-
tion of Commissary Cart Pushers
has voted overwhelmingly against
allowing motorized carts in the
aisles. The Society has also for-
mulated a set of rules for the
everyday cart customer, which
read :
1. Gentle that cart. The aisle is
not a drag strip. And don’t park
the cart in the middle of a traffic
lane while squeezing a ripe melon
in another section.
2. Avoid cutting through the
checkout lanes. If in a hurry, try
going around through less crowd-
ed lanes.
3. If you want to pass, try a
simple “excuse me.” It gets better
results than brute force.
4. Keep both feet under you—
not stretched behind—when you
bend down for something on a
low shelf or pause to meditate
about selections.
COOS BAY Brings In
Two Emergenej Cases
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter,
COOS BAY, steamed into Kefla-
vik harbor at 11:30 a.m. March
11, with two emergency hospital
patients on board.
Lt. Daniel R. Fischer, United
States Public Health Service, and
The COOS BAY, which is home
based at Portland, Maine, was op-
erating on a thirty-six day North
Atlantic patrol when the two men
were taken ill. The fact that Lt.
Fischer was the ships doctor in-
creased the urgency of the mis-
sion.
Army Wife 'Turns
Green’ Celebrating
St. Patrick’s Day
The fairer sex has long been
noted for changing color of hair,
contour of face and attempting
to relocate bulges, but an Army
wife at Ft. Lee, Va., has a new
look all her own.
Nelle O’Callaghan, wife of Lt.
Col. James O’Callaghan, colors her
hair green each St. Patrick’s Day,
which is also the Irish lass’ birth-
day. She first colored her hair
seven years ago while she and her
husband were living in Paris. The
French were sporting purple hair,
so the green didn’t create the
sensation one might expect.
According to Mrs. O’Callaghan,
the French would look at her
and shrug and say, “Another one
of those crazy Americans!”
The O’Callaghan’s usually hold
a special party in their home in
honor of St. Patrick’s day. The
decorations, naturally, are nearly
all green and even the food is
green.
On one St. Patrick’s day Mrs.
O’Callaghan served a 20-pound
roast pig with a green apple in
its mouth. The pig astonished even
her husband, who enjoys the fes-
tivities as much as his wife.
Novice Astronauts
To Train In Jets
At 120,000 Feet
America’s astronaut trainees
will pilot modified supersonic
fighter planes to the edge of space
to gain high-flying experience for
their future space ventures.
Three modified F-104A Star-
fighters, built to soar to extremely
high altitudes under rocket pow-
er, are being assigned to the Aero-
space Research Pilot School here,
where future astronauts are in
training.
SPACE TRAINER — Drawing lo-
cates hydrogen peroxide jets in
nose and wingtips, and rocket en-
gine installed above tailpipe, on
modified F-104 fighter to be used
to train astronauts at edge of space.
The aircraft will regularly fly
between 120,000 and 130,000 feet
—higher than man has ever flown
in an aircraft taking off from
earth under its own power.
The aircraft’s jet action con-
trols will take over at high alti-
tudes where moveable surfaces can
get no “bite” in rarified air, to
provide realistic space effect in-
doctrination to the astronaut
trainees.
Eight nozzles in the nose will
help the pilot maintain longitu-
dinal and directional control (for
William Duckworth, FA, were ad-
mitted to the Naval Station Hos-
The ship was met at the pier by
the Naval Station Officer of the
pitch and yaw) and four others in
each wingtip will provide lateral
pital during the early afternoon
hours. The nature of their illness
was not disclosed.
Day and a Navy ambulance which
removed the patients to the hos-
pital immediately.
control. All will be fed from a
hydrogen peroxide tank in the
nose.
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^ © BV CLARK KINNAIRD
(AFPS American Heritage Foundation Feature)
J TTE BEAT Davy Crockett himself at shooting. He wrestled H
| -*■-*- alligators. He rode a wild moose like a horse. He could |
| out-jump, out-butt, out-gouge anybody. There were hundreds -
| of tales about him that grew in the telling till he was the :
| strongest, fightingest, shootingest man the lengths of the Ohio ;
| and Mississippi. Who? Mike Fink, towering companion of Paul
| Bunyan, Pecos Bill and Strap Buckner in American folklore, p
| As Michael Gorham remarks in The Real Rook of Toll Tales
j (Garden City), “There’s a wonderful thing about the tall tales a
| in America. They are all lies—gorgeous lies—but inside each
j one you’ll find some truth. And inside many of the lies you fi
I can find real people.” _ ' 1
| There was an actual Mike Fink, who was born near Pittsburgh B
j in the Autumn of 1770—some accounts indicate in September, j
j His legend began with his being a prodigv who won shooting g
| matches before he was as tall as his muzzle-loading rifle, which • g
i he called “Bang-All.” He left home to be'a keelboatman when I
| 12 or 14.
j Keelboats were the principal transport of inland America 1
g then, and of all the tough men on the frontier, the keelboatmen
| were the toughest. Their jobs made them so. The keelboats g
j floated or sailed downstream, but this was perilous going, for §
| the rivers were full of treacherous bars and snags. Moving E
1 upstream was worse. It often was a four month battle from
New Orleans
to Pittsburgh.
Sometimes the
boats were poled.
Sometimes they
were “bush-
whacked," that
is pulled along j
by grabbing' g
hanging bushes B
or tree limbs.
Other times they I
were rowed or
dragged with
lines run ashore. 1
[| | Mike Fink hunting, keg on back, as depicted in an early
| account [|] Rowing an Ohio broadhorn in days of Fink.
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THE HOUSE WASTED LITTLE TIME in passing a bill extending
the draft law until July 1, 1967. Presented early in March, the bill
was carried by a vote of 387 to 3 and was passed on to the Senate
for its action. Amendments that would have reduced the maximum
draft age from 26 to 22 years and extended the draft for only two
years were defeated. The Defense Department said the expected
draft call during the extension beginning July 1, 1963, will amount
to about 90,000 men per year.
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SELECTIVE SERVICE HAS BEEN ASKED to provide 10,000
men for induction into the Army during May. The Army’s require-
ment for non-prior servicemen during May is 16,500, a figure repre-
senting what the Army will need to cover losses and maintain its
approved active duty strength.
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If passed, HR 3722, would extend wartime rates of compensation
to veterans and their dependents for service-connected disabilities
incurred during periods when individuals may be inucted for mili-
tary service outside the continental limits of the United States. The
bill has been referred to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.
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NO LESS THAN FOUR different bills were introduced to the
88th Congress to establish a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
About 200 bills are before the Congress concerning veteran’s affairs.
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THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE in the Senate heard
Army experts describe a new weapon system called Entac, an anti-
tank missile that can be launched from a helicopter. The Entac can
also be controlled by wires on the ground.
A photograph of an actual firing of an Entac SS-II from a heli-
copter was shown to the Committee.
The wire-guided Entac missile for ground troops is lightweight
and could provide an immediate defense against tanks or be used to
break up hard point targets such as bunkers and similar fortifications.