The Herald from Jasper, Indiana • Page 20

Page 2 daily herald The Sonic Boom Is A Nuisance To Civilians ing sonic boom allegedly: tion of their cows. attempting to plan an airliner which can fly equally efficiently at speeds under that of sound and at three times the speed of sound. That would enable the planes to reach Thursday, Aprii 12. Delegate To Convention (Editors: A recent ra.sh of com- all the windows out of the The St. Louis blames sonic high altitude before breaking the plaints of damage from airport control tower.

booms for the death of two rare barrier. has brought demands in Shattered the plate glass doors antelopes, which were said to have p0rce claims that when Southern Illinois and eastern Mis- of the airport terminal. become so frightened they battered pjQj Voodoo fighters fly above Kouri for halting of supersonic Splintered a heavy 6-by-6 Inch their heads against the walls of 35 000 Ule sonic flights by Air Force plams The timber in the terminal building. following special report by After that so the story goes Press International reviews some of low altitude demonstrations of su- the Incidents wliieh resulted from personic flights were banned over a problem which may become an airports. Increasing discomfort.) to an By BARNEY SEIBERT Press International CHICAGO fllW known scientists as the atmospheric phenomenon peculiar to the second half of the century.

The Air Force calls it the There has even been serious consideration of use of the sonic boom as a weapon. This thought was reflected last year by a comic strip sequence and the Pirates) in which fighter planes used sonic boom to break up an amphibious landing by an invasion force. While it was merely comic strip of But to manv a ground-bound civi- fiction, there have been lian anything from an infernal 1 treatises written on the subject of nuisance to a menace. sound waves as possible weapon of Sonic boom is caused by displace- war. ment of air molecules by an object And at least one valuable use has traveling faster than the speed of been discovered for sonic booms, sound about 785 mites an hour They are being used at Glacier Na- at sea level.

It was no problem un- tioiral Park to start controlled ava- their cage, fracturing their skulls. do any reai At Collinsville. 111., police chief The second approach to the com- Paul Cigliana claimed that mercial sonic boom prob- the lone member of the Police Canine Corps, became so upset by sonic booms that the dog had to be returned to the training kennel. ti! man aircraft to fly faster than sound. a story possibly apocryphal that made the roundLs of the Air Force some years back lanches as a safety measure for road repair crews and early season tourists.

But a more disagreeable about an early test of one of the side. nation's first supersonic fighter To impress the public with the Many a young parent has just got the baby to sleep when a like bang rattled the windows and plane's capability, the teat wa-s brought hours of outraged infant staged over an airport. The fighter Protest' went into a steep dive and the Farmers have claimed sonic booms pilot pulled it out only a few hun- kept their chickens from laying drci feet above ground. The result- eggs and reduced the milk produc- Farmers living near Elmira. N.

have filed claims against the government for collapse of their barns as a result of sonic booms. Some citizens have insisted the tubes of their television sets were smashed by sonic booms. At Omaha. home owners said their furnaces were blown out by sonic booms. Other householders said the plaster shattered in the ceilings and windows were smashed.

Motorists have complained of broken car windows caused by sonic boom. lem is research toward a radical ner power plant which would reduce noise. no such solution yet. Thus, some experts think the sonic boom problem will limit the early use of supersonic airliners to tram- oceanic flights in which only the fish will be annoyed. McMurtrie A Director Of New Corporation Although the sonic boom problem is not now a concern of commercial aviation, it is likely to be before the end of the present decade, when supersonic airliners may be flying U.

S. skies. To meet that problem, the Federal Agency has had SAC conducting flight tests. To date the results have not been announced. The designers of supersonic commercial aircraft are making a dual attack on the problem.

They are CORBIN 702 MAIN A well-known Dubois county manufacturer is among three leading Indiana businessmen elected to the board of directors of the Industrial Growth Capital Corporation, Indianapolis. Marven M. Lasky, president, announced the election of R. H. McMurtrie, president of the Huntingburg Furniture John W.

Hillenbrand, president of Hillenbrand Industries at Batesville, and Frederic N. Hadley, vice president of Wabash College at Crawfordsville. The three new board members are joining other Indiana business and civic leaders in the administration of Industrial Growth Capital Corporation, which is the first small business investment company to be formed in the Indiana capital city. Industrial Growth Capital Corporation, 1517 Merchants Bank Building, was lounded under Small Business Investment Act Miss Nancy McIntyre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest McIntyre of Huntingburg, has been selected by her sorority to serve as a delegate to the Sigma Kappa National convention. The convention will be held in Washington, D. from June 30 to July 5. She is one of two delegates from Gamma Gamma chapter at Indiana State. Nancy was installed as second vice-president of the sorority this year.

This position allows her to serve as pledge trainer for the present pledge class and during tha and pledging season next year. She also serves on the standards committee and was the director of costumes for the college skit used recently for the 1962 Campus Revue. She was Sigma can- the I didate for the Rose of Delta Sigma I Pi professional business fraternity stimulate the flow of private equity in January capital and long-term loan funds which small business concerns need Other activities of include a recent victory for corridor chair- for sound financing of their busi- man jn Bur ford hall which entitles ness operations and for their growth, her to a position on the Burford expansion and Hall House Council. This year she The corporation provides fin an-1 served on the corridor council for cial assistance for working capital, 1 thud floor and the house manage- row Hi. expansion of products and! ment committee in the dormitory, markets, and research and develop-1 Miss McIntyre also directs the 5 ment, as well as offering manage- 5 ment advisory and consultation serv- ices.

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Joseph Guthrie filled his regular appointment here both morning and evening and was a dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Allen and family. James Elden Enlow, 24, of R. 1, A group from our church attend- Washington, who was arrested by the Jasper city police shortly after noon at the lioy Chiistian church, i midnight after he tried to 5 The next meeting will be here on hjye Herb Beck cash a cancelled 51 May 13th.

All youths from all he checfc jias arraigned in Jus- 5 churches in the area are invited Uce of lhe Peace Herbert A. Lueken to attend. court on a cliarge of burglary. His There will be pre-Easter services bond wus at $1 000 cash or $2,000 here on the Friday and Saturday bail Unable to furnish bond. nights preceding Easier, with speak- he was returned to the county jail.

ers from Louisville Bible College Herb Bpck who operates Beck's each night. On Sunday night Bro. Frank Buck will be the speaker. Mr. and Mrs.

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