The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 73

1' i ft i i 1 1, it I6- By DOUO PATRICK These days 'when spacemen with their rockets, sputniks, satellite and orbital capsule get daily headlines, mail by rockets may seem timely. But to stamp collectors, tb idea of mad ent by rocket ia an old Fnedrich Schmiedl conduct-ad tba Brat rocket mail flight oa Feb. 2, 1931 tram SchoeckM Mountain to Radegimd (a an Aaatriaa valley. His racket, called the. V-7.

carried, 102 BMcca at matt prepaid by over-pruned Auatriaa (tan pa of the 10- groecbsn denomination. The everpri at reads la four lines: RAKETEN FlugDost SCHMIEDL XX 1931. 'A Oermaa experimented with rocket man to the earne year. ReuihoM Tiling -And a 11- foot rocket carrying- IM pcsKcarda from tba iring stand T' i The symbol of "built-in" qualify RUG and FUnNITURE mofii kr yettr UPHOLSTERED i FURNITURE cImm, and chlrvtrce' li tt ttw 2riect Set $18.00 3-fiec rugs ir bo mb stic $7.55 10.CO n. las aa.

n. su smm rvtxv fHsimaa) saavtca rasa PMav and mm sMvsis aakssra, I SsskMaa 1 suss. Ililani 1 I M1Chsm aniiii at Dielineen. On April IS hia rocket eoared 5.000 feet and landed near the Bring point, Great Britain and Australia both experimented with rocket mail in 1934. Australia trad 10 rpeketa contsining mail be tween Dec.

4. 1934 and May 10, 1937: Herr Gerhard Zucker a German rocket experimenter fired rorkeu arith mail in Sussex. His rockets Bred on June 6, 1934 merely want 900 yarda on one night and 900 on The idea soon spread to The Netherlands. India and Italy in 1934. and by I93S rocket matt was being carried in Franca, Belgium, Luxero- bourg.

Yugoslavia and the United States. The first U.S. rocket mail flight took place In Sept. 1939 at Holmes Airport ta Astoria. Long Island.

Two rockets Bred SINCl .947 II JMt "Thar it HO rututitutt for rrotuionai rag cleaning" "T'i: VZl ILSt 11 Uamber if THE TV JOURNAL MAY 28 JUNE 'ffiJiTtf. IPbSM Lttil Men OPEN AJN. TO PJs, DATS A WEEK oa Sept 22 both exploded, one at launching and the other in midair. Spain and' Mexico experimented with rocket mad ta 1930 a nd Cuba followed in 1939. Denmark had rocket post ta 1940.

Stephen Smith experimented with rocket mail India from 1934 until 1941. Ha numbered his rockets and gave them anusual names such as Boomerang. Dick Turpin, or Gertrude CoMinSL On July 24. 193S be made a faultless flight with hia rocket, Rowland Hill that carried 194 cards at AU-pore. India.

Mr. Smith's final rocket-eenHaloft on Sept 26, 1941. Future mail by rockets will likely become as commonplace as airmail if today; time will tell. Gag Bag Tennessee Ernie Ford had Just finished a song when Pat Battram observed. "Era, you're Just like Elvis Presley the oaly difference 1 when they swoon for you It takes them -longer to get up." Sam off man Insists that a woman la someone who would charge that another driver ran into bar bumper with the side of his ear.

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