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THE LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, May 6, 1949 Airmen Bemoan Replacement Of DC-3, Workhorse Airplane Central Y-Teen Organization Holds Mother-Daughter Event I -Lii -v W- I wv I 1 if Voigt Displays New Packard Car Saturday "Seventy-seven major improvements and dozens of minor changes" are featured on the new "Golden Anniversary" Packard automobiles, according to company officials. The new cars will go on display Saturday morning at the Voigt Auto 228 South Second street. They mark the 50th year the Packard Motor Car Co. has been making cars. i Packard is now the oldest in Mrs.

Trueman Nickerson and Mary, Mrs. D. J. Gaskill and Carol Joy, Mrs. Alfred Kolb and Helen.

Mrs. Ora Ready and Marilyn, Mrs. Paul Schmidt and Barbara, Mrs. William Ktmmel and La Vonne, Mrs. William Trapp and Marie, Mrs.

Ansel Heram, Mrs. Erna Sandlass and Helen, Sally Grosskopf, Mrs. Carl Burgchardt and Carol, Dee 'Briley, Mrs. Kenneth Kuebler and Sally, Audrey Hardiman, Joyce Mc Killip, Mrs. Jon Yeoman, Judy Bock, Mrs.

Kumm and Gail, Miss Theodora Taras and Miss Hortenie Jones. College Band Plans Concert "Rhythmic Fantasy" is the title of. the second annual concert of La Crosse State Teachers college band since it was reorganized after the war, scheduled for Monday, May 16, in the training school auditorium at 8:15 p. m. Concert numbers will range from traditional marches to -selections in the modern South American style, all marked by their special rhythm.

The Teachers college choir will assist at the concert, which will feature several solo pieces and a two-piano number. H. C. Amundson is director of both band and choir. Buy Savings Bond! tit ---J to racer, World War I ace, and the hardest-boiled operator in the air transport field, where his Eastern Airlines has been the one big money-maker in a red-ink business.

Says Douglas: It would cost me $11,000,000 to develop a new short-haul plane. I couldn't possibly get that back before jets come in. Let the other boys take the business for a few years, if they can. I'll keep that $11,000,000 and use it when I can open up a permanent market in passenger jets. Says Rickenbacker: New planes would cost me around $500,000 each.

Long before they were paid for, passenger jets will be along. I'll keep those millions, and have jets on Eastern while the other boys still are paying for these interim jobs. The ace up Douglas sleeve is his remodelling idea. He figures that a lot of concerns that can't afford $500,000 a plane for replacement and a lot of the 3000 DC-3 owners abroad who can't get American dollars can spend up to $200,000 for a machine almost as good as the Martin or the Convair. So he has offered to revamp any DC-3 for around $200,000.

He will increase the passenger space from 21 to as rrany as 28, step up the speed fripm 180 to 234 miles an hour, install swept-back wings and new tail assembly, put loading stairs on the door and generally jazz up the whole job. For every DC-3 thus re-built, the owner saves $300,000 under the cost of a replacement, plus about $29,000 extra per plane it would cost to train crew and ground men. And for the benefit of dollar-shy Europe, Douglas plans to do work over there, so that dollars will have to be used only for parts and overhead costs. When he is done the Super-DC-3 will be smaller, slower, older than its post-war two-engine rivals. But with 20 passengers a fair average for local runs it will cost 2s of a cent less to carry each passenger a mile, and on a 350-mile hop it will be only 14 minutes slower than the new planes.

NEW YORK (NEA) The famous old DC-3, "workhorse of the air lanes," is on the skids, and all over the civilized world airmen are bemoaning its passing as men haven't wept about a vehicle since Ford stopped making the Model T. The good old "Dizzy Three" is being tossed into the ash can this spring by American Airlines, biggest of domestic carriers. Other major lines will soon replace their DC -3s too, mostly with 40-passenger, 340-mile-an-hour Convairs and Martin 202s. But canny planemaker Donald Douglas says it's too soon to cry. The "Old Doug" hasn't stopped flying yet, and he's all ready to revamp it to keep it in the air for a long time to come.

More DC-3s have been built than Jjy other single plane more probably, in fact, than of all other passenger-type planes put together. More millions of men and women have flown in DC-3s than in any other plane perhaps more than in all other planes combined. Some of the stories told about the DC-3 would be unbelievable if they were not confirmed. Its civilian version is a 21-'passen-ger plane, which pilots took up with 2500 pounds of payload. Yet in it a Colonel Haynes flew 75 persons out of Burma in a pinch.

Capt. Harold Sweet flew 61 from Chungking to India after coolies had patched more than 1000 Jap bullet-holes with canvas cut from a missionary's awning. Tropical rains loosened the patches, and they blew off but the plane made India, whistling so loud that an Army major on the ground said, "We could hear you coming 50 miles away." About 11,000 DC-3s were built and about 6000 still are flying all over the world. American Airlines is discarding 58. United and TWA each have 79, Eastern has 51, Mid Continent 18, Braniff 17, othr lines smaller numbers.

The Air Force has 500, the Navy another 300. Most of these probably will give way to progress but not all. One who is keeping them is Eddie Rickenbacker, famous au Central high school's Y-Teen organization Thursday night held its mother-daughter banquet for a company of 59 members and guests in the YWCA Club rooms. Decorated to the theme of "Fairyland," the scheme was carried out on the banquet table with a centerpiece of golden crowns containing novelty fortunes fastened with ribbons. There were attractive program covers and party favors.

Entertain With Program Following the dinner the Y-Teens entertained their guests with a program of musical and dramatic selections. Charlene Hanson was toastmistress. Accompanied by Audrey Hardi-man, Mary Nickerson opened the program with a group of vocal numbers, "Songs My Mother Taught Me." Ernie Fuller offered a toast to the visiting mothers, while Mrs. Lynn Van Zandt made the response. Sally Grosskopf entertained with a piano selection, followed by a short skit, "Memories." The banquet concluded with a community sing, accompanied by Grace Proksch.

Preparations for the evening's activities were handled by a committee headed by Joyce Mc Kilip. Others working on the committee were: Charlene Hanson, Betty Amundson, Ernie Fuller, Nancy Mulder, Bonnie Beckley, Gayle Highberg and Joan Blair. Also contributing to the banquet's success were Miss Theodora Tar-as, club adviser, and Miss Hor-tense Jones, Y-Teen secretary. List Guests, Members Guests and members attending the banquet were: Mrs. Byron Mulder and Nancy, Mrs.

S. A. Amundson and Betty, Mrs. H. A.

Rekow and Mary, Mrs. Edwin Hanson and Janice, Mrs. iaura Fuller and Ernie, Mrs. Ray Highberg and Gayle, s. Charles Hanson and Charlene, Mrs.

Helen Proksch and Grace, Mrs. Phillip Beckley and Bonnie, Mrs. Mark Sutton and Olive, Mrs. Carl Miller and lb i Mrs. R.

E. Blair and Joan, Mrs. Lynn Van Zandt and Lu, Mrs. Sophie Martin and Eleanor, The New "Golden Anniversary" Packard car been making cars. Above is a gold-colored Standard Eight four-door which will go on disDlay Saturday morning at the Voigt Auto 228 South Second.

features 77 major improvements, according to the manufacturer. The new line commemorates the 50th year the Packard Motor Car oldest independent manufacturer in the United States, has Tribune Phot dependent automobile manufacturer in the United States. Comfortable Seats Among the improvements listed by the firm are more comfortable seats, chrome instrument panels illuminated with "black light," windshield, wiper control on the steering column and a new overdrive providing for "easier operation." Engines in two of the new models are more powerful than in the previously announced 1949 models. Engines in the Super Bight are 150 horsepower compared with the previous 145, and those in the Eight are 135 compared with 130. In addition, the wheelbase of the Super Eight is seven inches longer than on the 1949 model.

Other improvements outlined by the manufacturer are "exterior trim refinements, new interiors, advanced sound-proofing, better ride and ease of handling, improved visibility, better braking and improved aU-season heating and ventilating." The new line includes 135 horsepower Eights on a 120 inch wheelbase, 150 horsepower Super Eights on a 127 inch wheel-base, and 160 horsepower Custom Eights on a 127 inch wheel-base. There are 14 body types including a limousine, seven-passenger sedans, convertibles and a station sedan. Features New Drive A new "Ultramatic" drive, which does away with the clutch pedal and gear shift will be available immediately on the Custom Eights and later in the year on Eights and Super Eights. The new models are available in a new gold color commemorating the anniversary, and 10 other colors. New price reductions announced recently by the Packard firm will be effective on the anniversary cars.

The cuts range from $103 to $246, depending on the model. Science Digs In Baskets Of Dirt For Wonder Drugs Pearse Attends U. S. Academy Outstanding Senior Gets Notification George G. Pearse, 17, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Richard H. Pearse 204 South 26th street, has received notification from the adjutant general of the army department in Washington, D. that he is fully qualified and entitled to admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The appointment was received through Rep.

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Duggar discovered aureomycin, which does most of the things done by the. other two antibiotics and exerts several new actions of its own, from the mold spore named Streptomyces aure-ofaciens. With aureomycin now in full production, Dr. Duggar now is seeking new molds that will produce drugs to do things that even aureomycin will not do. How far he has gone is, of course, not for publication as yet, but he is willing to admit that he is working with many hundreds of cultures that interest him enough for further study.

A small number of these are promising enough so that larger test quantities are being made. Some are being made in quantities sufficient to try on living tissue. "Out of any one of these or, for that matter, out of more than one of them might come new antibiotics that would be as remarkable as penicillin and aureomycin," said Dr. Dugger. The methods by which this soil are studied illustrate the way in which, in the hands of skilled scientists, such useful drugs are developed.

From each sample of earth, Dr. Duggar makes a culture of the spores it contains. Meanwhile he grows the germs against which he hopes the mold will prove effective. On a plate he places individual spores of the mold he is testing. After the mold has a head start in growth, he spreads the germ culture on the plate.

If areas develop around the mold spores in which the germ culture fails to grow, he makes further tests until he has a mold that is "antagonistic" to a given germ or a series of germs. Come in or phone Application by Mail Accapltd COMMERCIAL CREDIT PLAN fic engineering and safety by the ATCO, national traffic safty council, the state highway department said Friday. Eire Is restricting bacon sales 602 Exchange Bldg. Phone 612 Open Saturday Afternoons By S. BURTON HEATH PEARL RIVER, N.Y.

(NEA) Out of the soil in your lawn or garden, your field or pasture, might come the long-sought cure for small pox, for measles, for the ridiculous but miserable and expensive common cold. 1 These are caused by that type of germs known as viruses They do not seem to respond to the "wonder drugs," penicillin, streptomycin or aureomycin, which do so much with the two other types of infectious disease spread by bacteria and rick-ettsia. But mold from the soil produced the drugs that brought under control a score of other germs. Many research laboratories are combing the country for soil that may contain a mold that will prove the mortal enemy of the virus diseases. Study Soil Reports The mycologists (fungus researchers) at Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River, directed by Dr.

Benjamin M. Duggar, have studied available soil reports from all over this country and to some extent from abroad. Duggar knows that certain types of mold appear in certain types of soil. Earth is gathered from far and wide, that might contain the molds that will produce a new wonder drug. The mycologists submit samples to the scrutiny of the highly trained eyes and brain of Dr.

Duggar. Working under the guidance of these are many lesser," but still important, individuals who carry out the endless tests preceding discovery. Long years of laboratory experience and a deep understanding of microbiology are the basic foundation for the type of ability possessed by Dr. Duggar. His discerning eye for the unusual in the behavior of molds was the essential ingredient in discovering aureomycin.

Once the discovery was made, the huge Lederle research facilities moved into action to investigate further applications of the drug and to perfect production techniques. Aided by the intuition developed from years of search, Dr. Duggar has collected innumerable specimens of soil from selected spots in the United States as well as foreign countries. These soils have come from the most homely places, fields and pastures, lawns and gardens, but their selection is not at random. Complex chemical reasons, GEORGE G.

PEARSE third congressional district of Wisconsin. Pearse successfully passed the required entrance examination which was adminis RCA Victor 9WI03 tered at Ft. Sheridan, 111., during the first week in March. Aquinas Senior You'll find the.Xew RCA Victor System of recorded music will exceed all your expeo tatiom and then some! This outstanding addition to RCA Victor's console family is striking, modern beautifully designed. Thi instrument has AM and static-free FM radio, a big 12-inch speaker, the pure tone of th "Golden Throat" AND a price you can afford.

Hear it i see it today! AC; Pearse is a senior at Aquinas high school and will graduate June 3. An excellent scholastic student, he is in the upper fourth of his class and has a very high average for four years academic high school work. Pearse has excelled in mathematics and forensics besides being active in science and extra curricular activities. He has participated in debate for three years and this season served with the varsity squad, debating both negative and affirmative cases. In February, Pearse and four other Aquinas seniors were notified that they had.

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Stat Nursery Association The Music Store of Friendly Dealings Hwli mm Ak 'Ml 4mm 1i OH jK; $4Xf Zf aptitude examination for the naval reserve officers training corps scholarship program and could attend any of 52 leading universities and colleges in the country under the NROTC Pearse's acceptance came through from Notre Dame university, South Bend, Ind. He attended St. Joseph's parochial school for his elementary education and entered Aquinas in September, 1945. He was president of his class in his junior year and as a senior was elected to the vice-presidency post of the Aquinas Council of Student Affairs-Four Took Exam Pearse and three other Aquinas senior boys Thomas Kreuger, John Papenfuss and James Sieger took the military entrance examination at Ft. Sheridan about March 1.

Pearse was the only one of the four to fully qualify. In the mental examination his scores averaged 84 points higher than the required passing marks, in the physical aptitude and physical medical examinations the reports were also favorable. La Crosse 'U' Co-Ed Admitted To Chapter MADISON, Wis. (JP) Sixty-one students at the University of Wisconsin were elected to Phi Beta Kappa Thursday night. The Badger chapter also voted honorary membership to Dr.

Erwin Ackerknecht, professor of history of medicine. Named to head the campus' honorary scholastic fraternity was Casimir Zdanowicz, professor of French. Charlotte R. Wood, assistant professor of English, was elected vice-president; Robert Stauffer, assistant professor of history of science, secretary and Myron Backus, professor of botany, treasurer. New members, who will be initiated May 19, include: Edna L.

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