The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 11

BLYTHEVTLLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGE OUT OUR WAY Bv R. Williams Our Boarding House with Moj. Hoople KEENLY I'D ALMOST OUT TO UEA SOOR OV6R HECKLING OF DUZY gOSTIKJe RftGES IS A HISTORIC AMERICA PRNlLEGfe WAS TO VJuJ ft) SVT ItJ rial A F6VJ STOCKS FOR THAT Replacements Keep Berlin Airlift Going FfiANKKURT. Germany. takes 888 engines to keep American airlift planes zooming throUBli the corridors to Berlin.

Ah 1 force main- tpivince crews work on a 24-how-a -ijf, seven-days-n-wcok schedule. Dtirlng January they made four engine changes a day on airlift planes. It takes nearly two days to install a new engine. Each weighs roughly 2,400 pounds. The average life of an engine is 192 trips to Berlin.

The steady grind of three-a-day flights to Berlin quickly wears out many other parts. But as a part, wears out It is replaced. So the planes do not wear out as your automobile wears out. Air Force officials say not a single airlilt plane has been scrapped those which have crashed the gruelling months of supplying Berlin with food and fuel. An airlift plnne plods through the corridors to the former German capital for about four months before it is shuttled baclt to the U.

S. for overhaul. It flies an averaee of eijlit hours a day. Some days it will be in the air 12 or 14 hours. And some days It will squat on the ground for overhaul.

The pilots and crew inspects each plane dally for defects. After about 12 trips to and from Berlin it gets what the Air calls a 50-hour inspec 150 items on the plane are checked. Rfad Courier News Want Ads cnmiuiiD IT MH MIVKr. IMC Treat Your Watch To A New Check.Up Prompt Service Reasonable Prices rilE STORY) the I. mtorm klla Ikr ItlnB B1 tkr IX they were all the main I SillwcU flexed his muscles, looked around.

"Whiskeyl" he HOT aaid. He snatched drank deeply. bottle George Bascombe had lost his glasses He blinked painfully ill the light. Harding said. "This girl Is hurt.

I think it would belter if Hie rest at you went to the kitchen. Warren will get you what you need Miss Cosgrove can help me. We'll have to see to that leg." room and all could Harding ENRY GOUGH HARDING made a neat job of th; band- unbarred Uw door and gujt at wind pushed a staggering girl Inside. "She's hurt!" Bea snapped. Lilly Warren reached the girl first, put her arms iround her.

"The the girl gasped. "Please help Lhem." The halter and shorts she wore were shredded, ner blond hair matted, sand ailed. Harding and Mabel Jones went out into the windy dark. Bea Cosgrove raw Lilly Warren give the newcomer a drink, saw change of expression on her face when she looked up at her benefactress. Lilly Warren said sharply, "Be quiet, you're all right now- Just be quiet." The others, accompanied by Harding and Mabel Jones, entered.

The two men were George Bascombe and Fred Sillwell, and the girl carried between them was Mollie Stark. Nona McGuire, the girl who first came to the house, gave their names. Fred's principal clothing was a bulging money belt, while George's once white pants were stained anc rags, showing the source of the 3 lood -stained Mollie's thigh. Harding relieved them of their burden, carried the whimpering and nearly unconscious girl to the long table. II age.

He pressed down the adhesive, snipped an end. and put the scissors the tray Cosgrove held. "That should do It. 1 hone there wont be too much of a scar. Nothing else wrorig I can nnd." Mollie Stark lay on the table.

The white cover beneath her body was bloodstained, and her tan was undermined by fatigue and loss of blood. she stepped forward dutifully. Miat Stark'i opened Por just a few seconds Ben looked lu- lo them. She recoiled Involun- Inrily. "Not you." Mollie said.

Her eyes hall closed again. "The nice man." Harding bent down. He tried kiss her forehead, out she moved and ne found her Instead. Mollie's arms tightened for an instant behind his neck men relaxed and dropped to the ood. "Sleep now," she announced.

"Safe." Harding stood up. He watched Bea pull up the covers, tuck them loosely around the patient- He put a finger to his lips, moved toward the door on tiptoe. In the main room. Miss cleared away the instruments, and folded up UK bloodstained table coverings. Harding stood staring at nothing.

"She's isn't she," he said at last IW In MA SIKVICl. We I KrQ II FM "What do you mean, I buy too much? The only thing quarrel about is money, so we're really better oH broxo!" HECKLES AND HIg FRIENDS BY MERRILL BLOSSEE -iS GOSH.Ifcf'R* UH--SAY, AS YOUR WVHN, NO SIR. SHOULD The Sni Mier HY AT, VEIliMKBR Factory-Trained Experts to Serve You! DHEIFI Driifai ltd UIM All Work Guaranteed From behind the closed door to he kitchen came a faint clatter of stove lids, the scrape of metal pot xHtoms. and the low murmur of voices. Bea took a clean sheet from a chair and spread it over the girl.

Henry Harding looked up. 'We'll put her in my room. I can use the next story and be handy if she needs anything. She wLU sleep soon from the morphine." "You did a good job," Bea said. "It was necessary for my plan to know something of medicine and surgery." Harding said shortly.

He picked up the girl. She opened her eyes. "Mollie feels better. All and bandage around dreamy. You're a nice man to make me feel better.

1 like you." "That's a good girl," Harding said. He put her down oo his cot Bea had made ready. The girl straightened out, sighed deeply. Her eyes closed. "Kiss me good night," she murmured.

"I guess she means you," he told Bea. Miss Cosgrove knew better, but IJAT11S, a green gown for Nona McGuire. and overlarge Harding shirts and panu (or the men, improved their appearance. Fred and George tossed blame for the accident back and forth, "Yackety yack. yackety yack," Nona said impatiently "For the last week on the Gullwing, 1 had to listen to you two argue.

Can't you let up here?" "Sorry we bore you," Fred Sill- well said. "1 still say we should have taken on more fuel," George insisted. He kept blinking, trying to sec without his glasses. "If you'd started the auxiliary when 1 told you," Fred said. "If I'd gone down to start it, I'd have gone on down," George pointed out.

"No, we should have had more fuel." "More fuel?" Npna snorted. 'We should have had a sailor along." "We hit the island right on the nose didn't we?" Sillwcll demanded. "You've got something there," Nona admitted. "But did you have to hit it so hard?" (To Be Continued) BOY, IS HE THAT'S THE THIRD TIME HE'S "STOLEN TONHGHT.i COf-H 5tRVICi. I1C.

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