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FIRST REGULAR 3T. JOHN'S HAS HAMPTON, PHOEBUS OLD POINT 8 DAILY PRESS, Newport News, Thursday, July 15, 1948 POST 46 HOST AT CONVENTION 338th BIRTHDAY Award $330 Verdict In 'Right To Work' Case ARMY WAC OF supervision of Miss Iola Lawson, of Hampton, a Senior at Brenau College, Galnsville, will be open daily from Monday through Friday between 10 A. M. and 12 and be-, tween 1 P. M.

and 5 P. Basonf said. Regular playground activities, such as volley ball, tennis, and arts and craft work, and other activities, will be carried on at the Syms-Eaton playground. AFFATMONROE Judge Frank A. Kearney of Eliza beth City County Circuit Court yes Playground Open OF BLUE, GREY When Peninsula Post No.

46, Department of Virginia, 29th Division Association, plays host to the department convention at the Hotel Chanute Award Winner Cites Misconceptions On Test Pilot's Work Tech. Sgt. Frances L. Gardner has St. John's Church, Hampton, will celebrate Its 338th birthday Sunday morning.

At the celebration of the Holy Communion at 8:45 the historic communion silver will be used. At the 11 A. M. service a special sermon will be given by he Rev. Carter H.

Har-' rison, rector. Special music has been planned. There will be on display several relics including the historic silver brought to this country In 1619, a record book dating from 1751, and pictures. become the first Army Field Forces WAC to enlist in the Regular Army, the ceremonies having been per terday awarded a judgment of $330 plus interest and costs to Harley A. Hawkins, printing pressman, in the far-reaching case which brought a ruling from the same judge last March upholding the constitutionality of the State "right to work" act.

Chamberlln this week end it will highlight 16 years of continuous service to the Association. At Sym-Eaton Center The opening of the building and grounds of the Syms-Eaton Community Center for playground recreation, the tenth such playground in Elizabeth City County and Hampton, opened yesterday, J. M. Eason, ECC and Hampton director of recreation, announced. The new playground, under the formed at the office of Gen.

Jacog L. Devers, chief, AFF, at Fort Monroe, met and goggles. He found his sight it was announced yesterday. Organized In the latter part of 1931, the post received its charter By MATT FIXGHAM The American public's glamour The judgment awarded yesterday She is a member of the WAC de RE-nOOFIIIG ASBESTOS SIDING ALL WORK GUARANTEED Free Estimates- lzed conception of the test pilot is a was against all the defendants far cry from reality take the word tachment at the office of the chief of the Army Field Forces at the of Herbert H. Hoover of 254 James named in the case Claude F.

Finney, Minnie B. Flint and the New local post. River Drive, Hilton Village, recent ly announced winner of the coveted Col. G. H.

Forst, chief, personnel Octave Chanute award. Hoover, one of the five TJ. S. pilots who have flown a plane through the division, adjutant general section, office, chief of AFF, administered the oath at the detachment com blurred by blood streaming from his forehead. Although in pain and almost blinded, Hoover kept his seat in the now open airplane, turned back to Langley and put his ship into a maneuver that would attract attention.

The men on the ground Instantly understood that something was wrong and cleared the air and the field of other aircraft, and Hoover brought the Helldlver to a safe landing. George W. Gray, In his widely read book, "Frontiers of Flight," the story of NACA research, described the episode as providing "a striking example of the sort of presence of mind that is an indispensable COL GARLAND GETS TAC POST eonic barrier, is head of the flight All Kinds Of REPAIR WORK manding officer and local recruit (HKI 3 I STMT8 5 operations section of the flight research division at the Langley Laboratories of the National Ad ing officer who enlisted Sergeant Gardner. port News Building and Construction Trades Council. Hearing of the evidence before Judge Kearney occupied little more than half an hour yesterday.

The hearing of the demurrer in the case attracted wide attention last Spring. Hawkins, who had asked a judgment of $350, contended that he was discharged from the print shop operated by Finnie and Mrs. Flint because he refused to join a labor union. It was agreed yesterday that the defendants in the case will file bills of exception to the verdict Aug. 14.

visory Committee for Aeronautics. Under the provisions of a Con Col. E. Blair Garland has been The award will -be presented at the Summer meeting of the Insti named director of communications HAMPTON ASPIIAU ROOFING GO. 6032 Phone Hampton 8651 tute of Aeronautical sciences tomor gressional bill signed by President Truman recently, for the first time permanent regular and reserve women's components were author row at Hotel Ambassador, Los Sea Us Now For Your Supnfr WATKINS COMPANY 334 W.

Queen St. Hampton Dial 3-3931 for the Tactical Air Command Headquarters at Langley Air Force Base. quality of the good research pilot." Angeles, Calif. HIGHLY TRAINED ized for the Army, Navy, Air Forces Colonel Garland is widely experi and Marine Corps. The picture Hoover paints of the Sergeant Gardner, a native of NACA test pilot shows a man who Rahway, N.

where she graduated The Octave Chanute award for 1948 goes to Hoover "for his contributions to the application of flight test procedures to basic research in aerodynamics, and development of methods for scientific study of tran Feb. 8, 1932, which named 23 veterans of World War I. The veterans originally had served in Virginia National Duard units and were members of the 116th. Infantry, formerly Company 4th Virginia Infantry, Newport News and Battery 111th Field Artillery, Hampton. Past members who signed the original charter were J.

L. Coffey, Thomas E. Lewis, Fairmount R. White, E. O.

Davis Dr. Alvin E. O. Klor William C. Stuart, William W.

Moffett, Dr. William O. Poindexter, James A. Garrett, J. Carther Watson, Robert H.

Mitchell, Walker A. Woodward, W. Hunter Brock, William H. Burton, Joseph Phillips, Otis J. Streever, William E.

Dodd, H. H. Swinsen, Harry T. Nicholas, James U. Roane, Billy Williams, Payton E.

Hutchins and Stanley S. Darner. Eighteen of the charter members are still active in the post, while nine have served as post commanders. The original charter was signed by Fairfield H. Hodges of Portsmouth, at that time national commander, and Harold J.

Lepper of New Jersey, national secretary. Hodges died Oct. 30, 1947. at the Kecoughtan Veterans Hospital and Lepper has since served as national commander, for the association. When the post was first organized, meetings were held in the offices of Bryan and Kemp, 138-28th and later In the Tidewater Hotel.

At the present, post meetings are scheduled the third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 P. M. and are usually held In various dining places in Hampton and Newport News, also in the Hampton Armory. CltlDSn BLOCKS has received highly specialized technical training for his job, and who knows thoroughly the capabilities It Is generally anticipated that an appeal to the State Supreme Court I will be noted. In his decision on the demurrer! declaring the law valid, Judge Kear- ney declared there was a "reason-1 able doubt" as to the law's constl- attributed by research workers to from high school, enlisted In the WAC at Elizabeth, N.

in November, 1944. Since this enlistment, she has been assigned to various installations within the continental United States, but at the end of the sonic flight." the experimental craft he flies. enced in directing the elaborate communications facilities necessary for tactical air operation. He was signal officer for the Eighth Air Force from the time of its activation in February, 1942, until November, 1943, when he assumed duties as signal officer for the Ninth Tactical Air Command. In this assignment he took the first radar unit ashore in Normandy on D-Day and immediately began furnishing radar direction to the aircraft of the Ninth Hoover points out that the of his work in transonic flight in his opinion was only Incidental, war she was at a port of embarka There is nothing reckless or devil may care about such work, Hoover emphasizes.

And he is most positive about one-point the reliance which the pilot places, as a matter and that his years of work as a re tion awaiting shipment overseas. tuitonality, but that it was the duty of the courts "to sustain an act of the legislature where its constitutionality may be merely a matter Receiving an honorable discharge STEAM CURED CERTIFIED CEMENT BLOCK DOUGHERTY BROS. N. KING R. Dial Hampton 3-3166 or 8828 search pilot and in a supervisor capacity were the principal reasons for the recognition.

The Octave July 30, 1946, Sergeant Gardner re of course, on the thorough-going re- of doubt." He said "It is the con search work of the NACA's engineers turned to civil life for 85 days after which she decided to reenlist. She has been stationed with the office, and technicians. Air Force. His radar units later were involved in the Battle of the Bulge and furnished the communicationE Chanute award was established by the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences in 1939, and is given annually for notable contributions clusion of the court at this time to uphold the constitutionality of the act." The statute was enacted by the General Assembly in 1946. chief, Army Field Forces the past nine months.

I facilities for the air offensive that Evary NACA pilot must be an engineer. In addition to being' a superlative pilot this, together with his day by day experiences, gives Asked why she first enlisted in the made by a pilot of the aeronautical sciences. eventually paved the way for the closing of the bulge. Army, she replied, because of the him the ability to carry the plane he is testing to the maximum pre need of women in the war effort of the recent conflict and also because conceived limit of its performance, IN MEMORY OF ENGINEER It honors the memory of the American engineer, Octave Chanute, who died in 1910. He was a pioneer without unnecessary risks.

the service would afford her the op portunity to travel and find adven ture. "Army life, Army food, and Hoover points out that any recklessness on the part of the test pilot would defeat the purpose of their work. The plane, and the test in aeronautical research and gave assistance and advice to the Wright brothers In their early work. Graduating from the U. S.

Mill-1 tary Academy in 1927, he earned his M.S. degree from Yale In 1928. He graduated from the Signal School Officers Course In 1929, the Telephone School of the A. T. T.

Company in 1933, and the Air War College In 1948. This is Col. Garland's second assignment as director of communications for he Tactical Air Command. He is returning to Langley following graduation at the Air War College at Maxwell Field, Ala. the feeling of security the Army gives its personnel were some of the determining factors which made me decide to make It a career," Sergeant Hoover will be the fifth NACA ing data It contains, must be brought back safely if the tests are to be of research pilot to win the award.

In 1939, the late Edmund Allen, for any value, he emphasizes. merly of the Langley Laboratories, He Is of necessity noncommittal Gardner added. Since enlisting in the WAC. the sergeant has held all grades up to her present rank to which she was was the winner. In 1941, Melvin N.

Club Assembly To Follow Rotary Meet A club assembly will follow the meeting of Hampton Rotary Club at 6:30 tonight in Chamberlln Hotel, Old Point Comfort. After the dinner, the club session promoted In June, 1947. In discussing his work in the highly secret field of transonic flight he Is authorized to say little more than that he has flown the experimental XS-1 plane beyond the speed of Dough, present chief of the flight research division at Langley, won It. In 1943, the winner was William H. McAvoy former test pilot at Langley and now at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Morffett Field, Calif.

In 1947, Lawrence B. dousing, engi will be dismissed and the officers sound. Even in this pioneering activity, the pilots of the NACA have behind them the research staffs and committee chairmen will convene for the assembly session. At this gathering, plans and objectives for the coming club year will be formulated. neering test pilot at Ames Laboratory, was the winner.

jusfsaiv ihe NevJ- Hoover was bom May, 1912 In Knoxville, and attended Central High School, Knox County, Tenn. He graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1934 at the University of Tennessee. 8S Chafing Dry Eczema Sunburn Ivy Poison Slmpl Rash He explains that prior to this which reduce risks to the Irreducible minimum, "When the test pilots venture into the unexplored realms of extremely high speed, they put the experimental craft on flight paths from which they can most easily recover In the event of trouble, he points out. IN FIRST ACCIDENT In Illustrating the lnfrequency of mishaps in test flights, Hoover recalls that he was the principal in the first accident Involving an NACA test pilot. This incidentally was his only air accident, and occurred In July 1943, while he was on a test flight undertaken to calibrate time he had no particular ambitions in regards to a career In aviation.

i in vi However, the depression was a prime factor In his undertaking Air Corps training at Randolph and Kelly Fields, Tex. After he received his wings, he spent three years on ac tive duty with the Air Corps Re serves. EXPERT WATCH and CLOCK REPAIR SERVICE! CUTLER'S 7 Mrllen St. Phoebus JEWELRY STORE He then accepted a position as a BESS pilot for Standard Oil Company in Venezuela, spending much of his 1,700 pounds of Instruments to be used in flight instrument investigations of the Navy Helldlver. The canopy over the cockpit of the Helldlver tore loose and as it fluttered away, an edge of the structure smashed through Hoover's hel- Buckroe Children Hold Playground time transporting equipment, personnel and hospital patient bejvteen camps for the company.

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