The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee • 29

6 SECTION THREE SECTION THREE JACKSON, TENNESSEE. SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1944 Civil Air Patrol Opens Headquarters With Carniva Civil Air Patrol Cadet Training Leads To Flying Career In Army Air Forces Jackson Squadron Opens Headquarters With Carnival, Dance Jackson Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, announces the opening of its new headquarters at the corner of Church and Chester Streets with a carnival and a dance. The carnival will start Wednesday night. Location of the new headquarters is the building formerly occupied by the 68th Cadet Club. The club was originally furnished by Jackson Charities, for cadets at Kenneth D.

McKellar Airport. Public spirited members of the CAP Cadets Fly Over Jackson In B-17 U. S. Airforces Qualify As Youthful Outfit Boys Once Known As Corner Loafers Are Now Good Airmen What's become of the drugstore cowboys the carefree kids with flannel slacks and softer grins who used to park two-toned saddle shoes under soda fountain rails? The kids who used to loll over the comics at their favorite corner rendezvous and take the girl-friend on wild Indian rides in their latest cut-downs? Like the buffalo, this peculiarl? American peacetime breed threatens to become extinct. Many boys over 17 and yet under draft age, already are in there pitching to win the war.

and those who have yet to throw in their hands are developing serious thinking wrinkles. Since the Army Air Force dropped the bars to sign up youths of Jackson squadron bought the fur- yyyyyy --y yyyyy yy yyyyy yy xi y-yyyyyyyyyyyyy'Vyyyyyyyyyyy -yyyyy yyyy-: vX --x i rii -JC- v-'-iai Pictured above is a group of Civil Air Patrol Cadets who recently Pictured above is a group of Civil Air Patrol Cadets who recently flew over Jackson in a B-17 of the Dyersburg Army Air Base. Averaging 17 years of age, the Cadets took their heavy bomber flight as part of the training offered them and in co-operation with the Dyersburg Army Air Forces officials. Operations Officer if 'V" tit i i pi Of HIIIIiii Men From 17 To 27 Inclusive Can Be Cadets Of Air Men between the ages of 17 and 27 inclusive now have an equal opportunity to become aviation cadets. Men who are about to become members of the armed forces in this age group are urged to make application for aviation cadet train with assurance of immediate training when they reach 18, thou- sands of the bright, strong young- i sters who give a city its zine.

are flocking off to take what they consider a good bid. The absence of youthful exuberance in its streets leaves a town vacant and sad, but the town's loss is the service's gain. In no other branch of the service is this more particularly true than in the Air Force. The Air Force is a youthful outfit. It has to be.

Without the sap of youth in its fibers, its crushing bomber blows would not be effective. Its quick slashing offensives spearheading our infantry attacks would disintegrate. Without youth the Air Force would bog down, a ponderous, ineffective machine, too spirited and too fast for older men to handle. Youth alone has the physical fitness, mental alertness, and personal daring to meet the acid test for air crews of high-powered military aircraft. Youth alone can deliver the goods with efficiency.

Johnny Jones is the kid down the street who normally would be thinking of nothing but blondes and brunettes, in that order. Last year he was lying around the swim ming pool most of the day, taking time out only to follow his snub, sunburned nose back and forth to dinner. Did you think Johnny was dumb? He wasn't. He surprised a lot of people by passing the exam for aviation cadethimself most of all. He may be up there now, pladding across a patch of sky in a training ship.

Not that you'd recognize him. His face is bronze from marching and flying in the sun. His eyes are keen and serious, and they have learned to look out, constantly roving the sky and his instrument panel for danger. His shoulders are broader, and the inches cut off his waistline, by hard exercise, have made him more V-shaped than round. But the big change is inside.

Johnny didn't want to sit out the war, and now he's getting ready for it, and he's glad. When the time comes to strike he will strike not just with himself, but with an airplane, an airplane's machine- guns, and airplane's bombs. He will do a terrific amount of damage just as his buddies a little older, a little ahead of him did at Midway, the Coral Sea, Pantel- leria, Sicily. Traveling faster, hitting harder, he can help finish up the war quicker. But he thinks of some thing else, too, as he feels out his training ship.

When the war is over, when peace comes, he will be part of a new world the world of air power. He will be in on the ground floor. The daily lessons that he learns, that he could learn nowhere else so completely and thoroughly, he puts away. They Jackson CAP Unit Is Prepared To Take Cadet Applications Training provided by the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Corps leads to a flying career in the Army Air Forces in addition to preparing youths for a place in the aviation world of tomorrow. Participating fully in a program of praparation for young men and women of this territory, the Jackson Squadron, CAP, is desirous of receiving as many opplications for this training.

as possible. Those interested should apply to CAP headquarters, corner E. Chester and Church at once for information and application blanks. CAP is helping prepare "air-minded students of today to become the fliers of tomorrow." This training helps young men win their wings as gunner, bombardier, navigator or pilot on an AAF air combat crew. It also prepares young women for fascinating jobs in the Women's Army Corps.

If you are seventeen, go to your nearest Aviation Cadet Examining Board and see if you qualify jfor membership in the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve. If you pass the mental and physical tests, you'll be sworn in and will receive a pair of miniature Silver Wings. You may have as much as a year to take CAP Cadet courses before you are called for AAF training. Military Leadership You're going to do some real soldiering in the CAPC and you'll like it! You'll start from the ground up with Military Courtesy 'and Discipline, Infantry Drill, Safeguarding Information, Articles of War, Interior Guard Duty, Duties of Command and Staff Officers, Leadership and Command, Military Correspondence, Operations Orders, and Firearms. You will get actual experience in givingx commands.

Think what this background training will mean when you first enter the Army Air Forces! You'll stand out as officer material from your first day. As a Civil Air Patrol Cadet you will wear the same khaki uniform as the enlisted men in the United States Army. Part of your uniform will be the distinguishing CAPC silver pin, insignia, and red shoulder straps. Titles for CAPC officers, such as Squadron Commander, Squadron Staff, Flight Leader, will also be part of the uniform after you've won them. Pre-Flight Courses Now you are ready to tackle real live aviation subjects.

CAP, to the extent permitted by local facilities, will help you get thoroughly acquainted with planes and flying problems. Courses include: Theory of Flight, Aircraft Construction. Power Plants, Instruments, Map and Aerial Photograph Reading, Air Navigation, Meteorology, Civil Air Regulations. Control Tower Procedure, Observation and Reconnaissance, and many other subjects. All the ground school subjects required for a private pilot's license are covered in the CAP training program.

The longer the time before you are called to AAF duty, the more you will learn from CAP. Physical Preparedness The Army Air Forces is no place for a softy. You have to be fit physically as well as mentally! CAP training will teach you to march like a soldier, chin up and on the alert. Many applicants for the AAF air combat crew lose out because of minor disabilities that can be corrected if they are caught in (Continued on Page Three) Aids Organization FO McCUTCHEN Flight Officer Elizabeth Morgan McCutchen has associated with the Jackson Squadron of Civil Air Patrol since it's organization in December, 1941, and has participated in many of it's flight Missions. Mrs.

McCutchen is the only Jackson wtoman who has ever had a pilot's license She began flying in October 1940 and received her Private Pilot's License May 27, 1941. ly i nishings at auction from Jackson Charities, Incand turned it over to the Civil Air Patrol for Its use The Civil Air Patrol has converted this property into a training base for its classes, both in Civil Air Patrol and the CAP Cadet progrem. The headquarters of the Jackson Squadron will be in this building and all officers' meetings will be held here with flight operations to continue at the air port. At the present time there are two flights in the Jackson Squad ron. Two new flights are expected to be formed during September here in Jackson.

T. Cooper of Brownsville, Tennessee, has been authorized to organize a detached flight in Brownsville that will report to the Jackson Squadron. W. L. Brown will likewise form a detached flighl at Lexington.

Jackson Squadron has been giv en a minimum for 150 CAP cadets. Capt. E. J. Koller, Commander of Group 2, will attend the opening of Civil Air Patrol's new headquar ters at Jackson, Wednesday night.

August 30. with his staff. Reservations have been made with the New Southern Hotel for this group to spend the night and fly back to Memphis Thursday morning. A party of 25 are expected to accompany Cpt Koller. Carnival will start Wednesday night, August 30.

Premiums for this occasion have been secured by Lt. H. L. Lindy and Sgt. Inez Davis.

W-O Sam Wahl, Lt. B. J. Davis, Training Officer Joe Cohen have been in charge for the campaign to raise funds for the operation of the Civil Air Patrol Program in Jackson, which includes the training of 150 CAP cadets. Nolen Card-well, communications officer, will be on hand with scales to guess your weight.

Fortune telling booth will be in charge of Sgt. Hilda Cothron and Pvt. Mary L. Young. Elizabeth Morgan McCuthcheon has extended considerable effort toward the success of this program.

Entertainment is under the direction of Sgt. Gertrude Kisber. Tommy Jones will furnish cotton candy. Jimmy Aliens orchestra will furnish music for the dance. Miss Betty Harris Russell and Mr.

Bob Croswell will sing. Guess Your Weight Weight guessing will be one of the booths at the Civil Air Patrol Carnival. Wednesday night, August 30. Many useful and desirable gifts will be offered. Dart Game Miss Ruth Midyett has planned a booth of real entertainment where you can test your skill at smacking Old Tojo and Hitler.

Cotton Candy Cotton Candy will be sold at the Civil Air Patrol Carnival, contributed by Tommy Jones. All proceeds from the sale of this candy will go to CAP. Bingo "Col" Will Allen will be on hand to entertain all comers with a lively game of bingo. Also will auction gifts of various kinds. Rules Governing CAP Issued Nationally Civil Air Patrol is governed by rules and instructions issued by National headquarters.

These rules are kept as simple as possible and are designed to encourage local initiative. The unit of the CAP which has jurisdiction in your area will sup-" ply copies of the CAP rules which will tell In detail how units are formed and commanded, how members are enlisted, and how officers are appointed. Membership in the CAP Is opeti to men and women of eighteen and over who are citizens of the United States at fit least ten wars' sfanHlntf nnrl wVin In the 4ii4crrrtAn of the local commander, are desirable members who have somethink; to contribute to the patroL No one is admitted into membership until after completion t-t at least twenty-five hours of basic training, covered in manuals which will be furnished you. After thK identification cards may be secured from National Headquarters. Once you have a few members sworn in and accepted, arrange-, ments can be made to secure the necessary CAP uniforms and insignia.

The uniform of the CAP consists of regulation Army garments with special distinguishing features 300,000,000 Tons Ore During 1941-43 more than 30Cv 000.000 gross tons of iron ore were shipped from U. S. mines, equivalent of a full four year. I shipment at the maximum pre- I U'Br lvl Commands Patrol KIRBY JONES First Lieutenant Kirby Jones is commander of the Jackson Squadron Civil Air Patrol. Lt.

Jones enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor and served until the summer of 1943 in the rank of private; he was appointed Flight and distinguished himself in carrying out the squadron's work of recruiting Army Air Corp cadets. Having proven his ability, he was given the as signment of organizing Jackson's first squadron of Civil Air Patrol Cadets in the fall of 1943. For this work he received the commission of 2nd. Lt. in March, 1944.

The Jackson Squadron Commander, C. H. Little, tendered his resignation and recommended Lt. Jones as squadron commander. Lt.

Jones served as acting Squadron Commander for sixty days and was appointed Squadron Commander in July 1944 with a permanent commission of 1st. Lt. from National Headquarters of the Civil Air Patrol, an Auxiliary of the Army Air Corp. Lt. Jones took part in searches for lost balloons which were located for Camp Tyson; also was an observer for an Army airplane in the state of Arkansas.

He has attended all maneuvers and inspections of the West Tennessee Group since its organization. Lt. Jones holds a current third-class radiotelephone permit, wears the proud wings of the Civil Air Patrol and C. A. A.

private pilot's license. It is Commander Jones' plan to expand the Civil Air Patrol and Cadet program in Jackson to three hundred enlistments. Squadron Adjutant 1 SAM WAHL Warrant Officer Sam Wahl first enlisted in the ranks of Civil Air Patrol in September 1943, and serv ed as a private for a period of eight months. During this time he received his initial ground course instructions which enabled him to get his Student Pilot's License. This pilot license is the first step toward the acquiring of a private pilot's license and is limited to solo flight and cross-country flight up to a distance of one hundred and fifty miles.

He was promoted to the rank of Sgt. in the spring of 1944 and through appointment was again pro moted in June of the same year to the rank of Warrant Officer and is now serving as the Adjutant of the Jackson Squadron, and also is Intelligence Officer. Mr. Wahl has participated in most of the search missions assigned to the Jackson Squadron. New Air-Sea Rescue Latest device for air-sea rescue work is an all-plywood, power-driven lifeboat dropped from planes to persons stranded at sea.

carrying enough food, clothing and gasoline and sail to permit a voyage of 1500 miles. If General Arnold Praises GAP Cadet Training General H. H. Arnold, commanding general, Army Air Forces, praises cadet training provided by the Civil Air Patrol in the following statement: "The Civil Air Patrol Cadet program is the best preliminary training you can get if you hope some day to fly with the Army Air Forces! This valuable program is backed up by many men whose experience in flying covers many years. Civil Air Patrol can give you a foundation that will be oi great value when you enter the Air Forces.

"Through this program. Civil Air Patrol can give you that start which we, who are old-timers, wish we had when we began. The leaders of Civil Air Patrol throughout the country are experienced fliers who "learned to fly the hard way, and have proven themselves in millions of miles of flying in wartime missions. "Through their guidance, you will be better equipped for your Army Air Forces training when you reach military age if we are still at war. When peace is won, the facts that you learned about aviation in your own home town will fit you more readily into the great deVelo'pment of civilian aviation which is before us.

When you join the Civil Air Patrol Cadets, you are preparing for a career in aviation." Finances For CAP Are Kept To A Minimum CAP operates with a minimum outlay of the tax payers money because its purpose is to enable citizens to make their own contribution to the war effort. There is no Federal money in CAP for local squadrons. National headquarters and Wing headquarters have only limited assistance. Each group, squadron, and flight finances its own activities locally except directives, forms, manuals, and limited training aids that are furnished. This is a source of strength for CAP.

Communities which have built their own CAP units take corresponding pride in their success. Should the National organization disband after the war, there will be nothing to prevent the local units carrying on since they are rooted in home soil. A bamboo shoot has been known to grow as much as 24 inches in 24 hours. ing. You are invited to come down to the CAP meeting on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the CAP headquarters at Church and Chester Streets.

There are no special school or college credits required many high school students have made excellent grades on the examination. Men who have registered for Selective Service and have not received their Induction notice will be given a letter addressed to the Armed Forces Induction Station, requesting their assignment to the Army Air Force. After his basic training the cadet is now ready to begin air crew training for bombardier, navigator 4 or pilot one of the "Three Mus keteers of the Air!" When this period of training has been successfully completed, the cadet is commissioned second lieutenant or flight officer and assigned to active duty with the Army Air Force. Any young man interested in this training, regardless of his draft status, is urged to call CAP at Jackson 93. Seventeen-Year-Olds May Be Aviation Cadets Squadron Commander Kirby Jones a prominent Jackson buis-ness man, said: "I have noticed lately that more and more young men are wearing the silver wings of the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve, and their slogan is "The wings you want are yours to wear at 17'.

This slogan is one that has been dreamed of by the thousands of young Americans who want to join the Army Air Force. Young men who have reached their 17th birthday, and who have their parents' permission, can now wear the silver wings with the 'AC on a blue center, which identifies them as members of the mighty U. S. Army Air Force. In addition we want to emphasize that men between the ages of 18 through 26 can still volunteer for induction as long as they have not received induction notice from their local Selective Service Board.

It makes no difference if you are single or married, you can volunteers and thus assure yourself of joining the Army Air Force." Training Officer JOE (ROGERS) COHEN swtw aPr Tminin offirr Joe (Rogers) Cohen moved to Jack son he became a member of the local squadron of Civil Air Patrol. This membership began in the spring of 1942 and he has been a very active and loyal member, now serving as Training Officer of the Jackson Squadron. TO Joe (Rogers) Cohen is a qualified pilot, and has been on many C. A. P.

missions. In the summer of 1943 he and several other members of the local squadron joined several planes in the Memphis Squadron to form a searching party. An Army ship was lost enroute from Memphis to Oklahoma City and the U. S. Army Airforce called on the C.

A. P. to form searching parties to look for the lost plane. This party combed the eastern half of Arkansas in their small planes, resembling large birds looking for pray. Although this party did not locate the lost plane, it was located by a C.

A. P. plane from the Little Rock Squadron. During the past 12 months the local Squadron received many calls from the Commanding Officer at Camp Tyson requesting them to search for escaped barrage balloons. TO Cohen has been on many of these missions both as pilot and observer.

He was active in the C. A P. maneuvers held at Union City in the fall of 1943. These manuevers were for West Tennessee, and members of Memphis, Union City, Milan and Martin squadrons as well as Jackson squadron participated. He has cooperated in all bonds drives, flying around Jackson and neighboring towns dropping hand bills.

He has been active with the C. A. P. Cadets having flown a majority of them locally from the Municipal Airport- TO Cohen is also serving as drill master for the local squadron. He received his military training with the R.

O. T. C. while attending school in Nashville. Civilians Are Now Permitted To Fly Contrary to popular belief private flying has not been entirely restricted because of the war.

The Civil Air Patrol members are allowed to fly, though the regulations applying to private flying are now much more strict than before the war began. Persons who have made up their minds that they are going to fly in spite of all the regulations that must be met, can get permission from the CAP inspector to do so provided they can prove to him that the flight training which they will receive will further their ability -to help in the war effort. Women may qualify in the Ferry Command Flight Training and men may qualify for one of the many flight instructors' jobs in connection with the war effort. I foMiflftftiiliiiiiiiiiiiM HERMAN L. LIXDY Second Lt.

Herman L. Lindy, Supply and Operations Officer, has been a member of the Jackson Squadron for two years. His record of attendance is one of the best. As operation officer he is in charge of the Army Laison airplane which is used to recruit air corp cadets, as well as take C. A.

Cadets for observation rides. Sixty-three cadets have flown with Lt. Lindy. Through C. A.

P. training courses he has received his pilots wings and C. A. A. license; he holds a third-class radio-telephone operations license and has 350 flying hours to his credit.

Lt. Lindy has devoted several hundred hours of his time to the C. A. P. program and has cheerfully carried out all orders and missions assigned to him.

He has taken part in fifteen missions for lost barrage balloons from Camp Tyson; he helped give screening tests to 450 boys in West Tennessee for Air Corp Cadet programs. CAP Pilots Are Doing War Work Pilots of the Indiana Wing have been flying smallpox vaccine and typhoid serum, furnished free by the State Board of Health, to local units for innoculation of Civil Air Patrol Cadets who are going to Army camps. Announcement from Oregon CAP shows that Governor Earl Shell of Oregon signed up on July 20 as a full-fledged active member of the Civil Air Patrol. Must Go Through The Oil City, Pennsylvania, Squadron got an emergency call from All American Aviation to search for a mail sack which had dropped from one of the company planes. When trailing from the pick-up device, the bag became entangled in the tail wheel and fell in the woods near Oil City.

CAP searchers were soon out and the sack of registered mail was found in time to be sent on its way the next trip out. held recently at in various towns Squadron Takes Part In Manuevers are steps toward victory and they are money in the bank. Wartime Ajr Training Is Aid To Civilians Looking beyond the end of the war, it is easy to see that your training in the Army Air Force will undoubtedly prove of great benefit to you after your return to civil life. Most of us are old enough to remember that commercial aviation as we know it today, came into being following the last war. Largely it was developed as a result of the lessons learned in that war, and by the men who learned those lessons first-hand.

The aviation pioneers of the 'twenties, and aviation kings of the 'thirties, were practically all men who had learned to fly while serving in the Army Air Corps in 1917-1918 and in the years immediately following. It is not at all unreasonable to predict that following the close of the present war commercial aviation will develop even more rapidly than it did in the 'twenties. Although it may not be apparent at the moment, things are being learned about planes and methods of flight today that will lift the science of aviation to heretofore undreamed-of levels of achieve-' ments in the years that are to follow. "Keep 'em The Jackson Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, is pictured as lt took part in maneuvers Union City. The local organization is grouped with other units of Group 2 located of West Tennessee.

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