The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 28

Weaker Sex? Which One? Sunday, June 3,1955 THIS Wayne Frarie looks a bit skeptical as she grips arm of instructor Bill Turner in a gun- disarming demonstration during judo course for wives and dependents of 310th personnel at SHAFB. Ten women successfully completed the six-weeks course. (JOURNAL PHOTOS by Wilbur Hess) The driver, unused to tunic- clad hitchhikers on the public highway, was a setup for a wile tale of pilferage at tho ole swim ming hole. Didn't Get Far Because of his limited attire Eugene didn't get far that trip But on another occasion he wan dered over to the nearby Shreve port bus station, took advantage of a coffee stop and stowed away on a California-bound bus. The driver cut short the westward migration at Dallas when he "ound Eugeno lurking under a back seat.

Again, 2 cents was his only visible means of support and Texas juvenile authorities were called in to ponder the shortage. Eugene once was gone three days while his mother and the combined police forces of Shreveport and Bossier City hunted fran- The itinerary of that jaunt still classified information. "He's not a bad boy really," says Mrs. Hart. "He's never been UP AND OVER Mrs.

Emile Mignery uses shoulder throw to flip instructor Tom Hardy to the mat. Judo permits small person to defend self against larger adversary. He's Traveled Half The WorId On Only Two Cents By Hugh A. Mulligan BOSSIER CITY, UP) The pyramids along the Nile a beckoning to 12-year-old Eugen Hart, who has traveled farther on 2 cents than many people do in a lifetime of deficit spending. Last summer he lit out for Eng land -as the uninvited and unpay ing guest of the United States Lines.

And, just recently, he sel off again for climes unknown before, police put him under house not even going as far as Shreveport unless I'm along," decreed his mother Mrs. Hildegarde Hart "when he made known his desire to ramble over to the running-awayest boy ever- born any place, any time," moans Police Chief James Cathey, who has spend many hours searching for him. "If that kid could get a hold of 50 cents, he'd end up in Pago Pago." Pago Pago would be tempting, but right now Eugene has set his mind' to scrutinizing the Sphinx and ogling the obelisk. The 50 cents would come in handy at the resting place of the Pharaohs. No Restrictions understand," said Eugene, "they let you roam in and out cf the burial vaults and just about do as you please.

Nobody bothers you." Tfiafs the way it was with the luxury liner United States. Eugene, whose family was visiting relatives in Brooklyn at the time, just stepped aboard for a look-see. Before he knew it, Sandy Hook and Ambrose Light were in the backwash" and the pilot had gone ashore: "The ship's officers weren't too happy about it at first especially they found out I only had "2 cents on me," relates Eugene with the gusto of an old ealt. "They got used to it soon enough and treated me real nice. I wasn't allowed off at Cherbourg or Southampton I guess they were afraid I might take off." Donate Clothing Eugene's cruise wardrobe, which started" off with sneakers, blue jeans and a sports shirt, soon was augmented by donations from the ship's chest.

The proudest possession in his trophy collection is a black' turtleneck sweater, a bit oil stained and gone at the elbows, that formerly housed the massive expanse of an assistant engineer. Traveling light has always been Eugene's forte. He once boarded a bus decked out only in a bed sheet after being locked in his room to prtrnt futun peregrina- GOING DOWN--Hip throw expertly applied by Mrs. Malcolm Stricklin parries "attack" of instructor Turner. Both instructors are graduates of judo college in Tokyo.

THE GRADUATES and instructors. From left, front row: Mrs. Goorge Fory, Mrs. Stricklin, Mrs. Mignery and Becky Witherspoon.

Rear row, from Icft: Turner, Mrs. Aaron Dickerson, Mrs. William A. Crawford, Mrs. Kenneth Thompson, Mrs.

Frarie, Mrs. Gerald Faivre and Hardy. A tenth graduate, Mrs. Thomas B. Bowdre, is not pictured.

in any kind of trouble, except that lie has the wanderlust. He sees the buses going by and he wants .0 be on them." Tied To Safety MINNEAPOLIS Hi Pretty soon may be impossible to tell cars from airplanes. Gov. Orville Freeman says car passengers should start sporting safely belts to whit- le down accident injuries. 18 Prisoners Gel Clemency TOPEKA I a prison inmates have been granted executive clemency by Gov.

Fred Hall. Applications of 85 others were rejected and six were passed over at hearings May 26. Among those receiving commu- tations were (name, county and date of sentence, crime, term and commutation action): Ernest Radke, Ellsworth, March 2, 1949, statutory rape, years commuted to years. John F. Wheeler, Reno and Harvey, March 6, 1952 and Oct.

16, 1953, burglary and larceny, 10-20 and 1-5 years, 1-5 year term commuted to years. Louie Williams, Rooks, March 27, Can Jet Stream Be Harnessed? 1933, first degree murder, life commuted to 36-65 years. Henry Wilson, Washington, April 30, 1932, first degree murder, life, commuted to 39-50 years. Gerald Sudan, Smith, June 19, 1953, burglary, 5-10 years, commuted to 2-5 years. Ivan Cathcart, Reno, May 17, 1950, forging and uttering, 1-10 years, commuted to years.

By Roy Essoyan HONOLULU Iff)--A i a military and civilian pilots have made a start toward turning the jet stream, the mightiest tail wind of all, into an aerial super- lighway across the Pacific. Fully harnessed, the jet stream could be a powerful weapon in any future war, carrying high-altitude Dombers across the ocean in half time they require, today. Mili- experts feel sure that the Russians, if they decided to attack across the Pacific, would ridej it at least part way. In peacetime, the relatively mall-scale use of its powerful! winds has already spelled an enormous saving in time and money. The jet stream is a river of air, three miles deep and 400 miles across, rushing eastward high around the world.

At the core, it reaches speeds of around 400 m.p.h. Add to that the average cruising speed of a high-altitude bomber, transport or passenger plane and you have something around the speed of sound. No one yet has ridden the core of the jet stream, but military and civilian planes have utilized some of its currents as tail winds of 150 m.p.h. An Air Force C97, military version of the Stratocruiser, took ac Students Gel Wet Boating Safety LAKE KANOPOLIS was the "classroom" for a Red Cross boating school last week. Student (far right) INSTRUCTOR was Gilbert S.

Grihble, St. Louis. is hnnWi i TIJ i i 11 i m-n jj i it i i i i 6 five-day school drew 15 students, mostly fire- is named aboard by Salinn fireman Ed Bross during demonstration. Lt Bud erf the helm of boat on rtn men, policemen and game commission men. Lone the right.

Another Sauna policeman, Charles Dorn is in boat on left, woman was Thclma Horlackcr, Colby. (JOURNAL PHOTOS) vantage of such tail winds a year ago to fly nonstop from Tokyo to Honolulu in a record 9 hours and 9 minutes. That was se-ven hours under the regular one-stop flying time. Pan American World Airways started using the winter jet stream two years ago and averages 10 to 11 hours over this same nonstop route. So far, the jet stream has been flown only in winter, when it operates at 20,000 to 30,000 feet, 30 to 40 degrees north Of the Equator.

In summer, it moves beyond the reach of anything but experimental flights, to above 35,000 feet altituda and 50 degrees north latitude. Still Experimental Jet stream flying is still in the early experimental stage. At Hickham Air Force Base, Hawaii, where regular jet stream classes are held for pilots and navigators, an instructor said: "It's still like performing brain surgery with an ax. Maybe next year or the year after we'll have enough data to get maximum use out of it. When that happens the sky'll be the limit." Japanese meteorologists knew about the big wind in World War II and tried to float fire-bomb balloons across the Pacific against the United States.

Some balloons landed as far east as Montana but on the whole they were ineffective. In 1944 B29s flying bombing missions from the Marianas to Japan ran into tremendous headwinds and reported they often stood still with engines roaring full throttle. They Named It In 1947 a University of Chica20 weather team started piecing the threads together. Weather reports collected from around the world showed a mighty wind blowing east endlessly some 2,000 miles north of the Equator. They named it the jet stream.

(A corresponding wind blows south of the Equator but so far it has not been put to practical use.) Weather observers chart the jet stream's changing course from sta- in Hawaii, Wake, Midway, Japan and weather ships in between. Radar-equipped weather balloons stationed very 1,000 feet up to 50,000 feet record humidity, emperature and wind direction and velocity. One of the tricks of riding the et stream is to know when you're it and, once in, how to stay there. The stream is rarely visible to the human eye, although occasionally it leaves a track of ligh cirrus clouds. Its track can be followed only by constant checks of temperature, pressure, humidity and other weather fac- So far practical use has been confined largely to the across the pacific.

Most f.ishts abandon the jet stream north of Midway and dip southeast to iawaii..