The Winona Daily News from Winona, Minnesota • 18

With tiny airplane rirw I mm Retired man solves energy crunch Ill- Wins Daily News (Id Winoni, Mlnnaio WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1974 Corncob pipe is rescued from brink of extinction WASHINGTON (AP) The it Discover something special tificate for the craft. for Mom soup mugs of six, has been flying for 18 The waist-high mini-plane is nnlv l.i foot lane, has a wine- years. with or without saucers, a namelwcire span of 17 feet and weights Agriculture Department "wants it known that the corncob pipe has been rescued from the brink of extinction by the devel the plane at 110 miles an hour, although he says its cruising speed is about 130. The craft uses 2'i gallons of fuel on hour at cruising speed.

He's put about three hours of flying time on the plane, and says it's behaved perfectly, 'I did get a few butterflies before that first takeoff," he admits. "But confidence is the Important thing. There's no ra teakettle or buttermelter, took cutting boerd, relish tray, or chip 'n dip bowl, homespun napkins, a set of napkin rings, blue bandana print vinyl placeman, perky lasagne or pizza plate He said he has no extended trips in mind now. The range of the pl3ne witl1 8 five-gallon gas tank, is about 230 miles. He said he would like to fly the craft to the national air show in Oshkosh, next August.

The inspiration to build his mini-plane came to Zeug when he visited an amateur-built air show at Itockford, 111., a few years ago. As Zeug gets to know his tiny craft, he savs he has no In Zeug said there's room for him and about 13 pounds of luggage in the plane, and no more. "Also, everything has to be in perfect balance for the plane to be able to fly safely and meet regulations," he said. "The balance point runs through the pilot's cockpit, so when I was ready to fly I had to measure my body and my feet separately, as they were on different sides of the balance point." pounas. Zeug built it In his garage.

He put the plane together entirely by hand, using a designer's sketch as a guide. The cockpit canopy and land lng gear came in a kit; otherwise, with the exception of instruments and cockpit equipment, he built the machine by hand. "I'd hist mt the wood and REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. (AP) While other men his age are wielding golf clubs or garden hoes, Leo Zeug has handcrafted a sleek vehicle that cruises at 130 miles an hour and gets 50 miles a gallon, His handiwork Isn't likely to put any Detroit car manufacturers out of business, though, because the vehicle is an airplane a tiny craft that set him back $2,000 in parts and 1,000 hours to construct. "This has been a dream of mine ever since I was a boy," said Zeug, 61.

"It's something I've always wanted to do and I finally got started on it a little over a year ago when I sold my THE Bill S0I1S dio in this little plane so you're really on your own up there. If machine out the pieces," said "radiafitiff the ummih of old.ashkmed hospitality" Downtown Inside R. 0, Cone Ce. you run into trouble in wo air, no one's there to bail you out." opment of a new cob. "Before this discovery, the corncob pipe business was nearly burnt out when farmers began producing mostly hybrid corn shortly after World War II," the department said.

It seems hybrid corn was great for producing more grain but terrible for pipe cobs. For a century, officials said, the corn cob pipe indusry has been almost exeusively in the Washington, area. So plant breeders developed a rew corn variety, Missouri Pipe No. 14, and now the pipe business is smoking again. tentions right now of building Presently, Zeug has a permit from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly the plane Ground observers, watching Zeug, who owned a machine shop and manufacturing plant until his retirement.

"That'i another. Zeug's first flight this fall in the plane, said it "looked about within 25 miles of Redwood "I don't know, though," he added. "I love to build and I Falls. Once he has SO hours on as big as a bird and sounded what was challenging about it." He modified a Volkswagen engine to power the plane. The 50-horsepower engine will push the plane, he will receive a love to fly you never know like a Singer sewing machine business and started to have what I might do." Zeug, married and the father "complete airworthiness' cer some free time." 3 SHOP FOR EVERYTHING AT BAMBENEK'S Family finds it likes it Bethlehem has r.o Sanfa Claus )ftja CHOICE FUtlY COOKEU BEEF ROAST SMOKED PICIIICS Damage suit in syphilis experiment reported settled MONTGOMERY, Ala.

(AP) A multirrullion dollar damage suit filed against the U.S. government as a result of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has "for all practical purposes" been settled out of court, a federal attorney says. U.S. Atty. Ken Vines of Mont-g me added, however, "There are a few ends still to be resolved." The class-action suit, originally seeking $1.8 billion damages, was brought by survivors of 600 Macon County black men who were used as human guinea ppigs in the federal experiment which began in 1932 and ended in 1972.

S1 tried to burn down the hospital outside Bethlehem, which the Rev. Mr. Carlson administers. "You grow used to the dangers, and you live with them," he says. "These are not all sophisticated, intelligent people and in a way you can understand their reactions to Americans." The hospital waa established as a tuberculosis center, but the Israelis have virtually eradicated the disease and now the institute is being converted into a cancer treatment center for all the Israeli-held Jordanian West Bank, where 620,000 Arabs live.

when Israel captured Bethlehem from Jordan, Israeli artillery shells fell near the Carlson's comfortable stone house. "We had to get under the tables," he says. Rumors spread among the Arabs that the Carlsons were American spies, and many times they heard Bcthlehe-mites muttering, "We'll get you Americans." StiU angered by American military supplies to Israel, Pal-e i i a refugee children recently threw stones at his 10-year-old son, causing a head injury, he said. Arsonists have several times Christmas tree from a forest on the Biblical Judean Hills. If they are lucky, says the reverend, they might find some decorations gathering dust in an Arab shop.

The Christmas turkey will come from a nearby kibbutz, or farming settlement, run by Orthodox Jews. Christmas can be a lonely affair for the handful of Americans in this little town of 25,000. Forcipers like the Rev. Mr. Carlson, who has spent nine years here, are caught between the emnity of Israelis and Arabs.

In the 1967 Mideast war, By MARCUS ELIASON BETHLEHEM, Israeli-Occupied Jordan (AP) There is no Santa Claus here in the town where Jesus was born. Western yuletide traditions don't exist in Bethlehem, but the Carlson family of Tacoma, has grown accustomed to the deprivations and even prefers some of them. "Christmas seems closer to the essence here than in the West, where it is very commercialized," says the Rev. Howard Carlson, who runs a hospital financed by the Presbyterian Church. The family will cut its own DUBUQUE POLISH SAUSAGE 89c BONELESS DUBUQUE Royal Buffet SLICED BAGOfl us HAH SLICES lb $1.49 89c 12-Oz.

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