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Sen. Williams Late Stock Quotations Enormous Crowd Monday, July 16, 1961 Cite jMzmfnrh (Senforel Obituaries i 1,11 S. A. Martinez Dies at Age 56 At Commissioning jin Talk for Lions Club Slate Senator Robert Williams of Hanford told the Lions Club members last week he was happy one session of the state legislature was' behind him but is looking forward to the one in 1962. Serving on the agriculture, local government, and social welfare committees, the Hanford legislator said he was able to make his best contributions in agriculture work.

The biggest job, he commented, was to get proposed bills out of committee, a task he termed more difficult than proposing some type of action and gaining support for it. In the 1961 session, Sen. Williams said he concentrated a great deal of his effort in getting funds for the Highway 198 freeway construction, including a direct plea to the governor. As a result, the Highway Commission provided $3 million out of a $4 million contingency fund, and speeded up the proect considerably. Important actions by the legislature, he said, included reapportionment, education, narcotics, and old age pension bills.

Committee i May Study Sewer Needs Major Charles Chambers is expected to appoint a committee of citizens to study the citys sewer needs when the council meets tonight at 8 in the Civic Auditorium. The committee will be charged with making a thorough review of the bond issue, which recently failed to carry; analyze the effect of limited sewer capacity on the citys growth; and present the council with recommendations for action. The council will also meet in the morning at 6.30 for abreak-fast meeting, at which time coun-cilmen will discuss various phases of city government with the department heads. Vacation Bible School Starts AVENAL Community Presbyterian Church in Avenal will hold its Vacation Bible School session beginning today through the 22nd. The Rev.

James Otter will be the general superintendent. Pamala Noel will conduct the kindergarten department; Mrs. Oscar Rader, primary department and Mrs. Velma Morris will lead the junior department. Daily sessions will start at 9-30 a.m.

and last until 11 a m. Kindergarten children starting at four years of age are requested to bring a large bath towel which will be used as a rest time floor mat Selected stock quotations (New York, 3 p.m.) from the board of Dean Witter 505 W. Main Visalia: Dow-Jones Averages Industrials 694.70 up 1.97 Kails 140 91 dow .45 Utilities 114 11 up .18 Selected Stocks Amer. Tel. Tel.

119 44 down Ampex 2078 up Anaconda Co. 56 down 4s Armstrong Rubber 43V? up Bethlehem Steel 40V? up 4 Chrysler Corp. 4544 down 44 Du Pont 217 up 1H Eastman Kodak 10 7 44 down 44 Ford 83 down General Elect. 63 down 4i Corcoran to Elect Trustee Chairman CORCORAN Election of a chairman for the high school board will be held at the CUHS trustees meeting tonight at 7:30. Newly elected trustees will be sworn in to office and other officers of the board will also be selected.

Other business will include the establishing of a time and place for meetings; report of public hearing on unification; letter from the district attorney on trips by school employes; ratification of certificated contract; request for release from contract; approval of notices of employment for classified personnel and for payroll payments order for period ending June 30 of $725 from the bond building fund and $31,268 from the general fund. Also to be considered are mileage and expense claims, purchase orders, capital outlay requests, audio-visual aid agreement with the county; and resolutions authorizing signatures of the superintendent and assistant superintendent on warrants. Former FBI Man To Be Speaker AVENAL Jim Hayden of Bakersfield, a former FBI agent, will be the guests speaker at the Avenal Rotary meeting Tuesday evening. Haydens address will center around Communistic subversive tactics. Paul Read newly installed president will conduct the meeting.

Hal Roati is program chairman for the month of July. Red-Faced Red LONDON (UPI) A Russian guide at the Soviet exhibition here was asked if many Russian women actually wear to bed tangerine-colored bermuda-length pajamas on display. Dear lady, the red-faced Red replied, I am a happily married man. How can I answer such a question. race through space for four days.

For technical reasons, apparently, they decided Sunday to trigger the mechanism which returned it to earth. The plane which made the dramatic catch, one of eight specially equipped C119s hovering in the planned recovery area, was piloted by Capt. Jack R. Wilson, 36, Toledo, Ohio. After a hook hanging from the plane's bottom snared the capsules parachute the crew then hauled the capsule into the big plane.

General Motors 4 4 44 clown Inter. Paper 8044 unchanged Kern Co. Band 66 unchanged Olin Mathieson 4 6 44 up 44 Pac. Gas Eleot 76 unchanged Santa Fe R. R.

26 down Sears Roebuck 7 0 44 up 44 Stand. Oil of Cal. 62 down 44 Stand. Oil of N. J.

45 dewn 4a So. Cal Edison 70 up So. Pacific R. R. 24 up Swift Co.

43 up 44 Tenn. Gas 23 up Texas Co. 100 up Union Carbide 138 down 44 United Aircraft 4 8 44 up 1 U. Steel 80 up 44 Varian 60 down Westinghouse 43 down Commentary NEW y6rK (UPI) Stocks milled about-aimlessly today. Aircrafts and national defense lu-ues were the market features, ricing strongly and actively- on ne that President Kennedy had ordered another review of the na-tio is defense needs In the wake of stepped-up Russian spending for arms.

Gains of fractions to a point or more peppered the entire group with Boeing and Avoo especially active. Bethlehem Steel rose better tl 'n 1 at times to 4 on the successful completion of a 727,000 are secondary distribution by a larre mutual fund at a price of $40 a share There were fears the company might cut the quarterly dividend. Other steels moved up fractions after early weakness. Tobaccos also were good, American rising more than 3 and Reynolds about 1. Fresno Cotton FRESNO (UPI) Fresno Cotton Exchange quotations: Strict middling: 1-32 inch 34.85; 1 1-16 36.85; 1 8-32 36.10, Middling- 1 1-32 93.90; 1 1-16 84 75; 1 3-32 36.00.

Strict low middling: 1 1-32 32.15; 1 1-16 33.00; 1 3-32 33.25. No sales Friday. Grain CHICAGO (UPI) Soybean and wheat futures fell today on the Board of Trade. Wheat closed off to corn up to 144, oats up 144 to 2, rye up 44 to 3, soybeans off to 3 44 Poultry FRESNO (UPI FSMNS) Eggs at ranch: Fresno area: Large 33-34; medium 23-24; small 12-13. Modesto area: Large 31-3544 dium 23-25; small 11-13.

llav LOS ANGELES (UPI-FSMNS) Hay market: S. No 1 27 00-29 00; No 2 leafy 26 No 2 green 26. DO-27. 00 No. 2 24.00-25.00.

Oat hay No. 1 new crop 31.00-84.00. Fire Alarms HANFORD A fire extinguished Friday rekindled early Sunday morning and caused some spot damage to roadside grass at 9 Ave. and Lacey Blvd. There was no loss.

Trucks from Kit Carson and Hanford were dispatched at 7:04 a m. STRATFORD Some $200 damage resulted yesterday at 1:30 p.m. when a smoker is believed to have caused a fire in the upholstery and wiring of a car owned by A. F. Hall of Fort Worth, Tex.

Stratford firemen were able to keep the blaze from spreading to the entire vehicle. CORCORAN Debris burning is blamed for a fire which destroyed two tons of hay, valued at $40, on a ranch operated by Ernest Moyo at 5668 New York Ave. Trucks from Corcoran and Guernsey were dispatched at 12:09 p.m. Avenal Swimming Lessons Slated AVENAL -Red Cross swimming lessons conducted by Miss Shar-ron Garrison will begin the second session on July 12 in the Avenal High School pool. Over 130 students between first and eighth grades have registered.

detailed the ways of living which were carried on in this area and told about Lemoore's having the largest store in the state outside of San Francisco." The audience smiled when he added with this history of prodigious construction accomplishments behind them, the people of Lemoore accepted the construction of this great air station with the calm of people accustomed to large endeavors. It was early in this century, 1911, that the Navys first carrier-type takeoff and landing by plane took place from a cruiser in San Francisco Bay, recounted Fay. California has since seen naval air stations spring into operation up and dpwn her length and breadth, he said. Listening attentively in the front row was Capt. Viggo C.

Bertelsen, the Navy engineer who was construction head of the Lemoore project. Bertelsens crew of inspectors, engineers and office workers, in three years, efficiently saw that the Navys rigid building standards were met. Bertelsen made many inspections of the acres of parking aprons, 2'i mile concrete runways, barracks, bach-eloi officers quarters and Cape-hart housing of which Fay now spoke. The way was prepared, in Fay's words, for approximately 8,000 officers, enlisted men and their dependents to live in a city created by the base. Air Show The air show which followed the formalities had a number of stars.

The Blue Angels flight demonstration team appeared for the second time in Kings County in one week and dazzled the throng with another high speed 'performance. Members of the Chuting Stars from the El Centro parachute test facility dived 7,500 feet in free falls before ripping their chutes open. George Willett of Lemoore and his cotton dusting pilots presented a nervy exhibition of loops and rolls They also zoomed over and under each other in a colorful barber pole. Stanley Newton of Stratford and a fellow glider pilot rode behind a tow rope to the sky, then gave bird-like performances among the thermals and air currents. A formation flight of Navy aircraft had started the sky review.

Other highlights included in-flight refueling techniques, touch and go landings and an exhibition of how an ejection seat works. The Navy announcer kept up a running commentary on each plane's capabilities, weight, power, takeoff requirements and use. Blue Angels An all-out show put on by the Blue Angels remained the feature of tiie afternoon, though. The sextet of F-ll-F Grumman Tigers performed high speed acrobatics flawlessly. Paced by Texas-born Cmdr.

Zeb Knott, they looped, dived and flipped around at 500 to 600 p.h. The jets poured an additional 3,500 pounds onto their regular 10,500 pound thrust whenever the after burners roared. The Blue Angels announcer described part 6f the strain absorbed by the solo pilots. Some maneuvers, he said, caused live pilots to feel as if they weighed 800 to 1,200 pounds. In an inverted climb, one pilot was described as having the same "weight pulling on him while he was hanging by his heels.

Many thousands of visitors headed for their cars before the giant sky review was over, trying to beat the expected traffic jam. Those left in the master crush from 4 3n on found it difficult to reach Highway 198 from parking places in less than an hour and a half. Plenty of sailors turned in quick tempo directing jobs at intersections. But the principal station roads could funnel only so many vehicles through their gates. L3 CASON Actor Bob Cason Dies In Accident John Lacy (Bob) Cason, who was killed more times than any other man in Hollywood motion pictures, died in an auto accident Friday evening near Lompoc.

He was 42 years old. A native of Valley View, he came to California with his family at an early age. He left home with Gene Autry at the age of 17 to try to fulfill his dream of being an actor. Autry, who was already a star, and Casons family had been neighbors in Texas. The first several years brought little but disappointment to Cason, who got his first break seven years later through George Raft, then star of the gangster pictures.

Usually Cason 'had no lines to say and played in fight scenes. Shortly after that came his real love, the Westerns, where he started as a member of the posse or outlaw gang. Top Stunt Man After saving enough to go to stunt school, he went on to become one of the top 10 stunt men, doubling for such stars as Lash Larue, Monty Hale, Johnny Mack Brown, Roy Rogers, Burt Lancaster, Monty Cliff, Robert Tay lor, John Wayne arid Glenn Ford. Among the pictures Cason appeared in were Cattle -Queen of Montana, From Here to Eternity, Westward Women, Dont Go Near the Water, and Cim-maron, plus a leading role in Snowfire. Cason also played in many television shows including Wagon Train, Maverick, Wells Fargo, and others.

He is reported to have preferred the role of the bad guy, the ones the kids hiss. Cason made his last picture on June 29 of this year, a Warner Brothers television production, Sky King. He had 29 more Sky King series to complete at the time of his death. He was a member of the Baptist Church in San Fernando, where he made his home. Survivors include his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John J. Cason of Hanford; two brothers, Glen Cason of Hanford, and Charles T. Cason of Sun Valley; three sisters, Alva Nell Cason of Hanford, Mrs. Lula N.

Dixon of Palm Desert and Mrs. Abie Frances Lotz of Palm Springs. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 oclock in Peoples Funeral Chapel with the Rev. W. H.

Garrett officiating. Interment will follow in Grangeville Cemetery. Funeral Services MRS. BEULAH HANSEN Funeral services were held Friday morning in the Peoples Funeral Chapel for Mrs. Beulah LU-lian Hansen withe Elder D.

E. Ven-den, of San Jose, officiating. Music was furnished by Charles Key-mer, accompanied by Mrs. Donald Vandervoet. Pallbearers were Rene Brunei, E.

J. Harp, Bernard Tilton, Elmer Johnson, Benny Saw-telle and Ernest Turner. Interment followed in the Grangeville Cemetery. Swimmers Will Register Tuesday Registration will be held tomorrow morning at 9:30 at the Hanford High School pool for swimmers and intermediate classes, according to Glenda Mae Drennen, recreation director. Openings are available in all three morning classes.

Those who have finished the first session may re-enroll. However, no openings are available in beginners class. The four week course will run through August 4. Island Trustees Meet Tonight ISLAND The Island School boards monthly meeting will be held this evening instead of the previously scheduled July 11. Regular business will be conducted anJ election of officers within the board will held.

Public Records Jail Report Louis Marquez Montaya, 29, of S28 N. E. 2nd Street, Visalia, was booked last week in the Kings County jail on a charge of petty theft. He was arrested in the Corcoran Judicial District. Booked in the county jail at 9:13 p.

m. Friday was Virgil Thomas Earley of 646 N. Bond Fresno. Arrested near Lemoore, he is charged with drunk driving and driving without an operator license. James Casey Osborn, 25, ot 8U8 Hanford Avenal, was arrested early Saturday in Hanford and booked at the Kings County jail on a charge of drunk driving at Seventh and Brown in Hanford.

He posted a $525 bail bond and is scheduled to appear in court next Thursday at 10 am. Kobert Lee Spoon, 31, Corcoran, was booked Sunday morning at the county jail on a charge of having a concealed weapon. He is also being held for investigation of a recent Corcoran residence burglary'. Henry Robinson McCormick, 39, has been booked on a charge of bringing an alcoholic beverage into the Kings County jail. McCormick was apprehended after 9 p.m, last night as he was tieing wine bottles to braided ropes let out a second story window at the back of the jail.

Arrested as an accomplice was Philip Shirley McEIhanon, 44, 326 E. Tenth St. Both men have been booked previously on drunken charges. Marriage Licenses Bobby Gene Harrison, 19, of 124 K. 10th St.

and Sharon Lee Elliott, 18, of 205 Center both of Hanford. James Isaac Channell, 33, and Donna Maria Berry, 30, both of Bakersfield. Daniel G. Mendez, 34, of 330 E. Cameron St.

and Gloria D. Serna, 19, of 109 E. Third both of Manford. Lee Edward Smith, 27, of 210 E. Third Hanford, and Catherine Lewis.

21, of Tulare. William E. Streeter, 39, of 7514 SO1? Lemoore, and Ruth Loren Culp, 33, of 834 E. Florinda Hanford. Births To Mr.

and Mrs. David Ray, J540 Beulah, Hanford, a daughter, Sheryl Renea, on July 8 in Community Hospital. To Mr. and Mrs. Joe R.

Lee, Laton, a son, Steven Duane, on July 7 in Sacred Heart Hospital. To Mr. and Mrs. Loy Crall Wed-derbum, 52 N. Lemoore a son, Timothy Brian, on July 8 in Sacred Heart Hospital.

To Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Henderson, Armona, a son on July 9 in Sacred Heart Hospital.

Divorce Suits Leroy Donald vs. Marlene Pauline Steavens, cruelty and desertion. Billie Jean s. Elbie L. Groves, uruelty.

Divorce Decrees Margaret vs. Peter Frutos, foal. Aenal Firemairs Barbecue Is Held AVENAL One hundred people attended the annual Avenal Volunteer Firemen's family barbecue dinner last week at the fire house. Guests were State Forest Ranger C. E.

Lindley; and Jack Btxler, foreman of Kings County IFire Department. Seven men received their 20-year pins. They were H. C. McFarland, B.

B. Austin, W. Pret-zer, Felton S. Young, George Bowman, B. J.

Jones, and Ray Yrace-buru. Officers elected for the coming year for the Volunteer Firemens Club include Joe Rapozo, president; B. B. Austin, vice president; M. E.

Wightman, treasurer: E. Storby, secretary; and H. C. McFarland, sgt. at arms.

Adventists at Camp Meeting ISLAND The entire junior division membership of the Island Adventist Sabbath School is attending the Soquel Camp meeting of Seventh Day Adventists, July 6-16. Cite Canforb The Journal Published every evemrig1 except Sunday by the Hanford Sentinel Inc at 228 Seventh St Entered at Postoffice Hanford, Calif, aa second class matter March 18. 1886 under act of Congress of March 8. 187. Subscription Rates Within California One Month $1.60 three months $4 60, six months $9 00, one year $18 00.

Outs'Se Calif otma One Month $1.76. three months $6 26, six months $10 69. one year $21.09. 4 Telephone LU 2-0471 223 W. Seventh SI.

(Begins on Page One1 occurred at 1 oclock. Its pageantry absorbed the crowd. Led to the platform by the station commanding officer, Capt. Howard M. Avery, high ranking Navy dignitaries were seated on both sides of the main speaker.

The scene had the aura of a motion picture production with the officers snow white uniforms, black and gold epaulets, gold stripes and sober faces. Flag officers were introduced and stepped to the rostrum with dignity. Fay gave his address. The base was placed in active status by the climaxing ceremony. History Fa gave a short course in Valley history in his speech.

He took his listeners back to 1772 when Spaniards entered the Valley. He Search for Sullivan Girl Is SHU On MOAB, Utah (UPI) For the sixth straight day searchers sought today to answer the question: Where is 15-year-old Denise Sullivan or her body? Some 90 men resumed the search for the missing Rockville, girl along the Colorado River and Polar Mesa, while an inquest was to be held today into the death of the man believed to be her abductor and the slayer of her mother. Authorities said the inquest was almost certain to result in a verdict of suicide in the death Abel Benny Aragon, 35, of Price, Utah, unemployed miner and World War II Marine hero. Aragon shot himself Friday night in his car as FBI -agents sought to question him in the kid-nap-slaying. Authorities believe Aragon is the man who killed Mrs Jeannette D.

Sullivan, 41, wounded Charles Boothroyd, 55, also of Rockville, and kidnaped Mrs. Sullivan's daughter, Denise, after they stopped to aid him on a road near scenic Dead Horse Point July 4, i Spade Cooley Trial Starts BAKERSFIELD (UPI) Spade Cooley, television's champion of western music in the early 1950s, was to go on trial in Superior Court today for the fatal beating of his wife, Ella Mae, 37. Cooley, 50, was arrested April 4 after his wife died. Kern County sheriffs investigators said Cooley beat and choked his wife during a drunken rage the night before. Cooley has pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to the slaying, but three court-appointed psychiatrists have reported he was legally sane on tiie fatal night and when they examined him.

Cooley's daughter. Melody, 14, is expected to be the prosecutions star witness. She testified at her fathers April 25 indictment hearing that she saw the former king of western swing drag her unconscious mother from the shower of their Willow Springs ranch home 20 miles south of here, stomp on her, bang her head on the floor and burn her with a lighted cigarette. Grammar School To Elect Officers CORCORAN New officers of the board will be elected Tuesday evening at meeting of the Corcoran Elementary School Board. Business will include establishment of time and place of board meetings; report on unification; letter by district attorney on trips by school employes; ratification of two contracts and a request for release from contract; ratification of payroll payment for period ending June 30 for $1,241 from the cafeteria fund and $67,030 from the general fund.

Also to be discussed are mileage and expense claims, purchase orders, capital outlay requests; and resolutions authorizing the signatures of the superintendent and assistant superintendent on warrants for the fiscal year. Articles Stolen A gasoline camp stove, flashlight and two rag dolls were reported stolen weekend petty theft cases. The $9 stove wa3 reported taken from a service station at 527 E. Sever th St. between 2 and 6 am.

yesterday, according to proprietor Bob Creech. The other items, valued at $10, were taken at an unspecified time from an unlocked ebicle owned by Daniel G. Mendez, 7462 Hanford-Armona Road. Severiano A. Martinez, 56, died Saturday morning in a local hospital following a short illness.

A native of San Bernardino, he had lived in Hanford for the past is years. He was employed In agri-cultural work before Illness forced him to retire. Martinez was a member of the Mexican' Honor Society. Survivors include three Mrs. Josephine Vasquez of Compton, Mrs, Antonia Castillo of Santa Clara and Mrs.

Alice Ramos of San Jose; one son, Pedro Martinez of Artesia; four sisters, Mrs, Isadora Ortega of Merced, Mrs. Emma Moreno of Kingsburg, Mrs. Ramona Garcia of Gilroy and Mrs. Paula Cruz of Hanford; one brother, Ignacio Martinez of Hanford; and 16 grandchildren. The Rosary will be recited this evening at 8 oclock in the Sul-livan-Odell Colonial Chapel.

The funeral cortege will leave the chapel Tuesday morning for Immaculate Heart of Mary Church where a Requiem Mass will be held at 9:30. Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Mrs. Viola Cody Dies at Age 84 Mrs. Viola Augusta Cody, 84, member of a pioneer Kings County family, died Saturday in a local hospital following a lengthy illness.

A native Californian, born in Shingle Springs, she had lived in Hanford for 60 years. In 1953 she served as attendant to the first senior queen of the Homecoming celebration, Mary Shook. Mrs. Cody was a member of the Armona Seventh Day Adventist Church. ui ner Hanford; one sister, Mrs.

Marg; et Retherford of Bakersfield; thr grandchildren, and one gre grandchild. Graveside funeral services be held Tuesday morning at oclock in the Grangeville Cen tery where interment will folk under the direction of Peoph Funeral Chapel. Eugenio Briano Dies at Age 75 Eugenio Briano, 75, died Saturday in a local hospital. A native of Mexico, he had-lived in Hanford for the past 41 years. Briano is survived by 50 grandchildren and 46 great-grandchildren addition to his wife, four sons ansi six daughters.

Survivors in addition to his wife, Mrs. Nolberta Briano of Hanford are four sons, Trini C. Briano of Fresno, Daniel Briano of Santa Ana, Simon and Manuel Briano, both of Hanford; six daughters, Mrs. Issac Madina, Mrs. Albert Jaurez, Mrs.

Manuel Barragan Mrs. Felix Castro, and Mrs. John Ordonez, all of Hanford, and Mrs. Candelario Valasquez of Armona; and one sister, Mrs. L.

Florez of Mexico. Funeral services were held this afternoon in Peoples Funeral Chapel with Elder Samuel Castil-of Seventh Day Adventist Church officiating. Interment was in Hanford Cemetery. Herbert C. Craw Of Hanford Dies Herbert H.

Craw died Sunday morning in a Hanford hospital. A native of Oiicago, 111., he was employed by North American Aircraft until his retirement four years ago He recently moved to Hanford. Survivors include his wife, Mrs, Elizabeth Craw of Hanford; on son, Robert C. Craw of Inglewood; three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Dimmick of Hanford; Mrs.

Florence Stickney of Reseda and Mrs. Cristella G. Pinto of Anaheim; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon in the Chapel at Grandview Cemetery at Glendale where interment will follow.

Services will be under the direction of Peoples Funeral Chapel. Minnie Anderson Of Avenal, Dies Mrs. Minnie Anderson, of Avenal, died Friday evening in a Hanford hospital. She was 71. A native of Sweden, she had lived in Avenal since 1942.

She is survived by her husband, Gustaf, of Avenal; a brother, Anders Ny-sen, of Sweden. Funeral services were held this morning at Phipps Chapel, Lemoore, with the Rev, Joseph Trucks of the Avenal Assembly of Ged Church officiating. Interment was in Grangeville Cemetery. Kings River Stage FRESNO (UPI) River reports f' the past 24 hours; Kings River Inflow 389 second-t- Pine Biat Dam storage 980, 358 acre-feet; dam release 2,720 se-ond-feet; diversion below U.S. 99 1,690 second-feet.

4 Discoverer, Snared from Space, Flown to California HONOLULU lUPU A gold-plated Discoverer capsule snared in its descent from two days in space was flown to California today for analysis of its contents. The 300-pound capsule was caught by an Air Force plane GO miles northwest of here Sunday afternoon as it parachuted toward the Pacific after circling the earth at 18,000 miles an hour. The satellite, Discoverer XXVI, was launched Friday from Van-denberg Air Force Base, by scientists who hoped to see it PEERING at the sniooth nose and into the open cockpit ol an A4D Skyhawk, visiiors climb the steps to the viewing platform at the Lemoore NAS air show Saturday. A courteous Navy airman furnished answers promptly. This plane is to be the prime aircraft of some joo to be home ported at Lemoore.

It is the smallest, most economical high performance bomber in the Navy and is considered a strong deterrent to war. THRILLING THOUSANDS who came to see the new air base commissioned were planes of the daring Blue Angels. They swept by in close formation, wings overlapped by as much as 14 feet. Solo pilots provided breathtaking maneuvers loops, rolls, dives and 600-mile-an-hour turns. Acrobatics 25 to 50 feet above the runway brought the world of the Naval aviator close to base visitors.

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