The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • Page 39

12TH AND Simulated Strike is Part of Competition of American and British Air Forces. PUBLIC MISSES THE SHOW But Radar Trackers at Fairfax Airport Are Busy as Planes Approach. The iiitfrsection of Twelfth and Liberty street yesterday! Mas hypothetically blasted by Mmulated bombing strikes, conducted by the Air Force as part of its annual bombing competition. The high-flymg aircraft, B-36s, RB-47s (reconnaissance) and B-52s of the Strategic Air command and the Valiant and Vulcan of the British air force, scarcely attracted any public attention while over the city. Over Three Cities.

Flying unseen and unheard eight miles above the earth, the bombers loosed a simulated rain of death in starting' a 6-day exercise over Kansas: City. St. Louis and Atlanta. Eighty-six SAC and fuuri R. A.

F. crews, flying 10 iites apart and making mock: attacks singly, form a stream stretching over each! target city for seven and one-i half hours straight. The first aircraft to roar off! the Carswell Air Force base runway at Fort Worth, was a B-36. It hit Kansas City at 1:38 o'clock, roared over St. Louis at 2:56 and struck At-I lanta at 4:43.

Four other B-36s and fivei B-52s tested their eyes yesterday afternoon. Ten more simulated attacks will pelt the! three cities today. Their only bombs, of are radar beams aimed at des-. ON TARGET The simulated bombing by Air Force and British R. A.

F. aircraft of the intersection of Twelfth and Liberty streets is followed by John R. Davis, airman second class (seated), operator of the plotting board, and Donald Boggs, electronics specialist with the Reeves Instrument company, a subsidiary of the Dynamic Corporation of America. A line on the plotting board indicates the path of the bomber being tracked. Boggs is present at the site of the 5th detachment of the 10th radar bomb-scoring squadron at the Fairfax airport in Kansas City, Kansas, as a troubleshooter for the equipment, A 6-day competition between and British crews in pin-point bombing began yesterday.

So KANSAS CITY. KANSAS cie OPEN.HOUSE AT SCHOOL ABOUT 700 VIEW MARK TWAIN EXPANSION. PRANKS GO TOO FAR WOMAN TREATED ROUGHLY BY MASKED YOUTHS. Incident Prompts a Police Warning Against Lawless Halloween Activities. Halloween activities had gone beyond the fun stage last night in Kansas City, Kansas, and police said lawless acts would be dealt with severely.

Mrs. Alice Nichols, 1248 Homer avenue, reported she was treated violently by pranksters as she walked near Valley street and Pacific avenue. She said three masked youths approached her, announcing, or my arms were pinned from Mrs. Nichols related. boy pulled at my purse on my left arm, breaking the strap.

I told them they could come to the house for food. Then I screamed and they Three boys were picked up but Mrs. Nichols was unable to make identification. CLASSES BEGIN. A Start This Morning on Craft Series.

The first in a series of six special Thursday classes for Y. W. C. A. members is set for 9:30 this morning at 1109 North Seventh street, Kansas City, Kansas.

The making of Christmas candles will be explained. These two new fee classes open to the public are to begin next week: Monday frame makine John Ruesr. Wednesday (1.30 jpw- elry making (Mrs. J. I.

Stelzer. instructor). ignated Are Scored. London Heights Methodist church at a luncheon 5th detachment, 10th radar her home. bomb scormg tracked the approach from a open house will be spon- small, weather-worn building bv the L.

M. Alcott Rai the eastern edge of the Fair-ix a from 7 to 9 Fri- fax airport in Kansas November 8, at the Kansas. The technicians A social hour will fol lized a system of tracking radar, electronic computers and radio com- a minstrel show will be pre- munications equipment to by members of the Selow the planes and estimate toma class of the Central Mrs. Carl Lambert will be Facilities Include Auditorium, Kindergarten and Activities Room. the effectiveness of the hydrogen-bomb strikes.

In a snug, narrow room, compactly harboring electronic devices, 11 airmen huddled expectantly over the plotting board. A waving red line traced the course of a B-36. It fingered a course toward a large circle on the board in Christian church at 7:30 Saturday night in the church social hall. Miss Bonnie Ruddick will direct, Mrs. Paul Kasper' will direct the music and Miss Mildred Britton will be the accompanist.

TO HAVE TURKEY SHOOT. The club of the Bethel Seventy-seventh street, north of K-5, in Wyandotte County. The event is an annual one for the club, and will continue until dusk each day. SNOCS rofi TNC CNTmC FAMILY fi Groups of: Red Cross, Reg. to 13.95 Paramount, Reg.

to 17.95 which another circle had been etched The smaller circle church will spon- the target, a company. The red line zigzagged toward the edge of the outer circle, struck it and the radio receiver's crackle changed to a steady tone. The bomber was on the last leg of the run. Signal From Plane. Suddenly the metalic arm, scratching the line of flight on the plotting board, rose and ceased its action in response to a switch in the passing aircraft.

announced the bombardier, by radio. The activity in the small room intensified. Kenneth Stark, airman first class, Merricourt, N. the plotter, whipped a protractor on the board and calculated the point where the bomb would have struck. Capt.

Robert Toburen. of the 15th Air Force group; Maj. of the 2nd Air Force group, and Capt. R. Ward Allen of the 8th Air Force group, watched intently.

They represented the participating air groups. Data Are Checked. Dwayne Carlberg, airman second class, Duluth, began to check the computations with the aid of a thick book of mathematical data. His calculating machine whirred as he fed it information. Maj.

S. F. Mcllhaney, com mander of the 10th radar bomb-scoring squadron, and Capt. Gerald Dixon, who heads the 5ih detachment of the squadron headquartered at Fairfax, observed the bustle of activity. was a good a technician announced.

Quickly the plotting board was readied for the next run, as another bomber approached. British in Keen Bid. expect the British to give us a great deal of competition this Major Mc- Jlhaney said. is my understanding they have been preparing for this competition nearly all year. Electronics technicians, including Nicholas J.

Donelson of 7433 Main street, airman second class, stood by in event of an equipment failure. About 700 persons last night attended an open house at the remodeled and expanded Mark Twain elementary school, Twenty-third street and Minnesota avenue, Kansas Kansas. The $200,715 project, which includes a kindergarten, activities room and auditorium. OTHER KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, NEWS ON PAGE 6. was completed in 13 months.

The addition will be used for the first time today. The new addition is the second to the original brick structure, which was built in 1922, the first addition being built in 1930. A new heating plant has been installed and acoustical tile ceiling placed in corridors and classrooms. A library and room were added in the existing building. Use a Star Want Ad.

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Claudia, who was treated at the University of Kansas Medical center, suffered a bite on the calf of her right leg. The dog could not be found. THEFT FROM MOTOR CAR. Mrs. Ruth Latimer, 1210 Haskell avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, reported to police yesterday that her motor car had been broken into while parked at Wyandotte high school.

Miss Barbara Griffith, Mrs. granddaughter, who had been driving the vehicle, said a white sidewall tire, a hubcap and a wheel were missing from the trunk. largest piece of sheet glass is feet long, over 8 feet wide, inch thick, has a total surface of 538 square feet, and weighs 2,750 pounds. On the Fire Run. The Kansas City, Kansas, fire department reports: p.

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