The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • 34

1 vr TT isa- 'r i i I- 1 i j-'' V-- Report ori-TV Reporter's Corner Vi IZC Tbb VTIchHa Ecgb Jdr IMS 'f 4 Cub Scouts iX V- Best Wading in World' Attracts Tourists -4 OS 'vr'V 'V' bar stock Wills suggested that a ltfTig be used to eliminate the entire machining operation cad yj nring Iwwfrnwm 4 steel a cadmium plating operation ii rwiiw bo eliminated A number of locks are used on each plane' Since the cost of the Improved part wlU he only about one-third of the original the total savings wUl mount rapidly The award was presented by Lieut CoL Frank Koch deputy air farce plant representative at Boetng lt Is the third award to be made far suggestions made by employes at the air force office this year Wills lives at 7 Laurel drive -l 4 4 A modem mechanical loading machine can scoop up 12 tans of day night youU have to wait until next fen because last Monday evening was the final show for the summer Lucille Ball end Desi Araas are off on vacation and the next series slated for TV fffMM liwtn fall- 11 i According to a note in the Hutchinson News-Herald this week that "Lucy" slot is to be filled with a -thriller called "Racket Squad" scheduled for 7 pm next Monday The Herald said the station's promotional manager Bin Ritchie explained that lfKTVH: would and you boys have in this way lelped a great many people to more comfortable and to get the care they need Then they are "My congratulations and thanVe to each of you" £100000 Saved By Suggestion A check for $275 was awarded Wednesday to George Wills civilian employe in the office of the air force plant representative at Boeing Airplane company far suggesting an improvement on an assembly used In the B-47 Strato-Jet An estimated saving of $100000 Is expected to result from a new design far a camera door lock on the reconnaissance version of the B-47 which Wills suggested The original door lock on the plane required out of have been on the air one week earlier: they could have carried LocilleBaini final program last Monday i coal ln 2 minutes which Is more than a miner in the old -days hand-loaded In an entire shift By BIADISON WEST Thcre a' spot in southern Colorado where the population drives from 80 to 50 miles or more to go wading And its perhaps the best wading in the world We1 stumbled onto ell this during a quick motor trip along 8 highway 160 west of Fort Garland and Blanca one fine Sunday summer morning It quite noon had a late breakfast and the sign just said "Great Sand Dunes" looked off to the north where the dune tips loom a dull cream yellow against the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range "Cant be too far" I said naively drive over Mustnt mr national )lhl this when we're so dose" We turned north off 8 160 onto an ordinary graded road That dldnt last long The road dwindled out at spots into the rocklegt one-way trail it had been our lot to drive Andit bumped and jolted us across more than 25 miles of flat sandy' sage-brushed country to the door of the ranger station "YouU enjoy it" said the tan hundcnma ex-school teacher from Taos He liked It he said Got himself a school to teach "up Medano to wade end to watch the day of the sun and shadows on he As the ranger had predicted like it tod" Soldier's Funeral Services Arranged Funeral services for Pvt Jacob hkelaar 18 route 7 Wichita will held Saturday at 3 pm' at lyrd 8nodgrass funeral home He died Friday in Yakima Wash after suffering Injuries in a truck accident while on army maneuver! Rev Don Shannon of the Evangelical United Brethem church Maize Kan win officiate at the services Burial will be hr Wichita Park cemetery Graveside services win be conduced by the VFW Over There Post No 112 Total Exports Climb to New Peak NEW YORK July 9-Total exports of United States merchandise augmented by sharply Increased military-aid shipments climbed to a new record of $15-200000000 hr 1952 General Imports totaled $10700000000 somewhat below the all-time high set In 1951 Four Cub Scouts from Den 4 Pack 404 this week contributed five dollars and a big morale boost to the Wesley hospital building fund Accompanying the check which was addressed to Harry Corbin Jr chairman of the fund drive a letter from Mrs' James Hamilton den mother She wrote: Mr My Cub Scout den decided on the Wesley hospital fund for their service project during back yard camp week The cubs saved waste -papers at home and one morning dining the camp we collected and sold papers "They made five dollars from their sale and it Is their wish to contribute this to the Wesley hospital fund "They are so proud of their small part" To the four boys Roger Kersey of 321 South Lorraine Teddy Frieze of 230 South Estelle Dickie Dague of 330 South Green and Jimmy Hamilton of 600 South Hillside Corbin wrote- telling i after 40" we were there You could wiggle your feet downward 'to coolness and relief And we thought xe should have carried our shoes ro6S to the dunes as did so many But you have ta wade to reach the end there hat you And the best wading in the world More adults and children spend he hours of the afternoon there In the shallow Medano creek than spend those hours wandering over the dunes themselves The sight Is maglnlflcent but the water rushing over the sands here at the edge of the dunes ief are it disappears completely into then a few miles westward moqe superb It Is shallow an Inch above a all ankle bone at deepest In spots It meanders slowly At others It rushes with ripples down to its Meath in the Mg sands look down at It" their mother warned "You win fan1 But the blonde-haired boy of four forgot He looked down watched with awe and he fell as the Illusion caused him to lose his balance First he was mad for fear of reprimand and then joining In the joke he was pleased For the sand 1s firm endlessly washed clean and the best wading in the world and the water was just mildly cooL AU afternoon cars from Alamosa county came driving In bringing children to wade and play in the shallow water rippling over the glistening sands Grown-ups are entranced too They parade across to the dunes but the heat and the abrupt uphill hiking stymies most of them And they walk back to the shallow NOW FEELS YEARS YOUNGER Daily Record Marriage Applications Bffljr In Herndon sad Josaae ingulf ht both oX Wichita Kenneth Weber Appleton WU sad Teresa If Martin Wichita Oreenleat and Mabel Orecaleaf both of -Wichita Junes A Bhlrerly Kingsville Tsaa and BhaiUya A Clegs Wlcatta Thurston Zoe eaUna KaaJ and Madeline Talbott Wlchltiu wPol JB Cook Wichita and Margaret Tates Hutchinson Kan A Ros Grace Dap both of Wichita -tMUe Weddle and Jane Mcncfse both of Wichita i Troy LTurner and Betty Padsett both of Wichita -David -Bldeler Parks Ark-Shirley Pltchford Wichita Vernon Median and Pamela Best both of Wichita Divorces Granted Drew Zimmerman from Prances Zimmerman William Randag from Charlotte 65tn-u All BOCKUM Drugstores Cetwr vfafetaEta yootfc'todr mini torimi HOTS: To Itn ntto titdm a complete pic two of tho teloTtslen pnspicti for this irth Ibis Nklr report oa telerlxloo bu been compiled la conjunction with the Wichita Appliance Dealers association Delay -in airing the first pn- grama on Wichita's UHF television station win in the long run be to the benefit of the televiewers1 Although iffiHnawMHiwg baa been Shoved ahead a few days when these first UHF plays hit the air they wffl have' been thoroughly tested by RCAY top engineers and television experts The antenna is stm in the factory at Camden and since It is one of the first channel 16 antennas to be manufactured by RCA they want it to be perfect For this reason RCA wUl not release the antenna until it has undergone extensive teats and passes their rigid requirements for UHF antennas Officials at the station have already announced that everything is ready to go and with the arrival of the antenna the station wUl go on the air RCA has manufactured other UHF equipment but the channel 16 antenna to be Installed here in Wichita la thought to be the first of its kind to go into operation KTVH Is reaching to western Kansas and giving good re ception according to a report this week from Phillips of Lakln Kan Phillips says that hisTV sales store has been receiving the Hutchinson station for the past week and it has been fairly good lakln Is lSO miles from the KTVH transmitter He also teported that he lias picked up KFDA-TV in Amarillo Tex but his reception was thought to be of a freak nature and wouldn't guarantee Lakln residents that they could count on seeing Amarillo programs One Wichita family picked up Baltimore Md on their TV set the morning of the Fourth of July and apparently was another skip caused by freak weather conditions since some local television sets have picked up stations on the west coast If you've been waiting for "I Love Lucy" which was scheduled for showing over KTVH next Mon- them he had received their check and adding: "The money is needed badly At Drxg SUree mfrelen-h WleMtx Seif Servies iU Vilgnra'i Divorce Petitions Filed Thelma MUtapauch va Howard 8-MUlepaugh married April 11 lltt at Wichita Extreme cruelty and pwi neg- i Lole ML Btacev vs Lester Btaeey married Aug 13 1831 at Bentonvllle Ark -Oroes aegleet Mina Jean Gossett vs Richard Thomas OoBMtt Married Bept 3 1847 at Wichita Abandonment Andrea Scott vs James Beott Mar here In the San Luis valley" and took a summer job as 8 forest ranger at the dunes The dunes grow on you as you get closer They loom 600 feet above the valley floor sand yellow and blue and purple shadowed according to the time of day and the sun For 10 miles they stretch against the base of the Sangre de Cristas just there billions and billions and billions of grains of sands were dropped by winds whistling upward from the south In their attempt to escape over the mountain range to the north The dunes are wonderful rolling and pocked by the wind suffocating tree life on the north where they cover it Human figures wandering over their face seem Illustrative of some of efforts to understand the life he tiny figures lost In a great expanse of nothingness And the sand Is burning hot on top where the sun flames down on It all day long It had rained the night before ried March 23 1833 at Rockwell Texas rose neglect and extreme cruelty James Smith va Vera Smith Married Bent 8 1843 st Wichita Orou neglect and extreme cruelty Pearl Bowl va Oscar Bowla Mar- SWWW vm VSbei Vi OWlSi SOUTHWESTERN riod in January 1851 at Wichita Oroes uerlect Mary 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