The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 22

Pang 22 The Kooxvillt News-Sentinel Thurs March 20 1958 By Nadine Seltzer SWEETIE PIE Muskie To Run for Senate Seat Japan Has More Jets Than Qualified Pilots Dr Woods at Clinic A Knoxville dentist Dr Solon Woods will be practicing or three days a at the Clear Fork Dental Clinic in Claiborne County according to Dr Alex Shipley regional direc tor of the State Health Depart ment Dr Woods was to start at the clinic today Dr Shipley said of or 18 is consumed in basic training during Which thf prospective pilot does not see a plane Only after he has become an officer do the Japanese learn whether he can also fly Thus the heaviest percentage of washouts conics after 20 months The Americans say this is wasteful They want to reverse things determine whether a man can fly before training him to be an officer MIL HAPPY BIRTHDAY! pilots than planes Instead gap js widening "It was a good plan on paper said a US air force staff officer here "But it didn't work We were too starry-eyed The Japanese sat out 10 vital years during which jets came into being You can't catapult a nation into the jet age" Records Cited The Japanese bl ame their troubles partly on the fact that training is in English They say hundreds of otherwise qualified pilots fail for that reason Their American trainers say this isn't so They cite records to show only six out of 100 failures stem from the language problem The Americans blame the Japanese pilot selection procedures which they say are "hopelessly archaic" The pilot of a jet fighter is subject to almost superhuman tensions They say the Japanese use no psychological tests in picking their men As a result men break under the strain of training To correct this a Japanese medical team is now in the US to study our testing methods Would Revise American advisory officers however reserve their sharpest criticism for the training program itself In the Japanese air force this takes 36 months Half the 4 AUGUSTA Maine March 20 Edmund Muskie first Democratic governor since the 1930s said yesterday he will run for the United States Senate His announee-ment made probability a Septe election battle ST- for that office such as traditionally Repub-llcan Maine has not seen for a Two popular men are in- Gov Muskie volved Muskie won handily his first election as Governor in 1954 and was re-elected in 1956 by the largest vote ever given a Maine governor On the Republican side the only candidate thus far is Sen Frederick Payne Political observers see little likelihood that either Muskie or Payne will be opposed in this June 16 primary By JIM LG CAS Staff Writer TOKYO March Japan today has more than three times as many US-supplied jet fighter planes as she has qualified jet pilots Congress recently had a glimpse of this snafu when Comptroller General Joseph Campbell informed the House Foreign Affairs Committee we had given the Japanese an excess number of F-86 Sabre jets over Japan's supply of pilots The Pentagon however quickly assured the committee that this resulted from an unfortunate in the Japanese pilot training a fluke that already had been and by the end of the year the program would be back on schedule 3 of 4 Wash Out US Air Force officers training the and I have talked to a number of say the facts are these: 1 Japan has 239 US F-86 Sabre jets 2 She receives eight more every month from the Mitsubishi aircraft plant in Japan where they are built under patent from North American Aviation To man them Japan has 70 qualified Sabre jet pilots 4 She has an additional 440 trainees in the pipeline on the basis of past 330 of these will not finish Three out or four Japanese aviation cabets are washed out somewhere along the line Of the 70 qualified pilots 47 have had to be reassigned to the training command as instructors The remaining 23 are with a fighter wing at Chitose Hokkaido facing Russian-held Sag-halien These 23 make up the only combat-ready a i force Japan could muster in an emergency Sat Out 10 Year This situation is not the result of an unforeseen in the training program or from a fluke that can soon be corrected If the program actually could be held to schedule by the end of the year there should be more and ice the cake with TEN-X POWDERED SUGAR "I'm looking for coconuts!" 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