Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 16

2-Uc 2)-Satesman, Salem, Friday, June 10, 1953 Long-Range Crewmen GM Walkout Not Expected DETROIT OTI The Detroit Jet Bomber Tough Task for Aerial Refueling draws it back as the jet lunges The tanker pilot holds his 83-ton plane as steady as human hands can. i The probing boom of the tanker hovers inches from the off-center trapdoor through which the jet gets its The bomber slides to of 300 miles away, then swing back up into Nebraska about ISO miles west of Lincoln. In this area you rendezvous with a B47. It will take on fuel your tanker. You could have met him 3.000 miles away over Canada.

South America or the middle of an ocean the Strategic Air a (SAC) has long The planes find each other through a combination of radio messages and radar. Everything on timej The 'graceful, wicked-looking 6-jet bomber begins to maneuver into position behind the tanker. It's tough. The bomber is so much faster than the tanker its pilot has to let down his flaps as brakes. Bay Window' Lying on his stomach in the rear of the' tanker, the boom operator peers intently through hu window" in the floor.

He watches the shark-nose of the jet inch toward his plane. As the B47 gets closer, the ac tion of the air currents becomes apparent. The boom sways gently from side to side. It can be moved through a quarter circle from front to back. It can be telescoped to 10 feet or extended to 20 feet by hydraulic pressure.

Any time the swaying, bobbing receiv er plane exceeds the limit the boom can travel, the fuel flow shuts off and the boom disconnects. The bomber is now within a doz en feet of the booms tip. The white-helmeted pilot's eyes can te seen clearly over his oxygen mask as he tickles the plane the last few feet. Voice Directions The quiet, sure voice of the boom operator prompts the jet's pilot Free Press said Thursday night there will be no major strike at General Motors. In a column called "A Look Be hind the UAW-Auto the Free Press said: "Don't get excited if strike talk mounts the next few days 'at the GM-UAW sessions.

There will be no major strike at General Motors. I There will be a settlement at GM. And probably before the end of the day next Monday." Portland Woman's Mate Knighted LONDON (UP) The English husband of a Portland, man was created a knight 1 by Queen Elizabeth Thursday in her annual birthday honors list. The Queen knighted Ivson Stevenson Macadam, director-general of the Royal Institute of International Affairs since 1946. Macadam became Sir Ivison and his wife, the former Caroline Ladd of Portland, became Lady Macadam.

They were married in 1934 and have two sons and two daughters. Lady Macadam" is the daughter of Portland businessman Elliott Cor-bett. PERILOUS FATHERHOOD LAKE ZURICH, m. I While Mrs. Harold Giese was being taken to the hospital delivery room wher she gave birth to a son, her husband fainted.

He struck his head on a tile floor, suffered a brain concussion and had to be hospitalized, too. The assistant boom operator notes the time. The boom; opera-' tor waits with hands on his controls, ready to move his boom away from the jet the second they disconnect. The flight engineer Is told to start fuel pumping into the! jet. It rushes through the boom and into thirsty tanks in the big bomber.

Over; the radio, the boom man calls out the position of the bcom to toe jet pilot "Boom 34 degrees. right 10 degrees, extended 14 feet." The three-man crew of the jet listens carefully. A mistake could wreck either plane. I The fuel pumps steadily into the jet I Clang, thud, the boom and plane separate. It was automatic.

The boom had disconnected itself. Again the planes come closer. Again they hook up. This time just for seconds. Then they connect again and the rest of the uel is transferred.

More practice runs are Take Tans I The pilots. Col. Don W.l Bailey, deputy; commander of the Bomb Wing; Capt. Delmont Allen and Capt. John Kelly-take turns making the hook-ups.

Sometimes they come right in, sometimes they're not so lucky. Finally the day's practice is over for the jet. He disconnects. Kays a polite "thank you." and in one tremendous swoop, is out of sight toward home base. The 3 crew has finished another mission thought impossible 10 years I ago.

They think more about a little rest, though, than any miracle. There will be i lot of thirsty B47s again' soon and it will be a good idea to get some well-earned sleep before then. i Phone 3-3191 i' 1 A the right, the boom quickly follows. Trap door and boom are in line. The boom operator, moves a The long pole extends.

Its nozzle hits the upturned cover of the door and slides in to connect with a startling kalank like two boxcars coupling. gasoline during a midair refueling (lower plane) hungrily gulps in WI7 W( mm Tup au feet, right four up three. left M. Somehow the 347 pilot also manages to watch a panel of red and green lights on the underside cf the tanker. They, too, guide him to 'a hook-up.

The boom operator is following the. jet First left, then right. He extends the boom, then quickly LINCOLN, Neb-A B47 Stratojet operation. 1S5 N. liberty ft u.

o. xjomners On Formosa TOKYO IT c. F84G fighter bombers designed to Carry atomic bombs and nwmrMl to fly "maximum effort missions" now are Dasea on Formosa, the IT Tr v. a. mr cast ait orces CUS- closed Thursday.

A "task force of th' Snnr. Thunderjets landed on the Nation- aiisi-neia isiana Wednesday from Okinawa, an Air Force an- nouncement said It said th nlinno Vi a nnMtkA. .4 jiuuij me iimiiucr was noi uis 1 a ciosea in minutes were capable of flying a maximum effort mis- aa nun. The F84G can carry an atom bomb a distance equal to that between New York and Moscow. It is designed for refueling in flizht.

Four of the Thunderjets set a new non-stoo record for jet inudii in Miiviraaua lair mnnrn a. a m. The announcement said the Thunderjets "will fly daily train- -t na wr aaaav aaj 111 av Ul mosa. It did not reveal how long the planes would remain on the Nationalist Chinese island bastion. In command of the Thunderjets is Lt.

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Neb. UP It's a fascinating, extremely delicate operation -to refuel a B47 jet bomber from a tanker plane. Accompanying one of the daylong missions flown regularly from Lincoln Air Force Bas teaches you that The biggest impression is one of wonder that it can be done at alL Jt's like trying to spear a cork, bobbing in a mountain stream, with a long piece of wire. The refueling operation has the added, risk of at least three lives and several million dollars worth of airplane. The best way to picture such a mission is to go on one.

I did. Here's what happened. You arrive at the bafe, eyes full ftf sleen. The seven-man crew, however, is wide-awake. They were t' ere two hours before, at 5 a.m., checking every inch of the plane.

Everything is up to snuff. You meet the crew. Young, full of Plane Crew i There's the commander of the KC97. Stanley M. Callan of Custer.

S.D. The co-pilot. 1st u. Csmpbell McPherson of St. Louis There's the navigator, 1st Lt Victor J.

Reirhart of New Ulm. Minn. he tells them where they're going. There's the flight engineer. T.

Sgt. Wallace E. Jones (Evansville, who faces a bewildering array of knobs, dials and switches that watch and control the plane's power, fuel, heat and at least a million other things There's the radioman, S. Sgt. James E.

Barga (Versailles, Ohio.) And finally the two refueling-boora operators. A. l.u Aiom iauk ifu Claire. Minn) and his as sistant. A.

l.C Joseph Harper (Vienna. W. They bold the key to the mission's success or failure. The captain explains the mission. He tells you what to do in -case of emergency.

Alter anomer check of the plane, you're off. Readesvoas Area You head for Garden City. Woman Held For Alabama Bank Robbery PORTLAND Ul A 46-year-old women accused of taking part in an $86,000 bank robbery at Jacksonville. last month was transferred to jail here Thursday with bond set at $50,000. w-m Jl A eaerai commissioner iwucn n.

Leedy scheduled a hearing Friday morning for the woman. Ellen M. Heyrend, alias Ellen M. Martin, who was arrested at Roseburg, earlier this week on a warrant from Alabama. i Joseph F.

Santoiana agent in charge of the FBI office here. said she is one ot seven persons suspected of taking part in the robbery. He said two persons were arrest ed at Clearwater. and an other at Las Vegas. June 1 and $36,600 in currency found in their possession.

He did not dis close the part the woman held here Is accused of playing in the robbery. Artz Expands Photo Print Department Expansion of the Artz Photography photofinishing department was announced this week by Owner M. A. Artz. who has recently completed installation of a completely au tomatic system of photo print developing, fixing, washing, drying and trimming.

Coupled, with two semi-automatic photo eye" printers, the" new equipment wui give me piani a 3,000 print-per-hour capacity, and will, according to Artz, provide better quality controls. Artz is planning an open house in the near future to demonstrate the automatic equipment first of its kind in the Salem area. Scholar Plans River Trip ST. LOUIS (UP) Todd Webb. 49, a Guggenheim fellow who is following the trail of the Forty Niners, prepared Thursday to mo tor up the Missouri River in his 16-foot river skiff, Lucille.

When he reaches Kansas City, he will set out on foot over the old Santa Fe Trail for California. Todd started his journey on foot from New York last April 11 and walked 370 miles to Pittsburgh where he took his boat down the Ohio River to Cairo, 111., and up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. Todd is backed by a $3600 fellowship that enables him to take pictures along the way to illustrate a book he plans to write about the Forty Niners. Get Up Nights? Backache? Lumbago, Leg Cramps? Puffy Eyes? USE SCHAEFER'S Diuretic Tonic Sold at Schsefer't Drag Only SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE Opei Dally 7:31 a.m.

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