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J Page Four THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON ,'V;i... ..i'" ii .a" (iWiKWirf'..i.i..Mi, Vymitj;!, ...y VXwSJswy' Thin la a tfrne atorv of the men who n In Btuu',-onrrj-Jus pmMensrra and canrn over the high lllmalaraa banveen India and China. 1'llott mil It Ian touvncal airllna ruule In tha vrvrld. OXYGEN ADDICT XVIII TTflTH every passing month the air transport traffic across the Himalayas made tremendous in creases in volume. This also meant increased Jap activity. Bomber and flghtet bases had been well established by the invaders by then, and Allied transports that risked the southern route at any time of day or night were almost bound to run a gauntlet ol at tacking Zeros that swept into the sky from a score ot hidden fields in ltpnr Burma. . Flying the northern route meant spending at least three out of every Ave hours of the average trip under oxygen, and while those masks are great things and have saved many a man's life, they have one strange little quirk that finally licked me completely. I didn't notice the subtle change coming over me, but Al Gingiss did. We got up from the break fast table at the cottage near Din jan one morning toward the end ot April and I immediately grabbed up my cap and flying jacket Fetach and Sklppy Lone and Robertson wore lolling back in their chairs lighting their after breakfast cigarets. Gingiss and I were tne only ones on our feet. "Come on, you bums!" I said. "Let's got cuttln'l" Robertson looked up, puzzled. 'What the hell is the rush? You got a date somewhere?" . I reached over and ruffled his hair, laughing and horsing around ' like a six-f oar-old. I felt like a million, lull ot energy and drive ana, it I had analyzed myself, of nerves. "You're gettin' old, kid," I said. "All ot you birds, Couurioht. 1945, you're gettln' soft. Come on, let's get cuttln'l" TJOBERTSON got up because it " was easier not to argue, and Skippy and Petach reluctantly left the table, too. We all plied into the station wagon and started off to the field. "You're getting nnts, Gen," Sklppy said as we drove along. "A bad case of ants. What's that babe doln' to you down there in Calcutta?" "It isn't a babe that's doing it," Gingiss said, "It's all this damned oxygen we re using. The stuff does something to you. . I feel just like Gen most of the time itching to get up there and got that old mask on again." I. started to deny that I felt that way, but I couldn't. I sud denly realized that what Gingiss said was absolutely true. It wasn't so much the flying that sent thrills through me anymore, it was that light and utterly carthless feeling that came with breathing oxygen that made me so anxious to get back In the air. 1 ho trip across that day wasn't difficult or exciting. It was a routine flight. We ran into snow an hour out ot Dlnjan, and be fore we had reached 20,000 feet we had had a 10-minutc battle with convcctlonal currents that forced us to fly at a 45 degree anglo to clear the ranges. We had run into a driving rainstorm and climbed up and over it into a 20-mlnute stretch of sleet. All thoso things were normal on the northern route but there was one thing about that flight that wasn't normal at nil. I felt as though I were no longer tho mas ter of myself or of my piano. The instant I put on my oxygen mask at 12,000 feet and took a long deep breath I knew that I hod lost 'a battle with on enemy I hodn't even known existed. I felt my entire body relax, tho J. C. Wftislon Co.; Distributed NEA tension that had filled me back at the cottage was gone, I wasn't restless, I was completely at ease. I was an oxygen addict, a TJVDR a week I fought with my self over that mysterious ad diction. I tried to limit the amount of the stuff I used. That only made it worse. Then fatigue would get to the point where I wasn't flying well, my mind would be slow and my reflexes sluggish. I would take the necessary amount then and try to be un mindful of the subtle pleasure It gave me. But it was a losing battle. . . ., , , . . ,., And then coming baclc from Kunming one day I developed violent stomach cramps and had to turn the controls ov'cr to my co-pilot for almost an hour of the trip. Not until we were down to 12,000 feet and I took off my mask did I find any relief; then. as we dropped lower, the cramps gradually disappeared and I took over the controls again. When we got into Dinjan I talked to Captain Woods about it, told him what had happened and how the oxygen had been affecting me lately. He nodded and said, "You're not the first one. Gen. So far as the oxygen is concerned you might be able to lick it by taking a rest for a while, but the cramps probably mean your pros tute gland is being affected. I don't know whether it's the oxy gen or the altitude that does that, but several boys have had to quit for the same reason." One of the Army doctors at the base verified what Woods had said and told me that sterility might result If the prostate trou ble continued. My agreement with C. N. A. C. had been to fly for them until June 15, which was still a month away, but I knew from tho experience I had had coming bock across the Hump that day that I was more of hazard to them at that point than en asset. Gingiss agreed with. me when we talked it over that night, and he decided to pull out, too. We wired Bond in Calcutta the next day, and five days later we flew our Inst frcignt. (To Be Continued) SERVICE, INC. Our Boarding House With Major Hoopl Out Our Way Rose Filet r . . By MRS. ANNE CABOT Dig roses in full bloom funn a bold design on a runner mensur- ing 2b by IS inches. The rose 'design is one of the easiest fur a filot beginner to crochet as tin "blocks and spaces" arc so eas ily counted. Make It In either white or ecru thread. To obtain completo crocheting instructions and (ilet chart for the rose runner (pattern No. 558-lj send 15 cenls in coin, plus 1 cent postage, your name, address and the pattern number In Anne Ca bot, l.a Grande Evening Observ er, 0!) Mission St., San Fran. Cisco, Calif. . Deeds Filed M. F. Wilkinson to Milo R. Woollum et ux, S'! of Lot 5, 'all of Lot 4, Blk. A, New Haven ad dition, Ln Grande city, 10. L. U. Noah ct ux to Nathan T. Gray ut ux, portion of SE1'4 of SEW, Sec. 32 Twp. 1 S., R. 40 E, $10. William W. Holden, by guard ian, to li. E. Shcnficld et ux, Lot 12, portion of Lot 11, all in Blk. 4, Ilrlsom's addition, La Grande city, $400. Gertrude Shroll ct ux to Wil liam B. Baxter et ux, Eli of Blk. 22, Swackhamer's addition, La GGrande city, $1 and other con siderations. Charley Ilibbert el ux to Grant W. Wildo et ux, portion of NWKi of SW'j, Sec. 2, Twp. 4 S., R. 39 E. $1 and other considerations. Harry G. Steele et ux to Lizzie Bushnell, Lois 4, 5, Blk. 30, Wil liamson's addition, La Giancle I city, $1 and other considerations. Myrtle Hill el al to Arthur G. Herrmann t UXi portion of Lot 4, Blk. C, Coggan's second addi tion, L Grande city, $10 and other (considerations. R. L. McLean ct al to Herbert Miller, E',i of E'i of Blk. 21), Swuckhimimer's Second addition, north Union, $!)(!(), ' Howard C. Smith et ux to Itur- I ry French et ux, Lot 7, Blk- (II, uiaplii. s addition, La Grande cUy, $11100. Pinafore Building Permits Herman lioeck, erect one-story frame building to be used as ga rage, on W'.ii of Lot 3, Blk. i)7, Chaplin's addition, $IiO. 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