f Pilot of Ill-fated B-36 Bomber
Tells Interesting Rescue Story
(Editor's Note: .Capt. Harold L. Barry, 30, of Hillsboro, 111.,
pilot of the Ill-fated B-36 which crashed off the northern
British Columbia coast around Monday midnight after the
M men aboard had parachuted, was one of 10 survivors to
reach McChord air force base. Following is his story),
By CAPT. HAROLD L. BARKY
McChord Air Force Base, Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 17 (Pi When
we started to lose altitude at ardund 15,000 feet, I told the radar
operator to direct us over land.
We dropped to 5,000 feet in 10 minutes.
I set it on the automatic pilot and we bailed out in only 10 to
15 seconds. I was the last t(
leave the plane. It kept flying
on beyond us after we left the
ship. t
I landed in a little lake on
Princess Royal Island. It was
covered with slush and ice. I
came up pretty good, then waded
through the water, dragging my
parachute behind me. That got
the chute wet, and it didn't do
me any good that first night.
I tried to start a fire but it
was raining in torrents and the
wood was wet. It wouldn't
start.
Early Tuesday morning I
started off for the coast. I saw
a ground squirrel and shot at
it a couple of times with my,
.38 service revolver, but I didn't
hit it.
, Then I heard Whitfield (First
,j)Lieut. Raymond P. Whitfield,
'Jr., 25, of San Antonio, Tex.)
blowing his whistle. He was
. about a mile away. It was about
noon. He was the first of the
crew that I saw. The island
was hilly and brush-covered and
it was hard to make progress.
, Whitfield and I could only
make about a half a mile per
hour on foot.
Then we heard SSgt. Vitale
Trippodi (of Brooklyn, N.Y.)
yelling for help.
He was hung up in his chute
on a tree and had been there
all night. It took all our ef
forts to bring him down. He
was in pretty bad shape. We
did everything we could to make
him comfortable, and made him
a sort of bed out of pine boughs,
after we'd cut him down from
the tree and moved him down
from the cliff where the tree
was.
Later the Canadian Destroyer
Cayuga sent in 25 men to pick
him up and search for the
others.
Meanwhile, however, Whit
field and I scrambled down to
the beach, where we stamped
out an SOS in the snow. Then
we waited for the others, who
showed up shortly.
A little while later the fishing
boat picked us up.
We were all anxious that our
wives and families know we
survived okay.
How Is Farmer Going to
Make His Wheat Land Pay?
By OVID A. MARTIN
Washington, Feb. 17 VP) What is to be done with upwards
of 20,000,000 acres of wheat land which soon will no longer
be needed to produce the nation's No. 1 food grain?
This is a perplexing problem facing both wheat farmers and
the government. Declining export markets for wheat threaten
a new wheat surplus unless pro-.
duction is reduced or new out
lets for wheat are found.
The final solution will have
far-reaching effects on economic
welfare of wheat growers as
well as upon tax burdens and
food supplies for the general
public.
At the moment the govern
ment Is headed in the direction
of rigid controls designed to
force farmers to limit wheat
plantings to levels which would
produce only that amount of
wheat needed for the nation's
food and for whatever export
markets exist.
But ' such a program (foes not
settle the question of what the
farmer should do with the mil
lions of acres which he would be
required to take out of wheat.
Study Given
To Oil Merger
companies, Wright said, it will
be submitted to the boards of
directors of each and later to the
stockholders.
Floyd B. Odium, president of
Atlas corporation and Wright
announced the consummation of
Los Angeles, Feb. 17 Ml line sale of Barnsdali stock Od
Plans for a merger of Sunrayjlum, George H. Howard, L Boyd
Oil corporation and Barnsdali Hatch, and Oswald L. Johnston
Oil company are being studied, thereupon stepped out as direc
according to C. H. Wright newly tors of Barnsdali. Their places
elected chairman of Barnsdali
Wright made this announce
ment Thursday following con
summation of a purchase of At
las corporation's 800 000 shares
of Barnsdali Oil by Sunray.
Wright also stated that Barns
dali was discontinuing its prev
ious policy of purchasing sub
stantial amounts of its own stock.
In event a plan is drawn for
union of the business of the two
were taken by Wright, Glenn J.
Smith, L. W. Bennett and Ed
ward Howell. Wright was
elected chairman of Barnsdali
to succeed Odium.
Amity The Amity grade
school held its March of Dimes
assembly and turned over a
check for $75 to Bernard Kes
ter, the Amity chairman for the
drive.
Lebanon Orchestra
Plans First Concert
Lebanon The newly organiz
ed civic band of 30 pieces under
the baton of Vinton Snyder, will
be heard in their initial concert
Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock
in the little theater of the Leba
non high school. The concert is
open to the public, without
charge.
Following their Monday night
appearance, the musicians are
booked for several concert, ra
dio and entertainment appear
ances during me spring momns.
They have been in rehearsal
since early winter.
The group was a direct result
of a Junior Chamber of Com-
Capifal Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, February 17, 19503
merce project to inject music
into local civic agenda.
Next appearance of the band
is slated at the Park theater
where they will furnish music
for the Jaycee burlesque show,
Feb. 22 and 23.
Turner Is Injured
In Fall at Home
Dallas R. R. Turner, book
stare owner and former super
intendent of schools in Dallas for
20 years, is recovering at his
home from a fractured pelvis.
His condition fs fair, but a com
plete rest of several weeks 'in
bed is necessary for his recov
ery, according to his physician.
Turner, who is 74 years ofj
age, suffered a fall in his home
Might Destroy World
In Less Than Minute
Ottawa, Feb. 17 (UB Explo
sion of the first hydrogen bomb
might cause the world and all
in it to disintegrate in less than
a minute, Dr. Allan Munn, one
of Canada's foremost physicists,
said today.
The super bomb, if big enough,
could set off a chain of reaction
that would encircle the globe and
annihilate It, Munn said In an
interview.
Marine Duty Sgt Clyde
V. Brummell of 1110 South
17th street, who has been ap
pointed as a volunteer Marine
corps recruiting non-commissioned
officer for Salem and
is stationed at he Naval and
Marine corps reserve training
center.
Eighty-Third Date
Of Birth Celebrated
Unionvale Honoring their
mother, Mrs. Mary E. Shelburne,
who was 83 years of age Wednes
day. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Shel
burne and family entertained
with a birthday dinner at their
home Wednesday evening. Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Harness of La
fayette, Mr. and Mrs. John
Clow and four children of Un
ionvale' attended.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shelburne
of Unity called at her home in
the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Er
nest Shelburne and two daugh
ters of Happy Valley, beyond Mc
Minnville, called at her home
Sunday afternoon.
Troop Holds Party
Willamina Girl Scout troop
1, north side, had a Valentine
party at the home of their lead
er, Mrs. Otto Him. Games were
played and refreshments of
popcorn and koolaid served.
After all, the farmer has mon
ey invested in his land. He must
In many cases meet mortgage
payments on it and pay taxes on
It. He needs income from it.
It has been suggested that
farmers put some of the excess
wheat land in to grass to pas
ture livestock. But in many
wheat areas this is not practica
ble because of excessive temper
atures and lack of rainfall dur
ing the summer.
The suggestion is being made
by some farm leaders both in'
side and outside government that
federal control programs per
mit farmers to use the so-called
excess wheat acres to produce
wheat for livestock feed.
Under such a plan, each far
mer would be given a produc
tion or marketing allotment for
wheat for sale as human food
He would be free to plant addi
tional acres of wheat for live
stock feed. The price for wheat
for human food would be sup
ported at rates about 30 per
cent higher than the wheat
grown for livestock feed.
Advocates of this plan con
tend it would encourage great
er production of meat animals,
particularly cattle and hogs.
Poth the wheat farmer and the
consumer would benefit, they
say the producer through
supplemental income from
wheat grown for feed and the
consumer through increased sup
plies of beef and pork.
Studies show that wheat is
good feed when fed in suitable
quantities. Pound for pound, it
is as good or better than corn
for fattening cattle and hogs
and pountry, but not quite so
good for fattening lambs.
Studies made by the agricul
tural department in cooperation
with the Kansas state agricul
tural experiment station show
that if wheat farmers themselves
fed the extra wheat to livestock
there would be little danger of
adding to feed grain surpluses
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days later revealed the fracture.
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