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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1950)
V Correspondent Finds Routine Bomber Flight Plenty Exciting (Editor's Note B-26 bombers are taking a large and haz ardous share of the air war in Korea. United Press Staff Correspondent Glenn A. Stackhouse went along on a night combat mission along the Manchurian border. In the follow ing dispatch he describes what for the B-26 pilots but not for him was "routine flight.") By GLENN A. STACKHOUSE U. S. Air Base, Southern Japan, Dec. 13 (U When a B-26 fighter-bomber goes howling down between a couple of moun tains on a pitch-black Korean night, it is like stepping off the Empire State building at midnight. Once you are on your way it is too 'late to change your mind. "Sure" said Col. Virge L. Zol- lcr, 3rd bomb wing commander. when I asked to go along on a night ride. "I'll fly you myself. You can ride the co-pilot's seat." I squeezed with the rest of the crew into the undersized cockpit, before I knew we were heading for that hot little section of frozen north'vest Korea from Sinuiju and ,.e Yalu river south to Chongchon. Lately it has been the No. 1 spot for the enemy's Russian-built MIG-15 jets. Zoller,, a husky, balding, 36-year-old West Pointer from Har Wlingen, Tex., pointed to a gadget f overhead. "If we have to bail out pull i. this one and the canopy will fly off," he said. "Just slide off the wing and you're on your own. I'll be right behind you." The "Black Magic" took off like a startled duck. Two hours and 30 minutes later we were heading north between Pyong yang and Chinnampo. The sun still was fairly high and visibil ity was good. We dropped to below 1,000 feet and went sweeping up twisting dirt road, standing first on one wing tip and then the other. The B-26 boys fly their bombers like a bunch of frustrat ed jet pilots A sleepy-looking Korean vil lage loomed up ahead. Our guns snapped and yam mered as we went in a tree-top level and a stream of tracers arched up at us from the left. A well-hidden Chinese had open ed up on us with a machine gun. It was almost dark when the colonel said, "That's the Yalu Right in front of us was broad, ice-covered river. I better swing around or we'll find ourselves on the wrong side," he said. If it hadn t been for the closed canopy I could have spat into Manchuria as he banked to the west and headed toward the coast. About three miles from Sinui Ju, the bombardier called from x his seat in the nose. "That looks t-like a military installation of ,' some kind." It was a good-sized cluster of long, barracks-type buildings around a bigger structure that appeared to be a facta? of some sort. Smoke was coming from the chimney. There were plenty ol people there all right. Zoller went down on the place a dive. The building loomed large and close when he opened up with .50's and unleashed couple of rockets. They exploded in a cluster of Orange fire. -The armor-pierc ing .50s laced into the build ings. LEGAL January January January January January January -JanuAy January . January January NOTICE OF BOND SALE Soad bids will be received hv th nn designed until the hour of 7:30 o'clock P.m., on the 8th day of January, 1951 and immediately thereafter opened by the Com mon Council of the City of Salem, Oregon, in the council chamber, city hall, for the sale of City of Salem Improve ment Bonds In thu amount nf KtvMv. five Thousand, Oeven Hundred Twenty-three Dollar and Elshtr-four Cents (S83.733.84) Issued nunuint tti th lawj of the State of Oreton and Ordin ance No. 4234 of the City of Salem, and described u follows: City of Salem Improvement Bonds. Is sue 1951-A, belnir bonds Issued pursuant to the Bancroft Bonding Act, In denomina tions of 81,000.00 each, except bond num ber one which shall be for the sum of 1723.84, is id bonds to be dated January 1, 1931 and to mature In annual Installments as follows: 1. 1953 S8.133.84 1,. 1953 18,000.00 1, 1954 S8.000.00 1, 1935 18,000.00 1, 1958 S8.000.OO 1, 1937 89.000.00 1. 1938 S9.000.00 1, 1959 ... .19000.00 1, 1980 S9.000.00 1. 1981 19.000.00 provided, however, that the City of Salem shall have, the option to redeem said bonds. In numerical order, upon the pay ment of the face value thereof with ac crued Interest on any Interest paying- date at or after three years from the date said bonds are Issued. Both principal and In terest shall be payable at the office of the city treasurer of the City of Salem. Each bidder should name the rate or rates of interest at which the bidder Is willing to accept the bonds. The bonds will bear the rate or rates of Interest, not exceeding! three per cent per annum, designated In the bid accepted. Said bonds will be sold for not less than par and acrued Interest. Each bid, except bids submitted by the State of Oregon, or any sinking fund of the City of Salem, must be accompanied by a certified check for two per cent of the par value of the bonds, made payable to the City as a guarantee of good faith. Bids submitted by mall should be ad dressed to the undersigned at the city hall In Salem, Oregon. The bidder will be required to add to his bid a statement of the net cost to the City If his bid is accepted. The rijrht Is reserved by the common council to accept any bid or to reject all bids in the Interest of the City. The prior legal approvintc opinion of Messr. winlfree. Mcculloch. Shuler to Sayre will be furnished the successful bidder. ALFRED MUNDT City Recorder Salem, Oregon Dec. 13, 30, 37 Then down we went again i with the .50s and rockets racing ahead of us, and as we passed; over the target I could hear the faint "crump" of the exploding bombs As we pulled away we could see a cloud of dirt erupting and the start of a first-class fire. It was pitch dark in a few minutes, but the colonel wasn't through. He gave the town of Charywong a strafing from end to end and then he spotted a camp fire flickering in the dark ness in a nest of hills. That was the one that sold me on life in the ground forces. The B-26 went down into a black void that was like diving into a tube of ink. My eyes felt like they were hanging out on my cheeks but the colonel was gazing serenely through his gunsights as if he was watching a slightly boring movie. Our rain of destruction practically smothered the cam fire, and from the fringe of the target you could see the winking different-colored lights. It was from the muzzles of small arms, as the surprised com munists fired back at us. On the second pass the colonel pressed his trigger button and nothing happened. That broke his com posure. "Oh, for sake!" he howl ed. "My guns are empty." Back at the base, after hours in the air, the colonel made his report to the intelligence of ficer: "Pretty routine mission. Noth ing much happened." Loretta Young Picks 12 I Best Dressed Film Men By BOB THOMAS Hollywood, Dec. 13 Uft This seems to be the season for 10-bcst lists, so let's have Loretta Young choose Hollywood's best-dressed men. Miss Young seems well qualified to make the selection. She is considered by many to be Hollywood's best-dressed gal. Being a pillar of filmtown society, shef- sees the movie men in their best (and worst) finery at parties and dinners. What's more, she seemed en tirely willing to go out on a limb. . "I may get a lot of men mad at me for leaving them out," she remarked, "but I'll take the chance." It turned out that she named a round dozen. Here they are, not in order of preference: 1. William Boyd. "I pick him not because he has influenced the dress of more young men than any style-setter in history but because he is very well dressed himself. When he is out at private affairs, he is smart and conservative, with nary a high heel or Hoppy button." . 2. Ray Milland. "He is ele gant. If he is at dinner, he wears a dinner jacket; if at a family affair, a dark blue suit. If I saw him in densest Africa, I would expect to see him wearing mess jacket." 3. Ezio Pinza. "Because he made my stepfather sit up and take notice and now he is one of the best-dressed men in our family." TURKEYS FRESH KILLED SAVING CENTER STORES "A BIRD FOR , EVERY POCKETBOOK' 3390 Portland Road and S3S Edgewater, West Salem 4. Robert Taylor. "He dresses with care. He is the only man I know who can wear a smoking jacket at home and not seem em barrassed. Most men apologize for it." 5. Joseph C o t t e n. "The Princeton type conservative but smart. He looks as though he smells good." 6. Ricardo Montalban. "I pick him not because he is my brother-in-law, but because he is always spic-and-span and looks graceful. I don't know whether it s because of his tailor or his own natural rhythm, but he al ways seems fluid in his clothes." 8. Robert Mitchum. "On the occasions I've seen him on the set or at a party he always dominates his clothes. He wears them; they don't wear him. He usually wears a dark blue suit and a man can never look wrong in one. 9. Barry Sullivan. "He has a fine physique and he doesn't ruin it by padding his shoulders." 10. Fred Astaire. "He is pre cise, neat and truly natty, in the best sense of the word. He is a New Yorker with an exclama tion mark." II. Clark Gable. "He wears casual clothes casually. And don't forget what he did to the turtle-neck sweater." 12. Van Johnson. "I pick him because the way he dresses is not only fun for him, but for all those who see him. 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