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After 38 Years in Air Veteran Pilot To Make Auto Tour Miami (U.R) A veteran of 38 years in the air, just "grounded" after reaching the pilot age limit of 60, said he was going to start keeping his feet on the ground. "I've been around the world a bit," said Capt. George E. Ru mill, "but there's a lot of our own country I want to see from theQground." Rumill, who began flying with the U. S. Navy m 1917, closed his logbook in September after 24,000 hours - aloft and more than 4,000,000 miles of air travel. "To start off my life on the ground," the grey-haired veter an said, "my wife and I are go ing on an auto tour of the United States." Holder of one of the oldest Civil Aeronautics licenses in the country, No. 264, Rumill began his flying career at the offset of World War I. Then a student at the University of Maine near his hometown of Mt. Desert, Rumill enlisted in the Navy, winning his wings and ensign's bars at Pensacola, Fla. During the war. he taxied a creaky, little 30-horsepower barnstorming crate, flying North Sea anti-submarine patrols out of Britain. "We called our flying 'bomb ing missions' in those days," Rumill said, "but I doubt if we could properly use the term to day." After World War I, Rumill kept up with what he terms his "dual life." He remained a flier, but combined the air work with life on the sea. Two Mora Wars He was one of the first crew members who made , the 1921 first overwater flights across the Caribbean to Panama. He shipped out as a . quartermaster for a Latin American concern, he was a test pilot and then shipped out in the 1923 Cleveland Mu seum expedition to Africa and the Cape Verde Islands. "After two years of traveling so much," the airman said, "I took a trip. I flew to France." Returning to the United States in the mid-1920's, the rugged pilot barnstormed to Florida area in the "boom days," helped found the Rogers Air line here and in New York, did a flying stint in Cuba, flew a Pan-Amer-ian run over China for two years, a South American cruise for four years,, and finally "set tled down" in 1939, piloting a big flying boat from Miami to the West Indies. "I was going to start relaxing a bit," Rumill said, "but then World War II came along." During the war, Rumill was one of the lead pilots who flew "Cannonball" the air supply route across the South Atlantic S Africa and the Middle East. Back in Miami flying for PAA, Rumill volunteered to .fly the Korean airlift during hostilities in the Far East. After the Korean fighting, he again flew for Pan-Am out of Miami until he reached his 60th birthday. "I've never been bored," Rum ill commented. "And rnat's the understate ment of the year," chimed in his wife. The Sahara desert has sand dunes as high as 600 feet. 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With time on their hands (and stars, naturally, in their eyes), the as tronomers began tampering. They decided to trim the second. Cut it down to size. "Now, you'd think, if anybody was going to monkey with a unit of time, he'd do just the opposite. Pad it out. Stretch it. Give it a little girth so that harried hu manity could move around in it a little more freely give us room to swing a flea, or some thing,, around. If it's a hardtop, Pontiac has it for 56 . . ." with Two door and Four-door Catalinas in all three series!, And if you like your glamour in great big pack ages, prepare to lose your heart to Pontiac's all-new Four-door Catalinas hardtop styling at its low, wide and handsome best ... in three models, three price ranges and two wheelbases. Pick your own particular spot in the rainbow and it's yours in one of Pontiac's 56 solid or .Vogue Astronomers Healthy Cut But what did these boys do? They lopped .0000018 per cent off the second. This thing that they did was done to a vehicle that already was stuffed nigh to busting with time -saving schemes. Now that it's going to be shrunk look out, chaos, or worse, looms. The announcement from Dub lin said the time surgery ,was performed by the ninth assem bly of the International Astro nomical Union. H. M. Smith, of the British Royal Greenwich Ob servatory staff, said in making the announcement that the sec ond from now on will be calcu lated as a fraction of a year. Up to now, it's been figured as a fraction of the mean solar day. But it wasn't uniform in length that way. Too much vari ation. Anything reckoned by the way the Earth turns will not be uniform in length because the Earth rolls by fits and starts, as tronomically speaking. It can speed up or slow down within a given century, and over the long run of centuries it has been slow ing down, gradually. So the astronomical union made the second a chunk of a Ifou'll love our Wide-Open, Introducing a Big and Vital General Motors "Automotive First" New Strato-Flight Hydra-Matic coupled with Pontiac's new 227-h.p. Strato-Streak V-8 delivers all-new performance so new and dramatic it must be experienced to be believed! " - . The fabulous H0 6th & Grape O Trim Second. year, instead of a day, and carved nearly two-millionths off the length of each second. What To Do? Well, what're you gonna do? We work and slave, scheme and connive, whomping up ways "to save time. We invent time-saving devices. We cram more and more of ourselves into each sec ond, living it up each moment, so we can have more time the next second. We take detours. And now this. A squeeze play undoes our good work. Think of the coffee people who put in all that time and sweat inventing in stant coffee so we can save time in the mornings, and get to work sooner. Now they're being under cut by the shrinking second. Think of the high-powered ex ecutives whose time-saving tech nique includes holding staff meetings standing up. What will happen now? Will they sit down? Something's got to give. Think of the business leader who invented a 13-hour clock to give himself more time. The thing has shrunk on him already. What of our strides in length ening life? Now, since that meet ing in Dublin, the seconds are crawling over us like frightened Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) One of the world's greatest comedians is making his first Hollywood movie with Marlene Diet rich and Red Skelto n as f's u p p o rting players," but in Cinema City the comic goes quietly un noticed. He is Can- t i n f 1 a s. To . ; Aline Mosby Spanish - speaking countries he is what Charlie Chaplin is to the English language world and Fernandel is to France. For 15 years Cantinflas and his droopy pants, nightshirt and battered felt hat have been a big draw in Latin countries. After years of turning down Hollywood offers, the little com- ants. The speed-up is on. It's even later than later than you think. The crack of doom is .0000018 per cent closer. Feel frantic? Tell you what let's do. Let's form the STBBT MDN Society To Bring Back The Mid Day Nap. 4-door Catalinas ! Two-Tone color combinations. Name your own ticket on your favorite type of interior luxury and get it in one of Pontiac's 32 choices. But for all its distinctive glamour, the keyword ' for the fabulous '56 Pontiac is GO! Its heart-lifting style foretells breath-taking action like you've never known before exclusively yours from history's highest-powered Strato-Streak V-8 and the incompar- ' able smoothness of Strato-Flight Hydra-Matic. 7 VTrXTk n ri rx Medford Thursday, Oetober 27, 195S edian was lured here for "Around the World in 80 Days," which follows "Oklahoma" in the Todd-AO big screen process. Producer Mike Todd predicts the motion picture will make Cantinflas as big a star around the world as he is in Mexico. In Mexico City crowds press around him with adoration that even Clark Gable doesn't get here. But -so far Cantinflas' entrance to Hollywood has been a , quiet one. - '"Yes, I miss the people around me,"- the comic said in his soft, halting English. "But in the meantime, I can relax and have more privacy. I go no place in Hollywood. I stay in my hotel and read my lines." In "Around the World" Can tinflas and David Niven portray two characters of the old Jules Verne classic who make the trip. Their travels take them to India, France, Colorado and points be tween. Some of the world's biggest stars play bit parts in this travel epic. In one saloon scene Mar lene Dietrich is an entertainer, accompanied by Frank Sinatra. Skelton is a drunk tossed to the street by bouncer George Raft. Noel Coward, Fernandel, Hum phrey Bogart, Bea Lillie and Joe E. Brown are among other stars Spacion O Phone 2-5241 who flash on for a brief bit. Cantinflas fans need not worry he will change his tramp outfit for a charcoal gray suit in his first Hollywood movie. In Mexican films, Cantinflas, once a peasant himself, plays the 7-UP BOTTLING COMPANY Medford, Oregon A torrent of smootK, eager, split-second power impatiently awaits only the nudge of your toe to blaze alive with the greatest "go" on wheels! And the security of big brakes and easy, instant handling gives the clue to the greatest safety ever built into a car. Why not make a date to send your spirits soar ing? Come in and see and drive the fabulous '56 Pontiac with America greatest performance team. ! 9 An txtra-cott opium MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE eternal poor man who laughs at life. As Niven's valet in "Around, the World," Cantinflas still wears baggy trousers, an old derby, a morning coat covered with patches and his familiar half-mustache. O O
