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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, December 5, 19S3 'Old 47619' Jet Logs Considerable Jfime on Highways Ecnse, Ida. U.R) The bosses at North A&erican Aviation who might wonder whatever happened to "old 47619" could find their answer squatting comfortably on a National GuaS aircraft taxi apron at Gowen Field here. Old 47619 was the 14th F-86 jet fighter plane ever built. She was completed by North Ameri can, theO only aviation firm which constructs F-86's, in 1947. OThis just about makes her a "model-A" -of the American jet age. She's an unusual ship by any standards. For one thing, she was designed as a killer but never saw a minute of combat. And she's likely the only jet fighter in history that can log a 10th as much time on public highways ar,in the. air. What other jet can lay claim to the distinction of being stuck at least twice in roadside ditches and having its wingtips dam aged on a highway shoulder bank? The old lady is not flyable now and may never be again, but she still performs a vital service. The plane is used by the 190th Air National Guard Squad ron of Boise to train mechanics, armorers and other ground crew personnel. A Show Piece The shin was taken by the Air Force "lmost as soon as she rolled out of Northo American's assembly shop for use as a re search craft at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, O. She was turned over to the Air Guard Bureau with just 200 hours of air time afid was assign ed to the 190th. The ship was flown to Boise by Maj. Kenneth Nordling of the 190th, who com mented as he set her down at Gowen Field she was tha fastest F-86 he had flown. She was, however, grounded immediately and hasn't been flown since. N The plane performs many other useful functions0 in addi tion to helping train "week-end airmen." She makes an excellent display piece at fairs and other public functions to give citizens the idea of some of the air ma chinery Uncle Sam uses to pro tect the home shores. It is impossible to estimate howQnany jet-minded children and adults have crawled over the fuselage and through the cockpit. It was during one of the trips to these celebrations that the F-86 piled up about 20 hours worth of road time. And she managed to get stuck in a ditch both outings. No Signs Seen To indicate That Credit Sales Going Uncontrolled By H. D. QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York (U.R-Installment buying is one of tfte things that make the American economy run healthy and strong and there is no sign that credit sales of merchandise are getting out of hand. That's the opinion of Walter Hoving, a practicing merchan dising expert for many years who takes no stock in the opin ions of some economists that the credit-buying public now may be living beyond its means. Hoving now is chairman of Tiffany's and president of Bon- wit Teller, prestige merchandis ing firms which have no install ment purchasing. But in the past years he dealt with such buying as an executive of Montgomery Ward, and elsewhere. Student Makes Daily Stop At Hospital To Get Pint of Blood San Francisco (U.R) When Jim Garner, a 26-year-old junior at San Francisco State college, storjs on the way home after classes each day, it's not for a hamburger and coke with the gang. It's for a pint of blood to keep himself alive. For Jim is a victim, of hemo philia, an inherited disease in which his blood fails to clot. A sufferer can bleed for days from a small cut. Internal, Constant Bleeding In Jim's case, his bleeding is internal and constant. He needs a full pint oi diooq every hours to keep going. The student body has been helping Jim Garner out by post ing signs around the campus ask ing for blood donations in his name. But recently it became necessary for his classmates to organize solid support. Jim's hospital, to which he a a n n f X owed some ?ib,uuu ior past transfusions, said it could no Ex-Convict Admits Kidnap of 2 Girls Los Angeles (U.R) An ex convict admitted to police Sat urday he kidnaped two Highland ,?rk Cirl Scouts after the girls identified him as the man who picked them up and then took one of them for a 90-minute terror-filled ride. Lyle W. Jorgenson, 38, who has served an 11-year sentence for rap and auto theft, told officers he .was the one who picked up Kathleen Kerr and Mary Ann Keller, both 10. He said Jet the Keller girl out a block from where he picked them up and took the Kerr girl for a long ride before bringing her back near the spot where the kidnaping occurred. He insisted he kept the girls in the car because he wanted them to show him where York boulevard was, police said. He didn't give a reason why he let the Keller girl out of the car shortly after. Jorgenson has a record of sex offenses against children, police said. Floor Mikes Cause East-West Skirmish London (U.R) The mystery of who hid the microphones under the Czechoslovak embassy floor flared Saturday into a sDirited East-West sideline skirmish. The British foreign office said it was a Czech Communist of ficial. The Czechs denied it. And the British Parliament will tackle the deepening mystery in a debate next Wednesday. The story of the microphones up to 1,100 have been men tioned drew a new public blast from the red-maced Czechs who appeared to have been spying on themselves. It also brought a prompt an swer from the foreign office which apparently helped the Czechs in a bit of slapstick in ternational espionage. The mystery goes back to last March when the Czechs moved their embassy to a new building in London. At that time, the Czechs charge, a group of "mov ing men" who were not the ones the yhired, took away the listen ing devices from the old em bassy. The movers left without a word of explanation. The mov ing firm hired by the Czechs said they weren't their employ es., The big question was who were the mystery movers? The Czechs have not even ventured a guess and a British foreign office spokesman Sat urday emphatically stated: "I can say that the foregin office has no knowledge of the removal when referred to in the (Czech) statement." But the British did tell the Czechs who put the microphones in the embassy in the first place. It was, the British said, an unnamed Czech embassy of ficial. They said he had the mikes installed before he left London in 1948, using part of some 1,1000 microphones he bought at a British war surplus sale. G o v " fa iaak i longer allow him credit. Then the work began. The school newspaper and an other campus organization spon sored a fund drive to pay off the debt. A third group organized a talent show featuring local night club performers, the proceeds also going to whittle the hospi tal bills. Next, a blood bank said that it would provide the daily pint of blood for Jim, the father of a healthy son, with all service charges waived if each portion he used was replaced by two outside donations. This gave the students some thing more to work on. A Catho lic student group got a big blood donation campaign under way. The blood bank set up a mobile contribution unit on the campus and students began making reg ular pledges. At the present rate, blood bank officials predict, Jim Gar ner won't have to worry about his vital blood supply for days to come. "All this makes me feel pret ty good," says Jim. "Students are pretty nice people." "The boys get overly worked up about this every once in a while it gets to be sort of a fad with some economists and pro fessors," Hoving said in an inter view. "There may be a ceiling of course some place that's the top but we're not anywhere near there yet. "There is no sign that mer chandise installment buying is getting out of hand, and there's no reason to build up a lot of bugaboos. "Credit men who are operat ing under the free enterprise system are adequately ample to handle the situation.-' They'd be the first to see if it was getting out of hand. It's the kind of thing that private enterprise can handle and is handling well. I see no reason for government control or arbitrary regula tions." Hoving termed installment buying "one of the great new facts in the American econo my it's one of the methods by which we do business; it makes for a great deal more business. Wrong Impression "Some people," he continued, "want to give the impression that it's a sinful thing. It's no more sinful than paying by check, or using the 30 -day charge account. In Russia peo ple don't have installment sell ing and the 30-day charge ac count nor do they in most of the rest of Europe. In France, how does even a wealthy man pay. He sends a man around with the cash. "These are typically American things: installment buying, the check, the charge account: They're what make the Ameri can economy run at high speed. . "One of the main reasons the American distributive system functions at such a higher vol ume rate than any country in the world is these credit tech niaues." . Payrolls Covered By Unemployment Law To Set Mark Salem (U.R) Payrolls cov ered by Oregon's unemployment law will break all records in 1955, estimates made by the State Unemployment Compensa tion commission and .. based on completed reports for the first half of the year indicate. About 18,000 employers re ported payment of wages for the first six months of 1955 at $648, 296,330, an increase of $42,000, 000 over the same period a year before and $26,000,000 more than the former high of $622, 206,355 in the first half of 1953. Higher Payrolls If this rate is maintained, the commission said, this year's pay rolls will reach $1,350,000,000 against the top of $1,298,380,028 two years ago. Tabulation of second quarter payrolls showed $340,517,697, highest for any three months in the history of the commission except for the third quarter of 1953. The summer period just passed is expected to set a new all-time record. Covered employment, how ever, has not reached heights set in 1953. The average number of workers reported up to June j 30 this year was 313,764 com-: pared to 321,021 two years ago and 306,615 in 1954. NO GAME TODAY , Ashland, Ky. (U.R) Gay j Price, a teller at the Second Na tional bank here, had a ready answer for a gunman who point ed a toy pistol at him and order ed, "haud over those 20's." The would-be robber fled when Price told him, "If you want to play games get out of line." 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