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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