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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, February 20. 1956 Money Spent To Keep Big Planes Aloit Claimed bood Investment Travis Air Force Base, Calif. (U.PJ It costs about $1,500 to keep a B36 bomber in the air for an hour and $900 to fly an F86D Sabre Jet for 60 minutes. "But it's worth every penny of it, Brig Gen. Alfred F. Kal berer, commander of the Strate gic Air Command s 14tn division here, said. "This money is an investment in the security of America. We can't afford not to spend it." "I don't want to do any un necessary ruffling of feathers," Kaiberer said. "But the people who complain about the money the Air Force spends simply do not understand the absolute ne cessity of what we're doing." Old, Army Cadet The hard-driving, 48-year-old officer, who first entered the old Army Air Corps as a flying cadet in 1927, said the biggest problem he and other base com manders face Is securing an ade quate budget.' But KaJberer said if it takes $30,000 to carry out a practice B36 bombing mission, as one recent and typical exercise was estimated to cost, "we're still getting a tremendous value." "If a war should break out tomorrow any one of our B36 crews would be capable of fly ing directly to any enemy target in the world," he said. "But it's i i l a. l oniy uiiuugii uuiiskuii, naming and practice that they're able to keep in such peak condi tion." . JCalberer's command embrace? one of the most varied in the Air Force. Primarily, Travis is a Strategic Air Command base dedicated to instant retaliation in the event of war. The fifth wing in Kalberer's 14th division comprises three strategic bomb ing equadrons the 72nd, 31st and 23rd. Many Functions " But this busy installation also houses the Air Defense Com mand's 82nd fighter interceptor jet squadron, an anti-aircraft battalion, and a bustling mili tary air transport service ter minal which shuttles 1,000 pas sengers a day between here, the Pacific and the Far East. "" ' The overall picture at Travis is one of men and women going places in a hurry, doing things vital to the nation's security. Theirs is a peacetime mission now, but a wooden sign board outside the 72nd bombing squad ron headquarters serves as a Lmute reminder of a tragic past. "Pearl Harbor, New Hebrides, Solomons," the sign reads. "Ad miralty, Dutch New Guinea, Philippines." Trais exists for the sole pur pose of seeing to it that if an other war should break out there never will be a sign board? on an enemy base reading: "New York, Omaha, San Fran Sunday School Said Not Enough Religious Education for Child Washington (U.R) Parents who believe that ':you can make a Christian of a child merely by sending him to Sunday school" are suffering from a "dangerous delusion," a prominent religious educator said today. "One of the tragic myths of our time," said Mrs. Marion M. Kelleran, "is the popular notion that you can ' rely on Sunday school to handle the job of Christian education." It is "utterly unrealistic," she said, for parents to expect Sun day school to give a child, in one hour a week, all of .the religious training and experience he needs to equip him for life. Long Experience Mrs. Kelleran has served for more than a decade as director of Christian education for the Episcopal diocese of Washington, and as a top Sunday school ad viser to the national council of her church. She is also professor of religious education at Vir ginia Theological seminary at nearby Alexandria, Va. She said in an interview that not even an ideal Sunday school with abundant classroom space, fully trained teachers and up-to-date curriculum materials could do the job which many parents seem to expect of it. And the average S u n d a y school, she added, does not ap proach these ideal requirements. Many schools also are trying conscientiously to overcome their admitted deficience in edu cational standards, she said. They have instituted teacher training programs, and are over hauling their teaching materials to reflect "the real needs" of children. . ' Home Example "What good does it do to talk to a child on Sunday morning about forgiveness and the prodi gal son, if he never experiences the fact of forgiving love in his own family?" she asked. With this in mind, many churches using the new teaching materials have started parents' classes, at which mothers and fathers are given guidance on how a child's Sunday school in struction can be directly related to his daily life at home.' Mrs. Kelleran is convinced that this kind of home-and-church teamwork ' is the only sound approach to religious training.- "Don't expect Sunday school to make your child a Christian," she said, "unless you're prepared to be one, too." 'Nightmare' Sickness Claims 11th Victim '-. Manila U.P) The myster ious "nightmare" sickness claim ed its 11th victim Saturday. Medical authorities expressed fear-, that . more may die unless the cause of the malady is dis covered. The latest victim, Eutiquio Paquita, 30) was found dead in bed by his roommate. 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The children had stayed with their Dr. Hurlock grand mother for the year and a half my hus band - was a widower and the youngest was very badly spoiled, but , is better now. We have three children of our own, the youngest is only 3 months old." My stepchildren are in school but the little ones are all at borne, so I have much to do. My husband is a fine man and I love him very much but he thinks he shouldn't help me with the housework or the children. - "He works five days a week, from 8 tp 4:30. He comes home, sits down and reads the paper or watches television, then I give . him supper and he gets dressed to go out somewhere. He never takes me and I stay at home with the children. When ever I tell him. anything about the children not doing things they should or ask his advice about something, he tells me that it is my job to take care of the children and not to bother him about them. Don't you think a father should do more than pay the bills for his children?" ; M.D. (A) I certainly do think a father should do more than pay the bills for his children, espe cially when some of them are his wife's step-children. By tak ing on the responsibility of car ing for another woman's chil dren, you took a big load. Your husband owes it to you to help you carry this load. He, obviously, is one of the many men who still believe that bringing up children and 'doing housework is "woman's work." He thinks if he pays the bills, his responsibility ends there and he is then free to do as he pleases with his time and any money not needed for home necessities. Nothing you can say would make much impression on him.. However, if your doctor told him that you will ruin your health with overwork and lack of rec reation, and if your minister told him that he was shirking his duties and being unfair, to you, he might turn over a new leaf. ' (Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport By GLORIA SWANSON Written for United Press Rome (U.PJ While lying in a hospital bed wouldn't you know that i would read the obituary column! It was certainly good for my blood pressure, though. By the time the doctor made his rounds and got to me, my blood pressure was normal and soaring. "Come now, Miss Swanson," he said. "Don't get so wound up. Everyone has to die some day." "But you don't understand," I said. "I'm an American, and we Americans help everybody of every color, every religion all over this planet, which is great so long as we don't neglect our own. Let me read you what we nave done for a great Ameri can.". 7 ' Inventor Dies ' I read from the newspaper as follows: "San Fernando, Calif!, Feb. 1 Charles Edward Taylor, 87t who designed and who built the airplane engine of the Wright Brothers' 'Kitty Hawk' the first plane to fly died Monday night in a sanitarium here." "Well, now," said the doctor, how long did r u want him to live?" I started to get emotional. "I'm surprised he had the heart to live as long as he did, which you'll understand if I can finish these few lines before explod ing." So I read on: "Less than two months ago a special fund had been created by the aircraft in dustries to" maintain him for the rest of his life." I exploded. They , were a long time gettmg around to it! Wasn't that just darling'of the industries he made possible. To finish the obituary: "Tay lor was destitute when he was admitted to the Los Angeles General Hospital early last month". He had been living on an $300 a year pension from the will of Orville Wright." "Why, doctor," I went on, "not' a street cleaner or a floor sweeper in any of the plane fac tories today could live on $800 a, year. That's less than $2.25 per day. Now, of course, the in dustry will no doubt build him a bronze statue and maybe if he has a widow they'll let her unveil it. It ought to be very pretty, a nice consolation prize to theii conscience." 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