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
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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.
As in each of the other cases,
Pasquita seemed in excellent
health and had eaten a heavy
meal before he went to bed.
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children than
merely paying
the bills for
their support.
(Q) "Four
years ago, I
married a wid
ower with
three children.
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." '
The doctor said, "Please, Miss
Swanson, Telax. There's nothing
you can do now for Mr. Taylor."
"Oh yes there is," I said. "I'm
going to ask my friends in tele
vision to talk to all big indus
tries some night on their pro
grams and tell them to prevent
such an occurrence again!"
Surely in the history of all
successful businesses there are
those men who get left ty the
wayside because they have too
mueh modesty to call attention to
themselves. We Americans must
be very careful not to set our
sights so high for distance that
we neglect those right under our
noses who have made it possible
for our country to be the great
est power on earth.
Earth Tremors Rock
Tokyo Saturday
Tokyo U.R) A series of
light earth tremors rocked Tok
yo for three and one-half minutes
Saturday, but there were no
immediate reports of casualties
or damages.
It was believed the quakes
were after-shocks of last Tues
day's heavy quake.
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