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V Writer Tells of Experience in Voodoo at 900 Miles Per Hour Editor's note: (Whit Is it like to fl in on of Uncle Sam'i super sonic planes? The following dis patch by a correspondent who had never been aloft in anything fast er than a propeller-driven C-46 de scribes a ride in one of the Air Force's newest planes.) Br ED COWAN VI Correspondent Andrews Air Force Base, Md. IUP&-Our Voodoo jet inter ceptor was still rolling along the ground when Capt. Rich ard A. Jones cut in the after burners first one, then the' other. The Voodoo shot forward, pushing my crash helmet back against the padded headrest. We hovered just a few feet above the ground, then sud denly it was falling away. "How high are we?" I asked Jones .through the intercom mike," which is built into the oxygen mask ! and is on all the time. v "Three, thousand feet," he said. "Well hold this, climb until we get up top:" , I looked out -through the canopy at the green- and brown. patched Maryland countryside. -1 could see the ground only on the side we were banked toward. Pushed Against Seat We were climbing at sever al hundred miles anC hour. That speed and the 'plane's steep angle of, climb pushes you against the: back of the seat and it's fiot. easy to lean forward. V It was jAe riding an ex press elevator. I t swallowed hard several tones to help un plug my ears an4 thought the oxygen tasted stale. I wonder ed if it WOUM stop flowing throughfitnejfilbber hose fit ted to ray faipe mask, ' ,' How high are we now!',' I asked Jones. It would be an other several minutes before I could stop watching the ground and sky and bother to study the air-speed indicator. "18,000 feet," Jones said. I shouldn't have been so surprised. After all, an inter ceptor has to climb fast to do its job find and destroy en emy aircraft. Made by the McDonnell Aircraft Corp: of St. , Louis, the Voodoo is the Air Defense Command's newest all-weather fighter-interceptor. Its top speed is secret. It can deliver a missile packing an atomic warhead,, which means it might knock down several en emy planes with a "single shot. Jones levelled off the Voo doo at about 22,000 feet. We bad been in the air less than two minutes. With the throttle set as 500 miles an hour, we "cruised" eastward across Chesapeake Bay and the Maryland penin sula toward the Atlantic Ocean. Behind us were the gleaming white spires of the Washington Monument and the Capitol dome. We swept across the penin sula in a few minutes. As we crossed the ocean coastline, Jones cut in the afterburners again. The plane lurched for ward, accelerated and flashed through the "sound barrier." I heard nothing. Perhaps they heard a bang on the fishing boat beneath us. - I could feel the plane accel erating. But the only thing that told me we were actually flying faster than sound was the airspeed indicator slipping past the "mach 1" line. At 22,000 feet and 900 miles per hour, the F-101B twin-jet Voodoo rides without a ripple. And it was smoother and cooler inside the cockpit than during the climb out " On the horizon-where the ocean appears to meet the sky -there seemed to be a wide, uneven blackish streak-as if someone had smeared it on with a brush dipped in water color paint. The streak, an op tical effect, gets thicker the higher you are, Jones explain ed. ' In a way, riding that jet at 13 miles a minute was some thing like steady cruising in a car at 60 miles per hour on a super - highway. After a while you dont feel much un til you ' slow down or speed up. ' ' Price 10 Cents HJA TT : 54th Year : MEDFORDTRIBUp 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959 Pages 1-10 Lining in Boy's Head Said Torn By Father's Blow Corvallis-dTD-Dr. David C. England, 37-year-old assistant professor at Oregon State col lege;' ' Wednesday heard him self accused of striking his adopted son so hard that the blow tore the lining loose in the boy's head.' ; .: ; ; " The trial of Dr. England on a charge of involuntary; man slaughter in connection with the death of 12-year-old Char les -Edwin England, was launched before a ' Benton county circuit court juryj df nine men and three Vorhen, all but twoof whom are par ents themselves. District Attorney John B. Fenner," in. his" opening state ment to the 1 jury; . !said he would 'introduced vidence that would . show ' .Dr. England struck the boy with such force on 'the left side of the face that the jaw was bruised from the chin to the ear. j , He said the evidence would show that the blow tore the lining loose around the brain, and bleeding, inside the skull built up pressure against the brain that, cut off ,the : vital functions of the body. Mark Wetherford, defense attorney, said he would show that the death was accidental and that the bleeding in the boy's head could have started as much as a Jfiar earlier. He said he whM introduce evidence to sho1&tat the boy was an "A" ."ftejtt. in the spring of lSjSobwtthal in the fall, he Had become unco operative and failed in his classes. kA, . s The boy died last Febl 5, the day following the alleged blow by the father. Shady Cove Youth . Named. 1o Honorary Corvallis-Kenneth C. Had ley of Shady Cove h$s been selected f or ,membersiip in the national chemistry . honorary,-. Phi Lambda Upsilon, at Oregon State college. ' Selection is based on high scholarship and promise of professional achievement. - Hadley was enrolled in the graduate school last year. He is the son f Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hadley.. -. . The University of Alaska near Fairbanks is the only in stitution of higher learning in Alaska. s ."When -you're,. ,4V4 .miles above the ground your sense of motion is slight because nothing is whizzing by. I re minded myself "that the dis tance from Andrews . which our Voodoo covered in 15 min utes takes three hours by car Veteran War Pilot , ' Jones is a 37-year-old vet eran who flew fighter planes over Italy, France ' and . Ger many during World War II. A family nan from Madison, Wis., he has more time in the Voodoo than any .other Air Force pilot. He racked it' up the hard way - test-flying it. Cutting a wide-lazy arc ov er the Atlantic, Jones slowed the Voodoo to subsonic speed and pointed her nose back to ward Andrews. He dropped her down fast to about 3,000 feet. It got hot iri the cockpit and for the first time I felt uncomfortable. We touched down at a good 150 miles per hour. Jones pop ped the 'drag chute from the tail to' slow the plane down. Bumping along the runway and taxiway was the roughest part of the ride. School Boards Have Discretion Salem -(DPD- Oregon's rural school district boards have a large degree of discretion in detemining what is a "dis tressed district" needing spe cial relief funds, according to Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton. Tornton said the courts rarely interfere with the ex ercise of discretionary power by school boards. .. .The opinion was requested by District .Attorney Warren H. Albright of Jefferson coun ty in regards to School Dis trict No. 4 which encompasses 300 square miles in a "some what inaccessible" area. Thornton said the law gives the rural school district board the authority to declare a school district a distressed dis trict by stating a resolution recorded in the board's min utes that the district meets the minimum qualifications speci fied in the statutes. . . Isolation of the school and transportation problems are included in the evaluation. 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