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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. ' '
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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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Henry Ammon family near
Tarrisburg wondered why a
pilot was "buzzing" their
house in his plane. After rush
ing outside, they found out
why. The roof of the house
was on fire. .
Burlington, Vt.-TCPD-The In
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13 Vermonters purchased $50
Federal wagering tax stamps
during the 1957-58 fiscal year
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