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8 A- Antirecession Msasure Signed Washington -dirt- Preildent Kennedy signed Into law Mon day an antirecession bill which ' will channel funds to 600,000 needy children and 200,000 ot their parents In Jobless faml- ' lies. The $200 million program . means that for the first time , since the depression of the ' 1930s, the federal government will be channeling relief funds to Americans who are able to work but unable to get jobs. The relief will be tempo rary and restricted to needy families with children. Feder- al grants for this purpose will be available to states for 14 months. TUESDAY. MAY 1MI MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Guided Missile Won't Replace Plane With Pilot for Considerable Time Edttor'i not: Tlilf U the Mcond of four aUpatthei on the TaeUcal Air Comman, prepared Irora ma terial fathered In 10,000 mllee of ....i .... i Tr huui and Is an actual TAC exerclie. By RALPH VILLERS ' Nellls Air Force Base, Nev. -lUPD-The guided missile hasn't knocked the piloted fighter out of the skies yet-and it probably will be a long time before It does. That is the thinking of the officers In the higher echelons of Tactical Air Command (TAC), the highly mobile, fast reaction arm of the Air Force created to fight in a limited or a general war, if need be, and to act as a deterrent to both. uiu i. it flint an "orsaniza- Hon like TAC always will need manned aircraft?" Lt. Gen. Jacob E. Smart vice commander of TAC, put it this way: "The manned aircraft has a man who is capable of thinking, and that provides a degree of flexibility that can't be built Into a missile." Maj. Gen. Karl Truesdell Jr., commander of TAC's 12th Air Force, with Its nearly 1,000 fighter planes, offered FLY UtllTED JETS... FUU VMS UEVER SO HEAR BEFORE 1MA7 SeSelB IXsVjJ NEW V0M-S Mrs AS LOW U $31.79 plus tax and sir firs. 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Includes hotel and complete sightseeing tour ol Historic and Modem Boston. See Bunker Hill Monument ... Old North Church ... Paul Revere House. Vacation with history. . .where it actually happened. Spend ex tra days hi Boston for as lew $SiS (HMJ SAN BIECO-TIIUANA-I DAYS AS LOW AS $22.35 plus tax and air fate. Includes hotel and colorful side trips. See exciting Tijuana in Old Mexico for souvenirs... enjoy an authentic Mexican meal ... and real Mexican ' music. Tour San Diego and Point Lome in sunny South ern California. A Holiday lull ol sun and fun. (ssa-d THERE'S A MAN YOU SHOULD MEET . . . to get the moat out ri your vacation. Your Travel Agent will help you choose from the) Mainliner Ho'idaya bove, or from the) many longer, more extensive tours available. He'll make jet reserva tions on United, serving you with the world' largest jet fleet If you wifh, use United'! "Fly Now -Pay Later" plan. , SAMfH.1 UNIUD ROUND TRIP JIT MICM From TO Seattle New York SM7.J0 Seattle Denver SlJl.M Portland Chlcato- S200.M Portland lot AngelM . $101.00 Pricot are Custom Coach plus ta. UNITED I J THI tXTM CAN! UNI this opinion: "TAC will be flying manned aircraft long after SAC (Stra tegic Air Command) has gone to missiles because of Its limit ed war role." What If General War? Gen. Truesdell's statement rings valid assuming the U.S. is forced to fight a limited war, such as Korea, in which highest authority rules against using nuclear weapons, or it Is impossible or impractical to use strategic rockets. But what If a general war ever comes? "If a war has started and we are going to use nuclear weapons," Gen. Truesdell said in an interview, "give the pilot a bomb and he can drop it if he sees a 'real target' (of opportunity). A missile has to be fired at a fixed target." And, operating on the con viction that the manned fight er will be around for a long time, TAC trains its fighter pilots to a high degree of skill at this sprawling desert base on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The degree of skill Is "much superior" to that of the World War II fighter pilot, according to Brig.. Gen. John N. Ew- bank Jr., commander of TAC's 4520th Combat Crew Training Wing at Nellls. He put it bluntly: ' "Our Job Is to teach the pilot to use his plane as a weapon." The young trainees who come in to Nellis are far from novices when it comes to flying. They've been turn ed out as qualified pilots by the Air Training Command, and then sharpened in flying the F100, TAC's current basic fighter, at Luke Air . Force Base, Ariz., before reporting to the 4520th. The training at Nellis, which turns them into quali fied combat pilots, has been compared to awarding a doc tor's degree in a university. Air Training Command gave them their , "bachelor's de gree" by teaching them to fly. The "master's" was earn ed at Luke AFB. 50 Hours in Air During their three-month tour at Nellis, the trainees put in 50 hours in the air, flying 33 sorties In the F100, or fly 45 hours under the new F105 training program. The Republic F105, an all- weather, t w 1 c e-the-speed-of- sound fighter with an Internal bomb bay, eventually will re place the F100 as TAC's basic fighter. '. -i Flying over a gunnery and bombing range bigger than the state of Connecticut, the young pilots get instrument training, practice in refueling aloft, tiring air-to-air weapons such as the Sidewinder mis sile ("Every time you fire one it's like pushing a new Chev rolet off a cliff," one officer said, "but it's necessary"), and firing or dropping air-to-ground weapons such as rock ets or bombs.. Dropping or tossing nuclear weapons (only a '"shape," not an actual weapon, Is used) also is on the agenda. "We put in an 11 to 12-hour day," said 2nd Lt. Joe Cough lin ot Jackson, Tenn., a new arrival at Nellis. "It's not an 8-to-5 day, but It's reward ing." The day for trainees like Coughlin starts at 6 or 6:30 a.m. when he reports to his unit, the 4521st Combat Crew Training Squadron. Then there are briefings and ground school, a half-hour break for lunch, and flying or more ground school until 5 p.m Regularly the men are back in the evening for more ground study. 'Undar Gun' When they head off a train ing flight, with bombs or nu clear "shapes" aboard, the trainees are "under the gun" to prove themselves. After a nearly two-hour flight, follow Ing courses they pre-plot. the students are expected to ar rive on-time over ground tar gets that almost are impossi ble to see from the air, and which they've never seen be fore. An Instructor flies nearby and rates the students on time on target and the accuracy of the bomb drop, as well as all other aspects of flying. "If they miss the time over target by three minutes (after a two-hour flight), that's fail ing," said Capt. Robert Nel son of Gardena, Calif., assist ant operations officer of the 4521st. "Within 10 seconds is oustanding. We have a lot of them." Typical of the men the 12th is training is 2nd Lt. David J. Sullivan of Upper Marl boro, Md. He's in his early 20's, he dedicated and he ask ed for TAC and fighter train ing after finishing pilot train ing. His reason: "What you do, you do, your self. That's why I wanted fighters over bombers." Once they are combat quali fied, the pilots either are as signed to tactical units in overseas air forces-it's TAC's job to train .the pilpts for overseas commands-or to one of the TAC units in the United States. . The 12th Air Force, which embraces all of TAC's fighter units, has F100, F104 and F105 squadrons spotted from coast-to-coast at such bases as Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina, England AFB in Louisiana, Cannon AFB in New Mexico and George AFB in California. No Overseas Bases TAC itself has no overseas bases,, although it rotates as signment to Turkey, Italy and Spain. TAC has found it more practical and less expensive to the taxpayer to maintain itself on alert in the United States, ready to Jump off east or west if it is needed to fight -or to prevent a fight from starting. , What of the men turned out by Nellis? Are they equipped to fight, and even drop a nuclear weapon, if necessary? Maj. Charles Barnctt of Los Angeles, commander of the 334th Tactical Fighter Squad ron, an F105 unit at Seymour Johnson AFB, answered both: "In the last eight years I've had three different fighter squadrons (two of them over seas) and the ability of this is above any one I've ever had." As for dropping a nuclear weapon, he said: "I don't think anyone wants to drop one. You know what it is going to do. But if it comes to a case of war,, we'll do it if we have to." (Next: TAC's versatile 9th Air Force.) TITLE FOR TONY London - (UPD - Anthony- Armstrong-Jones, who has re cently designed two aviaries for British zoos, got new title today from London' tabloid Daily Mirror - mlrv ister of housing for bird. If you care about surveys and statistics and that sort of thing, you probably should ) know that more people in the West drink their coffee black than in any other area. Which is not so surprising, maybe. But more drink it black in restaurants than they do at home. Which ought to prove a point or two about restaurant coffee, the cream and sugar being handy and free and all. When the cupful is on its own like that -nothing to dilute or divert the flavor -it has to be good coffee. Which is what we've been saying about restaurant coffee for years; what we've been saying about Boyd's, anyway. Which, in the Northwest, is the same thing. Four thousand restaurants prove it -they serve a million cups of Boyd's every day. n O We think it's great ijyour husband takes you out to dinner. r.o. But don't wait you can get Boyd's at the store, too. OH, GO AHEAD AND USE CREAM AND SUGAR IT WON'T HURT BOYD'S A BIT Quiz Contestant Admits Perjury New York - (UPD - Mrs. Vlv lenne Ncaring, 36, the attor ney who defeated Charles Van Dorcn In a rigged quiz show, pleaded guilty to per jury Monday at the trial of 14 quiz contestants In special sessions court. Mrs. Nearlng, who won $5,- 000 qn the TV show "21" in 1857, admitted that she lied to a grand Jury when she denied that the TV show was rigged. The blonde beat Van Doren the most popular of the TV quiz show contestants, after he had won $129,000. Mrs. Nearlng received suspended sentence from Jus tice William E. Ringcl, who said he thought she had "suf fered enough," riffc ' t I a - ill -: mh&jr ItM'i " ' ' !' i. ; ft , . -,Tr"' vlWvXv 4h0 W&i A tree is for me... and everyone else We come across many a young Fellow like this in our job of exploring and drilling for oil. 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