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8 B THURSDAY. MAT 11.' 111 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TAG Pilots Taste off Real Ferry Paratroopers To Thing in Panama Zone aitor's Not: This Is the last f four oiipaichei on tho Tactical Air CoMmud, prepared from m treial saUitrtS In miles of flylnc to TAC bases ana In a ac tual TAC exercise. Br RALPH VILLERS Albrook Air Force Base, C.Z. UPD Coming up on Rio Hato at Just over 1,200 feet, the small, flat drop zone into which the paratroopers would Jump looked hot, dusty and hard under the just-risen trop ic sun. Landmarks-the Pan Amer ican Highway, a dirt second . ary road, deep gully stood right out, pointing to where the paratroopers would land, just as they had in reconnais sance photos shown the trans port pilots 1,600 miles and 20 hours back at a briefing in North Carolina. The noisy, but pilot-respect ed C130s, headed in to the drop zone In tight formation as the men of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division stood up in the cabins, hooked up the lines that would automatically open their parachutes and shuffled to the rear doors of the huge planes. A green light flashed on and out the doors the paratrbop- ers went, their green chutes blossoming under the fleet of . trooper carriers. After more than seven hours in the air, flying a loose night formation and through weath er from Pope Air Force Base, N.C., the pilots of Tactical Air Command's 9th Air Force dropped the paratroopers on target and within a few sec- ' ends of the drop time set long before the planes took to the . air. - Maj. William Burgy of Cairo, W. Vs., a onetime jet fighter pilot turned troop carrier pi' lot, worked the fingers of his right hand to loosen them up and restore circulation after turning the plane over to his to-pilot, Capt. Willis Nord. Fingers can get pretty stiff when they are constantly wrapped around the engine throttles to make numerous adjustments while flying formation. Colorado Leads U.S. In Number Oi Bankruptcies - Denver ran Colorado, a state with less than 1 per cent of the nation's population, ac counted for more than 2 per cent ox bankruptcy cases filed last year in all US. district courts. ' Colorado residents filed 2,379 of the total 110,03 eases recorded. ' A' report prepared by the administration of. federal ' courts showed the state had a record gain of 11.4 per cent over 1959, compared with the aatlonal increase of 9.3 per cent for the fiscal year end ing June 20, 1960. The report revealed that bankruptcy is higher in Colo rado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas and Oklahoma. making up the 10th Court Cir cuit, than in any of the re maining nine circuits of the nation. The district posted an overall increase ot 17.1 per cent. Colorado had one case per 740 residents; New Mexico, wun za cases nad one per 3,700; Wyoming with Its 197 cases had one for every 1,670 persons, and Kansas, with 3,184 cases, had a bankruptcy population ratio of one to 900. The 10th Circuit began fis cal 1960 with 6,030 cases . pending- Only 5,499 of the 7,155 new cases filed during tne year were disposed of, leaving a net Increase of 1,696 cases In the courts' backlog. , - Most of the eases filed In Colorado last year were by wage earners 1,722 of them Merchants accounted for 86 filings; manufacturers, 8; pro fessional people, 19; farmers, 18; miscellaneous businesses, jb, and miscellaneous occu pations, 313 Only 787 of 1,767 cases set tled turned up enough assets to partially satisfy demands of creditors. They recovered $258,000 ot 92,339,000 in claims or 11 per cent. The na .xionai recovery average was 18.8 per cent. Claims totaling 9238 million were settled for 1 44 million nationally. ' In 356 Colorado cases con cluded debtors had only enough to pay for administra tive costs and little or nothing to sausry claims. 1 Even administrative costs were too high in 558 cases with claims totaling 93,804, The Eastern Seaboard, In contrast to the Rocky Moun tain region's financial troubles, showed a decline In bankruptcies. The 2nd Circuit covering New England and part of New York was down 1.2 per cent, and the Middle Atlantic States, In the 4th , Circuit, experienced a 5.8 per cent decrease Ml bankruptcy filings. . . All during the night, run ning lights of other planes blinked all around as they flew three-quarters to a mile apart in loose formation at 25,000 feet on the way to Pan ama. It was impressive enough to make a novice keep his parachute reassur I n g 1 y at hand. . m .. But, said Burgy, "It's stand ard operation., We normally fly loose like that on long K.ga. Just a normal trip. Fighters Race In As the troop carriers turned and headed toward a landing in the Panama Canal Zone, and the more than 1,100 para troopers on the ground grouped for their mock battle against an imaginary foe in vading through Panama to ward the canal, supersonic TAC jet fighters raced in to give aerial support to the ground troops.: : The fighters had come all the way from Puerto Rico, re fueling over the ocean from KB50J aerial tankers. Trail ing behind the tankers, the tactical fighters aimed their wing probes at the drogues and hoses swaying in the wind, hooked up, drank in fuel and continued on their missions. Every TAC pilot must be proficient at aerial refueling. With the tankers flying at near maximum speed, and the fighters at near stalling speed, some "artists" with their jets can hook up to take on fuel in 10 seconds, according to Col. Nixon Points Out 's Mistakes Columbus, Ohio -tlffU For mer Vice President Richard M. Nixon said Wednesday he believes the greatest mistakes of President Kennedy's : ad ministration so far had been his missed opportunities for leadership and his heading in the wrong direction in the domestic field. Nixon said that it was "essential that the public be told the facts and told, what needs to be done instead of being told what' the govern ment will do for them." Nixon told an airport news conference that Kennedy had talked about a number of things "but all that has been done has been to send down to Congress a whole series . of messages' dealing with the domestic program on what the government would do for the people." Robert Orth, commander of the 836th Air Division at Langley AFB, Va., whose out fit includes a wing of tankers, At Albrool: AFB, some -40 miles from the Rio Hato ma neuver area, C123 assault transports pulled into the air, headed for landings on grass airstrips to unload needed ve hicles, weapons and supplies lor tne paratroopers. It was only an exc-rcise. but it was a close approximation of how a real Composite Air Strike Force would operate in a real emergency anywhere in the world. . The CASF is Tactical Air Command's principal weapon for fighting a limited war-or preferably preventing one. CASFs helped cool hot situ ations In the Midwest and For mosa in 1958 just by their presence in the areas. ' Furnished 'Headquarters' as it would in a real CASF. TAC's 19th Air Force-a com mand with only 60 men and not one combat aircraft of its own-moved to Panama and furnished the "fighting head quarters" under the theater commander for TAC's fight ers, transports, reconnaissance and weather planes. The men In the 19th wear two hats-supplying the com mand element between partic ipating units in a CASF and a higher headquarters,, and as planners, which is the 19th's primary role. ' In short, the 19th develops doctrines and requirements for' effective global employ ment of tactical air units. Maj. Gen. Maurice A. Pres ton, the 19th commander, phrased it this way:-. "It is our job to look at the world at large and see where a need for action might grow up. Then we draw up a clan for it. Any conceivable place a need might grow up, .we have a plan." ' He pointed out ' that "the movement of a CASF to the Midwest In 1958 was accom plished by a ready-made plan. From the time the word "go" was given in Washington, the first' aerial tankers were aloft within four hours, and the first planes of the CASF be gan arriving in the Mideast within 16 hours. The plan., are very detailed, providing for getting a certain strength force to a given area, and Include where the fighters and transports will refuel and what fields they will land at. . , In the Panama exercise, the 19th functioned just as it would In a real crisis. An air operations center directed air craft movements and liaison was set up with the Army to furnish fighter strikes in sup P' t of the ground forces. Fr-jm the seriousness in the operations center, it could have been the real, thing in stead of an exercise. Taste of Real Thing Out in the Rio Hato maneu ver area men in another little-beard-of TAC unit, the 22nd Aero - Medical Evacuation Squadron, an air-lifted, but ground-operating outfit, were getting a taste of the real thing. ;. - The squadron from Sewart AFB, Tenn., under Capt. Thomas J. Hennessey Jr., fed the handful of paratroopers Injured in the drop onto TAC assault transports for remov al to a hospital in the Canal Zone. The 22nd and a sister unit, the 21st AME Sauadron from Pope AFB,- go In with assault landings and stage wounded to hospitals at the rear after Army medics ad minister initial treatment. Set up in tents on the edge of an air strip, the 22nd was equipped and able to carry on treatment until the injured could be flown out. . 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