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THURSDAY. MAT 11.' 111
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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. .
There's lots of work and
little glory in the aero med
i.a evacuation squadrons, but
it's that way with much of
T ctical Air Command-llttle-heird-of,
but ready if needed.
Girls Are Recording
Shakespeare's Works
New York (UPD Want to
brush up on your ' Shake
speare? A couple of graduates
from New York City's Hunter
college have just embarked
on the project of recording
the . entire works of the
master. '
The girls are Marianne
Mantell and Barbara Hold'
ridge, who founded their own
record firm and already have
recorded "Macbeth," "T h e
Taming of the Shrew" and
"Othello."
Surplus Store
Opens This Morning
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new Medford business, open
ed at 8 o'clock this morning
at 225 East Sixth st. It han
dles U.S. government surplus
items, plus sporting goods,
naraware and doming.
The firm, similar to a dis
count house, is a branch of
Eugene Surplus Sales. Archie
weinstein is owner; Fred
Manela, store supervisor; Sam
Weinstein, store manager; and
James C. Femrite, sporting
goods manager. A number of
other local persons are em
ployed, they said.
Other branches of the com
pany - include Coos - Bend,
Roseburg and 99 Surplus
Sales, Eugene, as well as a
number of other affiliated
stores.
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