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2nd Fighters
Go
By JOOP MARMELSTEIN
United Press International
SOESTERBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, The Netherlands UP1
A piercing warning alarm shat
ters the evening calm. Two men
who could be mistaken for outer
space visitors rush to their jet
fighters. Minutes later only an
eerie vapor trail is visible as
the jets streak toward a possible
rendezvous with death.
Although this Is just another
test, pilots of the U. S. Air
Force's 32nd fighter-interceptor
squadron attached to this Dutch
air base arc deadly earnest.
They never know when a mis
sion might be for real.
The 32nd has the distinction
of being the only American
squadron commanded by an
other NATO country. It sends
its fighters up on command
from the Dutch base operations
center.
"This is unique in NATO,"
said Col. F. E. Broers of the
Royal Netherlands Air Force,
who commands the Soesterberg
base.
Col. Gelvin S. Nicely, com
manding officer of the 32nd
squadron, said nowhere in
NATO is the spirit of partner
ship better demonstrated than
at this air base.
Dutch Considerate
The pilots themselves enjoy
one aspect of operating under
the Dutch more than they did
back home. "In the states",
said one, "they think nothing of
sending you up at four in the
morning. But here, the Dutch
hardly ever send us out on a
practice alert at that ungodly
hour."
Night alerts are kept to a
prescribed minimum because of
the noise problem. There are
Bids Called for
Keno Road Work
PORTLAND Invitation for
bids for surfacing of a segment
of the Keno rd. are now being
accepted by the bureau of pub
lic roads, 302 Mohawk building,
23 SW Morrison St., Portland,
according to the U.S. depart
ment of the interior.
The bids will be received un
til 2 p.m. Sept. 30. The project
is located in the south adminis
trative area of the Mcdford dis
trict, approximately six miles
west of Keno.
Plans and specifications may
be examined by prospective bid
ders at the Mcdford district of
fice, bureau of land manage
ment, 1133 South Riverside ave.,
Mcdford, or by contacting bu
reau of public roads representa
tive, D. D. Lein, Keno.
A field review of the project
started today and will continue
tomorrow. Individuals planning
to make this field trip are asked
to be at the beginning of the
project on Highway 66 at 9 a.m.
Thursday.
Up at Dutch Commamid
Marijuana Seized,
10 Held in Seattle
SEATTLE (UPI)-Police raid
ed a University District room
ing house Tuesday night, ar
rested 10 persons and seized
marijuana and pep pills as the
climax to a week of intensive
investigation.
Nine of the persons arrested
were minors and the other was
a 28-year-old woman.
A member of the police de
partment's special patrol squad,
Joe Cordas, acting as an under
cover agent, said he made sev
eral purchases at the house dur
ing the past week.
His last purchase, amounting
to $30, came Tuesday night just
before police raided the house.
Police said a large amount
of marijuana was seized.
Three women. 18. 19. and 28,
and seven young men were ar
rested. The young men included
four who were 18 years old, two
19, and one 20.
Bids Are Called for
Tree, Shrub Planting
Bids for a roadside improve
ment project over a distance of
9.58 miles between Medford and
Ashland on the 12th street
North Ashland Interchange Sec
tion of Interstate 5 will be re
ceived by the state highway
commission Oct. 8.
The Nds will be received in
Salem. The plans call for plant
ing trees, shrubs, and vines on
the roadside and slopes and in
stallation of an irrigation sys
tem at the south end of the
Barnrtl road interchange. Com
pletion of the project is sched
uled for Ihe fall of 1964.
Multnomah Stadium
Put Up For Sale
PORTLAND I'PI ) - Multno
mah Stadium has been turned
over to a local realtor for
lease or sale for J2.1 million.
Franklin Drake. Multnomah
Athletic Club president, said it
was still the hope of the club
(hat a local civic or governmen
tal body could continue a civic
stadium facility here. But, he
said, Ihe club needed the money
from the sale or lease for its
new building program.
many Dutch villages in close
proximity to the air base.
Alerts are, however, a daily
"must" in the 32nd. Two pilots,
wearing flight gear, are on duty
24 hours a days and never stray
more than 100 yards from two
perfectly-tuned Convair F102-A
Delta Dagger jet fighters.
The pilots' helmets lie on the
side of the open cockpits and
the cockpit hoods are always
raised. A diesel generator
stands between the two aircraft,
ready to warm up electronic
systems inside both jet-fighters.
Five Minutes
Even at night, the time that
elapses between the first alarm
. and the time when pilots report
j they are flying at 15,000 feet is
never more than five minutes.
Often it is less, and three min
ing the daytime is about aver
inig the daytime is about aver
age. No pilot lives more than a
half-hour's travel from "Nieuw
Amsterdam," as the American
enclave on this sprawling Dutch
air base is called.
A piercing blast announces
an alert. If it is a steady sound,
only one fighter has to "scram
ble." But if the alarm warbles,
both planes must go up.
The pilots, lounging in com
fortable chairs, or sleeping in
side their flight uniforms, race
into the air-conditioned alert
hangar and rush up the ladders
into their cockpits.
Warning lights glow to report
that vital systems are ready.
The canopies close after the
pilot shows his crew chief Ihe
safetypin taken from his ejec
tion mechanism. Only then does
the crew chief pull away the
chocks from the landing gear.
Toward Iron Curtain
The big doors of the hangar,
moving on counterweights, slide
open and the pilots "give her
the gun." In the air, they will
' receive the coded operational '
' data vital to their defensive mis
sion. They will be on their way ,
by then because their runway '
leads due cast in tne direction
' of the iron curtain,
j "Only if there is a cross wind
I of 35 knots or more do we use
another runway," one pilot said,
i Capt. William Foster, from
Milk Creek, Calif., and Lt.
1 Bruse Mosicr of ( P.O. 5, Box
1 224.) Erie, Pa., said they re
: garded every alert as the real
! thing until told otherwise while
streaking towards their oper
ating area.
Foster is a West Point gradu
ate, while Mosicr was in the
Air Force academy class of
I960.
Even after 22 hours on alert
duty, the pilots must still be
at the peak of efficiency.
"When the claxcm wakes us
up wo just run to the planes
and jump in," Foster said. "We
get out of the hangar and up in
Ihe air while concentrating on
the mission. The mechanics of
flying are second-nature to us.
The Dutch here also have an
I alert facility."
About his command, Col.
I Broers said:.
"Our pilots sit in a shod. Our
i country just cannot spend the
sort of money it lakes to build
1 such an alert facility as the
32nd have. But in spite of that,
the pilots gel along fine, and
that goes for their social life
as well as for the time they
spend aloft flying in combined
formations."
The American enclave at this
air base lies close to the center
of Holland, in one corner of,
! Soesterberg. lt is the home-1
away-from-homo for 750 U.S. Air
Force men and 1,100 dependents !
who live nearby in Ihe towns I
'of Den Dolder, Zcist, Soest andj
Amersfoort. All of the Ameri-j
jeans intervicd enjoy being sta-j
i tioncd in Holland.
M-'Sgt. Frank Crocker of (50
jWardear st.,) llowlnnd, Maine,
I moved here just two months
I ago for a throe-year tour of
duty as "top-kick" of the 32nd.
' "The climate here is about
i what it is in Maine and 1 like
it," Crocker said. "We get along
well with the Dutch, most of
whom can converse with us. The
kids have already started to
pick up the language here."
The same holds true for most
of the American youngsters liv
ing near the base. The youngest
go to a Dutch kindergarten, and
there is a school building in
side the base where grades 1
through 8 are taught by Amer
ican teachers. Grades 9 through
12 are taught in an English
language school in the Hague,
about 60 miles away.
The Medical Roundup
by
or-
Ememui Consultant In Medteln
Mayo runic .
Emeritus Professor of Medlcln
Mayo Clinic
(Register XAd Tribun Syndicate.
1963)
Some Problems of Jaundice
In the past few years, we
have had in America quite an
epidemic of the mild infectious
hepatitis (d l s
ease of the li
ver. Also we
have had an
epidemic of the
very serious
serum hepatitis
(which can
come after a
transfusion of
Uvarr Diuoui; a l s u,
much cirrhosis of the liver (de
struction of much of the liver).
With all this, jaundice has be
come a fairly common symp
tom. When it appears, it is
very important that a correct
diagnosis of the cause be made.
The diagnosis tends to vary
with the age of the person.
For instance: between the
ages of 5 and 20 years, the in
fectious hepatitis, which is due
to a virus, will account for nine
out of 10 cases. This type of dis
ease remains an important
cause of jaundice even in the
ages between 20 and 35 years.
In older patients, and particu
larly in the cases of stout wom
en, a yellowish skin can be due
to a gallstone which is obstruct
ing the common duct (which
carries the bile from the liver
down into the bowel).
In the later years of life
after 50 or 60 a severe jaun
dice, which never lets up for a
day, can be due to a cancer of
the pancreas, which obstructs
the outlet of the common bile
duct where it joins the bowel.
Another distressing type of
jaundice is due to cancer of the
liver. Usually this cancer has
spread from some place per
haps in the bowel and has de
stroyed most of the liver cells.
Rarely the cancer started in the
liver. Yet another cause of
jaundice can be a severe cirrho
sis due to hepatitis or too
much drinking of alcohol. Fi
nally, in recent years, some
jaundices are due to an unfor
tunate side or unwanted re
action to one of the many new
synthetic drugs.
Tests Helpful
Often the diagnosis can be
made with accuracy by an ex
pert in a large clinic, just by
looking at Ihe patient and asking
a few questions. Helpful evidence
can be obtained from laboratory
tests, and largely by watching
to see if the degree of jaundice
varies from week to week. As I
said above, if the yellow color
stays for weeks without chang
ing in its intensity, it is very
likely to be due to cancer. Also
significant is the fact that with
cancer the patient's skin color
may be more greenish than yel
low; also the poor person will
probably itch terribly all over.
In some cases, the diagnosis
is made by what is called a bi
opsy of the liver. A big hollow
needle is pushed into the liver,
and in this way some of the
tissue is golton out for section
ing and staining, and study
under the microscope. If x-ray
studies show that the patient
has gallstones; or if, a while
before, he had a gallbladder full
of stones removed, and if he has
attacks of pain on the right side
over his gallbladder, there is
a good chance that he has some
stones left in his common duct,
where they are obstructing the
flow of bile from his liver into
his bowel.
If x-ray studies show a nor
cally functioning gallbladder,
and no sign of gallstones or
cancer, and especially if the
person has been a heavy drinker
for years, or has had a bad at
tack of hepatitis, he may well
have a cirrhosis of his liver.
Certain laboratory tests can
greatly help the physician in
making the different diagnosis.
One of the curious unsolved
questions in medicine is why a
person who is perfectly healthy
and happy for months or years,
can be carrying in his blood the
very dangerous virus of serum
hepatitis. If, while in this state,
he gives some blood as a trans
fusion to help another person,
within two or three months that
person may come down with a
severe form of inflammation of
his liver. A very serious prob
lem today, and one that is as
yet unsolved' is how to detect
these carriers of the serum
hepatitis virus, so that they will
never be accepted as donors for
transfusions; also how to de
stroy the virus of hepatitis
when it gets into a blood bank.
Diabetes Insipidus
As many people know, there is
a disease called diabetes insi
pidus, in which the person
keeps constantly drinking enor
mous quantities of water, and
keeps passing enormous quan
tities of urine, which has no su
gar in it. Some of these persons
get much help from a snufff
made from dried and powdered
pituitary glands; but a few are
no better for taking it.
Recently, Dr. Anna R. Spie
gelman of New York City re
ported that a substance called
8-lysinc vasopressin, in the
form of a nasal spray, worked
well. In some cases, amino
pyrinc can help the patient, but
its use must be watched close
ly because it can injure the
white cells in the blood. Some
drugs of the chlorothiazide
group can help for a while.
There are several types of
goiter about which the person
who suspects thyroid trouble
should know. Dr. Alvarez tells
about them .in his booklet on the
subject. You may get a copy of
it by simply sending 25 cents
and a self-addressed, stamped
envelope with your request for it
to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Dept.
MMT, Box 957, Des Moinci,
Iowa, 50301.
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