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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 10M
Write Has Tough Time
As Might Heckler Shows
-Him How UN Planes Work
Bv JAMES A. MICHFNKR
WITH U.8. CARRIER ESSEX Ofl
Korea Un The unhnpplesl Amcr-
ican is s sawett-off 36-ycar old pi'
lot called Felix Bertagna, ot An
dover, N. H.
He can sit in 'the 'wardroom ot
the Carrier Essex and just about
areas: your Heart.
"Look at me!" he wails. "Tin
one of the best trained men in the
Navy. A night liocklnr. I take a
plane off tills tub in darkness, I
go over Korea and fight i.i dark
ness, then I came back In darkness
to find this lousy bucket, and ji
pitch darkness X make a currier
landing."
Is that why he is so mournfui?
"Nol It's because they won't
give me any work to co. Pitiful
little missions. It would break your
heart to be the oest trained nan '.n
the fleet and then to be completely
misused.
"What burns me up is that every
body leaves us in o corner. Like
poor country cousins. No corres
pondent ever co-ncs out with us.
You wouldn't 'Jare to taka n nistj.t
flight, would you?"
(The Admiral explained that cor
respondents aren't permitted on
night flights. Michener had special
orders to make one. but even then
had to argue. The Admiral wanted
to talk him out of going. )
So this morning we rolled out ol
bed at 3, had a big breakfast. Then
we heard the bad news. Since I
was going Felix and his wingman.
Red Sttllwell of Independence, Mo.
would be given the safe and unin
teresting shoe route. But "don't
take any risks." -
Felix mumbled, "That's the way
it always is."
At 4:30 we went topside onto the
pitch black carrier deck. It was
ghostly with the shadows of many
planes.
There is nothing like a night
catapult launching. You are
whipped forward at enormous
speed, shot out into perfect dark
ness, dropped perilously low over
me ocean mai you cant see, and
then shoved upward into the sky.
It's an amazing sensation.
Felix and Red said little over
their two-way radio but finally Fe
lix cried, "looks like Hungnam
dead ahead." Three or four lights,
the shadow of a river. That was
all. But it was our starting point.
We roared up the coast at 2S0
miles an hour and then with burst
of pure luck Felix opened up what
was to be one of the most sensa
tional night flights in history.
He thought he saw a light In what
could have been a very large build
ing. "I don't see anything," Red
said. "I'll drop a hundred pounder
anyway," Felix replied.
He leveled off for a terrific bomb
run, dropped to ISO feet and let so.
There was a gigantic explosion, our
plane was listed 30 feet, our tail
was higher than our nose, and I
wanted to get out. Felix had hit a
big munitions plant.
The entire countryside was u I
blaze of light. Pillars of fire 200,
or 300 feet high probed into the;
pitch black. I
Below, rushing for the saf.jfv of
a long tunnel, were two locomotives
and about 30 boxcars. These were
the life line of the Communists. !
The next half hour was amaninir.
With a terrific blast Red cut the I
track leading to the tunnel. Felix;
Knocked some cars cif the other
end of the line, and the valuable
locomotives were tnoped.
Now we hit Uie:n from every
angle. Out of absolute darkness.
Sonjn Hciiic
says
with not a single llKht nn our
planes, Felix und Red combed
those trains froimend to end. One
big bomb caught a cailo.id of am
munition. Another set the engine
itself smoking. The v lley Was a
ghostly Inferno wl'h four separate
big lires, toppet oy the laetory
Itself which kept blasting lurtously
How Felix and Rei could flv In
the pitch dark, weaving back ami
forth upon one another like (.killed'
basketball forwards, Is it secret.
All I can say is that here were
two massive planes flying 300 miles
an hour without a slnx'.o visible
clue as to where the other man
was. Yet they sometimes passed at
50 feetl
Red spoted a gun position that
was firing at us ai.d vhich nlfendv
had put a bullet thnuis'.i hi-- wing.
With a pounce of from 1,500 feet
Red annihilated that gun.
Now, unmolested, Felix and Red
went about the dizzy and terrifying
business of making one power dive
after another on the train.
To my immense relief, our morn
ing Jet planes appeared to take
over and we went north to where
we were supposed to have been all
the time.
Felix was in luck. Leaving the
trains, he got a truck, one of (lie
most valuable targets in Norm Ko
rea today. Then he found a large
boat, the kind the ComnumlMs
have been using to make n.tsuults
on our forward positions'. With one
bomb Felix blew it absolutely
apart.,
Farther along the coast he found
a nest of sampans which had been
carrying supplies at night. Ho was
almost out of bombs so he used his
few remaining bullets to strafe at
low level and he put down three of
the sampans.
He now had one bomb left. Red.
who had been off after some ox
carts which the Communists use
for heavy transport, was out of
bombs and ammo both.
The two men teamed up again
and Red scoured the countryside
for one last target. He found a
ROBERT LEE ANDERSON,
19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
bert Anderson, Poe Valley,
stationed at Astoria has
been home recently. A
graduate of Henley high
school in 19151 he enlisted
in the navy last July 13.
beauty. A boat In a dry dock. Cold
ly Felix dropped down to Inspect
Tills was worthwhile. He climbed
for a high run, dove down furiously,
and blew the boat, the drvdock.
and what was left of my stomach
au 10 pieces.
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If all the people who worked to get your telephone to you could have called at your home with the installer, you'd have seen something like this.
What it takes to install one new telephone
A big team of telephone people is needed to let you hear, that first "hello"
The doorbell's ring announces the telephone installer, telephone in one hand, crisp new direc
tory in the other. He goes to work quickly, and, almost before you know it, you're making
that first call. Seems simple, doesn't it? Yet a surprisingly large team of people you'll probably
never meet worked hard to make it possible for the installer to mount your steps. And that
doesn't even count all the other craftsmen who had a hand in manufacturing the telephone
instrument and other equipment needed to carry your calls.
Cable crews, for instance, installed the cable
from the central office to your neighborhood. Other
telephone people determined the exact pair of wires
in that cable which would carry your calls. Still
others tested the circuits, or put up poles, or spliced
wires ... or performed any number of other jobs
which made that first ring possible.
The man who soldered your wires to the intricate
central office frame, the girl who took your order
for service and all telephone people have as a
goal: to get telephones to all who want them. They
know their jobs. And they're doing them so well
we've been able to double the number of telephones
at work in the Pacific West in less than ten years.
Your telephone is one of
today's best bargains
Each new telephone we add repre
sents about $430 in equipment
more than double what it was for
the prewar period. Our day-to-day
operating costs have soared, too.
Yet telephone rates have gone up
far less than most things you buy.
M Pacific Telephone
City Paving
Plans Laid
About half down paving pro
jects are being lined up for thin
summer here In town, and along
with the normal repair work on
city streets should attract tioiue
competition In bids.
Hie Oily Council Is going to In
itiate sinull Improvement proiccln
on Painter mill Lawrence, from
Pacific Terrace down to die ulley
nearest Eldorado, where there are
only a few property owners, and
City Engineer K. A. Thomas lms
boen asked by Councilman Wendell
Smith to make a preliminary esti
mate of the ro.il of paving Cali
fornia from Uphiim to Delia.
Thomas hail made an e.ttlmato
on paving the uphill block of Clriuit
from 8th to otli, at about U a
front foot for 30 foot pavement
without curbs, und on Plum be
tween 7th and 0th, 40-foot pave
ment, $13.35 a front foot.
lie also outlined to the City
Council last night u Job of install
ing a catch basin In front of tho
Cllb Fleet residence, 330 Conger,
and possibly one or two at Califor
nia and Conger to take rare of
heavy runoff water there. The eo.it,
Thomas said, probablv will be H(i:i.
' Nino proporty owners of the sec
tion of Pnlntor outlined for paving
have signed a pelltlon 'favoring
the job, and Councilman Unrrrll
Miller iiaked Thomas to nlno iniiko
a preliminary estimate for Law
rence street ao Uio city could In
itiate a projeot thorn.
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to represent the SCHOOL OF SPEEDWRITINCof Klamath
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SPEEDWRITINC can be taught In Day School In 8 weeks,
and in Night School in 16 weeks. Tho reason for this short
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SPEEDWRITINC Is now in Its 26th year, and there are
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businessmen and women, secretaries, stenographers, typ
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