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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1963)
Nelson Reed Begins European Tour By Over-Arctic Flight To London Editors Note: Nelson Recd.lio talch up on some cu-iwivx u iiniicu uuMiies&nian. is currently on a trip to Eur ope. Follow ing is his narrative on the first part of his journey, the flight to London. March 30. 196.) Our departure from Portland was not exactly auspicious. Winds up to 90 miles an hour the night before made us wonder if we were in for another Columbu: Day typhoon. Out at the airport in the morning it was raining like squirting a fire hose with a lot o( wind. But up we went right on time in one of Pan Am's 707 Boe ing jets, headed for London. our night to heattle, just 30 minutes away, was surprisingly smooth considering the weather and soon we saw the snowcapped Olympics through the rainclouds. Circling over Puget Sound to come in for a landing against the wind, we landed at the Seattle Tacoma Airport in a real slam bang landing. It made us marvel that tires and landing gear could stand the shock of 250.000 lbs. hit ting at 150 miles an hour. We were on the ground for 50 minutes to take on feul for the jets and some for the passengers. Then up we went into more over cast and rainclouds. We always marvel at how the navigator finds his way blindly across thousands of miles, and then we read again about all his electronic aids, the Loran long range finder, the gyro compass, the magnetic compass, and in a pinch the good old sex tant. Man thinks he is pretty smart with all such tricks but our geese and ducks have it all built into their not so foolish little heads, perhaps because those heads have never been cluttered up with a lot of often useless in formation. Shortly after takeoff the hostess demonstrated how to use a life preserver. We hoped we would not have to try it in the frigid waters of the Arctic, even if we were lucky enough to find any open water. Then we were told about our oxygen masks which would automatically drop over our faces if the plane decom pressed. Those we savvied as we had once sniffed oxygen flying over the Andes. The captain tells us that wc shall be flying at 39,000 feet, and that our flying time to London will be 9 hours as we have a 50-mile-an-hour tail wind: that we shall have a smooth ride except for occasional turbulence when we encounter high altitude jet streams. We shall fly over Hud son Bay, Greenland, and come down over Ireland and into Lon don nonstop. For a while we get glimpses of; the Canadian Rockies covered w ith snow that look like the coun try around Glacier Park. Then the overcast hides everything be low and the sky above is a pale blue. We miss seeing the great plains of Alberta and Saskatche wan, and just as sunset below us are the endless snowfields or the vast Arctic w ith the black lines of bare ridges snaking through the white expanse. At 5 o'clock Klam ath time it is dusk with a faint glow on the horizon for it is now 9 o'clock sun time. We marvel at how steady the big .plane is at high altitudes. There is only the low drone of the jets to remind you that you are moving. At 9:30 Klamath time there is a lovely orange Dana sircaKca with black along the Eastern hor izon. Above the sky is a marve lous pale blue that shades off into black. Soon it will be daylight and we shall be approaching northern Ireland. Beneath us the tumbled cloud fields are a lovely blue reflected from the sky above. As the great plane rolls gently the cloud field seems to roll and surge like the seas. Just at 10 p.m. Klamath time the sun peeps over the cloud bank in the east. Below us through .the broken clouds we catch glimpses of land with large lakes or estuaries and occasional riv ers. We are over northern Ireland. Soon we come out over the open sea and gradually descend to break out of the overcast for a smooth landing at the London air port. It is raining almost as hard as it was in Portland. You almost begin to wonder if it is raining in the Sahara. With very little delay and the most casual examination of our baggage and passports wc are through customs and on our wav to the hotel where we hope We can provide car insurance ot reduced rates for safe drivers See friendly Bill McKibbin Midland Empire INSURANCE AGENCY 100 Main St. !" TU 4-6417 till McKibbin ni Clttn Ltiuui tab lost sleep 1 imouch it 7 m , 1 1.... i.w a.m. ixunjuii time. April 1. 1963 Heretofore I had always under stood mat my ancestors had been run out of England some 200 years ago for refusing to cut the toenails off their hounds which were running the king's deer. But now 1 realize that the climte did it. There has been nothine but rain ana aamp cola and you can leave off the P, since we arrived. A few days here vou becin to realize that the English language two kinds. U.S. and British. Here if you buy a tickets to the Picadilly Circus you won't see any wild animals pertormmg. ou will just get a ride on the "under ground" subway to you. A circus is a big circle with streets run ning off in every direction and the only wild things you will sec are American tourists trvina to figure out where in the heck they are. Across Picadilly there is a sign that reads: "City of Westminster, Ladies." Make no mistake, it is not a woman's club. It is where you go when you have to go. If you get a "lift" over here no body picks you up. You just take an elevator. Here there are no barber shops, just men's hair dressers. And are the men's hair dressy. None of your crew cut bristle tops. And the gals! Never have we seen so many "mop top molls." Their eyes peer out at your like small animals out of the bushes. Having eaten and ridden hors es through the Old Man's War we have a deep hatred of all horseflesh.. So we passed up the Aintree Races for the theatre. Took in two stage plays, both American and both excellent: "My Fair Lady" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Real ly Trying," the latter just opened here yesterday. There are a great many theatres here and all of them packed apparently as we found out in trying to buy tick ets. Only you don't buy a ticket, you buy a "stall" unless you want to sit in any of the three galler ies. On Saturday afternoon all the stores button up tight at 1 o'clock, while at home we argue about Sunday closing. At least that makes it easier on the , tourist pocketbook. However, on Friday I did do a little shopping, window shopping you might call it. All my life I had heard that Purdcy of London made the finest shot guns in the world. Guess they do, though I shall never really know for sure. I looked. Asked the clerk to show me a plain, simple field grade double. He said they are all made to order. We just happen to have one a gentleman is going to come after. It was a beautiful little 16 gauge double. I handled it lovingingly and admired it no end. Then I asked the price. "Sev en hundred titty pounds here. the man said, which would be about $2100 time I paid the duty, etc. I was so spooked that 1 pointed to a stuffed bird on the wall and asked what kind of duck that was. "That," said the clerk with rather a hopeless expres sion, "that, sir, is a goose." I fled before he could tell me the price of it. On the way out I did Patrol Boat Loses Hatch PORTLAND (UPD - A 20-foot Multnomah County Sheriff's patrol boat limped into Washougal, Wash., Friday alter running into trouble on the Columbia River. The outboard boat, carrying two deputies, went out to check on two skin divers swimming in the river but lost a hatch in high waves and heavy wind. A Coast Guard boat was order ed out for assistance but was not needed. fcaa f m m m a a nrrfriTF see a four barrel shotgun that 1 think would be just right for one of my hunting partners who al ways shoots everything he has at anything. Sunday morning I walked through Green Park and Hyde Park and it was cold and raining The park was full of horseback riders. They would sure scare our cows right off the range. The very dressy grownups were dressed in derby hats, white riding pants and boots mot cowboy. Some of the ladies even rode sidesaddle There were lots of little girls riding Shetland ponies or small horses, tight little caps on their heads with pony tails sticking out, light fitting jackets and jodphurs. I saw no small bovs. Guess thev were all at home tinkering with their motor scooters. The park was full of dogs having their day off leash. Thev were the best behaved dogs I have seen. No fights, just friendly visits with other pups. No chasing of ducks or pigeons which the park was full of. It seemed a pity that they had been brought up without any of their natural instincts getting a workout. Sunday afternoon we called on Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Stearns and family, Francis and Alan, her husband, and their two children who live in a London suburb where he is working as a bio chemist. They were interested in the latest from Klamath and we were fascinated and amused no end hearing them tell of their ex periences living in London. Life here is very different for young married people than in the U.S. what with no central heat, and little coal stoves to be "fed" con tinually all through a very long cold winter. It makes you appre ciate what we have at home to hear about it. One thing that struck us here was the fancy automobile sales rooms. They are only showrooms full of shiny cars and lots of sil ver trophies. We think each Eng lish car must have its own par ticular road race which it wins for none of them seems to have ever come back empty handed. Where they sell parts and where they fix them we never did see. In three days here we have not seen one American car. Thev would be a pain in the neck in this traffic. If one got crossways it would block four lanes of traf fic. These little English cars skit ler around like so many water bugs and you better be looking to your left when you cross the street or you will have had one. Man Released On $5,000 Bail PORTLAND (UPD - Jo Walton Holmes, 44, charged with contrib uting to the delinquency of two minor girls, has been released on $5,000 bail. A hearing has been scheduled on motions filed seeking dismissal of the two indictments. The Clackamas County laborer was also questioned in connection with the December, 1962, kidnap and slaying of Mona Rae Min yard, 6. 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