The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee (2024)

May 11, 1952

Publication:

The Knoxville News-Sentineli

Location:

Knoxville, Tennessee

Issue Date:

Sunday, May 11, 1952

Page:

33

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Facilities Nearly Complete ''at Airport A 'jf VSS' for First Self-Sustaining AF Base Here at in nAVTI YJ 'fMA 4 A vswrt1 WAT1S LOAFING of their endless ready-room poker sessions they might be any hoy group of feU lows on an afternoon off But let radar communications start chattering a warning of unidentified aircraft approaching Those boys are out of their alert shack and roaring skyward to meet the possible threat In practically nottiing flat They're the pioneers spearheading Knoxville area's first peacetime air defense to be set up at Municipal the pilots of the 105 th lighter-interceptor Squadron Some haven't actually chased enemy planes since World War IL Some arc fresh from Korean sky fighting MISSIONS AEEEEAL ALL ARE young all spry at sprinting to their armed waiting Thunderbolts and tearing aloft at the first alarm They get ample practice not just practice Any day sometimes several times a day they take to the air to in-- vestigate unidentified planes So far suspicious craft have turned out to be some pilot who forgot to file a flight plan or neg- lected some other requirement But the: 105th takes no chances They're here to protect Oak Ridge TVA dams Alcoa plant and other vital East Tennessee installations around the dock The 2000-horsepower Thunder- bolts carry four 50-caliber ma-T'chineguni in each wing1 They are great fighting vehicles but A NUMBER of squadron pilots and their families now have NO' jets here BASE' IS GROWING LT3 COL JOHN "ELDER the new iHumwamilwg of- fleer explained about that: Within a few -when 1 Air Force installations are Complete-Municipal Airport will become a full-fledged self-sustain-' ing AF -base The fighters will be aU jet (the type not yet disclosed) -i Support units will be assigned here for almost every variety of i plane repair and maintenance -for fuel and-other supply storage and to staff mess and hous-7 ing services Air and ground per- sonnel wttl total several hundred then 1 Squadron headquarters is 1 still at Berry Field Nashville officially Three big new barracks buildings are now just about ready on the north side of the port opposite the Administration Building They will house base headquarters and personnel and their families Barracks are convenient to the jet runway a newly concreted ribbon a mile and a quar- -i? nunr raoun nr colont Man Lifts EAST TENNESSEE DEFENSE At Municipal Airport these Air Force Thunderbolt fighters stand poised to take off and investigate any unidentified craft approaching Oak Ridge or other key installations They will soon be replaced by jet fighters' Note the warning sign "HOT GUNS" Each Thunderbolt carries eight machine loaded "Y': -4 i- ALERT LO AFIN Abo ve in their ready-room at Municipal Airport these 105th fighter pilots kill time at'cards while awaiting emergency call In minutes they can man their planes and he aloft to intercept unannounced aircraf Sitting at table from left are Lts Howard Blood Fort Wayne Ind Ross Gibson Nashville Vernon Allgood Salt Lake City -and CarlJ Laggren EUzabethNJ The kibitzer standing is Sgt Robert J-Davis Conn '4 -Vv by Alcoa fWe don't heed an officers' club" grinned Capt Letcher Williamson squadron engineering officer "We turn about turning one of' our homes into a club for the whole gang for a given evening" Asked about his given' name soon will give way here to tages on the same square innear- Great Lakes Water' Nature Not to 4 Feet he grimaces "Just mska it period in the paper I certainly a lecherous But I was too young to defend mysalf --when I got that first name1' Iy The little colony Is hardly a step from Alcoa swim- ming pooL Pllots who spent last summer in the Korean heat are really looking- forward' to cod hours there On newly-assigned fighter pilot Capt Albert Arthur joined the squadron fresh from Korea the day we visited the 105th But he show up while we were Another Korean veteran blond LL Vernon Allgood Salt Lake City it an expressive talker but finds battlefront dlscussim dif- -A FLEW IN WAR SORTIES fCANT seem to remember any particularly exciting incidents and an the other hand it was all exciting" he explained 'I "I was in an F-51 assigned to close support of ground forces -s come in on the Communist lines hardly 50 feet above the tree-tope sometimes strafing and bombing Their troops would plaster' us with small-arms fire as well as the barrages from 50-caliber' and- 20-millimeter guns mounted tanks and ground turrets -'r "Mr ship waia the only In our group of 75 that flew 100 sorties without taking a single bullet hole Yeah we had a good Mt of turn-over" "-i Capt Williamson 105th engineering officer contributed his bit in the Korean situation without ever setting foot in that The captain was maintenance officer of a Guam-baaed Air-Rescue outfit that "pulled a lot 'of water-logged war pilots out of the drink" r- He also remembers dropping the first life boat complete with 2 Audience of 60000000 Around the deep-cradled 'water the earth's surface la gradually tilting Over' long centuries north and east of the lakes the land is lifting repressed into the earth by the cradling weight of the greet ice cap South and west of the lakes the earth is dnUng- Shorelines of aU the lakes are slowly changing -There are tides in the Great Lakes pulled by moon and sun but they are small Of far greater effect are low -and 'high pressure areas 'moving across the waters with the changing weather As the lake surface is pushed down in one place it rises in another- Such oscillations are called seiches BALANCE FOR ST' LAWRENCE V-' IN THE END the Great Lakes can be regarded as the bulging headwaters of a single river From the western tip of Lake Superior they form the upper basin of the St natural reservoirs feeding and controlling its relentless outflow to th sea v--- Over the limestone lip of Niagara pours 212000 cubic feet of water a second It surges into Lake Ontario and out again through the sieve of the Thousand Islands Far above' and from all the shores water comes into the lakes from countless streams and brooks rivulets and forest-bordered rivers' Between the two source and ceaseless outflow a balance is struck When wet years follow each other closely the lakes rise in dry decades they fall Against beaches snd towering bluffs the water level floods and ebbs never quite the same never still WASHINGTON Rising water washing at the doorsteps of cities from Duluth to Chicago from Sault Ste Marie to Toronto gives increasing evidence of a Great Lakes mystery America's five Inland seas are brimming over Bom of the melting Ice Age the Great Lakes contain half the fresh water on earth the National Geographic Society says Behind the hard-fock sills of Niagara Falls and the "Soo" lying In huge stair-stepped basins Is enough water to cover the continental United States 10 to 18 feet deep Levels of the Great Lakes fluctuate from year to year month to month and day to day In the last year the lakes have risen to more than four feet above normal As the runoff of a wet winter flows in from a 325000-square-mile watershed all five lakes have been creeping even higher 1 NATURE CHANGES LAKES WHILE DAMAGE spreads irate property owners sue the Government State end Federal agencies Investigate Congress passes resolutions Yet experts say that all the works of man on the Great dams and canals dikes and dredging have affected water levels only a matter of a few inches over the last century 1 Nature measures its changes in Etched In indent shorelines carved by channels that once ran wide and deep where dry valleys and great cities stand today are boundaries the lakes nave 'filled over a period of 35000 years Wind end storm slosh the waters back and forth In their beds Rain and drought are constantly changing fha levels of the lakes LATE OF Lt Vernon Allgood lef Korean -skies to join the 105th' lighter' uadron here only last January Above parachute donned he scrambles into his Thunderbolt co*ckpit to head off a suspicious plane over this area Two minutes earlier he was playing cards in the alert -k -h BOSSES CoL John' Elder ig new fighter squadron at Airport i A War air veteran he is 33 hut older than most of his -pilots here water-stills food and supplies to aurvtvorg adrift from the sunken Swedish tanker Florentine i She went down off I wo Jims i COMMANDER WELL-LIKED COL ELDER the commander la: a broad-faced broad-shoul-dered handsome guy who looks like recent fullback His men accept him as a good fellow ai well as good commander His office is a partly partftioned-off end of the headquarters Quanset hut' And his big voice now jolly now crisp rings from one end of headquarters to the other -Incidentally or maybe signif- -iJ'- Biggest TViShow uu i-- 4 The News-Sentinel's Big Sunday CrosswordlPuzile irantly bis alert shack is 'much better air-conditioned his own quarters Among other Korean-wise air warriors in the fighter-interceptor unit are Maj Charles Summer nearby Bat Cave Capt Wmiam Munson Lt Eugene 'Lewis and Lt Gail Mehler -Unfortunately on our squadron 'visit we missed Maj Summer and his first-hand story His fellow fliers told us how the F-51 was hit by Communist fire and how he flew it in a-blaze and crashed-landed on his own aide of -the UN lines Such determined fighter pilots worry greatly about han-' dling unidentified planes around here Their procedure is patterned to fit the circ*mstances Usually when' they roar up and head' off the stranger they take his identification number and radio it in "That await instructions STRANGERS DONT ARGUE IF THE ACTION is deemed warranted the stranger is ordered to land forthwith with the Thunderbolt right alongside Thera likely to be much argument about with those eight 50-caliber wing guru staring at the other fellow The colonel got in his own combat time with Thunderbolts and in sorties and escort missions over France and German-from shortly-after D-Day until near end' a native of Xbensburg PaM and graduate of Pennsylvania Teachers College After the war he was' in heavy constructioa until he got the callback to the AF-executive Job a year ago Ha was recently trans ferred here from Nashville and has Mrs' Elder and their daughters Molly 3 and Mercy' 1 with him In their new Alcoa home 1 'V 'j they see telegrams or phone calls to "The (Blank) State Delegation International Amphitheatre Chicago 'Will certainly have their hy such fretsand-easy access to the closely-held privileges of Presidential nomination would be some of the professional politidans4r All too familiar with the way Ty Stations ftitel nilWSiw Smite el A WASHINGTON CL-Tele-visixm is paring off7 new paths ef enmwiiinWtion over the face of the world with twenty-league bootsC A Only a quarter- of century ago tfae first crude silhouettes appeared on ass screens in London New York and Washington This year Tanganyikans may see a television show V-'r At latest cOunt 17 countries ottier than the United States have television transmitters oa the air the National Geographic Society reports 'The: list Includes England France Germany Russia Italy' Denmark the Netherlands Spain Sweden Switzerland Czechoslovakia Canada Mexico Cuba Brazil Argentina and Japan jw- i Ij' ty CURVATURE LIMIT8 RANGE CURVATURE UMRSRANGE Solution on Pip CO Deteea article 1 Fondle M-Ouidofo kw" Ftyln 'i note -mammaln Weirder Feetlihe Part ot irt flrepiaee Moles Elicit July Conventions To Be 5' it 'T evision By WADE JONES THE JULY political conven-tiong at Chicago will be the biggest television show in history Some politicotj a littl apprehensive of this TV tiger they have by the wish the aomewhat The four who will televise the 'proceedings at International Amphitheater estimate that 17000000 TV seta in 62 cities will be tuned in That' compares with only a hall-million etg in nine cities during the 1946 conventions -1 Three networks have gold commercial apanaonhip of conventioi 1 and poat-conventian goings on for 0000 This ttseks up against the approximately $7000000 it wUl coat than to bring' the big how into your home -t- National Broadcasting Co alone will move SOO TV specialists and over $1500000 worth of equip- meat into Chicago VOTERS TO SEE Ji LOOMING LARGS before con- vention planners la the fact that more than 60000000 people will be watching convention acta and antics on Tv -About half of them will be voters' Enough to make a President or break a candidate Enough also to make headaches forpoliticos who arc juat as aware of mighty power as they are unaware of how- to use it on a mammoth convention cale-t -A 1 professional party drum-beater In Washington confessed with refreshing candor "We want to use TV big but we don't know just how yet" 7- 'Another preferred to dwell on the time-honored media of newspapers' magazines and radio' But when he did "manage? to touch lightly upon the television problem be summed lt up neatly if with some understatement "Both he said "win be confronted with the problem of good politics and good j-ivy TV EXTEBTS CALLED SITE ENTER NOW the party of the second part theintM of the TV who certainly ought to inig tv nger iney is tail are beginning to thing would be Juat leas cologaaL know whafa flood television and who befme the whole over may-also be the ones who know whaf good politics-' The television Industry already carries plenty of weight and influence in convention planning In the first place it was 'tbe Probable TV can lift a man like Kefauver from relative obscurity to national renown the party wheels may well wonder who and what else might be shoved down their throats fay TV at convention time rise certainly was no result of a helping hand from President -Traman'ila the dear dead days before television such aloofness on the part of the party vision freeze' and opens the way for 'more than' 2000 stations at home ''at least' 13 additional par tfama are' planning TV' tests Nigeria and Morocco Cyprufl and the Dominican Republic Thailand and India are among 'them I Unlike radio a television broadcast limited by the fact that the earth Is round ItVsignal can reach little 'beyond the visible perhaps 60 tniles or 29 leagues at best' Then it shoots off into space In conquering new fields towers are rising from deserts and jungles sea-coasts and mountaintopa Coaxial' transmission lines hollow tubes carrying electronic impulses at the speed of r-span' the' United States Above ground 107 reflector-topped microwave tower zigzag New -York and San Francisco NYorkd toTrco A SIGHT FOR Gained by the milling throng of delegates at the 1948 Republican Convention in Philadelphia is International Amphitheatre scene of this year's big political 'ahowg merciless eye1 shown in' action (lower right) at 1948 convention will reach viewer in' at least 62 cities thisvear 'j ntfl 'i i -v fi I fu boss would have spelled finis to any aspiring candidate Republicans feel they stand to benefit by a convention speech from the Old Warrior But Taft and Eisenhower forces aware of the power 'of -his oratory1 want too big a dose of him and are firmly against Mac Arthur's speaking too dose to balloting timer'''-y'f--i' 1 4 Again this convention time the Democrats will- get television break from the tradition which calls for the Republicans to hold their assembly first The Demo- crate can profit both from avoiding Republican TV mistakes and -copying their jgood points w- DELEGATES BRIEFED 'ON TV IN THE 1048 conventions Philadelphia the Democrats hssr-ily assembled a list of and for delegates after TV caught people at the Republican conclave sleeping yawning and reading newspapers while speeches were in progress "Television has a merciless and complete eye" the Democratic memo warned delegates with some concern of us 'must remember that" In a later booklet marked for the "confidential" use of candidates and party officials TV had become even more ominous This time it was called merciless and ftough" Male speaker were admonished above all tilings to shave baton facing a TV camera i Ifanot a good idea speakers were told to look grim and scowl' although "flashes of right- ecus were recoin mended --s? -s'- How well they learned their lesson only convention time and TVs tough and merciless eye will -tell A -VA -ps programs to" local-? transmitting stations Both have been seriously -proposed for sending TV around the it SECRET FOUND IN: 1171 CURIOUSLY IT was a telegrapher at-Valentia' Ireland at the-far end of the first transat-lantic cableTwho first set: the -stage' for modern television in 1873 He discovered that the element selfannn transmitted spore -or less ekVririty depending upon the amosef of light falling-on it ii 'Vi': Using that early observation made even before the first wire- less radio message had been sent Iqr Marconi inventors in many countries began laying the foundations for today's television industry Men had dreamed for centuries of being able to project their vision afar Slowly over 50 years thW dream became reality 4 their vision feTstowly 50 years th dream becama reality m-Treplaer: V-" K-Huleel tree drama Pal pita ta i Church Waih rfyar U4-Palr Deal bench Mediterranean neeney I Symbol for U-inportmee Tease! tinlt) tin 5 ji -Bedate Actual Baveraee I Worm Unclneee n-8aanma Part MTeont f-More 1 Part ef Music: an Pose betweea eonreyeeua fortUlcatlea wrlttea peaks (pL) 7 Told Gray Wilderness Cipher I Fruit drink Mental Aleouqulan Conjunction-- Symbol a balance "Indian Omsumed calcium Repair 8pheroid lf-SuOlz Bluer ia ISS-Retreat denoting Arlaaaa Female deer the doer PieUpItetlen State ef Oaeile Maoeereoat Crmpem being 111-Card coma 'lf-Oid- wide-open' Donnybraok with no holds: barred -And he might be MUST" SHORTEN gnXCHE8 -0 BUT WHAT TV wants for the record Is something a little less Bill McAndrew rays smart party will have a well-organized but open convention" This would mean that convention programs be tightened up-many i speeches eliminated en-tirely others cut in and that more of the convention business be conducted out in the open on the convention floor and less in the traditional but untelevised smoke-filled rooms i-v 7 All of which brings bn the possibility of opening up convention proceedings -'to the voting piddle a most revealing manner a prospect that: both saddens and gladdens It's been almost axiomatic that masses of voters have little no control over the bi-Lce uf Presidential nominees These voters wttl be glad to know that they will have as good a look-in on most of the proceedings at Chicago in July as if they were actually therfcg BOOSTED KXrAUVER fZvi a BE ABLE to see a fly ori the says Slg Mlckelstm of Columbia Broadcasting System -v J- if they dont like what T' ttAv'tol-lOti whati Oat deity Horbingw Anna i Mating Vity Journey 1 Trane acting H'S ged ward Oorar Leafy-1 aurfaca of f-t -vasetahle M-Go by water Bwh Article ei Weeh clothins Haul'- Loeeo Let It stand SS-epreodinffH- out from a nickname center Game played Sections an horseback Highway 1 111 One of the Romaav: Great Lakes oftictal Mlf-MUltaTy 1 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Tank in hod Hebrew Mey ng greeting -7 -SSS sa-SUSTT TV boys who practically' dictated the aite of the conventions Chicago's International'' Amphlthe-atre was picked because' from a television "Standpoint about the best rant fax the country A- A chilly critic of latter-day TV didoes mUbt presume that what toe Industry would prefer in the way ef a convention would ben -V- r-j 1 i'i SStodSS SdSTtoS wdiMWiM AS THIS country lifts tta tele- Both aystems cpnyr television 1 'S-: rj.

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