POP'S NEW NAME IS AIRMAN
KIDS HOPE TO BE FLEDGLINGS
(By lsi-Ll. Norman Bellury)
It’s fun to be a .‘fledgling.” At
least the Air Force children in
Washington think it is and they
hope that Air Force children all
over the world will think so too.
In a recent broadcast over the
American Broadcasting Company
in Washington, one child said:
“Army children are called ‘brats,’
children of Navy parents are call
ed ‘juniors.’ We Air Force chil
dren are calling ourselves ‘Fledg
ling’.” A fledgling is a young bird
who is about to sprout its wings
in preparation for flight.”
The term is not official and the
motners of tne Utticers Wives
Club in Washington thought up
the idea and are hoping that
children all over the Air Force
will adopt the term.
After all they couldn’t let “Pop”
get away with a new blue uniform
and a new name without getting
something out of the deal.
WE THINK THAT IT IS A
GRAND IDEA and hope that ev
eryone will adopt the new term
when they refer to our “Air
Force children” — pardon m«
“Fledglings.”
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Hawaii Starts
Preparing Her
Constitution
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HONOLULU, (/P) — Like a girl
hopeful of a proposal from "that
man,” Hawaii will begin filling
her hope chest tomorrow.
“That man” is Congress.
Sixty-three delegates elected by
the people of Hawaii will convene
tomorrow to prepare the hope
chest—a State Constitution. They
want it ready if Congress invites
the Territory to become one of the j
United States.
The delegates include doctors,
lawyers, teachers, wives, two pine
apple company presidents, two la
bor union business agents and a
bartender.
Twenty-nine are Republicans,
21 are Democrats, and 13 have not
been identified with either party.
The election was non-partisan,
but party politics is beginning to
' become apparent. There may be
i a tussle for power.
The convention is expected to
last two months. The legislature
has appropriated money to pay
each delegate $1,000 for 60 days’
1 work.
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"Ike** Lists Three
Point Program For
U. S. Defenses
WASHINGTON, (/Pj — General
Dwight D. Eisenhower Saturday |
proposed a three-point program
for stiffening United States de
fenses.
Senator Elmer Thomas < D.
Okla.), who received the written
recommendations of the wartime
Allied commander in Europe, told
a reporter they call for:
1. Strengthening Alaska and its
major air force against surprise
airborne attack, by a permonent
force of well-trained and equip
ped ground troops and a radar
screen to detect and warn against
air forays.
2. Assurance that the 48-group
first-line air force is equipped
with the most modern aircraft
and backed up by a powerful re
serve of 12 well-equipped air na
tional guard groups.
3. Sufficient funds for the navy i
to start a special anti-submarine1
force, including destroyers, small
aircraft carriers, aircraft and
i other special equipment.
Thomas said the letter fulfilled
Eisenhower's promise to Senators
to spell out changes he would
make in President Truman’s $14.
000,000,000 defense budget for the
1951 fiscal year starting July 1.
The general told Senators Alas
ka is about “five minutes” by air
from Soviet territory and that
| Russia is known to have expand
, ed her air force and submarine
power.
But he expressed strong doubt
that Russia plans any war in the
near future, pointing out that
| many Soviet industries were dev
! astated by the last war and that
Russia respects the strength of the
United States.
Thomas said the Eisenhower
letter, besides listing the three
high-priority projects, also noted
j the need for keen attention to in
j telligence and industrial mobili
i zation plans.
In his testimony, Eisenhower
cited Alaskan defenses as an ex
! ample of moving “a little bit too
far in our disarmament.”
‘I think we ought to have sta
tioned on each major airfield in
Alaska at least a good battalion
of infantry, with necessary auxil
iaries, bazookas and recoilless
guns and things that are handled
with not to much weight," Eisen
hower testified.
He said the radar screen to de
tect aircraft should be completed
in Alaska within the next three
j years.
As for size of the air force, he
told Senators the 48 regular
groups and 12 national guard
units would “probably be a safe
minimum,” if they were kept
modernized.
NAVY TRAINS
BROTHER-SISTER LEADERS
GREAT LAKES, 111. </P) — A
brother and sister pair of recruits
graduated from the naval training
center here in positions of com- i
mand.
Jeanne Mary Campsmith, and
her brother, Jack, were sworn
into the U. S. Navy as recruits
from Muskegon, Mich., the same
week. At the graduation review,
Jack served as brigade command
er. Jeanne was squad leader of
the graduating Wave company.
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LONDON, (/P)—G. M. Mullally,
senior surgeon at Westminster ;
Hospital here, has just retired at
G2 after performing 20,000 opera
tions in 30 years.
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SAN FRANCJSCO, </?>• — The
Bixby’s—27-year-old Dianna, and
30-yoar-old Hob—took off Satur
day at 0:03 a.m. <PST' for New-1
ark, N. J., on their long-delayed
attempt to smash the round-the
world flight record.
With a good tailwind and fair
weather ahead, they expected to
arrive in Newark about 4 p.m. <E
ST'. They planned to average
about 350 miles per hour plus
whatever help they get from the
wind.
The husband and wife team
flew a twin-engine British Mos
quito bomber, Huntress II, which
they bought in Miami in 1949 for
$4,500. They took off here because
the National Aeronautical Asso
ciation requires a San Francisco
take-off for a record world-gird
ling attempt.
The Bixby’s are aiming at the
record of 73 hours, five minutes
and 11 seconds set in August,
1947, by the late Bill Odom over
the 21,076 mils course. The plan
calls for stops at Newark, Paris,
Cairo, Karachi, Calcutta, Tokyo
and Midway Island with San
Francisco as the terminus.
The longest hop, according to
Mrs. Bixbv, will be 3,647 miles
between Newark and Paris.
Hospital [Sews
Two children have been ad
mitted to the hospital. Thomas
Boucher for a tonsilectomy and
the infant of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Smith.
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