Gigantic Accident
Toll Tallied Up by
Air Force General
CHICAGO, (j?) — An Air Force
official says that since 1950 his
service has lost 3,471 pilots and
7,062 planes in accidents, totaling
a larger air force than any coun
try in the world except Russia.
Two-thirds of the accidents
shouldn’t have happened, he said.
However, he added, the over-all
accident rate in the Air Force is
steadily improving.
Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Caldara,
deputy inspector general for safe
ty of the Air Force, gave the fig
ures Wednesday night during a
talk on safety to the Seventh An
nual Air Safety Forum of the Air
Line Pilots Association.
He said that safe flight opera
tions are attained by improved
air base facilities and adequate
pilot training.
General Caldara came up with
these statistics concerning Air
Force planes:
That at any given moment the
Air Force has 1,000 planes air
borne and these planes average
4,800 miles of flight per minute.
This is equivalent, he said, to
crossing the United States twice
every minute or flying the distance
to the moon in an hour.
Every minute the Air Force
flies accidents somewhere have
cost $900. Within the past five
years the Air Force has lost 1,800
pilots.
The accident rate has been re
duced from 44 major accidents per
100,000 hours of flying time in
1947 to 9.3 in 1959.
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Queen Mary’s
Biography Shows
Tiff with Edw. VIII
LONDON, (jf) — The late Queen
Mary told the Duke of Windsor
that in abdicating for the love of
twice-divorced Wallis Warfield j
Simpson, “You did not seem able
to take any point of view but your
own.”
A secret letter that the old
Queen wrote her son 18 months
after his abdication as King Ed
ward VIII in 1936 was disclosed j
yesterday with the publication of
her official biography. She died at !
85 on March 24, 1953.
“You will remember,” the wi
dow of George V wrote their eld
est son, “how miserable I was
when you informed me of your in
tended marriage and abdication,
and how I implored you not to do
so for our sake and the sake of
the country . . .
“I do not think you have ever
realized the shock which the at
titude you took up caused your
family and the whole nation.
“It seemed inconceivable to
those who made such sacrifices
during the war that you, as their
king, refused a lesser sacrifice.
“My feelings for you as your
mother remain the same and our
being parted, and the cause of it,
grieve me beyond words.
“After all, all my life I have
put country before everything
else, and I simply cannot change
now.”
Edward went into semifexile
and married the Baltimore-born
divorcee after his dramatic broad
cast that he could not carry on as
king without “the woman I love.”
His reign lasted less than 11
months and he was succeeded by
his youngest brother, the Duke of
York, father of Queen Eliza
beth II.
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Gulf of Mexico Site of
x\ir Force Shooting Meet
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE,
Fla., —Twelve Air Force inter
ceptor teams start combat style
missile and rocket shooting com
petition today in the “William
Tell” worldwide weapons meet.
For 10 days they will fire at
small jet drone targets over an
8,000-square mile Gulf of Mex
| ico firing range.
The planes will fire four types
of missiles at 100 speedy drones,
eacih one-tenth the size of a small
bomber.
The Air National Guard team
from Jacksonville, Fla., won the
I meet last* year.
| Four Killed in Explosion
I Near Atomic Laboratory
LOS ALAMOS, N. M., M —
! Four men unloading high explo
sive scraps at a dump near this
I atomic laboratory city were kiled
| Wednesday when the material ex
| ploded.
Officials said no radioactive
| material was involved. High ex
i plosives, like TNT, are used in
many experiments in developing j
j atomic weapons.
Officals said the four nontech- j
I ncal employes were on a routine 1
i job — that scraps of such explo
| sives were burned in the pit al
I most every day.
Hawaiian Eskimo . . .
PANAMA CITY, Fla., OB — Air
man 2/c George T. Ueunten of
the Air Defense Command is tired
of being mistaken for an Eskimo.
He’s stationed at Elmendorf Air
Force Base, Anchorage, and in his
parka gets friendly greetings
whenever he passes an Eskimo.
Actually, however, the missile
technician is a full blooded
Hawaiian.
A Falcon guided missile tech
nician, he was assigned to the
317th Fighter Interceptor Squad
ron at Elmendorf in February of
this year.
Since Ueunten hit Anchorage,
he’s been invited on seal treks,
to fish the holes-in-ice way, and to
take dog sled trips.
None of his Eskimo friends
guess that Ueunten’s hobby was
swimming and surf-boarding be
fore entering the service.
Right now Ueunten is preparing
the Falcon missiles which his
Alaskan Air Command squadron’s
jet marksmen are firing in the
world-wide weapons meet at Tyn
dall Air Force Base, Fla.
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right to refuse and reject any or all bids.
The South 60 feet of the West 30 feet
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1960 Solid Plymouth Offers
Economy In 24 Model Lineup
The 1960 Plymouth is the strongest, quietest, fastest
accelerating, and most economical operating car in
Plymouth’s history. It features unified body and frame
structure and completely new styling ’for this economy
champion.
Harry E. Chesebrough, vice-president of Chrysler Cor
poration and general manager ol
the Plymouth - De Soto -Valiant
Division, says the 1960 Plymouth
"creates new standards for its
price class on any basis on which
you can compare automobiles.”
Plymouth’s styling and sturdy
construction, Chesebrough said,
"should have special appeal to
people whose basic interest is in
solid value.”
ENGINES
Two completely new engines
are added in the 1960 Plymouth
line of six engines, each of uniquely
different design and each devel
oped to fulfill a specific require
ment. The 30-D Economy Six
with 145 horsepower is introduced
for drivers who require maximum
fuel savings. The SonoRamic Com
mando V-8 with 330 horsepower,
which brings ram induction to
passenger cars for the first time,
is primarily a "performance”
engine with outstanding accelera
tion characteristics.
UNIBODY CONSTRUCTION
For 1960, the Plymouth body
and -frame are integrated into a
single, unified structure, locked
together by more than 5,000 welds.
The design affords many advan
tages in terms of both strength
and space efficiency. The cars are
easier to get into and out of, and
seat heights have been raised for
more comfort. The absence of
i connecting bolts and braces not
only lends strength but eliminates
rattles.
TRANSMISSIONS
Plymouth offers four trans
missions, two manual transmis
sions and a Pow’erFlite and a
TorqueFlite push button trans
mission. .
NEW SAFETY FEATURES
There is an imposing list of
other features which Plymouth is
introducing for 1960.
One of the outstanding safety
devices to be developed in years
is the new Safe-T-Matic Door
Lock system, which automatically
locks all doors when the engine is
started.
Another valuable safety feature
is the four-light emergency warn
ing flasher system. Whenever a
car must be stopped on a high
way, a flick of an instrument
panel switch starts all front and
rear turn indicator signals flashing
continuously and simultaneously
as a warning to other drivers.
AUTOMATIC SWIVEL SEATS
Swivel seats, introduced by
Plymouth last year, are auto
matic for 1960. Optional on Fury
and Sport Suburban models, the
new seat swings out to meet you
when the door is opened, and it
swings back out of the way when
the door is closed.
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PLYMOUTH
OFFERS 3 LINES
For 1960, Plymouth offers
24 models in three lines of
cars (Savoy, Belvedere, and
Fury) and three lines of
station wagons (Deluxe,
Custom, and Sport Subur
ban).
Following are models
available in each line:
SAVOY
2-door sedan (6 & 8)
4-door sedan (6 & 8)
BELVEDERE
2-door sedan (6 & 8)
4-door sedan (6 & 8)
2-door htp (6 & 8)
FURY
4-door sedan (6 & 8)
2-door htp (8)
4-door htp (8)
Convertible (8)
DELUXE SUBURBAN
2-door (6 & 8)
4-door, 6-pass. (6 & 8)
CUSTOM SUBURBAN
4-door, 6-pass. (6 & 8)
4-door, 9-pass. (8)
SPORT SUBURBAN
4-door, 6-pass. (8)
4-door, 9-pass. (8)