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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1946
Page
3
John Robinson, national soar champion, praises vibrationless gliders for relief from drum tight nerves. He notes gliders offer the truest form of flight since the Wright brothers and credits early glider pilots with pioneering engineless ascent. Sailplane flying is described as the essence of pure aviation.
The stocky pilot argues soaring skill enhances powered flight and vice versa. Robinson, a three time national soaring champion, cites a 100 mile non step hop and a 290 mile distance record as proof and predicts rising glider interest postwar as youths expand aviation peers with model planes.
Portland veteran Clarence M. Espedal operates a construction venture using GI material ex-GI employees and ex-GI customers. Backed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation he bought a power shovel from War Assets and now digs basements for veterans homes, turning down a 600 cellar contract due to workload. The piece also notes poet John Masefield’s early New York work history.
In Buenos Aires a government backed plan to show 200 Indians to the capital backfired as the group resisted departure from the Hotel de los Inmigrantes. Tear gas forced them onto trains after they balked at boarding, while questions about land, schools, and irrigation remained unanswered.
Miss Lucille McGuire hid her engagement ring worth 1100 dollars by tossing it into the rear seat when a gunman approached their parked car in Chicago. The thief took 115 dollars from the couple and ordered them out, then drove away the car.
The report notes Crater Lake Oregon at six miles long and four miles wide standing 6000 feet up yet never freezing. It also mentions butter colored with powder forming figures of gods that rule for a night in Choni China.
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