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Glider Wanted To Go Up Instead Of Down, So Private Hurley Let's It Decide ItselfPrivate Hurley’s, glider showed r.c intention of crashing. On the cor-irary. Instead, it was mounting steadily toward the zenith, wherever that is. So Private William. Hurley, 20, of Washington, D. C., ghder student at SPAFS, took to his parachute.;Private Hurley, according to the report, was making a be-forc-dawn practice flight when he cut the glider loose from the tow plane at approximately 3,000 feet. Ordinarily, in such cases, the glider will sail smoothly to earth and the pilot expected that to happen in. this instance. # *But when he next looked at the altimeter, he related, it showed 4,000 ieet, and continued to climb. Despite efforts to bring it down, it ascended to 5,000, then 6,000 and finally to 7,000 feet in the rising air currents.At 7,000 feet, according to the report, the glider bucked so violently that it was slamming Hurley’s head against sides and top. This fact, together with the fear that the light ship might go to pieces, caused him to take to hisparachute, making the landing without incident. ‘The sailplane, according to the report, continued to ride for awhile before it finally came to a crash landing.Motley Co. Is Assured \ Plenty Of Farm Labor iMATADOR, Oct. 6 (Special) — -A. B. Cherry, office manager at Plainview for the U. S. Employ- ! ment service, has assured a group of business men and farmers here that farm labor is on its way to Motley county.Cherry said information his agency has is that Mexican labor now is stopping in the Abilene section, but will move on toward the South Plains in. time to relieve the shortage in this section.A temporary U.’ S. employment service office is being opened in Matador to assist labor and larm-ers in the acute situation.
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Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Oct 07, 1942
Page 8
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