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Pedestrians on the Sixth street bridge were treated to a fine exhibition of aerial gyrations the other day. Several graceful gulls zoomed and glided over the river like a squad ron of navy “hell-divers” in a dog fght. Base of their operations was the Sgtland just downstream from the other.” “I'm the wat a.” oudge. ‘There was considerable «surrotested the other, you speculation among the observers 8 used to...” to the reason for their being on “you said it, brother,“ came the the river. However, certain mMem r reply, “I finally learned they could bets of the gull familly frequent! move it faster than I could lap it in and waters up! Thirty-three years ago yesterday City Auditor Henry F. Stemm other members of the famous old Seventh regiment band left Wash ington after participating in Presi dent Taft's inaugural ceremonies. It had been a bad day for the grand review. Snow and rain turn ed the streets of the capital into a sea of slush. The line of march was halted frequently and the men were wet, cold and miserable. At one point in the street there was a particularly deep ditch. Again the command was given to halt and the West Point cadet corps— eyes fixed straight ahead—stood knee deep in slush for several min utes resolutely marking time. Again the marchers advanced. The Ohio national guardsmen reached the same ditch, ranks broke mo mentarily as they leaped the icy hope. Then the boys ran forward shuffling their feet to get back in step. ‘This may not have been ac cording to the articles of war, but [ik was easier on the feet and Iegs. rer A couple of the boys met in a downtown bar room the other night and one expressed surprise when his ea ordered a bot tle of soda to “What's the idea?” he asked . “Oh, nothing,” remarked the A ier imitantion of the difficul ties of civilian flying nowadays =a given here the other day when a new Piper trainer, en route to St. Louis, landed here in spite of the fact that the fleed was closed. The pilot was Frank Sabbato, of St. Louis, flying a new trainer from the Piper factory at Lockhaven. Pa Sabbato’s clearance papers were in order, and he had given Zanes ville as his destination when he took off from Lewistown, Pa, about 280 miles from this city. However, the operator at Lewis town did not know that the airport here was closed, and Sabbato's gasoline supply was running low after the non-stop flight from the Pennsylvania town. Gene Griffin, manager of the airport here, had nothing in his in structions to cover a situation simi lar to this, with a cross-country flier landed at the airport here, so he called Inspector Hutton at Co lumbus. Hutton told Griffin to allow Sab bato to proceed to Columbus, and the inspector implied that if the pi lot’s papers were in order he would be allowed to proceed. Griffin was to note on the clear ance papers that the plane stopped here for fuel, and that the inspec tor at Columbus had been con tacted. Since there are few “open” air ports in Ohio now, Sabbato's mis take was made in good faith, and he would probably have tried to make Columbus if he had known the local field was closed. However, ignorance would be no excuse in a situation of this kind, and it may be that he was ground ed for several hours at Columbus while a complete investigation was made. The Cub was the first plane to land or take off from the local field since Feb. 15, when the latest restrictions became effective.
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Zanesville Signal
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 06, 1942
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