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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1955
Page
7
Washington reports Aero Digest describes a flying barrel aircraft named epicapter able to vertical takeoff like a rocket and then tilt to horizontal flight. The device resembles a double ended barrel with the pilot and power plant inside the barrel and swivel seats to stay upright in all flight attitudes.
Gen Charles Summerall, 88, former Army Chief of Staff and Citadel president, died at Walter Reed Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services were set for Ft Myer chapel, Arlington National Cemetery. He led U S Army from 1926 to 1930s and urged preparedness before Pearl Harbor.
Officials outlined a plan to distribute Salk polio vaccine to children nationwide. The White House would review a distribution blueprint Monday from Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby, proposing voluntary state distribution and funding the purchase for those unable to pay. Lilly vaccine trials and Detroit Parke Davis doses were under review as preparations for a mass inoculation program continued.
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