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''ST/CK TO 1r·· VOL. III FEBRUARY 19, 1942 NO. 18
EDITOR TAKES VACATION, TECll SCHOOL TEAM BOWS TO RIDDLE FIELDERS DOES NOTHING BUT WORK By the grace of God and a competent secretary, Ye Editor finished up all his work on Wed nesday last week and decided to take that "vacation" we've been " Our SecrPl(lry" talking about for the past two years ... we'd go to Clewiston and Arcadia, and do nothing but "socialize". . . And so what happened? Late Wednesday afternoon, Ralph Kiel called to tell us that Jack Clark, formerly City Editor ofl the ~1iami Herald, had joined Hal Leyshon's staff of pub licists, and would we take Jack around the bases and see that he met e\'eryone. Well, that didn't sound like work-so we got up at 5 :ao Thursday morning,..------ met Jack at the "School Bus" at t.,; K CADETS FRO:\I R.A.I. 7, and took-off for Clewiston, and YISIT )flAi\ll BEACH pu111t~ no11h. HOTEL " I'd Like• You to Me1•t ;'\tr. Clark" Br Syd Burro... s On a quick &eries of intro This week, for the first time, ductions, we stopped firflt at Riddle the Colony Hotel had the pleasure Field, where Jack met our R.A.F. of entertaining some of my country officers, W /C Ramp men from Carlstrom Field, up Ar linp:, S/L Burdick cadia way. For most all of them, llN1tli11g through stormy weMher and bad fock, the T f'clt Sch otJl and F/L ~Iickerson. this was their first glimpse of :\1i qui11tt>t dro1>ped their second srroight to the Riddl1• Firltl five at Manager G. W. Ty ami, and I must say that their Cleavi11ton last Saturday evening. Here (Ire the boys 1{)/to " done done i-on was up Alabama reactions have been gratifying. it," or m(lybe icr slwuld say, "didn't done it,'' knerlitt6 lrft to right: way on an extreme· "After the war's over," they say, Ricll(lrd Bronner, Larry B"ldwin, Sonny Leatlierm""• Coadt Jim /l!c ly "secret" mission "we'll be back to this paradise!" ..,,1(1111', "it"mlinK left to right: Harold Luudblom. Geo. lfomilton, Dace and Ass't-1\Igr. Jim Among the Arcadia chaps with Abrnm11 aml .llanager Hoivard Bea:::el mie Durden was "out on a flight us were A. M. Nihorai, D. Clen------line, someplace," but we did see nell, D. H. Whitehead, G. F. Watts, I TECH TAKES ONE! all the rejt'ular office gang, Ve and J. Long, D. Jordan, H. Parker, R. --- Fletch and Tubby, etc. Petit, B. Skeen, :\L J. Smith, J. E. , Conch Jim McShane just came RE:\IE)IBER ! On up the line, at Carlstrom Whitely, H. Stinson, E. R. Jacobs, into our office with a smile THAT Don•t forget to n·memher Field, Glen Kuhl made everything J. Lancaster, E. H. Lawrence, G. big on his face ... the Tech School the SCHOOL PARTY at the Beale and S. H. Bernard. Quintet won a game Monday night! easy for us. He hl.d all the depart i.\lacfaddcn D cauville ment heads gathered in the ~less Clewiston Lads H ere, Too! After five straight losses, includ- THIS Sntur· Hall lounge di!~cussing the group As usual, quite a few of the Clew- ing those two lost to the Riddle day C\eninfl,', insurance plan, so all we had to iston chaps came in for the week- Fielders from Clewiston, the Miami end, and I might add, as usual, they I lads "got hot" and trimmed the :Feb.21, do wai: pop in, say, "Excuse it, from 9 to l please, but we like you to meet all had a wonderful time relaxing Knights of Columbus, 39 to 18. here in Miami from the tension of u. m. Tick Mr. Clark." To top it off, we met their flying training program. On the Tech line-up was our old o ts al°<• a Lieut. Beville, the A/C public re Among those here last Saturday friend Tommie Hilbish, U.S.N., now dollar u mun, und run be lations man, on the front steps of were: stationed in Miami, and Bronner, bo11gh1 only in the Dt•nuville the Admin. building, so that took H. T. Forrest, F. E. Tomlin, M.T. Baldwin, Leatherman, Hamilton lobby Saturday evening. AN care of that. Pende1·gast, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Beard, and Lundlum. All the lads are ADDED ATTRACTIO'\' ... ill A. Dunn, R. R. Monk, R. Vaughn, rarin' to go, ancf still claim they':J "Loan i\It' Your Tirl'~ !" be the u~t· of the Recreation G. Rossi, R. Black, R. Thorpe, G. take the Clewiston team in the Room, com1>lete with all kind~ At Dorr Field, our luck still E. Sharp, W. L. Dutton, Mr. Gil final game of the intramural series, of indoor gonw,. Oon't Mi~~ held good, for a while. Looking for bert, ::\1r. Thomas, Mr. Trowbridge, to be played in ~1iami this Satur This Part) .. It'll b" TOPS! Manager "Squire" Gate,; and Lieut. Mr. Sturrock, A. C. I. Brown, D. day evening, preceding the school Plea.qe t11r11 lo Page 8, Col. I Please tun1 to page 2, Col. I party at the Deauville. Page 2 EMBRY-R.IDDLE FLY PAPER "Stick To It" February 19, 1942
THRIFI' A."' OPE~ LEITER TO \ '\SWER SO)IE QUESTIONS EMBRY -RI DOLE Only real qualification Ye Ed Dear Gang, 1hi ~ i-. :111 open foll(•r addr(•-.-.1•d lo Douitln-. A. Hawn, Bo' itor has fo1· writing this editorial ·10, Towll'•t•nd, l\tontana, and lo uuyonc ds1• who miftht w11nt to know FL'/ PAPER is the fact that way back in the -.mucthing about our School and ih operation. An)how- fir"t grade we won a five cent "STICK TO IT" Dear Doug. savings stamp for being the only Rcpl)ing to )Our leller of January 21, which Johnni<' Fradelle for Published Weekly by the student who could define the word warded lo me from Ar<"ndiu, all I cun ;,a) i><--doggonc, )OU sure a~k a "thrift." As we remember it thru EMBRY-RIDDLE SCHOOL lot of qut•-.lion~! OF AVIATION "all these years"-nn officer from Fir;,t off, Doug, our School i-. not "strictly for Army, "avy und the local bank was starting a school R.A.F.ers." Up al Carlstrom Fi<'ld, Arcadia, where Johnnie is, we have Miami, Florida ::a,·ings club, and in answer to his a big primorr fli«ht .. dtool for th(' H.A.F.; at Dorr Fi('ld, we have another ..g..1 question we piped out-"Thrift big primary flight .. chool for the l .S. Army Air Corp.,; al Riddle Field, is saving money!" Clewiston, we bnw what i11 called "No. 5 British Flying Training School," Maybe we were wrong, but that for the primary, ba•ic and advanced flight training of Briti"h Cadet"· RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL definition fits the situation now Ho,H»er, that'" just half the .,tory. At tlw other (•nd of th(• circuit, in INSTITUTE exi:sting in the aviation indui;try. Miami, wt• haH' a big hangar at the l\tuni<"ipal Airport nncl u Scn11lanc Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida After years of near starvation dur Ba .. c at the Count) Can.,l'way. Both of these ba.. ('s arc now de,oted RIDDLE AEROXAUTICAL ing the development period of avi (''\.<"lu-.hc•ly to tlw trninin:;: of private• flight .. tudenH and (;j, ilian Pilot INSTITUTE ation, many old timers are now Training Progrum trainN·~. :For 1lw lrainin;c of airc·raft lt•c•l111ida n-.. we Dorr Field, Arcadia, Florida making real money for the first lta\'C a big, cight·!!lory hott•I building in Miami whidt i" ('rowdl'!I with • • • time in their lives, ;:ame applying -.ho11s, du .... room-., dormitories, offi<'e,., and "0 forth, com(ll1•t('lr c<1uip to "youngsters" \vho have stepped p1•d to train for olmo,.t an' job <"0111u•ett•d with a\iation. RIDDLE-McKAY AERO out of shorter technical and flight In otlwr word... Doug, Embry-Ricldl1• not onl;- can luke civilian COLLEGE training programs into $200 to lraineP ~, but i~ 1uh erti.. ini;: for tlw111 ••• it'• parl of our e·ontrib111ion Riddle Field, Clewis~on, Florida S500 per month. We don't blame 10 the dt•fen~e program .•• and we are ready to gh·e <'i' ilian"' lil..e • • • these people for spending their your;eJr Oil) thing from a ;,hort J 20·hour r(•veting 1•our;,e at 885 to lht' JOHN PAUL RIDDLE, President money-they've earned it and the uircraft and cnginl'" mccltnnic,. <'Oursc, lakiuft 1,820 hour" of class and • right to :spend it, but too few are •hop "'"'" and <'O,ling $735. And if it's fl~ ing y·ou want, W(•'ll ghc you • • .
be a shortagl! of checkers, how Riddle Instructors defeated Clew ever. for all those who want to iston basketcers Monday night 53- RIDDLE FIELD DEWS LETTER play. The other day, Witch :\lyers 37 ... :\ow !<.>ad second half of snt concentrating over some che:;:s league, after winning first half, men and gathered around him were with two wins and no losse;: • . . fly l'ranri~ "Frank" Dt"rt'itibt" added so I had better sign otf the several of the boys all watching \York has started on the new ad Riding high, wide and handsome air. As soon as I get over my first with awe. He "eemed to know pre dition to the Link building . . . on a victory march, our Riddle golfing venture, I'll get bark to cisely what he was doing and a re Several cadet." have been on the Field Instructors riddled the Tech work. l1y head is still whirling ::pectful silence hovered over the sick list '"ith bad colds . .• Swing ~rhool five to from the score ! group watching a genius at work. band compO!led of cadets and in ------"_Keep '.!m- Flylng"---- the tune of 53- No one dreamed Witch could play structors has had several practice 28 last Satur RIDDLE FIELD GOSSIP that difficult game. After a bit, sessions ... )Jay make an appear day night over :;om<.>one discovered that Witch was ance soon . . . Bye now. B:r Ve Buuon on the :Moore merely using the chess men as -"!\lum's the Word! Don't Talk"- II a v e n court. The Administration Building at checkers. A few were disillusioned Taking the lead Riddle Field is now complete with but we can certainly chalk one up at the outset, a switchboard. Fletcher Gardner for Witch for using his ingenuity. "our boys" had persevered and can be seen at odd -·'K.0. forTOkyo"- things pretty moments gazing fondly at that very much. their own complicated instrument which he RIDDLE RAMBLINGS FROM way throughout had such difficulty in obtaining. RIDDLE FIELD the <'nlire con Now added to the staff at Riddle By Jack Hopkin" test. That makes Field are four operators, namely, it two straight June Crow, Betty Bailey, .'.\Iargaret The ne\\ war time caused a lot now; but the Von l\lack and Betty B1·annan. of t·onfusion at the field, and many of the caclets, as well a,. employees. third game in Fletch's kindergarten certainty has •'Jl ~IOR" CHEF AT TECH this intramural se1·ies is still to enlarged, and fo1· a time there he just couldn't fig come. We arc all pulling for three had hi::; worries as to where to put ure it out ... LEADS I~ BABY straight. What ~ny, boy:;? all of them. (Sp.. aking- of Fletch, Continued i m - CO::\TEST provement in After the game, Tubby Owens ask him some · ime about hi~ matri Xot only does our chef at the the appearance und the boys took the .'.\liami visit mony bureau.) T<>ch ~chool turn out good food, he ors out to our night spot, namely of the field is apparently has a Johnnie's Club. or af.,o known as made by the "pretty'' family the "Jook." It was here that Chas. Our jovial "Boss :\tan," G. Willis completion of too ... we learned Tubby Owl•n::; remembel'ed his Tyson, is "somewhere in th<' U.S." overhead shel this week that J. promise and staged the dance and doing an excellent job in his t e r s between Baxter Clifford, batrad,,.., which wa~ qUlt<' a spectacle. :Mr. absence are Utt! )lcssr~. Durdt•n, llapki1111 Jr., i~ leading the Joe "chugalug" Obermey<'l' and his Gardner, Hunziker and Smith. In Instructors' field in the baby crew of Linkl•rs wt•re also very their respective departments they basketball team want to thank the show being :>pon conspicuous by their presence. are keeping Riddle Field running n1anagement for the use of the sta s ore d by the Eve1·yone had a good time and smoothly. tion wagon for their trip to Miami Orange Blossom l11st Saturday ... The team had everyone was happy. Expla in Yourself, H arry! Club of Miami. a good trip to the city, going along Votes are count Jr lltip(Wlll'll Thi~ \\<'Ck Engineering Officer Harry Leh the beach via Fort Lauderdale, ed b~ the number of 25c chances Sam Paetro walked into the Sem man was complaining the othel' Hollywood, etc .... then, the team day about a kink in his neck, but a sold on a $25 defense bond. All'eady inoll• the other afternoon and had achieved the purpose of the trip "Baby" Clifford has over 2,500 a supe1·-smile of happiness on his visit to Clewiston's capable Dr. to trim Terh . . . Tennis courts Purden fixed him up and he is once votes to his credit, and stands an face. It seems that Sam had a ai·e now under construction . excellent chance to win. Come on, Valentine day date in .'.\Iiami Beach. more his cheerful and smiling :;elf. ;\Jore landscaping continues to Incidentally, lfrs. Pul'den is .'.\Ir. cast your "vote" any day in the Yep, he up and got mal'l'ied. The beautify the field. cafeteria! new l\fr:;. in our family is the Tyson's private secretary. and an extremely capable one at that. former l\Iiss l\Iadclinc Ellis. Lots A(h entures of CADET BURPLEBY by } ark /fart of luck to both of you happy peo Nothing ever stumps Nl'lva and ple! Sam, incident.Jilly. is one of she has more patience and toler our capable mechanics here at the ance than any ten people you ever field. knew. The B.T. line is back to its full The new nationwide Daylight .strength of ren.'lorcd planes with Savings Time caused much confu the arrival of a replacement Sat sion among the employees. It was urday afternoon. We have not seen most amazing the way a relatively it yet, but I know that Flight Com simple matter of turning your mander Jones will 1n·ogably be a watch or clock ahead one hour was very happy man again. twisted and turned around until Cong ru t ~ O n P rom otion s no one knew what time to be whHc. All is settled now, however, and Promotions and more promo life is once more serene at Riddle tions! J anl<'s Cousins has been ap Field. pointed as Assl. Flight Commander to F. M. Jones and Don Robbins, Send Ls Some Check<'rq ! bette1· known as "Doc," has stepped A good sight to see these days is up to Advanced. New faces on the the activity in the Cant<'en during B.T. roster ai·e those of Bob West the lunch hour. There is alway,; moreland, C. C. Clark and Noel El some game in progre;.;s an
A Greut Do) For The Ladies Another week has pas!
on a vacation. Enjoying continuous side-splitting efforts. Look Out! It Mite Be Loaded ! laughter at the discomforts of the revamped men. Investigating the operation of the Army Office's our mirth was abruptly checked when one of the new Multilith machine, Lt. George Ola quieted all ladies turned to us and demanded that we remove queries with lhe remark, " I put a nickel in it, but " Elranor R .'• our :;hirt. no coke came out!" The thing is really a marvel, though, and has every Protesting vigorously but futilely, a pale blue thing on it but flaps and bomb releases. Maybe they'll come next. + ~~~~~~~~ dress was slipped over our head and a skirt fitted ENGLAND to it. Unfortunately, the skirt was so short that Another P oet ou1· trow The ro1111try11frle is 11ei/ed in mist r+++++T++TT+++++++T+++T+'f'+++++-rf+++f++T+1"1"r++++1't the fourth deck in his quiet and Ami horses shake their mtiddy efficient way, spent something like manes. four year:; in China, from 1936 to TECH TALK AND MAIN OFFICE Gossip 1940, as a technical adviser to the Water drips from leafle~s trees +++++++++++++.t.+.a..u.+++++..1...1. +"'.1. +++++++++++.1.+++++..1.+.1.:1 air force of the Central Govern- A 11<1 lies i11 pools upon the road; At Clewiston after the game, PERSON ALITJES A '\D PAT ment of China, unde:· Generalissi The farmer tends his sh11mkcn herd Tubby "Blushing" Owens gave us TER FR0)1 THE TECH mo Chiang-Kai-Shek. While he his rendition of the night life they W hile tractors pull their heavy SCHOOL modestly disclaims any active par load. viewed in Miami, with the willing ticipation in bombing raids by the B y Bill (K t' ~hole) Burton "Hoppy" Hopkins and a table Chine,..e, Smitty went through To 11s-so far away from home, cloth. Out the other lunch hour to Mi countless raid!I perpetrated by the '.Venth tropic swi and azure sky, D ntes '\l"a nled ! ami Springs with Jim and Betty Japane1;e. The longing 1•ery often eome11 Wanted: Seven i.rood looking '.\lcShane:, to see their new house, He went through much, if not O'er England's fields again to fly. girls for seven good looking boys. 1'1'0W nearing completion. A beauti all, of the vicious bombardment of Reason: Clewh•ton basketball ful house in a beauti Nanking by those sons of the R is We 1<·011ld not find it cold or U'ct team needs dates for Saturday !ul locution. Why didn't ing Sun that eventually l'esultcd in Th( slate grey skies would e'er night at the Deauville dance. somebody tell me about the forced evacuation of that city. this Miami Springs? lie bllle Charlie Frue, Art Barr's assist And He r c ' ~ the PuyolT And n•c111whae the s1tn 11•ould ant, left for Orlando, Fla .. to in I see that I had to Smitty, at the time of the evac 11hi11e stnict in a N ntional DeJen~e come clean from Baltimore (a feat uation, wa~ to have come down 11011 yo1111 fl British 11eome11 trne. School. Good luck, Charlie, and in itself) to find a kindred soul. U river on the Panay (remember?) don't forget to write. N ~ ver y<'t lived in a house that had but, ha\'ing a chance to fly out, The Hun.<; would bomb and strafe Saturday afternoon, late, before cr.ough closet space to suit me. nrnl pa~sed up the boat trip. If you do lenving for Clewiston, Betty !\lc always swore that if I ever built in 1•a in remembel', the Panay didn't get For, one /1y one, 1ce'cl shoot I hem Shune, Dave and Betty Abrams, one that condition would be 1·em there. That, by the way. is just one clown. Howard and )lary Benzel had a de edied. .Tim seem~ to feel the ~amc more note in our memory book~. And if, at last, tlwy elated int'<1dc, lightful ~uppe1· in the Cafeteria. way. There is also a new fangled for the day when we change the too, could surely se<' them Betty Abrams poun•d-the water. fireplace with a heat chamber that lV1', name of that little island empire dro1011. After the low flying trip in Mc will probably feel plenty good on to the Land of the Setting Sun. Now, Bud, I can't blame a guy Shane's "airplane" from )foore some of these tropic night,.. fer day-dreamin' when he's got Haven to the Tech School, time, 90 One thing that worries me is that lliominntt>d things like thnt on his mind, so I minutes, l'\'e got six new gray the CAA will probably hand Jim For the best-dressed man in the give him 100% fer the day, and huirs and four less fingernails. )lcShane a citation one of the:;e Tech School, breez~· Jim Blakely, wished him luck. In flick, I wish I Next trip I'm going to put wings clays for flying too lo''· About from Curtiss-Wright in California. was goin' with him. on it and carry a 'chute. the time we turm•cl off 3Gth street For the moi;t etferve:;cent, ebul ____-_ .._K _e..,ep 'Em F ly-ing"------R.A.F. Chnlle n,;cd ! for :'>liam; Sp ~ ings I caught my lient good nature, (even gl•fore So far Coach Jim Pyott and his self feeling a' 01 . nd on my left ,;idc breakfast). Lillian Bailey ''Polly" TECH GETS WALL-OPE() ! Latin-American Soccer team have for the ripcord. I always did con Flynn, late of Cuba. For the most MIDDLE FIELD IS not received any challenges from iiider the automobile a dangerous \'icious, bearbh humor while wait VICTORIOl"S any of the bases, ,.o we repeat in\'ention. Thunk gosh it doe~n't ing in the cafeteria for the first cup B y Howard Bl'nzel again they are very anxious for a look like the things are here to of coffee in the morning-me. couple of mutch games. (Ed's Note: stay. (Eel. note-Mebbe you ain't TDIE -8:00 p. m. Feb. 14, 1942. Gr(•t•lingll From Curli..... Wriftht Come on, Cle,,;ston R.A.F.'ers! !) !yin, brother.) PLACF..--!\loore Haven, Fla. Because I never ge· Qround to The Latin-American students To 'Chute or i:'lot to 'Chute? EVr~NT-The Slaughter of Em- writing letters, I'm going to try have received permission to use The human iikyscraper with the bry Riddk• Tech by Clewiston and slip one over on ye Editor and the Jai-Alai Fronton so if anybody winning smile you've seen about Instructor:;. extend greetings from the gang at wants to learn that skull-busting Tech's marble halls recently is Paul Clewiston Instructors were "fly Curtiss-W riJ.;"ht Field in Baltimore, game, the boys will be only too Rodger Bake1·, our new parachute ing high" and "on the beam" to the including Les Sipe, Charley Thomp glad to oblige. Louie, if you rigger and instructor. lie is also tune of 53·29. ~ot making ex son, Bob Benson, ,Elsie K., and the learned the ~ame maybe the two a parachute jumper, I understand, cuses for the loss of the p:ume, rest to Brooke Harper, F .I. a t dollars wouldn't fly away so fast!! as well us pilot. This jumping busi but with Hamilton, Lundblom and Carlstrom, Tom Gate,; of Dorr, ness is all 1·ight for those who Baldwin flat in bed with various Len Povey of Carlsti·om and J oe INSTRUCTOR "tECHANICS want it. but I've always felt like ailments, the crippled Tech team Woodward, G.I. at Carlstrom. Har some chap I once read about, who plus a strange floor ;utfered their per, incidentally, is the guy who said, " W hat is the use of prac fifth defeat. first started to teach yours truly ticing something that you have to The game looked like old home to fly. After four hours of dual he do perfe<:tly the first time, any week for Embry-Riddle with plen went temporarily insane, lit out way?" Paul Baker is originally ty of a irline maintenance gradu southwards and "came to" at Ar from Asbury Pnrk, New J ersey. ates present. Those attending from cadia. Fact! :;\I iami were Betty Abrams, Betty Before coming to ) !iami, he spent That's that for this time. I will l\lcShane, Mary Beazel, Paul Bart about n week at Carl: Evans 0 Wrinkler l:! l'r111t ci.•co Me en cl transcurso de su historia, como herencia n ~us hijos, "derecho jnmii.,.. se :snciaron ron ninguna. Por de scr librcs", para quc puedan DEPARTAMENTO LATINO AMERICANO eso njenos n la vida guen·era, se obrar en cl conglomcrndo de todo Philip A. de la Ro,oo, Director dl•dicaron tan : RAY DE1'"'TON REPORTS We nominate Betty Hair as the 1st BASKETBALL GAME • new c•orrespond('nt of Municipal news afler the fine help we have . Dear Editor, mEDTIODIDli munlEIPAL BASE By Lynelle Rabun & Bill Jaster received from her in the writing I want to take this opportunity of this issue. to let you know how thoroughly I ~~ ___-"Keep 'Em Flying"- enjoyed my first "bnsketball" game This week marks th(' last for col Welcome lo John Fouche, who on Saturday night in Miami. league Rabun, who has resigned as is taking "Red's" place on the line Co. "B" .. 24th Inf. In England there is a type of dispatcher and will take his Com- crew. John is no stranger, for he Ft. Benning, Ga. Dear Editor: "basketball" that is played by the mercial F 1 i g h t took Primary CPT last summer. girls, altrough we term it "netball" test this coming Another welcome member to our I do appreciate the FLY PAPER, but it is in 110 manner like the week. In his place ga~g is Dave Burch, graduate of so plea~e note the change of ad American p:ame ! will be " Red " the Cross Country Instructor dress above. It looks like Uncle The main rules of the game were Friant as dis Course, Fall Session, who will start Sam is going to k('ep me with the imt,·ucting here Monday. explain<'d to me by two charming patcher and it is ground forces so my flying is limit young ladies to whom I had the up to ye olde Elli r.D.F.('r~ \'i~it :.\1.:\1. ed to what little I can gpt nway good fortune to be introduced, and tor as to who will Spectacular event of last Sat from routine duties, which are very soon T was "rooting" just as be appointed to urday was tht• landing at Munk many now. loud for Clewiston as they were the FLY PAPt-:R ipal of three flights of the Florida You might be interested to know for the "Tech" team. staff. We arc sor Defen.«e Force from We.«t Palm that the kid brother, Barney, is do· ry to see Lynelle Beach. Headed by Major Wright I was amazed at the enel'gy need ing a fint• job in the Army Corps leave and wish Vermilya, this group, tw('lve planes ed to play the game and at the at Randolph. He has recently been him SU('Cess in his in all, met with the ::\1iami Flight ac<·uracy with which passes and J astPr appointed Cad('t Lieutenant and new venture. of the FDF to discuss ways and shots must be attl'mpted. Also, T from al report.-: is doing a bang Among our many visitors this means of meeting new regulations up job. noticed lhat team work was H do week here .Joe Horton, Quint }'e set forth by the Army and the minant feature during the whole l\!y regards to you and the rest. land and Dud Whitman, from A.J.· C.A.A. of the game. Lt. Robert B. Turner, Jr. cadia. Those on leave from Clewis NOTE: Dear George, we all think -"Pay Your Taxes--Beat the A~s'"=- Naturally, I was very glad to see ton were Bob Thompson, Buddy your house is simply swell and en our Riddle Instructors win and I Carruther:-; and Geo1'g(' :M:ay. Len joyed ourselves immensely. We all Gene Cohen, former Main Offi('e believe they have a very fine team. Povey flew in Saturday night from wish you happiness in your new account11n1 drafted into the Ariny, In conclusion I would add that I Arcadia. Out representative in home. has been promoted to the Post Fi nm looking forward to th(' return Arcadia this week was Eugene Wil Municipal is looking forward to nance Office at Fort Knox, Ky. match at Clewiston this coming liams, who was forced down there the party Saturday night at P. V. Irwin, former Municipal Saturday night and urge as many with bad weather while on Cross the '..'\lacfadden -Deauville. Judging flight !;tudent, visited the Main Of cndets as possible to see the game. Country. It seems that all the ftom the parties held at the Deau fice la~t week resplendant in his Yours very sincerely, boys managl'd to make a vMation ville in the past, this one should be new uniform as 2nd Lieutenant in Ray D('nton, U /K out of a ('ross country expedition. a grc•at success. the Marin(' Air Corps. "B" Flight Xo. 5 BFTS. C. W. a nd June \'i, it N. C.! Clewiston, Fla. Most important news of the week _ -"B~ A live When You Arrive"-- was the forced landing that C. W. Tinsley had in Reidsville, N. C. \ "SEND CIGAR LIGHTERS," H(' and June were flying the Stin son Reliant to the factory for a KLEI' PLEADS FOR 'BOYS' motor overhaul. Hnppily, no one TECH SCHOOL - Mel Klein, was hurt. Lc•s Bowman left by auto just returned from Chanute Field Sunday for Winston-Salem to see at Rantoul, Ill., where he took if the Stinson can be repaired. an intensive Army refresher course Mnry Harvey, the latest of the in Aircraft Electricity and elec "front office gals," has left us and trical instruments, brings back a was replaced by Hazel Thrall. We human interest message that regret that )fary had to leave us i;hould be of interest to everyone: but welcome Hazel into our family. "If you have a friend or rela Congratulations to Clara Living tive in the service, for Heaven's ston, who received her instructor sake send him a cigarette lighter! rating this week. She has left for Everything else around the field her home in Puerto Rico but has was good, and plentiful, but for promised to stop by and see us on some unknown reason there is a he· way back to New York. ThP new Stinson Reliant you see in our decided lack of matches !" NO hf' llt'r tnk l'-OfI for a ('llr ('cr in A-.intion thnn trnininit hangar was purchased from Miss in tlw Govcrntul'nt-nccr cditcd E mbr,- Riddle School. Wea ther Not So Ho t ! Livingston a few days before she Trai11 Nl m en "ill ser ve tht'ir cow1tl') best in the grf'at Any of you people kicking about departed. \ ictor} E'fio rl . • • nnd after \ ictOI') j , oun!, traint>d m f'n our i·ecent cold weather here in More Rull'.,, But " ."Still Fl}! "ill takt• the l ead in thh -. itnl indu, tr). E nroll for one Florida, please take note that Mel The C.A.A. "boys" have pounced of our it.I cout'ses today! reported temperatures down to 18 on-us-with a whole new set of regu lations. (Orders from headquar degrees b elow zero, and lots of it! te1·s). It h; necessary now to file a Strangely enough, though, he clearance certificate before every found little complaining about the flight and an a1·rival certificate weather, and reported the morale upon landing. It m('nns a lot more of the men at Chanute to be inconvenience but we must remem 3240 N. W. 27th AVE., MIAMI, FLORIDA PHON E 3.0711 " ... excellent. Everyone up there ber that we are lucky lo be nb\c to is in a fighting mood now!" fly at all. j I .Page 8 EMBRY-RIDIJLE FLY PAPER "Stick To It" F<>brtiary 19, 1942 EDITOR TAKES Y AC\TIO:\ When J. P. R. \Vo., \ Cadt•t Back at Carlstrom Field, we dis Well. we learned our lesson! Ci111ti111wd f r11m l'ugc 1 During out tour, Toni regaled covered another "open post," and And all we got out of it was n two so spent most of our time "chin bit ticket to "The Womanless Wed Jcu•k Pinkerton, we us with side-splitting stories about. ding" at the Arcadia High School found them both at the "old days at Carlstrom" when ning'' with Lieut,,. Bill Hart and ... a ticket we didn't even get a lunch, together with Boss Riddle was Jim Be,·ille, and Xate Reece who Lieut:;. Bentley and an Aviation Ca \\as in the midst of organizing a chance to use, being further talked into taking nn unrehearsed part Bill Carpenter. Bill, det. One in par group conversational Spanish class as .Mama Dionne! Imagine us . by the way, has been ticular was a· for the gang in and around Ar Mrs. Dionne! assigned to West bout the origi cadia. "Si de~ea hablar Espanol," Point, leaving Dorr nal 'Riddle Bus' ~ee 'N'ate Reece. The We Lo<.t Our Orit<"hc~ ! the Boss and Field on February Under Carlstrom Field News, "No Tire&" 21, and if anyone another class- mate bought an AIC Riddle ~~~~s fo~~e~~wFin~~~~~ Jack Hobler did a swell job of has a couple of good 6.00 by 16 ly, going to the ~ :fi covering this event ... and all we old model "T" Ford touring car tires, he'd be right obliged to poi;t barber shop for I can add is that COr- "borrow" them for the trip. and inaugurated a bus service be a long overdue hair- _ tween Carlstrom and Arcadia, at Following an excellent lunch, cut, we met cartoon- 25 cents per trip! A lucrative prop ~~~~. Br:~~s, ~:;r~~· ~ ist ( ? ) Ray Fah- Walden, the preach- we loaded Jack Clark aboard the osition, they soon paid for the car "bus" for Miami, took a deep ringer, who talked us into a late er, were the only by the simple means of loading 19 1 afternoon flight to look-see at Ar ones at the party breath and said, "Now, we'll begin cadets into the bug11:y for each who didn't lose their that vacation." For the first time trip! But more of that later. Tom cadia from the air, and the first since Dorr Field was built, we had has promised to "tell all," with group of ten houses being built pants. Among the pretties at this shindig were Hob plenty of time to just "mosey" pictures, in a future edition. there for R.A.I. personnel. around, look at things and talk to ler, as a flower girl, Ray Fah people. Fin;t we'd find Doug Hock A Plea!>ure to Be Sick Editor Gets Tooken ringer, as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, er, Jack Barrington, Ed l\lorey and Another building )ust completed Remember our story about How Sid Pfluger, as Mrs. Gov. Holland, a few American flight cadets to at Dorr is Captain Doctor Nachti ard Wade being "tooken" by the Jack Hunt, as the glamour girl Hedy La)larr, and Capt. Nethery :see if we couldn't get a "faithful" gall's hospital. Lookin11: more like city slickers in :\Iiami? Well, we Fly Paper correspondent. a wealthy man's as a very, very lovely bridesmaid. apologize t o ~Iiami Beach cot It was a grand play, and we all All Out. Opt•n Po,t the Miami tage than a hospital, had fun! Especially the audience! lads! This time That':< what we thought! Because this compact little Following the play, we dropped in 'Of "Zero-Zero" weather on the we got took, building has every at the Arcadia skating rink, where morning flights, all schedules had and how, by thing, including a it was a pleasant sight to watch been cancelled and "open post" modern 'dark room' t h e sweetest !§s.. the British and American flight granted .•. nobody was on the for testing eyes, an piece of FiPld now l'XcPpt Squire eight-bed sick bay, reception room, smooth talk cadets enjoying themselves. As the Cates, Director of Fly laboratory, offices, surgical exam we have ever crowd "on the floor" increased to "''\n Expt•nllP heard. At the ing Gordon )fouge:, and ination room, and patients the point where the walls were ac 8teward Sam Kethery, three of them, all suffering from Auo1mt" Kentucky res- tually bulging, Ray drew back, that twin brother of Captain Doc's, colds. taurant that evening, it was steaks cocked a eye at the whirling fig who looks more like "Doc" does THIS IS UNOFFICIAL, bul in we bought, and for none other ures, and ventured the Hemark of than ''Doc" himself. Sam even told "Doc's" office we :