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THF TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, ORANGEBURG, S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950 AGE SEVEN Adams, and First Officer G. W. Anderson of Chicago and Southern Airlines.

They were over Stmtnart at night when Permanent grafting will begin wnen her body can manufacture enough blood cells to keep, up with healing reauirements. brieve there are such things as interplanetary space ships. Staff members of the Newark iN.J.) Star Ledger wouldn't dispute Rogers estimate. On a recti. Sunday tne Star Ledger, RARE OPERATION.

Melbourne, Australia Surgeons at Queen Victoria Hospital recently saved the life of a 3-day-old baby by cutting an opening between its stomach and intestine a very rare operation. An X-ray showed the baby had no opening between his stomach and intestine. FLYING SAUCERS ARE NOW RECEIVING SERIOUS ATTENTION MEN GIVE SKIN, Santa Rosa, Cal. Sandra Emmert, 9, suffered burns on 75 per cent of her body three months ago when her partv dress caught fire from a gas "heater. Recently, surgeons, working in relays, removed pieces sKin seven men and grafted them onto the child's body The grafts are expected to check hor loss ot blood and possible on bv covering the most severe burns.

thes" saw what thev describe as "a bright blinking light that approaching us from the ADAMS' YARN As Adams tells the story: "We watched it for 20 or 30 seconds. As it drew nearer to us and crossed our path, we saiv on the under side of the object a circular group of lights arranged in a manner that gave it One Less Worry She "What sort of house shall we move to?" Husband "Let's try a bungalow, dear; then you won't always be hearing burglars moving about downstairs." spotting the saucer legend, pub-, lii-he, I a gagged up story about! i. space shin from Mars landing on nev.paper building's roof, Telephone calls started jam-; ming tr.e switchboard as soon i as the story appeared. group of citizens held a meet me I to see what action should be tak-i vision of Reports and Forecasts, says this can be expected to happen often: "We're putting a lot of that stuff the air and it drifts around. Anybody could see one of those things and think he'd had too much to drink, or get thP idea he was seeing two moons or a flying saucer." Another device that may fool people is the target drone a small pilotiess airplane used or testing guided missiles.

The I'nivei-ity of Texas Defense Re-erai-h laboratory has disclosed that it's in king on them. Itiey don't look saucerilke. nut an official commented: "I suppiv-p people with imagination could se a target drone us a flyine saucer, just as they 11 a jet plane or a weather balloon a flying saucer." Especially on April Fool's Day? 7-" "TT 111 mum mhimwjiwmh -f -v -iiiiiiii'n, These produced the beliefs in pixies, devils, giants. Santa Claus A. F.

REPORT The Air Force set up a flying saucer investigation at Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio. Over a two-year period it made some 375 investigations. Last December it Tax Planning Service Larh business transaction Is Tax Problem. Slake proper plans for your tax burden before you complete the transaction.

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en. Next day, the Star Ledger proclaimed in big type on Page 1 that the story was pure hoax Yet it was another 24 hours be-tore the flood of telephone calls stoppeci. CLASSIC STORY Then tiiere's the classic story that spread throughout the West. The Government (this is pure fiction, remember) has two flying saucers at a radar station ITS here! the appearance of a definite circle. "The lights were bluish or fluorescent in nature, and the object appeared to be about 100 feet in diameter.

"The wav it was flvtng. I positive it was a definite and controlled flight. It maintained a constant altitude and constant course and traveled at a terrific rate of speed." Anderson said: "Neither Jack nor I have ever seen anything that approached this. It's nothing like let or anything else we've ever heard of other than the flying saucer itself." The airmen told their story on a television program, to Mrs. Franklin D.

Roosevelt. The former First Lady shook her head in laughing bewilderment. "I will sav I've been a little skeptical before," she said. "I near the Arizona New Mexico border. One is badly damaged and tiie other is in almost per feet condition.

Actually (this is still fiction) the saucers are space ships from Venus six feet wide, encompassed by rings 18 feet across and two feet thick. They are equipped with tripod ball-bearing type landing gears. In the air the rings whirl around the stationary cabins, giving the ships a cvroscooe effect. TOMATO PLANTS Tomato Plants Indefinitely Delayed We have made every effor to get our second load of plaut but have been unsuccessful, due to heavy rains and diseases suddenly developed In plant fields One shipper is due us one million plants but wrote us that his plants would not be ready until between April 15 and May lt. We ran do nothing more now it seems, therefore our customers can feel free to either wait, or if plants caii be found, buy them elsewhere.

As soon as we know something definite, we will advise our buyers by mail, newspaper advertisement or by radio. SHULER SMOAK Round By the Jail Each ship contained two little TfiearsaftfEW NEW YORK (JP) Those flying saucers! Is it possible that some of them may be real, after all? Or note well that this is the season of All Fools' Day are some people "seeing things in the dark" while others are up to the well-loved American pastim of. telling tall stories? One thing is sure: Myth or military secret, optical illusion or "invasion" from Mrs, the so-called flying saucer is getting plenty of attention more serious attention, probably, than at any other time since it whirled into the news nearly three years ago. The Armed Forces, mean-1 while, continue to dismiss the whole subject of flying saucers as so much moonshine. What brings the flying saucer back into the headlines? 1.

More people of late have reported more strange objects in the skies. Some of these turn out to be quite ordinary things, such as weather balloons. Others go unexplained. And people who report the unexplained objects give detailed, highly colored descriptions. 2.

There are hints no more than hints of a secret weapon that looks like a flying saucer. An Italian scientist says such a weapon could easily be made. Despite the official denials, Radio Commentator Henry J. Taylor says he's convinced the U. S.

is making it. But to repeat: There's no evidence whatever to back up this talk. 3. Some practical jokers have been soreading flying saucer stories. Many people show themselves ready even eager, to believe these stories, howevr fantastic.

Evn the exploded yarn about a space ship from Venus, with "littlp men" aboard, finds widespread belief. We've heard flying saucer stories, off and on, since June 24. when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Maho, reported discs streaking through the air at better than 1,000 miles an hour. In the summer that followed, the heavens were filled with mysterious objects if you believed all the accounts "eyewitnesses" gave. But who believed all of them? How many people believed any? Flying saucers became the topic, then the joke of the year remember? A New York psychiatrist, Dr.

J. L. Moreno, said it was only to be expected that people should "see things" in the sky things that scientists assured them really would be flying around in the future. "The basic cause seems to be fear of coming disaster." he said. "Mankind has experienced many similar developments in the past.

3 made its report: There's nothing whatever to flying saucers that can't be explained by "misinterpretation of various convention objects, a mild form of mass hysteria or Confronted by new saucer stories, an Air Force news officer said it again: "If anybody can show us anything with any substance in it, we'll be glad to look at it. But we've seen nothing since the Air Force discontinued the project that would make it necessary to reopen the formal investigation." The statement came after Commentator Taylor had said at Dallas Texas: "Thev (disc-like flying objects) are not from another planet, not Trom Russia, but from right here in the United States. It will be wonderful for all of us when the military announces the story involved here." An Italian authority on weapons, Giuseppe Belluzo, said in Rome that both Italy and Germany designed types of flying discs as early as 1942. "The truth is that these instruments of destruction can be built and operated," said Belluzo, a Cabinet Minister under Mussolini. "The principle of the flying disc is very simple and construction with light metal very easy.

"Some great power is now-launching discs to study them." And on the other hand, there is the strange case of the mysterious objects in the sky over Farmington, N. M. Hundreds of people saw them last St. Patrick's Day. Some counted 20, others more than 100.

One witness said they loafed a long at about 15,000 feet, and added: "They were perfect replicas of a di.iner table plate, even to the bottom ring." But State Patrolman Andy Andrews turned in the final report: "Thev looked as though they were 'way high Then after a while, I could see they were real ly only about 40 feet off the pround. I watched three of the things float down onto the garage. They were just cotton 4 Get Gulf's greatest gasoline specially designed for today's thought people were seeing things." Another account of an aerial what-is-it comes from Charles B. Moor of Minneapolis, an ensineer and director of the General Mills high altitude balloon project. Moore had scientific measuring devices with him when he and four Navy men sighted the object from a point 57 miles northwest of the White Sands, N.

proving ground. Based on their calculations, the object was elliptical in shape, about 105 feet across, and flying some 56 miles high at a speed of about four miles per second. Moore's report led Navy Commander Robert B. McLaughlin to write in True Magazine: "I am convinced that it was a living saucer and, further, that these discs are space ships from another planet, operated by animate, intelligent beings." Moore himself said recently he sees no reason to believe it either a flying saucer or space ship. "It was no hallucination, however, and I believe objects like this are worth much further investigation," he said.

So the. stories multiply. On a single day recently, more or less similar reports none confirmed, none proved false came from Erie and Clearfield, Havana, Cuba: Dallas, Texas; and Mexico City. Sometimes the "flying saucer can definitely be identified as ordinary, innocent objects. One such was spotted over two Michigan communities, Petoskey and Ironton, recently.

It turned out to be a weather balloon. In Washington. I. R. Tannehill, chief of the Weather Bureau Di men.

The bodies in tne damaged ship were too charred to tell much about them. The other two bodies were well preserved. The men wer" three feet tall, blond, beardless and with perfect teeth. They were built much like human beings on earth except for size. They wore clothes of a blue, wiry material, and their trousers were skintight.

They wore no but the bodies were taned wore no underwear but the bodies were taped. E'ach ship carried a supply of white tablets and some small brown cubes. When doused in water the cubes fizzled and frothed into a volume of about a gallon. Well, a Denver engineer named George Coulter made up the story some three months ago. He told it, as a practical joke, to a vo ting Kansas City automobile dealer named Rudv Fick.

Back in Kansas City, Fick passed the story on to some friends. It spread like wildfire. In Mexico. Rav L. Dimmick.

a powder company executive, heard it people even showed him a strip of metal, which they said came from one of the space ships. Dimmick went back to Los Angeles and told the story. It got into the papers. It was denied. Coulter, who made it up in the tirst place, plainly described it as a gag.

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