The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1956 Page: 17 of 70
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. THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, January 1, 1956
‘HOUSEKEEPING* CREWS ESSENTIAL
Strategic Air Command Base
Operates Like Sizeable City
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is
the fourth in a series of arti-
cles piepared in the Office of,
Information Services at Abilene'
Air- Force Base describing the
concept and scope of the Stra-
tegic Air Command. .
It takes a lot of people to keep
a combat crew flying. Today as the
planes grow more and more com-
plex, the organization which sup-
ports them grows vastly larger and
more complex as well.
Only part of the officers and air-
men of the Strategic Air .Command
actually are assigned to the fight-
ing planes The rest of the military
and civilian personnel on the SAC
roster are engaged in a variety of
tasks in support of the common
effort.
These tasks require skills in
er. He rides lying on his stomach
strapped to a mattress in the re-
fueling pod on the belly of the tank
er‘ N
He'll be there’ late some night
when somewhere out in the dark-
ness a B-47 navigator is working
feverishly to bring his plane to the
15.000 foot refueling rendezvous.’
Out among the stars a brief signal
light will flash and the big tanker
will swing into position.
When Clancy takes over he ac-
Sometimes the T-33 goes up on
a pace” mission. This usually
happens when a B-47 pilot loses
faith in the accuracy of his air
tually flies the trailing boom into
contact with the receiving B-47 by
means of a conventional airplane-
type control stick.
For the navigator in the B-47 this
is one of life’s most unbearable
moments. The flying boom clangs
into the receiving valve less than
two feet from his head.
If the B-47 pilot deviates more
than three feet right or left as the
coupled planes’ rush through the
night at better than 300 miles an
hour, contact is broken.
every conceivable field. There is
"Clancy,” who operates in a KC-97
flying tanker and lowers the boom
that refuels a B-47 in flight. There
is the cook, whose success is mark-
ed by the high morale of the out-
fit. And there are the mechanics
and clerks and storekeepers and
firemen and policemen and chap-
ains and doctors and all the others
"hire mission is to "keep ’em throttled back almost to its stalling I
Specialized Function
Takes Time
It takes time to push tons of fuel
into a B-47 through an automatic
pumping device. And all the while
the tanker must be flying almost
as fast as it can, while the B-47 is
speed. Linked together the two
plane, may have to go simultane- 1
a shallow dive to in-
No matter where the SAC base ously, into „
St England, North Africa, or crease their speed
Abilene — it operates 35 * size: Everybody sweats this out, but
. city dedicated to a highly nobody sweats like the navigator.
Specialized function. 1
Everybody sweats this out but
Only a few feet above and in front
Lt Col. Jack O. Brown, Com-
mander of the 341st Air Base
J > 5 Group, his staff and the command acutely aware. NaF Ou B |
rs of his squadrons fulfill duties
at Abilene Air Force Base com-
... arable to those of city officials.
The 341st Air Police Squadron in-
ures the base's security and pre-
serves order.. The 341st Installa-
of him is a huge airplane He can-
not see .what is going on, but he is
pen if Clancy’s hand faltered and
the boom banged through the alum-
inum skin covering the nose of the
)
ions Squadron takes care of con-
ant construction and maintenance
eeds.
pressurized bomber.
There is another type of aerial
support mission vital to the safety
and success of each flight. Every
| time a B-47 takes off a T-33 is a
standby with a B-47 commander on
observation duty occupying its rear
seat, a complete B-47 technical
The base’s marketing and cooking
is accomplished by the 341st Food
Services Squadron. Transportation manual on his lap
of personnel and material is the
Province of the 341st Motor Vehicle
Squadron The4021st USAF Dis-
pensary is ready to care for :11-
nesses and accidents among base
personnel and their depe indents.
The 341st Supply Squadron sees
if the commander of the airborne
B-47 suspects trouble with any of
his gear after the takeoff, he ra-
dios down and the T-33 moves up
along side There the man in the
back seat becomes the eyes of the
commander inside the bomber. At
to the procurement and distri- close range he looks over the land-
ing gear, the flaps and the other
bution of the great variety of ma-
terial needed by all base activities.
The 341st Operations Squadron is
■in charge of the details of the
routine round of base activity
‘Housekeeping’ , .
external gear of the plane, and
over the radio he describes what
he sees to the worried pilot.
In official terminology the mi injured Serf
sion of the Nir Base Group to HAJCEE PUICTIH
Japply administrative and logistical ! -
.' Support to the combat wing) " Thus 1
the base personnel take care of the
housekeeping", while the combat I
crews of the wing are perfecting
he special skills of the.- hazardous BALLINGER, Dec. 31 (RNS)
trade. Runnels County commissioners
____. The plan which these men oper—have accepted - the delivery of a -
ate is like a city, too When the | new car for use by Sheriff Don:
370,000.000 installation at the Air Atkins. The car is being delivered
Base is completed it will contain by Flynt Motors of Ballinger.
all the facilities of a community— It i. replacing the car destroyed
residential areas, churches, gym- in a wreck’Nov. 27, on Highway
rasiums, markets, shops theatres, -87, in which Sheriff Atkins, High-
clubs and garages. way Patrolman M L. Gotcher and
Of Runnels Gets
New County Car
Runnels County
This establishment is home to the
men of SAC. That the morale of
these men may remain strong, it is
important that the base run
way Patrolman M L. Gotcher and
Justice of the Peace Earl Cope.
smoothly and efficiently. The per-
sonnel of the 341st Air Base Group
are a vital force in insuring proper
operation f his facility.
all of Ballinger, were seriously in-
jured. 7.
All three are recovering from in-
juries Atkins has not returned to
duty but expects to be back on duty-
in several weeks.
King's Doctor
Is Studying
In America
JACKSONVILLE, Fla . Dec. 31
—Jacksonville has a new tem-
porary resident: Dr. Rahman
——— Goodarzi, who is physician to his
Imperial Highness Mohammed
Riza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran.
His instrument is similar to the
larger plane s, and if the bomber
pilot is in doubt, he calls up the
little escort to fly on his wing and
tell him how fast he’s going. T-33's
Dr. Goodarzi has set up house-
keeping here with his wife. Par-
vin and their three-year-old son,
Hormoz.’ He plans to study psy-
chiatry at the memorial unit of
speed indicator, which is essential
to his landing. Loaded, a B-47
weighs 185,000 pounds and more
than 100,000 pounds of this is fuel.
The plane becomes lighter as the
fuel is burned, and the first step
before landing is to compute 'the ... ........ ......... .a use
plane's gross weight. A check B-47 second in safety only to the
against a chart then tells the com-1 prop-driven B-29, which has had
mander his best landing speed, the 'bugs’' flown out of it in
There s no guesswork on this. You i many years of service.
don t fly a B-47 by the seat of your And safety, as the men in the _______..-.,..., ....... ........
pants. If the air speed indicator is | air very well know, often depends | for two years Admitted'’ Permit-
off, a crash landing may result. | upon the skill and devotion of the *
That’s where the T-33 comes in. I men. in the supporting-echelons.
have paced B-47's right down to
the deck.~--—ready hard at work as a member
One result of these precautions
is that SAC has- been the safest
major command in the Air Force
for several years. Airmen rate the
lodge W. H Rampy said the ___„
Without new car will cost around $1,900.
• their effort the ne al of SAC’s The county received an insurance
combat i w out, not mam settlement of $2,106 for th
he nrcessary-high pea wrecked car.
The combat crews have eason The two-way radio, and other
o be grateful to those w ho support | police equipment was salvaged
them, for, without them, no. B-47 from the wrecked car.
could leave the ground These.com---—
Mex craft need support the air School Daze
ss.well. _ 1 HELENA. Mont i- For about
— — Lower ng. th • a quarter century, officials of Lake
Take "Clancy for example, the Five School District in Flathead
man who lowers the boom. Clancy County were happily unaware the
might be any young airman who school was not on public land. Only
has been checked out in the refuel- when they tried to sell it did they
ing device of the giant KC 97 tank discover the school was built on
-----private land However, the land-
owners agreed to let the building
song
-sleuth
be sold, along with the acre it is
on. /
TAILORED FOR TEXAS — A special “Texan” automobile designed and built by
Dodge particularly for Texans, will be shown by Fred Hughes Motors Tuesday. Two
Duval Medical Center and is al models of th6 “Texan” are in production, a two door hardtop and a four door sedan.
, Styling features of the car are keyed to the state of Texas. The name “Texan” is dis-
played in chrome script, overlaid on a chrome outline map of Texas, on the rear
fenders. A right front hood insignia bears crossed Texas flags.
of the residency staff.
The doctor took, time out of his
lunch hour the other day to pose
for a Jacksonville Journal photog- |
rapher and answer questions. "Aft-
er two years I must go back to
Teheran,’’ he explained. "His
Majesty, the King, has admitted
to me for staying in this country
ted? Allowed!"
Goodarzi is 31. He received his
our Texasi D(
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M.D. degree from Teheran Uni-
versity in 1947, spent the next
four years' as assistant professor
of neurology at the university, and
for the past five years has held
the title of doctor of the imperial
court of Iran.
Was his father a doctor’ Goodar-
zi looked faintly embarrassed, "My
father was ... a rich man. I
don't know how to say it. He had
more than one hundred villages.
You have nothing, like this in your
country."
Dr. Goodarzi is one of two
court physicians in Iran and there
is a lot more to the job than at-
tending the King, the Queen, and
16-year-old Princess Chahinaz who
is "a very nice girl," in the words
of Goodarzi.
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"Dad!
DAYS —
OF THE WEEK
a your ability • • tune-deferfive
Each popular song title be-
low contains the name of a day
of the week. With the aid of
the clues, try to identify the
long.
I. Saturday (pre-prohibition la-
. merit, vintage 1919).
2 Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday (three little words
more).
I Sunday (a certain sort of
love It appropriate for that
day).
4. Sunday, Monday (or for-
ever).
S. Saturday (any other night
is preferable).
See ANSWER, Pg. 4-B
PRINCIPAL RESIGNS - C. A
Farley, principal of the Merkel
Elementary Schools for the past
13 years, has resigned from his
position effective June 1, 1956
He will become the registrar of
York College at York, Neb. York
College is a new college of the
Church of Christ and will open
in September for its first session
Farley also will be assistant
professor of education and Mrs.
Farley will be college librarian
and supervisor of a boys' dorm-
itory, .....
The TEXAN ... sold only in Texas to Texans
Fred Hughes Motors—289 Walnut St.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1956, newspaper, January 1, 1956; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1653963/m1/17/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.