European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                October 1950 the stars and stripes Page 7 Hay and Sunshine the girls in the Hay Are competing for Helena Harvest Day Queen of Ibe Napa Valley fair in they Are left to right Feten de Anita Bosetti and Gwen Dunnet at the count fair in e r 4 b Joan Scott below tells 6weekoid pig How be should behave at the los Angeles county but oot All the fairs Are in Mary Mccormack right is tic 1959 new Jersey state fair who comes from is in a Bale of Hay atop tic governor Clinton hotel in new York City in this pall is the time for fairs in the it is a time when each state or county shows its Best Stock and to top it All every fair has its Queen to Reiga Over opening at Santa four girls created eight legged filly to publicize the Sonoma county the legs were not identified but the faces Are left to right Nancy Cuneo and Phyllis two California of miss Alt others Acme South Korea fighting proved Case for Jet Vandenberg says by James Strebig 17 Gen Hoyt Vandenberg believes the South Korea Campaign clinched the Case for a Jet air the air Force chief of staff said in an interview Here before be took off for a european inspection that combat experience shows Jet fighters will stand More punishment from either air or ground fire than Piston engine this contrasts with previous fears that the Deli cately balanced Gas Turbine engines might be More easily put out of he said jets can match Piston engine planes in Range and capacity carry rockets and far exceeding them in Speed and and jets Are easier to the boys feel better in Vandenberg said about pilots who have fought in they found the jets can take the Gaff better than conventional and they can get out of hot spots in a hurry or go upstairs and fight if operational changes beyond the fundamentals of Jet fighter the of didst learn a whole Tot in South Korea because the one Jel Type in service was not especially designed for ground support work and there were no enemy jets in the the North Korea phase will see some changes in operations because of the tremendous advantage of air bases near the Battle Vanden Berg in South most fighters operated across the Japan quite a Handicap for the f80 shooting Star until wingtip fuel tanks were i pro Small units of the f84 Thunder Jet fighter and the b45 Tornado both designed for ground will be Given a Chance Ai combat experience in North he Why we rent they sent Over ear Lier it would have taken shipping space needed for guns and other and of mechanics on the spot remedied most problems by Vandenberg said Gen Douglas Macarthur had committed Only half his available fighter aircraft to Korea at a rotating units so All got Airt ground this was made he because primary purpose of air units in Japan was defense of those that is Why the Force consisted almost entirely of types in tended for Airt air through the push of maj Gen Earle 5th of they had been in air to ground firing for army support and had worked with ground forces in limited Vandenberg said the f51 Mustang propeller fighters extensively employed in Korea could not have been used if the North koreans had thrown in jets against additional emphasis on ground support will come from reestablishment of the tactical air cd As a separate major it has been under Continental air responsible for defense of the i Gen John Cannon is being transferred from command of Safe to head the tactical air succeeding Cannon is it Gen Lauris whose Job will be completion of the conversion of the of there to an Aljet one group of More than 80 f84 Thunder jets already has been flown Samuel Eliot Dies at so 17 Samuel Atkins son of the late president of Harvard univer sity and longtime president of the american unitarian died Here after a Short to Germany and another group is expected to follow these Are the e especially equipped for ground support they will replace f80 shooting stars and f47 a world War ii Vandenberg would like to Cor rect some impressions about tactical air the primary in his is not hitting a machine gun nest or shooting up although that can be done and was done in but it was an expedient of the moment because the ground like the air did not have enough of tactical concept tactical airs real concept is sup port of the ground forces by first winning control of the air and then hitting the enemy behind the actual Battle according to Means keeping enemy fighter bombers off our own troops and then destroying the enemy support troops and sup thereby weakening the line the army must tactical airs Job extends Back perhaps 500 Miles to wherever there Are stores of supplies needed for concentrations of or roads or railways needed to move supplies and troops to the As a matter of Vandenberg the tactical air operating area usually overlaps the Region assigned to strategic the interdiction Job done by tactical As it was done in Europe in world War is a More practical and economic use of air Power than frontline air Blue babys9 dad wins prize in i Story contest Long 17 a an army father who turned to writing fiction to pay for a Young sons operation got a Happy ending to his his Story won a prize and his suffering from a Blue baby heart is Backoo Normal living m sgt Clinton Learned three years ago that Johns Hopkins medical Pioneer in Blue baby could help his but an operation would Cost he last when be heard the army was sponsoring a Short Story Whitley got Busy and wrote while he waited to hear what the army thought of his Walter Reed Hospital in which provides medical care for servicemen and their told Whitley it had facilities to take care of and Only charge was a Day for a successful operation was per formed and Tommy was the army picked Whitley Story among 12 Only the first two winners got but Whilley said he will share in royalties from Sale of the stories when they Are published in Book from Adams is stationed at Robeson portrait banned from Boston exhibit 17 Banning of a portrait of Paul Robe son from an exhibit of famous negroes was described Here by the chairman of the display committee As regrettable and mayor John Hynes barred the actor singers portrait from being exhibited in any Public building in Boston on the ground that his philosophies Are destructive to the principles of our