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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 6, 1966 the stars and stripes Page 7 Navy to or Park 75fh anniversary of a a Arm 1 , flu. Api seventy five years ago Kurre it Mysung was 11 17-year-old boy trying to gel off the ground in a homemade glider Anil Lite us. Navy wan buying its first air plane. Wysong Anil lie Navy got together in world War i. When he joined up and flew flying Bents in France. Thuv Are teaming up Unce again Ai Pensacola n As this week for the Diamond anniversary of the Navy s air Arm. Comedian Hob la new is one of the entertainers Ului will help celebrate the Navy anniversary gala thurs Day taping a television special aboard the Pensacola based  Lexington. Older entertainers on hand will be mini vice Star Don Johnson actresses Brooke Shields and Eli Abl a Taylor comedian Jonathan Winters and singers Sammy Davis jr., Mac Davis find Barbara Mandrell. The Blue Angels flight  is Guadron also based in Pensacola. Will perform at air shows saturday find sunday. Wysong. 92, will be one of the Early aviators participating in tic festivities slut Lii i career in the air almost. Ended before it marked when he gut his glider airborne in Greensboro n a. I just stalled lie thine nut and it. Nosed Over and  avy song snid in a recent Telephone interview from his hum in in Nina Hills. Calif. After that i decided what i needed u As an  me got one in 1914 Hen he was a student at North Carolina stale University he Buill n  himself Hou to Fly it arid Tiu do 11 flights before Grad Siiling with an engineering degree. He then went to work for the Curliss aeroplane co. In Buffalo  joined the new York naval militia in 19 16 As an inst Racior Pilot and Sau combat in prance in i m. Lie claims to have flown a plane off a Vii when Rump atop a Turret of the battleship Texas Long before the Days of aircraft carriers. _ Navy historian Roy Gros Sizick in Washington said no documentation has Ever been found of that flight but speculated tint the Navy then distrustful of Avi Kilimi. May have wanted to keep such an  quiet. Wysong went on to become in aircraft designer for u no Henl and then Douglas aircraft retiring in 1 Hio. Malcoln Brainard another aviator joined the Navy three years before it got that first air plane he look to the air during world War i. Hying Impi Sii Marine a i Nils in trance. ,. It was Juii one of the jobs and we Ditt it Ira Inari. Ufi said in a Telephone interview Frum Brooking. Ore., where he lives in a nursing Home everybody was anxious he said. Everybody had their own bundle of barrel slaves to Fly in. It was just something new. Something to play with explorers welcomed Home after 56-Day trek to pole. St. Paul Minn. A four Arctic adventurers out of touch with civilization for 56 Days on i heir 500. Mile dogsled trip in the North pole returned Home to friends families and a heroes Welcome. What a fantastic miserable and wonderful trip team member Geoff Carroll told a crowd of 600 who waved american flags and cheered As inc charter Jel landed sunday ill St. Paul s downtown Airport. We All love  gov. Rudy Perpich Lold the learn and on behalf of Oil the people of Minnesota congratulations on a wonderful  we re overwhelmed said learn Leader will Sieger. Prayer and support of Minn solids helped inc group reach its destination Sieger said. The experience taught us the Powers of Faith and  the St Ger International Polar expedition flight originated from their base Camp in Resolute Bay in Canada s Northwest territories. The Polar expedition reported Friday they had reached the pole the Day before they duplicated explorer Robert Peary s race to the pole without air support and navigating Only by Sextant. Peary claimed to have trekked to the pole and Back in 1909, from the some starting Point of the Sieger exp Dilon in 52 Days. The use of satellite tracking and a flyover by a Canadian military Rico Naissance plane was pan of Sieger s Effort to verify whether Peary s feat was plausible. The expedition log will be compared to Peary s journal and to Hal of his archrival or. Frederick a. Cook who claimed he beat Peary to the pole by a year. The Dis Pute was settled by an pet of Congress in 1911. But Many people including Sieger were never completely satisfied. Polar exploration team Leader will Sieger gets a hug in St. Paul Minn the adventurers who were airlifted Back in base Camp saturday after nearly two months without news from the outside world were shocked to learn of the  bombing of Libya and the nuclear Accident  soviet Union. Up Odilion Leadens Sieger and Paul Schurck both of tily Minn., and the others Slupik their Heads and whispered. Of no at tilt Navy. Said base Camp manager Jim Gasperini. Carroll of Juneau Alaska said he wants to see his daughters go to Barrow Alaska and return to Hijo counting we ttys. Richard Weber of Camcy Quebec Kanji Tosca his Girlfriend. -. Ann Bancroft inc firs woman to travel on uralic ice to the pole was looking for Ward to seeing her family and gardening. Critter a Lead sled dog since the trip began died a Lay before the expedition reached ils goal. Crit or was owned by Bob Mantill of Anchorage Alaska who wits evacuated april i it because of frostbite. Montell had talked about taking the dog with him but the to com needed a Good Lead dog. Team members said Critter never pulled Well Afler his master left and died last wednesday of unknown causes. Another trekker. Bob Mckerrow fan Akita. New zealand was airlifted uni in Laie april Afler a sled rolled Over in him breaking his ribs. Sieger Schurck Bancroft and Carroll arrived sunday and were met by mantel who had flown in Currier Brent Boddy and Weber were making an appearance in Canada and Mckerrow had returned to new zealand. Members of the expedition planned to spend monday in the Minneapolis is. Paul area. Ihnn travel to the Washington d.c., Headquarters of the National geographic society a major expedition sponsor. I killed 6 Hurt activist pastor divided congregation As car rips info shrines Parade Farmington. To. A a car crashed into a Parade and dragged a mini vehicle driven by n Shriner several Hundred feel killing the Shriner and slightly injuring six pople Carter Bell 70. Of Dexter mo., died in the Accident saturday said police officer Richard Baker. The Driver of the car Andrew j. Paulc jr., told police he thought the Parade was Over and was unable to Slop in time said police sol. Bill Bowyer. No charges had teen filed by late sunday against Paule 71, who was not Hurt. The car hit several other vehicles before colliding with a pickup Uruci filled with people Wuichin the annual shrink is Parade. It is held in Conj clips with a horse show sponsored by the fraternal organization. Five of the injured were in the pickup police said. Paule s wife Dorothy 69, also was hurl. Church has first service in 16 months Clairton. A. A a lutheran Church has held us first service since being locked up 16 months ago because of Dissen Sion in ils congregation Over the firing of its Acyl visa pastor. D. Douglas Roth the ousted pastor and so supporters were turned away sunday from the door of the Trinity lutheran Church by a sheriffs Deputy when they tried to enter for sunday s service. The Church was closed in january 1985 after deputies raided the building and arrested supporters of Roth who had barricaded themselves inside. Roth 34, who Stilt wears a clerical Collar was stripped from the clergy Rolls last june for refusing 10 obey his superiors and step Down from his pulpit. About half of Trinity lutherans Blue Collar congregation had complained to the Bishop about Roth s out spoken support of denominational ministry strategy and the network 10 save the  Ohio Valley. The groups blame the investment policies of Pittsburgh corporations for the area s unemployment. In recent years they have used such confrontational tactics As disrupt ing Church services attended by corporate executives and spraying synthetic Skunk Oil inside businesses. Roth was jailed for 3h months for con tempt of court after being arrested at trin Ity lutheran s altar in november 1984. He has been sentenced 10 an additional six to 12 months for disorderly conduct and failure to disperse but that conviction is being appealed. As Roth attempted to enter the Church sunday he was slopped by a sheriffs Dep Uty who cited a november 198-1 court order prohibiting him from preaching or entering Trinity lutheran. Role contended the the order no longer applied because the Congre gation had been disbanded. However he and his supporters left peacefully. This sounds like Russia to me James Wiley of Aliquippa  fought for this country and now i cannot go to  the Church s doors were locked during the service a tier inc service worshippers emerged locked the doors again and Hung 9 no trespassing sign. Role has been conducting sunday morn ing services at his Clairlyn Home since trin Ity lutheran was locked american woman killed in bus Accident in Morocco Paris a an american woman was killed and 22 people mostly French were in i Rcd when a tourist bus in Morocco skidded into an 1 a foal ditch on the Road to Marrakech. The Accident occurred about 30 Miles from Marrakech. W the bus carrying 46 people was resuming from the Southern desert town  said inc Agency France press it identified the dead american As Cecilia canc Luo bul did not give tier age or Hometown  
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