European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 stars and s Thi june 2007 Frisbee Are still flying High after 50 years by Michael Liedtke the associated press san Francisco wham changed the name of the Pluto Platter to Frisbee 50 years ago flinging a new word into the cultural Ether that still conjures images of Carefree fun in the Park and Breezy Days at the and to think Walter Fred the inventor of the beloved thought the new Moniker would never i thought Frisbee was a terrible now i thought it was Frisbee instead became insanely popu making the name As synonymous with flying discs As Google is with searching the internet and kleenex is with but wham Doest allow the Frisbee name to be thrown around indiscriminate when the Emeryville based company sees Frisbee used to describe discs made by other lawyers dispatch Legal notices seeking to protect the Trade marked Frisbee name is a spinoff from a no defunct Connecticut the fris Bie pie new England College students often tossed empty pie tins around for a habit that led them to refer to the Pluto Platter As a wham co founders Rich Knerr and Arthur Spud Melin first obtained the marketing rights to Morrison invention in january less than six months Knerr made the fateful decision to embrace the Nick name that the College kids had Given the Pluto he evidently was unclear on How to spell giving birth to a new even the Navy was intrigued by the in the Navy began experimenting with the ostensibly to find a better Way to keep flares time Magazine after four years and on the Frisbee the Navy concluded that the Frisbee lift drag ratio Vas insufficient to support a working Morrison began experimenting with Fly ing objects in his he says he first tossed around a pop Corn lid at a thanksgiving gathering in 1937 and later graduated to cake when he first started to think of design ing a flying Morrison called it the whirl Way in a tribute to 1941 triple Crown winning Racehorse All Fred was trying to do at the time was build a better flying cake said Phil who teamed up with Morri son to write Flat flip flies a Book detailing the Frisbee by the time Morrison finally scraped up enough Money to develop a Mold for his there had been reports of a space Craft crashing in Morrison ended up calling his first line of discs after upgrading his de Morrison then dubbed the disc the Pluto Frisbee inventor Walter Fred Morrison test flies a reissue of the Pluto Platter Frisbee disc in december in Sig Cassandra White reenlisted to make sure no one gets left after playing a part in operation provide Sig White will never forget what it Means truly make a changing lives for the better has become her personal As a Drill Shell get to continue that charge by instilling her character and Wisdom into Basic she know that when All is said and will look into her eyes and say thank Tiff