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— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 22,1974
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Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose in 1947 picture.
Spruce Goose may fly again
By LAURENCE MOSKOWITZ
PITTSBURGH (UPI) — Alfred Bennett, at 70, wants to
take the “Spruce Goose” out for another run, this time a
test run for peace, not war.
Bennett, of nearby Beaver, owner of Bennett Aircraft
Co., an airplane brokerage firm, said he is determined to
fly the world’s largest seaplane, built during World War n
by Howard Hughes, to cities across the nation as an
attention grabber for his campaign to promote world
peace.
“When Ping Pong was the triviality to break the
barriers with Red China, what do you think Howard
Hughes’ airplane would do?” Bennett asked. “This
airplane has more attention value than Marilyn Monroe.
It would be like unearthing an Egyptian pharaoh."
Bennett is confident an airplane with a wing span of 320
feet—2o feet longer than a football field and 90 feet longer
than the span of a commercial 747 jumbo jet —would have
no trouble catching the public eye.
“I could land a Piper Cub on that wing,” Bennett said.
The plane, which has been locked in an atmospherically
controlled hangar at Long Beach, Calif, for nearly 20
years, was designed and built by Howard Hughes on
commission from the government. Industrialist Henry
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Kaiser collaborated with Hughes initially, but dropped out
because, “the two of them could never go in the same
direction for very long,” Bennett said.
The plane, officially named the HKI for its developers,
was dubbed the “Spruce Goose” because it was made
almost entirely of wood. It was taken on its first and only
flight on Nov. 2,1947 by Hughes himself. It was flown 1,000
yards at an altitude of 70 feet.
But the war soon ended and the “Spruce Goose” became
as obsolete as a knight’s suit of armor.
Hughes leased the plane from the government, but last
year, the lease expired and the General Services
Administration took custody of the HKI.
“The plane belongs to you and me—the taxpayers,”
Bennett said. “The stupid government bureaucracy keeps
barriers around it. The GSA says it wants the plane used
in away that it would do the most good for the most people
and I am the only one who wants to fly it.”
And he wants to fly the plane to “bring the spirit of
goodwill around the world. For the first time in its history,
the world has the tools to create a real pace. These are
electronic communications and the airplane. And the HKI
is the largest airplane of them all. The Spruce Goose will
fly again,” Bennett said.
Another partical
discovered
STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) — Scientists collided matter
with anti-matter at 3.7 billion electron volts Thursday to
find the second member of what could be a new family of
subatomic particles.
• A group of 41 physicists from two California
laboratories participated in the experiments leading to
the second discovery within two weeks of a particle with
the unusual combination of large mass and long nuclear
life.
One experimenter, Prof. Sidney Drell, a theoretical
physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, said
the find could fit several theories, and could even be the
elusive “quark,” a fundamental particle believed to exist
but never found.
A Stanford team was joined by physicists of UC’s
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to search for possible
“brothers or sisters” of a similar particle discovered 13
days ago when electrons were collided with positrons at
3.105 billion volts at Stanford’s colliding beam facility.
“The exciting question is, is it an isolated set of two
particles or an entire series?” asked UC physicist G.
Goldhaber. “We’re going to look further into this right
away.”
The new particle, named psi (3700), had a halflife, or
decaying time, of less than a hundred billionth of a
billionth of a second, a relatively long time in high energy
physics. Its exact halflife may take days to determine.
Thursday’s discovery occurred at 4:30 a.m. and
confirmed the earlier discovery that was announced
simultaneously over the weekend by Stanford researchers
and a scientific team at the Brookhaven National
Laboratory at Upton, N.Y. That particle was named psi
(3105).
17 killed
PORT MORESBY, New Gui
nea (UPI) — Police said
Thursday at least 17 persons
have been killed and 100
wounded by arrows, spears and
clubs in tribal battles in the
past two weeks in the New
Guinea Highlands.
The chief minister of Papua-
New Guinea, Michael Somare,
said his government would
more than treble the strength
of riot squads in the Highlands.
He said a system of mass
arrests would be introduced
and there would be group
punishment to deal with clans
involved in fighting.
Criers used
CLEVELAND (UPI) —
“Town criers” were sent into
the streets here Thursday to
give out news of the winning
Ohio lottery numbers because
neither of the local newspapers
was publishing.
Three men wearing three
cornered hats walked the
streets with sandwich boards
carrying the numbers. They
also carried bells like their
18th-century predecessors.
Last week, the Lottery
Commission used a helicopter
to tow a banner displaying the
winning numbers over the
downtown area, but high winds
kept the helicopter grounded
this week.
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Carter
backs
detente
MOSCOW (UPI) — Georgia
Gov. Jimmy Carter said in an
interview published in the
government newspaper Izvestia
Thursday he thinks the policy
of detente must be more
vigorously pursued.
Carter also said Atlanta
would like to have a Soviet
consulate.
“Speaking about the changes
in the south and Atlanta’s
growth as an international city,
Jimmy Carter said Atlanta
would very much like to have a
Soviet consular office,” the
newspaper said.
It quoted Carter as saying he
favored a policy of detente but
thought that the “policy must
be more vigorously pursued.”
2 held
on pot
charges
ATLANTA (UPI) — U. S.
Customs officials said Thursday
that two New York women
were arrested at Hartsfield
International Airport with 21
pounds of marijuana taped to
their bodies.
Dolores E. Carroll, 27, and
Brenda E. Elliott, both of New
York City, were turned over to
the Metro Atlanta narcotics
unit.
They were arrested Wednes
day night on their arrival on an
international flight from Jamai
ca. An immigration official
became suspicious of their
actions and a search showed
about 10 pounds taped to Miss
Carroll’s body and 11 pounds
taped onto Miss Elliott.
No one to run
SOAP LAKE, Wash. (UPI) -
The city’s two top officials have
“taken a bath” in political
warfare here and nobody wants
to run for office.
No candidates have filed for
mayor after Mayor John
Harville was thrown out of
office in a recall election.
The drive to get rid of
Harville was led by the ex
police chief. He had been fired
by the mayor.
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People
By United Press International
Agnew wants privacy
NEW YORK (UPI) - Spriro Agnew, on his way to
becoming a millionaire at his new job, says he’s “just
trying to make a living.”
The former vice president has set up his own business,
Pathlite, Inc., which buys and sells property.
Some of his best customers are kings and princes in the
oilrich Arab countries, according to an article in the
December issue of McCall’s magazine, and Agnew “could
well be on the way to becoming a millionaire.”
“You people in the press are always arguing for the
right to privacy,” Agnew told McCall’s. “How about
letting me have mine? I’m just trying to make a living.”
Recover from inflation
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) — Arch N. Booth, president
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says the United States
will recover from inflation within a year if the new
Congress can keep from overspending.
“The worst thing we have to fear is that the new
Congress will come back and get a little panicky and start
busting the budget, as the say, priming the pump,
reinflating the economy to too great an extent and too
fast,” Booth said at a news conference Thursday.
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