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...Dayton, the U.S. Air Forces Air Materiel Command produced a parachute with a built-in brain, which automatically goes into action even if an airman is inured bailing out of his plane or blacks out at high altitude. Designed for high-flying fighters and bombers, the release is tripped by a timer (to be set before take-off at from one to 26 seconds), includes an aneroid barometer which opens the chute above 5,000 ft. no matter what happens...
People who were in or near Dayton last April were jolted by loud, explosion-like blasts striking down out of an innocent-looking sky. Most everybody suspected the Air Force, whose nearby Wright-Patterson Field is constantly testing peculiar and violent aircraft. But the Air Force admitted nothing...
Hooked Idea. Before becoming the anonymous idol of her panting fans, Texas-born Jean King was a singer, a movie bit player (Tarzan and the Amazons) and a radio actress. In 1947, marooned in Dayton, Ohio, she went on station WING as a disc jockey. "I was damned lonely in Dayton," she recalls. "So I just hooked onto this idea and talked about my loneliness. And, you know, I found out there are a lot of lonesome people in this world...
Elected as moderator of the General Assembly and leader of the church for the coming year: the Rev. Dr. Hugh Ivan Evans, Ohio-born pastor for 26 years of the Westminster Church in Dayton. Then the Presbyterians set to work on the agenda. They warned church members against contracting marriages with Roman Catholics under conditions imposed by modern Roman canon law, especially as these conditions involve a promise to have their children brought up in a religious system which they themselves cannot accept...
...Springfield (Ohio) News and Sun; the Dayton Daily News and Journal Herald; the Miami News...