EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, August 21, 1952 Vol. C628
LOCAL NEWS
ROBBER APPREHENDED
GOOD POLICE WORK AND LOCAL AWARENESS WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE CRIME
East Farewell- Good, basic police work was how Police Chief Jeremy Watson explained the quick apprehension of the suspected criminal involved in the robbery of the Lost Oasis Bar last week. “The local residents and workers from the Iron Works all teamed up to help get to the bottom of this crime” the chief said. The break in the case came when police found the dark sweatshirt and red handkerchief in a trashcan outside the Mallard’s boarding house on Lake Shore Drive
The suspect, who goes by the name of Richard Dunn, does not have a local address and was not a roomer in the boarding house. The police report describes Dunn as a drifter with no job and no known home address. He was indentified by at least two townspeople saying they saw him disposing of the clothing in the early morning on Sunday. The suspect’s knife was also recovered. It was found on Main Street
The suspect was booked in the police station and will be held in the county jail until he can be brought before the county judge in Mountain View.
SPORTS
TRAVELERS BACK ON TRACK
WIN 6-2 OVER COUGARS
The Travelers got back on the winning side of the ledger Wednesday by solidly beating the Ondita Cougars 6-2. Pitching was solid as Danny Lane Pitcher Lane
The team played with much more intensity than the Sunday debacle and seemed to be back in the winning swing. They move on to Mountain View
NATIONAL NEWS
THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE BACK
WASHINGTON (NEA) -- Beginning shortly after midnight, and continuing until dawn, eight experienced CAA radar operators and technicians, manning the air route traffic control center in hanger No. 6 at National Airport, tracked down from seven to ten unidentifiable and mysterious objects performing strange gyrations in the skies in a 30-mile radius above Washington. Harry G. Barnes, who has been with CAA for nine years, mostly in radar work, was in charge of the group. After making sure that the object were not known aircraft and that the radar was operating perfectly he checked his findings with the radar operators in the control tower. They instantly confirmed what he saw and continued to do so. The two radars are completely separated units. Later the radar at nearby Andrews Air Force Base has also confirmed the sightings. When the center radar showed one of the unidentified objects in a low position in the northwest sky, the operators in the tower were able to see it. One of them, Howard Cocklin, who has been with CAA for five years, described it:
"It was a good-sized light, yellow to orange in color. At first it looked like a great big star. Then it began to move in a manner which made you realize it couldn't be a star. There was no unusual speed about its movement and at times it seemed to hover. We could see it moving around like that for about 15 minutes. It just disappeared from the northwest sky." There are no windows in the center Barnes was operating. None of the eight men could leave to go outside to try to check their own radar sightings visually. As is normal at that time air traffic was very light. But at the first opportunity an operator in Barnes' office contacted Capital Airlines pilot Capt. S.C. Pierman. "Before the other night I always discounted flying saucers as atmospheric phenomenon. But now I have actually seen some active strange objects which defy explanation." Another Capital Airlines pilot also reported seeing a light off his wing, which showed up in that position on the radar scope. Other pilots in the air that night, Barnes reveals, appeared to be reluctant to discuss the subject with him on the radio. The mystery of the flying saucers had its start on June 24, 1947, when a Boise, Idaho, businessman, Kenneth Arnold, flew his private plane over the jagged peaks of Washington's Mt. Rainier. When he landed, he breathlessly reported to having seen "a chain of nine saucer-like objects playing tag at fantastic speeds." 
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