As the pollen count goes up, the misery of hay fever victims increases immeasurably. Unles you hab pud up wid a rudding node, spouding, flowig widdout end, you have no idea! Here again the airplane has become an accessible instrument to relieve these unfortunate folk.

Young Merl Robison of Leesburg, son of R. V. Robison, was in such a bad way from hay fever and asthma that he was confined to the hospital, breathing with difficulty, under an oxygen tent. Last Friday Merl was bundled into an airplane at Warsaw Municipal airport. Pilot Joe Carlin took him aloft at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon and headed the plane for Cheboygan, Mich.

Cheboygan is the jumping off place, high on the tip of Michigan's great peninsula, on the straits of Mackinac.

Through the afternoon, pilot and patient droned through the skies, eating up the northern miles. They rested briefly at Cadillac, crossed the Michigan wilderness just south of the straits, setting down at Cheboygan at six o'clock that evening.

Joe reports the change in Robison was so immediate and so apparent that it seemed like a miracle. By the next morning when Carlin was ready to fly back to Warsaw, young Robison had donned overalls and was making ready to go fishing. Robison's father-in-law and family were following by automobile, a long, tiresome and tedious journey up the long finger of land which is Michigan.

Somewhere between old Sportsman's airport, northeast of Warsaw and Leesburg to the north, an aircraft is missing. A diligent search for the craft since Sunday failed to disclose its resting place. The plane's owners are quite frantic. There are no humans aboard the ship, for it's a diesel powered model belonging to two young air enthusiasts. Ted Dock, son of Lowell Dock, and Gordon Blauser, son of Mrs. Mary Blauser, both of Warsaw, were flying their tiny silver and blue ship from the abandoned airport Sunday. With them as an interested observer, was Isador Carnegis. They released the plane and watched it buzz upward and northward. They followed its progress north to the Tippecanoe river and had to stop. The little ship bent upon an endurance record of its own, I guess, did not run out of fuel and glide to earth as it was supposed to do. It just kept on flying north.

Bill Ettinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ettinger, of East Main street, took the boys up in a real airplane and for more than an hour they cruised over the farmlands hunting the missing plane. No find. So if you spot a midget plane north or east of Warsaw or south and east of Leesburg, silver and blue, complete with motor--it belongs to Blauser and Dock. These lads are real air enthusiasts-on Monday traveled to the Cleveland air races.

Also flying in to Cleveland for the prize air event of the year were Bill VanDoran, Joe Rife, Sheriff Ray Henderson and electrician Earl Parker. The quartet left Warsaw at 6:05 o'clock Sunday morning, flew around in traffic for a bit at Cleveland, landed at 8:35. They made the return trip home in one hour and fifty minutes, arriving in Warsaw at 6:15 p.m. the same evening.

They saw the unofficial world's speed record of 669 miles per hour, made by a jet. By the way, there were upward of 50 jets at Cleveland. The four marveled at the world's largest land plane, the B-36, and also goggled at the ship you've been reading about lately--the Mars flying boat--which is Navy property. The weather, they said, was perfect, flying was smooth as silk. I sure envy them that trip!

From chewing gum to a giant DC-3 is quite a step. But out at Smith airport, over the holiday, was a giant DC-3, big passenger and cargo airplane. It's a privately owned ship, and is operated by the man who makes those little balls of chewing gum found in the penny venders. He was busy hauling folks home to Buffalo, N.Y., from Winona Lake. It makes my jaws ache to try to convert the number of chewing gum balls, penny by penny, it takes to fly that DC-3 one hour. Chew that over for a while!

The long and helpful finger of air transport now reaches your very doorstep. The postoffice department had added air parcel post with door to door delivery to their lines of services. Parcel post itself was born in 1913. On Sept. 1, parcel post was tied up on a world wide basis with the air carriers.

"With a scheduled plane taking off or landing within the United States on an average of every seven seconds around the clock, and an overseas bound plane leaving our borders every 30 minutes, we stand ready to give patrons the fastest parcel post service offered anywhere," Postmaster Roy Bowen said today. Pretty red, white and blue stickers are available free of charge at the Warsaw postoffice, Bowen said.

Here's a little "figger" put out by Sabena, the internationally famous Belgian airline. You may now buy a round trip excursion ticket to either London, Brussels or Paris--with a 30 day time limit on the return trip for $489.70, which includes both ways. Step right up; how many, please?

That four engined Mars flying boat that Henderson, VanDoran, Rife and Parker saw at Cleveland weighs 82 1/2 tons, will fly up to 238 miles per hour, and has a 200 foot wingspread. The propellers are 16 feet long.

Big controversy over how many giant B-29 bombers passed over Warsaw vicinity. I counted 25. Some folks counted 30, others 27. In any event, it was a whopping big flight, probably enroute to the Cleveland races.

Warsaw Daily Times, September 4, 1948