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Records Final "Touchdown" Ohio State University "Buckeyes" Coach Woody Hayes, left, United Airlines Capt. Frank Stetson and Uniteds Columbus, Ohio, city manager, Jim Gerrity, are shown before Dec. 20 departure from Columbus to the Rose Bowl.' Ohio State University alumnus and United Airlines DC - 8 captain, Frank (Pappy) Stetson -- a long time McHenry resident retired Jan. 2, 1975, after a thirty-three year flying career with United out of the carrier 's Chicago Flight Operations office. Stetson's farewell flight from Los Angeles to Columbus, Ohio, wa$ in familiar skies, for at the request of the OSU football team, he piloted the Buckeyes charter to and from the New Year's day Rose Bowl contest with USC before reaching his sixtieth birthday -- mandatory retirement age -- on Jan 3. This was the sixth trip for Stetson to the Rose Bowl with the Ohio State team - he piloted their ehartersin 1955, 1958, 1969, 1972 and 1973 as well. Frank's standing as the OSU team's favorite mascot has evolved through dozens of charter flights to various sports events, especially the University of Washington and Southern California games. Win or lose. I he team planned a celebration for "Pappy" Stetson aboard the re,kirn segment from Los Angeles to Columbus, and Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes stopped in to reminisce with Stetson and United's Columbus city manager, Jim Gerrity. * Captain Stetson entered training with United Dec. 23, 1941, after graduating from Ohio State that spring with a major in engineering. He started flying privately in 1936, and participated in the Civil Pilot Training program at Ohio State. In May, 1942, he was assigned to the line as a United fflipilot and achieved the rank of captain in 1944. He flew Air Transport Command (airline contract service for the military) with United in 1943 and 1944. and took part in the "MAC" Operation on the Pacific from 1967 to 1973. As a com­ mercial airline pilot he has flown the early B-247s, DC-3s and DC-4s, as well as DC-6s through DC-Hs: As for retirement - he'll never lose his love for flying and hopes to return to the skies in some capacity. The career is the "greatest job in tl?e world for someone who likes to fly," he adds. A native of Elyria, Ohio, StetSon has always been based out of Chicago Flight Operations for United. He lived in McHenry from 1952 until Sept. 1, 1974, and now resides with his wife, Dorothy, in Naples, Florida. They have three children. The youngest son, Dave, attends the Florida Air academy in Melbourne and already has obtained his twin engine rating. Frank hopes Dave will decide to join United. Stetson was nicknamed "Pappy" while at the United Training center when his first child was born. UNDERSTANDING ALCOHOLISM a heal th column from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Drunk Driving What an outcry there would be if one 747 airplane crashed each week in this country, killing 365 people Well, about 365 people are killed each and every week in automobile accidents in which an alcoholic person or "prob­ lem drinker" is involved. Even more people- another 180 or more -are killed each week in "alcohol-related" ac­ cidents, meaning those in which drunk drivers or pedes­ trians are identified But it is the alcoholic or habitually drunk driver who figures in the 365 weekly casualties cited--about two-thirds of the annual alcohol-related toll of 28,000 deaths. When people know and un­ derstand the facts about alco­ hol, the great majority reach responsible decisions as to how much (or whether) they will drink. An apparently little-known fact is that it takes very little alcohol to affect a person's ability to drive safely The risk of being in an auto crash starts to go up when there is .; Mood alcohol concentration 'miAO of be­ tween 05 an ' 10 percent (one part alco).. I to 2.000 or 1,000 parts blood). An aver­ age person will reach the .05 percent level by taking two drinks in quick succession At .05 percent MAC sou are already a somewhat less safe driver, even though yo$| still may be on the safe si^ti' of Icg^J limits. In many Stales. ON to .10 percent means you are legally "under the influence." In other States. .15 percent IIAC means legal impairment. At 10 percent BAC you are seven times more likely to be res|x>nsible f<>i a crash than if \ou had not taken a drink. At .1") |jrrcent you would Ixr 25 times more likelv lo have a crash. More people should remem­ ber how easy it is to get into the high-risk range the next time they are deciding whether to have one last drink before hitting the road. On an average, drinking two martinis or manhattans on an empty stomach in I hour builds up 09 percent BAC; three drinks, .12 per­ cent. And remember, beer con­ tains alcohol' too. Drinking three 12-ounce bottles of 4- percent beer in an hour can send the BAC to .08 percent --the legal impairment level in some States. The drinking driver needs help for two reasons: to re­ duce the traffic and highway dangers to others as well as to himself and to solve his overall problem of alcoholism. To provide such help, the U.S. department of Trans­ portation is supporting Alco­ hol Safety Action Programs in many communities, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports treatment McHenry MtHfNRY 385-0144 . HELD OVER! FRI-SAT-SUN 7:00-9:50 WEEKDAYS 7:30 PM The Trial of Billy Jack SAT - SUN MATINEE AT 1:30 P.M. ALL SEATS "FANTASTIC VOYAGE" 50* on X AN HONORABLE GENTLEMAN There are dramatic footnotes to the history of every-nation ... history itself is a tapestry woven of many tiny threads. Here is the all-but-forgotten story of a moment in Our nation's history when the fate of Amerida rested in the hands of one obscure British officer.... Let's go back to the eventful days of the Amer­ ican Resolution. It is two days before the Battle of Brandywine ... and the British redcoats have been advancing steadily on the American troops. Sometimes the scarlel-coated English forces march along the open roads... but more often they creep through the tangled underbrush of woods and hills. Hiding in a dense forest not far from the rebel army are Major Patrick Ferguson j and his English rifle corps... with orders to xtj main hidden until sundown when they may safely cross the open road ahead under cover of dark­ ness. The sunny afternoon is quiet... only the "rustling of leaves overhead disturbs the stillness. But then another sound --at first faint and in­ distinct, then slowly growing louder--reaches the ears of the British troops ... the slow clop-clop of horses' hooves on the road. Peering from his hid­ ing-place in a grove of trees, Major Patrick Fer­ guson sees two horsemen riding at a walk down the road two horsemen in the uniforms of-- rebel officers! In a soft whisper. Major Ferguson orders two of his men to crawl through the bushes to the side of the road . . . and then, as the two rebels pass, to shoot --and shoot to kill! But a moment later, a thoughtful frown crosses the major's face. He is a British soldier-- an officer -- not an assassin. To kill in battle is one thing, but to shoot from ambush is another. So, in a terse voice, he instructs his men to disregard the order ... to let the rebels pass. The men grumble a bit ... the two are Colonial rebels . .. they'll kill 'em sooner or later. . . why not pick em off now when i£s so easy? " , * But they're soldiers ... and an officerj order is an officeh older.^ so in silence, they watch the two ride slowly --and safely--past. Then, th^/ settle down to await the fall of night But in a few minutes they hear again the sound of hooves .. . and this time, as they peer from cover, they see one of the rebel officers returning atone. This time. Major Ferguson decides to take the rebel prisoner . . and steps from his hiding-ptace to stand in full sight at the edge of the road. But when he calls to the horseman to halt, "all the rebel officer does is to turn in the saddle . . . and look t*almly at the redcoat officer. . . and then, turrting his back, he rides slowly, on his way. The major raises his rifle ... aims down its sights at the broad back of the colonial officer . .. but then --as his men watch in puzzlement, Major Fer guson suddenly drops his rifle, and stands motion­ less. watching the rebel ride slowly out of sight. He returns to his men in silence ... in silence, they look their unasked question. Why didn't he shoot.' Why? Quietly, Major Ferguson explains that as before, he could not bring himself to mur­ der from.ambush, neither could he bring himself to shoot a man --even an enemy --in the back! And so it was that twice, in those early days of the American Revolution. Major Patrick Ferguson of his Britannic Majesty's army was given the op­ portunity of ending the life of that particular rebel officer . . and twice something stayed his hand -- his sense of fairplay, even in war. . . and hereby hangs the tale . . ." who knows what path the history of our country would have taken, but for the honor of that British officer . . . for you see, the man Major Patrick Ferguson could not murder from ambush . . . nor shoot in the back . . .wasJGeneral GEORGE WASHINGTON! HOSPITAL NOTES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK Admittances to Memorial hospital, Woodstock, included Ljidja Osmundsen, borothy Bazan, Master James Wautelet, Wonder Lake; Charles Nelson, Heidi Winters. Normajean Simon. Bernadette Davis, Betty Winston, Margaret Hutchinson, Leona Bassi, McHenry; Jennifer ^lliott , Ringwood. HARVARD HOSPITAL Baby Kimberly Miller of Wonder Lake was a patient in Harvard hospital. programs in conjunction with some of them The NIAAA is a part of the Alcohol. 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Ccuplwl' > TOM HUEMANN 385-3093 WATER CONDITIONERS l»\(iK 7 - PLAIN-DEALER - FRIDAY, JANUARY 3,1975 The Stamp Act • One of the nyw significant dates-in American history is . November 2.1rd, 17H5-. II \vhk on this day, more than two hundred years ago, that the Frederick County,"Maryland, court ordered its regular business carried on without the use of stamped paper-as required by the 'famous."Stamp Act. ( • • . At this time American states \\ere still English colonies.' In March of that year Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, recommended by Sir WTMiam Keith, a former royal governor of Pennsylvania. The/act levied a stamp tax of* three pence to ten shillings on legal papers, two pounds on college diplomas, four pounds on licenses to sell wine, two to six shillings on deeds, ten shillings on a pair of dice, a shilling on a pack of playing cards,£ shilling for every advertisement in a newspaper, etc. The tax outraged many Americans, who felt that only their own state assemblies had the taxing authority over them. Patrick Henry in Virginia managed to get a defiant resolution adopted by the-Virginia (leneral Assembly, so much so that it was expunged from the cecordtthe day after it was passed. Aroused citizens in many states destroyed the stamps wh^ch had lx«en sent from Kngland. The bitter reaction was so widespread wi'ser heads ,111 London favored repeal of the law. Benjamin Franklin, the American agent in London, was summoned before the House of Common's and wisely warned members that if the act were enforced with arms the enforcers would not find re­ bellion but "may Lake one." 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