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Garage Mass- (^Jr^An airforce pilot was" killed ye_sterday when the power BV BARNAM)/NORRIS automatic door to make his retire- nutter in his can broadcast a high ful suction of a jet plane a*r scoop The Peninsula, which has wav^ had-treeSrTfe-aches-and al nu- merit as sedenta~ ry "arsirossrbTe He-fi ntnTrbXtronWed^rget- -srrjalW-ec$iver---m-4he- garage-re- - >ul1ed^him-into-thp-mechamsm. -J^ead. iv_asJU :Thomas_A Kirkes. "jnerous other attractions to-o/feiv ting oUt of hig car every darned has" something new this yearga- time /he drove m and but garage------------------------------------------- ^ of - the ;rare doors tbat-automatically open as 'a ear approaches .___ * For day or two the door --ff-udg-ffi-g/from rimf- a-pvor ked--perfeet4y- -Evei y--time--he retired general now living m drove up to the garage (which Southern California; however, the was cfuite'-frequently--he-was fas trervea~thcr^sIgn ------------- And up the door went The thing worked beautifully'. The general, who was missing a{ Ip-ast one meal every day, v/as losing some of his excess-weight tThe door didn't show any signs of 26/_of-Xawion,-Okla____^_______ An "-airforce--spokesman--said1 'Kirkes-had- walked m front-of-an F-36 fighter plane The accident happened shortly before thousands ithered- at--ther field to-watchman Armed Forces Day air show. new, garage doors* won't be un cinated by the door and used to weai___ _ , J mixed blessings ________ go without meals so he could drive And then one day the /general teeth ground The general's hands ly'seerns this general bought an in and out) a^ljmalFradio-tians- went ouFto ms car to~driVe"imand^shook- ........... out of the garage-a-few-times He - The general was~aTrgryr" 'happened to glance up-as-he-walk- -~Ir-heIpedTsome=rrot-much^ but ed into the-garage And he ducked some--when he--found--what--had Hard to "mix Deep-Tone Decorator Wall Colors? Not fast -- ----------- gone wrong^A-garbage'-truck-wif& -if-you have us mix these beautiful colors on our color mixing machine. VIKING pcAr "YOUR LOCAL FULLER PAINT DEALER1 127 Central Ave Phone 5-4297 __ Pacific Grove The door was coming down on squeaky brakes had driven past him - hisJiouse-just as he was-baddng _ After that the general Kept tinder the garage door. wary eye on the door He found The driver of the truck had ap it going up and down, with no plied the brakes, and the brakes apparent time pattern when no had squealed. It didn't take the car v/as near general a moment to figure _<mt After arduous investigation,- the that -the--brakes had--emlUed ihe general discovered that his neigh same note as his whistle, and the bor, a ham radio operator, ^was at garage door, like a well-trained the root-oL the_trouliIe._ln_Jnmng dog, had obeyed the signal. his radio, the ham frequently The general's door, it appeared, transmitted on _ the frequency was not a one-man door which sent the general's door into But it took more than garbage frenzied action ___ truck brakes to discourage this A veteran who'had served un particular general ~ He went back der ftre in several battles, the o the--radio--signal-system--this t general -decided -the-door was-just llme using a different frequency too'"darned modern for him than before, a frequency that the So he went old-fashioned He ne-ighborhood-ham~nev.er intruded gave-u-p-the idea of-the radio busi on __ After his car was repaired, ness and bought one of those high that is j-freq uen ey--whistles--w-h leh--only Oncp again the door was m op dogs (and, apparently, garage eration and "aTl was well in the doors) can hear general's world. He would-blout_tlif2_whiatle A t r a g e d y s t r ik e s new gadget in the garage would Then tragedy struck again, A pick up the sound And up would 7et plane flew overhead,-appar ,fly the door - - ----------- ently-emitting ~waves-of-the_ga- ^h^-genera-W-efcdd-rAt--h-aA-e-beGn rage door's frequency. happier if he'd been awarded i The door crashed down Congressional Medal ,-a n d "TwTstart" -Btrfc={hts -hme-the-gener-al-laugh-- "ed slrrpxnTrg Ht s " meals again and' -ed--t-r-i-umpfaantly--W-hen held--hai driving m anrd""out oT-His garage- the receivmg-radio-changed-to-the- _ The general whistled The door new frequency he'd also had it -went up--The--general-drove -in- made -movable. Thc general whistled The door He had started leaving the radio [went down The general whistled. undei--the1 door, m< ^ Lt h e--d oor--went--up.---T-ho--general. the way only when he was'plan i hacked outr-or _aj least, he started rung to dive in or out to When the garage door 'went' _ Just as nis car waVleavihg the TimvTf wTthnrrt'lhegeneial's uuleis, jgarage, the door came~5own,- it smashed, the radio. p~The geTO^rs^ce-fddk"OTr-fiTaF t o =-s m'i mereerHF ''shade or'paTe pink which had once "ft tgkes~nTore~than-an~automatic ^gcamt--tcr-ictmt- -garage door--to--win-out--over-- The gereral2* -retred-general