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Ex-Army Air F orce Fliers Invert Novel, New Gam« ‘Flying - Saucers’ Catch ' ) Fancy of Day ona Beach | | Visitors and Residents | ; By JACK TROY Times-Union Staff Writer i! DAYTONA BEACH, Feb. 14—Th / ingenuity of two former Army Air| Force fliers from California is ‘paying off” at this Florida Beach | jresort where, nowadays, the air is|, jun of “flying saucers.” a’ |} When Major Warren Pransciont |, jar ; Conte Ciese Fred Morrison of San ouls bispo completed their war Ra in the China-Burma-!? pony apg Sealian theatres of op- joined forces returned home and |! a “ ces in a novel industry. jtrigued by the idea of sailin ie|! / Sailing pie so on the beach, and so he px |! |[Franscioni put their_b---~ wid fal- ents together «ad came up with & | Plastic version with fins. They then |‘ jhad invented a new game, @ novel jway of playing catch with flying)’ ;\saucers, a gyroscopic airfoil aerody-| ‘lmanically correct, precisely engi-| neered and a pleasant way to take!) exercise. t | Grid Coach Uses It | The football coach at Hemet, |* Calif., High School was intrigued lwith the idea of using the saucers to condition bis players, teach them lpalance and to reach out to Mara leatches of the discs which, by .©®T=$ tain methods of spinning, boom- lerang and also sail away from the)‘ lintended receiver. A player has to|} lbe on his toes to catch them, espe- \cially if the wind is blowing. \¢ | +t may be just coincidence, Fean- |” scioni and Morrison said today, but) the Hemet coach last season turn out his first championship team, ‘The| ‘ |boys were on their toes. ( Although they had their dises) made in Glendale and had planned on extensive West Coast promotion, lsnow flakes unexpectedly fell and) |so they headed for Daytona Beach, | jwhere, according to the tourists, “summer spends the winter.” No snow flakes fall here; only flying saucers, which are so durable |* that they are not injured by cars |f |passing over them. \* | Morrison was shot down in his}, \fifty-eighth mission in Italy but|, lescaped serious injury. The two); ex-Army officers refer to them-~ly iselves as the world’s champion Fly-}t ling Saucer pilots, and certainly | their novel inventior -conceived in \California and promoted in Florida —has caught on with beach loyers.| They were smart enough, of jcourse, to patent the Flying Saucer’ lidea in order to capitalize on ready-| jmade publicity por, of repeated lSaucer scares arour -the country. | Im throwing the oid pie or cake} ltings there always was the danger of cutting one’s hands. But with the new plastic fin saucers, the |? only danger is getting popped in}i the nose. And only the less agile|t allow that to happen once in a\¢ while. i | Promotion Main Problem Franscioni and Morris feel that)* coaches might find their sailing)" gadgets just as handy in training al squad as did the coach of Hemet. |‘ And they are hopeful that may, in time to come, expand their | wares from coast to coast. } At the present time Daytona ; Beach is the only resort that has |] seen the saucers. ‘The boys are} contemplating attending a few fairs) and getting their product before | larger messes of the public. | “Promotion is our only problem,” | |Morrison declared. “production 15) no item. All who've tried our in-| teresting little gadget seem to have | fun sailing it, and they also find | that they are using muscles long | neglected.” | aA At =e v