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itn A my Air Force'Fliers | Invert Novel, New Gams |Flying Saucers’ Catch'' : Fancy of Day ona Beach Visitors and Residents | mime AOR TROY | is Pimes-Union Staff Writer |! Bi AYTONA BEACH, Feb. 14—The bases two former Army Air is os fliers from California is (rear Sates at this Florida Beach| full of “flying ee rt When Major Warren Franscioni land Lieut. Fred Morrison of San Louis Obispo completed their war experiences in the China-Burma~ India and the Italian theatres of op- eration, they returned home and? joined forces in a novel industry. | Morrison had always “n=l! |trigued by the idea of atey ‘Si pans on the beach, and so he py |Franscioni put their b= ad fAl-| sents together came up with & s}plastic version with fins. They then il [had invented a new game, @ novel way of playing catch with flying|!« i|sauicers, a gyroscopic airfoil aerody- manicaily correct, precisely engi | neered and a pleasant way to take)! exercise ‘ Grid Coach Uses It | | ‘The football coach at Hemet,|’ Calif., High School was intrigued |with ‘the idea of using the saucers on his players, teach them 2 and to reach out to-mél Jeatehes of the discs which, by .¢® \fain methods of spinning, boom= lerang and also sail away from the intended receiver. A player has tol? be on his toes to catch them, espe- i |cially if the wind is blowing. \¢ Pte may be just coincidence, Means ‘and Morrison said today, but), Jast season tumned p team. ‘The| | scioni the Hemet coach out his first championshi boys were on thelr toes. | Although they had their dises), made in Glendale and had planned lon extensive West Coast promotion, \snow flakes unexpectedly fell and} fo they headed for Daytona Beach,| where, according to the tourists, i. spends the winter.” No snow flakes fall here; onl fying saucers, which are so durable)? that they are not injured by eats i passing over them. \t | Morrison was shot down in his|, |fitty-eightn mission in Italy but|, lescaped serious injury. The two); lex-Army officers refer to them=ly \gelves as the world’s champion Fly=)t jing Saucer pilots, and certainly their novel inventior -conceived init alifornia and promoted in Florida |2 —has caught on with beach loyers.|¢ \"amey were smart enough, oft Jeourse, to patent the Flying Saucer lides in order to capitalize on ready made publicity bors, of repeated|t \Saucer scares arour the country. Tn throwing the oid pie or cake|s tins there always was the danger|t lof eutting one’s hands. But with|t the new plastic fin saucers, the)? only danger is getting bopped in ji the nose. And only the less agil allow that to happen once in 2\¢ while. | | Promotion Main Problem \* | pranscioni and Morris feel that\’ looaches might find thelr sailing\’ gadgets just dy in training a| [Squad as did the coach of Hemet.) And they are hopeful they |S may, in time to come, expand their} | wares from coast to coast. | the present time Daytona sort that has] 4 ys_are| seen the saucers. ing a few fairs) contemplating attend and getting their product before} larger mgsses of the public. | Promotion is our only problem, | Morrison declared. “Production is no item. All who've tried our ‘n-| teresting little gadget seem to have| fun sailing it, and they also find) that they are using muscles long neglected.’