The speeding contacts of the Middletown Red Cross and the engines of a jet plane rushed a Franklin airman in less than five hours yesterday from his Illinois base to his critically ill father's bedside at Middletown Hospital. Airman Vernon E. Johnson, who had heard of his father's condition at 5:30 p.m., was in the hospital by 9. Physicians had given Oakey Johnson, his father, a life expectancy of only a few hours. The older Johnson however, was still in critical condition this morning. The Red Cross, when notified by hospital physicians of Johnson's illness, phoned the chapter field director at Fort Sheridan, Ill. The airman was being treated for a hip infection at the base hospital of O'Hare International Airport in nearby Park Ridge...