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Come Sunday afternoon will be lots of activity at Municipal airport. Aero club holding its monthly local air meet, all for fun and all for free. Something new has been added. In addition to the spot landing contests, there will be two light plane races. One for aircrafts of 65 hp and under and a second race for planes 65 to 100 hp inclusive. Playing safe, each plane runs the mile course around pylons along. The winner will be determined by timing. Pilots from everywhere are invited into the meet and spectators are invited to the field. There will be no "rough stuff", just lots of flying, landings, etc. come on out, look your airport over, see the airplanes. Dale Duckwall has given the Aero club an O.K. to use his fine building at Pierceton for an airmarker there. It's a strategic spot for a marker--Pierceton. Many planes fly the Pennsylvania railroad from east to west and west to east. |
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Every no and then it's a right friendly sight to see the name of a town painted down below. Just assures you that your navigation isn't faulty. So far, I've never run into any filling stations up there, where you could park and ask the name of a town. Jack Mowrey, flying photographer of Warsaw, is boasting membership sales in the Aero club--at least he is charged with the responsibility of promoting memberships. Jack will make you a full-fledged Aero club member for $5.00 a year, whether you fly or not. Just ask him. Membership fees are carefully hoarded until some good purpose can be served by spending it. For example, with the clannish feeling that all airmen have, it only took about 15 seconds Thursday night for the boys to vote an immediate $50 each to Chick Herendeen and Bud Summers. Just in case the boys needed cigarets while in the hospital. They weren't members of this Aero club, but they were airmen--so! [See article below] Bud Summers' wife is the niece of Lydia Hoffman, chief operator at the Warsaw phone office. Chick is the nephew of Mrs. Kitty Jontz and Mrs. Bonnie Latta, of Warsaw. Another $300 was voted to start the ball rolling on the drive to save the city the $7,000 federal money, otherwise going to waste. For improvement of Municipal airport, safety features, all-weather runways, drainage, maybe lights, an administration building, the federal G has allotted $25,000 which must be matched locally to get it. Only $18,000 has been matched so far, leaving $7,000 unused. They hate to see this $7,000 go to some other town and we have only five days, until Wednesday, October 15, to claim it. So if you want to make a good community investment, pay one dollar and get two; you might help in this drive. For every dollar put up by public subscription, the government will add another dollar. If you did not get an opportunity to do your part in the original purchase of Municipal airport--now is an excellent time to do so--for each dollar you spend in, means two. With only five days in which to act, either cash or pledges will be accepted. Friends of Sky Writing may send any about from $1.00 to $7,000 (?) to the column in care of The Times. We'll see that it gets into the proper hands to be applied on airport improvement. Or you may mail your check or pledge direct to Warsaw Aero club, Municipal airport, Warsaw. Every dime will go to improving this fine airport for future community use. Although there is only five days left to get the money pledged, pledges will not have to be paid until around the first of the year. Want to help buy these improvements for the city? Airport improvement programs are slow things to be sure. For in spending public money you have to move slowly and carefully, not make any mistakes. Everything that has been done out there so far, has been completed with the master plan in mind. Driving toward a goal of eventually an all-weather airport, year around, rain or shine, daylight or darkness. A big municipal field which will serve the needs of all the people. Although any amount which is raised in this quick drive, from $1,000 to the full $7,000, will be just that much more than they have to work with now, Sky Writing would like to see the public subscribe the full amount. If everyone would just kick in a little bit, the total would be astounding. How about it? We should provide all the safety features that aeronautic science and money can buy. Warsaw Daily Times, Fri. Oct. 10, 1947 [Front page photo caption] MENTONE PLANE CRASH INJURES
TWO The announcement of the serious injury was made by Dr. Dean K. Stinson, Rochester surgeon, who has been caring for Herendeen since his airplane crash last week. Herendeen suffered a broken leg and broken arm in the crash of his son's Stearman biplane near the Mentone airport. He has consistently complained of a stiff neck, having to turn his head by hand. X-rays sent to Indianapolis confirmed the diagnosis of a cracked vertebra. Sherman "Bud" Summers, Burket aviation instructor, also injured in the same crash, is progressing satisfactorily following an operation last Saturday. Summers is a patient of the Veterans' Coldsprings hospital, Indianapolis. He suffered a badly broken ankle and a pulverized knee cap and was moved to Indianapolis the day after the crash. Mrs. Summers, who has been at her husband's bedside since the crash, returned to Burket over the weekend and will resume her music teaching duties in the Burket school. Summers' condition is improved sufficiently that hour-by-hour attendance is no longer necessary. It is believed that Herendeen will be removed from the Woodlawn
hospital, Rochester, Tuesday to the Methodist hospital, Indianapolis. |