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Show MODEL PLANES SOAIUT BEACH Miniature airplanes with gas motors mo-tors soared over beaches of Great Suit lake Sunday as aviation enthusiasts en-thusiasts competed for awards in The Tribune-Telegram Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Aviation club contests. A runaway "gas buggy" added ; excitement to the day's events : when it soared out of control for 23 l minutes and traveled a distance of j five miles. Walter Staff, 19. of 154 East ; Thirteenth South street, was win-j ner of the contest. He scored 179 out of a possible 200 points. j Second place honors went to Wesley Wes-ley Keller, 17, of 3t Bryan avenue, ave-nue, leader of the model aeronau- tical research squadron, a branch1 of the club. Karl Player, 1483 Hollywood avenue, and Burton De-; Murais. 1325 Thirteenth East street, I were third and fourth place award winners, respectively. j Planes entered in the contest werel powered by one-fifth horsepower motors and had wing spreads of approximately six feet. ) Judges were Jack Douglas, club commander, and Ralph Branning. 1 |