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Show V V yf W Two Killed As Light Plane Crashes Near Parowan Airport Last Sunday A short pleasure cruise in a light, two-seated plane Sunday ended in disaster for two residents resi-dents of Parowan. James Richard Batt, 38, and George Lynn Halterman, Halter-man, 3G, died in the crash and the plane was completely demolished. de-molished. Halterman, a passenger passen-ger In the plane, was killed instantly, in-stantly, and Batt, pilot and owner of the plane, died at the hospital in Cedar City about seven hours after the crash occurred. The two men had made a short pleasure flight and were returning to the airport for a landing, according to witnesses, when the plane stalled during a steep left bank at an altitude of about 300 feet and crashed to the ground, under full power as the pilot was trying to pull it out of the stall. H. W. Bement, state aeronautics aeronau-tics director, who investigated the accident, stated that there were undoubtedly contributing factors to the accident, including includ-ing a gusty wind that was blow, ing at the time, and the fact the Mr. Batt was flying a war surplus plane that he had owned only for about three weeks and with which he was not entirely familiar. Mr. Batt was an experienced pilot with more than 4000 flying hours to his. credit, many of which had been flown under most hazardous conditions. Although Al-though he had made his home in Parowan for the past several years, he spent most of his life as a resident of Cedar City, and from the time he reached young manhood he has experimented (Continued on Pago 13) PLANE CRASH (Continued from Page One) with and flown aircraft of various vari-ous types. He was a self-taught pilot and was well known in aviation circles of southern Utah. Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed for Mr. Halterman in Parowan Paro-wan Wednesday, and services are being held this afternoon for Mr. Batt, also in Parowan. Mr. Halterman was born in Parowan July 10, 1915, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Halterman. Halter-man. He was a veteran of World War II, and for the past year or so had worked as a mechanic at the Cedar Motor company in Ce- ' dar City. He attended schools in Parowan, and on Nov. 4, 1935, he married Mildred Mitchell in St. George. Survivors include his widow; two sons and three daughters, Keith M. Halterman, 16; Patricia Halterman, 10; Robert Halterman, Halter-man, 8; Sharon Halterman, 6, and Nanette Halterman, nine months, and his parents, all of Parowan; seven brothers, Elwyn Halterman, Cedar City; Robert Haltermm, serving a mission for the L D S church in Texas; Jerry Jack Halterman, Red Bluff, California; Cali-fornia; Lt. Daryl Halterman, with the Air Force in Korea; Joseph B. and Orland Halterman, Parowan, and Sgt. Ralph Halterman, stationed sta-tioned at Camp Roberts, Calif, and two sisters, Mrs. Maurine Rosenberg and Mrs. Lois Fowler, both residing in California. Mr. Batt was born in Cedar City on May 21. 1913, a son of John and Jennie Bauer Batt, and had lived here during tnost of his life. He attended the public schools of Cedar City and graduated grad-uated from high school here. During World War II, he served with the Civil Aeronautics Administration Ad-ministration as a civilian pilot instructor, and later served with the Continental Air Transport Command. Since returning to civilian ci-vilian life, he had operated a small flying service near Parowan. Paro-wan. He, in partnership with Paul Woodward of Panguitch had purchased the plane in which he crashed, only about three weeks ago. On August 30, 1934, he married mar-ried Calma Orton of Parowan, who survives him. Also surviving are two sons, Richard and Roger Batt, and two daughters, Bonnie and Donna Batt, all of Parowan; his father, and three brothers, Scott, Chester and Wells Batt, all of Cedar City. |