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Show NEWS OF FLIERS AMD "FLYING THE FLYING FARMERS The National Flying Farmers association, asso-ciation, organized to promote greater great-er use of airplanes by farmers and ranchers, has headquarters at Okla-. homa A. & M. college, Stillwater, Okla. Some 222 farm men and women wom-en attended the Flying Farmers meet at Stillwater in 1945, and twice that number are expected this year. Farmers using airplanes in all states are being urged to organize and then affiliate with the national association. Grandpa Was Upset BAKER, ORE Grandfather John A. Burton, age 82, went for his first plane ride with his grandson, Capt. Robert B. Alexander, and greatly enjoyed it. But he was a bit puzzled by the way it ended. "Isn't there a better way to land a plane than this?" asked gramp as he hung upside down from his safety belt. The plane had hit a snow drift in landing and had upset. Can He Wreck That Many? Paul Mantz,' Hollywood stunt flier, has purchased 475 surplus war planes. He claims to be the world's largest individual aircraft air-craft owner. States Join in Airport Plan A group of southern Vermont and New Hampshire communities set the pace for interstate and intercommunity intercommu-nity co-operation in providing adequate ade-quate airports without duplication of facilities when several towns, including in-cluding Brattleboro, Vt., and Hinsdale, Hins-dale, N. H., got together and selected select-ed North Hinsdale, N. H., as the best site for a combined airport. White River Valley Herald, Randolph, Ran-dolph, Vt. More Hostesses Needed The nation's airlines will need stewardesses by the thousands in the next decade to staff domestic and international passenger planes. Expansion of service, introduction of larger planes and use of stewardesses stew-ardesses for the first time on international inter-national flights all have contributed to the need for three times as many this year as were employed in 1941. Airport Promotion Securing permission from the civil aeronautics board, Paul Lind-strom Lind-strom of Rifle, Colo., flew over several sev-eral towns distributing handbills, some of which entitled the finders to a free airplane ride. A benefit dance was held for the benefit of the Rifle airport. Scobey Airport to Re-Open Once an international point of entry, the Scobey, Mont., airport air-port has been reopened by Jim Cross, a former bomber pilot, who hopes to build it up to its prewar status. The Scobey city council recently leased the airport air-port to Cross, who is now giving giv-ing pilot instructions to students. GIRLS' FLYING SCHOOL Colby junior college at Dennisport, Mass., is one jump ahead of most girls' schools. It lists among its subjects sub-jects an "aeronautical secretarial course," which is adapted to familiarize famil-iarize the young women with the component parts of aircraft as well as prepare them to become trained secretaries. Train to be a GOOD pilot first, and you won't be too anxious to become a "hot-rock." RECONVERSION . . . Former glider tow plane, hospital plane and cargo carrier is being converted con-verted into an airline passenger plane. Mrs. Terry Stidd and Francis (Hawk) Lippert formerly former-ly served in the armed forces, Mrs. Stidd as a member of the WAC and Lippert with the 15th air force. Picture taken at Hawthorne, Haw-thorne, Calif. AIRLINES BOOMING Airlines are mushrooming today to-day like the railroads did in 1880 to 1890. Instead of the 5,000 pilots now being used by airlines, air-lines, the need will be near 50,000 within the next 10 years, It is estimated. First Plane in County The first private plane in Gatei county, N. C, a yellow Piper cub, was purchased by John Rountree, who recently spent a Sunday afternoon after-noon demonstrating it to the people in and around Gatesville. - A PILOT'S PAY Capt. Merle C. Robinson of American Ameri-can Airlines recently announced the pay for the average pilot. Co-pilots start out at $220 per month, and receive re-ceive a $20 raise every six months, until they reach a top of $380. Before Be-fore that time arrives, however, they're likely to be promoted to captains cap-tains at a base pay of $600 per month, with extra flight pay and night work raising the total to $700 and even $800. And for those who graduate to the big four-engined ships, the salarv l oven higher. |