BACK TO CALIFORNIA The West bound plane left Willow Run at 11:45 a.m., Sept. 14, on time, stoppingonly at Chicago on the flight to Los Angeles. There were 60 passengers aboard this time and the usual efficient crew, captain, 1st officer, flight engineer, and two stewardesses, with all of whom I had good informative conversations….
HOWELL AND VICINITY Leaving New London, we headed for Howell, Michigan, stopping in Ann Arbor to call on Mrs. Blum, 88, and at Brighton to see the Newman, mother and daughter. At 8 p.m. we arrived at Lake Chemung, which is Winfield’s cottage home while at Howell, next door to the Yoon family, where we…
First we hit for the Ohio Turnpike, entered at Maumee, Michigan, thus by-passing the city of Toledo. Upon reaching the turnpike objective we put up for the night and next day traversed that wonderful highway for 150 miles at 65 m.p.h. There is not a crossroad or signal in its 241 miles between the East…
SEPTEMBER 1956A Lifetime Packed into a Single MonthByCHARLES SMITH LINE On the morning of September 7th, at Los Angeles International Airport, my son Francis put me aboard an American Airlines Cruiser bound for Detroit. Seven days later, at the same airport, he met me upon my return. In those seven days, with my other son…
That yearning of hers came from the soul of a traveler. No greater adventure can there be than to see what lays on the other side. The fullness of life is not measured in terms of years. There are those who might say that Barbara experienced just eight short years of life. No. Barbara experienced…
As she traveled across the channel on her first trip to Holland, Barbara became pals with a fine Dutch youth of 22. They became inseparable. He told her about his countr; pointed out to her, as we neared the coast, the first dykes and windmills. Throughout Holland she met and played with the Dutch youngsters…
THE SOUL OF A TRAVELER (A tribute to Barbara, given by her Daddy at the services in the Cathedral of the Foothills, Upland, Tuesday, January 21, 1941.) Barbara has the soul of a traveler, an her spirit lives today in the lives of hundreds of boys and girls and men and women whom she met…
January 21, 1941 Dear Friends: Our little Barbara passed away peacefully in her sleep Saturday night, January 18. She was eight years and two months old. Barbara, after feeling poorly in November, was taken ill on December 6, 1940, with acute lymphatic leukemia – an ailment for which there is at present no cure. We…
FRANCIS AND HELEN LINE 5475 EAGLE ROCKVIEW LOS ANGELES, 41, CALIF. THE EAGLE ROCK Some millions of years ago a strange combination of geological forces created, inthe foothills of Southern California’s mountains, a gigantic isolated formation, which isnow known as the Eagle Rock. In the state’s pre-Spanish period, this rock was used by the coastal…
