Winfield Henry Line Condensed Diary 1902-87
Important Events, Dates From 1944 to Present
With Sketchy Dates Before 1944
Property of Winfield H. Line
June 6, 1902: Grace Song-Line born in Pyongyang, Korea
Sept. 26,1902: Winfield Henry Line born in Linesville, Penn.
1902: Winfield moved to Grand Junction, Colo.
1903: Winfield moved to New London, Ohio
1912: Winfield moved to Howell, Michigan
1917: Grace taught high school in Pyongyang, Korea
1918: Grace went to Tokyo Medical College
1919: Grace tortured & imprisoned by Japanese
1922: Grace graduated with M.D.
1922-23: Winfield and brother, Francis, hiked the U.S.
October 5, 1924: Grace & Winfield met in A.A. Fall Leaves
1925: Grace worked at the Hilton Hotel-Bayview
1925-26: Winfield and Francis went around the World-13mo.
1926:Grace drove with (Pop& Mom) to Seattle in camped
1926: Winfield & Francis met their folks in Seattle
1928: Winfield graduated from University Of Michigan-Jan.
June 20, 1928:W.L. & G. married at Lake Chemung by Rev. F. Line
1929: Grace graduated U. of M. with M.S. and PhD M.D.
1933: Graces father died in Korea
1933:Winfield elected to the board-First National Bank
1933-37: Kay came-graduated in music-returned to Korea
1934: Winfield learned to fly
1938:Grace & Winfield go to Korea to aid Kay
1939: Grace and Winfield bought a small cabin in Northport
1940: Winfield bought a Bellanca airplane
1940: Flew Bellanca to California and returned
1940: Winfield & Grace gave 500 lectures on Korea
1941: Winfield gets numerous airplane licenses in Florida
1941: Grace in Washington D.C. with Syng-man Rhee
1941:Winfield & Grace buy a house in Palm Springs
1941:War with Japan
1942:Winfield teaches flying-Grace teaches MSC
1942:Grace meets with Gov. Van Wag & Mrs. Roosevelt
Jul.1942:Winfield & Grace sell Line Stores to D& C-20 yr leases
Apr.1943: W.L. & G. buy homes in Palm Springs,California & Paradesia Point, Michigan
In 1944 to 1987 Winfield kept a daily diary of events
January 1, 1944: Winfield started keeping a diary daily. He had a house in Palm Springs at 571 S. Indian Trail which he bought in 1941. That morning he began a climb of Tahquitz Peak while Grace made a pastel painting. The climb took him two days.
January 10: Winfield sold the remains of his Bellanca for $922.50 to Mr. Miller, then sold the Ashville Building for $5000.00.
January 18: Winfield & Grace found the first Indian Tea in Whitewater Canyon with Ilick.
January 24: the Lines met Dr. Robertson, McCartney & wife, Lucille, at Illicks.
January 29: bought horse for Grace-$65, because could not find guinea pig.
February 1: met Tillie Grimm and the Steve Willards.
February 6: Halliburton inspiration for book.
February 9: Paul & Tillie Grimm, Cholla was visiting us.
February 14: trailer park deals with Illicks (see Feb.19). Willard lettuce dinner.
February 15: met Bill. We ith and talked about Illick trailer deal.
February 17: met the G.N. & S. Wards.
February 19: met Mrs. Markham at the Wards.
February 22: met Meta Hormel & Mrs. John Jenkins. Grace spoke about Korea aid.
February 26: met John Hormel when he came to our house.
March 11: Grace ill and uses flax seed juices-my impression of Meta Hormel.
March 26: Dr. Beneman came to help Grace.
March 23 to April 4: Nooneys helped care for Grace. Lewis & I hired Cynchina.
April 15-20: Yams and Grant Miller– 8,000 plants.
April 21: met Harry Mann at rifle range.
April 24: took famous McCartney Bros. to Desert Inn.
April 26: met Mrs. Cockerel at museum-hummingbird-eagle.
May 7, 1944: night in Eagle Canyon with Grimms.
May 11: baby hummer-Dr. Cockerel.
May 26: met Willard prices.
June 27: Grace oil painting of our house.
June 29: met Horsy Orest Johnson at police force.
July 10-11: Idyllwild & Tahquitz Peak became rangers.
July 15: met Art Davis at Illicks
July 26- September 3: on Tahquitz Peak
August 3-18: ringtail cats
August 4- 5: Winfield & Grace climbed to top of San Jacinto Peak in the moonlight
August 27: 100,000-acre fire
September 8: met Phili & AHN
September 13: met Steve Ragsdale on top of Santa Rosa.
September 15: deer hunting with Joe Patencio.
September 28: joined police force
September 29: net the Walters-next 2 lots
October 2: caught first horned toad
October 10-11: police station work
October 22: agreed to teach Sunday school class
October 27: met Francis Crocker & Culver Nichols
October 31: Winfield hikes up San Jacinto
November 1: desert Steve comes to Palm Springs.
January 1945 ringtail cats amuse all
January 13: met Audrey Ovington
January 22-23: about hummers
January 27: Led first field trip for museum
February 5: met Ludivica Diamond Graham
February 6-9: Younghill Kang and Mrs. Graham
February 13: Winfield permanently appointed to M.S.U. staff.
February 20-21: Met Rudolph Friml at Hazel Meyers
February 28: met Will and Wanda Peake at Bigelow party for Pillsbury
March 31: first met Zaddie Bunker
April 5: Paul and Helen Gay came for month
April 16: Desert Steve wants us to buy $800 cabin.
April 17: again met Peakes at our tennis club lecture
April 18: Grace played hard in church. Met Alschulers
April 28: helped Grant Miller plant yams on Joe Patencios land
May 5: ate our first rattlesnake
May 11: insured home for $7750 with Herb Samson
May 20: Steve Ragsdale will handle buying cottage $800 for us.
May 25-27: Clint Bauer and I climbed top San Jacinto for rattlesnakes
June 6-7: guests of Mrs.Graham in the Mission Inn
June 11-13: sold trailer park interest to Illicks
June 13: left Palm Springs for Michigan via Reno and Mrs. Grahams
June 17-19: rode horses in high sierras with Grimms-Willards
June 27: Mrs. Knight dies day we were to meet her in Reno.
June 30: chatted with Senator Pat McCarran at Grayholm
July 2: gave lecture at University of Nevada. Introduced by Pres. Moseley.
July 8: Nearly died in Great Lake
August 5: first atomic bomb dropped in Japan
August 14: war ended. We went to T.C. with Howard Platt to celebrate.
August 1945: old friends Dr. Russell & Jane Herons, Bill & Alice Donovan
September 7: In Chapita a lot with Platts, Hughes, & McClinties
September 19-21: Howard Platt installed our furnace.
September 1945: tried to resign from the bank board.
September 25-October 9: I piloted on Miller’s boaton the Atlantic-Hudson-Mohawk (great Mogul) with Chas. Miller.
September 30: met Grace in Philly and when on to New York. Met Prof. Kang. Grace had bad case of poison ivy. Has been in Washington D. C.
October 4: Grace returned to Washington D.C. I up Hudson. Grace home
October 7 sick.
October 14: Geo. Not yet home with boat.
October 24: Hunted with Jay Holt.
October 29: had my one and only heart check up with Dr. Wilson Uof M.
October 30: left for Palm Springs by car. Poor tires-many blowouts.
December 2: Clint Bauer & I hiked Palm Springs to Pinion Pines cabin
December 3: met Clint Bauer.
December 16: enjoying Pinion Pines cabin & joined Coachella Valley Rifle Club
December 25: goose dinner with Gamms then to Bauers
December 26: Drove to Pinion Pines and found Steve Ragsdale had new secretary, Terry Lowe.
December 27: Chas & Bess Line came shot daily at rifle range
December 29: Winfield lectured & met Lloyd Mason Smith
January 1, 1946: Rose Parade with Pop and Mom, Francis & Helen
January 8: shooting with Harry Mann, Winfield losing his teeth
January 16-17: old friends, Chas. & Bess Line, Iaddie, Mrs. Graham, Hormels, Manns, Bauers, Kim Balls gather in Palm Springs.
February 23: overnight in box canyon with Steve Ragsdale and John Hilton.
February 28: folks improving health under Graces care.
February 29: met Caldwells, Townsends, and Steels at Pinion Pines.
March 3: met Edmond Yeager
March 12-13: working on our Pinion Pines cabin with Steve & Terry
March 16: met Silver Miller-Art Nightingales housekeeper.
March 22-24: Stanley Ragsdale & I hunted Petroglyph Canyon
March 28: bought $50 worth of florescent rock from Rockologist Rose.
March 30: bought tent & camping equipment-mineral light from Stanley
April 1: put up tent at Pinion Pines & slept out most of winter
April 3: gathered garnets on Santa Rosa with Steve & Terry.
April 10: caught many red diamond back rattler in Magne Canyon
April 14: Bought 3-2 ½-acre parcels at Pinion Flats from Nightingale
April 21: dinner with Dr. & Mrs. Klauber and Cockrells
April 30: Clint Bauer & I made top of San Jacinto in the snow.
May 2: at Hormels dinner met Langtrys and Ostranders
May 6: Mel Capper gave us a king snake
May 9: Kochs came to our house.
May 11: fight between 50 King and red racer
May 25: find many snakes at night
May 28: Harry Mann & I climb Sheep Mountain & find old bag of groceries
May 29-31: $210 propane tank for cabin
June 2: Cahuilla Indian round up with Steve
June 7-8: Left ringtails with Manns at Arrowhead for summer.
June 9: Released our family of snakes & Lizards
June 12: bought Bosh & Lomb binoculars for $100
June 14: goodbye to folks, they are to ship snakes off for Michigan via Parks
June 15-24: Big Trees & Kings Canyon, Yosemite campout
July 1-7: Tetons and Yellowstone campout
July 22: sold our small Northport cabin for $2500 to Rev. Brown
July 26: bought 8 man rubber boat, which Yoon children enjoyed for years.
August 8: met with new combined bank board.
August 28-September 2: Hormels our guest for week Northpoint
September 19: bought lot from Mrs. Ward $100
October 8-12: Hunted deer with Millers- bow and arrow- Black River Ranch
October 16: Ahn Svengwha visited us en-route to Korea
October 22: having Ole installs the windows in the cottage
October 27: sidewinders to Pres. Ruthven. Pres. Hannah shows campus
October 28: off for California. Said goodbye Phipps, McP, Bebiveys, Dr. Russell, Dr. Fiach.
November 17-20: Elk hunt with Harry Mann
November 20: Howard Platt passed away today. OToellys-Hormels
November 26: Grace shot 5-10X-Bauers-Manns
December 1: Heard new Rev. Blackstone preach-Peakes
December 4: made peace with Grimms. Gave box of cigars.
December 6: Harvey- Barbara Hughes, Jane Platt, Mabel Donovan guests
December 7: death of Lt. Commander E.A. Conzeft Spike by a fire in Atlanta, GA.
December 14: Chas. Miller killed in Bellanca crash.
December 23: Grace & I take train to Chicago to meet Geo. M. & buy new Bellanca.
December 28-31: went to N. Y. – met Dr. Han- S.K. Dunn. Onto New Castle del To
January 1, 1947: Pick up new Bellanca & flew to Washington D.C.
January 3: met Harold Strickland & wife, Pat.
January 4: Picked up new Bellanca at New Castle. Back to Washington D.C.
January 5: visited with Dr. Syngman Rhee.
January 6: off for Camden, S.C. for 4 Army instrument panels
January 10: Dinner with Pres Hannah. Grace & he worked on intern development plans. Also to bring Kong Shyn & husband to college to teach.
January 15: Dean Emmons & wife fly to California in Bellanca with us.
January 22: Big party for Emmonss at our home, 25 guests.
January 24: Met H. Earl Hoover at museum.
January 30: Francis Line gave Sheep, Stars, & Solitude before 5000
February 1: met Ferny Wurlitzer & Craig Smith at Peakes.
February 4: guests of Ludanca Dimon Graham at San Francisco
February 9: Bill & Alice Donovan came also Ben McDermotts dinner
February 10: Will & Wanda Peake & Ferny & Grace Wurlitzer
February 11: Frequently shoot at rifle range
February 12: flew to Congress Jct. For overnight camp & hunt.
February 19: dinner at John & Meta Hormel with Jay & Jerry Hormel.
February 23: flew to San Diego where Bert Pate just died. Gilman gist.
February 27: Don & Florence Dearing used our cabin & repaired pipes.
March 12-15: Bellanca camping trip- Death Valley, Lake Mead, Colorado River
April 2-5: Bellanca to Monument Valley-Harry & Mike Goulding knee.
April 15: Grace played harp at church- Dr. McCartney retires.
April 17: Peake consolidated deal
April 20-24: Peakes trip in Bellanca to Monument Valley & Deming. Grace saved Warren Starkys life-heart.
May 4: Grace working with ceramics.
May 6: met Ray & Enid Wiltse-Hunted snakes. Have 26 on porch.
May 10: Grace successfully combats her hay fever with vitamin C and Calcium.
May 13: Joseph S. Illick says trailer park netting $50,000 a year.
May 14: Pop & Mom improving under Graces care.
May 15: Korean judge had gift and samples form Whashin wants us to sell us.
May 19: Grace & Zaddie see Giamini on cousins samples
May 22-24: took Zaddie on beautiful flight to Yellowstone
May 29: Took Giannini’s to dinner at the doll house with Zaddie.
May 31: Dinner at Hicheys
June 3-12: off for Washington D.C. 27 states-Zaddie as co-pilot. 6340 miles.
June 6: worked with Wah Chang on Tungsten.
June 19: flew Bellanca to San Francisco. Visited Giannini at his home.
June 20: Still working on cousins deal in San Francisco.
July 6-10: Bellanca to Grays Harbor for clams
July 14-18: Drove to San Francisco. Met Yoon family. Also Giannini, Graham, Bauers
July 23: Grace & Winfield off for Michigan in Bellanca. Yoons went on train yesterday.
September 4-6: flew to Hormels in Austin, Minn.
September 12-15: flew Bellanca to California with Grace & Soonie. 14,600 feet over mountains.
September 20-22: Bellanca to San Francisco with Bauers. Lunch with Mrs. Graham.
September 26-28: Bellanca to Howell with Grace, Pop & Mom & Soonie.
October 2-4: Black River Ranch bow and arrow hunting.
October 11-13: Black River Ranch bow and arrow hunting.
October 19: Flew Dr. Hannah & Tom King to Blaney and Northport.
October 20-29: Pheasant hunt in South Dakota with Thurber Cornell in the Bellanca.
November 8-12: flew Bellanca to California.
December 3: Pres. Hannah & Dr. Holland visited us in Palm Springs.
December 11-12: Death Valley flight with Zaddie Bunker
December 21-22: flew Bellanca to Michigan for Christmas with Yoons & Blum
December 24: Received $10,000 checks from cousin though Dr. H. Bansted.
January 5-6, 1948: flew Bellanca to Palm Springs.
January 14: 1200 mile day to Monument Valley with Manns & Lloyd Mason Smith.
January 16-18: I went up to Tahquitz Falls daily with a pack.
January 19-21: flew Bellanca to San Francisco with Zaddie. Met Giannini & Graham, Carl Brisson & Cleo. J.K. poisoned Rodrigo about cousin.
January 23: met Harold & Louise Hopkins at Ostrander- went to Hormels for dinner.
February 6: dangerous flight with Hopkins then to Yuma.
February 14: Bought $800 piano through Craig Smith.
March 5-7: Dr. Ansted, Hormels, and Mrs. OReilly, Peakes, McCartneys Horkviious Dancers.
March 10: met with Mario Giannini & Mrs. G, Zaddie, Manns, Herb Dancer.
March 11-12: John Hormel 72 store business with H.H. Dancer, Wurlitzer.
March 29 to April 5: marlin fishing at La Paz with Harold Hopkins-7 fish, two for me, met Earle Stanley Gardner.
April 18: Grace helping Grace Wurlitzer men taut
April 24: have 18 live rattler on the porch.
April 25: Yuma & Petroglyph with Alshulers
April 27: McCartney- Alshulers- OReillys-Bennetts- Leusslers.
May 2: flew Bellanca to Michigan-Chicago- met the Ansteds and Dr. Watson
May 5: bought Crosley car for $1072
May 6: discussed international service, inc. with Dr. Ansted.
Mary 14: flew Bellanca to California (worked on D&C deals & Kays immigration).
May 20-22: Grace working with 2 heart cases: Peake & Starkey.
May 29: off for Michigan in Bellanca.
June 4-6: U.P. in Bellanca with T. Corwell Timber–cruising.
June 18-20: 20th wedding anniversary with Wurlitzers flew to Nigeria Falls
June 25: Poksyn born in Howell. Bought Grumman aluminum canoe total cost of $174 (35 credit Russell Caw 32)
July 1: flew her to Northport
July 3: Bill Canfield died.
July 11: Grace working with Ray Witse who visited us in N.P.
July 20: Soon Young sings, Jesus Loves Me in the canoe.
July 26: flew Bellanca to Washington via Duluth.
July 29: almost killed in Glacier Park (also in 1925 on Grinnel Glacier).
August 2: worked with Ansted on Tungston etc. Lears-Peake
August 4: Peake not cutting us in on CNF deal.
August 5: flew Bellanca from Seattle to Monrovia, California.
August 10: Flew Bellanca from California to Michigan.
September 25-27: trout fishing-Bellanca- Millers U.P.
October 1: bow & arrow deer hunt on Black River Ranch-Millers
October 4: First view of Tahquaman on 2 mile hikes Raco Curley Lewis
October 15: worked with D & C on Brighton. Dinner with Dr. Hannah.
October 22: Grace and I flew in Bellanca to San Diego for Pheasant hunting. Met Cornells there.
October 27: Grace worked out health questionnaire & printed 1000 copies in San Diego.
November 2: bought 2 Wilson Zero safe from Geo. Miller.
November 3: bought first electric blanket.
November 12: sold Crosley for $900.
November 19: shot deer U.P. with Grace and Thurberc.
December 2: Bellanca to Alschuler seminal radio Evanston. Miller bought 500.
December 6: finally got Kay & children legally in the United States.
December 7: flew Bellanca to Salt Lake City-landed wheels up in Joliet.
December 11: at Palm Springs found earthquake had broken dishes.
December 13: J. M. Connell installed 100,000 Btu heater for $800.
December 15: flew Bellanca to 15,700 feet, had dip problems no altitude effects.
December 30: 5 Korean women educators came for a party at Palm Springs.
In 1948 I flew Bellanca 5 times across the U.S.
January 6, 1949: flew Bellanca to Death Valley with Bauers
January 11: inch deep snow in Palm Springs
January 16: 46 inches of snow at our cabin in Pinion Pines-Ragsdale
January 17: 175 mile flight over upper desert showing Zaddie the snow.
January 26: took pop on 175-mile flight over the snow- shot at the range
January 28: bought Grimms High Sierra painting.
February 7: Hormel-Foster-Wurlitzer-Huxley-Paul Wilhelm meeting
February 8: Flew Aldous Huxley & wife on a 175-mile trip. Came home & heard Grace play at Wurlitzers on the harp-saw Wilhelms poems.
February 9-11: flew Bellanca & drove the Dodge to Arizona with the Manns.
February 14-15: Flew Bellanca & drove the car to Ajo to see pipe organ with the Manns.
March 3-5: Bellanca to Desert Center. Stuck in the desert- Lydia R.
March 13: Started planning the trip to Alaska.
March 20: First Polaroid picture at Wurlitzers party.
April 12-19: Grace and I took a trip to La Paz, Mexico, to test dead reckoning.
April 20: Gardener-rattler-police
April 22: I am Boys Club Director and Museum Director
May 5: Mann & I fish yellowtail-Coronado Islands
May 6: Grace works on paralyzed Barbara Wilson
May 8: Soonyoon playing piano successfully in Lansing
May 15: Grace worked with Henry Kazarian- success
May 20: Grace works on paralyzed Barbara Wilson- success
May 21: Grace final check on patients
May 25-29: Flew Bellanca to Monument Valley, Grand Junction, and Northport
June 6: Starkey heart praise
June 10: Bellanca checklist for Alaska
June 25: Grace now dog doctor.
June 27: Grace offers a job in Michigan State Hospital
July 1: took off for Alaska from Northport in Bellanca
July 16: Crossed Arctic Circle. Wy Speers – Cluff Baby
July 17-18: whale hunting on Arctic Ocean with York Wilson-25 km
July 20: York Wilson flies Bellanca to see his 2000 reindeer
July 21: Siberia-we fly into tomorrow- back into yesterday Nome
July 24: met E. C. Straub & Earl Towner-gold mine, railroad.
August 2: Unalakklett-pretty girls-Northern lights-fishing.
August 9: flying rainy pass.
August 27: Dr. Claude Watson helped organize Song Line Foundation.
September 6: flew Bellanca from California to Michigan
September 8: terrifying clouds over Missouri
September 11-15: flew Bellanca to New York with Kay
September 16: Grace takes out 2nd citizenship papers
September 22-23: Grace starts work at T.C. Mental Hospital as consultant.
October 4: Grace to be appointed to hospital staff.
October 13: Kay hires Miss Kurtz for $0.65 per hour to care for the children. She is 65.
October 21: Nimke bids on Grace. Grace praised by Dr. Sheets.
October 27: a typical day in D&C store planning business
November 13-27: Deer Hunting with Thorber & Stankey Cornell
November 30: Wy Speers of Alaska catches Grace at Nimkes.
December 1: flew Bellanca from Michigan to California.
December 6:Towners from Alaska visit us.
December 11: Will Peake again asks Graces help on heart.
December 17: Doo beat up Kay. I flew Bellanca back to Michigan.
December 20: Winfield has mumps at St. Louis airport.
December 22: Derva McP. Great helps to Kay.
December 23: Kay wants a divorce.
December 25-27: Winfield had a bad fever.
December 28-31: Big hassle about sending Doo back to Korea and divorce.
January 1950: Kay gives up divorce with Doo.
January 16: Grace & I drove new Buick to Florida to see Millers & Chas. Line.
January 20: our first olives at Port St. Joe, Florida.
January did more shelling. Got bowel trouble & poison ivy.
February 10: flew Bellanca to California.
March Mr. Speer & I enlarge the porch. Grace aids Speers health.
April 10: flew Bellanca to Michigan for Graces citizenship.
April 13-14: bought Buick Estate Wagon-finest ever sold in Howell. In 1975 we still had it.
April 14: Grace receives citizenship exam.
April 18: flew American Airlines to California. Winfield drove old Buick back to Michigan.
May 2: driving to Michigan. Big night in Las Vegas with Manns.
May 15: Grace sworn in as American Citizen today by Judge Lyons.
May 20: flew Bellanca to Jackson, Miss., for Piney woods talk & real estate.
June 26: sold Bellanca to L. Beurman for $2,500. Felt sad.
June 28: started for Mexico by car for 2 mos.
July 4: Avery I.S. Egrets & Mrs. Cockrell
July 6-11: San Antonio
July 30: Jay Hormel calls from Austin for 30 minutes on War in Korea.
September 26: took our old Bellanca & flew to Northport.
September 29: spotted three bald eagles in trees above cottage.
October 19: buy Paradise cabin from Tom Taylor.
November 1: received word from Korea all relatives safe.
November 23: left Michigan in new Buick for California; 2350 miles in 50 hours.
November 26: Francis Line lectures at Constitution Hall for National Geographic.
December 23: climbed San Grogonio; 11,500 with Clint Bauer.
Paradise cottage investment 1950
January 7_29, 1951: Grace flew to Michigan & Washington D.C. on 30 Sinss
January 20-21: Mel Capper & I take jeep through Coyote Canyon
January 23: Grace meeting with Senator Vandenberg, Knowland, and McCarren.
February 9: New swimming pool by Don Seiler.
February 21: Winfield falls out of a tree.
March 10: Working on Dosyn case. Mettex Ziegler.
March 11: our neighbor- Howard Koch is a Communist: Casablanca (1942).
He was on the blacklist of presumed Communists, but he and his wife were able to
continue writing by moving to England and using pseudonyms-IMDb.
March19: First swim in our pool. Paid $1012.50 for Dosyn air tickets.
March 21: J. M. Connell installs 4000 c. f. air cooler on the roof for $260.
April 20: Dale mining district by jeep with Mel & Clint.
May 1: met the Derings.
May 8-11: had varicose vein operated on by Dr. John Costello.
May 11: Grace gives a party- 40 guests-for the Korean orphans, Blatz.
June 19: Drove Buick station wagon non-stop to Howell.
July 1: Kay will leave MSU-extra load for us- xx
July 9-11: Charles Line & Winfield drive to New London & Linesville.
July 9: first Line store started in 1887 in Linesville.
July 16: had home stationary with pictures printed.
July 28: left Paradise for California in Buick via Glacier Park.
August 4: met Hormels & Mrs. Graham in Reno.
August 7: watched Zaddie solo in Palm Springs.
August 21: flew commercial to Michigan.
November 5: 12-inches of snow at Paradise cabin.
November 14: mailed 21 packages to Korea-$103.18 postage.
November 11: deer hunt at Rose City
November 26: left for California in Buick.
December 19: rock hound trip to Wileys Well.
January 1,1952: Zaddie take over airport.
January 3: Grace advises John Hormel going to hospital.
January 5: Grace starts doing copper artwork.
January 10: Francis Line lectures on 7 Wonders of the West
January 15: Gave Charles Line a TV for his 80th birthday- all signed the card.
January 31: Grace enters copper screen-wins first prize.
February 6: Winfield to be President of the museum in 1952. George VI died.
February 26: visited Mitchell Caverns on the way to Las Vegas with the Manns
February 28: on Colorado River below the dam with H. Mann.
March 3-4: history of Cahuilla and Barrow.
March 19-20: Death Valley with Manns.
March 29: Vast desert flower display with Cornelia White.
April 10: at Graces luncheon she raised $25,000 for the museum.
April 17: Will Peake told Grace he willed $35,000 in stock.
April 21-23: drove Buick from California to Michigan non-stop.
May 2: met Earl Hoover in Chicago. His quest for 2 days. Museum
May 5: 105 pounds of herring at Paradise smoked 50 pounds.
May 10: drove station wagon non-stop Michigan to California.
May 19: Earl Hoover asking Grace for help.
May-working hard on new museum plans
May- Grace still sending many relief packages to Korea
June 14: Peter Grand shows us Indian herbs.
June 20: king snake swallows a rattler.
June 25: drove Buick station wagon Altadena to Howell.
June 28: in Wyoming decided to hunt antelope in September.
July 2: K rotor examines our income tax.
July 25: helped Tom Taylor coat roofs-xxx.
August 14: sending $2000 to Ys in Korea?
August 15-18 with Hoovers on Bois Blanc Is.
August 24: Grace helps Paul who passed out.
August 26: Grace helps Mirium Hoover with nic
August 27-29: Hoovers visit us in Northport.
September 3: canoe trip on Manistee River.
September 17 October 3: first antelope hunt: 3 antelope, 2 deer, 2 bags rabbits.
October 9: Grace suggests we go to Paris for 2 years next year.
October 24-November 2: car trip to Boston-New York-Washington D.C.
November 17: decided to sell Palm Springs home.
January 2, 1953: Crocker vs. Sanctuary-resigned
January-busy with museum plans our France trip
January 20: Lloyd Mason Smith to resign in June.
January 23: met new board member-Harold Hicks.
February 3: Grace perfects new cold remedy prevention.
February 6: met the Farrells & Orbachs at racquet club.
March 14-26: drove Buick to Hoovers in Glencoe & Howell.
April 1: left in Buick to Hoovers with Kay & kids.
April 3-6: Yoon kids-Kay & Grace (6 of us) across the US to Palm Springs.
Saw Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, pueblos, snake farm.
April-Yoon kids meet Hormels, Wurlitzers, Peakes, Littlebear, etc.
April 21: Doo wants to move family to California. Would upset plans. I was re-elected museum President, but will resign when we move to Europe.
April 22: Yoon family leaves by train for Michigan.
May 18: Lewis elected President-A1 fellow, sold PP lot to Hopkins.
June 2_6: trip to Yosemite on museum business.
June 20: out 25th wedding anniversary in Palm Springs.
June 24: pop sick, had stopped vit on doctors advice.
June 26: Harold Hicks needs health help from Grace.
June 30: Rink may leave City Manager job.
July 15: Jupes suicide in extreme heat.
July 22: drove Buick Palm Springs to Michigan- Gila monster died.
July 26: first visit to Dead Horse Point & Arches
July 31: offered to resign from First National Board.
August 22: Wonsin arrives in LA.
August 28: Wonsin arrives in Howell via Boston.
October 19: Geo. Munsew on Hendry River
October 25: Earl Hoover receives University of Michigan honor. Visits Howell.
November 10: sent $2000 to Y.S. to start business.
November 15: Lo hunted deer Rose City & Paradise
November 23: Wonsin to stay at Jappingas (due to Vera)
November 25: started in Buick for Hoovers & Palm Springs.
November 28: Grace worked with Hoover on many Health herms
December 7: letter from Dosyn that Mother was alive.
December 14: Hicks told grace he contemplated suicide before she helped him.
December 21: received passports for European trip.
December 27: Nooney families visit us.
December 31: spent day with President Hannah & family.
January 11-12, 1954: Grace tries to help Lee James.
January 16: drove Buick from California to Howell.
January 17: visited Lines, Johnsons, & Straubs in Phoenix.
January 22: visited Will Reader in Hospital.
February 1: flew commercial from Michigan to LA.
February 8 to March 4: Sailed on French freighter-LA to canal to Rotterdam.
March 4: Paris Windsor Hotel.
March 9: train to Nice.
March 10: sailed to Corsica.
March 19: sailed from Corsica to Nice for 3 days.
March 23: via air to Rome.
March 24-April 4: Rome, Venice, Florence, & Milan.
April 27: train to Geneva-Eden Hotel.
May 3: to Lausanne via train- Hotel Alexandra
May 5: to Paris by train-Hotel Moderne.
May 7: joined French class- Sorbonne (Alliance Francaise).
May 15: Grace meets Mme.Lheriter.
May 17: Anthony Lheritier address.
May 21: Joined Hoover in Paris for trips-6 days.
June 11: met the Ellsworth Osbourns.
June 14: Grace went to hospital for eye trouble.
June 15: Grace translates French medical books.
July 6: train to Lausanne-Mme Helene Besson-Auavant Poste.
July 7: left by air for Frankfort, Hamburg, & Berlin.
July 10: to Zurich and Geneva and Lausanne.
July 13: in school-University of Lausanne.
July 17: Boat trip to Lake LeMan & Chateau De Chillon.
July 21: visited Nestle factory with students.
July 23: took student trip to Jengfran.
July 31: Mt. Blanc trip with students.
August 1: visited Phil Boyd in Montreau.
August 7: Student trip to Zermatt-Matterhorn.
August 14: student St. Bernard Pass trip.
August 22: train to Paris-Hotel Madison.
August 23: Letter from Itsell, Will Fusader died August 12.
August 26: flew from Paris to London- Hotel Bedford-room 219
September 6: Letter from Itsell-our friend Thuber Cornell died August 18.
September 9: Jay Hormel Died-61 years old.
September 20-21: off on BOAC for Prestwick, Keflavik, New York, & home.
October 8: Francis Line lectured in Marquette. We went (copper harbor)
October 16: Doo Sun in auto wreck.
November 19: shot deer at Paradise.
December 13: Doo & Kyungshyn became US citizens.
December 15: left via Buick for Hoovers & California.
December 25: spent Christmas in Big Bend National Park.
Harold Hopkins caught world record marlin 331 pounds
On 6 thread- 8 pounds line. Time: 4 hours 42 minutes.
January 5, 1955: outline of new trip to Europe in May.
January 31: electric garage door install today for $310.
January 31: our problems with Will Peake.
February 23: had 31 guests to meet Van Winkles.
March 13: Kyungshyn & Poksyn came by air.
March 14: Poksyn entered Cahuilla School in second grade.
833 E. Mesquite,Palm Springs, CA
March 14: official weights: Kay-134, Grace-106, Winfield-149, Poksyn-53.
March 30: Poksyn & Kay flew to Michigan.
Official weights: Kay-127, Grace-102, Winfield-143, Poksyn-53.
April 7-8: Catching rattlesnakes in the hills.
April 13: Hoovers spend 3 days with us.
April 18: Put in sewer for $450.
April 21: Grace works with Stewart Williams father.
April 27-May 4: drove Buick from California to Howell.
May 2: Bought 14-foot fiberglass boat for $200 & carried it on the car top.
May 17: Took mew 14-foot boat on 80-mile trip to E. Jordan-rough.
May 17: Grace received shoulder injury on rough boat trip.
May 24: left Howell for New York for 3 days, then onto Portugal.
May 27: Landed in Estoril.
June 1: Journeyed to Madrid and Toledo.
June 8: Arrived in Paris. Visited Virginia Starkey & E. Chung. US born.
June 12: Heard Billy Graham at American Church.
June 12: Met Mme. Lheritier.
June 16: Traveled on to Copenhagen.
June 23: Took a train to Bergen, Norway.
June 25: boarded Erlin Jerl for North Cape.
June 30: Climbed to the top of North Cape.
July 8: Bergen to Oslo by train.
July 9: to Stockholm.
July 12: by boat to Helsinki.
July 15: Plane to Hamburg.
July 17: to Vienna by air.
July 20: met Ethel & Roy Frankson in Vienna.
July 27: Air to Geneva.
July 30: Train to Lausanne to meet Mme. Bessons.
August 8-13: Winfield takes train to Italy & Germany.
August 15: Winfield arrives in Liechtenstein & St. Moritz.
August 22: Geneva-Paris-Hotel Madison- met the Osbourns.
August 25: flew to London-stayed in Hotel Bedford.
August 31: list of art in Tate Gallery.
September 1: flew to Ireland-Gander-Boston-New York- Detroit-Howell.
September 27: Grace in hospital with Bursitis.
November 16: started west in new Buick.
November 17-18: visited Hoovers in Glencoe.
November 26: found burglars (boys) broke into house in Palm Springs.
December 3: had dinner with Dr. Scholl-73.
December 7: lunch with Hormel. Meta asked Grace for help with her eye.
December 18: flew Wonsin out for 2 weeks.
December 29: President & Mrs. Hannah & Bobby came for lunch.
February 6, 1956: snowed in Palm Springs.
March 11: Poksyn came for visit. Second grade.
March 20: Harry Mann & I went on a trip to Cholla Bay.
March 23: Harry Mann & I went to St. George Islands to see birds & sea lions.
April 9: Robert & Derma McP visit us for a week.
April 12: Poksyn leaves for home.
April 1956: caught many rattlesnakes.
May 1956: swimming up to 2-miles a day.
June 1: left for Korea with Harry & Lilia Lear.
June 1956: in Seoul the whole month.
July 8-17: stopped in Hawaii.
July 17-21: visited the folks at Eagle Rock and drove on to Palm Springs.
July 27: drove to Michigan via the Black Hills, Frankfort, & Northport.
August 24: did our first water skiing.
September 7-14: C.S. Line flew to Michigan. We drove to Linesville.
September 25: Pop had prostrate operation.
October 25-November 9: trip to Montreal, New York, & Howell.
November 12-24: hunted deer in Paradise, Minnesota.
December 7: left Howell for Hoovers & Palm Springs.
December 20: Frances Bauer died today.
February 1, 1957: Colorado River trip with Henry Mann.
March 17: first trip to Cholla Bay with Harry Mann.
April 3: Death Valley with the Hoovers.
April 12: Grace first trip to Cholla Bay.
May 7: bought our first Jeep, 4 cylinders, for $995.
July 4: Yungshyn & Winfield drive Jeep to Michigan.
August 10: Jeep trip around Lake Superior with George Mansell.
September 12: antelope hunt in Wyoming. Used the Jeep. Gillette went along for the trip.
October 23: Winfield drives alone to California in the Jeep.
November 16: hunted deer in Paradise, Minnisota & Newbridge, Pennsylvania.
December 3: left in Buick for Florida and California with Grace & Yungshyn.
December 22: left Yungshyn at Piney Woods.
February 8, 1958: Death Valley in Jeep
February 11: Tonopah-Goldfield-Purple Glass
February 11: Lake Mead-Grand Canyon boat trip with Harry Mann-bat & sloth caves
March 1: Jeep trip to Cibola-Crystal Hill
March 4: Bat cave from Hualapai Indian Reservation
March 10: Jeep trip to Borrego-Elephant Trees
March 12: Drove Impala to Michigan to get Navion
March 19: Bought 1949 Navion for $7000
April 12: Flew Navion to California with Yungshyn, Grace, & Poksyn
April 30: Navion trip to Davis with Grace, Yungshyn, & Poksyn
May 13: Navion to Carlsbad & Michigan with Grace, Yungshyn, & Poksyn
May 15: Navion gear collapsed landing in Tulsa
May 16: Bought 1951 Desoto and drove to Michigan via Herters-boat on trailer to Northport
June 16: Winfield took Bos to Tulsa & flew Navion to Michigan
June 20: spent 30th wedding anniversary at Northpoint
July 5: bought two lots from air-Lake City
July 12: Grace and Winfield took the Navion to Michigan.
July 15: Yungshyn departs for Korea
July 16: Mom and Pop 60th wedding anniversary 8/22/58
July 23: Dolly Marcuse buried today
July 26: Russ and Betty Rink cameKarl Betzer
September 12: Navion flew Duk & Grace to Boston & MIT
September 13: Navion to Marthas Vineyard. Grace took flight training.
September 19: Lena Blum died today. She was 90.
September 26: Dr. Claude Russell died today.
October 9: Navion to Boston (Logan) then to Northport.
October 11: Went hunting in Paradise with Pat.
October 16: Grace soloed at Northport in our Navion.
October 31: Navion to Fort Lauderdale & Grand Bahamas
November 6: first snorkel experience.
November 10: Navion Bahamas to Venice & New Orleans then on to Palm Springs
December 5: Grace did more solo work in Navion went to Thermal
December 10: Grace went cross-country to Lindberg Field, San Diego in the Navion.
December 11: Slept in Snowcreek. Hike to Falls Creek with Grace and Hicks
December 16: Cavett did house remodeling.
December 17: Harold Hicks & I climbed San Jacinto today.
December 1958: Al Taylor died in Tahquitz Canyon in August
December 1958: D&C sold stores to H.L. Green, but deal called off fortunately.
January 24, 1959: Hiked to Keyes View with Mary P. and Harold Hicks.
January 27: Korean reception in Los Angeles for Yang Van Fleet.
January 29: Navion to Las Vegas with Manns. Saw floorshows.
January 30: Colorado River trip below the dam with Harry Mann.
February 4: Bought Army jeep from Hopkins for $500.
February 20: Graces took written pilots exam in Ontario
February 25: Navion to Santa Barbara with McCartneys.
February 25, 1959: Zaddie on TV: This Is Your Life
March 6: Will Peakes’ 90th birthday party.
March 7: Wild jeep trip with FranksonSNM.
March 14: Grace passed flight test in NavionFran Bera
March 20: Grace wrote pilots exam at Long Beach
March 24: In Navion did take offs & landings in moonlight. Sidewinder.
March 29: Grace had 30 guests for dinner after Easter B. Hicks
April 3: Grace again took pilots written exam and passed
April 5: Navion to Michigan with Grace piloting
April 28: Flew DC-7 to LA and Palm Springs.
May 4: C.S. Line completed 104 typed pages of his autobiography.
May 16: Zaddie flew through the sound barrier. We got to George Air Force Base in Flying Boxcar with Col. Reisner.
May 18: Grace and Winfield sailed on Ms Hardanger for South America
May 19: Names of passengers & officer
May 27: docked in Buena Ventura, Colombia
May 29: docked in Manta, Ecuador Quayaquil
May 31: docked in Talara, Peru. Paica
June 4: docked in Calla-Lima, Peru
June 10: docked in Tocopilla, Chile
June 17: docked in Antofagasa, Chile
June 19: docked in Valphraiso, Chile
June 21: docked in San VincenteConception, Hualhi Pito, Chile
June 24: docked in Talcahuhno, Chile
June 30: docked in Straits of Magellan.
July 4: docked in Montevideo, Uruguay
July 7: docked in Buena Aires, Argentina
July 14: docked in Sao Paulo, BrazilSantos
July 16: docked in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
July 25: docked in San Juan Puerto Rico
July 31: docked in Kingston, Jamaica
August 2: docked in CamagueyHavana, Cuba
September 15: Winfield flew from Michigan to Los Angeles to visit folks.
C.S. Line not well.
September 22: Winfield flew jet from Los Angeles to Michigan.
October 1: hunted pats paradise.
October 27: Winfield and Grace flew Navion from Michigan to Palm Springs.
November 13: Col. Rim visits us.
November 21: C.G. Taylor called on us. (Taylorcraft)
December 1: Bighorn sheep hunt with Harry Mann in Nevada.
December 10: visited folkspop not well.
December 26: Grace flies to Michigan on a commercial jet on Business & to visit friends.
January 1, 1960: Winfield visited his parents. Grace was in Michigan.
January 5: Grace bought Funtukis building for $19,500.
January 7: Winfield took Pop to lunch. He is much better.
January 13: Grace arrived in LA from Michigan on a commercial jet. She took folks to dinner.
January 14: Winfield weighs 142 pounds today. He lost 11 pounds since Grace had left for Michigan on December 26.
January 15: We called C.S. Line and wished him happy birthday. He was 88 years old.
January 20: Cleaning purple glass.
January 22: Winfield flew Navion to Nogales.
January 25: Drove the jeep to Tonopah for purple glass. Spent 4 days there.
Stopped at Willards in Lone Pine and then visited Mom and Pop for an hour.
February 1960: Harold Hicks married Mary.
February 8: Took Peakes, who was 91, on a jeep trip.
February 12: Francis showed picture on Lincoln in Pasadena. Marvin Miller was the voice-over for the film. Pop and Mom were not well and could not attend.
February 13: Grace wrote a nostalgic letter to Pop.
February 14: Called C.S. Line. He sounded better. We made a date for February 18 to see them.
February 15: We took a trip to the desert. We received word in Brawley that C.S. Line died this evening.
February 16-20: We went to Altadena for Pops funeral. He kept up his diary until one hour before death.
February 24: Algae has taken over the pool.
March 29: Poksyn and Kay flew out from Michigan in a jet to LA.
March 31: Took Poksyn and Kay on a jeep trip to 17 Palms in Borrego.
April 6: Poksyn went to Disneyland.
April 11: Grace, Kay, & Poksyn went to Sequoia and Yosemite.
April 17: We went to Sunrise Service in Yucca with the Grimms, Poksyn, Kay, Grace and myself.
April 19: Mom cried because her sister Hitty just died.
April 21: Grace, Kay, and Poksyn went with me to Michigan in the Navion.
May 7: Cedar Lodge in Northport burned. The fire is under control.
May 16: Went to California by jet to visit Mom.
May 28: Left the yellow jeep at the Olsens to sell for $800. I paid Hopkins $500 for it.
June 2: Don Klotsinberged, editor of the Desert Sun, running 3 Korean articles on us.
June 6: Grace is 58 today.
June 7: Spent the day with Mom. Its her 85th birthday. Said good-by for the summer.
June 9: Drove our Imperial from Palm Springs to Howell via Grand Junction.
June 12: Went to visit Duk Wong who was working at Mesa Verde, Colorado.
June 20: Landed the Navion on Beaver Island the first time with Grace and Poksyn.
July 1: We went on a boat to Gull Island. Saw a few eggs. We saw 1000s of baby gulls.
July 7: We flew the Navion in St Ignace and took a ferry over to Mackinac Island.
July 31: Took Poksyn to Crystal Lake Camp.
August 7: Moved Pontiac from St. Ignace to Newberry, Michigan.
August 18: watched satellite Echo cross the sky. At 1000 miles it was a dot in the sky.
August 20: Brought Poksyn home from Crystal Lake Camp.
September 12: Winfield flew the Navion to Bois Blanc Is. to visit the Hoovers.
September 20: Left Paradise in the Buick for Wyoming. Antelope.
October 1: Hunted deer on Lloyd Nunns ranch in Douglas on Route 6.
November 1: Flew in a jet from Detroit to California to work on Moms book.
November 8: I flew on a jet back to Detroit. Met by Grace and Kay at the airport.
November 11: paid Jack Syleen $100 on elk hunt at Double Bar J in Dubios
November 13: Left by car for California via Florida.
November 17: Went to Mitchells honeymoon cottage for 1 week on Sanibel Is., Florida
November 30: Went to Port St. Joe to collect more shells.
November 1960: John Hormel died.
December 5: Visited Van Sicklen at Cumacacotli, Arizona
December 7: Dorothy Camp died today at Peakes
December 9: Visited Mom, Francis, & Helen in their new house in Capistrano Beach.
December 14: Changed Song-Line Corp.
December 21: Had pool painted for $328.
December 23: Wonsin Song came to visit, also saw Charlie & Bess Line.
December 25: Christmas dinner with Mom.
December 31: assets 712M.
January 1,1961: Had breakfast with C. G. Taylor, my wife and Mary came.
January 6: rough jeep trip with HicksJNM.
January 9: met Henry (Clarence Stevens) at Moms for Francis 57th birthday.
February 2: Grace elected to board of Aero Club.
February 12: bought Paris and Oriental pictures.
February 14: Grand Canyon boat trip with Harry Mann.
February 22: Met Pat Smith and her husband Hal.
March 3: Spent one week in Baja on a jeep trip.
March 8: Stuck for 22 hours in the jeep. Found 3-dozen Conch shells.
April 1: Poksyn came for a month.
April 3: Left for Baja with Poksyn for Baja.
April 7: Chibasco hit camp at Shipwrecked Bay. We collected 3-dozen conchs.
April 10: I bowled 249 in the first game with Poksyn, and then I bowled 195.
April 13: X-rays showed Grace had broken her middle finger.
April 23: Visited San Siemon and the Hearst Castle.
April 25: Will Peake is recovering for a light stroke. He is 92.
April 30: We went to Michigan in the Imperial with Poksyn.
Stopped by the Grand Canyon on the way.
May 11: Took Harry Williams to a bank meeting. He was 92.
May 21: I worked on saving Herb Dancer with his problem.
May 22: We were off to the Bahamas in the Navion.
May 31: We cut the Bahamas stay short to fly back to aid Herb Dancer.
June 7: Moms 86th birthday. We put an Iron Fireman furnace in the Northpoint basement.
June 14: Caught Duk Hong in Seattle aborting his trip to Korea.
June 16: Duk got a job in Glacier National Park.
June 17: Grace fell down the stairs at Northpoint.
June 19: Herb Dancer died today.
June 21: We went to Herb Dancers funeral.
June 28: We had dinner with Ole-Mary and Mrs. Ward. Mrs. Ward celebrates her 92 birthday.
July 25: We put in a new kitchen with a new range and floor covering.
August 4: Winfield cut off his fingertip off at the hangar.
August 11: Zaddie flew solo from Palm Springs to Michigan to visit us. She is 75.
September 11: Winfield passed his pilot physical.
He then started for Wyoming on an elk hunt.
September 25: Took venison to Palm Springs and then went to Altadena to visit Mom.
September 28: Cornelia White died today. She was only 28.
September 29: Left for extended elk hunting trip in Wyoming with Mich.
October 2: Shot two antelope at Brewer Ranch.
October 4: Left for wilderness camp with Tittering tons and Lubereck.
October 22: Left Palm Springs in the Navion for Englewood and Nassau, Bahamas.
November 3: Left Grand Bahamas Club for Michigan.
November 15: Left for California by car.
December 5: Bill Donovan died today.
December 14: Grace elected to N.A.A. Board.
December 25: Spent Christmas with Mom at Capistrano Beach.
December 1961: Florence Dearing died.
December 27: Pres. Eisenhower painted in Paul Grimms Gallery
December 31: assets 741m
January 3, 1962: Pres. Eisenhower and Freeman Gosley visited Grimm Gallery for 1-1/2 hours.
January 21: Mom seriously ill. She had woman companion named Rivera Farrel
February 2: Grace arranged for a hundred million dollar loan for Pak.
February 4: Grace and Winfield took a trip up Coyote Canyon in the jeep.
February 11: Grace goes to Washington D.C. on Pak hundred million deal.
February 18: Visited Mom. She is improving. Met Grace at LA airport.
February 20: John Glenn shot into to space. We was the first American.
March 6: Celebrated Will Peakes at Indio with Nichols.
March 16: We went to Cholla Bay in the jeep. We joined the Bauers there.
April 1: Grace and I went to Cholla Bay in the jeep. We collected many conches300 more to our collection.
April 9: attended Ahn reception in LA.
April 15: I flew to Michigan in a jet to work on #1 store deal.
May 5: Drove Imperial to Michigan. Heard Mom doing well.
May 24: vault combination in the insurance building is: L27-R4-to72 L3 to 13
May 27: Edison safe combination: R4to 50, L3to25, R2 to 50, L 10
May 29: stopped at the hospital to see Dr. Un.
May 29: Bob McP called us. Derua died today.
June 4: Mom moved to Casa Romantica in San Clemente.
June 15: Left for Bahamas in the Navion with Poksyn.
June 20: Poksyn had first scuba dive with me. Went to 50 feet.
August 2: Grace and I flew in the Navion to Mackinac Island then biked around the island.
August 9: We flew the Navion to Bois Blanc Island and visited the Hoovers.
August 10: Winfield was struggling in Howell to free the McP. building.
August 13: We were planning a trip to Korea and Taiwan and then around the world.
August 24: flew the Navion to Navion Fly-in Flying W. Ranch in New Jersey.
August 27: Ruth Pfau dying of cancer (died Sept. 1)
September 7: Around the world trip cost: $3300 plus #2000 TC. Mom OK.
September 14: Jet to Palm Springs to begin our Around the World trip on September 17.
September 20: In Seoul until Oct 31. Then Taiwan till October 14.
October 15: Manila for 3 days, Hong Kong for 6 days, Bangkok, India for 5 days, Istanbul for 3 days.
October 31: Athens for 2 days, Cairo for 3 days.
November 5: From Cairo went to Athens, Rome, Paris, New York, Detroit, and Howell in one day.
November 11: picked up new 1963 Crown Imperial at Detroit.
November 12: Left for Palm Springs in Imperial. Visited McP. at the Hoovers.
November 27: I painted the pool for the first time.
November 30: I took over the gardening.
December 4: Entertained Dr. McCartney (who celebrates his 90th birthday) and Ite Lucille
December 6: Will Peake was ill during the night. Grace was over there 2 hours. Will is 93.
December 8: We hooked up to the new cable TV service. Reception is much better.
December 19: Will Peake is in bad shape.
December 23: Trouble in Zaddies Navion. She said she is 75.
December 24: Grace had Christmas party for dozen lonely people.
December 25: Took Mom out for Christmas dinner.
December 26: Mom sick in bed. We will go over to see her.
December 31: Wonsin had been with us for ½ month.
December 31: assets 713m
January 1, 1963: Wonsin with us. Mom not well.
January 6: Wonsin left for Chicago. William Price published two books today.
He is 75.
January 24: Winfield flew and soloed a sailplane today. It was his first time.
February 12: Winfield swam 23 miles in 23 consecutive days in the pool.
February 17: Winfield got his private glider license today.
February 18: Will Peake very ill.
February 19: Alice Donovan visits us for the week.
February 19: I resigned from the Museum Board.
February 20: Saw Venus in middayevery day.
March 6: Will Peake 94th birthday. He was strong today, but I wrote his obituary.
March 7: We took a trip to Puerto Penasco, Mexico in the Imperial.
March 15: Visited Mitch Hamilburg, a friend of Lady Bumgarner.
April 3: Made date to start parachute jumping.
April 6: Met Poksyn & Bob McP. at LA.
April 10: Poksyn & I hiked up Abe Lincoln to 4600 feet.
April 11: I gave Poksyn her first glider ride. She was the only person I took up.
April 14: took Bob, Poksyn, Tillie, and Paul to sunrise services at UCLA.
April 15: Saw Bob off to San Francisco with McP.
April 15: Drove to Las Vegas for boat trip with the Manns. Saw big horns, etc.
April 17: Stopped in Death Valley at Scottys Castle with Poksyn.
April 21: Took Bob McP & Poksyn to the LA airport for a plane trip to Michigan.
May 5: Left for Page and the North rim of the Grand Canyon.
May 12: Saw Will Peake for the last time. He was in a good humor.
May 15: Pool pumped dry. I peeled off the old paint.
May 15: Mom not well. We took her back to Hemet Hospital.
May 16: Arranged for Mom to go back to a new rest home after her hospital stay. Paul Grimm mad at Poksyn because she didnt eulogize him.
May 22: Left for Michigan in the Imperial.
May 22: Will Peake died today. Later, we learned it from Mom.
May 24: Navion being majored at Hughes. Dick M. says it will be two weeks.
May 26: Our car robbed at Holiday Inn in Shreveport, La. Lost $5000.
May 29: Hunted shells in Port St. Joe, Fla.
June 7: Called Mom from Northpoint to wish her good 88th birthday.
June 26: Put Pontiac on Beaver Is. Flew Navion.
July 2: Wonsin pulled me 4 miles on first ski ride of the year.
August 8: Mrs. Ward 94-1/2 flew in Navion to Beaver Is.
August 9: I flew to a bank meeting in Howell.
Learned Mrs. Beattie and Frank Anderson died. Also Gus Schmidt.
August 14: Left in Navion for Linesville & Flying W Ranch. Poksyn in charge.
August 16: Passed instrument flying exam at Flying W Ranch, NJ.
August 17: Flew Navion across the US. Grace was ill.
August 19: Mom not well. Still in Meadow Brook Rest Home.
August 24: Flew Navion to Catalina Island.
August 25: Flew Navion to Northport. Mom doing better.
October 5: Went hunting almost daily on Beaver Island.
November 22: Pres. Kennedy assassinated.
November 22: Drove to Hemet to visit Mom. Not too well.
December 1: We go to see Mom nearly every day. Took wawde.
December 3: Mom smiled sweetly when we left.
December 5: Francis with Mom. He has trailer house.
December 6: Mom died today.
December 13: Youngshyn Song elected on Song Line Board.
December 20: Visited Dr. McCartney in Santa Barbara. He is 91 years old.
December 23: Rented Brighton Building to Hibbs-$125 a month.
December 25: Met Wonsin at LA airport.
December 26: Took Wanda on Box Canyon hike. She fell.
December 27: Dr McCartney died today. I was a pallbearer at his funeral on December 30.
December 31: Assets 738m.
January 1, 1964: Wonsin visiting us since Christmas.
February 1964: Grace working with Harold Hicks on heart.
February 1964: Alice Donovan in Palm Springs for a month.
February 1964: Grace wants to help Edna OReilly. She has Parkinsons disease.
March 21: Herb Sampson brought his daughter to Grace for help.
March 22: Almost snowed in with Wanda at Idyllwild.
March 25: Grace spoke at SPA.
April 1: Winfield bitten by black widow.
April 1: Rented building to E.R. Hibbs for $125 a month.
April 18: Shook hands with Nelson Rockefeller.
April 19: Nooneys came for a week. They stayed at Ind. Manor.
April 28: Youngshyn arrived from Korea.
May 6: Youngshyn and Dosyn went to Michigan by air.
May 6: Grace and Winfield left Michigan
May 25: Youngshyn got a drivers license at Leland.
May 27: Flew to Beaver Island where we keep the old Pontiac.
June 1: Started scrapping & painting the cottage.
June 13: Dr. Haynes helped by Grace.
June 16: Talked with Van W. about $100,000 loan, also Grace as director.
June 23: Bought 64 jeep-it cost Winfield above $4340.
June-July 1964: Milford Jahke & Cooney died at Paradise.
July 22: Flew with Mrs. Ward to visit Hoovers on N.B. isle. Mrs. Ward was 95-1/2.
July 28: Took Mary & Ole on wild flight to Beaver Is.
August 3: took Jeff on a fishing trip to White River, Canada with Poksyn.
August 15: Flew Hoovers to Beaver Island.
September 1: Grace flew to New York to join Youngshyn & Younghill Kang
September 11: We both passed the pilot physical. We were off to Lusk, Wyoming for antelope in the jeep.
September 24: Red Desert and Turritella with Moyers.
October 16: Younghill Kang visited us.
November 1: Flew plane to Mackinac Is. Among the first to land there.
November 5: Ada Wilson died today.
November 26: Grace & Winfield off in the Imperial for California. Grace not well.
November 30: Grace very sick in Odessa, Texas. We stayed 9 days there.
December 16: Left for Hawaii-Maui for 6 weeks. Grace ill.
December 17: Helen Munsell died today.
December 1964: assets 758m.
December 16, 1964 to January 22, 1965: In Maui for Graces health.
January 4, 1965: Met Anita Ross. Mrs. Moses Kalani Ross, Kuhua Village.
January 7: Anita prayed for Grace.
January 18: Returned to Honolulu-
January 22: Returned to Palm Springs.
February 18: Winfield swimming up to a mile a day.
March 14: Wanda and we drove to John Hiltons & met Jimmy Cagney.
March 30: Dosyn arrived from Michigan en-route to Korea.
April 1: Duk Nong just received doctors degree from Harvard. Dosyn cried.
April 5: Dosyn off for Japan & Korea. Winfield weighed 139-1/2 pounds.
May 11: Winfield swims with bar bells for weight control. Weighed 140 pounds.
May 12: Lady Bumgarner visits us.
May 15: Willard Hall of Northport died.
June 8: Poksyn received special writing award.
June 11: Off for the Bahamas in Navion with Poksyn.
June 13: Nassau
June 15-16: Small Hope Bay, Bahamas. Went to wall 3000 feet out. Dove to 90 feet.
June 15: Both Poksyn and I dove to 90 feet today.
June 18: Went to Georgetown Hotel, Exuma. Met Dave McElroy.
June 19: Dave & Poksyn got to know each other. They rented a motorcycle.
June 22: Went to Nassau. Visited with Lloyds at Spanish Wells to June 25.
June 25-27: Returned to Nassau and on to Grand Bahamas from June 27 through July 1.
Returned home on July 2 in the Navion.
July 1965: flying around 100 hours a summer.
July 19: Paul Gay died.
July 30: Flew the Navion to Boston to see Duk Nong.
August 1965: Flew Ennis (Kilts) to Beaver Island.
August 28: Korean orphan concert at T.C.
August 30: Gates Cadillac. $100 September 4.
September 22: Wyoming Antelope hunt. 1 antelope. Returned home October 2.
October 2: Had word today that Graces Mother and Sister are living.
October 10: Word from 3 schools in Korea on Song Line Scholars.
October 28: Mailed Hawaiian Anita Ross some shells & stones.
November 9: Sent 200 Graces Mother letters.
November 12: We flew to LA on VAL. Then rented a Hertz car to Palm Springs.
November 14: Clint Bauer had a stroke. Recovers slowly.
November 22: Heavy rains took out half of Tahquitz Bridge.
December 7: Received picture of Graces mother and sister.
December 11: Met Celebrities at Racquet Club- Dinah Shore and Charlie Farrell.
December 16: Poksyn arrives from Michigan.
December 26: Mrs. Phipps passed away.
December 31: Assets 914m.
January 1-2, 1966: Dave and Poksyn hike Tram Mountain.
January 5: Poksyn left for Michigan. She was here since December 18.
January 14: Steve Willard buried at Colton.
January 25: Youngshyn came via air & bus from Michigan. Returned February 19.
February 26: Mrs. Marsella Dupont drove with her chauffeur from LA to see us.
February 28: Met new museum director, Dr. Fred Sleight and Alice.
March 2: Tom Holland died.
March 3: Vern Wallace of Linesville died.
March 5: Kyongea married an Arab today- Kaha Fani.
March 13: Soon Young came from Michigan to help Graces health.
March 14: Chatted with J.C. Penney. He was 91 years old.
March 25: Hoovers come to help Grace.
April 3: Grace cut my hair. I never went to a barber again.
April 5: Zaddie Bunker came for a health check-up.
May 2: We went to Las Vegas and Lake Powell. Saw Rainbow Bridge and San Juan.
May 16: Grace received a letter from her Mother who was 90.
May 20: Sold 58 Jeep for $962.
May 23: Drained the pool with a 120-foot hose.
June 1: We fly American Airlines to Michigan.
June 10: Wonsin-Hiyoung married A.A. I gave away the bride.
June 14: Grace bought Volkswagen fastback for $2500.
June 17: Soon Young left for Korea today.
June 20: Grace and I took off for the Bahamas in the Navion by way of Okefenokee Swamp, Freeport, and S.E. Bahamas.
July 7: Russ Rink flew from San Francisco to Hawaii in 20-year old Bonanza
July 22: We are guests of honor at Linesville Centennial.
July 27: Pearl McManus died in Palm Springs. He was 87.
August 18: Grace receives letter & more pictures of her mother.
September 5: Hi-youn had miscarriage. Grace flew to help.
October 3: I took Agawa Canyon train trip in Ontario. Grace now in Howell.
October 5: Left oil cap off of the Navioncaused a mess.
October 1965: Gathered many red mushroom art pieces: Lickens.
October 18: Dave McElroygave us two huge glass floats.
October 19: Youngshyn leaves for Korea, Hong Kong, and PE.
October 22: Fifty lake steamers anchored in White Fish Bay.
October 26: Gathered shaggy mane mushrooms & threw away.
October 27-28: Met Mrs. Jenks at Paradise. Hunted ducks.
November 11: I drove Jeep alone to Denver.
November 11: Grace and Poksyn flew to Boston, and then Grace flew to Denver.
November 14-25: Grace and Winfield toured Canyonland in the Jeep. Drove to Palm Springs.
December 3-6: Heavy storm damage inn the valley.
December 16: Took Jeep trip to Baja & Punta Final.
December 22: We saw Jamins Mother killed by her own car.
December 31: Assets 923m
January 1-2, 1967: Off in the Jeep for a 23-day trip to Mexico.
February 6: Attended Ernie Alshulers 80th birthday party.
February 12: Our Ewing building in Gr. Lge. Burned to the ground.
February 27: Youngshyn arrived from Seoul to Michigan.
March 27: We added 550 square feet to our home. Williams Arch. Colglaqier
April 10: Controller.
April 22: Raymond Lowey wishes to go snake hunting.
April 26: Met Walter Judd and Lily Pons at Stheres Party.
April 28: 5 Korean Colonels visit usCol. Lim.
May 10: Poksyn drove from Michigan.
May 17: Grace lunched with Mrs. Mecedes Gianni.
May 29: I painted the house.
June 4: Grace off for Michigan by air. Winfield left in the Jeep to Michigan.
June 13: Grace and Winfield flew to LA and Palm Springs to check on the remodel.
June 26: Poksyn flew from Boston to San Francisco.
June 30: We drove to Palo Alto to see Poksyn.
July 11: Off by American Airlines for Michigan. Zaddie closed our house.
July 14: Squirrel-chipmunks did damage in Northpoint.
July 19: Gordon Knute died in accident?
July 21: Buried 5 bushels of alewivesNorthpoint.
July 30: Toyon Kim died in Korea.
August 10: At the bank meeting I advocated heavy new investment in building.
October 19: Grace and I went to Europe to help with Youngshyn with Rolls Royce.
October 23: Lausanne
October 24: Amsterdam
October 26: London, Dublin, and WitheysPolsyn again.
November 9: Left London today in time for bank meeting in Howell.
November 14: Winfield and Grace drive from Michigan to Palm Springs arrive November 24.
December 3: Visited parents of Robert Pierpoint in Redlands.
December 31: Finish carpeting our Palm Springs house.
December 31: Assets 1047m.
January 13, 1968: Paul Russell of LA died.
January 14: Grace and Winfield leave for Merida, Islamujeres, and Cozumel.
January 22: Today Cozumel, Merida, Miami, and Caracas.
January 23-February 2: Curacao, Aruba, and Bonaire.
February 3: Panama, San Blas Islands, and Kuna Indians.
February 16: Drove Poksyn to Berkeley.
March 8: Reception with Arthur Rubenstein, Red Skelton, Lily Pons, and Janet Gaynor
March 24: Kyungshyn, Duk, Boomie & children came from San Francisco.
March 22, 1968: Martin Luther King murdered.
April 4: Visited Bea Willard and went through Death Valley and home.
April 11: Accident on the way home from La Quinta. Grace hurt but OK.
May 9: Mitch Hamilberg died today.
May 22: Rose McKinney pioneer of Palm Springs died.
http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories/obituaries/1009848531.shtml
May 30: Buying art work for Grace instead of Hospital.
June 6: Robert Kennedy killed.
June 7: H. Hicks came for health, also Dr. Short.
June 18: Grace having trouble with her neck.
June 20: Entertaining pidgon & other birds in the bedroom
July 11: Grace and Winfield leave for Michigan by car. Late. Graces neck still hurts.
August 11: Flew to Champaign, were met by Poksyn, Duk, and family.
August 18: Again flew to Champaign with Poksyn.
August 30: Flew to Niagara Falls to visit Wurlitzer.
September 15: Ate our first coprinus comatus (shaggy mane) and lived!
September 19: We flew jets to Bahamas till September 29.
October 1: Our new 69 Imperial arrived T.C.
October 10: Winfield resigned from First National Board after 35 years.
October 13: We left separately for Champaign and Palm Springs.
October 27: Grace became dizzy and ill. We canceled our South Seas trip.
November 7: Learned that Virginia Farrell & Bill Hager died.
December 5: Have pushed stock market all year. Winfield made $50,000 profit.
December 31: Passed the million mark of the first time.
December 31: Harry Mann died during the night.
December 31: Assets 1092m
January 1. 1969: Harry Mann died today in Las Vegas.
January 3: Flew to Las Vegas for Harry Mann funeral.
January 7: Bessie Line died in Florida.
January 18: Attended Funeral of Jack Hillaryc.c.
January 23: Duk stopped in Palm Springs en-route to Korea to see Dosyn.
January 31: word that Dosyn died today.
February 6: Youngshyn arrived by jet from Michigan. Charlie Line died at age 79.
March 1: Winfield injured my knee in Tahquitz Creek.
March 7: Youngshyn returns to Michigan after a month visit.
March 26: Youngshyn received permanent residence.
April 3: Thousands of hippies invade Palm Springs.
May 29: Off for Michigan in Imperial via Paradise and Northpoint.
June 2: We went to the Bahamas by jet. Scuba and snorkeling until June 25.
July 5: Learned that Fritzie Van Sicklen died.
July 20: First man lands on the moon.
August 21: Zaddie Bunker died today. She was 82.
September 18: We gave Korean picture at Suttons Bay.
October 12: Wonsin elected to AIUM (American Institute Medicine at Victoria Sound)
October 17: Grace and Winfield took off for California in the Imperial.
October 22: Caught 11 Tarantulas between Las Vegas and Palm Springs.
October 23: Mrs. Orin Ward died at 100-3/4 years old.
November 4: I started aerobatic training in Citabria with Terry Thornton.
http://www.midwestproducts.com/citabria.htm
November 13: Winfield visited Jimmie Swinnerton, a 94-year-old artist.
December 2: Grace flies to Michigan on business. I meet Art at aerobatic school.
December 5: I drive Jeep through mountain snow to see aerobatic show.
December 16: Gave the museum Korean program.
December 18: Working on Grace abstract of thesis.
December 20: Flying solo aerobatics.
December 31: Assets 1168m.
January 10, 1970: Imperial burned up. Bought a Thunderbird.
February 1: Song Line found. Invited 2 Kims to visit the United States.
February 4: Winfield still flying aerobatics.
March 3: Jeep trip to Phoenix and on to Puerto Penasco, Mexico.
March 6-7: El Golfo with Slim Moorten
http://www.moplants.com/moorten/moorten_family_history.html
March 22: Jeep trip to Cholla Bay and Sonora.
April 3: Grace joined ICAN
April 5: Jeep trip to Cholla Bay, Mexico.
April 20: To Cholla Bay in the Jeep.
May 3: Took off again to Cholla Bay.
May 6: Youngshyn arrives from Michigan by air.
May 26: D.K. Sun Kim arrives from Korea. Guest of Song Line.
May 27: Visited Goldie Holt, my Kindergarten teacher 60 years ago.
June 2: Met Won Hee & Won Chong at LA airport.
June 5: Youngshyn and two children and OK Sun Kim off for Michigan in the Jeep via National Parks.
June 7: Grace and Winfield off for Florida in the T-Bird.
June16: Sailed from West Palm Beach to Bahamas.
June 29: Dined with Lady Eleanor & Frank Wright in West Palm Beach.
August 4: Houseboat trip with Phil and Dorothy Boyd.
http://www.palmsprings.com/history/50years.htm
August 1970: Bought underwater camera for $150 on sale, regularly $200.
August 17: Dan Fleese killed in boat explosion.
September 1: Grace and Winfield fly the Navion to Niagara Falls to visit Farny Wurlitzer.
September 22: Grace passed Pilots Physical today.
September 26: Elisa Song born today.
September 30: Put CB radios in the new Jeep and T-bird for Palm Springs trip.
October 7: Willis Lyons died today at age 93.
October 30: Jeep trip to Nevada and Utah via the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
November 6: Che Sun Kim arrives from Korea.
November 10: Ole Fredrickson died in Northpoint. Youngshyn attended the funeral.
November 13: C. S. Kim told us Soong Evi received $20,000. DeRing/ McGinness Scholarship from his high school.
November 20: Grace and Winfield off in the Jeep for Sedona.
November 27: Gave Korean program for Miss Dillingham at Kingsley Manor.
December 1: Annabel Van Winkle died.
December 4: Ruth Withey injured in her Rolls Royce.
December 17: Onas Ward died.
December 23: Grace and Winfield flying in a jet to Michigan.
December 28: Invited to Governor Milliken party at Leland.
December 29: Had first snowmobile ride. Went 18 miles.
December 31: Assets 1203m.
January 1, 1971: Came to Michigan 12/23/70. Visited Howell, Northpoint, and Paradise.
January 4: Returned to Palm Springs via jet.
February 1: Hiyoung having trouble because of Shin Duk.
February 9: Earthquake killed 30 in LA.
February 12: Left for Monument Valley trip in the car.
February 23: Jeep trip to Puerto Penasco, Mexico.
March 19: Grace badly injured in Safeway parking lot.
March 29: Graces eye bad from fall.
April 3: Grace recording ICAN talk Are There Curable Diseases?
April 17: Dr. Fred Klenner tells us of Vitamin C powder.
http://yost.com/health/klenner/klenner-1971.html
April 18: Grace addressed ICAN convention & distributes copies of her talk.
April 25: Grace flies to Michigan in a jet.
May 2: Steve Ragsdale died. He was 89.
May 9: Archie Fournier died today.
May 13: Drove the T-bird & Jeep to Michigan. We used the CB radio.
June 13: Helped Lewis and Ruth Nooney celebrate their 45th anniversary.
June 1971: Primativa Dimandntiaspirin died.
June 15: Grace and Winfield left for the Bahamas by jet.
June 19: Grace addressed Chiropractor convention at Grand Bahamas.
June 20: Our 43rd wedding anniversary at the Grand Bahamas. Grace 107 pounds. Winfield 146 pounds.
July 18: Saved Poksyn from Sheriff
July 22: Met Harold F. Kohn, author & artist.
August 7: Winfield and Grace flew the Navion to Chicago.
September 2: Saw 50 hawks (migration?).
September 8: Grace appeared on Kenn Havens TV show Limelight.
September 15: Grace spoke over Peto Skep radioRosalie Ottinger.
September 17: Grace appears on TV Accent Cadiliac
September 18: Grace speaks T.C.H.S. auditorium on health.
September 24: Winfield passes the pilot physical.
October 9: Raymond Munsell died in Columbus, Ohio hospital.
October 10: Grace drives T-bird and Winfield drives the Jeep from Michigan to Red Desert then to Palm Springs.
November 17: In Laguna Beach a man named Pancho gave us map of Bahia Santa Maria.
November 21: Don Van Winkle died.
November 29: Pipe broke in bathroom floor in Palm Springs home.
November 30: Left for Bahia Santa Maria in the Jeep.
December 1: Met Ron & Nona Younger in Baja.
December 3: Leased 2 lots from Anice to Maduena.
December 13: Jeep again to Baja, Cabana360 completed.
December 17: Hogan started at Bahia Santa Maria for $2000.
December 19: Many Olivas, in crasate and sand dollars were found when we went night hunting on the beach.
December 28: Left for Baja with a Jeep load of windows etc.
December 31: Beautiful beech ride.
December 31: assets 1216m.
January 1, 1972: New Years in Baja with Youngshyn.
January 1: Aniceto Maduena working on our hogan.
January 10: Ellen Dearborn dies in Palm Springs.
January 11: Grace suggested olive oil for Mel Capper kidney stones.
January 12: Carl Lykens died. He was 87. He was the oldest pioneer in Palm Springs.
January 15: Left for Baja in the Jeep.
January 23: Left for Baja in Jeep and onto Gonzaga Bay with Younkers.
February 10: Grace helping Dr. Duncan. Philadelphia talks planned for June 6.
February 14: Rocky Point-Cholla Bay trip with Younkers.
February 27: Left for Baja in the Jeep.
March 1: 1800 olives plus 2 yellowSanta Maria.
March 4: Became acquainted with Flora Steffens, our neighbor.
March 7: Visited Farny Wurlitzer in La Jolla.
March 13: Off in the Jeep for Baja.
March 21: Caught first rattler of the season in Palm Springs.
March 27: Went to Baja in the Jeep with a load of beds etc. Winfield painted the floor.
March 28: Younkers son Fred found 2 white olives.
March 31: Grace works with Jim HicksGrossGurlie health.
April 5: Milner of the IRS audits Song Line.
April 8: Flew to San Francisco for ICAN convention.
April 10: Left for Baja in the Jeep and spent our first night in the hogan.
April 23: Left for 8 days in Baja in the Jeep.
April 30: Prevention Magazine reprinted Graces article for the ICAN convention.
May 2: Called Rodale Press to not give Graces address out. 1000 letters for health held.
Easter: Farny Wurlitzer died in Buffalo.
May 8: Left for Baja in the Jeep. 9 days. Met Haghmann and Dr. Morris.
May 23: Grace flew to Howell by jet.
May 24: Learned that Ned Mellis died.
June 2: 50th Howell High School reunion class of 22. Dean Walter guest at dinner with Youngshyn and Francis Line.
June 5: Flew to Philadelphia. Canceled trip to Washington DC and Bahamas.
June 6: Grace celebrated her 70th birthday. She talked all day to 125 doctors. Meeting with Dr. Fordham.
June 7: Helicopter to the airport. Jet to Palm Springs.
June 8: Went to Baja in the Jeep. Took glass doors. Stayed 12 days.
June 23: Went to Baja in the Jeep. Slept out under the stars.
June 27: Grace finds our first white olive.
July 6: Left for Michigan in the T-bird.
Virgil McClintic died late June.
July 27: Wonsin called that Hi Yuns mother died.
September 9: Ruth Nooney killed. Lewis in Wawa, Ontario, Canada unconscious.
September 14: Ruth Nooney funeral today. We flew to Plainwell. Lewis in Wawa.
September 22: Grace passed her pilot physical.
September 23: Spencer Gates came over. This is the last we saw him.
September 26: Grace gave Winfield a Suzuki motorcycle for his 70th birthday.
October 16: Won brought friend, Gladah Ellis, to see us.
October 18: walked through the snow to swim in Northpoint.
October 20: Off for California in our 1973 T-bird.
October 22: Spencer Gates died suddenly
October 24: Called on Marie Davis & Edith J. Saw Aunt Mabel Mecienberg.
October 25: Wrecked the T-bird by a truck tire at 75 mph. We were both unhurt.
October 26: Traded in wrecked 73 T-bird for a 73 Buick Limited.
November 2: We went to Baja in the Jeep. We cleaned the hogan. A bad storm was brewing.
November 8: Wanda is very thin. She weighed 68 pounds. Bertine Steere is 93.
November 11: Winfield swimming in 50-degree water at the house in Palm Springs.
November 22: Lois Hanslousy died.
November 28: Loaned 1973 Buick to Yonkers for 1200 mile trip to his brothers funeral.
December 12: Swam in 25-degree air and 37-degree water.
December 15: Will join Palmyra Club.
December 17: Graces mother died in North Korea. She was 94.
December 18: Mary Fredrickson died today.
December 26-27: Grace helping H. Hicks both physically and mentally.
December 28: Grace and Winfield made complete trip over Skyline Trail (12 miles).
December 31: Assets 1246m.
January 3, 1973: Off for Baja in the Jeep.
January 4: Ramon, who built hogan, drowned.
January 9: Joined the Palmyra Club.
February 1: Saw Aunt Mabel for last time. She died February 10.
February 2: Tried to get Stanley Ragsdale to set Petroglyph date.
February 6: Attended Ernie Alshulers 86th birthday.
February 17: Song family arrived from Chicago till March 1.
February 26: Bought a Suzuki motorcycle for $420.
March 3: Went to Baja in the Jeep and brought the motorcycle. Grunion running there.
March 15: Lewis Nooney visited us until the 22nd.
March 17: Took Lewis to Baja in the Jeep. We had an exciting tide episode.
April 6: Attended the ICAN convention in Pasadena.
April 11: Jeep trip to Baja.
April 29: Jeep trip to Baja with Owens. White olive-Winfield.
May 7: Hoover appreciates Graces help.
May 12: Went to Baja with Ned Cantillon and James Haynie.
May 23: Wanda sold the house and moved to La Jolla.
May 26: Went to Baja in the Jeep. Herons in the canyon.
June 9: Winfield and Grace go to Michigan in a jet.
June 19: Gladys Hanson killed.
June 24: Met Manager Hale at Newberry Airport. Left car.
August 16: Youngshyn has operation in Chicago.
August 29: Grace flew by jet to Chicago to help Youngshyn.
August 30: Navion 107 hours since June. 100 hours check at Lake City.
September 5: Winfield passes pilots physical.
September 19: Winfield passed the Michigan motorcycle test on a barrowed machine.
September 25: Class of 22 reunion in Howell.
September 1973: Ernie Alschuler died. He was 86.
October 12: We flew jet to Kansas City to attend preview Medical Conference.
October 16: We heard that Clint Bauer died.
October 19: 45th Class of 28 reunion at University of Michigan.
October 23: We flew jet to Palm Springs.
October 26: Went to Baja in the Jeep.
October 29: Found that Mel Capper committed suicide in August.
November 8: Went to Baja in the Jeep.
November 21: Went to Baja in the Jeep.
December 7: Took Dave McElroy to Baja in the Jeep.
December 21: Went to Baja for a Christmas party. 10
December 31: Assets 1325m.
January 4, 1974: Snowed an inch in our yard at Palm Springs.
January 6: Shindon flew to Korea.
January 9: Overnight with Phlip Ahn & Heung Sk Pak. Los Angeles.
January 9: Mary Line died at 91. Pak gives us Kings Crown.
January 15: Went to Baja in the Jeep.
January 25: Grace flies to Michigan for manager meeting and work with D&C.
January 1974: I painted the house on the outside.
February 3: Went to Baja in the Jeep. Coyotes friendly as we slept out.
February 10: Winfields back went out due to many causes.
February 25: Sorted thousands of olivesback still bad.
March 1: Soon Young stopped enroute to Korea.
March 6: To Baja by Jeep. Grace drove. Winfield in the back seat.
March 15: Back still bad.
March 20: To Baja by Jeep. Winfield lying in the backseat.
March 27: Youngshyn stops enroute to Korea.
April 5: Party at Annenberg Estate. Nixon and Prince Charles were here recently.
April 16: Went to Baja in the Jeep. Winfield back much better.
April 20: Saw 5 satellites during the night under the stars in Baja.
April 26: ICAN convention in LA.
April 27: Called on Meta Hormelage 92. Dillingham96.
May 1: Went to Baja in the Jeep.
May 4: Coyote accidentally jumped on me in the night.
May 6: Coyotes tap Graces foot.
May 16: Went to Baja. Grace drove. Winfields back bad again. Bird life fine.
May 21: 15 blue herons nesting in ironwoodsBaja.
May 28: Visited Wanda for the last time in La Jolla.
June 12: Duk Nong arrives enroute to Korea.
June 16: Went to Baja in the Jeep. Beetles
June 24: Cancelled out on ICAN New Zealand trip.
June 26: Went to Michigan via jet. Flora took us to the airport.
July 2: Winfields back nearly well.
July 4: Dined with Claude Watson, 90, and Wy Song.
July 9: Flew the Navion to Mt. Hawley, Ill for gear work.
August 3: Wanda is 88 pounds. Grace hit the low of 97 pounds.
August 5: Nettie Peau died.
August 9: President Nixon resigned.
August 13: Flew over Beavers to Newberrycar trip to Paradise.
August 14: Flew Hoovers on Bois Blancthen Macinal in the Navion. Carburetor ruptured. Paid $60 for flight to Northpoint.
August 21: Class of 22 53rd reunion in Howell.
August 26: Chas. A. Lindberg died in Maui. He was 72.
August 29: Picked up Navion on Marinac Island at dark. Two weeks on the island.
September 18: George Sobel Miller over night. George made 5 million on lease.
September 21: Many of our Navion flights in dangerous weather.
October 4: Larry Dorothy Lowing of Linesville visited us.
October 14: D&C wants to sell out to Paul Stearnes.
October 15: Grace successfully passed pilots physical.
October 16: Winfield and Grace fly a jet to Palm Springs.
October 18: Hachtmanns told us an 18 tide took out our patio in Baja.
November 15: Meta Hormel, who is 92, visits us.
November 27: We went to Baja, and paid a Mexican to repair the wall etc. We had the Todds and Abrahams over for Thanksgiving dinner.
December 10: Grace off for Michigan on store business. She returned on December 23.
December 30: Paul Grimm, artist, died at 84.
December 31: Assets 1341m.
January 1, 1975: Winfield weighed 147 pounds and Grace weighed 101.5 pounds.
January 2: Duke Yoon visiting us.
January 4: Paul Grimms funeral.
January 6: D&C sale to Paul Stearn fell through.
January 11: Will F. C. Nimke died.
January 20: Painted Canyon trip with Hoovers.
January 28: Wanda Peake taken to the hospital in serious condition.
February 10: Wanda Peake died today.
February 23: Went to Baja.
March 8: Sat near Bob and Delores Hope at a Concert.
March 15: Wonsin Song family came for a visit.
March 29: Poksyn joined Songs at our home.
April 5: Poksyn leftwe went to Baja.
April 10: Jan Olman injurednever regained consciousness. Died 7 years later.
April 18: ICAN convention in LA.
April 22: Went to Baja.
April 27: Grace found a live seahorse in Baja.
May 9: Went to Baja.
May 13: C.S. Line opened our store in Howell 65 years ago on Friday the 13.
May 29: Left by jet for Michigan.
June 21: Wonsun and Yune married today.
July 4: Wonsun & family came to Northpoint.
July 11: Youngshyn delivered our new Granada.
July 24: Linesville, New London trip with Youngshyn.
September 3: Planned to fly Navion to California after Russian trip.
September 16: Left for New York, Dublin, London, Moscow, Lucerne with ICAN.
September 26: Winfields 73rd birthday in Yalta.
September 25: Grace suffered whole Russian trip from Herpis Zonta.
October 16: Went over new Northpoint bedroom plans with Korson.
October 22: Flew jet to California.
November 8: Sat near Bob and Delores Hope at museum concert.
November 9: Edna ORielly died. Col. Sim already gone.
December 3: Meth Hormel died today. She was 93.
December 7: Soon Young and I slept under the stars.
December 22: Youngshyn Song came from Michigan for a visit.
December 31: Youngshyn leaves for Michigan.
December 31: Assets $1416m.
January-February 1976: did $16,000 remodeling Northport.
February 26: YS on way to Korea.
1976-Completed extensive estate plan workers comp annuity
1976- saw a comet for many nights in spring.
1976-One or both slept outdoors many months at Palm Springs or Baja.
April 19: sold my motorcycle to Roy Younger.
1976 Spring- William installed 500 feet of plastic pipe for yard water.
September 16: Grace & Winfield ICAN people to people-Russian trip route
Ireland, London, Moscow, Yalta, and Lucerne. SL bad case herpies 2cnta due to fear spoiled trip.
1976-sold 1 lot PP $9,500 paid $750 Sold Lake City lots for $4,500 paid $100.
August 4: YS got US citizenship today.
September 8-10: Earl & Miriam Hoover spent 2 days with us in Northport.
September 28: Grace passed pilot physical good till September 1978.
October 1976- Winfield passed biennial flight test in Skyhawk.
October 1976-Robert Miller died as well as Shirley Goodman.
1976-Gus Knesovich & Charley Walters died
November 10: Parsyny badly injured in Madison
November-December 1976: did $2850 remodeling job on Palm Springs house.
November 26: bought electric twin bed for Winfield for $620.
1976-77-wildflowers bloomed from October till May.
March 1977: took 2 trips to Death Valley &1 to Baja.
March 11: Grace D. Killingham died at 99 years
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