65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_003

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

... ·.,
---p· .
2
. age
was through my athletics.
As a boy in Minot, North Dakota, I
did a good deal of dog sled racing, placing first with my.dog
in 1930 in the Lions Club Dog Derby.
In 1938 I went to work for Red Comet, Inc. of Littleton,
Colorado, a manufacturer of automatic fire fighting apparatus.
In 1939 I was made district manager for them over a part or the
western states, and in 1940 I established my ovm fire control
supply known as the Greet Western Fire Control Supply.
I have
been working as an independent fire control engineer since,
and I handle, distribute, sell and install all types of auto­
matic and manual fire fighting equipment in the rural areas over
five western states.
My flying experience started as a boy in Minot, North
Dakota, where I took my first flying 1 esson .from Earl T. Vance,
who was originally from Great Falls, Montana.
Due to the high
cost et that time, I was unabl e to continue my flying and did
not fly of any great consequence until 1943.
I wss given my
pilot certificate by Ed Leach. a senior CAA inspector of
Portland, Oregon, and for the last three years have owned my
o;,m airplane ooverin; my entire territory with same and flying
from forty to one hundred hours per month since. Due to the
fact that I use an airplane entirely in my work, in January
of this year I purchased a new Callair airplane, which is an
airpl ane designed for hi6h altitude take-offs end short rough
field usage.
In the type of flying I do, it takes a great deal of
- NliiD:mNTI A"-'