◆ SpookStack

established my own fire control supply known as the Great Western Fire Control Supply. I have been working as an independent fire control engineer since, and I handle, distribute, sell and install ell t @utomatic and manual fire fighting equipment in the rural areas over five western, states. ° My flying experience started as a boy in Minot, liorth Dakota, where I took my first flying lesson from Earl T. Vance, who was originally fron Great Fells, Montene. Due to the hich cost at ‘that time, I was un continue my flying and did not fly of any great consequence until 1943. I was given my pilot certificate by Ed Leach, a senior CAA inspector of Portland, Oregon, and for the last three years have owmed my ow airplane covering my entire territory with same and flying from forty to one hundred hours per month since. Lue to the fact that I use an airplane entirely in my work, in January of this year I purchased a new Calleir airplane, which is an airplane designed for hizh altitude take-offs and short rough field use. In the type of flying I do, it tekes a great deal of practice and judgment to be able to lend in most any cow pasture and get out without injurizg your airplane; the runways ere very limited and the altitude is “ very high in some of the fields and places I have to go in my work. To date, I have landed in 823 cow pastures in mountain méadows, and in over @ thousand hours a flat tire has been my createst mishap.