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was through my athletics. As a boy in Minot, North Dakota, I did e 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, Ine. of Littleton, Coloredo, «a manufacturer of automatic fire fighting apparetus., In 1939 I wes made district manager for them over e part of the western states, and in 1940 I established my own fire control supply known as the Greet Western Fire Control Supply. I have been working es an independent fire control engineer since, end I handle, distribute, sell end install all types of auto- metic and manual fire fighting equipment in the rural areas over five western stetes,. My flying experience started as a boy in Minot, North Dekote, where I took my first flying lesson from Earl T. Vance, who was originelly from Great Falls, Montena. Due to the high cost et thet time, I was unable to continue my flying and did not fly of any great consequence until 1943. I wes given my pilot certificate by Ed Leach, a senior CAA inspector of Portland, Oregon, and for the last three years have owned my own eirplane covering my entire territory with same end flying from forty to one hundred hours per month since. Due to the fect thet I use an airplane entirely in my work, in danuery of this year I purchased a new Callair airplane, which is an airplane designed for high altitude take-offs end short rough field usage. In the type of flying I do, it tekes a great deal of