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' i she rir ‘ ‘ ® -__« CO PY. SOME LIFE DATA ON KENNETH ARNOLD I was born March @, 1915 in Subeka, Minnesota. My father's neme was Edward Erb Arnold; my mother's aside name was Bertha E. Bardene I was 4 resident of Minnesota until I was six yeers old when my family moved to Scobey, Montana, where they homesteaded. My grandfather, Roland ©& Arnold also homesteaded in Scobey, Vontana, and became quite prominent in political circles along with S3urton K. Wheeler, the famous Montena senator. I went to grade school and high school at Minot, North Vakota. I entered scouting at twelve years of age and achieved the rank of Eagle scout before I was fourteen. My former scout executive was iu. H. Prescott, now a regional commissioner for the ‘oy Scouts in senses City, Kansas. As a boy, I was interested in athletics and was selected es an all- state end in 1932 and 1933 in the state of llorth Dakota. I entered the U. S. Olympic trials in fency diving i 132 was a Red Cross Life Seving Exeminer during the years of 1952 < 1 é I taught swimming and diving at scout camps and the municipal pool in -inot, lorth Vakote. University of Minmnesote, where I swam and did fancy diving under Neils Thorpe, and also played football under Bernie ‘ierman, but upon entering college I was unable to continue my football career because of an injured kmee. ly hich school football coach was Glenn L. Jarrett, who is now the head football coach of the University of North Yakota. I had little or no finances, and my ambition in furthering my education in college was through my athletics. J , 7 As a boy in Minot, North Yekota, I did a good 1 of sled racing, placed first with my dog in 19350 in the Lions Club 193 went to work for Ked Comet, Ince of Littleton, Colorado, a manufacturer of automatic fire fighting apparatus. 1935S I was made district manager for them ove ¢ of the western states, and in 1940 I