◆ 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 all types of automatic 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 originelly fron Great Fells, Montena. Due to the hich cost at‘that time, I was unable +o continue my flying and did not fly of any great consequence until 1943. . 1 was given my pilot certificate by Ed Leach, a senior CAA inspector of Portland, Oregon, and for the last three years have owned 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 Callair airplane, which is an airplane designed for high 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 cet out without injuri-3 your airplane; ‘the runways are very limited and the altitude is very high in some of the fields and places I heve to go in my work. To date, I heve landed in 823 cow pastures in mountain méadows, and in over a thousand hours a flat tire has been my greatest mishap.