Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Mar 1934, p. 30

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LIFE Want. ý».Ad to: " ind ajob " I a position *seil an auto. a, buy an auto 0 rent a room lu rent an apartment* lu rent a house* ,0 find a tenant* *seil real estate* 0 make a loan 0 find lost articles *fin4 their owners *seil a pet *buy apet 0 buy home furnishingst *seli household goodst *economically reaci, t/e great north shore. market wvith a message of' any kiwd! *WitlI movmng in your Ho Seasonc saeIVbI1dn, went toU £ ortL £AuLflA, xt~'ic., last week to get the Stinson Reliant .owned by Daniel Peterkin, Jr.,,~ who keeps. the plane at Curtiss airport. Mr. P.eterkin was forced to leave the ship at Port Huron when he en-, coun tered bad weather on. a rturni flight..from Detroit. On, the trip eastward' to Detroit Peterkini reported that be bad aà 50-mile tail wind at'an altitude of one thousand feet.' Mercury Chick's Motor Overhauled ýat Curtiss. The Le Blond, motor of a Mercury Chick. which, is, flown almost ex- clusively by Chinese flying students is being overhauùled* at Curtiss airport. The plane is kept at the Sky Harbor airport hangar. Don, Wong,- its former owner, is *10w a pilot for.the China National airways., He took bis flying instruction here. Xnjured as Plane Noses Over at Curtiss Field E. Ranguette, who had come to Chicago for a visit, nosed bis Fleet over as be was . taking off from' Curtiss airport recently. The sbip was badly tomn up and' Mr. Ranguette, wbo is connected witb the Upper Pen- insula Air service in Michigan, sufer- cd cuts and bruises. His brother, John Ranguette, who was a passenger in the plane, also suffemed bruises. A more power.tul -engine' is, being installed *in the round-wing Neneth plane wbich bas been kept at Curtiss, airport for the past few weeks. The old 90-horsepower motor was flot powerful enougb to lift the plane to anyV great, height, Dwigbt Mormow f ound in'test- hopping the ship. The ship's niew mo- tor is a 125-horsepower Wamner. on the Want Ads gave vou many The 1934 Stinson Reliant mono- plane was on display recently at Curtiss-Reynolds airport. It was demonstrated by jack Kelly, sales manager of the StinsonAircraft -cor-. poration, who brought the 'ship. to Curtiss field from St. Louis. Kelly.. who is on a demonstration tour of. the ýcountry, reports an enthusiastic acceptance of the new m'odel. iThe new Relianit, a four-passengcr cabin plane with a 225-horsepower, Lycomning motor, is, especially suited for cross-country transportation for ýthe business man and for the coru- mercial o-perator, according to Kelly. It has a cruising- speed of 120 miles an hour, with unusual ease. of hand- ling, limousine comforts and low Op- erating and maintenance costs. It is equipped with the new, spe ed arrest- ers. The Chicago Aviation corporat ion, ôperators of. Curiss-Reynolds air- port, are the Stinson distributors f or. this area. Sportsman Pilots Take Advantage of Holiday Several sportsman pilots found thé Washington's birthday holiday a con- venient time to go out to Curtiss'air- port for a bit of flying. Among those who took planes out were Daniel Peterkin, Ralph Isharn and H. B. Griggs. Peterkin owns a Stinson Rc- lianit and Isham a Fairchild. Griggs Pilots a Beilanca for. W. C. Grunow, refrigerator manufacturer. Airport Officiai Moves to House N.ear Curtiss Herbert Anderson, vice-presideiit of the Chicago Aviation. corporatioi., operators of Curtlss airport bas nioved into a residence on Shermer avenue a short distance'north of the Curtiss hangar. The residence at one tinie was used as a dormitory for flying students at the airport. Ask for,.Ad Taker pss em na. r . 4.aux * 4,E co; 1t3-= UD8iKI nected with.- the Chicago E7CRin CUuterc Americen. .Hc moved receAtly fro,, Ialtitude Evanston -to .Wmnnetka.porte&. to Defroit in Stinson 1Peterkmn, Jr., flew to Detroit otiss airport last week in bis Reliant. Hie left Wednesday Q O the trip eastward he en,- di a 50-mile tail wind at an ofw ue-thousaw..,feet, he re-

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