Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Oct 1934, p. 24

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WILMETTE LIFE October 25, 1934 Fie.ldvs EvanstonStorefor QUALITY RADIOS in a newly arranged and enlarged radio. section So that the people of the North. Shore may bave a wider selection of the newest and finest radio's in a complete pnice range, we have enlarged our radio section. We believe that this section will flot only iniet your approval but will more adequately meet your necds. To make this service stili more complete we are offering . . 1. A tube-testing service (without cost) 2. A convenient extendeci payment Plan 3. A trade-in aliowance for your present radio 4. New Philco Radiolog without cost. Among the New Models m m m THE 1935 29X PHILCO: season ..local and foreign reception automatic .vol- u m. e .control... t o ne control shadow tuning... inclined soUn d in g board... a newly designed cabinet THE EVANSTON STORE PIFTH 1FLOOIR * CHURCH AND SHERMAN MARS HAL L FIEL 1D &COMPANY To Bring Damaged Plane Oie fBlimp Leaves; From West for Repairs Other Going Soon Robert Peck. Curtiss airport mecli- The Reliance, one of the tw anic, is in Rock Springs, Wyo., mk- jGoodyear blimps which have bewcn ing repairs on a Stinson own;ed b>cayngpseer at A Century of Frank Casey, Who is connected with Progress exposition and doing aerial the Chicago Pneumatic Tool coin- advertising work over the fair pany. Casey, enroute to the west grounds, and the city, left last week coast, nosed the ship over ini making for the Goodyear company head- a landing on a narrow field at Rock quarters at Akron, Ohio. Thiere the Springs. Thie Stinson is the sanie Oiie gasin the ship wilI he purified. From which Casey crackled up last spning Akron the Reliance will he flown to ini New Y'ork state and which was 'Mianmi, Fia., for the winter. rebuit ini the Curtiss airport o.ii The other world's fair passenger leither accident wvas the pilot hurt. carn mp h urit',Itli As a resuit of the crash at Rock at Pai-Waukee airport, where both Sprigs te paileagan wil ~ it and the Reliance were docked dur- broughit to Curtiss airport. Peck is ing the period of the 1933 and 1934 iialçrig he .ectes atp atail he Cîîicago exposition. Both ship s were pa:r thetripeast "elflown to Miami for the winter iast started. Onie whig of the plane wil year. This winter oniy the Reiiaice have to he completely rebuilt, it is wîîî go south. The Puritan wvill go to reported. Akron' after the close of the fair. This is the third season that the Pal-WVaukee Restauranit Puritan bas been on the north shore. to B Opn Ai WiterTwo years ago, when the dock at The restaurant in the clubhouse at to accommodate oniy one biimp, the Pal-Waukee airport wiil he open al Puritan was, sent. here by the Good- winter, the management annouîmccd year company. Last year the size t his week. it is open to the )ulic. of the dock was doubied and a sec- a s weli as to he mnembers of the ond blirnp, the Reliance, came for the I AiatônCoutr chlub ocated al period of the 1933 year. The sanie Pal-Waukee, and b other pilots -,%ho1 two blimups were here this year. visit the flving field. The Aviationj ,Couintry' club held 'its first party Fatotsn r- oo the season in the clubliouse lat Sat- Fs tno r- oo urday night. Visits Curtiss Airport Onme of the new iow-wing Stinson i Condit and Faust Fly j tri-moto: planes, w(ith retractabie to South Bend Friday; lst w~eek.e The ship, said to be one Ciift Condit, manager of Pal-Wau- of the fastest tri-motored transport k ee airpont, and- Chester Faust, wlkb planes in the worid, was flown over j rerently purchased a new Fairchild froin the Chicago municipal airpont. i which he is keeping in the airport, It is powered by [.ycoming motors. flew to SouthbRend, Ind., iast Fridav Its cruising speed is-said to be I1-; in a' Fleet to pick a used ship wvhicli miles per hour. will be. tnaded in on a Fairchild.___________ Pal-Waukee airport recentlv becae the distnibuting agency for Fair- Beecheraft Distributor childs in th e Chicago area. Has Headquarters Here Richard Beeler of L.incoln, Neb., Yo nghusband Flics NeW new Beechcraft distributor ini the Fairchild to Floridaj Chicago area, is nîaking his head- J.b.Yongusadon o te h Beareclaft rsarpont, lniw J. L Youglisban, oe oftheThe eeccraf isbuiit according t members of the Aviation Cotuntry the plans of Walter Beech, who for- club at Pal-Waukee airport Who re- meri>' designed Travelairs for Cur- centiy. purchased a new Fairchild. tiss. It is manufactured in,. the old went to the Fairchild factory at Ha-1 Curtiss plant at Wichita, Kans. gerstown, Md., last week to, pick up the ship. He planned to 'fly to Flor-, Uses New Fairchild on ida. Younghusbands plane w'i a 3i1 place cabin j'ob. W sosn Hunting Trip New Lockheed Vega Is Flown Here Prom West j.* G. Phales, flying from the west Coast to New York in a new Lock- heed Vega, made a stop at Curtiss airpont last week' for gas and oil. The plane. was kept in the Curtiss banger over night. Phales brought the ship f nom Lockheed facton>' at Bunbank, Calif. GOES TOFACTORY AGAIN H. S. Damr, 'president of the Cj 4- cago Aviation corporation, ope aors of Cuntiss Airpont, made another business trip to the Stinson f actor>' at Wayne,Micb., last week. ON DIJCK HUNTING TRIP Dean Owsley Ieft Curtiss airpont in bis Stinson R last week bound for the duck hunting gnounds on the Illi- nois river in the vicinity of Peoria. He took two friends wath hlmi. William Boyd, who recently pur- chased a 3-place cabin Fairchild wbich he is keeping at Pai-Waukee airport, left last Friday morning for Wisconsin on a hunting trip. He made the trip, of course, in bis new plane, taking a friend with hum. Travelair From Omaha Makes Stop. at Curtiss A 6-place Travelair owned by the National Construction companiy of Omaha, Nebr., was one of the "tran- sient" planes stopping at Curtiss air- port last.week. A Warner powered Stinson from Detroit aiso 'made an over-night stop at the airport. Mrs. Charles Hastings of South Rend, Ind., formerly of Wilmette, who is visiting her daughter's family, the Albert Wbsers, 1601 Tenth street, will entertain a group of ber Wilmette friends at a.bridge tea Fri-. day. AVIATION ~ê Qctobe.rý 25, 1934 WILMETTE LIFE

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