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[[newspaper clipping]] County Medical Association were guests of Capt. [[cutoff]] Oakland Naval Hospital, last night. Among those present were Gillett, executive officer; dr. L. B. Barnard, Dr. Dorothy Allen and is of the local medical group-Tribune photo. [[line]] OAKLAND PLANES TO MUSEUM ^[[Oakland Tribune April 20, 1948.]] Two airplanes at Oakland Municipal Airport, relics of the pioneer days of aviation, will be turned over to the Smithsonian Institution to be displayed in the National Air Museum being established in Washington, D.C. The Port of Oakland agreed to release the planes at the request of Paul E. Garber, curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the institution. One is the plane used by Fred Wiseman of Berkeley on what is now recognized as the first air mail flight in the world from Petaluma to Santa Rosa on February 17, 1911. The other was the plane flown by the late Weldon Cooke in some of the first flights made over Oakland in 1911 and 1912. Claire V. Goodwin, president of the Port Commission, said that when Garber came to Oakland a year ago, the heirs who presented the planes to the Port of Oakland had no objection to making them a part of the aviation collection in Washington. "It is proper that custody of these historic planes should be vested in the Federal government as Oakland's contribution in honoring these men," Goodwin said. Garber wrote that he will be in Oakland in May and is making arrangements for a crew to dismantle the planes and ship them to Washington. "We are receiving the whole-hearted co-operation of the aeronautical fraternity," his letter said. "I can even picture the National Air Museum as the Westminister Abbey of American aeronautics where greatest honor can be done to those men who have given us wings." [[advertisement]] Chapel of the Chimes [[image - drawing of the Chapel of the Chimes]] ABOVE GROUND BURIAL The BETTER WAY BEAUTIFUL ECONOMICAL Cremation Services costs but - $50 Perpetual Care Niches from - $30 Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland 11 Lawrence F. Moore, Secretary [[/advertisement]] [[/newspaper clipping]]
