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Betrothals Made Known by Parents

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Miss Eva Maria Linden

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Linden of Burke Street announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Eva Maria Linden, to Richard J. Anderson of Wilmington, Del., son of Mr. and Mrs. Murrl J. Anderson of Croyden Road. The prospective bridegroom is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Miss Edith Marie Worboys

At an informal dinner party in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Worboys on Avis Street, the engagement of Miss Edith Marie Worboys to Pfc. Clyde H. Rathbun, USA, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Rathbun of Spencerport, was announced. 

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Miss Patricia M. Delorme

Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Patricia M. Delorme, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Delorme of Evergreen Street, to Roger J. Burke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester C. Burke of Clinton Avenue North.

The future bridegroom will leave for two years duty in the U.S. Coast Guard at the end of this month.

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Miss Faith Omans
Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Faith Rene Omans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill O. Omans of Barons Road, to Charles Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Reynolds of Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Miss Omans is a graduate of the College of Wooster in Ohio. She is doing graduate work at State University Teachers College, Brockport, and is a member of the faculty of Rochester School 5. Her fiance served four years overseas with the Air Force and is now attending the University of Buffalo. 

A June wedding is planned.


First Woman Pilot, Ex-Rochesterian, On Treasure Hunt for Air Relics
by JANE COCHRAN

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1
(INS) - Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott, the first woman pilot in the United States to make a solo flight, has her nose to the ground these days.

There is a reason - she is sniffing out treasure.

She is consultant for the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Base near Dayton, Ohio, and, in that capacity, is touring the United States in a search for aviation relics for the museum.

(In Rochester Mrs. Scott conducted a women's program over Radio Station WBBF where she was known as "Roberta.")

In San Francisco on the tour, the pioneer aviatrix who learned to fly in 1910, said:

"I'm on a treasure hunt. I'm looking for anything and everything. If anyone should have a piece of an old airplane in their basement or in their trophy room or anywhere, whether it is a strut, part of a propeller, or anything pertaining to aviation, we would like to have it in the museum. Even photographs of old planes.

"It's not necessary to have the whole plane... what we want is any old part of the plane. The reconstruction men at the museum can build the remainder of the plane around the actual piece."

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MRS. SCOTT, who is 63, soloed Sept. 6, 1910, at a time when she says "there were probably not more than 75 people in the world who knew how to fly." Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss was her teacher. And she says she really got started flying by driving a car.

"I was a spoiled brat, an only child," she explained. "I had my own car when I was 13."

In May of the fateful year, she and newspaperwoman Amy L. Phillips started driving a car across the continent from New York as a publicity stunt for Overland.

It was in California, at the end of the drive, that she decided she would learn to fly, and as the first woman to drive across the country, was something of a celebrity so her wish was granted.

"I was wild, but instead of gin and jazz, I went in for excitement," she said, "and it turned out better, I think."

She remembers that in Emeryville, Calif., in 1912, six or seven appeared at a big show and "Lincoln Beachey, Glenn Martin (who recently died) and I were the only ones who weren't hurt."

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BUT SHE did accumulate 44 mended bones during her career, and a rich husband, and considers she had a wonderful time. She quit in 1916 and never flew again as a pilot.

"We got paid five or six thousand a week, and we spent it like drunken sailors. But of course most of us got killed."

One major factor, in addition to the mended bones, that decided her to end her pilot's career was the fact that the government wanted her two-seater Martin plane for use in World War I.

She was not the first woman to be licensed - Harriett Quimby had that honor. And she never did get a license... "We didn't bother much in those days."

Her later career included flings at screen-writing, TV and radio production work, but she never has been able to "settle down."

"There are people like that but it's taken me a long time to find out," she added. "I love this job and traveling around, and the Air Force has been wonderful to work for. And at the museum - which is open to the public, by the way - we have the largest collection of old planes in the world."

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