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[[image]] Straddling flimsy frame, A. Roy Knabenshue,pioneer aeronaut, piloted airship California Arrow during St. Louis World's Fair in October 1904. He repeated flight over Valley three months later. [[image]] Plaque highlighting achievements of A. Roy Knabenshue, pioneer balloon pilot now deceased, is held by son Glen Knabenshue of Woodland Hills. Glen attended ceremony enshrining father in Aviation Hall of Fame Dayton, Ohio. Pioneers of flight were present. "There Goes Daddy" West Valley Man Recalls Christmas Day 1904 Flight[[left column story]] By Joel Garcia Glen A. Knabenshue of 5547 Shoup Ave., Woodland Hills, remembers the morning of Christmas Day 1904 when he saw a small man sailing over the San Fernando Valley. Some people standing 1000 feet below on the Valley floor may have been startled and probably excitedly gasped to their friends, " Look there goes Santa Claus!" But Glen Knabenshue, then 4 years old, standing beside his mother Mabel, pointed skyward, eraned his small neck and said "Look mama, there goes daddy!" Covers 30 Miles "That was daddy all right." recalled Glen. "On that day he flew from Pasadena in a one-man balloon powered by a small motorcyle engine over the Valley and then landed in downtown in Los Angeles at Pico Blvd. and Stanford Ave." His father A. Roy Knabenshue flew the airship California Arrow in one of his most successful flights that year. The ship, a steerable balloon, sailed at an easy 20 mph and covered about 30 miles before touchdown. A. Roy Knabenshue was among the first Americans to pilot a steerable balloon. He began his career as an aeronaut when he flew the Arrow in October 1904 from the aeronautic concourse of the St. Louis World's Fair to Clair. III.. 11 miles away. Gains Hall of Fame Glen Knabenshue,a successful land surveyor, is proud of his father and his contributions to aviation. And more so today because his father, now deceased, this year was chosen with eight others for enshrinements in the Aviation Hall of Fame ion Dayton, Ohio. Glen attended the enshrinement program on Dec. 16 in Dayton. At the ceremonies, he met James Stewarts, the actor who is an Air Force Reserve brigadier general; John Glenn, the astronaut: James Doolittle and Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker. The event was held on the Continued on Page 12 Keep Vehicles on Road in Area of Dam [[story located in bottom center of page]] Valley police officials have issued a reminder that it is illegal to take vehicles of any kind off the public roads in the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area. Officers have cited many persons in cars and on motorcycles and bicycles in the fields and on the bridle trails in the area of the flood control dam. Persons were reminded that if anyone should be injured on any of the trails or in the fields he could lie there for hours, and maybe days, before being discovered. Urge More Funds for Aid to Alcoholic [[right column story]] County Board of Supervisors yesterday were advised to seek an additional $741,388 in state funds next year for a stepped up program of aid to the county's estimate 30[[cut off]] alcoholics. The extended plan, [[calls?]] for expenditure of $3,176.8[[cut off]] 1966-67, was prepared to [[cut off]] -fy for new aid available under a bill passed this year by legislature. Expenditure Possible County Chief Administration Officer Lindon S. Hollings explained that the McAteer Rumford-Marks Act provides extra money for local programs designed to prevent and treat and control alcoholism. This will make it possible he said, to expand the current expenditures of $2,435.42 [[cut off]] the county, the cities of [[cut off]] Beach and Pasadena and private agencies. Key programs planned directly by the county include 1 - $252,724 for establishment of an acute detoxification ward at County General Hospital for treatment withdrawal symptoms such as delirium tremens as alcoholics are sobered up. Screen Alcoholics 2 - $92,244 for upgrading liver service for alcoholic cirrhosis patients at John W[[cut off]] Hospital. 3 - $44,380 for more [[cut off]] workers to screen alcoholics brought to Municipal Court [[in]] line with a program to Continued on Page [[cut off]]
