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MIRA STAR-GAZETTE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1930.
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Opens [[Cut off]] With Thrilling Flights 
Scenes and Personages at Opening of National Glider Meet In Elmira.

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Events and prominent people at the opening of the National Glider Contests are graphically pictured above as caught by The Star-Gazette camera. At the upper left is shown Wolf Hirth's glider as it appeared in flight over South Mountain.  Mr. Hirth in the cockpit of the craft is shown in the oval inset.  Donald F. Walker (left), manager of the National Glider Association and Edward P. Warner, editor of Aviation, are pictured at the upper right.  Leading pilots and aviation authorities at the meet are in the group at the lower left.  They are: left to right, Dr. Wolfgang Klemperer, Louis F. Ross, flight referee; Lieutenant Edward  ' Allen, Jack O'Mears, Albert Hastings and Mr. Walker.  Mr. Allen who flew a glider in Sunday's meet is shown speaking with Dr. Klemperer in the right center photo.  Mrs. Ross, wife of the referee and first woman glider pilot in Cleveland, O., is shown at the bottotm right with Mrs. Ralph S. Barnaby, wife of Lieutenant Barnaby, first man to make a glider fly from a dirigible.


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arranged and that the flyers might take off at daybreak, conditions warranting.
  At 9 a. m., a dead calm prevailed and the contest was postponed until 11 a. m. Several pilots made a tour of the series of fields to find nothing stirring, not even the wind.  Some spectators brought lunches and cooked them beside the fields.
  It was not until 2 p. m. that pilots went to the hills with their machines.  When these were set up, down went the wind and it was decided to move to South Mountain.
  At one time officials fixed Sullivan's Monument Hill as an ideal spot nd [[and]] many motored to the park.
  Wolf Hirth, the German youth who might be termed the "Lindbergh of Gliding," gave a thrill to several thousands at the airport when he cruised about after


Jurors Summoned For Trial Duty In County Court

Trial jurors to serve during the October term of Chemung County Court were drawn Saturday in the office of the county clerk. Thirty-six men, residents of the county, are ordered to report to the Court House, Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 10 a. m. They are as follows:
  Selaer E. Ayers, 807 Winsor Avenue; LaVern Baker, Wellsburg; Charles W. Bennett, 709 Laurel Street; Ernest H. Benson, jr., 315 Glen Avenue; William Brown, 209 West Third Street.
  Wilbur W. Carey, 232 East LaFrance Steet; Percy A. Chapman, 214 West Eighth Street; William H. Cleveland, Breesport, R. D. 1; Thaddeus O. Crandall, Lowman, R. D. 1; Earl L. Crittenden, 119 Grand View Avenue; John M. Denson,

Street; Allan B. Hill, 314 Broadway; Adelbert Hodge, 522 Herrick Street; Paul G. Hood, 755 Spruce

ard, 570 Cypress Street; James H. Roberts, Lowman, R. D. 1.
  George H. Scott, 366 1/2 West


How to Reach the Starting Points

No. 1  Sullivan's Monument Park.
No. 2  Smith-May Farm, Jerusalem Hill Road. Take first road right 
       opposite school house top of hill.
No. 3  Field midway between Jerusalem Hill road and Watercure hill 
       road on cinder road running along crest of Jerusalem Hill.
No. 3-X Same road field near junction of Watercure Hill road and 
        cinder road on William Gregg farm. 
No. 4  Carr's hill northwest of Horseheads-take Wtkins road, 
       turning to left on dirt road just beyond quarry, follow 
       dirt road one mile.
No. 5  On Corning road, beyond Big Flats turn left one mile west 
       of Big Flats on back road to Corning, cross bridge first 
       road to left after crossing bridge.
No. 6  Same as No. 7, follow past barn same as in No. 7, take 
       first turn right then turn left twice and next road to 
       right.
No. 7  Coleman Ave., Hill to O. E. Boyd farm at cross-roads turn 
       in at barn and follow lane. 
No. 8-South Creek road toward Troy, take first left hand road 
      beyond underpass, up Sought Mountain follow to Walsh farm.
  Glider take-off points will be marked within a radius of three miles from main highway. Watch for signs. Glider contests depend upon prevailing wind for location of starting point. 

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