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"The largest congregation of gliders and glider pilots ever assembled in the world." That's the way officials of the Second National Soaring Contest describe this year's show. Here are all the pilots and all the gliders. Those in the picture above are, left to right: Franklin K. Iszard, Albert E. Hastings, Loran Lake, William Chellis, Jim Weiberg, James Cramer, Sam Saidman, Gus Haller, Allen Rooke, Ray Buell, Arthur L. Lawrence, Arthur Schultz, Walter Snell, Leon Ryker, J. Sloat Fassett, 3d; Louis E. Ross, meet referee; Wallace Franklin, Warren E. Eaton, "Doc" Elliott, Capt. Russell B. Holderman, Bud Stickler, Martin Schempp, Mrs. R. B. Holderman, W. Hawley Bowlus, Captain Thomas Phillips, Robert Eaton, Lieut. Ralph S. Barnaby, Ralph Oliver, Mrs. R. S. Barnaby, Henry Hallett, Donald F. Walker, N.G.A. manager; Peter Altman, Mr. Ross is speaking in to the microphone for a news reel camera. Below are the 14 gliders in line at Elmira Airport.

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'Sidelights On Glider Meet'
Some airport visitors Tuesday,
were mystified by hearing pilots
ask "Where is Okeh?" At about the
moment some were perpared [[prepared]] to 
look under car seats and hunt their
pockets for the missing "Okeh" it
was explained that Mrs. Martha C.
Bevins, better known as Okeh 
Bevins, New York City glider pilot
was behind her announced schedule
in reaching Elmira. She is the pretty
wife of a popular powered plane
pilot and has a record of 55 minutes
of sustained flight at Warwick, N.
Y.
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"Not being able to attend the na-
tional glider and soaring meet in Elmira this year," writes C. S.
Jones, "I wish to subscribe to The
Star-Gazette." No, you guessed
wrong. This isn't C.S. (Casey)
Jones of New York, but Prof. C.S.
Jones, 721 South Church Street,
Hastings, Mich. He is connected
with the Board of Education of
Wyandotte, Mich.
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And speaking of Michigan-James 
Piersol, aviation editor of the De-
troit News, is expected here within
a few days in the News' Lockhead
plane with the staff photographer.
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The Scranton, Pa., Republican
on Monday published a three column cut of Elmira glider meet activities,
while the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Rec-
ord has been devoting much at-
tention to the contest. Between El-
mira College and the glider fans
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre boys
and girls are going to have Elmira 
fixed firmly in their minds. Not a
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rain. And is she charming? Fifty
glider pilots can't be wrong.
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"A. C. Haller's 'Haller-Hawk'
glider is now being demonstrated,"
boomed the loudspeaker at the air-
port and visitors marveled at the increase in power of the broadcast-
ing device. Wrong again. It was 
merely Donald F. Walker, manager 
of the N.G.A., at the microphone.
His deep bass voice carried across 
the big field like the report of a 
World War bombardment.
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Grant Meeker also did some nice
work at the Mike. And wasn't his little daughter surprised out of a
year's growth when she heard
Daddy call her name? She looked
all over for him and never guessed
he was parked on the hangar roof.
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In the Gorton tea room, Tuesday,
a popular Elmira matron was en-
tertaining a group of friends with a
recital of her experiences while in
New York on a vacation trip. "On
previous visits to the metropolis,"
she said, "people appeared some-
what dumb when I said my home is
in Elmira, but this year they smile
and remark, 'Oh, yes, the national
glider contest is being held there
in August.' New York newspapers
have been full of press dispatches
and special articles regarding the
event. It makes one feel good, when
away from home, to discover one's
place of abode is known to 
strangers."
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Two of the happiest men at the
airport, Sunday, Monday and Tues-
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[[heading]] 12 Boy Scouts 
Given Badges;
Ranks Raised [[/heading]]
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Merit badges or advanced rank
were conferred on 12 Boy Scouts
at a board of review of Elmira
troops held Tuesday night in the
City Hall.
R. P. McDowell presided as chair-
man of the board, assisted by Scout
Executive Arthur F. Baker, Julius
Berger, and H. A. Stoddard. Those
recommended for merit badges 
were Kenneth Crofutt, Troop 5;
Charles Bright, Troop 10; Jack Kin-
kaid, Troop 22; Edmund Gay, Troop
29; John Hounker, Troop 29; Her-
bert Aldrich, Troop 30; Emory
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[[heading]]ATHENS MAN INJURED [[/heading]]
Athens, Aug. 5-Arthur Shoe-
maker of 204 Hugh Street, Athens,
received a badly lacerated upper
left leg when a car wheel ran over him at the Lehigh Vallet yards this
morning. Shoemaker is a Lehigh
Valley carpenter. He is at the
Robert Packer Hospital.

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