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Soaring (not WAR..ing) in 1940's Hattie Meyers Junkin
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glider distance bet' Wichita Falls, Texas and Oklahoma City, Okla. Lucretia Buxton and Dick Essary flew it.
  There are International Recods like:
O.KLIPIKOVA, U.S.S.R. 465,532 airline miles distance;
U.S.S.R. 374, 287 miles pre-dtermined goal distance
U.S.S.R. 217, 738 miles distance with return to point of take-off.
Erwin Ziller, Germany altitude...22,434,338
Kurt Schmidt " duration..35 hrs. 35 minutes
United States records at this writing (1939)
Woodridge P. Browns...Airline distance 263 miles
Robert M. Stanley..Altitude 17,263,763 ft.
Lt. Wm. Cocke Jr...Army Aircorps duration..21 hr. 14 min.
   Many factions are alive to Soaring. The Army and Coast patrol sent officers to Elmira, last yr. to observe Soaring with its potentials in Army Corps training. Alt Attache Capt. Robert Losey one of them. Having seen the Army Signal Corps War One start on Jennies and "Ye Pig, the castor oil throwing Standard, trained to avoid mountains trees, now the Army planes on Harris Hill. Even an Army amphibian! Lt. Col. Robert Olds, 1939 who headed the Round the World Good Will Tour; C.A.A. Inspector in a WACO cabin both wanting to meet me, Mrs.Buck Weaver on Mrs.WACO. My world again!
  at the Meet 1938, the C.A.A put twenty students thru Soaring training. I had taken Mrs.Eleanor Roosevelt in on herlilineage not as President's wife as a member of the National League of American Pen Women. After my Soaring publicity and Aviation hostess as Mrs.Junkin after 1934, she aided by letters bet' us to get the President active to start^Govt. teaching flying^by glider training first in both Army and like the Navy was doing, especially at Pensacola, Fla.