Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 37, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 August 1949 — FLYING FARMERS OF PRAIRIE FARMERLAND CONVENE AT GLENVIEW [ARTICLE]

FLYING FARMERS OF PRAIRIE FARMERLAND CONVENE AT GLENVIEW

With the United States Navy as host, 571 Flying Farmers of Prairie Farmerland gathered at the Naval Air Station at Glenview, Illinois, Monday, August 8, for the fourth annual Field Day sponsored by Prairie Farmer-WLS. L. Keyon Wycoff of Valparaiso, Indiana, newly-elected president, spoke on Dinner Bell, which was broadcast direct from the event, with Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers entertaining. Other speakers included John Kime, Illinois president from Kansas, Illinois, and Ralph Haynes, Indiana plesident, from Swayzee, Indiana, and Rear Admiral Austin K. Doyle, Chief of U. S. Naval Air Reserve Training. An invitation was read from Governor Henry Schricker of Indiana, backed by other Indiana officials, inviting the Flying Farmers to return in 1950 to Purdue Airport at Lafayette, Indiana, where the first Flying Farmer Field Day was held in 1946. Specially interesting to the more than 2,000 people at the Naval Base was a demonstration of five McDonnell FH-1 Jet Phantoms presented by the official Marine Flight Exhibition Team. According to Bill Renshaw, Indiana Field Editor of Prairie Farmer-WLS, who was in general charge of arrangements for the day, a new record was set on take-offs with 484 Flying Farmer planes taking off in one hour. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Cheever and daughter Carol, Mr. Neil Kaper and Mr. Elb Cheever from DeMotte flew to the Flying Farmers field day program.