You may have seen these photos in the header area before, but they need to be posted to preserve them and to provide access to them at any time.TOP: Boy Scouts from Troop 33, Baldwyn preparing for a long truck ride to a campout, I believe at Camp Yocona. David Gentry on fender; L-R Wallis Nelson and Herb Spivey, Grover Thomas, Tom Shellnut, Win Johnson and his dad, Scoutmaster Edwin Johnson. In truck is John Allen Lampkin behind Larry Johnson (tipping hat), Henry Outlaw, Ted Love, Charles Weatherford, and Phil Gorden. M. Gorden was lending the company truck.
CENTER: Clockwise - Rachel Christian, Opal Stovall, Carl Houston, and Becky Christian(?). I believe that is correct, and that was made about 1951-52. Need an ID on the toddler in front of Rachel and any correction if these are wrong, please.
Photo made looking North on West Main street, now Ripley Road. It appears to be near the Easter season and baskets with eggs are being held by some.
BOTTOM: Carl Houston (left) and Arch (Duke A.) Young pre-flight checking the Young's 1947 Cessna 140. Made at the South end of the old grass airstrip looking East.
It is (and I guess, was) a felony to use an aircraft for illegal acts, but we didn't realize that while using it to fly around Twenty-mile canal finding watermelon patches to raid at night and to map out the best getaway roads....
We didn't do that now, did we, guys?
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Top photo courtesy of Wallis Nelson. Others from my collection.
This is just a guess, but could the toddler be Becky Christian and the one with curls be Peggy Stovall..Opal Dean's younger sister?
ReplyDeleteglo, the family favor shown in the photo seems to dictate you are correct
ReplyDeleteLooks like that to me too Glo.
ReplyDeleteCark, is that the boy scout hut and 1st Baptist church in the background?
ReplyDeleteHow many kids flew airplanes in 1955 in Baldwyn??
ReplyDeleteCark, is that the boy scout hut and 1st Baptist church in the background?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is.
Didn't Melvin Duke and his parents have and fly an airplane in the 1950's? Seems that I saw his mother flying a yellow (maybe another color?) small plane at the Baldwyn airport several times?
ReplyDeleteMe!!!! A watermelon thief??? Never!!!
ReplyDeleteI have often wondered how many guys from Troop 33 possibly attained the Eagle Scout Rank. I think Phil may have, does anyone know if he did and any others that may have?
ReplyDeleteI certainly never came close, no further than Star.
I believe that Wallis Patch or some such got an Eagle award.
ReplyDeleteCarl, some of the guys are seemingly non=commital about the watermelon capers, but they indeed happened!
ReplyDeleteWe didn't think of it as anything but funny at the time; a "rights of passage" thing...
Someone, I believe David G in California wrote about a raid once that went very bad, but I can't remember the details.
TO ANON APRIL 28--YES WE SPENT MANY GOOD TIMES AT THE OLE GRASS STRIP--MOSTLY SUNDAYS--MY MOM AND DAD BOTH FLEW AND YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT THE PLANE-- IT WAS THE ARONICA CHAMP -- MOSTLY YELLOW WITH A RED TEAR DROP ON THE LOWER FUSELAGE--THIS BRINGS BACK MANY HAPPY MEMORIES--
ReplyDeleteJOHN MELVIN
By the way - That is me, Dave Johnson, with my dad, scoutmaster Ed Johnson. Winn was my older brother.
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