The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 4, 1953, Page 12

a grass fire yesterday and died “Follow The Sun” Is Story Of A Creat Colfer pres ae a Hale, = tds sacs “ Cent aoe |_In “Follow The Sun” the screen of Valerie Hogan in the fm would home town Fort Worth, Texas, tolne sat dows in @ hele, lit a cies sree he Seale as “Probably acci- profile of golfer Ben Hogan com- be as exact a characterization as Nigara Falls, Canada, with stops ’ jental Smathers Plans To Renew Efforts To Gain Establishment Of AF Academy In Florida = a's ssi 's.ttta So fat. "thn Cotta a eet oy Se name vn. ta GH ame ition and!between them. To travel across the brought to the screen ‘the most wood’s golfers, fitted perfectly into. The story for “Follow The Sun”! Lists First Key ao. woe lo peieaeraen air bay by boat or around by land con- dramatic sports event of the last his role of a breezy, tournament was —— by Frederick Hazlett Pege 12 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN West To Havana commerce centers.” jsumed nearly a full day. The Ben- os aes — i farsi me ~ — Hogan and = Brennan and Samuel G. Engle was, ‘ Ww the bay ne Baxter a is fe has a tem s romance with the producer. Airline As An Poceounge omg Senate magia gs ser apres Poe have the starring roles in this June Havoc in the role of a blonde, | Aviation Advance jae : ise the feat of shortening travei distance, heart-warming story which Direc- socialite who basked in the refiect-| Only three pitchers who began| | . bees ee the |While’ greatly accelerating the tor Sidney Lanfield says could just'ed glory of the golf champions. the 1951 season with Cincinnati are MIAMI — Senator George Sma-| foresight to ot \speed of travel, has been an out-/@3 well have been titled: “The real. For background scenes, special still with the Redlegs — Ken Raf. thers traced Fiorida’s historic role! ‘space world’ gars which standing advantage of air trans- life love story of two kids from camera units were sent to all parts fensberger, Herm Wehmieer and as center ot international aviation’ is se rest te our = perigee portation. Texas.” June Havoc heads the of the United States from Hogan’s Frank Smith. ia an address last! the comic str Speco Cadets | Proof of the foresightedness of imPressive supporting cast of 29,————— Soo from (the people of Miami can be shown players not counting the dozen golf : , headed by Sammy Snead, Proof wf. the foresightedness of Ticiine Trmavet and 5 Friday, December 4, 1953 ips, the be Academy in the heart of | “Miami Story” in aviation and the people of Miami can be shown Florida contribu- by their act of 1912. A tract of tion to aviation, Smathers said aiand, now occupied by the Miami ‘dynamic outlook” of forward-look- Springs Golf Course, was designat- tribute to Captain Eddie V.|ing Florida citizens had a great ed as an airport. This is reported ~ ‘he Wet War Ideal to do with forming “receptive to be one of the first established one of the/attitudes and a sense of air-mind- airports ir the United States. poplar ste an exercise in legal seman- WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Children’s TOYS COME TO THE TROPICAL TRADER | TW Duval St. Dial 2.6262 Middlecoff, who, add their skill to making “Follow The Sun” a thrill- ing saga. Six weeks before the piccture went before the cameras Hogan, who gave up his tournament play to be a special consultant on the Cary} . cae ha hmerica- He cited three, During the first Werle Wer, production of his life story, took contributing ev: roan - aS military activities im aviation | Ford under his tutelage in prepara- id poet Sg generally overshadowed Be tion for one of the most exacting} , & #? ‘roles any Hollywood actor has had On pthgen ne | the close of the war, interest in in years. Every day the pair prac- in the Kissimmee Valley, eivilion flying wes revived. On jticed Ford in Hogan’s accurate) ‘a proposed ordinance for, November 1, 1920 the nation’s ‘style in golf. During this interval, | the regulation of aircraft. The pro- first international airline was |anne Baxter spent much time with | |posed ordinanc: * erh | formed, Known as Aeromarine |Mrs, Hogan so that ner portrayal| fe was Perhaps 85 Airways, Inc., the line operated | | 1 ; "| between Key West and Havana. |would form a 20-foot highway from ae LE i maago org ner _Florida’s contribution tc the car-Fjorida to Alaska. at spread use of the airplane by many “@8¢ Of international mail by air’ Eastern Airlines closed out its years. The Kissimmee ordinance 1% significant. Col. Lazarus Te- period of service with the Military) was published more than a year ported that the first sucn flight oc-\Transport Division in October | before the first reported flight “UFTed on October 28, 1927 when 1945. The record indicates that! imade in Florida. oti sary escaped HM aged Eastern flew 200 million miles car-| - offici ween Meacham Fieid, Key West rying a total of 125,000 passengers Ste er be, tn eect ay eee Havana Of greater signific-\anq 60 million pounds of cargo. Inance, and Kissimmee itself, re.\2¢¢ was the Foreign Air Mail Rastern, like Florida, made its, ceived attention from cities all/Act of 1928. Of the seven mail weight felt during the war years.| lover the country and from abroad, Toutes authorized to the Caribbean) The report showed that for the/ Commenting on the wide publicity 294. Latin American areas, five period from June 1946 to June 1947 resulting from publication of the riginated in the United States.! total of 29,917 people had been document, Col. William Lazarus re-|Four of these terminals were indirectly employed in Aviation, } ‘a |Florida. |while an additional 33,356 persons Ported that it “became the basis hd | ‘of international treaties; its repro. duction is a matter of official re- cord in the archives of nations and its provisions have been fully ac- credited as an outstanding piece of wisdom and foresight by dis- tinguished scholars, diplomats, and journalists.” Some of the early ventures in were associated with the field, such |as students and personal pilots. \The payroll for all aviation activi- commercial flying in Florida were not successful, although each made some contribution to aviation. Some, however, have been successful. Two notable ex- amples are the water flying base at Biscayne Bay, operated by Another event which was help-| A. B. Chalk, and the land base ing to condition the minds of Flo-| at Jacksonville, operated by Lau- ridians to the new mode of travel| rie Yonge. Both gentlemen com- came about in 1912. This-was the! menced operation in the early first West-to-East transcontinental, 1920's and have continued suc- unsuccessful attempt to capture powered airplane. The flight be- eBlack Suede|October 11,.1911 and ended at eBlack Calf (Jacksonville on February 2, 1912, eGreen Calf |The flight impressed many people with the future possibilities of air transportation. The establishments of the Na- val Air Station at Pensacola dur- Ing the winter of 1913-1914 was another event which helped the people uf Florida to adjust them- selves quickly to the concept of flying. The Naval facility at Pen- sacola became a permanent air station and exerted a rather strong influence, aviationwise, on the people of Florida, While plans were being formulat- ed for the establishment of the Pensacola Air Station, another Gracious performers at ever, flight performed by Robert W.; ; Fowler, Mr. Fowler’s flight was an, Another important aviation mile- ida. cessfully through the years. stone in Florida which occurred the William Randolph Hearst prize|at this time was the organization cording to the survey, the sche- ‘Lj \for the first coast-to-cost trip by of the Florida Airways Corporation, |duled airlines employed 10,289 per- The organizers were Reed Cham- gan at Pasandena, California on bers, Eddie Rickenbacker, W. A.feports indicated that the lines Robertson, and Edward Hart. Florida Airways is given the dis- tinction of being the first schedul- ed line to fly the mail in Florida. 1926, Florida Airways flew the mail between Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville. Operation over the new Miami- ‘Atlanta route was begun on De- cember 1, 1928. On that day, Flor- ida was connected by air with New York and large intermediate points along the Eastern Seaboard. On March 1, 1929, Pitcairn ex- tona Beach, Orlando, and Tampa- | St. Petersburg. The new route from Atlanta to Florida totaled Beginning operations on April 1, 4 tended air mail service to Day- | thoes for every {ties in the State was reported at |nearly $81 million, Supplies bought \in Florida amounted to $89 million, |while indirect aviation revenues in |the State were estimated at $41 |million, Total expenditures within |Florida for the year came to about {$211 million. The total investment \was reported to be over $701 mil- lion. This is a clear indication of {the importance of aviation to Flor- It is interesting to note that, ac- sons in Florida during that period, with a payroll of $33 million. 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