Aviation fans and friends may attend a double-barreled treat, Thursday evening, March 11, providing they have two bucks to spare. The Warsaw Aero club's new president, Stanley "Wacky" Arnolt, has come through with the organization of one of those super deluxe eat-fests, complete with movies and a top-notch, nationally known speaker.

Without qualification, I assure you this speaker is interesting. Tickets are limited to 125 plates. In order to spread interest throughout the community, they will be sold to the public. Inasmuch as there are almost that many Aero club members, they are cautioned to speak quickly or forever hold their peace.

Engaged for this Thursday evening gold-plated aviation dinner, is Col. Clarence Cornish, aeronautics director of the state of Indiana, national president of state aviation officials, and an old-time pilot from way-back-when, who has his ideas in the clouds, but both feet firmly planted on solid airport earth.

Colonel Cornish is one of the youngest-looking, middle-aged men I know. From landing into many a setting-sun, from riding innumerable old-time open-cockpit jobs, and especially from his wonderful sense of dry-humor, he is marked by those typical tight little airmen's crows-feet at the twinkling corners of his sharp eyes.

Colonel Cornish has much too long a distinguished record for me to repeat here. It covers periods of two wars and those slap-happy days when he sold Waco's from cornfields. His history parallels that of aviation, for the colonel's career progressed with flying from the barn-storming days until he became manager of that busy middle-western air terminal, Smith Field, at Fort Wayne.

Colonel Cornish is known and liked in aviation circles from Texas to Washington, D. C. and the state of Indiana is lucky to have him.

The Warsaw Aero club feels that it is unusually fortunate in being able to make the colonel's air-wise words available to all who want to listen in our town.

He has never spoken publicly in Warsaw before and I know that you will enjoy hearing him. He is also bringing some excellent, illustrative movies. If you really want to know what's cooking on the front burner of aviation, grab a ticket and attend the aviation dinner, March 11.

Colonel Cornish will be backed-up at the meeting by the local member of the state aeronautics commission, Morrison Rockhill-and you know that things can't be dull when Morrison is around. Between these two fellows, I believe they know as much about what is actually going to happen in this all-important field as any two aviation-minded people in the nation. Both have information sources very close to the proverbial horse's mouth.

Tickets may be had by contacting Tay Hess, Jack Doswell, Bill Mollenhour or Carlin Airways, Strauss Skyways or Lowman's Flying Service.

The dinner will be at the Hotel Hays and I cannot urge you too strongly to be among the fortunate 125 persons to hear the inside of this highly-controversial picture of aviation today.

Warsaw Daily Times, Wed. Mar. 3, 1948