The Weekly Corinthian, Vol. XXXXI #43, Thursday, Oct. 22, 1936
  p. 6, c. 7.

  HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTS -
  Friday's Daily

  State Senator Arthur Shook and Mayor Candler commented with
  thankfuness [sic] last night at the conclusion of the
  ceremonies upon the smoothness with which events transpired
  during the day.  Mayor Candler had checked with various
  departments of the city government and all reported "No
  trouble or disturbances of any kind."

  *****

  Perhaps the threat of rain had something to do with Col. J.
  Carroll Cone's failure to appear at the banquet last night
  where he was to have been the featured speaker.  Traveling
  by plane he might have missed his daughter's wedding that
  week-end if rain had made the airport unsuitable for taking-
  off that morning.

  ***

  The rain was no threat to the aviators who came here with Al
  Gardner to carry passengers, however.  "We prayed for fair
  weather so the ceremonies could be held and now since the
  rain held up until the very moment they were finished we
  don't care if it rains for days and days," some of the
  airmen said last night, while attending the dance at the
  high  school building.

  *****

  No wonder Roscoe Turner chokes up with emotion and has a
  hard time talking when referring to his wife's unwavering
  courage in a speech.  When a man leaves on numerous flights
  traveling as fast as any human being has ever traveled and
  not knowing whether he ever will see the face he loves
  again, the mental picture of that face, set with
  determination to prove no barrier to her husband at his
  work, is bound to appear on those hazardous flights.  Have
  you ever faced danger and later remembered in startling
  detail the vivid impressions that were graved upon your mind
  during the exxperiences [sic]."

  ****

  Roscoe Turner says there were only about three men who gave
  him any encouragement when he was learning to fly on Charlie
  Surratt's field in a rickety old plane.  His father objected
  because he loved his boy and wanted to save his life.
  Others told him every day that he would probably fall
  tomorrow.  "All of that advice sort of bore down on me then,
  and still does when I'm starting a speed flight and people
  remind me of the danger."

  ****

  To all people who may have believed Corinth's mayor is
  getting old he gave a very effective denial yesterday.
  After making two ripping speeches, with plenty of lively
  gestures in the manner of an Old Southern orator, Mayor
  Candler darted around the floor at the dance,  introducing
  visitors and putting plenty of life into the crowning event
  in a very full Homecoming day.

  More than that he and his lovely white-haired wife stayed
  quite as late as many of the younger people.

  ****

  Around 250 people attended the Homecoming day banquet, which
  was prepared for the Chamber of Commerce by Hillman Mathis."


  The Weekly Corinthian, XXXXI #43, Thurs., Oct. 22, 1936:
  p. 7, c. 1 -

  FLYERS BACK
          IN CHICAGO
                  AS HOLIDAY ENDS
          ----------------
          Still glowing inwardly at the tribute paid him by his home town,
  Col. Roscoe Turner nosed his powerful Lockheed Express off the Turner
  airport shortly after noon Sunday and headed back to Chicago,
  headquarters of the National Safety Council, for whom he and other
  notables of aviation and the track have been making a series of
  educational tours.

          Well might the Colonel beam with satisfaction.  He had just
  received the plaudits of the governor of his native state and the
  governor-elect of the state in which he lived in childhood, a big ovation
  from thousands of visitors who had come to Corinth principally because of
  his Homecoming.  And besides, he was heading back to the city where he
  had only recently signed a contract with the National Broadcasting
  Company which leaves him  "comfortably fixed" for some time to come.

          Fred Key, the Meridian world champion endurance flyer, who with
  Lew Meyers, Indianapolis speed champion and the only winner of that title
  for three years in succession, is on the safety tour with Colonel Turner,
  was his companion on the trip back to Chicago.  Fred Key returned here
  form Meridian Sunday to join his famous fellow Mississippian.

          Asked whether his new radio work, which begins Nov. 15, will
  interfere with his career as a speed pilot, Col. Turner explained that he
  will continue in the work that has brought him fame and contributed much
  to the engineer's knowledge of airplanes and how they work  under
  conditions that put them through real tests.

          He explained that his broadcasts of the program "Flying Time," on
  the NBC Red Network, consists of two 15 minute educational programs every
  evening, one for the Pacific Coast, and intervening stations.

          The flyer was in doubt as to which stations using the program
  would be received in Corinth, but explained that "Flying Time" will
  broadcast from WMAQ, Chicago, beginning at 5 o'clock and 5:45 o'clock,
  Corinth time, on every day except Saturday and Sunday.

          Colonel Turner  heads  the program and probably will spend
  additional time attending to details of the arrangement, but will not
  discontinue his efforts to set new records in the national speed races..

          Colonel Turner was forced to leave the city without "taking for a
  ride" the winners of the button sales contest, whom the Chamber of
  Commerce had been promised a trip for a reward.  The ride was postponed
  on account of the wet condition of the grounds, which forced Colonel
  Turner to keep his plane on the ground after the first day of activities.

          Secretary McEachern said how ever, that Col. Turner, with some
  spare time on his hands after he begins his radio contract next month is
  expected to make several week-end trips to Corinth during the rides will
  be taken on some the construction of the airport and of those occasions.

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