Newspaper Index- Indiana State Library, 140 North Senate Avenue,
                   Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296, 317-232-3675, 232-3728 FAX
                   Data furnished by Pamela Wasmer, Reference Librarian

           Newspaper references to:  ROSCOE TURNER


  Proposes $100,000 hangar, aviation school at airport
                                          Star    6-20-40  p.5.c.3
  Officer of aircraft firm in Los Angeles.
                                          Star    6-26-40  p.11.c.6
  Lease at Municipal airport o.k.'d.
                                          Star    7-4-40   p.1.c.2
  Injured in auto accident
                                          Star    7-22-40  p.1.c.7
  Article on by Ernie Pyle
                                          Times   7-26-40  p.14.c.1
  Elected president of third region Civil Pilot
          Training Association            Star    11-19-40 p.8.c.7
  Content to let Wilbur Shaw have racing laurels
                                          Star    11-24-40 pt.1.p.16.c.
  To assist I.U. CAA training
                                          News    2-25-41  pt.1.p.4.c.2
  Appointed to American Legion National Aeronautics
          Commission.                     Star    12-14-42 p.26.c.2
  Weekly Aviation features in leading U.S.
          Sunday papers. First.           Star    6-20-43  pt.1.p.17.c.
  Visualizes postwar aviation
                                          Star    7-25-43  p.15.c.3
  Asset to city air development.  In aviation
          planning series of articles.    News    7-3-44   pt.2.p.1.c.6
  Wife sues for divorce in Los Angeles, California
                                          Star    8-21-45  p.18.c.1
  Remains as head of National Aviation Trades
          association.                    News    10-23-45 pt.2.p.1.c.8
  To wed Sheridan girl report
                                          Star    12-12-46 p.12.c.4
  Col. Turner takes bride in New York
                                          Star    12-14-46 p.5.c.5
  Awarded honorary life membership in National
          Aeronautic Association          Star    2-15-49  p.13.c.4
  Tells why he likes living in Indianapolis
          in December "Pageant Magazine." News    11-8-49  p.24.c.1
  Sketch of
                                          Star    10-1-50  p.32
  Bill in Congress to award him Distinguished
          Flying Cross for contributions to
          aeronautics as aviation pioneer Star    3-22-52  p.15.c.6
  Indianapolis aviator to receive Distinguished
          Flying Cross                    Star    6-12-52  p.2.c.8
  Announces new pension plan for employees
          of Roscoe Turner Aeronautical
          Corporation                     Star    7-9-52   p.26.c.4
  To receive Distinguished Flying Cross for
          contributions toward advancement
          of aerial flight                Star    8-14-52  p.15.c.1
  Takes to Smithsonian Institute plane he
          flew 18 years ago               Times   7-17-53  p.2.c.1
  Returns to Indianapolis after receiving
          award in Vienna                 Star    5-21-56  p.1.c.1
  Represents Indianapolis on first jet
          transcontinental flight on American
          Airlines                        Star    1-26-59  p.21.c.6
  Appointed consultant to U.S. House of
          Representatives Commission on Science
          and Astronautics                News    7-1-60   p.13.c.1
  Speaks at dedication of airstrip named for
          him at the Shades State Park    Star    9-19-60  p.17.c.3
  Speaks at dedication of new airport in his home
          town Corinth, Mississippi.  Airport
          named for him                   News    4-4-61   p.10.c.5
  Attributes success to parents.  Sketch
                                          Times   7-27-62  p.13.c.3
  "Executive profile" of former air racer and
          Indianapolis aviation firm executive
                                          News    1-21-63  p.22.c.1
  Indianapolis business man and civic leader
          was one of most colorful aviators of
          3 decades ago                   News    2-19-63  p.4.c.5
  Subject of article in American Legion Magazine.
          Editorial comment               News    11-9-63  p.8.c.1
  Celebrating 25th year in business in
          Indianapolis                    Star    7-11-64  p.9.c.4
  Aeronautical Corp. is successful operation
                                          Star    7-14-65  p.30.c.1
  Sues over "bogus colonel" allegation
                                          Star    3-22-68  p.30.c.1
  Plans aviation museum at Weir Cook Airport
                                          Star    6-27-68  p.51.c.1
  Made honorary member of Wings Club
                                          Star    12-23-68 p.24.c.3
  To receive 11th District, American Legion
          "Distinguished Citizen of the Year"
          award                           Star    2-2-69   sec.1.p.22.c.1
  Indpls. aviation pioneer gives views on
          Apollo 11                       Star    7-22-69  p.4B.c.1
  Indpls. Aero Club to honor Turner -
          Astronaut Gordon Cooper to
          speak                           Star    9-4-69   p.7.c.2
  Astronaut Gordon Cooper speaks at tribute
          dinner to aviator- Bronze bust
          fiven to Weir Cook Airport      News    9-10-69  p.65.c.3
  Col. Roscoe Turner donates his stuffed
          lion, Gilmore to the Roscoe
          Turner Museum at Weir Cook
          Airport                         Star    10-12-69 sec.2.p.1.c.4
  Given set of sterling silver Medallions
          by Trans World Airlines         Star    12-5-69  p.24.c.1
  Famed aviator, businessman and patriot
          dies                            Star    6-24-70  p.1.c.1
  Funeral rites attended by famous air
          figures                         Star    6-26-70  p.21.c.1
  Finishing touches being applied to museum
          at Weir Cook.  Dedication to be
          September 29.  Description,
          pictures                        Star    9-17-70  p.36.c.1
  Museum honoring aviator opens at Weir
          Cook Municipal Airport          News    9-29-70  p.33.c.5
                                          Star    9-30-70  p.18.c.3
  Roscoe Turner Memorial Scholarship to be
          established at Purdue University
          by International order of Characters
          (IOC) a group of aerospace
          enthusiasts                     Star    5-29-71  p.51.c.3
  Flyer did much to advertise aviation
          Sesquicentennial Edition        Star    11-7-71  sec.B.p.14.c.1
  Smithsonian Institute interested in two
          airplanes flown by Turner       News    9-14-72  p.49.c.3
  Museum showing aviation items owned by
          Turner to close and contents to
          be shipped to Smithsonian
          Institution                     Star    11-23-72 p.1.c.1
  Westside home now owned by Mr. & Mrs.
          George H. Keller                Star    11-27-74 p.9.c.1
  Late Hoosier aviation pioneer to be
          enshrined in Aviation Hall of
          Fame in Dayton, Ohio,
          November 22                     News    10-21-75 p.19.c.2
  Smithsonian Institution features Turner
          items in display. Brief mention News    5-24-78  p.61.c.1





          Data transcribed by:   Milton Sandy, Jr.  June 21, 1994