Volume 17 , Issue 35

(December 1945) Alva Man To Head Flying Farmers

According to the 1945, December 13, news article that appeared in "The Ada Weekly News," page seven, via Stillwater, Oklahoma, December 11, 1945, there was this clipping concerning an "Alva Man To Head Flying Farmers."

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Stillwater, Okla., Dec. 11 (1945) -- Gene McGill, Alva, would head the national flying farmers association.

McGill was elected yesterday (10 Dec. 1945) by Oklahoma flying farmers preparing to incorporate and expand the group on a nationwide basis. McGill said the first organization work probably would be done in Kansas and Texas.

Forrest Watson, Thomas, president of the Oklahoma group, was named to the national board of directors. Arvid Temple, Buffalo, was named vice president of the nation association. Other national officers" R. M. Irvin, Woodward, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Todd Davis, Minco, and Cecil Neville, Chickasha, directors.

Three places on the board of directors were left open. Other state joining the association would elect officers to fill them. The group's first national convention would be held in Stillwater, the first week of August.
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