Section of tfie Salem g{g,ws raf e trip s r e ent orrow' s ham radio contacts have spanned globe over the years By Dale E. Shaffer By Lois Firestone NE OF THE BIGGEST IS FIRST TRANSMITTER 0 stories of 1929 was the H was patched together trip around the world made by from a Ford automobile spark Germany's huge.Graf Zeppelin. coil and a Galena crystal detec­ For 21 days in August, the big tor - with this primitive airship circled the globe. It left invention, he communicated Lakehurst, N.J. on Aug. 8 and the 30 miles from his Salineville returned there on Aug. 29. home to Salem. That was in When it arrived in Los 1921, and now, six decades Angeles from Japan, it was later, George Morrow's hobby received with a tumultuous as a ham radio operator has welcome of factory whistles, become an integral part of his auto horns and shouts. Navy life. planes escorted it in. At 84, George spends hours On the trip from Los Angeles every day talking to the world. to Lakehurst, the Graf passed His base is in an upstairs bed­ within. four miles of Salem. room of his New Philadelphia Residents were accustomed to home - he and his wife, Laura seeing Goodyear blimps fly left the area and moved there George Morrow sits at his htJ.m radio operation in his New Philadelpb.ia home. George was in over town when traveling to 17 years ago. Close at hand are touch with the Graf Zeppelin when it was five hours out of Tokyu in 1929. Lakehurst. But the Graf Zeppe­ the 55 log books he's filled with lin was something special. the names and numbers of the Radio Relay League. His status, One card he's saved tor over and.he said he would. Over the While most of Salem slept, more than 55,000 ham contacts shared by only 121 other opera­ 60 years is probably his most next few months when the shortly after midnight of Aug. he's made since he first got his tors, was presented along with prized - it's one he received in Byrd expedition couldn't reach 28, the lighted dirigible flew amateur operator's license on a plaque in October 1991. DX is 1929 from a Britisher, Ford the Times receiving station, directly over Mrs. E. S. Tweed­ Oct. 7, 1921. the radio designation for dis- Smith, an amateur radio opera- - George helped out again. dale's house north of the city. George's equipment includes tance - to rare or semi-rare tor airing from a remote out- He was . in touch with the She had returned late from the a Kenwood 800 transformer, an spots in the world. post on Ascension Island in the Graf Zeppelin when it w~ five Cleveland air races, and was amplifier and a 37-foot, three George has contacted DX South Atlantic. When he made hours out of Tokyo - this was awakened shortly after retiring element, three band Yagi direc- operators in 323 countries and radio contact v;ith Smith on in 1929 when he was operating by the hum of the motors. tional antenna - it's mediocre has collected dozens of con­ Aug. 21, 1929, it was a first: the his ~tation in Washin&tonville. The Graf Zeppelin coined a by today's standards, he says. firming postcards over the first radio operation ever from Previously he had ~ame~ on a new slogan for history - Known to fellow ham opera- years from, for instance, Honia­ the island. tw.o-way c

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By Sue Leeman She included whimsical ink exploits. Associated Press drawings of the little creatures "The Tale of '' and of Mr. McGregor, the far­ has sold more· than 10 million E'S THE DESPAIR OF mer who lost his lettuce and copies in the United States H his mother, a sneak thief his temper because of the glut­ alone and hqs been reprinted with a huge appetite for contra­ tonous Peter. more than 250 times. Potter band vegetables and a naughty Noel's letter became "The books have been translated into habit of losing his clothes. But Tale of Peter Rabbit," the first over 20 languages, including to millions of children, Peter is of 23 tales which Japanese and Afrikaans, and the world's most popular have endeared children of all Beatrix Potter memorabilia is a rabbit. ages from Tokyo to Turin and multimillion-dollar industry. At 100, he's the oldest, too. Tacoma. The little books, inspired by ''My dear Noel," wrote his Generations of small readers her love of animals, gave Potter creator, Beatrix Potter, to a sick have wondered breathlessly the weal th to preserve large young friend on Sept. 4, 1893, whether Mrs. McGregor will tracts of the . But This is a scene from ' and Benjamin "I don't know what to write to get to put the cheeky Peter in a her fame has added to the tour­ you, so I shall tell you a story Bunny,' one of a new six-part animated series that premiered pie, marveled at the dexterity ist flood which threatens the on the Family Channel this spring. about four little rabbits whose of hedgehog washerwoman fabric of the fells. names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and gasped Seventy thousand tourists mother, a rather remote Cottontail and Peter. " From an early age, Potter at Squirrel Nutkin's maritime come each year to Hill Top, woman. Beatrix's only sibling, kept a menagerie of pets, Potter's tiny house in Near her brother, Bertram, was six Sawrey village in England, to years younger. including a hedgehog called see the room filled with per­ Summer vacations spent at a Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and mice sonal treasures where the wri­ house amid woods on the River Hunca Munca and Torn ter created many of her tales. Tay near Dunkeld, Scotland, Thumb. She also had a rabbit Climbers follow her footsteps were an important influence. named Peter, a natural subject across the rugged, pristine "The woods were peopled by for her letter to Noel Moore, peaks around Near Sawrey to the mysterious good folk," the son of her former enjoy some of the 4,000 acres of enthused Potter in her journal. governess. land that was her legacy to the "The Lords and Ladies of the Publishers were slow to spot nation. last century walked with me Peter's commercial value and Plump Herdwick sheep graz­ along the overgrown paths, in December 1901, the author ing the high fells testify to her and picked the old-fashioned published 250 copies of "The work in building up stocks of flowers among the box and Tale of Peter Rabbit'' herself, this long-haired breed indigen­ rose hedges of the garden. ... " giving them away as Christmas ous to the Lake District. In the summer of 1882, the gifts. She could not keep up And long before Britain had Potters stayed in a house on with demand. a state health service, Potter Lake Windermere in the Lake Frederick Warne &: Co. later endowed a charity to provide a District. agreed to publish the book and district nurse for all the ailing There, Beatrix met Canon went on to publish the rest of of the Near Sawrey area. , vicar of the tales in Potter's chosen for­ "As a Victorian woman, she Y.lray and an early. conserva­ mat, 4 inches by 512 inches, ideal for tiny hands. was ahead of her time," says tionist who impressed her with By the end of more biographer Judy Taylor. "She his passionate opposition to had great spirit and determina­ mass tourisrrrt and encroaching tion and she got things done.IF See page 7 The child of - both inherited Lancashire cotton fortunes - Ee}e:n_ Beat­ I:~. -~~: rix Potter vvas borr~ {)n_ 3{),, 1866. brother and I '1<1ere born ~' in London because f21the::' vvas a 1Nrote later. our descent - our interests and our \Alas in the north • Like many children of rich Victorian families, she was Beatrix Potter stands outside her home catted Hill Top in near raised by governesses and n_an­ 321 S. Broadway, Salem Sawrey, England around 1905. ni es and saw little of her

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Her father, with In 1905, Potter became Banner. "But it was those eyes briefcase in hand and running engaged to Norman Warne, the which had observed the crea­ to catch a train, grasped onto son of her publisher. Two tures that she drew w' l such a the outside of a car and hung months later, before they could sure hand and such exquisite on all the way to Leetonia marry, he was dead of perni- taste. Her solidity was the basis where the train finally stopped. cious anemia. o f he r fr e e d o m from Some of the men who work­ In grief, she turned to Hill sentimentality." ed for Jessup were Howell Wil­ Top farm, which she had Some in the valleys still liams, superintendent; Bill bought earlier that year, spend- remember her. "She used to Courtney, foreman of the ing more and more of her time always go about in little pol­ machine shop; Wilbur Hafley, on her beloved hills with her ished clogs, with a tweed skirt office manager; Joe Derfus, Jim growing sheep flocks. and a sort of velvet hat," said and Scott Herbert, Arthur In 1913, aged 47, she married George Birkett, 74, who often Schroft, Paul Dean, Jess Stewar­ local lawyer William Heelis, ran into Potter at agricultural de, Ollie Shaffer, Ensign Knauf and moved to nearby Castle shows in the 1930s, which he and Joe Bogar. Cottage, retaining Hill Top for attended with his farmer father. Bogar went to work for Jes­ writing. Birkett, who later was a ten- sup at the age of 14 for 10 cents It was too late for children of ant farmer on High Tilber­ an hour. He worked there from their own, so the Heelises thwaite farm, one of Beatrix's 1923 to 1936, and had great became local benefactors, bequests, recalls "a very outgo­ respect for the skills and know­ always ready to lend a field for ing woman, a jolly sort of a ledge of Mr. Jessup. He specifi­ a village celebration or buy cos- person." cally remembers a monstrous tumes for the local team of folk She was devoted to the local pattern for a ship steam engine dancers. Among other kindly good, he said. ''When she hired made for a Hamilton, Ohio acts, Potter drew pictures for a someone for one of. her farms, firm. fund-raising drive by the Inva- she always made sure it was Bogar eventually went on to lid Children's Aid Association. someone who could be useful own and operate his own pat­ In between, she walked the to the communitv." tern shop at the comer of Strat­ ton Road and Route 165. From mountains, usually swathed in She was determined, some­ 1944 to 1958 his work there a countrywoman's baggy times irascible. A new National tweeds. Local legend has it that Trust exhibit at Keswkk Herdwfck sheep, indigenous to the area, paze in_ front· of Hill ocntinued to reflect the high Top, the home of author Beatrix Potter in the villag_e of Near quality workmanship taught a vagrant, passing her i~ pour- records her arguments with Sawrey, England recently. Seventy th_ousan.~ tourists come him by the old master, Stephen ing rain one day and takmg her neighboring fam1ers who failed for a fellow traveler, remarked, to mend boundary wails. And each year to Hill Top to see the room filled with person.al tre­ Jessup. He spent considerable asures where the writer created many of her tales. time creating many fine pieces "Tis a terrible day for the likes Frederick Warne received sharp of wooden art. A few are on of thee and me, missus!" reminders if her checks were After her death in 1943, Fre- late. City, Utah. "She's part of my Michi Azami as she led a large display at the Salem Historical chiidhood." group of her compatriots Museum - others can be seen derick Warne inherited her shares in the company and on As summer approaches, tour­ ''To us, Beatrix Potter is e~o- around Hill Top. in homes throughout the city. tic," said Japanese tour guide ''That is why we love her." They arc now collectors items. her husband's death received ists clog the dark, wood­ all rights and royalties to her paneled rooms at Hill ~op, That old man river books. She left her homes and gawking at Potte.r's. collections 14 farms to the National Trust, of china and pamtings before Empire State edifice once farm The Mississippi is the great a conservation society co- repairing for a pint to the near­ The site of the Empire State ied the site. American river. Its origin is a Building at the corner of Fifth founded by her old friend, by Tower Bank Arms pub - In March 1930 construction tiny stream only six . steps Canon Rawnsley, with instruc- featured in "The Tale of Jemi- A venue and 34th Street in New across in Lake Itasca, Mmn. It York City was originally the of the 102-story Empire State soon widens to a mile across tions to preserve Hill Top. ma Puddle-Duck." Building began, covering an Potter left instructions for her They also throng nearby domain of farmer John where it joins the Ohio River Thompson. area of 83,860 square feet. and ends its 2,348-mile journey shepherd, Tom Storey, to scat- , where Heelis' old ter her ashes in a secret spot law offices house examples of In 1799, Thompson sold the The giant structure, once the at the Gulf of Mexico. property for $7,000 and the world's tallest building, rose The Mississippi and its tribu­ close to Near Sawrey. It Potter's work. . . remains a secret to this day. ''I'm only in ~e Lake I?!strict Astor family built two man­ 1 250 feet and with the addition taries flow through 31 states sions there. of a television tower in 1951 and provide America with The New York Herald Tri- because of Beatrix Potter, con­ bune wrote in a tribute that her __ fessed Sandra Boudrou of Park In the late 1890s the first now reaches a total height of 15,000 miles of waterways. Waldorf Astoria Hotel occup- 1,472 feet. What a ' Holloway- MERLE Pharmacy Bauer­ Was Meant To Be! NORMAN Store Hours: Patterson •HAND CAR WASH & 9-6 Mon.-Fri., 9-1 Sat. COSMETICS Orthotic & Assoc. Inc. RECONDITIONING , Ottering Free Delivery and Assorted New Prosthetic Fast Friendly Service Insurance 24-Hr. 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had flown faster. Officially, its , bubble. She was home safe ana after company owner's son landing at Lakehurst was com­ sound. pleted at 7:13 a.m. (Salem The first passengers to step By James G. McCollam ·------~~ time). Coming out of the west out of the gondola were Copley News Service with the dawn, the airship Lieutenant Commander Char­ looked down upon the same les E. Rosendahl and Lieut. J. upturned faces of the ground C. Richardson, both of the U.S. Q. Enclosed is a picture of crew which sped it on its way Navy. With large smiles on my Buddy L ice truck. It is Aug. 8. their faces, they remarked "It 25'h inches high, and has a The motors of this globe-. was great!" canvas cover in the rear. I spanning ship sang a song of Something else about this would appreciate your opinion victory over 20,000 miles of historic flight should be men­ as to its value. unchartered space. It had con­ tioned. George Morrow, a radio A. Your truck was made quered heat, cold, fog and a amateur operating his station between 1926 and 1931; in very typhoon. It had arched over in Washingtonville, was in good condition it might sell for two great oceans, and the bar­ touch with the Graf Zeppelin $325 to $335. Buddy L toys ren wastes of Siberia, part of when it was five hours out of were first made by the Moline which man had never gazed Tokyo. Previously, he had car­ Pressed Steel Co. in Moline, Ill. before. It had out-fated the ried on a two-way conversation in 1921 and were named for the hazard of skimming high ten­ with the ship when it was over son of the owner, Buddy Lun­ sion wires teeming with death­ the English Channel on its last dahl. The early toys made This Buddy L ice truck was made between 1926 and 1931 and might sell for $325 to $335. dealing electricity. It had trip to Europe (See accompany­ between 1921 and 1932 are the placed the world in the palm of ing story about Morrow in this most valuable. embossed flowers appear on man and clenched it smaller. issue). Q. What can you tell me front and back; each piece has John Henry Mears and Cap­ about my antique vase? It is 12 Queen Anne legs. On the bot­ tain Charles B. C. Collyer had Morrow stated that Graf sig­ inches tall and has two hand­ tom of each is marked Pair­ previously traveled the world nals were difficult to receive, les. H is brown with a picture point Mfg., New Bedford, although audible. The Zeppelin by train, plane and ship in 23 rated the Columbiana County of a lady's head and shoul­ Mass. days, 15 hours and 21 minutes. ders. The markings on the bot­ A. This silver plated set was station as very audible. In talk­ But that was in 1927 B.G. ing with the ship, Morrow tom a:re IOGA over the head made in the early 1900s. It (Before Graf). of a knight and under that is would probably sell for about renewed an old acquaintance. The Graf' s feat was further The operator of the dirigible WARWICK. $365 to $385 in good condition. glorified by the fact that it was formerly owned Station D4UH A. Your vase was made in I have two Hummel figur­ only in the air for about 111h in Germany, and Morrow had Wheeling, West Virginia about AJl!lGJnQUE ines: Brother No. 95 and Sister days. It spent almost an equal 1900 by Warwick China Co. It No. 98. Both are marked West, talked with this station many OR amount of time in being times. might sell in the $125 to $135 Germany. The boy has a small· refueled at Friedrichshafen, range. JUl'lQUB chip. I would like to know the Tokyo and Los Angeles. The Graf Zeppelin trip was a Q. I have five Delft plates. going price on these and As the silver torpedo flew glorious success story. It was a They have scenes of a man Q. We recently deaned our where to sell them. over Lakehurst, thousands of major news event that every­ and woman in various activi­ attic and found a watch I had These were probably made in people cheered with sounds one was talking about. But less J:ies with a floral border - an when I was a little girl. It is a the 1960s and are currently sell­ louder than the humming than eight years later, on May in blue and white. They are 1963 Barbie windup watch. I ing for about $85 each in good motors. Airport sirens began 6, 1937, a terrible tragedy marked RoyaL Sphinx, a pic­ had it repaired; it still works condition. I can't assess the screeching, and the crowd would occur at the same Lake­ ture of a lion, P. Regout - and has the original band. I diminished value of the chip broke through the heavy guard hurst location. The 803 foot­ Made in Holland - Maa­ would like to know its value. and I do not have a list of of marines. Everyone, including long Hindenburg, sister ship of stricht - Delft. A. Your watch might be buyers. the marines, were gazing at the the Graf Zeppelin, would burst Please tell me how old they worth from $25 to $35 in good Letters with pictures are silver sunbeam coasting into into flames as it nosed toward are and their value. condition. It lists for $50 in welcome and may be port. the mooring mast. Thirty-five A. Your plates were made in mint condition in the original answered in the column~ We The landing was a smooth passengers and crew lost their Maastricht, Holland, by Petrus box. cannot reply personally or one. Spider ropes were lives, plus one member of the Regout in the early 20th cen­ Q. I would like to know the return picture. Address your dropped and seized by the landing team. This event tury. Delft is the name of the value of a very beautiful five­ letters to James G. McCollam, ground crew. After a series of changed the direction of air style; they are not genuine piece silver service that I PO Box 1087, Notre Dame, husky heaves, the Zeppelin travel. It brought an end to the Delft plates. The value would recently inherited. Etched and Indiana 46556. settled to earth like a tired soap era of the commercial airship. ·be ab6ut $25 to $35 each. Q. I bought a vase at an auc­ tion about 35 years ago. I would like to know something Unpublished Hemingway letters insightful about it, including its value. It is 13 inches tall and 10 inches By Associated Press Meeker, owner of Nick re-write or steal from what Gellhorn. in diameter. facts I want of these events." She preceded him in cover­ It is trimmed with gold with UNPUBLISHED LETTERS Adams & Co. Rare Books in Sacramento, Calif., said the ''I know this is a hell of a job, ing World War II in Europe for a background of blue and from Ernest Hemingway but if you can get it for me will Collier's Magazine. white. On the base is Boch show he feared losing manu­ Armstrongs were Hemingway's friends and helped him with give you any amount of Mss. ''He was pretty bitter about Freres - Keramis _ Made in scripts, used newspaper stories her leaving him alone - and Belgh11n. as background for his novels, typing and research. (manuscripts) first editions, In a letter to Jane Armstrong, when she left for the war, they was jealous of his wife and items, etc.," he wrote. never saw one another again," A. Your vase was made by thought "For Whom The Bell Hemingway said in his usual In another letter to Jane Nagel said. the Boch ts:rothers in La Cou- Tolls" his best work. clipped style that he feared Armstrong, Hemingway con:i­ viere, Belgium during the early The six letters, bought by a sending her the only existing Nagel said Hemingway later Dlained he had worked on his decided to go to Europe as a 20th century. It would Jhobably rare-book collector, won the '11anuscript of a novel: "Am so latest book since early morning sell for $75 to $85. T e com- Hemingwayana Contest, a damned spooked of something war correspondent, wrote to and rain was interrupting his Collier's and was hired in Gell­ pany was founded in 1841 by national search for Hemingway happening to the original and plans to play teTI?is, "which horn's place. Victar and Eugene Boch and is memorabilia. there being no coov or should ain't good for work tomorrow. still in business. ''Letters in which an author just hang onto it ai\d not bother Neither is having a goddamned Beginning of fiddling Q. What can you tell me talks .about his writing are the (sending it)." wife try to put you out of busi­ about a can for talcum powder h d most sought-after t at one can Richard Armstrong, head of ness when you are writing the The first pictorial evidence of marked Baby Powder an have from a writer," said con- the International News Service best book vou ever wrote." the lute is a mural dating from Califomia Perfume Co.? It has test winner David Meeker. bureau in Havana, gleaned Contest 'judge Jim Nagel, 2500 BC showing a Babylonian a picture of toys soldiers on Meeker bought the letters background information on Hemingway scholar at the Uni­ shepherd strumming a skin­ the front. f th d A. This is quite a find! The two years ago rom e gran - Cuban politics for Heming­ versity of Georgia and past bellied lute with a rounded way's use in the novel "To president of the Hemingway Call.fornia Perfume Co. was the daughter of Jane Armstrong back, possibly a turtle shell. who, with her husband Have and Have Not." Society, said Hemingway was The Romans loved its sound original Avon Co. Your baby Richard, received the corres­ Hemingway wrote to Arms­ referring to "For Whom the and spread its popularity-. the powder can is worth about pondence in the 1930s_ ,while trong to request contemporar