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J u l y 1 , 2 0 1 4 The Lebo Light P a g e 8 Lebo Community Food Pantry News. Monday evenings 5-7 Wednesday afternoon 3-5 Tuesday & Thursday mornings 9-11 Anyone living within the 66856 zip code is welcome to come once each month . Donations of basic food and personal items are always welcome and cash donations are used to order from the Kansas Food Bank each month. You can donate fruit, eggs, butter, cottage cheese, canned tuna & chicken, peanut butter, sugar free items, tea bags or instant, deodorant, dish and laundry soap, shampoo, toothpaste, trash bags. Items can be dropped off at Baptist Church. Once again, thank you to our little community for the generous donations to help others! CHURCH DIRECTORY The Lebo/Olivet United Methodist Church has services in Olivet at 8:30 a.m. and in Lebo at 11:00 a.m. every Sunday morning. Sunday School is offered in Lebo for all ages at 9:45 a.m. Pastor Tony Hazen The Lebo Baptist Church has church services at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday school at 9:15 a.m. every Sunday morning. Pastor Dick Odum PIES FOR MISSIONS Ethel Circle of the Lebo United Methodist Church are baking pies this year to sell to raise money for Missions. The cost of a homemade 9 inch pie is only $11.00. Please call your order in 2-3 days ahead of time. Give us a try, it will be appreciated. You may contact one of the following Circle members to order a pie: Marilyn–256-6408 Carolyn-256-6074 Pat-256-6534 Irma—256-6151 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Please come join us for an 80th Birthday celebration in honor of Marcia Dean Cornelius, Saturday, August 2 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at the Lebo Baptist Church. Hosted by her children. Marcia requests no gifts. KICK-OFF 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND! Come join us at the Lebo Baptist Church for the 6th Annual July 4th Community Celebration on Thursday, July 3. Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, drinks and table service will be provided. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share. Serving will begin at 6:00pm until the food is gone. Following the meal entertainment on the south lawn by "Circle Drive" bring your lawn chairs and enjoy homemade ice cream outdoors. The Lebo Light wishes to express our sincere condolences to the families that have lost a loved one recently. Kenneth Eugene Burd, 73, who lived in Alvaton, KY, passed away Tuesday, June 10, 2014. He was the son of the late Ira and Chloe Burd. Kenny graduated from Lebo High School in 1958. He is survived by his wife, Sally Burd, daughters, Brenda Collins of Bowling Green and Ginger Piper of Alvaton; son, Doug Burd (Kim) of Bowling Green; and his sister, Caroline Spatz of Lebo. In addition, Kenny had seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his son, Brian E. Burd. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Blast Off Weekend Vacation Bible School at the Lebo Baptist Church. Fun begins on Friday, July 11 from 6:00- 8:30pm, Saturday, July 12 from 6:00-8:30pm and ending on Sunday, July 13 at 10:30 am. All area children ages 3 - 6th grade are welcome. Contact the church for more details.
J u l y 1 , 2 0 1 4 The Lebo Light P a g e 9 MILITARY IDENTIFIES 17 KILLED IN ‘52 ALASKA CRASH By Don Perry On the morning of June 19, 2014 I was reading from the NEWS IN BRIEF section of The Topeka Capital-Journal when I observed the above headline. At once my thoughts raced back to November 22, 1952, a date that will be important for me for as long as I live. I immediately scanned the short account in the paper and when I saw ―C-124 Globemaster‖ I knew the article was about the airplane that crashed in Alaska and was assigned to the 1291st Air transport squadron, Military Air Transport Service, McChord Air Force Base, Tacoma, Washington. The 1291st was my squadron. I was not a flyer, I was a 20 year old Airman second class just two days into the 2nd year of my 4 year enlistment. Because I had worked in a bank two years, the Air Force was experimenting with matching civilian experience to military duties, I was assigned the duties of payroll clerk and did not attend an Air Force School. (By going to: C-124 Globemaster Alaska crash of 1952 on the internet one can find more information. Most of the facts stated correspond with my memory of the events that occurred more than 61 years ago.) There were 52 people, mostly military personnel, on the flight from McChord Air Force base to Elmendorf Air Force base, which is near Anchorage, Alaska. It was a trip that was made almost every day by the squadron. On the day of the crash visibility in the area was near zero and the airplane flew into Mt. Gannett at 9,000 feet, slid down to 8,000 feet and exploded killing all of the 52 persons on board. At the time navigational error was mentioned as the possible cause of the crash. The article on the internet refers to a malfunction of the aircraft and a faint radio message about losing altitude just before the crash. After the weather cleared a photo of the crash area was taken; only a portion of the tail section was identifiable. (I saw that picture.) In 1952 it was declared that it would only risk further life to try to recover the bodies because of the crash occurring in an avalanche and glacier area. Additional heavy snows soon covered the whole area. At the time we were told that because of the extreme winter temperatures, one could not survive in the area for more than 30 minutes without a fire. The internet report said that the crash scene has shifted several miles down hill with the movement of the Colony Glacier, thus recently making some of the wreckage visible. The 11 crew members were all from the 1291st Squadron. Of the 11 crew members 8 were married and 5 of the wives were pregnant. You can imagine how this loss hit our squadron. Looking at the list of names of the 17 that have been identified, I remembered names more than persons. I do remember Captain Kenneth Duvall, aircraft commander; Captain Alger Cheny, 1st pilot; and Airman second class Conrad Sprague. (Sprague, his wife, and small son lived in a fourplex where we lived for a time. They had moved to a different apartment before the crash.) I think Captain Cheny’s wife was from Texas. Because his wife was so close to delivery time, an airman from our office was assigned to drive Mrs. Cheny’s car to Texas because her Doctor would allow her only to fly to her home. After the tragedy the Air Force did an excellent job of caring for the grieving dependent’s needs. In all the sadness, the squadron continued to function and flew personnel and cargo to many places in the world, including Alaska and Japan. Until Thule Air Force base, Greenland, was completed the 1291st and its sister squadrons flew many trips to Greenland. The trip back to McChord Air Force base was made right over the top of the globe. The name of the squadron was changed 2 times before I was discharged on November 19, 1955. In its day the C-124 Globemaster was the largest cargo plane in service except for a couple of experimental planes. I have been told that not even one Globemaster exists. I never flew in any Air Force plane but was inside several of the big planes that could load tanks through the nose. The pilot sat in a seat 29 feet from the ground and the tail section was 45 feet high. With feelings of nostalgia, pride humility and loss I recall the hum of this not extinct giant bird and respectfully salute this noble aircraft and all its loyal crew member s who served our country so well. RENT AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE Catholic Charities Mobile Emergency Assistance Resource Bus will be at Coffey County ECKAN 409 Neosho in Burlington, on Monday, July 14 th from 9:30 – 11:30 am and 1:00 -2:30 pm for rent and utility assistance. Contact Anita at 620-364-8223 for an appointment and information on needed documentation.
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