Here's A Picture Panorama Of The 'Pilots Ruby Rendezvous' In Macon County
EARLY ARRIVALS ? (L to R) Photographer Hans Groenhoff, Mrs. Burt, Vernon H. Burt, and
Mrs. Groenhoff.
LOCAL TRAFFIC ? Autos and trucks kept the parking lot at the airport filled most of the
time during the fly-in.
L.OAEED AND? Loaded and ready for a hay ride to the Cowee Valley and digging for rubies.
BACKSIDES? Some ruby tfi ggers getting a little behimd in their work.
Rescue Squad Commander Frank Plyler talks to airplanes
on "unicorn".
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Fire Chief A. C. Tysinger used follow-me Jeep to lead air
planes to parking area.
RUBY QL EEN ? V. II. Uurt, the mastermind behind "Pilots Ruby Rendezvous'', crowns Miss
Jean Hampton as "Miss Ruby Flv-in".
Eight-year-old FloridVan, father watching, studies a rock (?)
>r a ruby (?).
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A NOSE AHEAD ? Some boys push silver dollars across the floor* at S!ag!e Memorial alter rain
halted outdoor contests.
Stooping, stretching, and screening was just part of the work
of ruby hunting.
TOUGH JOB ? Beauty judges William Strecke r, Hans Groenhoff, Mrs. Groenhoff, Harry B. Col
lins, and Cecil Kiltie deliberate.
Betty Ruth Clocr was runner
up in the "Miss Ruby Fly-in"
contest.
HERE'RE THE TOP 10 BEAUTIES ? (L to R) Brenda Cunningham, Sara Jean Mallonee, Geneva Led better, Jame Hot en, Alice
Lee liradley, Virginia Boyd, Carole Watkins, Jean Hampton, Bett y Clc?r, and Gale Fernandez.
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CHOW DOWN ? Ready, willing, and just able to wolf down a box lunch after a morning of
digging.
Ruby hunters found "the crick" a little damp but perfect
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for washing ruby-bearing gravel.
YAWL COME RACK ? Mayer W. C. Burrell. a one-man welromlnf committee daring the fly
in, wished >lr. and" Mrs. Sam Smith, of Indiana, RO.nl (iyini on their return. Tb? Smiths ww*
the last to depart Monday.