SATURDAY, VF.C. 17, 1040
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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Florida Flyers Establish Operation Xmas Tree to Take Oregon Greens South
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FLORIDA MAY HAVE 1U oranges and Copeland and Lt. Anthony J. Abad, hold
big blows but Oregon has lovely forests off the others in a snowball fight. 4 j
and greens as crew members of a C-47 "This one's for the kids," the fliers de- ;
and a B-25 found out this week. This cided. 5 Lt. Abad finds a fine cedar ;
picture page tells the story of four . " tree for greens. 6 Oregon grape in-
United States air force men, who em- trigued Lt. Abad, the pilot, and he filled '
barked on a Herald and News spon- an old box with the pretty stuff. 7 A j
sored tree hunt off the Lake 0' the tree for the officer's room at MacDill is i
Woods road, to load up the (M7 with lugged down" the" road by Capt.' Nance. -
trees and gredns to take back to Mac- .-: 8Sgt.- Copeland and - Lt.- Barnes are
Dill air force base, Tampa, Fla. It all '' just plain tuckered In this high altitude,
came about when a northbound flight 9 A truck was provided through cour-
of the' B-25 was cut short as a motor tesy of Balsiger Motor company to bring
started acting up over Crater lake., home the loot. Lt. Copeland hangs on )
Shortly after, the crew made it here to the greens with Hale Scarbrough at
where the C-47 flew in a new motor. In
the meantime, the greenery of the
the wheel. 10 The trees and : greens ."
are unloaded at the airport. . 1 1 LL '.
country intrigued the boys from the Abad tags the tree he wants for his ',,
South and the tree hunt resulted.
1 Sizing up a big cedar. 2 Lt. Har
ry D. Barnes, Capt. Ernest T. Nance
house. 12 Moving a big tree over to
one side of the fuselage of the C-47. !
13 Capt. glance hands a smaller one ,
and MSgt. James D. Copeland start to Lt Abad. (Story on page 14).
for the Christmas tree area. 3 Sgt" ; "i: