Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 36

Canadian Patronized Icelan ommunity Loyal to U.S. Battle Creek, Sept. 7, 1953 I THE ENQUIRER AND NEWS Mainly About Folks ti 7-15 Ill Recently back in Battle Creek for a short vacation was a man who can tell more about airplanes in a half-hour than most men can tell in a week. It's his job to see that they are fit to fly. The man is Harold D.

Hoekstra and the job he holds is air engineer with the Civil Aeronautics Administration in Washington, D. C. His visit here was brief and centered around his sister, Elizabeth, who is Mrs. Charles LUM 182 Elm St. Phone 5165 Aurand of 22 Wil-shire boulevard.

Mr. Aurand is in the building game and was for a long time associated with Ernest E. gooooooooooooeooooooooofc Specializing in time was under the supervision of the late W. K. Kellogg, whom he always called "Will." He also worked on the Helmer farm and then he was a machinist for the Duplex Printing Press Co.

for 25 years. He was well known for his mental and physical alertness. He had a habit of writing letters to the newspapers, voicing his opinions on this or that controversial question, and he wrote well. At 73 he walked from Level Park to Kalamazoo, just for the fun of it. It took between six or seven hours.

Born in Holland Both Dirk Hoekstra and Grietje Zandt were Hollanders, the one born at Friesland in 1359 and the other at Groningen in 1873. Mr. Hoekstra came to America in 1830 and his wife in 1893. They were married 1895. Mrs.

Hoekstra died in 1929 and her husband in 1934. Born on the South Side of town, Harold's earliest remembrances are of fJ8 Hanover, where his parents lived for years. The family included John Hoekstra, now doing religious work with the Church of God at Dayton, Ohio; Martin, who died in 1929; Frisia, a graduate nurse from the Battle Creek Sanitarium, now on private duty in Washington, D. Elizabeth, now Mrs. Aurand, and Egmond, who is with the H.

K. Ferguson a national engineering and building firm, at Cleveland, as labor relations manager. Egmond was with The Moon-Journel here until it was combined with the Enquirer and News, and then he had Jones, contractor. Harold D. Hoekstra was born in Battle Creek 13, 1902.

The in his name is for IN'lSl'AL COMMUNITY Isolated from the United States bv land, this is part of a area that adjoins Canada but is separated from the rest of the state of Washington by water. 9 9 9 9 9 LONG DISTANCE and LOCAL MOVING Derk, which may be confusing since Harold Hoekstra his father was Plane Expert Dirk (with an His mother was the former Griftje Zandt. Dirk Hoekstra was a gardener and at one GLENN PARKER INSURANCE 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Representing PHOTOSTATS i Mb Ilfi8iSflK. up i lw PHOTOGRAPHIC For HOME AUTO BUSINESS 241 W. Territorial Road Phone 8458 9 9 Across from the Post Office 68 East Michigan Dial 2-955 newspaper experience at Elkhart, before he became a labor relations man.

Harold Hoekstra had his early training at No. 3 school, where Ann J. Kellogg school is now located, going to Battle Creek high school, in old No. 1 building, and being graduated in 1920. He peddled the Moon-Journal, having a route out Champion street and then a swine around the Sanitarium area.

Then he worked for the Western Union, when Percy Wines was manager and Violet Redmond was in charge of the desk and the messenger boys. After two years carrying messages, Hoekstra became a mess boy at the Sanitarium and later he was converted into a bell boy. Then he went to the Duplex Printing Press Co. plant, to learn draughting, after some experience in high school with mechanical drawing. For four years he worked under Ed Dean, chief draughtsman, and George Fish, his assistant.

Henry F. Bechman was superintendent of the plant. Attended MSC Summers and off-years found Hoekstra at Michigan State college, where he was a student in 1922-23 and 1925-26. He transferred to the University of Michigan for a course in aeronautical engineering. After the second year he became a draughtsman at the Nichois Shepard plant.

Returning to Ann Arbor he was able to graduate in 1929 with a B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering. Hoekstra 's first job at his established profession was with the Pnw-ell-Crosley Aircraft Co. in Cincinnati, where he designed and several types of planes. Russell Wiest, former high school athlete, now witli the Priest Tool was a test pilot at the Crosley plant.

In 1931 Hoekstra went to the Ford Motor Co. at Dearborn, as an aeronautical engineer, working on Ford Tri-motors. But Mr. Ford felt that he had to concentrate on automobiles, so he dropped the aeronautical work. Hoekstra then went to River Rouge and the Curtiss-Aero-plane Motor which soon sent him to Buff ale.

After a year there; he joined the Stinson Aircraft Corp.i at Wayne, as a project engineer, designer and test pilot. Incidentally. Hoekstra had done aircraft work in Battle Creek before he made a profession. With Sam Junkin and Clayton Bruckner mow president of the Waco Aircraft Co. of Troy, Ohio he built a plane in the manual training building of Battle Creek high school.

He flew it here! in 1915. He also repaired and rebuilt planes at the Maltby Motor Works and did some flying at Lake-view. Went with CAA In October, 1937, Hoekstra went to the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Washington as aircraft engineer. His work now ties in with inspection and approval 'of planes for civil areonautics, from Piper Cubs to Stratosphere jobs. He has to be convinced of every plane's airworthiness.

Hoekstra lives at 253 North Columbus, Arlington, with his vty interesting family. He was married Nov. 25, 1931. to Miss Laura 3arker, of Glendale. Ohio, a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy.

She was working in a drug store at the time. Their four children are in school in Arlington: Betsy, 16; Tommy, 13; Ann, 10, and Dirk. 8. Mrs. Hoekstra is active in the Brownies, after years with the Girl Scouts, and teaches in the Sunday school of the Arlington Forest Methodist church, i Mr.

Hoekstra belongs to the So- 9 We are EXCLUSIVE Aeents for Mayflower Transit System with 9 OPEN EVERY DAY AND NIGHT OF THE WEEK 8 REGISTERED PHARMACISTS richest fishing grounds in northwest waters lie off shore in the path of the bis: sockeye salmon runs to Canada's river. Point Roberts benefits little. There is no harbor, and seiners are supplied and relieved nf their fish by tenders from Belhngham or Anacortes. It was the which first attracted the Icelanders many of whom had settled in Canada to the point almost 60 years ago. Today nine out of 10 of the approximately 260 year-round residents are of Icelandic descent.

One of them. Asta Norman, 69-year-old farm-woman, is. a painter of note. She has studied in Germany and received medals. In an old cemetery, whose graves are appropriately covered with Iceland poppies, are stones bearing names of old Icelandic families such as Li.nbjorg Simunrison, Groa Mag-nusdotter and Gustav J.

T. Iwerson. Convenient for Canadians A glance at the map shows how available Point Roberts is to The Vancouver area is only 18 air miles away and Ladner and New Westminster are closer. On a recent Sunday, Deputy Walter C. Davis at the U.

S. port of customs entry, reported 2.596 cars brought 11.196 persons across the boundary line. Of some 250 or more cabins and summer homes, about 70 percent are Canadian-owned. As an added attraction, a new horse-racing oval built last year now has well-attended thoroughbred racing every Sunday during the summer. Check to be sure that you have an abstract on your real estate.

Be prepared in case you have a quick sale. The Only Complete Abstract Records in Calhoun County REALTY BOND MORTGAGE GO. Orer Calhoun Federal Savinfs and Loan Assn. 15'J Capital. N.

E. fhone 2-5531 the largest fleet ol company owned vans In the nation, You can be sure when yon "Move with Mayflower" In Battle Creek Your Local Mayflower Warehouse Man Is 0 HENRY JACOB SONS Complete Moving and Storage Service Isolated Area In Northwest Really Part Of Washington POINT ROBERTS, Vah. The Icelandic people of this eeo-grapnically freak community square miles cut off altogether nv lar.d from the United State are strong supporters of Uncle Sam. But their pockets are lined with Canadian collars as the pop a i this summer has been largely Canadian. And merchants and resort owners rejoice, exchar.zewise.

as Dominion greenbacks are wortn more than United States aonars for the first time many Treaty Decided Fate Geography and an old treaty created tfcts unusual northwestern Washington community. When the United States-British treaty of I860 settled the boundary dispute between the two countries along the 49th parallel. Point Roberts, a Utile nubbin of land sticking down into the Strait of Georgia below the parallel, was cut off. Canada lies adjacent to the north. But loyalty to the United States remains.

Community leaders say that if you sussot, substituting Canada's, maple leaf for the bald easile you'll get told off a hurry. Community boosters such as Eg-gert A. Burns, store and restaurant proprietor, also pooh-pooh what many call handicaps to Point Rob-ens. Her 15 schoolchildren above the fourth grade must travel more than 60 miles a day through Canada to attend classes in Blame, in Washington state. Her 16 miles of roads haven't received Washington state funcs.

They can't be tied in with the rest of the state highway system. Good Fishing Nearby Freight rates and customs restrictions prohibit farm prosperity. Food and other supplies come by bonded truck over the round-about 56.4-mile route from Belhngham, Wash. And finally, although some of the ciety of Automotive Engineers and in 1950 was national vice-president for aircraft. He belongs, too, to the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences and he was elected a Fellow in the latter organization last January.

Only 10 Fellows are named in the United States in one year. Mr. Hoekstra was chairman of the Washington section up to last June. He also belongs to the Quiet Bird-men, a social group that meets monthly at some Washington hangar. He has a commercial pilot's license.

At Ann Arbor he belonged to the Triangle, honorary engineering fraternity. Machine-Tooling Hobby Hoekstra's hobbies are machine-tooling, for which he has a shop in his basement, and reading history. The family has a cottage at Cotton lake, south of Battle Creek, and this was occupied on their recent visit to this locality. The outing was preceded by a motor trip around Lake Michigan, to show the children more of Wisconsin and Michigan. They crossed by ferry from St.

Ignace and took time out to visit the Soo and. see the locks. Mr. Hoekstra in 1951 was sent to Europe to assess the values of industries in England. France, Switzerland, Norway and Holland.

Six experts made the trip, spending six days in Great Britain, five in France, and less time in the other countries. Mr. Hoekstra spent an extra day in Holland to visit his father's birthplace. He studied the records of Jan Hoekstra. 1818.

in St. Ann's Parish, and of other early Hoekstras. It was an all-male flight to Europe, but when Hoekstra has a vacation he takes along the whole family. And he feels that strong ties bind him to Battle Creek. G.B.D.

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