News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 12

12 Mansfield, News-Journal Sunday, September 18, 1955 Vapor Trails Bob A recent issue of "Air describes a "Mail-Order Pilot," of Johnstown, "who learned weeks of intensive training. The article written by Leighton Collins poses this question: how is the (aviation) industry going to keep on selling about 20 single-engine airplanes a day on which the average value is close to $17,000 unless a certain number of people with that kind of money learn to fly each day?" The answer is flight instruction at airports and the experiences of Dr. Winstanley. He began by reading the book, "Stick and Rudder," a rather technical book on flying, almost to the point of memorizing it. This gave him a good background in the theory of flying.

ALUMINUM and Fiber Glass AWNINGS Low Prices Phone for Quete MORTON'S 56-1756 a magazine for pilots, Dr. Robert A. Winstanley to fly by mail and two- Then he managed his affairs to get two weeks off and went to Muncie, for flight training. He had a speed control indicator installed in his Piper. This instrument is expected to open a new era in safe and precise flying because it tells the pilot not a speed, but when he is making a correct climb and 1 approach.

With instructor Larry Hirschinger, Dr. Winstanley learned to fly in two weeks of intensive training. He could make a pre-flight check, read a sequence, navigate readily, he had flown in and out of large airports, had some instrument training, practice landings on small fields, had flown over 800 miles on cross country, learned cross wind landings, stalls and drift pattern landings. Not that this was easy, learning to fly isn't. The two weeks were intensive.

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and Mrs. Jack Wertz. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Amato and Major Teach to the National, Air Show in and John Boleski and son and Paul Guthrie to Michigan for some fishing.

Making or planning trips by commercial airlines were J. F. Gresser, 219 West Fifth to Oakland, Calif. Bonnell, 17 Glenwood traveled 10 Guatemala. Carveth P.

pastor of the First Lutheran Church, to Omaha, by air. Dr. Leonard A. Hautzenroeder and family, 121 Parkwood flew to Colorado Springs for a vacation. William Beal, Galion, flew to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Eastern U.

S. Ralph Constance, 541 Edgewood returned from a fishing trip to North Bay, Can. Mayse and Valeria Kent, employes of Travel Unlimited, flew on a courtesy flight with Eastern Airlines in the new DC-7-B, "Golden Oliver C. Henkel and family, Millsboro made a trip to Los Angeles, by air to attend their son's wedding. A trip to Traverse City, was made by Dr.

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Evelyn Riley, taught last season at Fitchville. gave up who, teaching to devote her time to her home and family. Wise is a graduate of Mt. Union College of Alliance, is married and has one child. Mrs.

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Indians Attacked Here 143 Years Ago By HELEN GRAHAM Special to News-Journal Fear gripped the early settlers of Richland County one September 143 years ago. Monuments stand today near Mifflin as grim reminders that their became realities. The year was 1812. The United States, during the presidency of James Madison, had declared war on Great Britain in a struggle for freedom of the seas. The British were enlisting the Indians as allies.

INDIANS SUSPECTED Mansfield was a pioneer settlement of a dozen families on the extreme western frontier. Col. Samuel Kratzer, commanding militiamen from Mount Vernon, had been sent to guard Mansfield from Indian threats. The Indians living at Greentown, a village of about two hundred families on the east bank Black Fork three miles from Perrysville, were suspected allies of the British. Agents had supplied the Indians with food.

blankets, ammunition and arms. The Indians had decided in their war councils to remain neutral during the War of 1812. Colonel Kratzer received orders to evacuate the Indians to the Piqua Reservation. as a precautionary measure against their harboring hostile Indians. Colonel Kratzer assigned Captain Douglas the job of evacuating the Indians.

Living at Greentown were members of the Delaware Tribe plus a few Mingoes, Mohawks, Senecas, Wyandots and Mohegans, The order to leave excited the Indians and Chief strong refused to leave. APPEALED TO REV. COPUS Unsuccessful in his attempt, Captain Douglas then tried to enlist the help of Rev. James Copus who lived near Greentown. At first, the minister refused to interfere with the Indians.

He had preached to them and was trusted by them. Douglas threatened to arrest Copus as a traitor of the United States if he did not convince the Indians that it was necessary to obey the order. Securing Douglas' promise that the Indians and their property would be protected, Copus agreed. In August 1812 the eighty braves and their families were lined up and marched away from their village under guard. About two miles from Greentown, they looked back from Mohawk Hill and saw their village in flames.

Although the officers had not sanctioned the burning which was actually done by five or six stragglers who had dropped out of the ranks for that purpose, the Indians were incensed. Accusing the Rev. Copus of bad faith, they plotted revenge. On Sept. 10 a party of five Indians was seen two miles from Mifflin which was then a part of Richland County.

The Indians had obtained permission to leave the Piqua Reservation to go to Upper Sandusky. Instead they returned to. the vicinity of their burned vilflage. Martin Ruffner, a German SALE MARK TWAIN AND BERKRAY Reg. $13.95 and $15.95 1st Quality CORDUROY SPORT COATS $8.95 JUNIOR SIZES 15 TO 19 INCLUDES STOUTS REG.

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Kate Zeimer had prepared a meal for the Indians and the family had tried to carry on friendly conversation with them. It was useless. The Indians shot and then scalped Ruffner. Then they killed Mr. and Mrs.

Zeimer. After demanding that Kate give them her father's money, they tomahawked her. Robbery seemed to be the motive for that attack because the Zeimers were known to be wealthy. Ruffner had killed two of his attackers, and the other three were later captured and eventually released without a murder charge being filed against them. Philip Zeimer, the Copus family and other settler of the Black Fork valley sought safety in the Beam blockhouse southeast of Mansfield on the Rocky Fork.

After four days at the blockhouse, James Copus, with his wife, children and nine soldiers, returned to his cabin. Nothing had been disturbed. Copus felt that he was the indians' friend and that no harm would come to him or his family. JANITROL BOILERS Allen Knapp Heating Co. 126 N.

Mulberry St. 4237-6 Because It was warm, the diers slept in. the barn and came to the cabin on the morning of Sept. 15. Believing that the Indians had gone away, the soldiers, went nearby spring for breakfast, jokingly leaving cabin.

their guns leaning against the Forty-five painted Indians staged a surprise attack on the unarmed soldiers. Three of them were killed: George Shipley, John Tedrick and another named Warnock. When the attack started, Copus rushed to the door with his gun. He was shot as he opened the door and died within an hour. The other soldiers, two of whom were wounded, got into the cabin.

Barricading the door and windows with split logs from the floor, the little party defended cabin for five hours. Eleven Indians were killed or wounded during the attack. After leaving the scene of the Copus massacre, the Indians burned the cabins of Jacob Fry, the Newell family and Benjamin Cuppy while the owners were in the Jerometown blockhouse. The frightened Mrs. Copus took her children to Beam's blockhouse where they stayed two months.

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