Air Marker Painted
On Heskamp Motor Roof

As a marker to guide airplanes, the word Columbia has been painted in ten foot letters on the roof of the Heskamp Motor Co. building on Campbellsville Street. An arrow points toward Streeval Field.

This work was done by John S. Vaughn, of Jamestown, for the Civil Aeronautics Commission and paid for by Standard Oil.

New Most Wished-For
Time Travel Event:

It is December 1947 and I am flying an airplane over Adair County...Below me, I see a building emblazoned with "COLUMBIA" in 10-foot red letters and an arrow directing me towards an airport.

I circle once, and then head east over the fields out towards 206, to Streeval Field.

(I am wearing Snoopy Red Baron-style goggles.)

Hopefully, I will land safely, unlike the Lindsey [Wilson] students/pilots who seemed not to have a high rate of success.

Local Plane Is Wrecked Sunday

Laverne Lay, Lindsey Wilson student escaped with minor injuries when he made a forced landing late Sunday while flying from Streeval Field to London.

Lay, a former Army pilot, said that he was having motor trouble when forced down. The plane, owned by Dr. H.C. Randall, was badly damaged. The owner, well-known local dentist, had been flying the plane earlier in the afternoon.