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Where was Michael Dean Campbell? - Mike Campbell the inventor/builder Jamestown Hill memories: Ralph Roy details where Mike was, in response to question: Wonders about Mike Campbell at time of Jamestown Hill basketball project By Ralph Roy Waggener Mike Campbell was a regular at the Waggener house, usually there every day. He grew up living over his father's, E. Campbell's Grocery and Feed Store. And as a youngster was a little on the chubby side later on in life he slimmed down to almost skinny. Making good use of fruit crates and red Radio Flyer wheels Mike loved to build things and I owned a set of wagon wheels from a red Radio Flyer that outlasted the wagon. and Mike could get fruit crates that were made of wood. back then, and between the wheels and the wood he made all sorts of rolling vehicles for me. Airplanes had always been on his mind, I suppose, and of course he made me an airplane that he hung from one of our many English Mulberry trees that were down the fence row in our backyard bordering. Mr. Ernest Conover's place in town; of course Mom, Audrey Waggener, did not approve of me being in one of Mike's inventions about 6 foot off the ground. Mike's ride down Ralph Willis' drive Mayor Ralph Willis. my dad E. P's first cousin, lived on the other side of us and his front yard was banked up some 5 or 6 feet next to the drive way and in front as well. Daredevil Mike decide he could come down the drive headed for the highway and turn to his left and ride up the bank. Did not work, and needless to say Mike had a very large amount of bleeding places all over his body. Mom Audrey put her foot down about this stunt. The attack under the Post Oak tree One of the more humorous things that happened to Mike was when he was very young and was sitting under our big Post Oak tree which was close to the road in front of our house and there was a place where people could pull off and back then; post people carried their lunch with them when traveling and the big Oak provided plenty of shade. Mike was sitting there screaming his head off and Mom ran to see what was the matter with him, and between screams he told Mom, "I got ants in my pants. If I remember, we ran to help Mom and I got the ants off of him, but I'm not sure how this was done. Mike became a flyer, for real; author's one flight with him Later on Mike got his pilot license and really loved flying and of course, I went with him on one of his flights; remember I said, one time. I went up at Streeval Field up on Hwy 206 one evening and had a very pleasant flight all around Columbia and Mike said we were getting low on fuel and some of the car lights were on, he pointed out.Mike told me we might get a little bounce when we hit the ground because the heat waves would make it hard to judge, the ground. We made it OK. with a little bump as we landed and we proceeded to take the plane to park and tie it down and just as we got there we ran out of gas.Mike said he might have been kidding me. I don't know but that was my last flight with him. The devil was in a detail Mike built his own plane in the basement of his house from a kit and did a great job, being the engineer he was. Still he had missed one very important detail and that was getting it out of his basement after he finished it. He after all the figuring and calculations he made he did not check to see if the door was big enough to take his plane out- it wasn't. - Ralph Roy Waggener This story was posted on 2012-06-25 17:44:43
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