up in a small plane from Denver. Elaura was brave and came dressed. Over Laramie the motor lost most of its power from some cause and they had to make an emergency landing at a closed down airport where they were repairing the runway and it was cut in half by a big ditch but they made it. Another plane was brought up and Maureen and Elaura continued on. Betty who had had to sit in the back seat through some pretty rough weather and thus became pretty airsick decided to do the rest of the trip in better style so she took a bus to Twin Falls and then flew in by jet. The other two got along O.K. till about 100 miles from destination when the gyro compass, range finder and every- thing else but the magnetic compass and the radio conked out on them. They finally identified the towns they were flying over from the map and found the railroad and flew into town following it. Quite a bit of excitement for them but they made it.

One of the other girls apparently leads a charmed life since she drove in from Portland in a loan car (hers was in for repair) and got stopped for doing 85 or 90. The interesting part was that she was dressed. Therefore, when the officer asked for her license she didn't have one, neither did she have any other satisfactory ID. And even the car wasn't hers. They held her about an hour calling all over to see that she wasn't an escapee of some sort and finally let her go with a ticket in her femme name. She never did tell them the truth. So she too had an experience for her memory book. The rest of us got there in very orthodox fashion.

Saturday night we had a big dinner at one of the downtown restaurants about 15 of us and half a dozen wives - everybody in their dressiest dresses. A pretty sight as you can see from the accompanying pictures. Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California were represented sort of a NW Summit meeting. Annette and her wonderful wife certainly had everyone's appreciation in making it possible.

Janice 47-A-1 FPE, wife and two children drove me back to Seattle and put me up for several days. Their little daughter, 5 years old, and I fell in love with each other. She watched me put my eyeliner on pre- paratory to the TV appearance one night and very seriously commented "Oh that's pretty, it makes a whole new woman out of you" nice a compliment as anyone could ask for. She's a doll and I like to play with such dolls.

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