The Lamar register., 1919-07-16
FOUR REGULAR
EXHIBITION FLIGHTS
Pilot Puflea in His Canuck Plane
Proves Arkansas Valley. HoOdOo
Can't Scare Him.


N in sixteen minutes
which breaks al
records ever made for travel of any
kind between the two towns. Soon
after arrival it made its first fligh,
over our city, but as the hour was
early and many had not received word
of the flight the crowds were not large.
Sunday afternoon, however, there was
the biggest jam Of autos ever seen in
the valley collected in the roadway
north Of the bridge when Mr.. Puflea
made his two fine flights. The plane
on the field as well as the flights at
tracted much attention from the big
gathering Of thousands of people. but
even this show was small affair COM
pared to the job Of breaking the auto
jam when the flights were over. 1t
was found that between seven hundred
and one thousand autos had stopped
on the road each getting in the near
est position to the plane that it could
when it arrived on the scene. No sys-
tenn Of parking or even attempt at
management had been followed, and
when it came time to leave most of
the cars could not move at all, and
each attempt to get out only made
matters worse. Marshal Daniels took
hold of the situation and under his
management the knot was gradually
unravelled until finally the hundreds
Of cars were moving in steady
stream. At that it was just about one
and half hours until all got away.
With the exception of q few tourists
from Kansas, who seemed to think the
roads were constructed for their ex-
elusive use, everybody maintained good
humor and the awkward situation was
solved without any mistake or i'll feel
ing. The next time such an exhibi-
ton Is introduced it should be seen to
that the traffic officer is first man
on the ground and the cars parked so
such complication is not necessary.
On Monday both morning and after
noon flights were fine exhibitions of
the flying art, and were watched by
large gatherings both at the grounds
and in our city. In the evening Mr..
Puflea took up several passengers. The
heavy rain all day Tuesday prevented
many of our people going up, but the
passenger service began again with
pretty weather and number Of our
people have been enjoying the novelty
Of being up in the air-some of them
not having been there since the state
went dry.
A Holly syndicate consisting Of :.
r. Johnson, Ed Jones and Ray Brown
were SO pleased with the sensation of
hitting the high spots on high that
they just bought the machine for
$500 to have it handy where they
could take a spin whenever they feel
like it. They have engaged Mr.. Puflea
as pilot and he will continue to make
exhibition flights in the valley for the
present visiting a number Of the towns.
The plane will remain in Lamar until
all who have engaged passage have
had an opportunity to try it out. Pilot
Puflea was an instructor in aviation
for the French government during the
first years of the war, and after Amer
lea entered the conflict he WIS one OF
our highest paid instructors. He has
been actively engaged in the work OF
aviation since 1909, and his record goes
far to prove what he says is his pri-
mary object, "to prove that aviation
is not only safe but is rapidly becom-
ing 3 public necessity"