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FIRST PLANE RIDE - 1
GUY WITH HAT
Underneath the white Texas hat is the president of the
Dallas County School Board, 82 year old E. M. Hastings
of Duncanville. For all those 82 years he has kept
his feet on the ground, or as close to it as possible.
But this afternoon, he hung his hat inside an American
Airlines jet-707, and was ready for the first planeride of his life.
With him are a few, what he calls,
"friends of his -- his son W. Roy Hastings, and his
grandson, 21 year old Tommy, who says he has to be
back in Dallas by July 30th to judge a horse show.
three
Behind these frxx are Mrs. Alice Haralson, a friend x:
of the family, and another Hastings grandson, 11 year
, - old Billy, who says he doesn't have to be back inDallas in time for anything.
For the five of them,
it's a 10-day vacation in the Hawaiian Islands
arranged by the Haskett Travel Service in Dallas. The
big jet shoves off from Love Field shortly before twoThe elder y Hastings, who's spent 50-
1:20
this afternoon.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: First plane ride], script, July 19, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935962/m1/1/?q=%221961-07%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.