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    1. SPURGEON
    2. Macalyne Fristoe
    3. Seeing the name SPURGEON on recent messages brought back an early memory. In about 1939, when I was little, an acquaintance of my father named Spurgeon Van Deering took me up in his Piper Cub-type plane at Berry Field (now the Nashville International Airport) and held me in his lap so that I could see my house, the WLAC radio transmitter near the airport) from the air. I don't know what he did other than take people for airplane rides, but I thought that the SPURGEON investigators might tie him into their line. Was SPURGEON his mother's maiden name? I have remembered his name all of these years because to a little girl it sounded so exotic, something that went with what was then a rare skill of being a pilot. Macalyne Watkins Fristoe Lafayette, IN Transplanted Tennessean

    03/07/1999 03:55:20