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Dr. Gene Smith Jr., MD, Dr. Larry Smith, DDS, and their sister, Teresa Smith, have donated their father's Army Air Corps service jacket and leather flight jacket to the Alva Airport Museum. Dr. Gene Smith, Sr. was an optometrist who practiced many years in Alva. The Smith family also donated an original full-page article from the April 26, 1942, Daily Oklahoman recounting the actions of their uncle, Lieutenant JB Smith, MD on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. The airport museum is a local...
(Editor's Note: On Feb. 21-23, 1971, a snowstorm buried northwestern Oklahoma under as much as three feet of snow, not accounting for drifts. The snow was driven by winds of 30-50 mph. Paul Kinzie interviewed his parents, Wayne and Beverly Kinzie, about those events.) The "Great Blizzard of '71" just happened to catch Kinzie Industries with three flying Hughes helicopters. This was unusual as the helicopters were generally delivered to the customer soon upon completion. Fortunately, local...
