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Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 2 T h e L e g e n d L i v e s O n AMOlA EARHART&rWa> OumniniI B 9 7 - 1 9 9 7

A m e l i a ' s 1 0 0 t h b i r t h d a y , l e t t h e c e l e b r a t i o n b e g i n !Atchison's road to the Final Four ^ ^By Man WhiteheadStaff zwiterEvery year the NCAA has a basketball tournament and glorifies theconcept of the "Final Four." Theyhave this competition every singleyear and h ave had it for the last sixtyyears. To the entire nation, it is acelebration ofthree basketball games

spread out over five or six days. Whatwould a "Final Four" be like if itcelebrated the centennial anniversaryof one woman's life as a local andnational hero? It just so happensAtchison is doing this very thing.The Amelia Earhart CentennialCelebration is a four day event, withbirthday parties, carnivals and dedications. Beginning Thursday, July 24and lasting through Sunday, July 27,Atchison will be filled with thousands of extra people and lotsof thingsto participate in and events to see.Thursday. July 24:

The highlight ofThursday 's eventswill be the birthday party for Amelia,-beginning at 4 p.m. on the mall. Withpeople dressed in nostalgic turn-of-

the- century attire, Atchison will becatapulted back to the early 19O0's.There will be giant birthday card foreveryone to sign as well as cake andice cream.The Fourth Street end of the mallwill feature a bistro to salute Am elia'strip around the world. The SixthStreet end of the mall will feature abeer garden and in between will befoods from around the world.Anothe r feature on Thursday is the"Won ders from theBluff," where children will sketch with artist Judy GeerKellas. The event will be at the AmeliaEarhart Birthplace and will last from10:30 - 11:30 a.m. The cost will be$ 15 and the Atchison Art Association

requests that those interested shouldpre-register at 367-4278. This eventwill also be at the same time on F ridayand Saturday.The Kissel Roadster and LockheedCockpit will be on display at Memorial Hall, 819 Commercial beginningat4:00p.m. on Thursday. Thedisplaywill also be up on Friday and Saturdayfrom 4:00-10:00p.m.In addition, the Post Office willhonor Amelia with a Pictorial PostalCancellation that all mail leaving the

post office will bear as a tribute to thecentennial .

Friday . July 25:Frida y's biggest attraction w ill be

the dedication and lighting of the

AmeliaEarhartMemorialBridge (formerly the Mo-Kan Bridge). The bridgewill be lit sometime around 9:00p.m.Building up the festive bridge lightingwill be an evening parade. This willnot be any normal run of the millparade. It will be a boat and airplaneparade. Concess ionaires will be setup at Independence Park at 8:00p.m.for everyone to watch the decoratedboats cruise by on the Missouri Riverand antique aircraft to soar past ov erhead. In addition, when the bridge islit, a B-l Bomber will fly past.

Following the lighting will be afireworks display and a street dancethat should keep the town rockinguntil its time to get up on Saturday.Other events include a day long

carnival downtown, last ing from 4-10p.m. At 7 p.m. there will be a VIPreception at the Ame lia Earhart Birthplace Museum, 223 N. Terrace St.For more details on this event, contactMarilyn Copeland at (816) 554-2567.

Saturday. July 26:Throughout the day on Saturdayseveral activities honori ng Amelia willtake place. The first will be the dedic a t i on o f t he Ame l i a E a rha r tEarthwork, created by nationally renowned crop artist Stan Herd. This

will take place at Lake Warnock beginning at 11 a.m. Herd will give atour of the Earthwork and it will beposs i b l e fo r f a ns t o c re a t e a nEarthwork of their own. The cost is$5 and the Atchison Art Associationasks for those interested to pre-register at 367-4278.The Pioneer Achievement Hon-oree will spe ak at 1 p.m . at the

BenedictineCollege Auditorium. Thehonoree has not yet been announced.The Amelia Earhart Birthplace

Museum dedication is at 3 p.m. LindaFinch, the aviatrix w ho recently tracedAm elia's flight, is scheduled to fly bythe dedication. At 4 p.m. there will bea book signing featuring the authorsof Amelia Earhart books. This will beat the Atchison Public Library, 401Kansas Ave.

The evening will be highlightedwith a gala banquet at the Mount Con ference Center, 710 S. 9th St. It is aformal affair where black ties are optional. Cocktails will be served at 6p.m., the Amelia Earhart Award andDinner will begin at 7 p.m. and following the dinner will be a dancestarting at 9 p.m.

Other events include an antiqueauto show at the Farmers m arket, 4thand Main, hot air balloon rides and the

Hot Air Balloon Lift-off at LakeWarnock.

Sunday. July 27:After a sunrise service at the AmeliaEarhart Earthwork, the Hot Air Balloon Lift-off will set the day into

motion . The l if t -off is a t LakeWarnock beginning at dawn.The biggest event of Sunday is theAmelia Earhart Centennial Airshow.It will begin at 1 p.m. at AmeliaEarhart Airport and will feature LindaMorrissey, Bob Hoover and KennyStout.The antique auto show will be go-, ing on again, lasting from 12-4 p.m.In addition, there will be science exhibits on display at the 700 block ofCommercial .

This is a tentative schedule ofevents. One thing is for sure, though.Everyone in Atchison is going to haveplenty of events to participate, in. Itwill be four days that would give anybasketball tournament a good run fori ts money.

Earhart was born in 1897 but 1898still shows up in the strangest placesBy Chris TaylorStaff zi/riter

Even in the midst of the biggestbir thday party ever thrown inAtchison and even with the hugeamount of planning that has goneinto the 100th birthday celebrationfor Amelia Earhart there is still theoccasional wrong birthdate monkey wrench.That Earhart was born in 1897,

there is no room for debate, but thepersistence of the mistaken 1898birthdate still pops up.Like when National Geographiccalled the Atchison Co unty Historical Society as they began w ork on astory about Earhart's 100th birthday, the article they were going torun in 1998. After getting the newsand stutteri ng a reply the Geographicdecided they still want to do som ething, likely some coverage of her100th birthday year.Even in her hometow n as* thecandles for the birthday cake arereadied there are signs with thewrong birthdate, for example in thefront entranceway of the AtchisonLibrary a plaque put up by Zonta,an organization Earhart was a mem

ber of, the 1898 date shows up again..In Atchison Earhart's birth on July24, 1897 is accepted, but is it elsewhere?

Some say the July 24, 1897 date iscorrect but others claim vehementlyshe was born in 1898 and point to adocument in Earhart 's own handwriting that puts the date of her birth asJuly 24, 1898.Both sides claim their evidence is

indisputable and both sides point outthe instances their date shows up inprint.The July 1898 date has popped upagain and again throughout the yearsand still today reference book s even inthe Atchison Library tell a tale of twodates.The Encyclopedia Britannica listsEarhart 's birthdate as July 24, 1898and so does the Academic AmericanEncyclopedia. Then on the other hand,the Encyclopedia Americana and

World Book Encyclopedia list the1897 date.Most of the books written aboutthe famed aviator list 1897 as her dateof birth but on the shelves of thelibrary are at least three going alongwith the 1898 birthdate, Daughter of

the Sky, Witness to the Executionand The Search for Amelia Earhartand even a new children's bookpublished this year has Earhart 'sbirth listed as 1898.Even her hometown newspaperhad pegged her birthdate as 1898by the time she returned to Atchisonto address a gathering of the Kansas Editorial Association in 1935.The June 6,1935 Globe began a

brief sketch of Earh art 's life in thatissue, "Amelia Earhart Putnam wasborn here July 24, 1898, and spenther girlhood here.. ."Where did that 1898 date comefrom and how did it become sowidespread? Her international pilots license first listed the 1898birthdate, and being a famous aviator that license was reprinted overand over again and the wire services through the years took it asgospel.On M ay 16,1923 AmeliaEarhartr e c e i ve d he r Fe de ra t i onAuronautique Internationale Aviation Pilot License, Certificate #See 1897

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\C -H EASHAKT T h e L e g e n d L iv e s O n Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 3W hat did Amelia Earhart accomplish?B y P h y l l is B o m b e r g e rStaff uniter

Amelia Earhart was always head-strong, even as a child living with hergrandparents in Atchison.As a child she was the undisputedleader of the neighborhood children.She was raised to be a proper, young,Victorian lady and feared that nothingwould happen and that it was better todie young than to have not lived.An d live she did, she accomplishedalmost everything that she ever set outto do in the world of aviation up untilher one final failure in life.Earhart attended Ogontz Schoolnear Phi ladelphia where she waselected vice president of her class andcomposed the class motto, "Honor isthe foundation of courage."She quit school to become a nurse'said in a Canadian hospital duringWorld War I. It was there that she wasin vited to visit a military airfield w hereshe saw an air show and her love offlying was born.On Nov. 11,1918, when the Armistice was signed, she counted the costof the victory in the battered bodiesand twisted minds of her patients.Her father took her to an visit anairport and take her first plane ride inthe winter of 1920. She knew that herlife wo uld be incomplete until she hadher own airplane.In January. 1 921, Earhart approached Neta Snook, field manager

at Kenner Field in Los Angeles andasked her about taking flying lesso ns.Snook told her she could teach her tofly at a cost of $1 per minute. Afterfour hours in the air, Snook called hera natural.Earhart walked the three miles tothe airport and took menial jobs to pa yfor her lessons, including driving agravel truck for a construction company. Her mother did not approve ofher driving the truck so she helped herout with money for the lessons. Shetook her first solo flight before December, 1 921, because on that dateshe passed the tests for her NationalAeronautic Association license.Her mother, Amy Earhart, boughther first plane as a gift on Earhart's25th birthday on July 24, 1922, andshe was set to break flying records.Earhart set her first flying recordon Oct. 22, 1922, at an air meet atRogers Field when she climbed herplane to 14,000 feet through fog andsleet and she kicked it into a tailspindropping to 3,000 feet.She received a license from theF e d e r a t i o n A e r o n a u t i q u eInternationale, the international aviation organization on May 15, 1923.She was only the 16th woman aviatorto receive such a license.In 1925, Earhart moved to Bostonwhere she worked in a settlement housewith the children of Chinese and Syri a n i mmi gra n t s . He r supe rv i so r

thought she was a natural and promoted her quickly and Earhart felt thatshe had found her true calling.In the spring of 1928, she metGeorge Palmer Putnam who changedher life forever. He w as a very cleverpublisher and had written a book aboutCharles Lindbergh and now wanted towrite a book on women w ho would flythe Atlantic. He chose Am elia Earhartand it is said that he knew when he firstlooked at her that she would be thenew Lady Lindy.Earhart was the first woman to flyas passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight,the Friendship Flight, which left theUnited States on July 3, 1928, with apilot and mechanic on board, alongwith a passenger, Amelia Earhart.Thepilot was drunk most of the time andthe flight was accomplished by flyingthrough snow and ice with the radiodead. They still managed to land inWales where Earhart was met by thepress and the pilot and mechanic weresimply ignored.

She was welcomed home withticker tape parade and celebrationsaround the country.During the summer of 1928, Earhartwrote the book 20 Hours, 40 Minuteswith Putnam's assistance. A relation-SeeAccomplishmentsContinued on Page 4

A Globe File PhotoAmelia Earhart is show n here after she had comp leteda solo non-stop transco ntinental flight from Newark N.J.on Aug. 25,1 932 . The first wom an to make such a solohop, she landed at Newark just a little over 19 hours aftershe left Los Angeles.

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Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 4 T h e L e g e n d L i v e s O n MELIA EARHARTBirthday Centennial1 8 9 7 - 1 9 9 7AccomplishmentsCont inued f rom Page 3ship developed between Putnam andEarhart and he scheduled many product endorsements, lectures and arranged for a position for her as anaviat ion edi tor for Cosmopol i tanmagazine.She and Eugene Vidal, father ofGore Vidal, launched the first passenger airline, Trans Continental AirTransport.She completed her first cross country women's air derby in the summerof 1929 when she w as one of 20 contestants to enter the derby. She came ina distant third place in the race.After the air derby, there was speculation that she and Putnam w ere marry.They did on Feb. 7, 1931, in a smallprivate ceremony. She returned to workthe next day, as she was planning thefirst solo Atlantic flight.Earhart took off from New Jerseyon the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh'sfamous flight. Four hours out, she raninto a storm and the plane iced up andthe manifold on the engine broke. Alsobreaking was the gas gauge whichleaked gas on her head. She landed ona farm in Ireland and was welcomed inLondon, Paris and Rome by spectators.

To keep her name in front of thepublic and to finance her flights, shedepended on the lecture circuit whereshe could earn over $2,400 a week.She lectured during breakfast, lunch,dinner and in the evening. Everywhere

she went she crusaded for women.There was no time for her private lifeand it was rumo red that she and Putnamwere on the point of breaking up.Earhart's public image was dyingout in 1935. To prevent this she set arecord by flying from Hawaii to themainland.After her recovery was complete,she went on to be the first woman tomake a parachute jump.In 1936, she announced that shewas ready to make the most importantflight in her life, flying around theworld at the equator.Putnam bought a Lockheed Electrafor her which he equipped with thefinest scientific equipment he couldfind. While getting ready for the flight,Earhart spent her time campaigningfor Roosevelt, supervising the construction of her new home in Hollywood and promoting her new franchise, Amelia Earhart luggage.From the outset, Earhart wantedthis to be a solo trip but she soonrealized that she needed a navigator.When she left on March 3 0, 1937,she lost control of her plane and crashedin Honolulu. It was soon evident thatshe felt fear, if she failed she andPutnam would be broke, dead brokeso she didn't quit. She and Putnamrepaired the plane and she took offagain against the pleas of her familyand friends.This was the first, the ultimate,failure in her life.

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T h e l e g e n d L i v e s O n Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 51897Continued from Page 26 0 1 7 . On the license is Earhart 's signature and, listed beside born, 24thJuly 1898, in E arhart 's hand.

Was it vanity or a slip of the pen?Did the difference between being 24years old or 25 make that much difference to the fledgling pilot? Why didshe not clear up the disagreement during her lifetime?

A n n e Grego-Nagel, director of theA tchison County Historical Society,points to Earhart herself for the mystery date.

"You find the 1898 date on theInternet, in encyclopedias, dictionaries and lots of newspapers through theyears." said Grego-Nagel. "And yousee it here in town with A tchison residents too and they think we made themistake...She was a lways evasiveabout her age, she didn't let on howold she was. When she disappearedmany people were very surprised tofi nd she would have been 40 that year."

The reason why Earhart wrote 1898on her pilot 's license will never beknown but the actual date of her birthis easily traceable, despite the lack ofa state sanctioned birth certificate, ifyou are willing to dig through the old

film and ask secretaries to digdeep in the church vaults.

Th e first time A melia Earh art madethe newspaper was the mention of herbirth. The Tuesday, July 27, 1897A tchison Daily Globe had a note listedunder City News: "A girl baby wasborn to Mr. and M rs. E .S. Earhart , a tthe residence of Judge Otis Sundaynight."

A nother record calls Earhart byname: the fragile, hand-written, recordof Baptisms from Atchis on's TrinityEpiscopal Church.

On October 10, 1897 the 490thbaby baptized in the church wasbrought to the baptismal fount by herproud parents. A melia M ary Earhartwas baptized and the record of theevent was duly noted by The Reverend John Henry M olineux in the samebold handwriting that recorded manyo t h e r b a p t i s m s i n c l u d i n g E d g a rBarratt, baptism number 489, on June16,1897; and Id a Dorothea Belz, bapt ism number 4 91, on December 24,1897.

Rosie Carter, today's secretary atTrinity Episcopal said the records aredone the same way today as they werein the record book from the 1800s thatis normally stored away from harm.

"They record them one at a timeafter the baptisms are performed," saidCarter. "There is no waiting and achance of putting them in. in anotherorder."

Trinity is a church of tradition, thebaptismal fount is the same one todayyoung Earhart was carried to and thebookkeeping is still done the sameway as well.

If there is any doubt about her truebirthdate, photocopies of the familyBible contain the same July 24,1897date as does the biography w ritten byEarhart ' s husband, G eorge PalmerPutnam shortly after her 1937 disappearance, copyright 1939.

"Soaring Wings" begins, "Frequently the chronicle of a person ofachievement shows little or no connection between the pursuits and coloring events of childhood and the distinguishing character of mature years.But with the lanky, towheaded girlwh o grew up to be Amelia Earhart, thetwig was early bent to ways of original thinking and act ing back inA tchison, Kansas, where she was bornin 18 9 7." Those words tell much ofwhy A tchison is celebrating the birthof its favorite daughter and that fragile first edition copy of Putnam 's bookin the Kansas Room of the AtchisonLibrary tells much of why the debateover Lady L indy's true birthdate willlikely not end any time soon.

A t the end of that first paragraph ofPutnam 's biography of his wife, 1897is marked through in pencil and in anangry hand is written 1898.

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Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 6 T h e l e g e n d L iv e s O nLooking back on Amelia's early daysBy Man WhiteheadStaff writer

Globe File PhotoMiss Lucy Challiss, left, an d Amelia Earhart po sed forthis picture when Amelia was in Atchison for a visit in1912. The two were cousins.

"My girlhood w as muchlike that of many anotherAmerican girl who wasgrowing up at the time Iwas, w ith just the kind offun and good times we allhad then. " AmeliaEarhart, from her book.

The Fun of ItEven though Amelia Earhart wasborn in Atchison, it took her eightyears and some hard times with herparents to return to her birth town.She was put up wonderfully by hergrandparents, Alfred and Amelia Otis.The Otis' were a well respected partof thecommunity. Alfred was a U.S.District Court jud ge. They lived in abeautiful, Victorian style home at 223

N. Terrace which overlooked theMissouri River.Growing up in her parents home,Amelia began her life long trend setting adventure early. She and her

sister, Muriel, used to wander fromthe home overlooking the bluffs insearch of new adventures. Boldlygoing where no girls had ever gonequickly became Amelia's quest in life.When she wanted to play sports andherclothes were too restrictive, Ameliaand her sister became thefirstgirls inAtchison to wear gymnasium suits.Amelia only spent four years in hergrandparents home in Atchison. Stilltoday, however, local Atchisonianscan remember Amelia daily. There islittle hard evidence, only a few piecesof Amelia's furniture, but plenty ofmemories still linger in the Atchisonair.When visiting today, the AmeliaEarhart Birthplace Museum resemblesthe old Victorian home, containingvintage furniture, some of which belonged to the famous aviatrix.Amelia's typing table and desk stillremains in the home. It was donatedby her sister. In her birth room, whichis a different room than the one shespent her childhood days in, still contains Am elia's hope chest. There isalso a desk in the room that belongedto Amelia.

The home was a modest place andit had apark across the street which no

longer remains except through photos and mem ories. The Earhart girlsused to play across the street in thepark.When Amelia and Muriel wouldcome hom e from school, they used torun and jump over the fence that surrounded the home. The fence nolonger surrounds the home.One hundred years have nearlypassed since the birth of AmeliaEarhart. Her memory lives strong inAtchison even though there is limitedevidence of her childhood. Shewrotein her book about having fond memories of Atchison."Throughout the grade school period, which was mostly spent inAtchison, I remember having a verygood time," Am elia w rote.The centennial celebration ofAmelia is just around the corner.Looking around town, it is very evident that Atchison is very proud oftheir famous aviatrix.

Quotes from Amelia taken fromher book, The Fun of It. courtesy ofThe Atchison County Historical Society and the Atchison Tourism Bureau. The brochure is titled, "AmeliaEarhart; Her Childhood in Atchison,Kansas."

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AME1IA EARHARTBi nMay Cei uenmalT h e L e g e n d L iv e s O n Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 7Before there was A ir Jordon there was A IR H A R T

By Chr is Ta y lo rStaff WriterShe was the Michael Jordon of her time at least whenit came to endorsements. Am elia Earhart endorsed products related to flying and like Michael Jordon and hisHanes adds, she endorsed products-unrelated to her careeras a pilot.From the very beginning of her fame, as a passenger onthe Friendship Flight, Earhart began cashing in on her newfound fame. Even though she found all the acclaim ofbeing the first woman to fly across the Atlantic to beunworthy, since she was little more than a sack of potatoes, as she said afterwards, it did not stop her fromendorsing products.Lucky Strike Cigarettes began running ads featuringEarhart in 1928 to capitalize on her sudden fame.The add copy declared, "Lucky Strikes were the cigarettes carried on the 'Friendship' when she crossed theAtlantic." and bearing Earhart 's signature and the title,

"first woman to fly the Atlantic by aero plane."The endorsement backfired on Earhart, a non-smoker,even though she purposely did not say she smoked LuckyStrikes and she gave her $ 1,500 fee to Commander Richard E. Byrd for his Antarctic expedition, many peoplewere shocked by the linking of Earhart and tobacco and

McCall's magazine fired Earhart from her new job asaviation editor.That miss fire did not deter Earhart. she had beenshocking people for a long time already, doing things

women did not do in that time. Other endorsements w ouldfollow including automobiles, the Franklin auto and shewas presented a blue Chrysler roadster for appearing on anNBC broadcast from an auto show in Madison Square

Garden. In exchange for her endorsement she w as given afur lined, leather "Amelia Earhart Flying Suit, som ethingshe had no intention of wearing up and down Fifth Avenueas the ad copy claimed. Earhart endorsed pajamas, she lenther name to a brand of lightweight airplane luggage thatwas an immediate success. Even though Earhart wouldcall the endorsements, "the zoo pa rt" of her flying careershe accepted it as a way to raise money for the seriousflights she w anted to do.And the firing by McCalls was only a temporarysetback. William Randolph Heart's Cosmopolitan madeher aviation editor. In the introduction of Earhart as thenewest columnist for the magazine O. O. Mclntyre wa sprophetic in his remarks.He called Earhart "a real American girl." He said shewas the answer to the 1920swhere women were indulgingin everything from gin guzzling to "harlotry." Mclntyresaid Earhart would become "a symbol of new womanhood," one that would be emulated by thousands of youngwomen. As Earhart 's fame rose his words became moreand more true.When m aking a cross country flight in an Autogiro withBeech-Nut wri tten across the side she remark ed to a friend,"Here I am jumping through ho opsjust like the little whitehorses of the circus." However the Beech-Nut deal wasone for an item she did use, her ever present tomato juiceon flights w as of the Beech-Nut brand.Earhart did not like the endorsement part of her lifealthough at times she did com e out in support of things she

believed in, like commercial air travel. But the business ofSee EndorsementsCont inued on Page 8

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Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 8 T h e L e g e n d L i v e s O n MELIA EARHARTBirthday OnlexxulI 89 7 - I 997EndorsementsContinued from Page 7lending her name was a thorn in theside she put up with because that waswhere the money came from.

And with her desire to do more andmore challenging flights came theneed for more money for better eq uipment and to accomplish that came theendorsements, the tours and the speaking engagements. Flying was not aninexpensive endeavor and to do recordflights, in any time, requires the bestequipment money can buy and theability to cover the costs of the manyprecautions to make the flights somewhat safe.

So the endorsements continued tocome. T hrough the years she spoke ofthe virtues of National Airways, Inc.and after that airline folded she campaigned for the good of all airlines toallow competition between cities andon routes already served by anotherairline. When Earhart believed insomething she was a convincingspeaker. She vehemently believed thatfor air travel to really catch on thereneeded to be competition and the opportunity for fledgling airlines to testtheir wings on proven routes.She testified to the excellence of acertain spark plug, pushed anotherairplane engine, automobile, gasoline or oil and she even became the

first person to work tie-ins, though notwith the accomplishment of the current Disney Company. In April 1933Earhart and K odak created a clever tiewith her new book, "For the Fun of It"with two-page magazine ads for Kodakcameras titled "Part of the Fun of It."

Earhart also may have been thefirst person to earn a premium for herautograph- on her around the worldtrip Gimbels assumed promotion forth e 6,500 cacheted postal coversAmelia carried. They were to be soldfor $5 if autographed and $2.50 if not., Amelia Earhart had fame beyondanyone else of her time.Her picture was constantly in thepublic eye. As her fame grew witheach new aviation accomplishmentand her constant exposure throughspeaking engagements, advertisingand news coverage brought her imagehigher and higher.It came to the point the publicim m ed ia te ly th o u g h t o f Am el iaEarhart when the word aviatrix wasmentioned.

Her fame was so much above anyone else of her time, with the possibleexception of Lindbergh, it is hard toimagine her life. The only people today who likely could comprehend theconstant exposure are today's mega-sports stars. Earhart w as like Mikeeven before M ike was.

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T h e L e g e n d L i v e s O n S a t u r d a y , J u l y 19, 1997A t c h i s o n D a i l y G l o b e and A t c h i s o n A r e a A d v e r t i s e r P a g e 9Amelia is a role model for generationsRu Ipccie (Mark *-y J e s s i e C la r kStaff writerAmelia Earhart: Themeremention of the name causesone to cast eyes upward to gazeinto the wild blue yonder fromwhich shevanished some 60years ago.

Amelia was decades aheadof her time. She opened newvistas for women w ho endeavored to master the sky. Shestands as an icon to female flyers, pilots and astronauts.

Am e l ia f i rm ly be l i e ve dwomen too could go where onlymen had gone before. She believed a woman could not onlypilot the great winged man-made birds into theheavens ,but also bring them safely backto Earth.

This year, asAtchison andthe nation celebrate the 100thbirthday of America's favoriteaviatrix, it 's important to bearin mind this one thing; though

her earthly remains have neverbeen recovered, her ideas, in-fluence, and spirit remain alivein the many Lady Lindy's thathave followed her into the skies.ForAmelia Earhart launchedgenerations of women, who,like herself, were not content toremain Earth-bound. But as-pire to soar.

Following are only a handfulof women that aspire to thegreater dream.

Michelle StaufferMichelle Stauffer is a trustee

of the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum and is a memberof the 99s, the internationalwomen's flying organizationEarhart helped found.

Stauffer was the first aviatrix to pilot the Russian SukhoeSee R ole M odelCont inued onPage 10

Globe File PhotoAm e l ia s i t s in t h e c o c k p i t ofhe r ne w , f ly ing l a bora tory , the Loc khe e d E le c t r a 10-Ein 1936 . Th e ne w pla ne wa s the m os t a d va nc e d a i r c ra f t o f i t s t im e a nd f i t t e d w i th ne wm o r e p o w e r f u l e n g i n e s t h a n t h e o r i g i n a l L o c k h e e d 1 0 - A s. A l l t h o s e a d v a n t a g e s a l o n gw i t h the m o d i f i c a t i o n s m a d e for long r a nge f ly ing we re s t i l l not e n o u g h to k e e pEa rha r t f rom be ing los t ove r the Pa c i f i c Oc e a n .

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Continued from Page 9SU-27 at speeds of up to Mach1.4.Stauffer gained her air navigational license in 1973 andhas accumulated more than5,00hours of in-flight hours.Stauffer has also been successful selling aircfaft at theKansas Aircraft Corporationlocated at the N ew Century Airport in Gardner.Marion "Babe"WeyantRuth"Babe" Ruth was born in1918, and took herfirst light atthe age of 13 in a WACOTaperwing with her grandfather, who was 87. Amelia Earhart so inspiredRuth as a young aviatrix, thatsh e wrote to Am elia, asking forher advice o n becoming a pilot.

"Amelia wrote me rightback," said Ruth. "She told meto keep healthy, take a physical , and don' t let anyone tell m eI couldn't do it."Ruth remembered meetingth e famous Amelia Earhart onetime.

" S h e had th e coldest hands,"Ruth remembered. "But she hada warm heart. She was verysupportive of all women flie r s . "Ruth has been a member ofthe 99s for 60 years, and is alifetime member of the allwomen international flyingclub.Amelia's admirers a r e n o t a l lpilots or even over the age of1 8 .

Local grade school studentsbegan studying aboutAtchison's favorite nativedaughter last school year, before the Centennial Celebration was even completelyplanned. Children read abouther famous exploits, watchedvideo's and recreated parts ofAmelia's life while learningabout her.11-year-old Ashley Cattrella sixth grader in Effingham, isnot old enough to rememberAmelia, but the Earhart legacyhas touched this young sters life."To me, Amelia was a greatwoman," Cattrell said. "I startedto really like her when we hadto read about her in school. Onething I liked best about h e r , wasshe built a roller coaster at hergrandparents house. That tooka lot of thinking."Cattrell also added she herself would like to take to theskies someday."When I grow up, I wouldlike to either be a teacher, ormaybe even a pilot," Cattrellcommented. "I got to fly onceand my Dad has a friend thathas a plane. I would like to getto go up in it again. I think Iwould like being able to traveland fly people around."When asked what AmeliaEarhart w a s t o h e r , Cattrell hadthis response.

" T o m e , Amelia Earhart wasa very great woman," Cattrellsaid. And indeed, those sentiments can be echoed aroundthe entire g lobe.

Amelia Earhart: A legacy for the 21st CenturyBy Sarah HarrisTar/tart essay winner

In the world today, societyhas a need for role models.People want to grow up andbe like someone famous. Is ittruly in society's best interest, however, to have the future of Am erica pattering then-lives after such "heroes" asgang members who selldrugs, ra p stars that teach foullanguage, and athletes withno temper control? For thesereasons, there is a strong desire for respectable m entors,even those not vividly presentat this time. Such is the example of Amelia Earhart, anaviatrix who peaked in the1930s. Through her courage,leadership and realism, shecanand should continue to bea legacy far into and beyondthe 21st century.

The nation today is largelydifferent than it was nearly70 years ago. This is especially evident in the status ofwomen. For a woman to standup in a man's world and setrecords as Amelia did wasnothing short of a miracle.She was even forced to dresslike a man just to be allowedinto this line of work. Thetremendous amount of courage she must have possessedshould truly b e an inspirationto all.Anothe r of Earha rt's alluring traits is her leadership.She becam e a leader for those

other women too timid to standup on their own. She foundeda pathway for future generations of women to walk across.Had she sat back and donenothing, who is to say wherewomen w ould stand today. Byseeing someone like AmeliaEarhart come out on top whenall odds were against h e r , onlymakes women today see thatthey can achieve anything. Allone needs is ambition.Lastly, and maybe the leastnoticeable of her qualities, isher realism. She was not somemagical superstar on television or a fictional characterfound only in a book. Rathershe was human, and like therest of us, only trying to getahead and make a mark in thisworld. Earhart worked vigorously everyday and in no wayexperienced the luxuries thatheroes of today often haveshowered upon them. Becauseshe was so human, she, therefore, possessed human erroras well. In fact, Amelia Earhartis probably most well-knownfor her greatest error of all.Her last voyage ended in tragedy, which shows that to beadmired, one does not necessarily have to be a completesuccess; for to fail is only human.

A legacy, defined as something that has been handeddown by a predecessor, is indeed what Amelia Earhart canand should be for us all. She

has handed down to us a truesense of what it means tohave courage, to be a leader,and t o b e true and real. Theseare the qualities that must beinstilled in today's you th. Thisis not to say, however, thatshe is not a worthy role modelfor people of all ages. AmeliaEarhart will continue to havea lasting impact on all; forwhile her plane may havegone down, her legacy certainly did not.

Sarah Harris, a graduate o fMount St. Scholastica Academy, Atchison, will receivethe $1,500 scholarship firstplace award to BenedictineCollege for her essay. Thesecond place scholarship, a$1,000 scholarship to BC,went to Angela Taylor, a senior at Sacred Heart Junior-Senior High School in Salina,Kansas. The third place winn e r , a scholarship worth $500,went to Janell Duryee, a senior at Ellsworth, KansasHigh School.

Harris along with the second and third place winners,will be honored during theAmelia Earhart CentennialCelebration, July 24-27, andreceive their honors fromKansas Governor Bil lGrave s. Harris will also readher essay during the dedication of the Amelia EarhartEarthwork that weekend.

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Amelia's last good-byeBy Jessie ClarkStaff writerAfter a quiet, unannounced beginning from Oakland, and shakedown legs across the U.S. June 1,1937 dawned clear and bright inFlorida. A perfect day for AmeliaEarhart and her navigator FredNoonan to begin the ardous flightthat was to have taken them aroundthe globe, but instead, took theminto eternity.Seated in Earhart's LockheedElectra 10-E, the pair were, as history has proven, woefully ill-prepared to take on such a hazardoustrip.Noonan, a slim handsome manwith a charming smile, has made atotal of 18 trips across the PacificOcean as a navigato r for Pan American clipper ships. He has also taughtnavigation for Pan American before he left the company, some say

he was discharged from his job fordrinking heavily.Some reports say Earhart did nottrust No onan. She told her secretary

Margot DeCarie she was not certain that Noonan was observing hispromise of remaining sober.This skepticism of Noonan wasfurther compounded when Noonanwas involved in a car accident thatseriously injured Noonan's wife,and the driver of the other car.Never-the-less, June 1, 1937,Earhart and Noonan lifted off thetarmac at Miami Airport. Earhartsupporters stood about the airfieldwatching as their idol headed intothe sky, and though their hopes forthe world's m ost well known avia-tr ix may have been high. Theevening before, Earhart reportedlytold a friend, Carl Allen, "It's not apremonition, just a feeling. As faras I know I have only one obses-sion-a small and probably femininehorror of growing old-so I won'tfeel completely cheated if I fail tocome back."Earhart and Noonan lifted off at

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Globe File PhotoA crash during an attempted takeoff from Honolulu on March 20 , 1937, haltedAmelia Earhart's first attempt to fly around the world at the equator. Atop the planeon the Honolulu runway are, from left, Paul Mantz, technical advisor who was notaboard at the time of the crash, Earhart, and navig ator Fred J. Noonan. The flight wasto be from Honolulu to Howland Island.

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Globe File PhotoThis is believed to be the last photograph ever taken of Amelia Earhart. It wascaptured on July 1, 1937 at Lae, New Guinea, as Earhart and Noonan (far right)prepared to take off for Howland Island.

Last FlightContinued from Page 115:56 that morning, and flew for sixdays along the east coast of Centraland South America. They stoppedat San Juan, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Caripito, and Natal in Brazil.Amelia has been described as afrail wom an who suffered differenttypes of illnesses during her lifetime.During the difficult flight, sheaveraged four to five hours of sleepper day, and told her husband,George Putnam, on several occasions during the ill fated flight, shewas suffering from stomach problems.Still, the first week w as believedto have been successful. Earhartand Noonan flew 4,000 miles inabout 40 hours. On June 15 theycrossed the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea into Karachi, Pakistan.They covered almost 2,000 milesin 13hours and 20 minutes.Upon landing at Karachi, Earharttelephoned her husband George atthe offices of the Herald T ribune inNew York City.During the conversation, whichwas covered by the media, E arharttold Putnam, "We're having per

sonnel problems." A code whichtranslated may havemeant,Noonanwas drinking again.Putnam told his wife to discontinue the flight and return to NewYork, but Earhart refused.June 18, Noonan and Earhart tookoff from Calcutta's Dum Dum Airport during monsoon rains that "beatpatches of paint off of the edges ofthe plane's wings."On June 19 they reachedRangoon. On the 20th, they went onto Singapore where Amelia won$25 for winning a race with a planefrom R angoon. By June 21 , Ameliahad piloted the plane 20,000 milesin 135 hours.She had averaged five hours pernight of sleep and was sleeping instrange beds, with less than comfortable accommodations.Adding to her discomfor t ,Amelia began to eat less and lessfood, and was often suffering fromnausea.Undaunted, she continued her

flight.Prior to taking off from Oakland,Amelia, for reasons unknown, hadtaken her rubber life raft out of theSee L ast FlightContinued on Page 13

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Last FlightContinued from Page 12plane, as well as her parachute. Shealso left behind her good luckcharm, an elephant hair bracelet.Earhart was also unprepared in asmuch she had no knowledge ofMorse Code and did not fully understand how to operate the plane'sradio.

Putnam wanted his wife to behome by the July 4 ho liday.The flight had been delayed several times due to repairs on theElectra and Earhart's need to rest.Even if the flight had been a success, it is doubtful she would havereturned to the United States byIndependence Day.On July 2, 1937, at approximately 10:22 a.m. New Guineatime, Earhart and Noonan took offfrom Lae, New Guinea on arunwaythat has been described as "crude."The take-off may have been aharbinger of things to come. Theplane remained Earth bound untilthe last 50 yards of the runway. The

plane's propellers were so close tothe runway, air turbulence from theprops raised great clouds of reddust which caused those watching

from the ground to lose sight of thegreat silver Electra.For the seven hours that followed,Earhart maintained radio contactwith a Lae radio-man, who encouraged Earhart to remain on the sameradio frequency.

No one will ever know whetheror not Earhart changed frequencies,but it has been recorded that soonafter admonishing the aviatrix tomaintain the same frequency, hertransmissions stopped, and she wasnot heard from again un til well aftermidnight on July 3 (July 2 U.S.time).The U.S.S. Itasca had been stationed off Howland Island to aid indirecting Earhart and Noonan.News that Earhart and Noonanhad left New Guinea did not reachthe U.S. until the early hours onJuly 2, her husband, George Putnamwas at the Coast Guard R adio Station in San Francisco.Earhart's mother, Amy, was inNorth Hollywood. The nation

waited, watched and prayed forLady Lindy.But aboard the Itasca, Commander W.K. Thompson began tobe concerned. The ship had not heard

from Earhart herself, and was advised she had left L ae, New Guineaby the Coast Guard.At 2:45 a.m. the morning of July3 (New Guinea time), radiomen onthe Itasca heard Earhart's voice.She was not heard again until

3:45 a.m., when again she was heard.Radiomen aboard the Itasca reportedEarhart sounded muffled, and herdelivery was abrupt.The next scheduled radio communication between Earhart and theItasca was at 3:45 a.m.The Itasca sent Noonan andEarhart weather information whenEarhart broke into the transmissionwith a garbled message. Listenerswere only able to discern the words"partly cloudy," before the transmission became lost in static.At 4 a.m. the Itasca again attempted to contact the crew of theElectra. with no response.At 4:53 a.m. the Itasca receiveda garbled message as they againattempted to forward weather information to Earhart.The only discernible word was

"overcast", before her voice againfaded into static.At 8 a.m. Earhart acknowledged

the Itasca's messages for the firsttime. A Naval radio operator positioned at Howland Island acknowledged the transmission between pilot and ship.

Earhart requested the Itasca giveher a bearing and respond.The Itasca answered it could nottake a bearing on the radio frequency as Earhart requested becausethe ship's operators transmitted andmonitored a different wavelength.Earhart had not given the commander of the ship her position during any of the short, garbled messages.She had not given her speed, hercourse, or her estimated time ofarrival at Howland. Comm ander Thompson now had cause to be concerned.

At approximately 8:44 a.m.Amelia's voice again pierced thestatic ridden airwaves aboard theItasca.Breathless and shrill, her wordsspilled out quickly as if fired from agun."We are on the line of position156-137. Will repeat message. Wewill repeat this message on 6210kilocycles. Wait. Listening on 6210

kilocycles. We are running northand south."The Itasca tried desperately tocontact Noonan and Earhart.On July 2, a full 22 days beforeshe would have turned 40, A meliaEarhart had spoken, what is assumedto be, her final words upon thisEarth.

Surrounded by open ocean, andsky, somewhere in the great PacificOcean, the plane and its two occupants vanished.Just prior to her last flight, Am eliasaid this to a friend, "When I go, I

want to go in my plane, quickly."The search for Amelia Earhart,Fred Noonan and the Electra, wasof one of the most extensive massrescue attempts in history.Over4,000 men, 10 ships and65airplanes combed 250,000 squaremiles of the Pacific.But after 60 years, Lady Lindy isstill gone.Maybe then it is fitting to recall apoem Amelia started, but nevercompleted,"...Merciless life laughs in theburning sun,and only death, slow, circlingdown..."

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Does this sound fam iliar?I n t h e late 1930s, with America onthe brink of entering World War II , ayoung, American pilot plans to become the firs t pilot to fly around theworld at the equator. Her journeywould take her over Japanese-heldislands in the South Pacific, and theconniving American government sa wa perfect opportunity to check up ontheir island-dwelling foes.The American good-guys offeredto fund the pilot's trip around theworld on the condition she wouldsignal a phony distress call from theSouth Pacific.That distress call would then givethe Americans a reason to launch amassive search over Japanese watersfor "the greatest women flyer" in theworld,while a l l t h e time, photographing the on-goings of every Japanesemilitary base in the area.

But the plan was foiled when theevil Japanese leaders caught on toAmerica's little scheme and threatened to g o public with their find ings.The patriotic pilot, fearing theworld would discover the American

government didn't always tell thewhole truth, purposely crashed herairplane into the Pacific Ocean inorder to g ive . the Americangovernment's story validity.She was never found and all theserumors surrounding her disappearance surfaced, unlike her plane.The pilot wasn't rea l, but instead,actressRosallyn Russell, w h o playedaviator Toni Clark in the 1943 filmFlight For Freedom. The entire account was merely the story line of aless than successful movie, but mayhave spawned some of the wildesttheories on the disappearance of thefamous pilot, Amelia Earhart.Earhart's disappearance duringher 1937 attempt to fly around theworld has become one the world'smost famous mysteries, a tale thathas produced dozens of theories,sightings and reported findings ofEarhart's abandoned airplane.After 60 years, not one strongclue has surfaced that points to w hatbecome of Earhart. N o remains wereever discovered, n o airplane waseverdiscovered, and no reliable witnesshas seen Earhart or navigator FredNoonan since they left New Guinea.

Some say she might still be alive,

living with Noonan on some remoteisland in the Pacific, not wanting tobe found. Others say she was takenb y t h e hostile Japanese a n d executedfor spying.O n e ex-airforce pilot and Earhartbiographer even claimed he spottedAmelia Earhart in 1970 in the audience during one of h is lectures. Turnsout, the poor, elderly woman accused of being Amelia didn't taketoo kindly to the mistaken identityand sued the publisher of AmeliaLives.Others offer a more plausible explanation. Forone reason or another,they say, Earhart's plane crashedinto the vast Pacific Ocean never tobe found.In 1991, N B C ran a special on theEarhart story, Untold Stories: TheSearch ForAmelia Earhart, in whicha number of these theories were discussed. NBC's popular investigative series, Unsolved Mysteries, evenran their own Amelia Earhart story,complete with a number to call ifSee WhatHappened?

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W hat H appened?Continued from Page 1 4you, the viewer, had any informationon the whereabouts of the missingaviator.Although denied by both governments, the theory that Earhart was ona secret spy mission over Japaneseterritory and captured remains quitepopular.Speculation was that Earhart'splane was rigged with spy camerasfor the segment of her flight overJapanese strongholds in the Pacific,and she was either shot down orforced to land by Japan.One American soldier evenclaimed his m ilitary unit was told tobe on the lookout for a couple fittingthe description of Earhart and Noonanduring America's liberation of theJapanese-held island of Sai Pan. Allied soldiers taken duringWorld WarII had been held on Sai Pan before its1944 invasion of the Americans.

In 1960, a former Sai Pan residenttold a California newspaper that shehad seen a mysterious couple in captivity on Sai Pan during the late 1930s.She even saw a plane that looked likeEarhart's. Bone fragments were discovered on the island, and thought tothose ofEarhart's. but the remains

turned out to be those of the deceasedislanders.A U.S. sergeant also claimed tohave seen Earhart's plane on a fewoccasions. The last time he saw theplane, he claims, it was being torchedby the American military.One bizarre theory had Earhartbeing taken prisoner by the Japaneseand forced to work on a radio stationas "TokyoRose." Earhart's husband,George Pulmer Putnam, reportedlymonitored the station's broadcastsfor some time but determinedTokyoRose wasn't his missing wife.So what became of AmeliaEarhart?It wasn't the Japanese, accordingto a couple of authors who have written on Amelia Earhart. She justcrashed."I think she probably crashed intothe ocean," said Adam Woog, authorof AmeliaEarhart. "I hate to say that,but it's probably true."Woog said the wild tales ofEarhart's disappearance were certainly intriguing, but said there isSee WhatHappened?Continued on Page 18

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Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 18What Happened?

T h e L e g e n d Lives OnContinued from Page 15little evidence that supports them.

Woog believes the story of herdisappearance grew as Americaneared the brink of World War II, asif the country was turning to the media for a "juicy mystery" instead ofthe inevitable truth that loomed in theforefront. He likened it to"Beetlemania" following theKennedy assassination, that shook thecountry during the 1960s.

"I remember when Kennedy wasassassinated, then all of a sudden itwas Beetlemania everywhere," hesaid. "When bad news is on the horizon, sometimes a smaller story willcapture the imagination."

Woog will be one of the manyauthors attending the Amelia EarhartCentennial Celebration in July. Bookson Earhart by the authors in attendance will be on sale at the library andMemorial Hall. The authors will attend a luncheon at noon Saturday,July 26, in the Benedictine Collegecafeteria open to the public and willsign autographs from 4 p.m. to 6 at thelibrary.

Mary Wade, author of AmeliaEarhart: Flying Fo r Adventure, alsodoesn' t believe the spy stories and the

government involvement. She believes Earhart went off course andcrashed into the Pacific.

"I don't see how anybody canthink she was on a spy mission,"Wade said. "She was a pacifist. Shejust crashed into the water."

Wade was in the Philippines-in1992 when debris discovered on anearby island was thought to be a partof Earhart' s plane. Wade' s book wasnearly printed at the time, but shecontacted her editor in New Yorkwith the new information. Wade feltthe evidence was unclear and thewhereabouts of Earhart would remain a mystery forever.

The evidence, indeed, turned outto be nothing.

Wade pointed out an interestingstatistic about Earhart's flying patterns. Many times when flying,Earhart for some reason would veerleft. On one instance, her intentionswere to land in Paris, but she endedup in Ireland.

This could have been her downfall in the South Pacific.

"She tended to veer off to the leftover large bodies of water," Wadesaid. "She even did this with Noonanon board."

Could the famous pilot simply

have went off course, ran out of fueland crashed into the ocean? It waswell documented that Earhart hadwrecked more than one airplane,drawing her much criticism. She wassaid to have crashed seven planesduring her flying career. The eighthcould have been on her famous attempt around the world.

The Navy's search for Earhart'sdowned plane was called off after 16days. It was the largest air/sea searchfor a civilian in the history of themilitary. Mysterious S.O.S calls recorded by a amateur radio operator inLos Angeles in 1937 have led to thespeculation that she must have landedthe plane, because if it had crashedinto the ocean, the plane would havesank too quickly for any distress signal to have been made.

"She just crashed into the waterand they've never found her," saidWade. Amelia Earhart's story will,perhaps, never have a conclusion. Ifthe renowned aviator did see her lastdays in a small airplane over thePacific Ocean sixty years ago, wemay never know. What can be assured is that the legend of AmeliaEarhart will be puzzled over, explored and told for many generationsto follow.

Globe File PhotoAmelia Earhart poses with her Lockheed Vega. TheVega was the plane she became just the second personever to fly solo across the Atlantic in. Of all the planesEarhart flew, it is likely the second most recognizable.

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A M E L I A E A R H A R TBirthday OwnxulT h e L e g e n d L i v e s O n Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 19A melia in A tchison , 'I was a horrid little girl'

By Chr is Tay lorStaff writer

Globe File PhotoAmelia was born in and spent h er formative years inAtchison- Here, Amelia, at 7 1/2 m onth s, had her picturetaken in the arms of her Aunt Margaret Otis in 1898. Asa youngster Earhart returned to Atchison often and wentto school in Atchison until around the age of 12.

From the very beginning Am eliaEarhart earned mentions in the newspaper in her hometown.In the Tuesday, July 27, 1897Atchison Daily Globe a note listedunder City New s: "A girl baby wasborn to Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Earhart, atthe residence of Judge Otis Sundaynight."Though not mentioned by name,and mentioned more because of whoher grandfather was, Amelia madethe news at only three days old. Itwould not be her last time in theheadlines, but before she made headlines she was just a little girl growing up, living with her grandparents,going to school and showing theunconventional desires that wouldshape her life.When E arhart began her life storyshe cut straight to the point. "Wellthen, thousands of ye ar's ago, I wasborn in Atchison, Kansas. My parents did not live there at the time, butmy grandparents did."Earhart's mother, Am y, returnedto have her baby in her parents homeon the banks ofthe Missouri River.Earhart was bom in Judge Otis'

house. She returned to Atchisonmany times and when she startedschool she returned to attend theCollege Preparatory School inAtchison and through those earlyschool year's Earhart consideredAtchison her home.Amelia called herself a "horridlittle girl" the definition did not fitthe modern form but for the time,her unconventional desires may havemade her definition fit, at least somewhat."Like many horrid children, Iloved school, though I never qualified as teacher's pet," she wrote."Perhaps the fact that I was exceeding fond of reading made m e endurable."For a horrid girl her grade cardswere consistently excellent and verygood marks, she loved to read andhad the vast library of her grandfather to draw from. B ut it was her outof school desires that set youngAmelia apart.

Growing up in Victorian Kansas,little girls were expected to dressjust so and to play only typical littlegirl games. A melia, her sister Murialand most of the neighborhood children they came in contact with

pushed those limits , mostly atAmelia's urging.Amelia liked balls and bats, askedfor footballs for Christmas, playedin the caves on the Missouri Riverbluffs and broke tradition of wearing skirts, she and her sister beingthe first girls in Atchison to havegymnasium suits."We wore them Saturdays to playin and though we felt terribly freeand athletic, we also felt somewhatoutcasts among the little girls whofluttered about us in the their skirts,"wrote Earhart in her autobiography.Being outcasts did not keepEarhart from heading up the neighborhood children and living in atime "when girls were still girls,"didnot keep her from playing strenuous sports like football and goingexploring along the river."The few san dstone caves in thatpart ofthe country added so much toour fervor that exploring became arage," Earhart said in her writings."The river itself was always excit

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Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 20 T h e L e g e n d L i v e s O n MELU EARHABTYounger DaysContinued from Page 19dangerous looking whirlpools to beseen in its yellow depths and thebanks were forever washing away."

Earhart's time in Atchison waslittle different from other children,she remembered the fun of playing,her friends, taking chances her parents never knew of and like mostchi ldren who have grown up inAtchison she recalled a MissouriRiver flood."...a few of us remembered dimlythe floods of 1903 when the watercrept up to the gutters of buildingsand swept away bridges and spreadout over the lowlands as far as theeye could see."Amelia was little differnt thanAtchison children of today and liketoday' s young people will be shapedby their experiences growing up inAtchison, Earhart was shaped inmany w ays by her time in Atchison.Judge Otis' library helped shapeher love of words and writing, and

her many books and poems tell usmuch more about Earhart than wecould have known otherwise.Her play time in Atchison andmaybe that her grandparents did notkeep up with her as close as herparents may have, helped foster theindependence and adventuresomespirit that would lead her to fame inher older life.Her train trips with her fatheralso began in Atchison.Although herhomelifewas somewhat troubled in her parents homeEarhart remarked that the train tripswith her father were some of herfavorite times as a young girl.And then there is the view fromher bedroom.The Otis house sits high on theriver bluffs and the view over thewide Missouri River put Earhartright in the bright, blue, Kansas sky.It is easy to see Amelia looking outacross the river and imagining whatlay ahead. Amelia Earhart stands b eside a lifeboat at Longport, Cape May, near1901. She is wearing her first bathing suit in the picture.

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A MU A EA RHA RTHatMn Cext f i i k tiT h e L e g e n d L iv e s O n Atchison Dai ly Globe and Atchison Area Adver t i ser Page 21A t c h i s o n P o s t O f f i c e o f f e r i n g s p e c i a l p i c t o r i a l c a n c e l l a t i o n

B y Phyl l is BombergerStaff writerThe Atchison Post Office is taking part in the Amelia Earhart 1 OOthbirthday celebration by offering aspecial pictorial cancellation, according to Steve Kow alewski, officer incharge of the Atchison office.The post office will have a table inthe lobby from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July24 and on the mall from 4 to 10p.m.Volunteer postal employees will bepresent at these tables to cancel letters and sell envelopes w ith special

aviation stamps, according to MikeSchaeffer, superintendent of customer service. Some of the envelopes brought to these tables mayeven bear the special issue AmeliaEarhart stamp.TheEarhart stamp was issued July24,1963, and is no longer availableat thepost office. The aviation stampswill be issued July 21."We no longer sell the Earhartstamp, it's an old issue," Kowalewskisaid. "There are some more recentaviation commemoratives out and Ithink a lot of people will probablyuse them on their envelopes. I thinkthat we'll probably have some envelopes for sale that a customer can buyand then we'll cancel that with acommemorative display stamp."The commemorative design fea-

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This is a special pictorial cancellat ion offered by theAtchison Post Office during the Amelia Earhart 100thbi r thday ce lebra t ion.tures the Amelia Earhart centennialinsignia.Schaeffer was approached by amember of the centennial committeeabout the possible issuance of a newAmelia Earhart stamp. After checking, he found that the issuance of anew stamp takes about five years andthere was not enough time.

"Another thing is that they don'tusually issue a second stamp afterone has been issued," he said.After finding this out, they cameup with the idea of a special pictorialcancellation.The design for the special cancellation came from K aren Seaberg, herdaughter and other artists in the area."When the stamps are canceled,

collectors usually want just the leftedge of the stamp covered,"Kowalewski said. "This way thestamp is not harmed. Other collectors will want the cancellation onother places on the envelop. It's kindof a personal preference of the collector, some of them will bring theirown envelopesand their own stampsand they will want the cancellationthere. Some that I've already talkedto have decided that they would liketo have just a round date cancellationon the front and on the back theywould like the cancellation that wehave designed."

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their own.The post office has 26 employeesand employees from other offices inthe area will also be used.The aviation stamp that will beused will be issued July 21 andSchaeffer said that every post officeis issued a certain amount of specialstamps.

"We are going to try to order inextras so that we can use those," hesaid. "We don't really know howmany we will need. We're going totry to out guess what we will be

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Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 22 T h e L e g e n d L iv e s O n MELIA EARHAR-We are hunting for someone who knows it all!!!Prizeshis is the official A melia Earh artknow it all quiz. The answers to mostof these questions can be found in themany Amelia Earhart displays andinformat ion a round the c i ty ofAtchison. So try your hand, stressyour knowledge of the l i fe ofAtchison's favorite daughter.

If you get all 20 right you havecompleted the around the world journey. 17-19 correct- a spark plugchange short of completing yourflight. 13-16 correct-ready to solo.8-12 correct- take some flying lessons. 7 or fewer correct- ride a bike.

1. What was Amelia Earhart'smiddle name? A.Mu riel B.MildredC. Meelie D. Mary

2. Where did Amelia ' parentslive when she was a young girl? A.Kansas City, Mo . B. Kansas City,Kan. C. Atchison D. Philadelphia

3. Where did Amelia 's mothergrow up? A. Kansas City, Mo. B.Kansas City, Kan. C. Atchison D.Philadelphia

4 . In which Atchison churchwas Amelia baptized? A. St. Mark'sLutheran B. St. Ben edict's CatholicChurch C. Trini ty Episcopal D.Trinity Lutheran

5. One of Amelia 's favori tetoys was named Donk. What wasDonk? A. a wood donkey B. aplastic yo- yo C. a wood toyplane D. A toy train

6. What school did Amelia attend while living in Atchison ? A.College Preparatory School B.Atchison public school C.Atchison Catholic Schools D. charmschool

7. Name one of the cousinsAmelia played with while living inAtchison. A. Lucy Challiss B.Kathryn Chall iss C. Kather ineChallis D. Brooke N. Challis

8. Which of the following isNOT one of Amelia 's grandparents?A. Amelia Otis B .Dav id Earhart C .Allen Otis D. Mary Earhart E.

Alfred Otis9. What unusual gift, for the

time, did Amelia ask her father for oneChris tmas? A. socks B. subscrip tion to National Geogra phic C. afootball D. hockey stick

10. Amelia returned to AtchisonJune 7, 1935 to speak to what group?A. Atchison Zonta B. Kansas 99sC. Kansas Editorial Association D.Kansas Railroad Engineers Association

1 1 . Amel ia Earhar t owned aKissel Roadster that will be on displayin Atchison during the July 24-27festival this year. The car had a n ickname, what was it? A. The Pearl PerilB. The Purloined Peril C. Th eYellow Uncertainty D. The YellowPeril

12. As a young girl living in hergrandparents hom e Earhart and neighborhood friends built their owncarnival ride. What was it? A. aparachute drop B. a roller coaster C.a scare house D. a merry-go-round

13. Which of the following jobsdid Earhart NOT work as a youngwoman? A. photographer B. elevator operator C. social workerD. truck driver

14 . Which of the following adswas Earhart featured in? A. Came lcigarette ad with Joe Camel B.endorsing the Kissel Roadster C. aGap ad for khakis D. a Kodak ad fortheir instant camera

15. What day did Amelia andFred Noonan disappear near HowlandIsland? A. July 3, U.S. t ime B.July3, on the eastern side of the International Date Line C. July 2 on theeastern side of the InternationalDate Line D. July 1 on the easternside of the International Date Line

16. Which of the following didAmelia do in her Lockheed Electra10-E? A. fly non-stop from Moscowto San Francisco B. crash ontake-off leaving Hawaii C. becomethe first woman pilot to fly-solo across

the Atlantic D. becom e the firstwoman to fly over the North Pole

17. Amelia married. . .A. GeorgePlimpton B. Gore Vidal C. FredNoonan D. George Putnam

18. Amelia was taught to flyby...A. Charles Lindbergh B. NetaSnook C. Eleanor Roosevelt D.Nellie Bly

19. The auto-giro Amelia flewon a cross country promotional touradvertised a certain packaging company. What was the name? A.Beech-craft B. Beatrice C. LuckyStrike D. Beech Nut

20. In whose family plot isAmelia buried in Mt. Vernon Cemetery? A. Otis family plot B. Earhartfamily plot C. Putnam family plot D.neither.

Tie breaker-Amelia Earhart wasthe first woman and only the secondperson to fly solo across the Atlantic.The U.S. Congress awarded her theDistinguished Flying Cross for heraccomplishment. On July 29, 1932the vice-president of the United S tatespresented Amelia with the award. Whowas he? Hint: he was from Kansas.

Contest Rules:Employees of the Atchison DailyGlobe, Hollinger International andAmerican Publishing are not eligible toenter this contest.Only one entry per person will beaccepted. In case of duplicate entries,the participant's multiple entries w ill allbe disqualified.Questions not answered by partici

pants will be counted as incorrect.Winners will be determined on thebasis of having the most correct answersto the 20 questions and the tie breaker.Decisions of judges w ill be final.In case of a tie, winners will beselected by random drawing.All entries must be postmarked ordelivered to our office byWednesday,July 30, 1997.Winners will be announced in theMonday, August 11,1997 editionof theAtchison Daily Globe.

First Place - A framed original photograph ofAmelia Earhart from the files of the Globe. The photois one featured in this Special Edition.Second Place - A copy of County Town Sayings,written by Globe founder E.W. Howe. This book,published in 1911, is in like new condition and wasrecently located in our office.Third Place - Set of two Numbered Limited EditionAmelia Eahart prints. These will have numbers in thefirst 100 of the edition of 1,000.Fourth Place - An American Flag K it.

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A M E L I A E A R H A R T T h e L e g e n d L iv e s O n Saturday, July 19, 1997Atchison Daily Globe and Atchison Area Advertiser Page 23A melia E arhart Birthday Centennial VolunteersCentralCommitteeHonorary Co-Ch airs: NancyKassebaum Baker, Cloud L. "Bud"CrayCo-Chairs: Marilyn Copeland, JuneLynnEvents Coordinator: Karen SeabergTreasurer: Carolyn MohlerAdministrative Assistant: MarcySchultzBob BergerDick BruggenDave Butler

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