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Died. James Robert Williams, 69, rustic-humored creator of the cartoon series "Out Our Way"; of cancer and heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Wylie and donated to the Presbyterians. The lodge sleeps 32 people and is used 46 times a year for retreats from Friday evening through Sunday noon which emphasize "reflection periods" and Bible study. "Mar Casa" is a white-shingled, two-story building on Balboa Island, built for the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in World War I for Christian education work, but now used for retreats...
...they pleased, but this junket seemed even better than usual. Flying their own twin-engine Beechcraft, they had left Minnesota for Florida to arrange the return of their 62-ft. cabin cruiser Caprice (which they sailed south last fall), then visited a married daughter in El Paso. In Pasadena they visited their lonesome actor-son Ronald, treated him to a steak dinner. The following day they were homeward bound, leisurely droning the miles northeast across Wyoming's rugged mountains...
...months passed it became obvious that the Pasadena idea was not working out. The staff had to plane back and forth across the continent so much that they began calling the foundation the "Fund for the Advancement of Aviation." To make matters worse, Hoffman infuriated Henry Ford II by inadvertently leaking to the press that the Ford Motor Co. might put some of its Ford stock on the market. Finally, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, Ford told Hoffman: "This is the end, Paul." A month later the trustees also rose against Hoffman, elected Rowan Gaither president and ordered...
EDGAR B. VAN OSDEL Pasadena, Calif...