Pilot puts ski equipment on plane

(Reprinted from the Herald, February 1, 1940).

Shades of Alaska!

For the first time in the history of Texas a plane has been observed taking off on a pair of skies at Perryton across the snow bound prairie to wrangle a herd of marooned cattle and give them daily feed.

Responsible for the extraordinary sight is Harold Hawk, owner-pilot and wholesale oil dealer, who, when he found it almost impossible …