Stretch of Imagination Girdles Ab5 cial equipment in her plane. — AG Rhodes, — who called her By Associated Press i “bored” and liked to is and patch, one of her sponsors, ina A “‘Ohio’s Golden Eagle,” proHow did she eee COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 18 fravel. copyrighted story: claimed as Jerrie Mock Day. all her stops on the nose after The amazing Jerrie Mock—tirst “I hope . . that somewhere! cal But there was more to it than After her long, restful sleep long over-the-ocean hops, and woman to fly around the earth that. Some inner drive, it seems, here and there my just doing/L ,;Saturday, Jerrie resumed her fala unfamiliarity with ter-| something that hadn’t been done nad only to hold the airfulltime duties as a. housewife alone—how and why did she do a fiery energy that pushed her rain? someone else aut she slanted all ese of craft nb that the needle cen- and mother. Ee aN ers \ along, even on the flight itself. will encourage She depended on her uniinal It became apparent she was im- who wants to do something very he trip, meticulously, for more}; ie direction finder (ADF) in-| SHE WENT TO the hairdreseTHE PETITE, 38-year-old Co- patient at every moment of much and hasn’t quite had the/ the a year. stalled for her by Bendix Radio lumbus housewife ‘‘slept in” delay. heart to try it. ers and then the grocery store— in Baltimore. She had two sen_ She watched every move of Saturday, resting up from the As to why: then back home to relive some “THIS IS. THE way I believe @very one of the many ex- sitive ADF receivers. historic flight that would have ept through a good seat of of her globe-circling adventures TOLD the Columbus Dis-!life should be lived.” p pris who installed the spe- |. A DIRECTION indicator on| sore tested the stamina and courage — rt Gov. James|with her family of one far sturdier than ne foot, 105 pound frame. She got a rousing ovation—-one of the greatest in the history Of} *'), Port Columbus Airport — when| she set her single-engine, 10- year-old Cessna 180 on the run-} way at 9:36 p.m. Friday. She had departed from the same airport at 9:31 a.m., March | 19. Spectators ceremony at at the welcoming the airport must have wondered: —Associated Press Wirephoto. Mrs. Jerrie Mock . . . Claims a ended st How did this tiny woman, less than 800. flying hours she began the flight, and once called herself “‘really a beginner,” > manage the ord-breaking feat? with when who only} — rec. She likes to say she plained the trip because she was .