Earl Stone, Jr., Chief of the Air Traffic Branch, Fort Worth, Area Office, Federal Administra tion, not only devotes his inter ests and energy to aviation dur ing office hours, but spends many hours of his off-duty time in structing CAP Cadets in aviation matters. Mr. Stone (Junior to all of us in Germany) is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. Reserve and serves as Assistant Air Force Liason Officer for the Hustler Cadet Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol. The CAP is an auxilliary of the U. S. Air Force. His duties with the CAP are principally, in struction in aerospace education, leadership laboratories, and moral leadership. Membership of the Civil Air Patrol is made up of young people between the ages of 13 and 22 years. Jr. began flying as a cadet in 1941 and served as pilot in the European Theatre in Troop Car riers. He now holds a Commercial License with an Instrument Rat ing for single and multi-engine aircraft. He began his government ser vice with the CAA in 1946 at San Antonio Air Route Traffic Control Center where he was an Air Traffic Controller. He later transferred to the Fort Worth Air Traffic Central Center and then to the Perrin Air Base Radar Center where he served as Chief. After a brief period of service with the Air National Guard in the Korean War, he returned to the CAA and FAA where he has remained in the Air Traffic Divis