Captain Air Service
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, March 2, 1937, front page and page 6, reads as follows:
PIONEER OF MINE SAFETY CAMPAIGNS DIES SUDDENLY AT ALBUQUERQUE HOSPITAL
Richard V. Ageton
Richard Valentine Ageton was born in Hitchcock, S.D., December 17, 1887, the son of Peter B. and Minnie Anna Ageton.
He was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin, North Dakota and Montana, and attended the Montana Agricultural college at Bozeman, Montana, Weslyan university at Helena, and was graduated in 1911 from Washington State college at Pullman, Wash., with a degree of Bachelor of Mining Engineering. He completed his college education in 1923 at the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Upon graduation from college, he became first aid miner with the United States bureau of mines in Montana. In 1912 he was junior engineer with the United States navy in its coal investigating expedition into Alaska, along the Bering river.
That year he became connected with the Cle Clum Improvement company in Alaska, and worked in various capacities in the Alaskan mining industry until 1915, when he returned to the United States and worked in Utah and Montana with mining and timber companies until 1917.
He went into the air service of the United States army at the beginning of the World war in 1917. He was advanced from second lieutenant to captain during the war, and later was promoted to the rank of major. He was married to Mary Achsah Goodman in 1917.
In 1919 he returned to the United States bureau of mines as assistant mining engineer in charge of rescue cars and ventilation work in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington D.C., and Oklahoma.
He became safety supervisor of the Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Produces associaition at Miami, Oklahoma, where he pioneered accident prevention work in 1924.
He was appointed to the geological survey post in 1929 and was in charge of the Carlsbad officesince the beginning of potash development in New Mexico.
His technical writings included "Timbering of Medal Mines," bureau of mining bulletin: "Potash in New Mexico," published by the United States Potash company; an article on the new potash machinery in New Mexico, articles in the Engineering and Mining Journal, Safety Engineering News, Mining Congress Journal, Mining and Metal, Explosives Engineer, Arizona Mining Journal and other publications.
Richard V. Ageton, deputy mining engineer for the United States geological survey, died at 4 a.m. today in the Veterans hospital at Albuquerque. He was 50 years old.
In charge of the Carlsbad office of the survey since the beginning of the potash industry in New Mexico, ageton was the best informed man in New Mexico on potash mining and the Permian basin.
He was the originator of "Accident Prevention Pete," a cartoon character whose droll adive was repeated from coast to coast in safety movements, and was a pioneer in accident prevention work in mines.
WELL-KNOWN WRITER
A writer of wide renown, Ageton was the author of many booklets and exhaustive article on potash, and scores of articles and short stories in the best know professional magazines.
His death followed a long fight against a race disease which attacked him six years ago, and which puzzled specialists from the beginning.
During the Christmas holidays, life apparently was returning in the left leg, which had been paralyzed for six years, and he was believed recovering from the rare malady when infection set in.
Recently the infection was cleared up, but he was attacked by stomach disorders so violent that he was sent to Albuquerque for treatment. He appeared to be recovering until Monday, when Mrs. Ageton was called to Albuquerque by staff physicians.
FUNERAL PENDING
Mrs. Ageton was to return to Carlsbad today, but no funeral arrangements had been announced.
Although doctors gave him no hopes for recovery, he was optimistic until the end. His great courage persisted until the last, and he was active despite his infirmity until the fatal attack.
Identified with the mining industry since his graduatin from Washington State college in 1911, Ageton was a remarkably versatile man. At Washington State, he was a star backfield man for three years on the football teamm where he was known as one of the most unfortunate players. He was out of the game a part of every season because of broken bones.
CREATES CHARACTER
He was managing editor of the student newspaper at Washington State and has written prolifically all of his life. Many of his booklets have been published by the government as authoritative documents on mining and geology.
He was an artist of ability, creating the character "Accident Prevention Pete" while pioneering accident prevention work in the Tri-State mining area at Miami, Oklahoma.
When Ageton conceived the idea of combating carelessness and dangerous practices with an organized campaign, "Pete" was born with a few strokes of Ageton's pen.
ROSE TO FAME
With typical miner"s headgear atop his brow, wide-open eyes that stared aghast at foolish, death-dealing practices, a nose the size of which gave him inalienable right to stick it into other people's business and a porcupine mustache through which trickled a language the miners themselves can understand. Pete found himself welcomed by the underground toilers as one of themselves, and was quickly adopted as their fetish against the hazards of mining.
Pete' rise to fame was rapid. Soon miners were smoking Pete cigars and wearing Pete buttons. Pete calendars, with Pete starring in 12 episodes depicting the feelishness of dangerous methods and habits started appearing in mine offices.
Pete statuettes and Pete pocket pieces began to appear later, and from various plants, Pete was putting his creed across with words that evoked laughs, but where left constructive thought in the workingman's mind after the grin had died away.
MAJOR IN ARMY
Ageton always was active in the interest of safety, and has given the safety engineers of the Carlsbad potash mines much helpful advice in the campaigns that have won national recognition for both companies.
He started army service during the war in the rank of lieutenant, in the air service, and rose rapidly to the rank of major. He was stationed at Vanconver at the end of the war, George Armitage, now head of where he was a close friend of the world's largest tourist bureau, in Honolulu, T.H. Armitage was his guest here last spring and has directed hundreds of travelers here since.
Ageton was a crack rifle shot, and held many championships on the range, but was force to give up his shooting six years ago.
He was not only a talented writer and artist, but was a gifted musician and wrote a number of poems, most of them lightly philosophical.
SERVED AS DIPLOMAT
Not only was he the government's technical expert in the potash area, but he was the diplomat who promoted cordial relations between the industy and the government. More than any other man, he kept relations between all concerned on an even keel.
He was a close frind of the late V.H. McNutt, the father of the potash industy in New Mexico, and wrote a brilliant editorial on the life of that great man on the occasion of his death last year.
Ageton is survived by his widow, Mary A. Ageton, and three sons, Rivhard V., Jr., Robert W., and John D., and his mother, Mrs. Minnie Ageton, of Louisville, Ky.
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, March 2, 1937, front page and page 6, reads as follows:
PIONEER OF MINE SAFETY CAMPAIGNS DIES SUDDENLY AT ALBUQUERQUE HOSPITAL
Richard V. Ageton
Richard Valentine Ageton was born in Hitchcock, S.D., December 17, 1887, the son of Peter B. and Minnie Anna Ageton.
He was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin, North Dakota and Montana, and attended the Montana Agricultural college at Bozeman, Montana, Weslyan university at Helena, and was graduated in 1911 from Washington State college at Pullman, Wash., with a degree of Bachelor of Mining Engineering. He completed his college education in 1923 at the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Upon graduation from college, he became first aid miner with the United States bureau of mines in Montana. In 1912 he was junior engineer with the United States navy in its coal investigating expedition into Alaska, along the Bering river.
That year he became connected with the Cle Clum Improvement company in Alaska, and worked in various capacities in the Alaskan mining industry until 1915, when he returned to the United States and worked in Utah and Montana with mining and timber companies until 1917.
He went into the air service of the United States army at the beginning of the World war in 1917. He was advanced from second lieutenant to captain during the war, and later was promoted to the rank of major. He was married to Mary Achsah Goodman in 1917.
In 1919 he returned to the United States bureau of mines as assistant mining engineer in charge of rescue cars and ventilation work in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington D.C., and Oklahoma.
He became safety supervisor of the Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Produces associaition at Miami, Oklahoma, where he pioneered accident prevention work in 1924.
He was appointed to the geological survey post in 1929 and was in charge of the Carlsbad officesince the beginning of potash development in New Mexico.
His technical writings included "Timbering of Medal Mines," bureau of mining bulletin: "Potash in New Mexico," published by the United States Potash company; an article on the new potash machinery in New Mexico, articles in the Engineering and Mining Journal, Safety Engineering News, Mining Congress Journal, Mining and Metal, Explosives Engineer, Arizona Mining Journal and other publications.
Richard V. Ageton, deputy mining engineer for the United States geological survey, died at 4 a.m. today in the Veterans hospital at Albuquerque. He was 50 years old.
In charge of the Carlsbad office of the survey since the beginning of the potash industry in New Mexico, ageton was the best informed man in New Mexico on potash mining and the Permian basin.
He was the originator of "Accident Prevention Pete," a cartoon character whose droll adive was repeated from coast to coast in safety movements, and was a pioneer in accident prevention work in mines.
WELL-KNOWN WRITER
A writer of wide renown, Ageton was the author of many booklets and exhaustive article on potash, and scores of articles and short stories in the best know professional magazines.
His death followed a long fight against a race disease which attacked him six years ago, and which puzzled specialists from the beginning.
During the Christmas holidays, life apparently was returning in the left leg, which had been paralyzed for six years, and he was believed recovering from the rare malady when infection set in.
Recently the infection was cleared up, but he was attacked by stomach disorders so violent that he was sent to Albuquerque for treatment. He appeared to be recovering until Monday, when Mrs. Ageton was called to Albuquerque by staff physicians.
FUNERAL PENDING
Mrs. Ageton was to return to Carlsbad today, but no funeral arrangements had been announced.
Although doctors gave him no hopes for recovery, he was optimistic until the end. His great courage persisted until the last, and he was active despite his infirmity until the fatal attack.
Identified with the mining industry since his graduatin from Washington State college in 1911, Ageton was a remarkably versatile man. At Washington State, he was a star backfield man for three years on the football teamm where he was known as one of the most unfortunate players. He was out of the game a part of every season because of broken bones.
CREATES CHARACTER
He was managing editor of the student newspaper at Washington State and has written prolifically all of his life. Many of his booklets have been published by the government as authoritative documents on mining and geology.
He was an artist of ability, creating the character "Accident Prevention Pete" while pioneering accident prevention work in the Tri-State mining area at Miami, Oklahoma.
When Ageton conceived the idea of combating carelessness and dangerous practices with an organized campaign, "Pete" was born with a few strokes of Ageton's pen.
ROSE TO FAME
With typical miner"s headgear atop his brow, wide-open eyes that stared aghast at foolish, death-dealing practices, a nose the size of which gave him inalienable right to stick it into other people's business and a porcupine mustache through which trickled a language the miners themselves can understand. Pete found himself welcomed by the underground toilers as one of themselves, and was quickly adopted as their fetish against the hazards of mining.
Pete' rise to fame was rapid. Soon miners were smoking Pete cigars and wearing Pete buttons. Pete calendars, with Pete starring in 12 episodes depicting the feelishness of dangerous methods and habits started appearing in mine offices.
Pete statuettes and Pete pocket pieces began to appear later, and from various plants, Pete was putting his creed across with words that evoked laughs, but where left constructive thought in the workingman's mind after the grin had died away.
MAJOR IN ARMY
Ageton always was active in the interest of safety, and has given the safety engineers of the Carlsbad potash mines much helpful advice in the campaigns that have won national recognition for both companies.
He started army service during the war in the rank of lieutenant, in the air service, and rose rapidly to the rank of major. He was stationed at Vanconver at the end of the war, George Armitage, now head of where he was a close friend of the world's largest tourist bureau, in Honolulu, T.H. Armitage was his guest here last spring and has directed hundreds of travelers here since.
Ageton was a crack rifle shot, and held many championships on the range, but was force to give up his shooting six years ago.
He was not only a talented writer and artist, but was a gifted musician and wrote a number of poems, most of them lightly philosophical.
SERVED AS DIPLOMAT
Not only was he the government's technical expert in the potash area, but he was the diplomat who promoted cordial relations between the industy and the government. More than any other man, he kept relations between all concerned on an even keel.
He was a close frind of the late V.H. McNutt, the father of the potash industy in New Mexico, and wrote a brilliant editorial on the life of that great man on the occasion of his death last year.
Ageton is survived by his widow, Mary A. Ageton, and three sons, Rivhard V., Jr., Robert W., and John D., and his mother, Mrs. Minnie Ageton, of Louisville, Ky.
Captain Air Service
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, March 2, 1937, front page and page 6, reads as follows:
PIONEER OF MINE SAFETY CAMPAIGNS DIES SUDDENLY AT ALBUQUERQUE HOSPITAL
Richard V. Ageton
Richard Valentine Ageton was born in Hitchcock, S.D., December 17, 1887, the son of Peter B. and Minnie Anna Ageton.
He was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin, North Dakota and Montana, and attended the Montana Agricultural college at Bozeman, Montana, Weslyan university at Helena, and was graduated in 1911 from Washington State college at Pullman, Wash., with a degree of Bachelor of Mining Engineering. He completed his college education in 1923 at the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Upon graduation from college, he became first aid miner with the United States bureau of mines in Montana. In 1912 he was junior engineer with the United States navy in its coal investigating expedition into Alaska, along the Bering river.
That year he became connected with the Cle Clum Improvement company in Alaska, and worked in various capacities in the Alaskan mining industry until 1915, when he returned to the United States and worked in Utah and Montana with mining and timber companies until 1917.
He went into the air service of the United States army at the beginning of the World war in 1917. He was advanced from second lieutenant to captain during the war, and later was promoted to the rank of major. He was married to Mary Achsah Goodman in 1917.
In 1919 he returned to the United States bureau of mines as assistant mining engineer in charge of rescue cars and ventilation work in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington D.C., and Oklahoma.
He became safety supervisor of the Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Produces associaition at Miami, Oklahoma, where he pioneered accident prevention work in 1924.
He was appointed to the geological survey post in 1929 and was in charge of the Carlsbad officesince the beginning of potash development in New Mexico.
His technical writings included "Timbering of Medal Mines," bureau of mining bulletin: "Potash in New Mexico," published by the United States Potash company; an article on the new potash machinery in New Mexico, articles in the Engineering and Mining Journal, Safety Engineering News, Mining Congress Journal, Mining and Metal, Explosives Engineer, Arizona Mining Journal and other publications.
Richard V. Ageton, deputy mining engineer for the United States geological survey, died at 4 a.m. today in the Veterans hospital at Albuquerque. He was 50 years old.
In charge of the Carlsbad office of the survey since the beginning of the potash industry in New Mexico, ageton was the best informed man in New Mexico on potash mining and the Permian basin.
He was the originator of "Accident Prevention Pete," a cartoon character whose droll adive was repeated from coast to coast in safety movements, and was a pioneer in accident prevention work in mines.
WELL-KNOWN WRITER
A writer of wide renown, Ageton was the author of many booklets and exhaustive article on potash, and scores of articles and short stories in the best know professional magazines.
His death followed a long fight against a race disease which attacked him six years ago, and which puzzled specialists from the beginning.
During the Christmas holidays, life apparently was returning in the left leg, which had been paralyzed for six years, and he was believed recovering from the rare malady when infection set in.
Recently the infection was cleared up, but he was attacked by stomach disorders so violent that he was sent to Albuquerque for treatment. He appeared to be recovering until Monday, when Mrs. Ageton was called to Albuquerque by staff physicians.
FUNERAL PENDING
Mrs. Ageton was to return to Carlsbad today, but no funeral arrangements had been announced.
Although doctors gave him no hopes for recovery, he was optimistic until the end. His great courage persisted until the last, and he was active despite his infirmity until the fatal attack.
Identified with the mining industry since his graduatin from Washington State college in 1911, Ageton was a remarkably versatile man. At Washington State, he was a star backfield man for three years on the football teamm where he was known as one of the most unfortunate players. He was out of the game a part of every season because of broken bones.
CREATES CHARACTER
He was managing editor of the student newspaper at Washington State and has written prolifically all of his life. Many of his booklets have been published by the government as authoritative documents on mining and geology.
He was an artist of ability, creating the character "Accident Prevention Pete" while pioneering accident prevention work in the Tri-State mining area at Miami, Oklahoma.
When Ageton conceived the idea of combating carelessness and dangerous practices with an organized campaign, "Pete" was born with a few strokes of Ageton's pen.
ROSE TO FAME
With typical miner"s headgear atop his brow, wide-open eyes that stared aghast at foolish, death-dealing practices, a nose the size of which gave him inalienable right to stick it into other people's business and a porcupine mustache through which trickled a language the miners themselves can understand. Pete found himself welcomed by the underground toilers as one of themselves, and was quickly adopted as their fetish against the hazards of mining.
Pete' rise to fame was rapid. Soon miners were smoking Pete cigars and wearing Pete buttons. Pete calendars, with Pete starring in 12 episodes depicting the feelishness of dangerous methods and habits started appearing in mine offices.
Pete statuettes and Pete pocket pieces began to appear later, and from various plants, Pete was putting his creed across with words that evoked laughs, but where left constructive thought in the workingman's mind after the grin had died away.
MAJOR IN ARMY
Ageton always was active in the interest of safety, and has given the safety engineers of the Carlsbad potash mines much helpful advice in the campaigns that have won national recognition for both companies.
He started army service during the war in the rank of lieutenant, in the air service, and rose rapidly to the rank of major. He was stationed at Vanconver at the end of the war, George Armitage, now head of where he was a close friend of the world's largest tourist bureau, in Honolulu, T.H. Armitage was his guest here last spring and has directed hundreds of travelers here since.
Ageton was a crack rifle shot, and held many championships on the range, but was force to give up his shooting six years ago.
He was not only a talented writer and artist, but was a gifted musician and wrote a number of poems, most of them lightly philosophical.
SERVED AS DIPLOMAT
Not only was he the government's technical expert in the potash area, but he was the diplomat who promoted cordial relations between the industy and the government. More than any other man, he kept relations between all concerned on an even keel.
He was a close frind of the late V.H. McNutt, the father of the potash industy in New Mexico, and wrote a brilliant editorial on the life of that great man on the occasion of his death last year.
Ageton is survived by his widow, Mary A. Ageton, and three sons, Rivhard V., Jr., Robert W., and John D., and his mother, Mrs. Minnie Ageton, of Louisville, Ky.
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, March 2, 1937, front page and page 6, reads as follows:
PIONEER OF MINE SAFETY CAMPAIGNS DIES SUDDENLY AT ALBUQUERQUE HOSPITAL
Richard V. Ageton
Richard Valentine Ageton was born in Hitchcock, S.D., December 17, 1887, the son of Peter B. and Minnie Anna Ageton.
He was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin, North Dakota and Montana, and attended the Montana Agricultural college at Bozeman, Montana, Weslyan university at Helena, and was graduated in 1911 from Washington State college at Pullman, Wash., with a degree of Bachelor of Mining Engineering. He completed his college education in 1923 at the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Upon graduation from college, he became first aid miner with the United States bureau of mines in Montana. In 1912 he was junior engineer with the United States navy in its coal investigating expedition into Alaska, along the Bering river.
That year he became connected with the Cle Clum Improvement company in Alaska, and worked in various capacities in the Alaskan mining industry until 1915, when he returned to the United States and worked in Utah and Montana with mining and timber companies until 1917.
He went into the air service of the United States army at the beginning of the World war in 1917. He was advanced from second lieutenant to captain during the war, and later was promoted to the rank of major. He was married to Mary Achsah Goodman in 1917.
In 1919 he returned to the United States bureau of mines as assistant mining engineer in charge of rescue cars and ventilation work in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington D.C., and Oklahoma.
He became safety supervisor of the Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Produces associaition at Miami, Oklahoma, where he pioneered accident prevention work in 1924.
He was appointed to the geological survey post in 1929 and was in charge of the Carlsbad officesince the beginning of potash development in New Mexico.
His technical writings included "Timbering of Medal Mines," bureau of mining bulletin: "Potash in New Mexico," published by the United States Potash company; an article on the new potash machinery in New Mexico, articles in the Engineering and Mining Journal, Safety Engineering News, Mining Congress Journal, Mining and Metal, Explosives Engineer, Arizona Mining Journal and other publications.
Richard V. Ageton, deputy mining engineer for the United States geological survey, died at 4 a.m. today in the Veterans hospital at Albuquerque. He was 50 years old.
In charge of the Carlsbad office of the survey since the beginning of the potash industry in New Mexico, ageton was the best informed man in New Mexico on potash mining and the Permian basin.
He was the originator of "Accident Prevention Pete," a cartoon character whose droll adive was repeated from coast to coast in safety movements, and was a pioneer in accident prevention work in mines.
WELL-KNOWN WRITER
A writer of wide renown, Ageton was the author of many booklets and exhaustive article on potash, and scores of articles and short stories in the best know professional magazines.
His death followed a long fight against a race disease which attacked him six years ago, and which puzzled specialists from the beginning.
During the Christmas holidays, life apparently was returning in the left leg, which had been paralyzed for six years, and he was believed recovering from the rare malady when infection set in.
Recently the infection was cleared up, but he was attacked by stomach disorders so violent that he was sent to Albuquerque for treatment. He appeared to be recovering until Monday, when Mrs. Ageton was called to Albuquerque by staff physicians.
FUNERAL PENDING
Mrs. Ageton was to return to Carlsbad today, but no funeral arrangements had been announced.
Although doctors gave him no hopes for recovery, he was optimistic until the end. His great courage persisted until the last, and he was active despite his infirmity until the fatal attack.
Identified with the mining industry since his graduatin from Washington State college in 1911, Ageton was a remarkably versatile man. At Washington State, he was a star backfield man for three years on the football teamm where he was known as one of the most unfortunate players. He was out of the game a part of every season because of broken bones.
CREATES CHARACTER
He was managing editor of the student newspaper at Washington State and has written prolifically all of his life. Many of his booklets have been published by the government as authoritative documents on mining and geology.
He was an artist of ability, creating the character "Accident Prevention Pete" while pioneering accident prevention work in the Tri-State mining area at Miami, Oklahoma.
When Ageton conceived the idea of combating carelessness and dangerous practices with an organized campaign, "Pete" was born with a few strokes of Ageton's pen.
ROSE TO FAME
With typical miner"s headgear atop his brow, wide-open eyes that stared aghast at foolish, death-dealing practices, a nose the size of which gave him inalienable right to stick it into other people's business and a porcupine mustache through which trickled a language the miners themselves can understand. Pete found himself welcomed by the underground toilers as one of themselves, and was quickly adopted as their fetish against the hazards of mining.
Pete' rise to fame was rapid. Soon miners were smoking Pete cigars and wearing Pete buttons. Pete calendars, with Pete starring in 12 episodes depicting the feelishness of dangerous methods and habits started appearing in mine offices.
Pete statuettes and Pete pocket pieces began to appear later, and from various plants, Pete was putting his creed across with words that evoked laughs, but where left constructive thought in the workingman's mind after the grin had died away.
MAJOR IN ARMY
Ageton always was active in the interest of safety, and has given the safety engineers of the Carlsbad potash mines much helpful advice in the campaigns that have won national recognition for both companies.
He started army service during the war in the rank of lieutenant, in the air service, and rose rapidly to the rank of major. He was stationed at Vanconver at the end of the war, George Armitage, now head of where he was a close friend of the world's largest tourist bureau, in Honolulu, T.H. Armitage was his guest here last spring and has directed hundreds of travelers here since.
Ageton was a crack rifle shot, and held many championships on the range, but was force to give up his shooting six years ago.
He was not only a talented writer and artist, but was a gifted musician and wrote a number of poems, most of them lightly philosophical.
SERVED AS DIPLOMAT
Not only was he the government's technical expert in the potash area, but he was the diplomat who promoted cordial relations between the industy and the government. More than any other man, he kept relations between all concerned on an even keel.
He was a close frind of the late V.H. McNutt, the father of the potash industy in New Mexico, and wrote a brilliant editorial on the life of that great man on the occasion of his death last year.
Ageton is survived by his widow, Mary A. Ageton, and three sons, Rivhard V., Jr., Robert W., and John D., and his mother, Mrs. Minnie Ageton, of Louisville, Ky.
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