Leroy ("Ed") Parsons Addendum Parsons' abrupt departure from CATV in March 1953 had nothing to do with a business failure ("by mid-1953 he was in receivership"); in fact quite the opposite.   His 210 Stinson airplane put him 'on-call' and 'instantly available' to essentially every western CATV pioneer he had engaged.   A lengthy list of struggling systems by winter-1953 depended upon him to hop into the Stinson and race to solve a problem. His clients included CATV operators in Aberdeen-Hoquiam, Bellingham, Centralia, Kelso, Lewiston, Longview, Medford-Roseburg , Pasco-Kennewick, and Raymond. Saturday Evening Post Stinson 210 H.P. 4 Place Cabin Plane.  From an advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post, March 29, 1930. On one such 'hurry here' flight, exhausted and fighting bad weather, he fell asleep at the controls, drifted off course and landed in a state of significant fatigue.   After two days on the ground, "untangling impedance matching mistakes," he returned to Astoria and immediately entered a hospital for two weeks.   His wife Grace and his doctors convinced him to take a month off ― "you have burned yourself out." In the months following his hospitalization, Ed and his faithful 210 would drift north for a month, a leg at a time, ending up in Fairbanks.   The hop-skip-jump month in the air brought Parsons to a realization: he would have to retire from CATV or he would die. In Alaska, while Grace wrapped up the Astoria businesses, Ed discovered his skills were much needed to modernize Alaskan trans-polar flight communications.   Over the next two decades, he did so with great skill and devotion. His only 'bankruptcy' was mental, emotional, and physical. ―Robert B. Cooper, 2012.