Civil Air Patrol in Search for Downed Aircraft

Pilots and observers of the Bishop Squadron Civil Air Patrol joined the search 
Wednesday morning for Louis Giroux, a wealthy Reno sportsman who was thought 
for a time to have to have crashed his airplane on Mt. Ritter, near Mammoth Lakes.

The search was cancelled at 12:30 p.m. after wreckage of the Cessna 210 was 
spotted by another CAP Squadron in the desert near Lancaster.

Local CAP crews were called into the effort after a column of smoke was reported 
rising from the slopes of Mt. Ritter by another flyer.  The smoke was spotted not 
long after Giroux had radioed the Bishop airport, saying he was approaching the 
area.

Giroux, 37, was en route to a funeral in Rialto.  Passengers were his wife, Marlene, 
and his mother, Nora M. Giroux.

Giroux an official of Byars Construction Co. in Reno was a member of a pioneer 
Nevada family.

His grandfather, J. L. Giroux, was one of the early developers of copper properties 
in White Pine County.  His interests were sold to Consolidated Copper Mines, and 
are now in part of Kennecott Copper Corp.

Giroux was a prominent skeet shooter, and had competed on the national level.

The Inyo Register, Bishop, Inyo County, California
August 3, 1967 – Front Page, continued on page two
Transcribed by Pat Houser for Inyo County GenWeb, July 14, 2005