Dr Jack Leonard was a genius engineer who developed an early foetal heart rate monitor, before going into business and later training as a helicopter pilot.
The search for a long-lost World War II pilot may finally be over.
First Lt. Frank P. “Bud” Hayes was piloting a rescue aircraft that crashed in late 1945 at the end of the war. Hayes, who grew up on a farm in rural Filer, Idaho, has a strong connection to Horry County. His niece is retired Conway attorney Carla Grabert-Lowenstein. She is married to Henry Lowenstein, emeritus professor and former business dean at Coastal Carolina University in Conway.