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Show 0 - JrJ' z " AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER Sixty-eight youngsters competed in a model aircraft contest in Kansas Kan-sas City, Kas., under auspices of Model Aircraft institute and sanctioned sanc-tioned by Academy of Model Aeronautics Aero-nautics in Washington. ... A civic campaign has been launched in Du Quoin, 111., to raise $10,000 for purchase pur-chase of a 93-acre site and development develop-ment of an airport. Backing the , project, the Lions club has arranged temporary financing for purchase of the site, which had been used as an airport until early 1946. The club voted $1,000 toward the campaign. . . . Expansion of civil air- patrol activities is contemplated during the coming year, wing commanders of the group were told at their annual an-nual meeting in Washington. Highlight High-light of the three-day session was ' the second annual congressional j dinner, when reports, were made to j congressmen on activities of nearly 1,500 CAP units throughout the j United States. CAP is an auxiliary i of army air forces. . . . Airplanes I were utilized to inspect land de-! de-! voted to summer fallow in western Kansas. Glenn H. Johnson, state ! director of the Kansas Production and Marketing administration in , Manhattan announced that summer ! fallow practice was performed by ! about 18,000 farmers on 2,500,000 acres of land. Use of airplanes expedited ex-pedited checking to determine that farmers complied with all requirements. require-ments. Once again the airplane has come to the aid of law enforcement enforce-ment officials. An Arizona highway high-way patrolman, from whom three youths in a stolen car managed to escape, got his men recently by rushing to an airport air-port and taking a Cub plane aloft for a, survey of the desert into which they had disappeared. disap-peared. He spotted the youths hiding beneath a desert bush, made note of the spot and in a few minutes had landed and apprehended them. MODERN PROSPECTORS The old "pick and bupro" prospectors prospec-tors soon will be giving way to men with helicopters, believes Dr. Francis A. Thompson, president of Montana School of Mines at Butte. Dr. Thompson explains that devices now being perfected will allow prospectors pros-pectors to use helicopters and enable en-able them to locate mineral deposits hidden under lava flows and alluvial al-luvial deposits in the Northwest. GOOD PRESCRIPTION Serving as staff physician for hosV pitals in three different cities. Dr. Frank- A. Brewster of Holdridge, Nebr., finds that time is valuable. Consequently, he resorts to a plane for rapid transportation between Holdridge and Lexington, Nebr., and Oberlin, Kas., the other cities in which he serves on hospital staffs. Each is more than 100 miles from Holdridge. Dr. Brewster, 73, bought his first plane, an old Jenny, in 1919. Now he pilots a Fairchild F-24 Ranger four-place four-place personal plane. This permits his wife and nurse assistant to accompany ac-company him on many of the flights. In addition to his regular professional trips, he has made flights to Chicago, El Paso and points in Kentucky. t r ' . - t 1 T "''"'' 1 FLYING DOCTOR Abreast 4 Times WEST POINT OF AIR Hundreds of young Americans soon will be taking advantage of the opportunity to attend pilot training classes at the "West Point of the Air." Army air forces is reopening its aviation cadet training program to qualified young men. The first postwar cadet class of 500 students, for which civilians now may apply, will begin training July 1 at Randolph Ran-dolph Field, San Anonio, Tex. The course of flying instruction for aviation avia-tion cadets will -xtend for 52 weeks. |