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Show County Commissioners To Meet Local Delegation Here To Select New Road To Airport New Route From Springville Would Be Initial Step In Cooperation Of Two Cities In Maintaining Airport Joint cooperation of the cities of Springville and Spanish Fork in the maintenance and operation of the present Spanish Fork airport moved closer to realiza- tion this week when an appointment appoint-ment was arranged Monday with the Utah county commissioners by Carl A. Atkinson, secretary of the Springville Chamber of Commerce, and Lawrence L. Beach, chairman of the aviation committee of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, to select a suitable site for the building build-ing of a road from Springville to the airport. Friday afternoon at three o'clock the commissioners will meet a delegation from the local lo-cal city council and civic clubs to select a proposed site. At a recent meeting of the Junior Jun-ior Chamber of Commerce, conducted con-ducted by the aviation committee, and at which representatives from the civic clubs and the city council coun-cil were present, Joseph Bergin, director of aeronautics for the state of Utah, stated that Springville Spring-ville would be greatly benfited through cooperation with Spanish Fork in the maintenance of the airport, air-port, which is located almost directly di-rectly between the two cities. He said that due to the promiximity of Springville to the Spanish Fork and Provo airports, an individually owned airport for Springville would be imposisble. He urged the construction con-struction of the road, and said that the government would look with favor in providing funds for improving the present Spanish Fork airport should the two cities join in its maintenance. Springville Spring-ville has many aviation enthusiasts, enthus-iasts, with a local flying club operating oper-ating from the airport, and many of its young men are in the Civil Air Patrol, receiving instruction there on Monday and Friday evenings. eve-nings. There is no question about the future of air commerce after the present war, and it was recently stated by George Smeath, head of the Utah county planning board, that the city without an airport following the present conflict would be out of the picture. He also stated that the planning board was in wholehearted support of the cooperative airport plan, and had already completed blueprints of proposed expansions to the airport. air-port. The two cities, by joint operation of the airport, would be in a position posi-tion to receive assistance in putting put-ting the landing area in high class condition, suitable for caring for a huge business in air commerce, which is sure to come. It is also highly probable that with necessary neces-sary improvements made, flying schools which have had to move out of combat zones would likely seek a location here, bringing in added business to the communities. The city councils and civic clubs of . the two cities have expressed their approval of the project, and if the road can be secured the initial ini-tial step will have been taken for a jointly-operated airport that will undoubtedly prove to be one of the finest in Utah. |
