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Show Local Contractors Get Airport Job. Near Heber City The Reynolds Construction Co. of this city has been awarded a contract for the construction of an airport one mile southwest of Heber, adjacent to U. S. 189 toy the Heber Valley Airport Control Con-trol Board. The company's bid was $93,429. Construction calls for clearing, grading, draining am area one mile long and 700 feet wide, with an oil surfaced runway 4400 feet long and 100 feet wide. Taxiways, aircraft parking areas, a well for culinary water, marking circles, wind cones, fencing fenc-ing and diversion of the irrigation canal are also included in the contract. con-tract. Work is expected to begin about July 15 and to toe completed this season, according to Harold H. Smith, chairman of the airport board. Other toidders on the joto were A. O. Thorn and Son's, SpringVille; W. W. Clyde Construction Co., Springville; Gibtoons and Reed Co., Salt Lake City. Mr. Smith said the Reynolds firm's bid was the lowest acceptable, a lower bid having been found unacceptable because of a technical, legal discrepancy. dis-crepancy. , Engineers for the commission in the airport project are the Neff Construction Co., Salt Lake City. Attending the bid opening was H. T. Bean, district airport engineer en-gineer for the civil aeronautics administration and Joe Bergin, state director of aeronautics. The project is a point effort by Heber, Wasatch County, sponsors, assisted by the state aeronautics department and the CAA. |