Show CITY AIRFIELD N I S. S L AVIATOR SAYS Electric Wires Around Grounds Dangerous Beer Believes Deploring th the unsafe conditions Which are permitted to exist at the municipal airport airport- ort Se Second ond LI Lieutenant Lieuten ant Kenneth V. V Beer of the U. U S Sair S. S air corps reserve stationed at Kelly field Wednesday WednesdayS i S urged Improvements improveS Improve improve- f ments be to L S m made de at the field W Lieutenant Beer Is in Salt Lake for a short VIsit with his father Dr William F F. 5 S Beer B St St. Although Salt Sal r L La Lake a k e probably probably- e.- e. l' l ranks an k s t third thirdS thirdS' h i r d S' S among th the cities of the United I States as a center cen cen- ter for airmail fI tt lines it has the poorest ground 1 facilities of any Kenneth Beer Beer- large airpOrt In Inthe inthe the the- west that 1 have visited Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Beer said Bounded on three sides by electric wires and andone andone andone one side by a a. high tension line the pilots pilot's task o of ot safely l landing anc and taking off oU Is extremely hazardous The runway runway running north and south Is both too narrow and tot too short and for some pl planes nes It Is Im Impossible Impossible Impossible Im- Im possible to take off toward the east eastend eastend eastend end of th- th field It Is especially difficult In wet weather for the pilot to maneuver his plane on the ground Improvements suggested by Beer would provide for elimination of overheard overhead wires a runway at least a mile half-mile In length a drainage system system tem tern adequate for the demand and hangars for visiting planes plants Lieutenant Beer was one of the twenty-nine twenty cad cadets ts to graduate from Kelly field Texas in February He attended the East high school In Salt Lake and received his bachelor of arts degree from Stanford university In 1926 |