Show Airport Needs ri DESERvING of immediate study by the new 1 y city government are rc the needs o the Salt Lake City airport This vital facility today od y bears no no comparison with the stricken poverty field and nd ramshackle buildings of a few years ago b but t the rapid development of air commerce presses its demands so sw swiftly that keeping up to date means no ma marking Jt lg time or halting is is' isper per per- We thought we had a pretty fair fali- airport until last fall when the army's G G. H. H Q battle battle- pla planes es descended ed here This This' was a n new w test and aid d the commander found In inconveniences ez and ande e even en dangers which had g gone ne unnoticed ed Civic Civic- minded n citizens were aroused an and aM public officials off I- I dais immediately set to t lo 10 plan improvementS improve improve- ments Financing w was s arranged and progress progress' is s sie ie recorded but recorded but after many del Y o lich lichIh li Ih have ve seemed quite needless About a month ago ago igo the e worst threat aimed at the airport came into irit view Commercial carriers announced i in intention intention in- in V to fo pu put still sui larger ships into service e. e Ita It was a pointed out that facilities at the airport rt W were re rc wh wholly inadequate ate to meet that situation when it should arise J Unless Unless conditions Ondit ons were corrected Salt Lake c City long ng a major air center on on transcontinental tal ta lines s appeared to be doomed as as f far r as asre re retaining re- re its present importance is concerned For anything like ike ik th that tto to th happen happe would croWd beai be a Ita 1 misfortune f for the the co comm community ii 1 ty Consid Consid- ered solely from the viewpoint of wide nation-wide advertising for this the center of scenic America America Amer Amer- ica ice remaining on the air alt map as a critical point reinforces the great amo amount t that tha has been spent in fri giving travelers information about the state and city as a vacation playground as a center of western industry as a depository of ot uncounted ed d wealth in natural resources as an Ideal Joca location location loca loca- tion for a home in the far west and a favored site in the intermountain empire for establishing establish establish- ing new business and industrial enterprises In cap capitalizing on the values of past advertIsing advertising adver adver- effort large scale scafe improvements at the airport are wholly worthwhile But this is perhaps the least gain Heightened activity atthe atthe at atthe the landing field i ld is II of pf major concern to local business A m modern dern a airport here is moreover a potent means of impressing travelers with the importance o of the city as a point key-point in the he inland empire Strategic location won this place of importance for Salt Lake City and it would I be sighted short indeed to forfeit any advantage advantage advantage tage already in our hands by neglecting a profitable profitable profitable prof prof- investment in ih favor of a seeming economy The city commission and alert citizens should work hand in hand to accrue every possible gain gainin in looking forward-looking modernization and enlargement enlargement enlargement enlarge enlarge- ment programs programs' for the Salt Lake City airport m most st vital point on the skyways sky between Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago and the Pacific coast |