Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-25 | Page 15 | Airline Chiefs Plead for Aid

11 i ri 1 lINE HUE CHIEFS i f PLEAD FOR AID AIDI I innate of United Air Lines Line To re the Salt Lake City before 1 of board of di dito dl- dl I ber r Friday to enlist aid in efI ef ef- ef- ef their line Jine with merge o Air Express I ern would Boost S. S L L. LI Patterson president aMId and aM I I W. W A. A CrarY W vice president in jirO Id d if of traffic for the comI cornI com corn 1 e told vi th the boar board l the proposed I would enhance Salt Lake LakeI jie or r position 5 ion as a national air airI I I I er combination of these two Could make Salt Lake the thel l n which aircraft would fly I IfA u fro north norm and south Mr alt In west n declared in advancing I 11 fa why the chamber should iS II It r- r the proposed merger rt SU merger reer would be a natural I two tW independent lines I n I tos on would be consolidated increased ss r I would have Jave havea Air Lines tod td r a and better facilities with wilh re Jo spread to the north north but but S City's position as the e e Should lib hb would be amplified V j jc failed Offer mailed to every West West- have Ve e Express stockholder c er the ie offer raP nial for their stock as was eastern stockholders stockholders' the he to 0 radl r the controlling interest own OWl J ab o I th the company Jn In here flere would be no personnel and seniority rights action rig remain the same Mr Patterson Pat- Pat terson told the chamber board boa lit Jr crary CY reported United Ifould contract within the next few days days' for six passenger 52 airliners to cost each which he said would be operated In and out of Salt Lake City in 1941 He and Mrs Patterson came Chicago here bore from