Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-11-14 | Page 12 | Backman Seeks Refueling Base

BACKMAN SEEKS t j BASE BASEl BASEI f l' l I Gus P. P Backman executive secretary sec- sec of Salt Lake chamber of j commerce was making renewed f efforts Friday to obtain a a. suitable a Utah site as a refueling base for royal Canadian air force seaplanes J t The renewed search for a site began after Mr Backman had been been I Ii i unformed Informed by Mark Anderson director di- di I erector rector of the state fish and game f commission that the proposed use 11 of the Farmington bay migratory i bird refuge would be opposed by the commission and and that sportsmen sports sports- sports men men groups were opposed to the ruse use of the refuge as a refueling base by planes t Mr Backman said that Dr i jThomas Thomas C. C Adams of the Salt Lake Yacht club had agreed to investigate the possibilities of the thet t use of the clubs club's facilities at the j Salt Lake county police boat harbor harbor har- har bor on Great Salt lake Canadian officials Mr Backman said want a base near large aviation avia- avia tion gasoline and not too far far distant from the Salt Lake j municipal airport so that local mechanics mechanics could make emergency on ships being flown across country A southern route is desired de- de sired because because- the Canadian lakes freeze freeze over in the winter Mr Backman Back Back- man Back man said