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Show VIATIOM NOTES A.RPOKT CHATTER Work has been commenced on lighting, seeding and fencing of the new $2,500,000 municipal airport at Dubuque. Iowa. There will be 116 contact lights along two runways, with 16 cone-mounted range snow lights. A 51-foot tower will be equipped with a rotary beacon light 36 inches in diameter. . . . The former for-mer naval airfield at Arlington Heights, 111., has been taken over by Illinois Aircraft Services and Sales company for civilian training purposes. It will be known as the Arlington Flying Center. . . . Colorado Colo-rado Flying Farmers and Ranchers held their second annual meeting at Christman field, the Colorado A. and M. college airport at Fort Collins. Col-lins. Program highlights included discussion of legislation affecting aviation, survey of uses of airplanes in agriculture and an outline of the purpose and program of the Flying Fly-ing Farmers organization. . . . Mayors, airport managers and aircraft air-craft dealers from 10 midwestern states gathered at St. Louis for an aviation clinic sponsored by Parks College of Aeronautical Technology. The clinic was arranged in connection connec-tion with the regional air fair, held in the St. Louis arena. . . . The Lenox, la., airport, operated by Al Wurster and John Kendall, is being improved to meet government requirements to permit flight instruction in-struction for war veterans. Participating in the first group around -the WOl Id air tour for business survey and good will building purposes, a group of Indiana In-diana business men left New York June 1 on a globe-encircling tour which embraces stops in 12 countries. The tour is sponsored spon-sored by the Indianapolis Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. The itinerary calls for stops in England, France, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Egypt, India, Burma, China and the Philippines, in addition to Hawaii. 'DOGS IS DOGS' Ellis Parker Butler's classic, "Pigs Is Pigs," the story of the express ex-press agent who found more pigs in a shipment than he bargained for, was bound to have its modern counterpart, coun-terpart, especially with all the pets and puppies, pedigreed cats, spiny ant-eaters and such traveling in air express service these days. And so it happened one day recently on a Toledo-New York flight. A valuable valu-able cocker spaniel, en route from Toledo to Mt. Desert Island, Me., gave birth to a litter of four puppies pup-pies as the plane sped towards New York. Upon arrival at LaGuardia field, the sky-born spaniels were pronounced pro-nounced fit to continue to Bangor. FEEDER SERVICE F eeder line operations of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Central Airlines will be commenced com-menced this summer, the service covering 43 communities in Illinois, Minnesota, Upper Michigan and Wisconsin over a 1,495-mile-ruute network. The airline recently was certificated by Civil Aeronautics administration to operate the service. serv-ice. Twin-engine, DC-3 type, 21 passenger Douglas transports ' are planned for the service. AMONG THE PEAKS . . . A ski-Plane ski-Plane of supplies lands on Mul- MreKIf V1 the f00t of Mt. M h nle, where ,he basc for Operation White Tower is located lo-cated I The expedition will ascend McKlnle, In the interests of sci. PACTS AND FIGURES Approximately one out of four em- ties u ""c- . . Aeronautics Aeronau-tics has been a basic subject of primary education in nZ schools for many years'". . f WC,re a military weapon " early as I792 , j y WJP use of aircraft in active miiuary operations occurred ,n 1915 i' 1 n necion with General nltive expedition to Mexico. 8 The K-30 camera weighs 575 pound. |