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Show 2AY PETE Y MALm 1 All Invited to View Finest Air Center ARMY HANGAR DANCE TONIGHT INAUGURATES FESTIVEJELEBRATIOfi Pageant of Planes, Speed Record Try, Addresses Ad-dresses by Officials and Other Features Set for Sunday Practical results of. the expenditure of more than $1,200,000 to give Salt Lake City a "super-plus" airport, and furnish work for the jobless will be on exhibit at the muni cipal port Saturday evening and Sunday. ' WITH SUCH TOIL WAS BUILT AN AIRPORT REPUTED NATION'S FINEST Improvement project provided year's em ployment in their crafts to hundreds of depression-hit WPA workers. The eeaslon win fca Um sVeH-eatton sVeH-eatton of the Improvement itmmso possible under the suite's laeat WrAproJeet. Hundreds of men from relief rolls have been employed the last year on tha project, building new eoo-crete eoo-crete and asphalt runways, a con crate apron and a drainage system. Installing lights and enlarging the administration building. A dance In tha army hangar Sat urday evening, an all-day program of air maneuvers Sunday, a dedl-catory dedl-catory program at I p. m. Sunday and sightseeing tours of the airport faeilltiaa are planned lor the eel bratlon. , Opening of the formal dedicatory program will ba tha arrival of Frank W. Fuller, this year's Bsndtx trophy winner. In an effort to lower the existing speed record of 1 hours and 40 minutes between Saa Fran-Cisco Fran-Cisco and Salt Lake City. Obataeles Overcome That the WPA project had resulted re-sulted In giving Salt Lake City en of th finest airports In, not only this country, but the world as wall, waa a causa for rejoicing Saturday by city, county, state and WPA officials. One reason for their sense of safe -faction was knowlsdgs that only an almost superhuman effort to overcome financial obstacle had K! wC dF e- 4fc v. r V-e,.Vi i W l I ml I ....... ... ' a-J-FSrJ made the project poaaible. "This airport Improvement pro gram has proved an excellent means of demonstrating th WPA goal of maintaining work habit and work skills among broke and Jobless men," Darrell J. Greenwell. state director of W P A for Utah, emphasised empha-sised Saturday. "I am particularly happy that a special celebration ha been planned to mark completion of. the major portion of the project, because thi mesns that thousands of people will see for themselves that the men on WPA work roll are well trained and capable of fitting Into a alcha in private Industry. HANDS OF WELCOME INVITE ALL SA LT LAKERS TO AIRPORT DEDICATION "Take pride in your airport," advise Miss Sue Howanic, left, and Miss Melba Schatr, air lines st ewardesses. V. & Spends SastSil "It should be Mlf apparent that ws could not long continue with half our worker in private industry indus-try and tha other half employed by WPA, and thoae who have any fears that perhaps WPA worker ara losing thsir fitneaa for privet employment should not th high quality of th work don at th airport." air-port." Mr. Greenwell reported that th federal government ha contributed Iii34.621.81 toward coat of th project proj-ect and Salt Lake City and county, t284.3M.22. "It would not be possible t set up another project aa advantageous , to ths city and county aa waa this airport one, for present regulation require aponsors to supply all materials," ma-terials," Mr. Greenwell said. "On the airport work, however, the W P A purchased much of the materials In addition to supplying nearly all tha labor." Even at that, it waa Inability of Salt Lake City to supply It share of th project cost that delayed the project a considerable time. Th project hung fire for month during th summer of 193d while ' (Conllntied on Pas Thise) (Column Four! , r: H DAKKtXL J. GREENWELL; UTAH WPA DIRECTOR Lauds airport work as proof of WPA workers' skill. , Dedication of S. L. Siiperairport In Two-Day Festival Begins Tonight (Continued from Pag Ona city officials, business leaders and Utahns In ths federal servlcs attempted at-tempted to bring pressure to bear. Ths WPA was adamant on ths matter of local sponsors guaranteeing guaran-teeing their share. Harry L. Hopkins, national works progress administrator, cams to ths city on September 10, 1J, with word that $1,000,000 In federal funds was available If Salt Laks City could guarantee (240.000. City finances wers in no condition condi-tion to supply the needed money, but Salt Lake county was persuaded to put up $73,000 of the money, and the project was assured. Final approval wss given in mid- . October and within a short time work was under wsy and has proceeded pro-ceeded steadily since. Spurring sponsors in their efforts to have the project approved was realization that rapid developments in ths construction of larger and larger air transports would make the old airport unusable within a few years. W.. A I . With the expsnded facilities, however, It is believed. Sslt Lake Cfty is equipped to maintain its place as a hub of air travel. "We have an airport the equal of an In the country, barring none, and we want every citizen to realise this and appreciate the important place the airport is assuming in the city's economic life," said Lincoln R. Ure, vice chairman of the chamber cham-ber of commerce aviation committee, commit-tee, which is arranging the dedication dedica-tion program. WPA workers employed on the airport project and their partners will be special guests at ths dance in the army hangar Saturday evening. eve-ning. Members of ths locsl unit of the Women's Aeronautical association asso-ciation will be hostesses and Jerry Jones' orchestra will furnish music. Sunday's program at the airport will open with an exhibition of model motor-driven planes at S a. m. Members of the model aeronautics aero-nautics research squadron of The Tribune-Telegram Intermou n t a 1 n I Aviation club will handle the tiny ships. Pageant of Air Fifteen nlanes will flv in ffirm.. tion over the city at 31 a. m. Spot landing contests are planned to start at 11:15 a. m., "dead stick" landing and bomb dropping competitions compe-titions at 1:45 p. m. and other air stunts following the dedication program. pro-gram. Governor Henry H. Blood wai scheduled to dedicate the airport, but city officials beat the state "tc 'the punch" Friday by adopting an official dedication proclamation. Mayor K. B. Krwm will read this proclamation Sunday afternoon and the governor will speak briefly Harold P. Fabian, past president of the chamber of commerce, will be master of ceremonies. A United Air Lines sleeper plane will be on exhibition from 2 to 6 p. m. and 7 to 8:30 p. m., with a trew of captain, first mats and stewardess on hand to explain details de-tails of ths ship's operation. Sightseeing tours of the airport also are being planned by chamber of commerce officials. Key Workers Absrot Thousands of visitors are expected expect-ed to throng the airport all day Sunday. Sun-day. Including most public officials of ths city, county and state, but one of the men most instrumental in the establishment of the improvement im-provement project will be absent. He is Robert H. Hinckley, regional region-al W P A director, who is In Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, for a business trip. Mr. Fuller will carry greetings from San Francisco's mayor and chamber of commerce officials there on his attempt to set a new flight record. .Nearly all units of the improvement improve-ment project are already completed, but Mr. Greenwell reported Saturday Satur-day that rabies are still being laid for the new runway lighting system sys-tem and enlargement of the administration admin-istration building is still under way. |