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Show AIRPORT FETE . PROGRAf.I TOLD Music and dancing were being arranged Friday to attract Salt Lakers to the municipal airport Saturday evening for opening of a two-day program dedicating 11,100,-000 11,100,-000 worth of new permanent Improvements. Im-provements. "The city has an airport equal to anything In the rountry and we , want our residents to know It." said : Lincoln R. lire, vice chairman of the chamber of commerce aviation committee, which Is sponsoring the event. The committee en arrangements Is hopeful of mstchlng tha cektbra-, lion held May M, 133, when 40,000 persona thronged the airport for dedication of the 150,000 administration adminis-tration building. First event of the week-end dedicatory dedi-catory program will be the dance In the army hangar Saturday evening, eve-ning, at which the W P A workers who were employed on the airport project and their partners will be special guests. Planes and flying equipment were being moved Friday so the floor could be waxed. Mass Flight A nine-piece orchestra will furnish fur-nish music, according to S. R. Newman, New-man, entertainment chairman. Sunday's program will open at 1 a. m. with an exhibition of tiny motor-powered model airplanes by members of the Model Aeronautics Research squadron of the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Aviation club. The models will make SS-second flights, Wesley Keller, president of I the group, said Friday. Fifteen airplanes will fly in formation for-mation over the city from 11 a. m. till 11:30 a. m. to call attention to tha program. First of a aeries of flying competitions compe-titions will begin at 11:10' a. m.. when private and atudent fliers test their accuracy In spot landings with a throttled motor. ' Landing of regularly scheduled transport ships will require clear-! clear-! Ing of the field from 12:43 to 1:45 p. m. For an hour, beginning at 1:15 I p. m, student and private fliers I will compete in "dead stick land-i land-i ings and in accuracy of dropping flour-filled "bombs" from a 200-i 200-i foot altitude. Transport pilots will take part in a balloon bursting contest. con-test. To Try at Record i An overture by The Trlbuna-Tele-, gram band will open the formal ' dedicatory program at i p. m. Mayor , E. B. Erwin will review the air- port's history and Covernor Henry I H. Blood will dedicate the field. During progress of this brief pro- gram Frank W. Fuller, Bendlx trophy tro-phy winner, is expected to arrive from San Francisco at close of an attempt to break the existing speed : record of 1 hours and 40 minutes, i In additional demonstration of t flying skill following the dedicatory I program, transport pilots will cut paper stream ere dropped from an alUtude of 2000 feet with their; plana wings and Ray Peck, local aviator, will exhibit dead stick land-ing land-ing technique. Sightseeing tours of the field and its facilities will he conducted during dur-ing the day. Members of the local unit of the Women's National Aeronautical association as-sociation will be hostessee Saturday night and Sunday. Airport Prateee Major units of the W P A prelect prel-ect which inspired ths dedication plana were construct ion of a concrete con-crete runway AS30 feet long, asphalt runways ft&SO and 4350 feet long, respectively, re-spectively, a concrete apron and a drainage system, enlargement of the administration building and installation in-stallation of new lights. "With these Improvements, the Salt Lake City airport is easily the equal of the Cleveland, Ohio, port, heretofore conceded the best In ths nation," reported Tom Wolfe, Los Angeles, vice president in charge of traffic and advertising for Western Air . Express, and C. N. (Jimmy) James, vice president in chsrge of operations, during a brief visit here Thursday night. They continued to Butte. Mont., for opening of an aviation week program there, but will return for the local celebration. |