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Show Utah Agencies Nov Cooperating In Efforts to Better Service A trio of state, municipal, and civic units, functioning j jointly as the Utah Agencies, : nave pledged a continuation of coperative efforts in the New Year to assure more adequate air service for Utah residents and visitors. Established at the request of Gov. Calvin L. Rampton, the Utah Agencies organization organiza-tion includes officials of the I State Industrial Promotion 'Board, the Salt Lake City Commission and the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce.- Its goal is to insure adequate passenger and freight fre-ight air transportation linking link-ing Utah with major cities of the nation and the world, plus improvements in local services. Salt Lake City has been represented on the Utah Agencies Ag-encies by Commissioner Louis Lou-is E. Holley and L. C. Rom-ney, Rom-ney, Director of the Federal Housing Administration. Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Com-merce representatives are Maxwell E. Rich, Executive Secretary, and B. Z. Kast-4 Kast-4 ler, Secretary and General Counsel, Mountain Fuel Supply Sup-ply Co. The Utah Industrial Promotion Board is represented repre-sented by Board Chairman, D. Howe Moffat and Walter G. Smith, Director. Mr. Moffat Mof-fat serves as Utah Agencies Chairman, with Mr. Smith as Executive Secretary. Gus P. Backman, retired director of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, is an Ex-Officio ' member of the Utah Agencies. Agenc-ies. The Legal work of the Utah Ut-ah Agencies is handled by Utah Attorney General Phil L. Hansen, assisted by his Deputy John G. Avery. Poi-icy Poi-icy decisions are made by , the Agencies. The Attorney General decides how policies are to be carried out. The Utah Agencies annual budget of $50,000 is made up of $20-W0 $20-W0 from Industrial Promotion Promo-tion Board funds, $20,000 from the Attorney General's funds and $10,000 from Salt Lake City. Three major matters, the . Salt Lake-Las Vegas-Southern California Service Case; the opened Pacific Northwest- BACK IN BUSINESS Tlie usually popular Porcupine Porcu-pine Ranch was quiet over Christmas this year. Customers Custom-ers were snowed out, and lv operators, Mr. and Mrs. Ray j.wScovil, Wer? marooned be-i be-i hnd head-high drifts. The ranch owners followed a cat-powered cat-powered snowplow out Wednesday Wed-nesday of last week for their first venture from their homa since the big pre-Christmas snows, and the popular eat-ing eat-ing place was back in busi-ness busi-ness this weekend. ... Southern Service Investigation; Investiga-tion; and a new application for competitive services linking link-ing Salt Lake City with New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington. D. C. are the principal concerns of the Utah Agencies. In the Salt Lake-Las Vegas-Southern Vegas-Southern California Service Case, the Utah Agencies is seeking competitive service between Utah's capitol city, the fast-growing Las Vegas area and the populous Southern South-ern California centers. A Cedar Ce-dar City to Las Vegas route is also sought. The case was heard Sept. 20 in Salt Lake City before William J. Madden, Mad-den, Examiner for the Civil Aeronautics Board. The Bureau Bur-eau of Operating Rights of the CAB recommended to Mr. Madden that Bonanza Airlines be awarded a Salt Lake City-Las City-Las Vegas-Los Angeles route: authority for a Salt Lake City -Los Angeles non-stop service; a Salt Lake City-Las Vegas-San Vegas-San Diego route and a Cedar City-Las Vegas run. Examiner Examin-er Madden's recommendations recommenda-tions to the CAB are due shortly. Civic Party hearings in Salt Lake City and airlines hearings in Washington have also been held in the Reopened Reopen-ed Pacific Northwest-Southwest Service Investigation before be-fore Examiner Ross I. New-mann. New-mann. The Utah Agencies requested re-quested competitive and turnaround turn-around service to Portland and Seattle from Salt Lake City, plus initiation of service on a turn-around basis between be-tween Salt Lake City and Dallas, non-stop. One-stop service ser-vice is also urged to major points in the southwest thru Dallas or Denver. The Utah Agencies request likewise calls for Salt Lake City service on Continental and Braniff flights linking Northwestern and Southwestern Southwest-ern cities. The initial Bureau of Operating Oper-ating Rights recommendation called for West Coast Airlines turn-around service to the Northwest from Salt Lake City, with Frontier to be granted service rights to the Southwest from the Utah capitol. cap-itol. and Braniff to be certificated certifi-cated for Salt Lake City stops in its Northwest-Southwest flights. The Utah Agencies promptly termed this recommendation recom-mendation inadequate. The Agencies pointed out to Examiner Ex-aminer Newmann that such recommendations would in na way alleviate Utah's negligible negli-gible service to Albuquerque, Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Wichita: would provide merger mer-ger connecting service at Denver to New Orleans: and would afford minimal single-plane single-plane service to Dallas and Houston, via Denver and "optimistcially one stop." The Utah brief held - the recommendation would also , mean nothing but an inadequate inade-quate connecting service at Denver to such southwestern cities as Ft. Worth and San Antonio on Braniff routes. The Utah Agencies instead urged services to the Southwest South-west that would provide: 1. Non-stop Salt Lake City-Dallas City-Dallas flights, with through plane service to New Orleans, Or-leans, Houston and San Antonio. An-tonio. 2. Salt Lake City routes to New Orleans andor San Antonio An-tonio via Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Al-buquerque, EI Paso and intermediate in-termediate cities. 3. That Salt Lake City be made an intermediate point on all routes awarded Braniff, Bran-iff, Continental and Eastern Airlines. 4. Salt Lake City to be an intermediate point on any new route authority granted between the Pacific Northwest North-west and Southwest. 5. That turn-around authority author-ity be awarded from Salt Lake City to both the Northwest North-west and Southwest to provide pro-vide competitive routes to major cities in the case, plus first single plane service to other less populous points. The third major matter in which the Utah Agencies plays a role is the recent application ap-plication for competitive service ser-vice to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. This Utah Agencies Agen-cies application has not as yet been set down as a case for hearing by the CAB, but Agencies members are hopeful hope-ful the Federal Board will move speedily. As an integral inte-gral part of this problem, the Utah Agencies requested that the Salt Lake-Los Angeles Ange-les non-stop portion of the Salt Lake-Las Vegas-Southern California Service case be deferred "for simultaneous simultan-eous consideration" with the new coast-to-coast competitive competi-tive service application. Other actions of the Utah Agencies have been: 1. In support of a Frontier Airlines application to drop the mandatory stop on ail flights between Salt Lake City and Denver with continuance of adequate service to Grand Junction. Colo. 2. A request to the CAB asking as-king it to set down a Salt Lake City-Denver to th.? Southeast service case, or a. an alternative, to support Frontier's recent application for route authority from Salt Lake City through Denver-Oklahoma Denver-Oklahoma City or Tulsa-At-lanta to Miami, on condition such Oklahoma City or Tulsa service does not prejudice the Utah position in the Reopened Reop-ened Pacific Northwest-Southwest case. |