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Show frontier- Moah Case Usidervmy Tins Week 'm Salt lake Crtv What will probably be a three-day hearing opened open-ed Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City, concerning concern-ing the application of Frontier Airlines to delete de-lete air service at Moab. The hearing is being held in the Metropolitan Hall of Justice before Trial Judge Hartsock of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Frontier Airlines was the lead-off participant in the case nrppntiruT its M arguments relative to the application. Utah Agencies, Agen-cies, representing Moab and the State of I'tah in the matter, began the presentation pre-sentation of its case on Thursday, and will probably pro-bably continue into Friday, Fri-day, according to Robert S. Campbell, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General Gen-eral for I'tah, who is the State's legal counsel for air matters. Persons from Moab traveling tra-veling to S.i't Lake C'; lor participation in the case include County Commission Com-mission Chairman Hub Newell, Mrs. Mary Williams, Wil-liams, Sheriff W. H. Bowman, Bow-man, Economic Development Develop-ment Director Don Hoffman, Hoff-man, Robert R. Norman, City Councilman Harold Jacobs and Sam Taylor. It is expected that a number num-ber of other persons w ill appear at the hearing in defense of Moab's position, posi-tion, including Gov. Calvin Cal-vin L. Rampton, Salt Lake City Mayor Jake Garn, and other State officials. Frontier Airlines applied ap-plied nearly a year ago to delete service to Moab Mo-ab the first in many such similar actions planned by the Airlines in smaller communities around its service area. Utah Agencies, representing represen-ting Moab's interests, intervened in-tervened in the case, taking tak-ing issue with a number of points made in Frontier's Fron-tier's application. The Civil Aeronautics Board denied Frontier's application appli-cation to be allowed to immediately suspend service to the community, commun-ity, and set the matter for a full-scale hearing before a Trial Judge. That is what is taking place this week in Salt Lake City. In the meantime, during dur-ing a period of time when Frontier was not serving serv-ing the community due to airport runway problems, the Utah Public Service Commission issued authority au-thority to Sun Valley-Key Airlines of Ogdento serve the community. That service, ser-vice, however, has never started since Frontier began serving the town again when runway repairs re-pairs were completed. Sun Valley-Kay has intervened in-tervened in the Frontier-Moab Frontier-Moab case in support of Frontier's position, and has stated that they will exercise their PSC authority au-thority in the event that the CAB rules in favor of Frontier and allows the Airline to abandon Moab after nearly two decades of service. The case of Utah Agencies Ag-encies and Moab leans heavily on the point that rural America would be the loser ultimately if Frontier is allowed to delete Moab. This would be the first in a "domino-action" series of ap- plications all across the country where regional airlines are serving rural rur-al communities under Federal Fe-deral subsidy. "The Moabs of this nation na-tion stand in real jeopardy jeopar-dy of losing commercial air service if Frontier prevails in this case, to the detriment of the public pub-lic interest," Mr. Campbell Camp-bell stated this week. A decision on the matter mat-ter will not be handed down for some time, after af-ter the Trial Judge has had sufficient time to study stu-dy the cases as presented this week. |