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Show Wei Airport Plans Unveiled at Green River At a meeting in City Hall last Tuesday evening, even-ing, plans were made to start the planning phase of construction of a new airport for this area. Mayor Rey Lloyd Hatt conducted the meeting, which was attended by Carl Carpenter, Project Engineer; Robert Walker, Walk-er, Director of Utah State Department of Aeronautics; Aeronau-tics; Dave Gebbert.from the Salt Lake City General Gen-eral Aviation District Office of FAA; J.R. Taylor, Tay-lor, Director of Green River Missile Complex and Dick Woodard, Engineer En-gineer at the Base; City Councilmen Ed Miller and Nolan Curtis and Manager Jim Hurst and Assistant Manager Alan Indian friends together and built on a big room, including a native -rock fireplace which takes up almost one whole end of the room. On either side, he has really fine murals on the walls, painted by friends. A big rick of wood occupies oc-cupies most of the front yard, and when Jake hears a knock on the door, he doesn't respond with the customary come in, but yells, "Bring wood!" Jake sends regards to all his friends in this area. Sheppard of the Green River Airport. Hurst opened the meeting meet-ing with some background back-ground history of the present airport, and the need for a better facility in the future. Carl Carpenter of the engineering firm of Nielsen, Niel-sen, Maxwell & Wangs-gard Wangs-gard of Salt Lake City, gave a cost anlysis and breakdown of what will be entailed in locating the new airport three miles south of Green River, including planning, plan-ning, building and funding. fund-ing. Walker assured the group that State funds are available whenever the FAA gives the final go-ahead go-ahead to the project. Dave Gabbert then took the floor to state that the FAA is solidly behind this project. He pointed out the tight money situation, situ-ation, and thought it might be 1976 or 77 before be-fore construction could get rolling. It was brought up to Mr. Taylor of the Missile Mis-sile Base, that since the Army has a heavy commitment com-mitment to the Pershing Missile program, which means transporting troops by bus from larger lar-ger landing fields at Grand Junction, that the Army might be interested interest-ed in helping plan and build a field large enough to land transports. Another reason for locating lo-cating where there is room for expansion was pointed out by Hurst and Sheppard, who brought along one of Green River Ri-ver Aviation's Ultra-low Volume Spray rigs to show the group. They have recently returned from Worthington, Minn, where an agreement was reached with Sorenson Aircraft Company to advertise, ad-vertise, sell and distribute distri-bute the Green River units. Sorenson Aircraft Company is a solid name in the "Ag" business, and advertises and distributes dis-tributes world wide. These units will be manufactured man-ufactured at the Green River Airport as an integral in-tegral activity, and as it develops, more space for manufacturing will be required. Unfortunately neither the Emery County Commissioners Com-missioners nor the Four Corners Regional Development Devel-opment Officers were able to make this meeting. meet-ing. The attending group had to try to surmise their attitudes, and certainly cer-tainly would have welcomed wel-comed their suggestions. Date of the next project meeting will be set to be more convenient for everyone to attend. |