Show celebrants f at completion of grantsville Grants vilies ville s new airport saturday A 4 taking a short recess between alices ac aces at the opening of the edde brothers airport at grants we always wanted to fly the edde brothers joe and garthe told me flying meant owning a plane and then where to house it was our next problem so deep down under our flying urge was a secret ambition to own and oper ite ate an airport we are doing that now yes the edde brothers are at last rea izing their dream located in the southern part of grantsville Grants ville directly south of the school house is the airport that they dreamed of tl hout the war it is large enough to accommodate large planes ha having ing a runway of 3 feet the many hangars are clustered at one end of the field to house the air pines joe edde learned to fly before he entered the service but the navy just added the finishing touches to bring him out a veteran pilot determined to aid the cause oi 01 flying garthe edde also started to learn at the same time joe did but things kept interfering and it un til he joined the army that his c chance hance to fly came he lie toiled tolled and struggled aled through the long months of training but at last he reaped his reward he graduated as a lieu tenant and he could now fly when he was discharged he decided to keep on flying and the airport will aid him in doing that jack riding is going to be an in dructor he is an able pilot and he began his career in the naval air force ivan hale ha I 1 e vernon J knowlton and orson hager will be on hand to further this interesting bast i ast saturday evening to make the opening really official a dance vas held in one of the hangars A laige crowd of townspeople were in n attendance and they really seemed to be enjoying themselves I 1 D bird furnished the music As a special feature of the evening free plane rides were given to the ho ro ders of lucky tickets mile ille on saturday night are the croup of men whose efforts have enveloped cevelo ped this project they are from rom left to right ivan hale vernon knowlton joe edde orson hager jack riding and garthe edde and friends gracean studio |