Show G ra P t VERNAL MUNICIPAL AIRPORT terminal waiting room and Frontier Airlines ticket counter have been enl i rg ed and remodeled In a recent building project under under- Frontier Airlines Serves Vernal For 21 Years Twenty Twenty one one years ago scheduled daily commercial air service to Vernal became became be be- became came a On that commemorative occasion a piston power 21 passenger winged its way from Salt Lake City to bring the first of passenger air airmail mall mail and cargo service to the Uintah Basin THIS FIRST FIRST air line was a predecessor predecessor predecessor cessor of Frontier Airlines known as Challenger Airline It was headquartered headquarter headquarter- ed in Salt Lake City In the late and at a a time when whenn the oil developments developments develop develop- ments were getting under way way in the Vernal area two new scheduled air services services services ser ser- vices brought brought- a new era of activity to Vernal and surrounding communities in inthe inthe the the- area area- By 1950 the Challenger Airlines which operated basically In a number of cities in Wyoming and had terminals in Salt Lake City Denver and Billings merged with two other small carriers The merger merger mer mer- ger of Challenger Monarch and Arizona became known as Frontier Airlines In InJune InJune InJune June 1950 began I the first of the operations operations oper oper- for the carrier which today continues continues continues con con- to give Vernal passenger mailand mail mailand mailand and cargo service with direct connecting services to all points in the United States A GREAT step in progress was made for Vernal travelers and shippers with the replacement of the time tested Douglas Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las DC 3 with the jet powered The with a speed better than twice that of the DC 3 and accommodating ing up to 53 passengers provided a new degree of comfort for passenger and anda a more expeditious way for the movement movement movement move move- ment of cargo to and from Vernal In 1968 Frontier Airlines operated over 1100 scheduled flights out of Vernal On these flights were accommodated passengers close to 11 thousand pounds of mail mall better etter than pounds of air express and close to thousand pounds Continued on page 6 taken by Vernal City and arld Uintah County Carpeting has ha's been Installed and new furniture has been purchased purchased pur pur- chased making the terminal al clean and comfortable Frontier Airlines Continued from page 1 of air freight A similar number of flights arriving at Vernal brought to the community community com com- passengers nearly nine thousand pounds of mall mail pounds of express and close to thousand pounds of air freight TODAY WITH the fast high flying Con Con- vair Salt Lake City Is just a little littleover littleover littleover over 5 hour from Vernal by air and to the east cast Denver is less than two hours away Via the Denver gateway using Frontier Airlines jet flights St St. St Louis Isa Isa is isa a little over four hours from Vernal Dallas a little less than four hours and other major metropolitan cities are equally equal equal- ly Iy close to what had been heen the isolated Uintah Basin In the 23 years that Frontier Airlines and Its Us predecessor companies have been operating In the west southwest and midwest Denver based Frontier Airlines has expanded into the largest of the regional air carriers Today Today To To- day it serves cities in the 16 st states tes In the area which stretches from Canada to Mexico and from the Mississippi and the two river cities of St St. Louis and Memphis on the east to Las Vegas on the west TODAY FRONTIERS FRONTIER'S fleet of aircraft consists of 34 of the twin engine jet propelled the type which serves Vernal In addition the airline fleet includes Boeing model jets which accommodate up to passengers passengers gers and a newly expanded fleet of twin engine Boeing model jets can accommodate 97 passengers Bothof Both Bothof Bothof of the Boeing aircraft have a cruising speed of approximately miles per hour Last year Frontiers Frontier's fleet carried over 2 million passengers This year it is anticipated that the carriers will again accommodate this many passengers in its operation throughout the high country country coun coun- try of the west THE NEW additional work area and waiting room area of the enlarged terminal terminal ter ter- minal at Vernal's municipal airport Is Isone Isone Isone one more step in the progress for scheduled scheduled air service to Vernal Expansion of the terminal which is being dedicated ed Friday of this week will make possible possible pos pOSe sible a better handling of both passengers passengers gers and cargo It is a part of the overall overall over over- all pattern of progress in transportation tion for this Frontier country of the intermountain intermountain in in- west of with a growing future Ii o headed T is y Franic r t is he headed ded b by Frank M Mer Merrill irl who o fa la is sales service manager and has been at at atthe atthe the Vernal station since 1951 Mr Merrill Merrill Mer Mer- rill Is assisted by Lynn Pope and peon Reynolds two moire veterans with J 15 years of service with Frontier Air Air- lines Regional sales manager for Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal Is Kay Burgin with his offices in Salt Lake City When an American Indian film was shown recently at a theater in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York two Indians were employed for advertising purposes and stationed in front of the th theater ater art aft Inquisitive jewel jewel bedecked bedecked woman haughtily asked one Youre a real Indian arent aren't you Yes madam madam was the the cour courteous eo s re re- re How do you lik like our ur city jj she in inquired in- in Very fine madam replied the In In- dian dlan How do you like our country |