OCR Text |
Show City Starts Action On Airport With $1900 Pledged On $2600 Heeded l Decision To Go Ahead With Program Reached At Public Meeting. With 1900 pledged of the $260: it is estimated will be needoi plans are going forward for the building of a hangar and class room on the airport. The project has been accepted by the city and NYA projects have been written: and sent in for approval to cover various work projects needed. A decision to go ahead and attempt at-tempt to raise the money for the needed equipment was reached at a public meeting held last Thursday Thurs-day night in the college auditorium. audi-torium. The meeting was called : under the direction of the Cham--ber of Commerce, which has beeni the organization to take the lead! in the establishing of an air field here. sv! With the necessary buildings" constructed, water piped to the -field and telephone service provided, pro-vided, the college will set up 1 courses and the government will provide $425 for each student enrolled en-rolled in this class in units of 15 ' each. It is the plan of those backing back-ing the project to attempt to secure units by October 1. The instructor will be selected byr Joseph Bergin, state aviation-director, aviation-director, and will be brought here with his planes. The only cost to--the students for this class will be for a physical examination which it is estimated will cost $6. With Mr. Bergin at the meeting meet-ing was W. D. Hammond, chairman chair-man of the State Road commisioit. under which commission the Aeronautics Aer-onautics division is established! They explained the possibilities al (Continued on page eight) . Airport Story (Continued from first page establishing this course and what would be needed in the way of equipment, field facilities and students. stu-dents. In addition to the classes foist foi-st udents, a group of older men is planning on bringing in their own instructor (students must be between be-tween the ages of IS and 26 for the government classes). Because of all-year-round weather wea-ther that is suitable for flyinb, Mr. Bergin declared that he saw no reason why this shouldn't be an ideal location. He stated that the present field would be very satisfactory satis-factory with the improvements that are planned. The committee in charge of raising the money is headed by Dr. L. W. McGregor and includes Lee Owens, Plarold Snow, W. B. Ma this. Mayor D. C. Watson and Rodney Ashby. Those who have followed this proiect in St. George praise the work done by the St. George Chamber of Commerce in keeping the equipment here and establishing establish-ing the field as a permanent field after it had been scheduled to be abandoned by the government. To Lee Owens in particular goes credit. Mr. Owens saw the possibilities possi-bilities of the field and gave considerable con-siderable time and effort in keeping keep-ing the project alive as chairman of a committee for this purpose under the Chamber of Commerce. There were times when the average aver-age citizen thought that his efforts ef-forts would be wasted, but Mr. Owens never gave up. |