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Show $ AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER Rochelle, 111., airport has been designated and approved by the state as a Class 1 airport. When completed, com-pleted, the field will have two gravel runways, 2,200 feet long, and a third of turf, 2,600 feet long. . . . Montana's Mon-tana's first airport to be constructed under the CAA program will be located lo-cated at Shelby. Construction of the two-runway field, estimated cost of which is $230,000, will start about May 1. . . . Fort Dodge, Iowa, voters vot-ers approved a $200,000 airport bond issue by a margin of 703 to 389 at a special election. . . . Plans for a "country club, type" airport are being be-ing advanced in Council Bluffs, Iowa. J. A. Fergus of Wichita, Kas., is promoting the 360-acre airport plan, which would be closer to downtown down-town Omaha than the Omaha airport. air-port. Estimated cost of the project is $180,000. . . . The latest thing in wolf hunting was staged at Verona, Mo., by C. E. Atterberry and Glen Calhoun. They have bagged 18 wolves from an airplane since the first of the year. . . . The "Flying Ices," pioneer South Dakota aviator family, lost their first lives to aviation avia-tion recently when Jess Randall Ice, Inland - Western Airlines co - pilot since 1943, and his wife crashed to their deaths near the Rapid City air base as they returned from a mail flight to the northern Black Hills. Jess Ice was a son of Clyde Ice, veteran private pilot. When state game wardens apprehend ap-prehend a violator of game laws, the usual procedure is to confiscate con-fiscate his gun. But they were almost baffled when a man near Scottsbluff, Neb., was charged with hazing birds in an airplane, illegal in that state. He had no gun. Solution: They took his airplane. FLYING PRIEST Known as the "flying priest of the Rockies" is the Rev. Father Blase Schumaker, pastor of the Vernal, Colo., Catholic church. The priest, whose parish includes six churches j in rugged, isolated terrain, found transportation facilities inadequate. Intent on serving his people, he learned to fly and now uses a plane regularly in carrying out his regular parish duties as -well as for sick calls, death calls or other emergencies. |