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Show S.L. Shows Gains, Bnt Airline Future Cloudy From 19 to 1975 Salt Lake City showed a gain in air passenger traffic that far exceeded the national average Indeed, only four medium hubs Salt Lake City is a "medium hub m the vernacular of the air industry showed a greater increase m domestic traffic than did Salt Lake City From 1975 to 1976, it grew another 10 percent By 1975 Salt Lake City was exchanging passenger traffic with 414 U S cities, generating 10 or more daily to passengers cities each of 36 and more than 50 passengers a day to each of 12 cities Each day an average 2,294 persons either boarded or disembarked in Salt Lake . City Never so Uncertain But never, says David L. Wilkinson, special Utah attorney general for air route matters, has the future of commercial air service been so uncertain since the founding of the Civil Aeronautics Board m 1938 Proposals to decrease regulation of the industry are being hotly debated Formal hearings began March 21 before the Senate aviation subcommittee on the Cannon Kennedy bill calling for deregulation Although we may know by summer the shape of the legislative package to be enacted, it may be years before we know its impact upon the traveling public in general, and Upon Utah m particular Small Communities? Of special importance to Utah that is, Utah outside of the Wasatch Front and &majk Utahns have gained faster and ier access cities to the Western states in general, is the way Congress will deal with service to small communities in the age of the jet Consider Hughes Airwest is asking the CAB to relieve it of its oblibation to serve Cedar City, Utah, and Page, Anz It argues that there is a high subsidy cost to the taxpayer because of the service being throughout nation as result of aggressive vocacies for air routes during The small communities reply that they should not be abandoned to the carriers, at least not without assurance that these carriers have the fi nancial guarantees to serve on a continuing basis Though Salt Lake has scored triumphs in its air See Page 26, Column 1 rendered by a large certificated carrier STOEATTdDIHI WE HAVE IN STOCK NOW Wa 1 1977 V I scon ELKHART Bi LATERAL 17, Agencies presses now and Orient routes. inspect the inspection equipment to make sure of the reliability of jtour f product. 1 A i . ns 'W- 'j ' Safety Glass prescription service ANSUL WELSH Utah Me Fire Extinguisher sales & service Jit 197 decade. for Southeast COMPLETE OSHA ACCEPTED SAFETY EQUIPMENT TRUCK CENTER p eas-t- o o'- I I' a -- Ijn ju Qualified Safety Vpnl CHEVROLET TRUCKS Engineer in Staff USAFECO rt i I - lihi- ''.ill Hi. 320 WE CAN FILL ALL YOUR TRUCK HEEDS AT 1 Wo 328-129- 9 jl SOUTH Universal Safety & Fire Equipment Co., Inc. 156 W Utopia Ave 2170 South) 486-231- Solid propellant motors Ordnance Graphite fiber and structures Laser HERCULES c o RAT i 3 chemicals n O R P Bacch us Works Magna, L |