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Show Contract Is Let For Improving Municipal Airport Last week the Whiting and Raymond Ray-mond construction ccompany of Springville was awarded the contract, con-tract, for improvements at the Delta Del-ta Municipal airport amounting to $18,307.85. Of this amount $11,317. 91 will be furnished by the federal fed-eral government and $6,989.94 by the state. The project calls for hard surfacing sur-facing of the area in front of the hangar and connecting up with the warm-up apron and taxe strips and a parking strip to be oiled and fenced. Other improvements will be an adequate sewage system for the hangar, and construction of a steel cattle guard at the highway entrance. A large air marker will also be installed which can readily read-ily be seen by any plane in the air. According to Mayor Golden H. Black, work will commence in a-bout a-bout ten days. All the work will be carried through to completion except the hard-surfacing oiling, which will be done next spring. The money will be received shortly by the city and be paid out to the contractor as certain phases of the work are completed. Increased activity at the airport is noted. The runways are long enough, wide enough, and so constructed con-structed that they can accomodate accomo-date anything that flies. A number numb-er of arrivals have been hunters in by plane for deer, ducks and pheasants. Last week a big army plane landed, a C82 Fairchild Packet. They were flying with a skeleton crew and a light load, only2 Jeeps and a trailer aboard. So 6 men landed, rolled out a Jeep, and taxied to Delta for a meal. The City Council has made application appli-cation for federal funds to construct con-struct a fine administration building build-ing ou t of the 1949 funds. |