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Show Delta Airport To Bo Improved Last week Joe Bergin, director of the state aeronautics commission, commis-sion, and H. T. Bean, of the CAA, and Roy McLeih, chief engineer for the state road commission, met with Mayor Black for a visit to the Delta municipal airport. They inspected the runways, and decided they needed a seal coat. During the past week, a seal coat has been applied at the airport, air-port, under the direction of Lon Wood, and the state road crew. Bids will be called on shortly for improvements to the extent of $16,000, such as hard surfacing around the hangar, and sewerage facilities. There has been a lot of activity at the airport this past week. A-bout A-bout 75 planes have landed there for refueling, AT26 training planes enroute to China from Canada, via San Francisco. These are planes given to Canada on lend lease, and bought by the Chinese government gov-ernment from loans from the U.S. |